Whether or not you have to be, if you are online for a single player game they are probably collecting data. Or trying to. Use opensnitch.

When we swap face-to-face conversations for social media engagement, everyone loses

Given that this is from TVO I think it should be pointed out that one could replace “social media” with “television” in that sentence and it would be even more true.

I imagine he is also willing to listen to ideas from the people just the same in government

I was just thinking that in addition to his “establishment-friendly outlook” when it comes to finance and economics, another danger of Carney leading a majority government is that being aware of his own limited expertise when it comes to other issues, he will be easily swayed by the same combination of advisors, wonks, and lobbyists that led Trudeau to his worst decisions. Just as he has already been persuaded that subsidies to oil companies for “carbon capture” is a great idea, for example.

On the other hand maybe his character and judgement will be strong enough to do better.

It’s striking how many of the things they’ve changed seem to be slightly for the worse:

• the lockpicking and persuasion minigames are a little less fun
• the level-up choices are dumbed down
• the speed at which you gain levels is even faster
• the local map is weirdly hard to find for some reason
• the HUD looks worse
• there is much telemetry
• there are framerate problems

Then there are the things I’d have expected them to improve that are unchanged:

• they didn’t give us better difficulty settings
• there’s no walking slowly with the controller
• level scaling has most (but not all) of the same problems it did
• the day/night cycle still flies past at hyperspeed
• horses still report your crimes to the telepathic guards (okay I guess they had to keep that)

Of course there are mods to fix most of those problems. Oblivion is a great game, and it’s good to see a lot of new people playing it for the first time.

Pierre is a hapless doofus but if everyone keeps moving towards “the centre” politics will collapse into a black hole.

Okay, sure. Next do the same with its real estate holdings.

The candidate I intend to vote for is on that list. Glad to know it.

That was my reaction watching it on Twitch. Playing it in person is way more fun, the nostalgia got me. Still, Skyblivion will probably be better-looking as well as having better mod support.

According to what I remember reading in the newspapers this election has always been about the personalities of the party leaders.

I want to live in a world where the practice of adding /s to things is abolished but I’m not sure how to vote for that.

a “publishing oversight”

Yeah sure it was buddy, we know the truth. The CPC have gone fully woke just like the CBC, the CRTC, and the CIBC. They’re just trying to cover it up for the election. If you’re truly anti-woke vote PPC for freedom.

Nobody talks about multiculturalism any more, I think people have forgotten what it is — including many people who live in the midst of it.

The AI-generated speech animations are strangely exaggerated like it’s some kind of lip reading training program. There’s no hair physics. You don’t get a shadow in first-person mode. The persuasion minigame UI looks worse than it used to. Sometimes the NPCs look off to the side while they’re talking to you as if the camera’s in the wrong place. Considering that the main point is to make the old game look nicer, they seem to have neglected a lot of little details.

Brilliant marketing trick: Keep people waiting for the next game in the huge blockbuster series for 14 years and they’ll be eager for whatever they get

what it means

Eribees and Mortalbeef will be streaming it on Twitch as soon as they can download it, along with many others. Might be interesting.

I think we should all take a moment to remember the greatest Conservative Party ad, the one with Russian fighter jets and so much more: https://tube.sbcloud.cc/w/a9f5d907-1d8f-4406-b762-58ea4a39db66

If Donald Trump hangs on to power in 2028 and officially becomes dictator for life, maybe.

Seems like a sign that it will not be optimized at all.

sex offenders living next to kids in jail

I’m no expert in how to run a prison, but don’t they have separate ones for kids? Or is it child prisoners in the cell next to other kids who are in for sex crimes? Whatever’s going on it’s probably another Liberal plot.