Chrystia Freeland va être la Kamala Harris Canadienne, change my mind.

I’m glad for that move. By the end of Witcher 3 I was supremely fed up with Geralt’s whole shtick. I couldn’t take anymore of that giant hunk of boring constantly tripping over thirsty sexy single witches near his location. The so called “dating sim” part was nothing more than basic fan service. I’m liking Ciri’s “I’m done” energy in the trailer.

AC’s best parts are hardly the dialogue choices. Often there’s a good one, some bad ones, and information is either partial or vague. Hardly fun unless guessing is your thing. Their approach to “solving” it is just a bandaid over a flawed design though.

I was more used to hearing privatization referring to a government owned entity passing to private interests, but I did a quick search and found out it can mean both things:

Privatization occurs when a government-owned business, operation, or property becomes owned by a private, nongovernment party.

Privatization also may describe a transition that takes a company from being publicly traded to becoming privately held. This is referred to as corporate privatization.

I love the aesthetic but my hand eye coordination is very mid and I bet I’ll suck. How hard is it?

Well I wouldn’t say it’s measurable since we’re talking about something qualitative. It’s hard to speak for the audience as a whole too, but for my part the disconnect is pretty fucking big.

Last one I played was FFXV and it was… weird. Hero is an emo jerk, everyone has a kpop haircut and worries about their weight when they go have fried chicken. Setting is fantasy rural USA. Who is even the target audience of this thing?!

They’re sitting on something lovely and precious. Squenix could make a turn-based RPG with Chocobos and airships and little black mages with large straw hats and red mages with musketeer swag and everybody would lose their shit. They don’t need to make it an action based 3D megaproduction. 2.5D with a spruced up battle system would be so fine.

D’accord qu’on dirait qu’ils font exprès pour jouer sur les mots et garder ça un peu flou. Le débat politique est trop souvent teinté de mauvaise foi et ça nous est typiquement rapporté par les médias tel quel, ou polarisé encore davantage par la biais de chroniqueurs. D’accord aussi qu’il y a d’autres facteurs que l’immigration élevé pour les problèmes actuels. C’est bien beau de dire qu’on manque d’enseignants/d’infirmière/de médecins/etc. À CaUsE DeS iMmIgRaNtS, mais on pourrait aussi se demander pourquoi cette job là est de moins en moins attirante. Pis fuck tellement les entrepreneurs qui basent leur modèle d’affaires sur l’exploitation d’habitation résidentielles avec Airbnb.

Petit bémol de pragmatisme plate : Je comprends qu’il n’y aucune justice à ce que je vive une vie confortable au Québec pendant que ceux qui ne sont pas nés à la bonne place souffrent. Les Nations Unies estiment que d’ici 2030, il y aura 575 millions de personnes dans l’extrême pauvreté. On ne pourra pas tous les déplacer dans la poignée de pays où ça va OK actuellement. Par ailleurs, il me semble que vider des pays entiers de leur population tout en espérant qu’il mettent une croix sur leur langue et leur culture d’origine est au mieux une solution d’urgence, mais finalement assez ordinaire sur le moyen-long terme.

Et puis le Conseil du patronat défend bec et ongles le maintien de seuils d’immigration élevés et j’ai jamais été d’accord une seule fois dans ma vie avec ces charognes là. Si c’est bon pour eux, ça doit pas l’être pour la collectivité.

On peut souligner l’impact négatif d’un afflux d’immigration trop élevé, on d’une gestion déficiente, sans blâmer les immigrants, c’est-à-dire les personnes qui quittent leur pays à la recherche d’une meilleure qualité de vie. Ces dernières en arrachent de plus en plus en arrivant dans un pays qui n’a plus les moyens de les accueillir et de les intégrer convenablement. À mon avis, cet article ignore cette distinction, comme le fait Bouazzi.

C’est une ligne qui est facile à franchir dans les deux sens et je n’irais certainement pas jusqu’à dire que la CAQ ne l’a jamais traversée au nom du nationalisme. Par contre je pense que tant qu’on ne reconnait pas qu’elle existe, on n’arrivera à rien de productif.

I can tell this isn’t a prebuilt because your PSU isn’t a sus nondescript metal box.

Plenty of normal people don’t have time for a single live service game

I didn’t realize the new Steam family sharing was so detrimental to close ones away from each other. Their Guide & FAQ is clear with their intentions:

While we know that families come in many shapes and sizes, Steam Families is intended for a household of up to 6 close family members.

To that end, we expect the requirements for participating in a Steam Family to change over time as we monitor its usage and add requirements to keep usage in line with this intent.

Last line is pretty brutal. Apparently even family members living in the same country & different household might be in for a surprise eventually. That’s really saddening because at first glance this overhaul sounded amazing considering a single game was locked by play instead of the whole library.

For peripherals (screens, audio) rtings is pretty cool. They take testing seriously with a scientific/engineering approach.

It’s at least a century old problem imho. In the 1950’s clever capitalists where already looking for ways of “Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary”. I can’t believe how often I’ve had to buy a new fucking toaster. It just keeps getting worst.

Ullman’s argumentation is very wiggly when it comes to impact on performance. On one hand, he claims there’s very little proof, on the other hand he claims there is no point producing proof because they wouldn’t be believed. Furthermore he says their hands are tied as they’d need their client’s approval to publish such numbers, conveniently ignoring the possibility of anonymizing and grouping data. Remember they state to being included in 70-80 games yearly.

Finally, and this is an old song, but anyways: preventing loss in sales due to piracy is an exercise in wishful thinking. The amount of pirate players who would have paid in an alternate universe with no cracked version can’t be reliably estimated.

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Conspiracy theories are easy answers because they lack the nuance of reality and they present an attractive narrative. There’s good guys, bad guys, underdogs, secrets, etc. In contrast reality is full of grey areas, requires a lot of thought, will make you empathize with those you thought you’d blame and vice versa. Facing facts is hard work.