Sturgist @ Sturgist @lemmy.ca

Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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suspicious coming from Conservative owned media

Postmedia, of which the Toronto Sun is a subsidiary, is majority owned by Chatham Asset Management. The founder of CAM is a well known GOP supporter. Postmedia group articles should be considered, at best, pro-American interest propaganda...if not outright election interference.
We have Stephen Harper to thank for opening the loopholes that allowed Postmedia group to be wholly owned by American VCs.

The Total Fertility Rate(TFR) of Canada hit a historic low of 1.33 national average in 2022.
Here's a Kurzgasagt video on why TFR below 2.1 is actually really bad. There needs to be more support for immigrants, and don't fool yourself that Canada, or even most "1st world countries", will be fine without immigrants. In 30 years Canada, without a regular injection of people, would be top heavy on the age demographic graph. 100 years and the US wouldn't have to try hard to annex us, there'd be almost no one left young enough to actually put up an effective resistance.
I live in Scotland, the TFR here is even lower, with a lower base population, and more people buy the Tory and Reform propaganda about armies of illegal Muslims outbreeding law abiding white folk.
I hate to agree, even tangentially, with the Elongated Muskrat....as a whole, humans do need to figure out how to at least maintain our current population. A great way to do that is for people in high population countries to move to lower population countries. Are there going to be problematic people? Sure, I guess. There's already people who are problematic born in Canada, or the UK.

I know this is a bit of a rant, sorry for unloading. Built up frustration with people willingly sticking their face in the leopard's mouth.....

10 and ^15/16ths sadly. It's being marketed as AI boosted to 12 though!

Hard agree. Only CEO I think might not be 10000000% a psychotic sociopath is the CEO of Signal.....but only cause she's not said anything I personally disagree with....and a bunch of things I do agree with. That's not exactly a great metric though.....

I feel like after he gets over the slight he'd be fine with it....

Fair enough. Not doing it intentionally. Just a dumbfuck 🤷

Just nitpicking now.

https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/games/mario-games/#sort=df&p=0

I beg to differ

Wasn't intentionally spreading misinformation. Classic games, as you said, are cheaper. However switch 1 games are still $80. And my point about legally being able to emulate them stands.
I'll retract my statements on the cost of legacy games here and go back through my previous comments and change them to reflect this.

OP says they switched away from Proton in the first sentence.

You think they're going to sell repackaged SNES and N64 games for less than that?(Edit: incorrect, they are in fact less than $80) How bout switch 1 games? Those are "modern" so significantly cheaper, still legal to have a backup, still legal to emulate....and will be run in an emulator on the switch 2, no native backwards compatibility.
As for switch 2 games....just waiting for a while getting them 2nd hand means they'll be cheaper, if you can actually get a hardcopy, and all the things I just said still apply....

Ugh....if only!

Literally just dropped my ballot 5mins ago. Registered to vote from abroad, so got the chance to send it away early. Could have sent it last week, but had to look into candidates a bit more before I cast my vote.

Sure, but it wouldn't be $80 for most of them. (Edit: classic games on the Nintendo store are not $80, statement retracted. The general sentiment stands.)

Game deals is in New Westminster. Not necessarily great prices, but you can get Super Mario Cart for $60. And that's a proper reseller, definitely get a better deal for a loose cart online.....it doesn't even have to be working. Get a better deal on one that isn't functional, physical media degradation is one of the reasons why you're able to keep digital copies.

Factorio?

In the case of them rereleasing old games without doing a remaster, in Canada at least, it is legal to have a digital back up for any game you own, and running it in an emulator is legal.

(Edit: I'm implying here that classic games are $80 on the Nintendo store, they are not. Still legal to have digital backups of modern games, still legal to emulate them as long as you own a physical copy.)

Except it's totally not. Maybe the only 100% legal in every single country way, but not the only way by half. Fuck Nintendo. Fuck $80+ for a game. And fuck the switch 2.

They're running a candidate in mine....but I'm not sure that's actually better. Guy has no experience, which isn't necessarily horrible...gotta start somewhere. He has no internet presence other than his green party page. His green party page is only accessable by web search, it's not linked to anywhere on the green party page. There's almost no blurb on his page. One line saying that he grew up in Vancouver, and then a paragraph of literally just the party standard line....my riding isn't in Vancouver.... it's close by, but a different city.

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It's not a great place we're in currently for an election. But do as must. Like I said in a response to someone else, the demographics of my riding mean it's a bit of a toss up between the Lib and Tory, with the Lib the more likely. I'll probably just vote NDP. It's their candidate's first time, but we all start somewhere. Also the fact he is from the riding, grew up there, and has continued to be based there makes me more confident that he'll do his best for the actual interests of the riding.

My wife is more politically savvy than me. She's had a look at the NDP guy's background, and feels like he might not be the worst choice. And we all start somewhere, not like experienced politicians just appear out of nowhere. The fact that he's local, and is running in the riding he grew up in makes me feel a bit better about him.
The Green candidate has a GP page, but no way to get to it through links from the homepage. Also has no internet presence at all. Like literally the only thing that comes up is the GP page that is only discoverable by search... it's not even linked to on the elections.ca page for my riding.

Probably gonna vote for the NDP guy. Due to the demographics of my riding it's a toss up between the Lib and Tory winning. Don't feel like a strategic vote is necessary what with the FPTP system we still use.