First international travel, making sure I haven't missed any critical steps

I just got my USA passport today and booked my flight to Auckland and then Melbourne. The website mentioned to make sure I have all the correct documents to which I assumed was only my passport but NZ and Australia both required an ETA so I applied for both.

That got me wondering, outside of my passport, drivers license and now my ETA is there anything else I need with me to travel to Australia and New Zealand?

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u/kNyne — 1 day ago

Want to visit Melbourne, Sydney and Gold Coast. How much will I lose if I don't pre-book hotels?

2I want to visit Melbourne, drive to Sydney and then Gold Coast but I don't really want to be on a strict schedule, I'd rather move from city to city when I'm ready. The problem though is I'm wondering if it will cost a ton more if I'm booking hotels the day of and re-booking day by day instead of booking a few weeks at a time.

EDIT: I think I may just rent a van. It's only a few thousand and would allow me to remain flexible.

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u/kNyne — 12 days ago
▲ 46 r/xqcow

Welcome to the game is some of my favorite content but X has replaced the entire gameplay loop with gamba and reset

He justifies this by saying "it's part of the game" but that doesn't take into consideration the fact that if he loses, the run is dead and then he just resets. Legit just watched him dodge killers for 10 minutes and when he finally got back to the PC, immediately started gambling again.

EDIT: Just got to the point in the vod where he's actually just clicking gamble until he's out of money then quitting to main menu. Like wtf is the point of this? Say he wins 20k dollars, buys everything and wins in 10 minutes, is that fun? Just go play cookie clicker.

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u/kNyne — 29 days ago

How is this person tightening the loop with the jog wheel and changing the tempo with the effects knob?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYX5HtZivO8/

This person looks to be using tools in a way I've never seen before albeit, I'm still learning. It seems like they tighten the loop with the jog wheel and then later, change the tempo with the effects knob.

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u/kNyne — 1 month ago
▲ 50 r/Iowa

Have a job opportunity in Cedar Falls/Waterloo but I need to decide without visiting

Before anyone says, it's not a scam, it's an opportunity at the company I currently work for. It's a tough situation, I'm either being laid off at the end of the month or very seriously considering relocating to Cedar Falls/Iowa area.

I currently live in a town of 40k in Michigan and the things I dislike here are: lack of local/good food, lack of young people to meet, the city's been described as a retirement home. With that said, how is this area in that regard? Another thing I'm really into is ultimate frisbee which from what I can tell there isn't any in the area but I'd be willing to drive to Cedar Rapids for it a few times a week.

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u/kNyne — 1 month ago

Parents used to make hamburger helper, shake-n-bake, are there any modern meals like this?

I was never a huge fan of the hamburger helpers or shake-n-bakes, I'm wondering if in the past 20 years a new similar style meal has come out with higher quality.

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u/kNyne — 2 months ago
▲ 78 r/nba

Simple question: If Giannis wants to be on a championship team, isn't waiting until free agency a much better way to do it?

If Giannis had waited until his contract was up, he could simply join a team instead of doing it via a trade where he joins a team that just gutted their entire squad to get him. I'm guessing it's that the Bucks will do everything they can to trade him while they still have him on their contract, and now he can just do the same when his contract with the Heat expires?

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u/kNyne — 2 months ago

How much work do I need to do to remove grass from a mulch garden bed?

I've got grass in a garden bed, I didn't want to use chemicals because I've got plants I want to keep in the bed. Yesterday I started tilling the grass but ran into the problem that the grass roots held a TON of dirt and it was way too tedious to try to separate the dirt from the grass. Secondarily, there are a decent amount of random roots still mixed in with the dirt I'm leaving in the bed. So now I'm wondering, are the little straggler roots mixed in with the dirt going to re-grow grass? Or is it the opposite, can I just take the roots I've pulled up and just throw them back in the bed and be fine (pretty sure this is not the case but figured I'd ask). Or is there another solution where I like shred up the roots and then put them back in the bed? Or even mix up the grass roots that I've pulled out with some grass killer and THEN throw them back in the bed.

This is all very new to me, sorry if this is a dumb question.

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u/kNyne — 3 months ago

Spotify replacing song with completely different one but kept the title and artist?

I'm listening to songs towards the bottom of my liked songs, that I haven't listened to in years and noticed this song "Leave it - UZ & Rome Fortune" has been completely replaced with an entirely different song. I thought I was going crazy so I googled the original and it's a male vocalist, new song is female and sounds nothing like the song in the title.

I've heard people complaining about versions of songs being changed like explicit to clean, but never something like this. If you're curious, just Google the song name and check what's on spotify.

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u/kNyne — 3 months ago

Flight is delayed, now lands 3 minutes after my connection departs. Should I take the guaranteed rebook or risk it?

EDIT: okay I re-booked​

Never been in this scenario. My flight is delayed, lands at 7:48. My final flight departs at 7:45, both through united. I can rebook and get home at midnight or I can risk it, maybe they fly fast, maybe the hold the plane (not sure I don't do this often).

From what I can tell if I don't rebook and the other flight ends up full, United puts me in a hotel which I really don't want to do.

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u/kNyne — 3 months ago

Thinking about moving to Appleton for work, thinking it might not be a good fit.

I'm coming from Midland MI, a very religious small-ish town of 40,000 people where I'm missing the ability to meet like-minded people my age, 33, as well as missing local food options.

I have a work opportunity in Oshkosh and decided to visit but quickly realized the fact that I don't really drink anymore may make it hard for me to meet people. I also am not religious and don't hunt or fish. I'm really into ultimate frisbee and have found a group that plays here so there's that but otherwise, I'm not sure it's a match. Just to get an idea I logged on to tinder and managed to swipe through everyone in a 30 mile radius in like 20 minutes, just to get an idea.

Any advice? I'm sort of stuck in the middle at the moment. I'm liking the food options but could definitely see myself getting equally as bored here as my current town.​

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u/kNyne — 3 months ago

I'd like to try out some good custom maps and scenarios but it seems you have to scour the forums for user submitted ones and hope they're good. Are there any resources to filter out the most popular ones?

For example, a scenario where you start on a small island surrounded by biters but you have infinite resources and need to break your way out.

Now before anyone suggests I just make this myself, it would probably take me a bunch of tries where at first it's too easy, then it's too hard. Therefore if there is a list, I can just assume the top rated ones are fun to play.

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u/kNyne — 4 months ago

EDIT: Okay I did some further testing and the 2nd point doesn't happen as often as I originally saw so this isn't entirely true.

This is because of two things:

  1. For whatever reason, base guardians deal essentially zero damage to minions. This is either a bug or because of the interaction where minions get buffed when they enter the enemy base. Further testing shows it takes about a minute for both base guardians to kill a single minion.

  2. Defending minions get stuck behind base guardians and do not attack. When they jump off the zipline, they stand behind base guardians and do literally nothing.

Because of this, if you crash even 1 minion into enemy base guardians, it will set the wave state up to where your next waves will crash into base guardians and kill them unless an enemy player responds.

I tested it in a bot game and realized okay it's not LITERALLY zero but in reality, it's basically zero: https://imgur.com/a/3QYM5AW

u/kNyne — 4 months ago