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GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caMto Windsor@lemmy.ca•Liberals' Kusmierczyk pushes for recount in 'razor-thin' loss to Conservatives2·1 day agoI’d be willing to bet there are more than 77 liberal voters who stayed home and sat on their ass. Would love to ask them now why they couldn’t be bothered to vote.
I doubt the recount will change the result, but who knows. Better to be thorough than to leave it to any doubts.
My entire region, the CONs sweeped it. Rough! I’m glad federally the Libs won though. I just made a detailed post about it in my regions lemmy community.
I really hope the CONs that just won and keep their seats are able to go up to bat to defend Windsor from the worst effects of the Trump Tariffs. This region stands to be the most afflicted.
Jagmeet is already, gone, I think PP isn’t long for politics going forward. I think this is great, we need fresh blood and I hope CONs realize their strats aren’t gonna cut it.
I don’t want the CONs gone from Canada, I want them to reform into a party worthy of respect – just differing in opinion of how to progress Canada forward.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caOPto Maple Music@lemmy.ca•Sloan - The Rest of My Life [Indie/Alt Rock]2·16 days agoLmao if I knew it was blocked in Canada I’d have gotten a different link, my bad.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caOPto Give'r Gaming@lemmy.ca•Open Discussion: What makes a game or studio Canadian?2·17 days agoDude commented within 1 minute of me posting this too.
I agree. I think games fall into the realm of art, and much in the same way I might visit a Canadian history museum to see our unique historic cultural artefacts, or a modern art gallery featuring Canadian artists, I am also interested in seeing what Canadian gamedevs are brewing up. We absolutely have a respectable gamedev scene in Canada and I think that is worth celebrating and discovering. Same for any other country too. It’s a exploration of the unique cultural fingerprint we leave in the things we create. VERY different from the concept of national exceptionalism – a game/thing/person being Canadian does not make it inherently superior. It’d be silly to think that, and I’d never suggest so.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caOPto Give'r Gaming@lemmy.ca•Open Discussion: What makes a game or studio Canadian?3·17 days agoThat is hard to quantify and verify, as most of these studios are privately owned and not required to publicly disclose that type of information.
I’d agree this would be the way, if only we could actually verify this. I think a physical studio/space in Canada is the best compromise because that is something we can actually verify with simple online sleuthing. Remote work is only increasing, and does make this complicated.
There are two communities I would really like to see some traffic driven to:
!maplemusic@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian music
!givergaming@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian games, gamedevs and studios
I think these would be an easy add to the Canadian Social / Culture section.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caOPto Give'r Gaming@lemmy.ca•Open Discussion: What makes a game or studio Canadian?2·17 days agoChill, it’s not meant to be that deep.
This is a community that seeks to celebrate and spread word of Canadian games and studios. I figured it would be nice to have a discussion and come to some kind of conclusion on how we determine if a game or studio is Canadian. Nothing more, nothing less. Any political commentary beyond that can be had in other more relevant communities.
For a gamedev, an individual person? Just being Canadian, I suppose. For a studio? I think it should be by being based in Canada, even if it is owned by a larger entity based elsewhere (Such as the Ubisoft Montreal branch) For the game itself? Made by a Canadian studio.
I took the initiative and actually emailed their support email address and asked them how much of the company is based in Canada. Hopefully I hear from them soon!
I hope it is not a situation where the studio just happened to be founded/owned by a Canadian. A Canadian owning a company does not make it a Canadian company – by that logic, twitter/x is a Canadian company.
I think this community should decide what exactly constitutes a “Canadian Game” or Studio.
Fair – it is a bit of a grey area in that regard. I’ve been playing Rimworld for about 5 years now, and can attest that a large majority of the Game’s creative direction is from Tynan himself. The wikipedia article for Rimworld elaborates on the development history of Rimworld a bit more, and seem to imply it was at least originally created in Canada, back when it was just Tynan and a few other devs.
Could be worth directly asking the studio how Canadian they are or consider themselves to be. They are rather active with the community with a active community engagement person on the subreddit.
Tynan Sylvester / Ludeon Studios, creator of Rimworld. Based in Ottawa (or that is where he lives according to his LinkedIn atleast.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caMto Windsor@lemmy.ca•5 speed cameras are coming to Windsor. Here's how to find out where they'll go1·20 days agoWell, the idea is to make the roads safer – not turn a profit. If people stop speeding so much, they can always take them down again. 6 a day seems like a very achievable number for a long time though.
If the streets are safer for it, then its a worthwhile investment. Especially if you consider the alternative of enforcement would be hiring another police officer, which undoubtably would cost more and be limited in their ability to catch every person speeding. Suppose an argument could be made to say these cameras are taking police officer’s jobs, but frankly I think traffic enforcement should be below them, and let them focus on more real crimes going on.
