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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zonetoMelbourne@aussie.zone•Discussion Thread 🐼 Friday 13 February 2026
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    2 days ago

    Took the girlfriend to the Bluestone restaurant in Epping and it’s a nice spot. I was surprised by how much space is out the back.

    You go out the back of the restaurant and there’s this outdoor area with a bunch of original farm houses and stuff. Because it’s a mismatch of old buildings and paths go off in whatever direction it feels like you’re in the starting area of Dark Souls: Australia.

    There’s even a big hole in the middle of the place for that complete Dark Souls Hub feel.

    Dark Souls Australia Screenshot

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zonetoMelbourne@aussie.zone•Discussion Thread 🍨 Thursday 12 February 2026
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    3 days ago

    I’ll spoiler this because I’m not sure how long it will take:

    Trivia night details

    One team ended up using the name Quizlamic Jihad, which is a bit of a spicy name but it had been used in the past at another venue and no one seemed to mind. A woman asked me who that team was at the end of the night because it seemed like she didn’t like their choice of name.

    That night when I got home I received an email from one of the main people in charge of trivia, and someone else I hadn’t heard of was CC’d in. He didn’t mention this guy was CC’d in or who he was. I did some linkedIn research and it was the head of events for the parent company.

    They said they received some ‘feedback’ on the event and wanted further clarification on some details of the night. There were a couple of things they wanted me to write about like technical details and crowd reaction, which felt like hiding the true thing they wanted to ask about.

    So after I responded to that email the reply was saying it was about the team name and whether I thought it was acceptable, quoting back sections of the code of conduct to me, and asking why I went with the name. He could have led with this instead of being broad and vague. I also haven’t received the formal training I’m supposed to yet so depending on what they say I might bring that up. I feel it’s a bit rich to recite the code of conduct back at me when you haven’t taken me through it like you promised.

    Now I’m waiting to hear back and I don’t know what’s going on. Who knows? I might not be hosting pub trivia any more. I could have just gotten a more direct, ‘hey, we got some feedback about this tonight, don’t do it again.’

    I worked a night with this guy and he was telling me how he’s always direct and blunt with people so I would have expected the same from him over email. Instead it feels like a cop emailing you instead of just saying what’s up. I misjudged the crowd that night, we could have just talked about it.