Warning: my music nerd’s about to come out.

I’m in my 40s, and have been playing music since single digits. I still remember the order of lines in the staffs with “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”, “FACE”, “Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always”, and “All Cows Eat Grass”. I did teach my kids “Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart”, though, since they seem to like burritos.

My internal math nerd agrees with the grandparent though, for some reason I just remembered the order of operations and was confused when my kids came home with PEDMAS. But to be fair, I use the order of operations every day at work, so 🤷. I’m also one of those people who will insist on using parentheses everywhere there’s more than two terms, though, so take from that what you will.

Geforce 4 came out in 2002, so this meme is likely about 23 years old. Can legally drink, and could have voted for both Trudeau and Carney.

Yup. Nunavut in 1999.

I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!

That’s correct. I do do similar things professionally, but never with games. VAC always worried me.

Along that line of thinking, I’d be nice if there were a “cheating allowed” sandbox option. A VAC enabled game mode where cheating is explicitly allowed. Cheat in it, no harm done, people get to experiment, VAC gets to learn about potential cheating methods they hadn’t considered, and nobody gets banned. Do it outside the sandbox and down comes the banhammer.

TIL I live North of Canada!

Thank fuck my grandparents were completely independent until they got very sick very quickly and died.

Two of my grandparents passed before I was born, of rather aggressive cancer. The other two lived completely independently until age-related illnesses got them in a matter of weeks.

I kinda hope that’s what happens to my parents; they’re in their mid 70s now and doing just fine on their own. My sister and I only need to help with with the occasional thing, like fixing stuff around the house that takes a decent amount of strength to do, or climbing ladders.

Whoa? Worse than Ontario? Here the stereotype is BC and ON cars are rusty.

Have you played the remasters? Are they any good? I got about 40% of the way through 1 and ran out of time. Wondering if it’s worth restarting on the original or the new.

Because we are old. Wasn’t the Andrew Wakefield nonsense paper from 1989? Oops no, it was 1998.

Yup, and 1998 was 27 years ago, that’s a perfectly reasonable age for motherhood. My kids were born when I was younger than that.

Lucky for Quebec and Saskatchewan where they have non-Robelus ISPs.

Same company even. Bell owns Virgin in Canada.

Gotta admit, without the context of some of the replies here I didn’t get it it either. I bought a brand-new 2019 in late 2020 that had been on the lot for close to a year because they didn’t try to sell the manual version of my car. I walked in and asked if they had a manual. No complaints, been a reliable thing ever since.

Even better re using Linux. I just made an assumption there.

GTA VI you mean?

Also unfortunately Windows is getting more locked down all the time, with newfangled things like kernel-level DRM and such.

Still way better than the consoles, though, so keep up the good fight.

But those were Ontario conservatives, not good God fearing Alberta conservatives.

The UCP didn’t win the federal election, so they wanna separate.

Rituals are rituals for a reason. Sometimes they work.

I saw some dbag the other day driving a perfectly clean Ford F-350. In Western Canada. In April. It was clean. He was also headed downtown and wearing a suit. That truck has never had so much as a pebble in the treads of its tires.

I haven’t experienced that in a very long time, but I do remember it certainly used to be the case. I imagine it still is in some areas. I need to travel quite far from my city to experience it these days.