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content/posts/letter_04022025.md

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+title: "OPEN LETTER: NSW coat of arms on the NSW Supreme Court website "
+date: 2025-02-04
+description: "Unlisted Thoughts, on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of the Great State of New South Wales, has sent a letter to the Honourable Chief Justice Andrew Scott Bell in his capacity as the Chief Justice of New South Wales regarding the NSW coat of arms on the NSW Supreme Court website."
+tags: ["Coat of Arms", "Government","NSW","Supreme Court"]
+
+---
+
+Unlisted Thoughts, on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of the Great State of New South Wales, has sent a letter to the Honourable Chief Justice Andrew Scott Bell in his capacity as the Chief Justice of New South Wales regarding the NSW coat of arms on the NSW Supreme Court website.
+
+Unlisted Thoughts will ensure that this gets to the Chief Justice. 
+
+You can download [our letter using this link](/files/documents/LETTER_TO_CHIEF_JUSTICE_ANDREW_BELL_REDACTED.pdf).
+
+**You can also find the letter below:**
+
+Dear Chief Justice,
+
+We draw your attention to the NSW Supreme Court’s [website](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/) and the coat of arms currently being used. 
+
+For your reference, I have pasted a copy of it (the previous depiction) below as it currently stands alongside the current depiction.
+
+**The depiction on the NSW Supreme Court’s [website](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/)
+(the previous depiction)**
+
+<figure style="text-align:center;">
+	<img src="https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/crest-logo/NSW_Crest.svg" alt="Previous depiction of the NSW coat of arms" width="800">
+	<figcaption class="custom-caption">From <a href="https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/crest-logo/NSW_Crest.svg">https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/crest-logo/NSW_Crest.svg</a></figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+**The current depiction of the NSW coat of arms**
+
+<figure style="text-align:center;">
+	<img src="https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/crest-logo/state_arms_2024_large_svg.svg" alt="Current depiction of the NSW coat of arms" width="800">
+	<figcaption class="custom-caption">From <a href="https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/crest-logo/state_arms_2024_large_svg.svg">https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/crest-logo/state_arms_2024_large_svg.svg</a></figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+As Your Honour can see, the current depiction is in colour and features the words “New South Wales”. This version of the coat of arms is used on the websites of the [Local Court of NSW](https://localcourt.nsw.gov.au/), the [Coroners Court of NSW](https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/), the [District Court of NSW](https://districtcourt.nsw.gov.au/), the [Drug Court of NSW](https://drugcourt.nsw.gov.au/), the [Land and Environment Court of NSW](https://lec.nsw.gov.au/), the [Children’s Court of NSW](https://childrenscourt.nsw.gov.au/), and the [NSW Industrial Relations Commission](https://irc.nsw.gov.au/).
+
+I hope Your Honour can resolve this discrepancy immediately.
+
+Further details on the NSW coat of arms are attached in Appendix A.
+
+ If Your Honour has questions about the depictions of the NSW coat of arms, you can email us at [EMAIL ADDRESS].
+
+Yours sincerely,
+
+Concerned Citizens of the Great State of New South Wales
+
+# Appendix A
+
+----
+
+The current depiction of the NSW coat of arms was adopted by NSW courts in December 2024.
+
+Below is the heraldic description of the NSW coat of arms:
+
+>Crest: On a wreath of the colours a rising sun each ray tagged with a flame of fire proper
+>
+>Torse: Argent and azure
+>
+>Shield: Azure a cross argent voided gules charged in the centre chief point with a lion passant guardant, and on each member with a mullet of eight points or between in the first and fourth quarters a fleece or banded argent and in the second and third quarters a garb also or Supporters On the dexter side a lion rampant guardant and on the sinister side a kangaroo both or
+>
+>Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites

content/posts/media_release_08042025.md

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+title: "MEDIA RELEASE: Forget About It – No More Amnesiac Protagonists"
+date: 2025-04-08
+description: "For too long, amnesiacs have been over-represented in video game protagonists. However, this is not because the video game industry respects the memory loss syndrome. Instead, this is because video game plot writers—the most oppressed group in society—are lazy, uncreative hacks who think the easiest way to let the player choose their character’s path is to make the character an amnesiac. "
+tags: ["Media Release", "Names","Video Games","Satire"]
+
+---
+
+[DOWNLOAD HERE](/files/media_release/UTMR_AMNESIACS_09042025.pdf)
+
+For too long, amnesiacs have been over-represented in video game protagonists. However, this is not because the video game industry respects the memory loss syndrome. Instead, this is because video game plot writers—the most oppressed group in society—are lazy, uncreative hacks who think the easiest way to let the player choose their character’s path is to make the character an amnesiac. 
+
+By making the playable protagonist an amnesiac, game developers now have carte blanche to have both story mechanics and plot points lazily dictated to the protagonist.
+
+Unlisted Thoughts and the Observatory for Video Games Plots and Stories, with the assistance of TV Tropes, believe that video game plot writers can do better. In the Observatory’s study of 16 video games where the protagonist is an amnesiac, they identified 12 alternative back stories that would have also worked. Additionally, they also suggest game developers can find better ways to integrate tutorial mechanics.
+
+“I played Knights of the Old Republic. It’s brilliant, that is, but I just don’t see why my character just don’t know anything,” James ‘Frogert23’ Song said. Song suggests that games can take the Balder’s Gate 3 route of having some protagonists be amnesiac while others have established memories and backgrounds.
+
+Gamers might not deserve better, but we think they should get better plot writing.
+
+We grant an exception to games where the plot revolves around seeking the character’s memories. However, this can get contrived if the character turns out to be evil in the past or—heaven forbid—it was magic.
+
+Enough is enough. We do not need more amnesiac protagonists.
+
+We ask all video game plot writers to step up and do what’s right.
+
+**Acting Executive Director of the Observatory for Video Game Plots and Stories Ban Ki-Moon Please said:**
+
+“Amnesia should not be a tool for lazy writing. If we keep letting writers get away with it, I might need to give myself a memory deficit.”
+
+**TV Tropes Acting Senior Troper FuriousDragon said:**
+
+“It was innovative and new the first time, but having the reveal be that the action character in a full-body suit is a woman is tired and plays on old stereotypes. If you reveal that they’re an amnesiac—that’ll surprise me.”
+
+<p style="text-align:center;">####</p>
+
+**Media Contact: John Curtin**