💖not all heroes wear capes. Thanks for this💖

Edit: looking at the translation, things that don’t translate are KS for yolks, ps for cocoa, and bal for baking soda and vanilla sugar. Any ideas?

Seconded!

Incredibly competitive pricing too.

£19.99 for base.
£23.99 for the deluxe.

I would suggest getting a PS2, and a network adaptor. You can get modern replicas that have a SATA connector, the original is IDE. Plop a hard drive in, and moding PS2 is incredibly easy. Just in case you want to play with actual hardware.

I mean…you say that…but let’s be honest with eachother here…

If I recall correctly, she was a drug addict working at a hospital, and almost died by OD on opiates she’d stolen from work. Vance claims publicly that it was those darned illegals that got her addicted to drugs and almost killed her

CEO’s wage should be capped to a Max multiple of the lowest paid worker. 10x, 20x,etc but still tied to their workers. If they want more money, pay the workers more.

Great guy, everyone has something about them that makes someone else want to smother them in their sleep though.

Systemic racism and a heritage of FN genocide. There’s definitely progress on treating First Nations as an equal part of Canada, but not even close to making up for and elimination of the 200++ years of subjugation and genocide and the lasting social effects of that long term crime.

As much as Canada is seen by itself and a lot of the world as a very good, fair country…our past is full of dirty little secrets, and our soldiers have a penchant for dabbling in war crimes.

I’m Canadian. Some parts of my family have been in north America since the 1800s, and other parts were here before Europeans decided it was theirs. I love Canada…but loving it means that I feel a duty to bring up the dirty little secrets, and hold ourselves accountable for the shit we’ve done. There’s no way forward as an upstanding example of what a good and fair country is without exposing all of it and actually trying to make it right.

The way things are going, I’m not sure that will happen in my lifetime. If ever.

it all tastes like coffee-flavored water.

And if you actually manage to get the damn things to make a moderately “strong” cup of coffee it’s stale as fuck. I had a roommate who would buy beans, “because they are better when you grind them yourself”…not grind fresh per brew. I grew up on welfare, not a lot of money for luxury items. My parents never skimped when they bought coffee. It was one of the relatively inexpensive things they could afford to buy that made days better.

This motherfucker… he’d buy two bags of actually really expensive “artisanal, small batch” beans every couple weeks. Spend time grinding all of it and leaving it…fuck me… leaving it in a mixing bowl…a fucking mixing bowl.
Not very often, but occasionally, I’d be too tired/forget to stop by the store after work and get myself some coffee. Nespresso pods taste like this guy’s wasted coffee in a mixing bowl. All the oils and volatiles would offgas, and all you’re left with is worse than knock-off Folgers.

Coffee snob rant over.

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For me numpad is super useful. And for the initial intended use even! I’m not a great typist, but I know the exact position of all the keys for the numpad. My “WPM” quadruples if I’m typing strings of numbers 💪😎

Still want this on a hoodie. Like…so sooooo badly.

Idk, before the current bubble-fuckery I still know/spoke to a good portion of gamers who were strictly console. They grew up with consoles, and their perception is very much that it’s too expensive to get into PC gaming. And I mean…I get it. I’m still rocking my 1060 on my desktop, even before the ram shit I wouldn’t be able to afford to upgrade to modern hardware.
It’s definitely all the ancillary costs to consoles that people are kinda trained to not think about. PS+ started on the PS3 and was a nice bonus for people who weren’t fussed about paying extra for more stuff that wasn’t required. Over the years it went from a non-essential extra to mandatory to access all the functions of a console you “own”.
It’s the tendency to extract as much money as possible, and if you go slow enough then there’s only minimal kickback from the consumers.

I’m not sweating it bud, I definitely didn’t have my reading comprehension hat on when I first read the comment I replied to. Most people vote by vibe, and even if I did a bunch of combing through lists and doing a write up, I started off a bit antagonistic.
I appreciate this though, I did put a lot of effort into it 😅

Sure, but if you read the article attached to the citation for the 1884 shooting, it sounds like it was an unhinged head teacher angry that the lady teacher didn’t want his dick. It was an attempted murder suicide, that happened at a school, because that was their work place. The head teacher fired 3 shots from a revolver, wounding the teacher, then took his own life. I think these weren’t on the Mass Shootings list because they don’t meet the criteria for it.
From the wiki page I linked in my OP:

This is a list of mass shooting and shooting sprees in Canada. Shootings with four or more victims are included on this list, excluding perpetrators.

Most of the school shooting list seems to be attacks targeting specific victims…and in one instance a door…
At least until the back half of the 20th century. From 1900-1999 there’s 43 instances. Of those only 7 hit the required 4+ victims excluding attacker. All but one are post 1950. The one was 1902.
Even post 2000 the majority of instances are things like:

A student fired a rifle in a classroom at Lake Melville School during show-and-tell, hitting no one.

A student fired a gun on a school bus as he was being driven to school. The student and his friends convinced other occupants the gunshot was harmless and went to school still possessing the firearm. The school’s vice-principal subdued the teenager at school and confiscated the firearm.

Or very much targeted attacks:

62-year-old Erhun Candir killed his wife, 47-year-old teacher Aysegul Candir, in the parking lot of Bramalea Secondary School.

