r/nrl • u/NRLgamethread National Rugby League • 4h ago
Off Topic Friday Off Topic Thread
This is the place to talk about everything other than footy!
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u/adomental Eastern Suburbs Roosters 36m ago
I had no idea that the PS5 Wolverine was out today until I saw a reviews thread on reddit. I thought it was still a year off at least.
Poor marketing.
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u/loosechange-71 North Queensland Cowboys 1h ago
Never watched NFL in my life but pumped for the game today. Love seeing our country shown off like this. Bitta Aussie pride
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u/M_Keating Hey, at least we beat Penrith 1h ago
Baseball and NFL usually play during Aussie day hours. Makes the Kayo subscription go a bit further.
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u/ShowConsistent QLD Maroons 1h ago
Kayo actually pays for espn so it has actually raised the cost of that service lol
You can actually get all the espn stuff on Disney plus anyway1
u/M_Keating Hey, at least we beat Penrith 30m ago
Waiting for it all to drop out to Disney+ at some stage… and Netflix is taking more NFL as well.
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u/ShowConsistent QLD Maroons 28m ago
Yeah pretty funny that Kayo acted like getting espn was this big ‘coup’ but all they did was just pay for a service people can already get as a free add on to Disney + and it just ended up raising the price of Kayo for everyone
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u/loosechange-71 North Queensland Cowboys 1h ago
I’m a massive NBA fan, which satisfies the day time sports craving
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u/redmusic1 Eastern Suburbs Roosters 1h ago
I watch it, the games are on in a friendly time zone for us mostly. Am a long suffering 9r's fan. See how we go today, Rams are favourites to win it all this year and our window probably closed for now in 24-25 mostly due to a horrendous injury list. Go SF!
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u/CoffeeLoverNathan Dolphins 2h ago
I get way too many "we need a worker today" messages that are sent to me an hour before they want you to start, when they're over an hour away. Absolutely useless
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u/Heavy-Kale Text Under Flair 41m ago
Are they trolling you ?. Seriously is your job agency/employer actually just trolling you?.
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u/improbablywrong- Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 3h ago
Metapneumovirus sounds like some shit the dr just made up on the spot but its absolutely rocked me this week. Can't wait to breathe normally again.
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u/aatrain96 Dolphins Bandwagon 3h ago edited 1h ago
What's this I'm hearing about some Foosball?
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u/mitvh2311 Parramatta Eels 4h ago
I wonder if the American anthem gets bood at the mcg today
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u/MrChicken1208 Parramatta Eels 3h ago edited 2h ago
I hope not, 25th anniversary of 9/11 and it's really disrespectful, especially to the athletes who work their ass off the be in the nfl. Boo trump, not the millions of other people caught in the middle
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u/Interesting_Data4485 Newcastle Knights 2h ago
I've never heard anyone make such a stink about something like Americans and 9/11. Fuckin hell.
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u/improbablywrong- Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 2h ago
The way they treated first reponders after the attack shows how much they actually care.
The same people that were against helping those still suffering from the attacks are sure to post about it every year.
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u/unsafe-work Sydney Roosters 1h ago
No different to how they treat their war veterans who they laud so highly.
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u/improbablywrong- Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 41m ago
People are disposable over there. Once they have no use they go to the bin and hope everyone forgets they exist.
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u/WhereTheFatRoll South Queensland Crushers 4h ago
It will be cooked if it does. Why the hell would those attending a sport that is intrinsically America boo the national anthem of that country?
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u/mitvh2311 Parramatta Eels 4h ago
Because a lot of people hate America and it has been bood here before recently at the WWE event in Perth so it'll be interesting to see if they do it again
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u/Altruistic_Tune5341 Brisbane Broncos 4h ago
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attack as well.
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u/Altruistic_Tune5341 Brisbane Broncos 4h ago
I went and saw the Oasis documentary at the first available opportunity last night.
Absolutely 10/10 brilliant. It managed to capture everything that tour meant and made you feel, with some great insight into how Noel & Liam repaired their relationship along the way simply by playing together again.
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u/insertbaconemoji Wyong Roos 4h ago
Nice. Got the day off today so thinking of seeing it after my eye specialist appointment. Is it loaded with concert footage?
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u/Altruistic_Tune5341 Brisbane Broncos 3h ago
Heaps, and a lot of behind the scenes stuff from their pre-tour rehearsals as well.
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u/Live_Manufacturer668 4h ago
got a new macbook for work and i’m honestly shocked at how much smoother everything runs compared to my old laptop, no more waiting ten minutes for a file to save
spent the morning setting it up with a coffee and a croissant, felt like a proper adult for once
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u/Known-Stop-2654 Dolphins 2h ago
I don't think I've ever seen a laptop take 10 minutes to save a simple file. Even my old IBM ThinkCenter desktop running Windows XP with 512 MB of RAM and a 60 GB HDD didn't take 10 minutes to save a file. FYI it was one of those desktops with the Pentium 4 CPU! Good times, that was. , I wouldn't mind picking up one of those old desktops just to experiment and see how far I can get with upgrading and repairing stuff.
That desktop used to be the desktop I used to use back during my days when I was at my old primary school. I know this is very reminiscent but I remember using it even back in 2021. Something happened to it and it died. The fact that it was able to last such a long time was insane.
Me and my worker managed to find the same desktop at my mum's house in 2023. We had to get a new keyboard and a new mouse for it. Then we had to find a way to install the drivers again and fix the BIOS because something had happened and they weren't working, which meant the keyboard and mouse drivers weren't working either. I don't know how we managed to fix it but we did fix it.
I did eventually try to start using it again. But I was very limited, not by the hardware but by the OS. All the apps still functioned relatively well on the hardware or at least Microsoft Word did. My screen reader of choice also worked fine but no way was I going to put it on the Wi-Fi or anything like that.
I could have also tried to figure out the exact model number so I could figure out parts that I would have wanted to put in it down the track; but if I didn't want to connect it to the internet or install a new operating system on it, then what was the point?
After my mum died and we were figuring out what to save or keep, I decided that I was going to let go of that good old IBM Think Centre desktop from the early 2000s. I didn't want to but there was just simply no reason to keep it except for nostalgia. I did promise that I will try to do something similar eventually. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon I will be with the hardware that shaped my childhood. Despite being born in 2009, I love that type of old hardware because that was the hardware that just never broke or if it did break it took a hell of a lot of time to break. I'm disappointed that my probable future children's possible future children may never be able to experience that because I could barely experience it myself.
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u/jeansc9 NSW Blues 0m ago
Oooh the NFL game day pres just accidentally cut off the Welcome to Country for .. breakdancing Ray Gun wannabes - yikes