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I've got a better idea. You want to make your game stupidly large? Ok fine, sell me a physical copy pre-installed on a fast USB stick. Job done.

Please crawl back into the weird hole you crawled out of.

I fucked around a LOT whilst I was studying. Changed degrees a couple of times, studied part time and worked a lot, deferred and traveled for several years, eventually got serious and paid up-front to blast through full time and come out with a fair few qualifications once I figured out how the system worked and had something resembling a direction I wanted to go.

The end result was that I got to watch the massive shift in university culture and policy from 2001 through 2010.

In 2001 I could go to class with $4 in my pocket and know that it would be plenty to spend at the union-run cafeteria to have more than enough coffee and food for the day. Food was ridiculously cheap, and decent. Real meals made in bulk and sold in bulk. Coffee that came out of a giant urn that was strong and hot that I could enjoy whilst reading my free union magazine full of fairly hilarious left-leaning content, local news and events. I'm fairly sure at this time the writers actually got paid out of student union dues, but the magazines were free and the food and services either may as well have been free, or were.

The change came gradually. First of all every union magazine article became about infiltration by the young libs and constant drama within the union. Battles with the university board over the direction of student services and outlets etc etc etc. I won't cover the slow descent.

Skip to 2010. There's a fucking subway on campus. If they had tried that in 2001 we would have burned it down. The union cafeteria has been replaced by a commercial entity that not only serves absolute dogshit food, they charge around $10 for that serving of dogshit. The student magazine is GONE. Student services are gutted. If you want a coffee, you now have to order from a barista at a commercial coffee stand and stand around waiting like a fucking goon no matter how late you are for class, instead of pouring it yourself into a polystyrene cup and going about your day for 50 cents.

You eventually get to class and work your arse off to get a decent grade, whilst international students who can barely speak English let alone write 10,000 words in it somehow also pass the class so that they get to pay their unjustifiably higher fees to continue into the next year.

In short, Universities gradually became a business in the exact sense of the word Menzies originally railed against. They completely lost their status of having values which are other than pecuniary, and in the process they completely lost all semblance of the culture that made them worth turning up for. By the time I graduated, my university was a vile space to inhabit. The freaks were all gone, the politically conscious student body had been replaced by the trendy set and every single part of the campus existed purely to extract money from your ever shrinking wallet. Where once I felt grateful for every minute of my experience of student life, I was now disgusted and could not wait to get out.

Neoliberalism and twisted profit incentives killed Aussie university life like it killed everything else in this country that was ever any good. Not everything can afford to be about money all the time. It's fucking tedious.

Was that in response to the murder of the North Lakes woman in the middle of the night? Around Xmas time?

Is hexbear just a 4chan psyop to make the extreme left look insane?

He's literally singing about being part of a downtrodden underclass, but you and your juvenile half-formed political ideology make it all seem so simple. White skin = oppressor, right?

Are you saying that only people of colour can be fat and lazy? That's fucked up.

It's punching down on fat, lazy people, and I'm ok with that.

Sure. Exactly which part of "Rich men North of Richmond" did you find racist?

Number 1 on Apple Music US and Global top 100 charts, but yeah - your opinion is the correct one, it's everyone else that is wrong.

It's pretty funny that the expectation on any man who picks up a guitar these days is not that he has a decent voice to go with, it's that his political ideology is "correct" and cohesive and that he makes sure to convey the entire thing in a 4 minute song.

The people getting their knickers in twist over this song are lost.

Good post. I fight bushfires and this is the first year in a while that I am truly shitting myself in QLD.

It's already started. If we don't get some absolutely massive rainfall we are truly fucked this year.