2006 is the Dawson College shooting. The next one to go past the 4+ is 2012, a security guard at University of Alberta Edmonton attempted a robbery, killing 3 colleagues and wounding a 4th, attacker arrested attempting to cross the us border. Then the 2016 La Loche shootings. 2024 in Toronto. And then the Tumbler Ridge shooting just the other day.
One instance in the 19th century, 43 in the entire 20th(as above, only 7 are above the 4+), and the first quarter of the 21st has 29 total with the listed 4. Tumbler Ridge is literally the highest casualty school shooting since 1884. As of the latest update on your linked page 35 victims, 8 dead 27 wounded excluding the attacker. Next closest is the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal end of '89, 28 victims, 14 dead 14 wounded excluding attacker.

Thanks for linking that, I hadn’t thought to look up a Canadian school shootings list. Gives more context to the history of it in Canada. I feel like it’s important to note that the vast majority of Canadian school shootings have less than 5 total wounded and dead including the attacker, with many that have no wounded at all. A lot of them seem to be “crimes of passion” (jilted lovers, kids bullied until they snap, etc.) and seem to have a single intended victim, or kids being fucking stupid with a gun their parent/guardian was too stupid to properly secure…

Here’s the list for US school shootings 2000-2025. 25 year total 642 school shootings. Including attacker(s) total dead 498, total wounded 953. Of those 642 instances…only 16 count as mass shooting events, 4+ victims excluding attacker.

It was actually really interesting going through all this data. Upsetting, but interesting.

My wife and I have been trying to rein in our spending, get ourselves into a stable space and get proper savings going.

… that’s literally the only thing that stopped me from pledging on the patreon and begging for access to the alpha testing…I am so so so soooooo psyched for it! And those graphics… fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck 🥵 PS2 crusty enough to bring back memories of great games from my youth, but with a bit of extra that shows it’s an intentional choice. Like yeah, it looks like they’re all cubist renditions of people…but then there’s volumetric fog, and systems for how windy interacts with individual leaves on the trees…
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Yeah, I’m not super versed in Canadian gun law, I never really had the interest 🤷.
That said, everything I’ve heard about new bans/restrictions coming in from my friends and family who hunt sound incredibly reactionary with no actual aim to fix the issues that they state are the aim…

Beta Decay!
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Was meant to hit early access late last year, but the (pretty sure?) solo dev decided to hold off until they had hit all of their EA Roadmap goals. I have, like a lot of people, been burned by The Hype Machine™…but I can’t help but be almost unbearably stoked for this.

Ticks sooo many of my personal boxes:

• Massive world, built with intent ✅
• Dystopian far futurey shit ✅
• Grimey PS2-esque graphics ✅
• Customise everything ✅
• Big fuck off mechs that I’m positive will be personally incredibly frustrating to figure out how to operate ✅
• Actions have actual consequences and players have a meaningful impact on the world state ✅
• Destructible world ✅
• Multiplayer but not always online ✅

YouTube video by JakeyPants about impending early access.

The vibes are just…😘🤌 Fucking chefs kiss. I’m almost definitely getting it as soon as Early Access drops… I’ve been burnt, but I can’t help but hope this gets seen all the way through, and will happily buy it in EA.

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Yeah dude, don’t burst their bubble, or remind them to carefully read things before spending 45mins doing a write up with citations! 🤫

seems like an every day event here.

What? The worst year for mass shootings in Canada looks like 2022, with 8 shootings. The one with the most casualties was in 1918 in Québec City, 4 dead 100 injured. Highest number of deaths was the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks with 23 dead and 3 injured, but that was a spree, not a single event. The highest deaths in a single event was in Montreal in 1989 with 15 dead 14 injured.

First shooting (on the Wikipedia article ) is 1902. For the most part it’s 1-3 events a year, usually with 1-5 years between, until we get up towards the 90s and 00s.

Should we compare that with the US?
2024 saw 711 dead and 2375 wounded in 586 shootings.
2025 saw 420 dead and 1898 injured in 425 shootings.
As of 31st of Jan this year, 35 dead and 85 injured in 26 shootings.

Obviously the US is a poor comparison right?

So if we look at ONLY public mass shootings:

shootings that occur in public or semi-public spaces, perpetrated by one perpetrator, resulting in three or more victims randomly selected, with at least one fatality. Public refers to an open public space or public building, such as a school.
Definition and study.

And which excludes:

• family or felony mass shooting
• incidents involving state-sponsored violence
• battles over sovereignty
• organized terrorism

Between 2000 and 2022, in the US and comparable countries there were 144 public mass shootings across 36 countries, 20 of which had none. If we remove the US from the list (109 events), Canada is 3rd with 4 public mass shootings, all of which are post 2010. Mass shootings are trending upwards globally, which is certainly something to worry about, and something that we need to plan to prevent as a society.

So what’s happening in Canada with gun crime?
Fucking America… Lax ass gun laws that contribute heavily to gun violence in the States has a trickle down effect of people being able to go and just buy a gun, stick it under their seat, and drive back into Canada. Upwards of 75% of gun crime in Canada is perpetrated by someone with an illegally imported American firearm. Sweet.