It seems really promising. Even my mother who voted MAGA in America really likes Carney. He is absolutely swaying many conservatives with how comically overqualified he is for the position.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Trump says he will hit Canada with 25% tariff next week after month-long pause1·2 months agoYou’ve done nothing to try to convince me that I am incorrect. You’ve not engaged with my original argument with any logical reasoning or facts. You haven’t even tried. All you’ve done is degrade my degrees and try to bully me out of my opinion like a little school child. In fact, I am beginning to suspect I really am speaking to a child – even wishing that you could physically smack me instead when losing an argument.
Nothing I said is revisionism but solid fact. It is simply making new conclusions on new emerging research and historical sources – something that you have no idea about because you’re not a historian. Historians disagree all the time on the same historical events. You’d know this if you ever read more than one book on the same historical topic instead of taking the first one you read as gospel.
I stand by what I originally said. You are not equipped to debate history.
They don’t ship to the US, bummer. I’ll have to pick some up once I am back to living in Canada.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.cato Buy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Gamers, don't forget to support Canadian devs and game studios2·2 months agoSame! I’ve got 3,250 hours on it. Tynan really keeps it on the down low that he is based in Canada!
It’s strange, somehow nearly all of my favourite games are Canadian made. Despite being disconnected from Canada by living in the US for over a decade, so many of my favourite musicians, games, movies and even youtubers are Canadian. Stuff Canadians make just appeals to me more often than not, and it makes me feel fuzzy and like I’m still Canadian despite being gone for so long. So excited to move back this year.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Parti Québécois faces drop in support for sovereignty amid Trump threats2·2 months agoWhat you’ve said is true, but I still insist that Canada is not an imperial or opportunist country that is looking to gobble up states, even if handed on a silver platter. It’s just not really what we do. You are severely overlooking the fact that it would require a supermajority of support in both the seceding state and Canada as a whole to admit a new province/territory into the confederation. That is simply unlikely.
If the US collapses USSR-style, it would likely just simply balkanize instead of being picked over by its neighbours. It would balkanize either by region, or completely by states. What is probably more likely is probably another civil war, with one side completely winning or a stalemate being met and two or more separate USAs existing. But honestly, there is literally no way to know what will happen to the US going forward.
Gun to my head, had to choose, I’d say that America just continues to be a flawed democracy and returns to its isolationism that it historically always does inbetween major wars, probably suffer a major recession, and then has a civil war.
GrizzlyBur@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Trump says he will hit Canada with 25% tariff next week after month-long pause3·2 months agoYou’re 10-ply bud. The only person showing a gross lack of humility here is you. I’d go into depth on why what you said is stupid and is bad history, but smart words are wasted on deaf ears. I can tell you all the historical facts backed by primary sources all day, but I can’t teach critical thinking. That lack is critical thinking is what got you here. But hey, go ahead and keep on using bigger words to shield against that fragile, threatened, intellect of yours. I’m sure it will make us agree with you more instead of actually citing sources or doing any attempt to explain why you think what you said made any sense. So far you argument is “Field Marshal Zhukov said otherwise once” and your source is “trust me”, and hiding behind the opinions of unnamed peoples who are more accredited than me (therefore default right-er-er than me!!), along with copious, pitiful, abrasive ad hominen attacks (I know big words too!!).
Real talk. I don’t know what you do for a living, but I recommend you stay in your lane and I’ll stay in mine. The electrician shouldn’t tell a plumber how to bend pipes. Whatever brainrot is making you sanctify a long dead Field Marshal of the USSR, one responsible for the extremely brutality on the civilians of East Germany and especially Berlin, you should do some serious introspection as to why. You glorifying this man shows you are severely detached from reality, let alone equipped to debate history.
Oh, and I’m under no pretense to be polite or humble when talking about history here. This isn’t a history conference, its an anonymous forum. I can be as crass or rude as I want here. Frankly, I should’ve just told you to pound sand instead of writing all this out. Do me a favour, and trust me when I say that what you said and think is stupid as hell. Your homework is to use the boundless expanse of the educational internet to figure out why. I say this with sass yet genuine concern; educate yourself better. Your mind deserves better.
If the Cons were smart, they’re have kept him on a leash as an attack dog while making someone much more respectable be the party leader. Let PP do his vicious mockery act and outrage farming to soak up all the bad press, and let a normal-looking con take the seat.
Right now, PP is like a little yapping dog that got ahold of its own leash and doesn’t know what to do with it.
This looks cool!