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troberts

@troberts@theblower.au

#Canberra resident
Heavy #Metal fan
Parent
In Owner/Ownee relationship with cat (exact role in dispute)

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troberts, to fallout
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Finished Fallout TV series this evening. Really fantastic series I thought, especially having played the 3rd and 4th games a fair bit.

Got super gory and disturbing at times tho.

troberts, to random
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We’ve named this little guy ‘Spippin’ aka ‘Spider Pippin’.

Pippin (the cat) hates Spippin.

troberts,
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@derthomas I think he’s been wandering around the house the last week or so. Like I’d wake up and see him above me on the roof.

:)

troberts,
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@derthomas Huntsman’s tend to be scary cause they are so large and will do crazy things like run across your car window whilst driving. But they aren’t actually dangerous.

Redbacks and Funnel-Webs are reasonable dangerous tho. I have to spray poison in the garage to keep the Redbacks under control.

troberts, to random
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Coffee talk…

This week I ordered a Long Black instead of a (soy) Flat White from a cafe.

I assume this is the first step towards getting caffeine injected into my veins intravenously.

troberts, to Metal
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It smells suspiciously like weed at this Orange Goblin gig.

alexkidman, to australia
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Updated my streaming set top box shootout, so it's now Chromecast vs Fire TV vs Apple TV vs Shield TV vs Fetch Mini vs Hubbl.

That's a lot of TV watching. I think I need a break. Maybe I'll watch some... AAAARGH!

#Chromecast #FireTV #FetchTV #Foxtel #Hubbl #Australia

https://alexreviewstech.com/which-smart-tv-set-top-box-should-i-buy-google-chromecast-vs-amazon-fire-tv-vs-apple-tv-vs-nvidia-shield-vs-fetch-mini/

troberts,
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@alexkidman @imalcolm RIP Netflix on Wii U.

HailsandAles, to Metal
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I don’t know if it’s only just been announced or I’ve missed it previous, but it’s cool to see there’s a new Orange Goblin album this summer

troberts,
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@HailsandAles Seeing them on Wednesday.

troberts, to Metal
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"To Tame A Land" [by Iron Maiden] is based on the science fiction novel Dune, which was later made into a movie.

Author Frank Herbert refused to allow the band to call this song "Dune." The band originally sent a letter to Herbert's agent for permission.

The response read as follows: "No. Because Frank Herbert doesn't like rock bands, particularly heavy rock bands, and especially rock bands like Iron Maiden."

troberts, to random
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I often wonder about how much better things would be, if world leaders devoted more time to discussing Heavy Metal albums and animated TV series.

I'm trying to lead by example.

troberts, to dreamtheater
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I'm listening to Dream Theater and their album 'Black Clouds and Silver Linings'.

I've always thought of this band as the "least cool, but most well respected" band.

I bought this as my second album from them, following 'Scenes From A Memory'.

I think it's still pretty good, cause for all the dramatic flourishes, it still goes hard when it needs to, and is technically pretty amazing.

#DreamTheater #ProgressiveMetal #Metal

troberts,
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It's possible I had forgotten how very good this album is.

Diverse and weird and corny. But also several sequences are incredible.

Maybe I need to go check out more Dream Theater.

troberts, to Metal
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Aw yeah! New Acid Mammoth album!

It's called 'Supersonic Megafauna Collision'.

I'm huge fan of previous albums 'Caravan' and 'Under Acid Hoof'.

troberts, to random
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In the hour where Daylight Savings ends, anything you do during that period doesn't affect the timeline.

There's a whole extra hour there and the Time Police can't pin you for it.

HailsandAles, to fediverse
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troberts,
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@HailsandAles “Spider Kickers” is a great name.

troberts, to random
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Is it 5:00pm yet?

(AEDT)

troberts, to random
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I know this take is soooo 2023... but why in friggidy are people still posting on Twitter?

troberts, to Metal
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For it's where one song hands off to another.

If I thought about it more, I could probably find two songs from different artists, possibly from a classic soundtrack album.

But instead I'm going with a pair of memorable songs from High On Fire's "This Is The Communion.

Rumours Of War is the high energy rocker.
https://youtu.be/89h-X-tZa_w?si=7rKb9r2jjWI_a8sH

Dii is the slower, epic comedown following straight afterwards.
https://youtu.be/8l7w-cemH1A?si=efb5lhvIZEMAr-1s

derthomas, to random
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For today's @sharazluke asks for - a song that ought to be followed by another specific song

There are plenty of song duos that come to mind immediately, but the opening sequence of by tops them all:

🎵 The Hellion
https://song.link/y/OXKrA6x76WU

🎵 Electric Eye
https://song.link/y/3dbRdzATXBE

Playing one without the other is a crime!

troberts,
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@derthomas I was going to do this, but you beat me to it!

troberts, to Metal
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I know Green Lung got a lot of attention with their third album.

But far out the first two albums are so good. I'd argue better than the third album, cause they are more focussed on delivering great songs one after another.

One of the best active Metal bands going I say.

troberts, to random
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It’s 5:34 and Pippin cat really wants to tell me something.

troberts, to XMen
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So... X-Men the animated series

Me... Oh yeah! This is awesome!

Other people... So this covers the comic book issues from 150 through to 250. What's interesting is one of the events that happened in latter issues now happened in earlier episodes of the adaptation, and also...

Other other people... Where's Eeek the Cat?

billbennett, to random

Conversation:

“Tell me somethihng few people know about you”.

“I am New Zealand’s leading vampire hunter”.

“But New Zealand doesn’t have any vampires”.

“I’m very good at it”.

troberts,
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@billbennett But... isn't there a whole documentary about what NZ vampires do in the shadows?!

troberts, to XMen
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I just learned of the earlier attempt at an X-Men animated show in 1989 called ‘Pryde Of The X-Men’ where Wolverine is canonically Australian, with a broad accent.

Apparently they did this based on the success of Crocodile Dundee.

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Now playing...

"Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses.

Note: I looked up exactly how many apostrophes are in that sentence.

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