The stories I've heard over the years involving family and friends are horrifying.
Uncle (a CFA station chief) was on the missing list overnight during the Ash Wednesday fires, when he and his partner were trapped at Mt. Macedon. Witnessing the firestorm destroying nearby houses, they took refuge in a concrete public toilet block. He retired not long afterwards.
My father narrowly missed getting caught in the Black Saturday fires as he had been doing road inspections in the Strzelecki range. The Central Gippsland fire jumped the range in a matter of hours due to the 100kmh gales.
Close family friend was the pit manager at Loy Yang Power Station and had a very bad day that fortunately didn't become catastrophic, as Loy Yang A & B provides 50-60% of the base load for the whole state of Victoria.
Which is the case for pretty much all conspiracies. Collusion or communication is generally unnecessary when each participant is acting in their own best interest.
There are a lot of sports that are much better in person. Football is made for TV as the action is confined. Types of play that would require viewing player movements outside the "set" are discouraged like lateral passes.
Basketball is similar as the action is very much confined to the video frame.
Non-US sports like Australian Rules or Gaelic football are an in person spectacle. They're free flowing (like ice hockey), constant action, and the ball can move 50+ metres up/down or across the field in a few seconds so you need to see the player movements off the ball. There's also something about a very large arena with 100,000+ spectators and a constant murmur of sound that can erupt in a moment.
Cricket is another where the radio broadcast was always better, as you could have the TV on in the background but listen to the radio, only looking up when something happens.
The commentators, particularly for the Aus/England Ashes series were always better with the likes of Agnew and the now retired Blofeld providing much better commentary.
Red Dwarf was hilarious. Highly recommend the books, as they contain a lot of jokes that wouldn't translate to screen easily and would resonate with anyone who enjoys humour in the vein of Adams.
I can't find it now, but someone made an ultra-realistic D-Day simulator where you basically portray one of the guys who never made it to the beach in Saving Private Ryan.
Battlefield 1 opens with a series of short battles that you can't win. Every time you die the camera moves to another nearby soldier who is also being overrun, and you fight for a while then die again. You see the graves of each person you played who died. It's one of the most powerful openings of a war game I ever played and really drives home the reality that whilst what follows is fun, the real WW1 is one you probably would not have survived.
My personal use is very much one function at a time. I know what I need something to do, so I get it to write the function which I then piece together.
It can even come back with alternatives I may not have considered.
I might give it some context, but I'm mainly offloading a bunch of typing. I usually debug and fix it's code myself rather than trying to get it to do better.
Uncle (a CFA station chief) was on the missing list overnight during the Ash Wednesday fires, when he and his partner were trapped at Mt. Macedon. Witnessing the firestorm destroying nearby houses, they took refuge in a concrete public toilet block. He retired not long afterwards.
My father narrowly missed getting caught in the Black Saturday fires as he had been doing road inspections in the Strzelecki range. The Central Gippsland fire jumped the range in a matter of hours due to the 100kmh gales.
Close family friend was the pit manager at Loy Yang Power Station and had a very bad day that fortunately didn't become catastrophic, as Loy Yang A & B provides 50-60% of the base load for the whole state of Victoria.
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