This is a really neat and well written list of games. It’s so interesting how different these games were from the console games at the time. So many live acted sequences with pre rendered backgrounds. The only game I knew of beforehand was Phantasmagoria, but Dark Seed was ringing a bell. Perhaps a friend had that one. I might have to try some of these games.
I think I’m just gonna block the word Hoekstra. Nothing good or worthy of attention is attached to that name.
2027 unless we have a general strike and force an early election.
I’ve got a bunch of CBC podcasts that I love.
Under the Influence has great storytelling and talks a lot about the history of marketing in very interesting ways.
We Regret to Inform You is by the same people and talks about the hardships some people have had to go through before making it big. I really only listen to episodes about people I already know about though.
The Debaters is a great comedy podcast. I also listen to Laugh out Loud and have been caught laughing my head off in the middle of the dog park.
Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe is going through Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe stories and adding a bit of background about each story. I thought I’d skip the background stuff, but it’s actually not bad to listen to. Stuart McLean was such an amazing story teller and I always love hearing these stories about Canada.
Quirks and Quarks is a great science podcast although I kicked it off my list for a while until I can clear my other backlog.
One US based podcast I would still recommend (They’re not political, but still not pro Trump) is Go Fact Yourself. Great podcast in a trivia game show format. The central idea is really cool. Pick 3 topics outside your field of work that you’re an expert in. They then quiz you on one of those three topics with a special guest expert in the topic who comes on at the end. And the people they get are absolutely amazing! They had Walter Koenig on as an expert, and then he liked the show so much he came back as a player.
There’s a long history to the F35 purchase and I wouldn’t lay it all on Trudeau after all the sunk costs. I’d more lay it on Stephen Harper for not exploring other options.
Google AI summary
The procurement became a politically contentious issue, particularly after the Conservative government announced the F-35 as the sole option without a competitive bidding process in 2010.
Pete Hoekstra doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in our news media. As an ambassador, the only thing he’s good at is pissing off his host country.
I was wondering if the 10% additional tariff due to the political ad would have any affect, since it doesn’t even pass the “emergency drug crisis” test.
I’ve heard rumours of AUPE joining in. They’ve been without a contract for a year and a half.
Recently had the sewer backup into my basement. Didn’t expect the return ticket.
And bring back the big tech tax.
I was in the sane situation as you and what I did was buy a new drive to put Linux on so I could dual boot and get used to things without wiping everything. Linux can even mount your Window drive if you need to access data on it.
I tried a few distro myself but landed on Garuda Dr460onized Gaming. (You can look at different versions here) The gaming version came with steam and Heroic installed and had a nice colour theme picked. Gaming has been great and all Windows games that I’ve tried have worked better than when I was running Windows. (Rocket League, Hades 2, Uncharted 4 to name some) You can always keep Windows on your other drive and boot it for games like Fortnite that have kernel level anti cheat.
The only issue you might have is that Garuda is pretty bleeding edge with when updates get applied. This can be good or bad. There were some issues getting dual screens working for me at first, but those issues have gone away completely now. I also had issues with the top menu bar crashing and disappearing. Lasted about 2 weeks and then an update fixed it. (Survived by using the Meta + Spacebar search launcher and Ctrl + Alt + T to get into a terminal) So updates to fix issues come out somewhat quickly, but issues pop up too. I actually think it’s been pretty stable right now.
But isn’t Bazzite an immutable distro? I heard that has some advantages and some disadvantages especially when installing software. I skipped on it when I heard that for my desktop OS, but I haven’t actually tried it.
I’m happy to see some activity in the /c/hockey community!
I mean, I am doing those things. I’m also just curious as to why we’re so focused on alcohol. It’s probably because it’s one of the things where it’s easy to find non-American alternatives. But maybe because there’s a lot of Coca Cola bottling locally in Canada people don’t care?
Either way, I’ve been looking around for Canadian candy to give away for Halloween. Hawkins Cheesies and Rockets might be it.
Why do we care so much about US liquor? Nobody talks about boycotting US soft drinks and candy.
That’s not a great abbreviation to use for Canada Post. Too many other things share those initials.
Does StoryGraph offer anything that could be useful for this project? It’s a competitor to Good Reads. I’ve been using it because I’m getting away from anything that Amazon touches.
It really doesn’t need to be a picture.
“We are implementing AI in our business processes!”
Looks inside
The PM now uses ChatGPT instead of a calculator
If I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.