No.35698
I tried another small long black from a different place. I asked for a long black and they said it was a long black but I don't think it was. It only filled half the cup but it was busy so I has takeaway and maybe that is why. Maybe a full cup of boiling hot water would melt the paper cup or something.
Anyway. It was still bad. I'll go and try again from a third place tomorrow.
No.35699
I had another small long black but from the place with raw sugar dispensers which is also Italian themed. The coffe had crema on the top which is what long blacks are meant to have but the first one I had did not and the second was in a paper cup so I am unsure.
It might have been a bit better but it still was not great and sugar still did nothing. It tastes bad and not really like coffe or at least not like what I think of coffe as being.
No.35700
the best coffee is the coffee your sister makes for you
No.35702
I really hate the ground here. It's too hard. Everywhere I go It's hard. Even the park has ground that's hard. I hate it.
When this is over, I'll have to do some research into the geology of this region to find out why this is and if it's just where I am or if it's all over Victoria.
No.35705
I had another cappuccino this time. Still just bad tasting hot milk and sugar still does nothing to better it.
No.35706
Are you close to your destination yet
No.35707
>>35706I'm still waiting for my car to be fixed. The businesses that supply engines closed over the holidays but they open this week so I should hear more soon.
I don't have a destination anyway though. I think I will just wait in this area for the minister to contact me.
No.35709
Just got more information about car repair. It looks like it will take a few days for parts to arrive and then the mechanics have to fit job into schedule and then it will take a day and a half to fix. So it looks like it will take until Wednesday for my car to be fixed.
No.35710
Until next Wednesday I mean.
No.35711
Nothing about this environment or this state inspires me at all. I thought some of the mountains and there biomes would but they have not.
If I end up making the game I want to make, there is nothing from here that I will add to it. I don't want a zone based on this area in my game.
No.35717
are you still reading that fantasy sequel
i picked up Prince of Nothing and it's pretty good, i'd recommend it
No.35719
>>35717Yes. It's at least doing something more interesting now but I still don't like it or where it is going.
The selection of fantasy at the book store here is limited and it seems to mostly be recently written. So I don't think they would have that. But I'll check.
No.35720
Actually. I might see if I can order it in. That and the first book in Brandon Sanderson's series. I'll be here for at least another week after all.
No.35721
i remember liking the mistborn trilogy quite a bit
No.35722
No. The distributors they use are out of stock for both mistbourne and the prince of nothing.
Sigh...
>>35721I don't know what to expect. I hear good things about it but what I have seen of Sanderson on YouTube cause me to have doubts in his abilities. But I will have to read it one day.
No.35723
I had a cappuccino again and it was still bad. I'm thinking of giving up on this. Maybe I will try a chai latte or whatever it was I got from the Liyue restraunt when I asked for white tea. It was very milky tea but I am not sure it was a chai latte as it did nit have the frothy milk that I would assume chai latte has considering everything that coffe makers make with milk seems to. It was alright though. If not what I actually asked for but then she is from Liyue so probably can't speak English very well.
I would ask for regular tea but it comes in a pot and it takes too long to drink it all.
No.35728
>>35722mistborn has a very nice post apoc ash-ridden setting, a hard magic system of the type that made sanderson famous, and a solid plot with several good twists
i reread some forty pages of the later parts of the first book and enjoyed it a fair bit
shame they don't have it, if you don't have any fantasy you trust you could try some other classic like moby dick or nabokov
No.35743
Got a cappuccino from the Italian themed cage. It's certainly better but still.
At some point I am going to need to buy proper coffe beans and sort look into this myself. But that will not be anytime soon.
>>35728I'll try to get it at some point. Right now I'll probably keep reading the second book in this trilogy at which point I may as well read the third.
I didn't look for classics. But there are things there I can read if I get desperate and there is some more fantasy just not much.
No.35750
>>35743I meant Italian themed Cafe not cage.
No.35761
italian themed eroge
No.35763
I got a Chai latte this time. It's not what I expected.
It's got cinnamon in it which is quite over powering and means you can't taste anything else.
I'm not terribly fond of cinnamon so I didn't like it much but I can see how other people would like it. Unlike coffe.
No.35765
One of the things I dislike about Victorians is how disgusting they look. Most of them have tattoos, even the older ones do and even many of the more normal looking ones do. They have terrible hair, particularly the men. There is this really ugly hair style that's quite common here that is a mullet(that's already bad enough) but with the hair around the temples shaved. They frequently have facial hair too.
Victorians dress terribly too. Most men were sleevless tops and short shorts. Some if the sleevless tops have huge gaps in the sides as well. It's revolting.
Also men often walk around topless here.
Women dress terrible as well. Often wearing very tight and revealing clothing. Often enough they also don't wear bras.
This kind of thing carries on to stop staff as well. It's fairly common for the girls behind the counter at a bakery to be wearing short shorts or even spats. It's not a good look.
I have also heard staff swear which I never hear in SA. It's not like people in SA don't swear but they have the decency to avoid it in public and certainly to avoid it in front of customers.
I don't like these 'people' at all.
No.35809
I finished the second book. This one us called The Martyr.
It's not as bad but it still is bad. I don't think I will bother writing a review.
Well now I have to read yet another of his books...
At least it will be over then. He has other books but I am not reading them.
No.35814
The minister responded. We still disagree...
No.35817
sister, barrister, minister... you're not having very much luck with the 'sters
No.35818
>>35817I think the problem is that the magic I am using is to make powerfull men like me but the minister is a woman. So I would have to use some other forms of magic but alas I am separated from my grimoirs.
Maybe I should see if the book store has any.
No.35819
I think part of why these books by Anthony Ryan are so bad is because he doesn't seem to have a consistent idea for how the story will go. That's probably part of why things are so stupid.
There is stark evidence for this. Two characters(at least) have had there names change from the second book to the third. Also in the second book a character is described as being covered in scars but then later in the book is described as having no scars. These are the easiest parts of a story to keep consistent so who knows what else he changed his mind about over time.
No.35910
Another thing I hate about Victoria is the architecture. I thought it would be more historic than SA and have lots of nice old buildings but it actually does not. I think the reason for this like the reason for many if Victoria's faults lies in the fact that it is a convict state.
Most old buildings here are either cheap looking wooden buildings or cheap looking brick buildings that look like Victorian(the era) warehouses.
Whereas SA has many old sandstone and brick buildings that look nicer plus nicer looking old buildings in general.
Victoria really is an uncivilised place.
No.35911
>>35910I quite liked the sandstone brick buildings in the university of queensland campus in brisbane
No.35912
>>35911They do look nice.
Not sure if Melbourne itself has much like that. I got scared driving there and left. It's much denser than I am used too driving in.
I more mean the buildings outside of the city. Like in Mansfeild where I am and also in every other town I have been too. I keep coming across plagues that proudly tell me the history of some dumb ugly building.
No.35913
Ahh. Mansfield does have one vaguely interesting construct that I have thought of posting a picture of but it's not quite interesting enough too.
There is a monument to the three policemen killed by Ned Kelly and his gang. The place where the fight happened was near here and the Policeman came from here I think. They are also buried here.
Interestingly, they all were born in Ireland.
No.35914
Another inconsistency in the book.
This time a character tries to kill another character but a third character steps in the way and gets his throat cut open by a sword(which is stupid when you think about it as the attack must not have been able to actually reach the intended target to do that or else it would cut the interposing characters head off and also the character behind him) then a bit later a character is about to fight a battle with another character and he says 'did you cheer when character hung character? The man you served for so long' or something like that. So his death was completely different. Really weird mistake to make.
No.35917
I came across a second Bikutoria plated car.
I don't know if this car was Japanese or not. The emblem was a Z and I could not find a model name anywhere on it. So I have no idea who made it or what it is.
Anyway. It had writing on the windscreen. It said Supa Love and order that in katakana it said Supa Rubu.
On the rear windscreen in said Gameover on block old video game style writing and it said Supa Rubu underneath that in Katakana again.
The car also had some stickers on it. Like a cute cat and things like that. It one if those Japanese good luck charms attached to the rear view mirror. I actually have one of those on me and tried to do that but the string would not fit around the mirror.
No.35918
>>35917I meant under that not order that.
No.35940
it said sister love
No.35985
Phew. I finally have my car back.
No.36003
I had an ice coffe and it was yuck. Way worse than what I make at home and that is just milk with two teaspoons of coffe and two tablespoons of sugar. So how do they even mess that up?
Other than that I am just camping in a pine plantation again. It's a long weekend for Australia day so camping grounds are very busy.
It has just occurred to me that camping on Australia day is probably the most Australian thing I have ever done. Not that I did it because I want to though.
No.36005
Oh yeah. I forgot to mention the rare creatures I saw yesterday.
I was at a forest park visiting place thing and I saw a small figure with shoulder length pink hair in a black tank top and jeans at a park bench with two men. The men were setting down facing my general direction but the pink haired figure was standing talking to them so it's back was towards me.
I didn't pay it any attention, I just assumed it was a woman and walked to the park map to get my bearings. I wasn't close enough to fully make out there conversation but I was close enough to here them talking. After a while though I noticed that I was only hearing male voices. Wasn't there a woman? I thought.
So I turned around and thought it looked like a transexual but I was to far away and I didn't want to look directly at them because that would look weird.
But later on they walked passed me at a different point in that park and yes. He was a transexusual. He was a very short man with breasts. The two men he was with also might have been transsexuals. They both had long hair and looked like they were wearing make up but other than that it's hard to tell. One was fat and might have had fake breasts but that could just be fat. I also saw the pink haired one talk as he passed and yes he definitely sounded like a man. They all did. Like nerdy men but still men.
Anyway that was the first time I saw a transexusual in real life. Victoria is a weird place.
No.36037
>>35985do you plan on going anywhere now
what does your family think now that it's been some time
No.36106
>>36037I am looking for a good camp ground to wait at until minister responds. The above image was from the camp ground on the way to where my car broke down. But the camp ground has no reception. I guess the road past it had reception becuas3 it goes up into the mountains whereas the camp grounds are in the valley below.
No.36110
>>36109>but then hid in this spotbut then he hid in this spot
No.36112
>>36106but... what if the minister doesn't respond