This is probably the best choice. There is basically no failure state, so there is no impetus to act under pressure, which is probably the biggest demotivator if someone is at that stage of learning how to play video games.

Minecraft is pretty mechanically complex if you’re at the “need to learn how to move in a video game” stage

I live in a small town and even I had to wait about 15 minutes in line.

Last election, I was the only one there outside of the volunteers and was in and out in about a minute. I want to think this is a good thing and we’ll see massive voter turnout

Yeah, that tracks for Canadian politics as a whole.

Conservatives and Liberals haven’t really changed their tune and are both running essentially the same platforms they were in the mid-2000s. The NDP is headed by someone who got into politics to really try and change things for the better, and get outplayed every time by the establishment. And the Bloc really only cares about the culture of Quebec, which makes them a non-candidate for anyone far away from Quebec

Lobbyists as they exist now? Definitely.

The original concept for them is an important thing to have in a democratic system. You can’t expect politicians to be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of every industry, which leads to ineffective regulation. It makes sense to have a person whose job it is to translate the needs of the industry to the politicians.

The problems come when that person has an incentive and a sizable budget to twist policy to the advantage of shareholders rather than consumers or workers.

I pre-ordered this game because I loved Psychonauts and this game was marketed as a sort of heavy metal themed Zelda game.

I then learned about 2 hours in that its also an RTS, which is a genre I never got along with and set it down never to be played again. Thankfully, when you’re a patient gamer, you can’t be lied to by advertising.

There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.

Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

Time to restore a whole machine backup to a VM with no network connectivity, and manually pull the command?

I’m not surprised. I’m disappointed, but not surprised

This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.

Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.

On the other hand, the reason it’s failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.

I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.

on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

How do I stop having expectations?

This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it(ie: make them spoken expectations), not to remove them altogether.

That actually sounds like a rad date

“We had a good thing going here selling homes for well over triple what they are worth! Why are you messing with that?”

Would be hell to play, though, there’s definitely better horny RPGs to try

My issue with horny RPGs is that if you can find people to play with that are into whatever kink the book is catering to, why would you bother to play at all? Just have sex.

And on the flipside, if you dont want to have sex with the people you’re playing with, why play the sexy game? Just play a regular RPG

Communism is when no golf

There is probably an absolutely fascinating sociology paper that examines this through the lens that the fact it’s forbidden makes it sexier

As relevant now as it was 10 years ago

I like that it implies that they are all dipshits, even though only five messed up

My mom always used to be happy when she dreamed about her dead friends and relatives because she thought they were visiting her to catch up. She would tell them about the things happening in her life and they’d be happy to hear from her.

I’m far less spiritual than my mom, but now that she is gone, when I dream about her I do the same thing because it reminds me of her being happy to tell me who visited her last night.

The only other musician that’s firmly in their camp is Kid Rock and I wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone