That was…interesting. I’m Canadian, it’s not my place to comment as it has to do with American internal politics. I will say it was an absolute assault on the senses anyways. I’ve never heard a politician lay claim to so many feats, like I think this guy just claimed he’s gone more than all the presidents combined, solved every war and completely solved the economy. That’s quite a bold claim!

I never played the third birthday one either. Number two is great, but it goes from like challenging to next level nightmare impossible right at the end.

I’ve got KCD2, and I mean it’s awesome, but the prologue drags on my god. I just got the darn thing finally started and I was bored of it. I’ll pick it back up at some point. It’s great, it just needs a special kind of attention and dedication that I’m not sure I totally have.

Carmageddon Max Damage. I used to live for the original Carmageddon, back when I was in high school. Between me and my old man, we annihilated that game and all the add on packs. This version is a pleasant return to a simpler time, but it’s a nice shake up of the classic too, it’s actually a bit challenging. I’m really enjoying it, about 55% done. I pick away at it here and there, and have been doing that this week. Probably going to replay Modern Warfare 2 (the 2009 version) on the weekend, as I just finished Modern Warfare 1 last weekend.

7 with VR was phenomenal. It’s not quite the same as the 1-4 series though, like it was almost a different universe. I never played its sequel, but I heard it was good.

Parasite eve 1 or 2? I don’t think I ever got past the final boss in 2, buddy was impossible

I’ve got a $50 game boy wanna-be clone that I bought on Amazon on my bedside table, thing runs PS1 games smoothly. It ain’t quite the same obviously, but it just about scratches the same itch (plus it’s portable, I’ve enjoyed playing it on the train to and from work for example).

I just struggle to be…into it anymore.

After the whole COVID thing, after all this other crap, now the ram, like I’m just not into this scarcity thing anymore. A lot of the games suck, everything’s released pre-alpha, all this pre buy hype and then the delays just to build more hype.

I dunno, call me jaded, but I’m just kind of over it, and I’m struggling to enjoy these newer games as much. I mean dont get me wrong, I love games still, I love computers and tech still (obviously), but I’ve as of late have discovered that I’ve missed so much over the past decade or so. I’ve been having a hoot playing older stuff, and it’s so much more enjoyable. Hence I’m not really caught in the hype as much anymore. My last build is about to hit 2 years old, and honestly it’s probably riding the decade out at this point, if not even longer.

This journalist is playing 4d chess. Or he’s hearing the drip drip, from his PP.

I just sold an Anycubic Kobra for $100. And it wasn’t fun. You aren’t getting $200 for it, I would honestly put it up for $100, be firm and just get rid of it if you actually want to be rid of it.

Or you can play the game for six months, and maybe get $120 for it. Is that $80 worth six months of dealing with some of the most awful people on the planet? I had a guy trolling me, like he kept messaging me from different profiles that he had created, writing just the most random shit. Super bizarre.

The slide can’t happen fast enough. It’s time to move on from these people, like I get why people are angry, but these people aren’t going to move the needle. They are grifters that are just going to farm your anger to enrich themselves. Boggles my mind that people can’t see that.

Your alma matter sounds like mine. Their endowment funds are billions of dollars large, but they still have the gall to be “all in” on collecting more. All while their staff are forever striking and churning managers because they pay absolute shit and they do all the gross things to their people that billion dollar corporations do. I’m disgusted I went there sometimes. That I bought into the bullshit for a little bit. Still have never donated a cent though, and never will.

I’m not so sure in the grand scheme we are.

We are all so burnt out and so jaded, in an economy thats so flat and moribund, in a world that’s so fucking upside down, that somethings got to give.

These asshole greedy pig CEOs are going to have a complete mess on their hands, when this AI bubble (because it’s a bubble) pops, and it’s going to be a complete mess. We are going to see companies implode literally overnight, borrowing is going to lock up, and it’s going to fuck up supply chains. At a time when they need people to bear down, but everyones been forced to RTO against their will, for flat paychecks while these assholes hoard all the cash flow for themselves at staggering levels.

Personally I think it’s going to make the Great Resignation look like a picnic. I’m not always right, in fact I seldom am sometimes, but I’m starting to think the pendulum swings wildly in the employees favor on this one. When shit goes sideways, that’s going to also be the moment of the boomer implosion, where all the seventy year old execs and the mid to later 50s guys and gals leave with the bags, and I mean the job needs done, now in a challenging environment maybe. But you’ve pissed most of your employees off with this AI shit and their flat paychecks, to the point where sure they are hanging on collecting a cheque, but most everybody has quiet quit on you. Could be interesting, maybe.

Use it against them. Remember the distortion can work with you, as well as against you.

My work was doing the whole “AI AI AI, use AI” blah blah blah thing. I used it at my annual review, where I showed I should have both an executive title and my salary should be about $200k higher. I also told my team and my fellow coworkers to do the same.

It’s funny how we haven’t heard boo from the executive about AI for about 3 or 4 months now.

This goes both ways, right? Malicious compliance and all of that.

Your biggest threats in Canada are actually the cold (threat #1), shit drivers (threat #2) Methanys and the crack heads (I would argue threat #4). Racism is like threat #612,987 on a list that includes everything from death from diabetes by maple syrup (threat #34 on the list), to getting eaten by a grizzly bear (threat #3 to #490 depending on where you are). Or stomped by a moose (a threat that can run a range of #1 to #7 both depending where you are or if you are trying to pet it).

On the anger about Albertans being painted as lunatics and compared to Texas, I mean come on, you don’t need stats or polls to see how that is. Not when the press focuses in, rightfully, on our premier who has both a pick-me complex, and insists on (loudly) representing the most grossest, fringest interests, which are wildly xenophobic, authoritarian, science denying, treasonist and corrupt in it’s wildest extremes. Which is baffling when you consider that it’s a pretty small number of our overall population that actually is represented by this nonsense. That only have power because of our distorted ways that we vote for representation, and weird ass governments that completely rug pull and stand for mandates they refuse to acknowledge at election time, because their wackadoodle party keeps getting hijacked and controlled by these fringe unelected people.

So don’t be confused or have shocked Pikachu face or anything when people outside (or inside) the province paint us with these brushes. It’s deserved, because we keep allowing it to happen. We keep allowing these people to abuse us and control the narrative about who we are.

I would actually say Alberta politics are insane, but disregarding that, people here are still usually friendly enough. Yes racism and bigotry is still (baffling) a universal experience, something you could possibly come into contact with, well, just about anywhere in the world.

Are you going to get a sideways look somewhere? I mean maybe, can’t say for sure you won’t. But are you going to get run out of town by people bearing pitchforks and torches? Well no. I can almost say for certainty that won’t happen anywhere in our country. A Canadian, even the goofy ass hillbilly ones that shout at clouds and vaccines on Facebook, would file that under something pretty god damn weird. And we collectively largely ignore those ones. Behind their backs we point and laugh at them too, so fear not.

Come see our country OP. It’s beautiful, and almost universally welcoming and accessible. Don’t forget your coat this time of year, it sure is beautiful but it’s also cold as shit in certain areas. Personally I think the atmosphere adds to the beauty.

As a type 1 diabetic, nothing pisses me off more than people who just throw out incredible nonsense.

Yes it fucking sucks when you don’t have insurance, and oh boy have I been there. But even in the most uninsured state of existence, I think 18 grand for supplies is a bit suspect. Even running a pump, which is almost universally covered for supplies by provincially funded pump programs btw, even in provinces undergoing insane health care attacks like in Alberta (where I live), I’m not sure I could hit 18k a year. Even disregarding that coverage.

Note that I’m not the sole experience in a disease that’s complex. So grain of salt. But even if I put in an infusion set every two days, ran CGM, uninsured insulin, basically run the most expensive path I can, I can’t hit 18k doing the math. Most I could hit in extreme math is about 6k. Still ridiculous, don’t get me wrong, and still a defeating expense in times of shrinking incomes, over egregious government spending and the government protecting the ultra rich who are hoarding wealth. But you don’t fight a fight like this with overinflating figures. This isn’t the US where a vial of insulin costs $600. So I don’t know where these figures are coming from.

I was sort of loosely onboard with the gun ban before, sort of kind of. But I’m completely offboard now. Even if it’s a full out machine gun, I think we are at the point where it’s maybe something to be looked past, if it’s held and stored responsibly. You can kind of see even the Liberals are trying to low-key back peddle out of it.

The fact the US is explicitly calling out the UCP in their foreign policy strategy guide, should be enough of a reason that her riding needs to be lining up to sign this.