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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I really really really wanted to like this game.

    Very bad.

    Did not like much of anything but the atmosphere which was fairly deadspacey and what I really wanted - but it failed everything else pretty spectacularly.

    Maybe the PS4 pro just couldn’t keep up, this game really wants you to melee but is also shooter based which makes combat for both suffer. The melee is extremely repetitive and entirely forced, and your shooting gets affected by the games desire for melee.

    Also, the maps are incredibly linear and annoying to navigate but not in a challenging or fun way.

    It’s free so no danger of wasting money, but I always gotta shit on this game when I see it in the wild





  • Big fan of 50:50 water and grocery store white vinegar with a tiny drop of dish soap.

    For glass I’ll also add a little rubbing alcohol to the above, for heavier grease or spots on glass I’ll just use 70% rubbing alcohol

    Bathrooms can have a ton of different surfaces, I’ve had great success with VIM bathroom and kitchen but I’m sure anything branded for kitchen/bathroom will handle sink/shower/tub/toilet well.

    CLR for anything involving (Calcium, Lime, Rust) tougher sediment buildup.

    I get sponges that basically look and feel like the rough part of Velcro and are thin for a sponge, like the green scrubby rectangles, but superior imo.

    When they’re getting tired they become my household cleaning sponge and work great! A decent sized brush can be handy, and definitely rags/paper towels for wiping things dry if necessary.

    Squeegees are fun, not particularly handy for bathroom cleaning unless there’s a lot of tile/tempered glass/mirrors or you like using it to wipe down the shower when you’re finished



  • I mean, they kind of already do that.

    All the taxes I manage to evade (buying/selling a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff from Kijiji/marketplace) wouldn’t really affect me.

    But scraping hedge funds and professional tax dodgers would put a ton of cash into public funds, so I’m all for it.

    Kind of hate that slippery slope argument of yours “if they can take millions from greedy billionaires, imagine how many millions they’ll take from you!” is a shit argument that defends serious tax evasion.

    First they came for the billionaires, and I did nothing, ‘cause fuck em’ that’s why.

    Eat the rich



  • Are you suggesting that anything about the internet hasn’t reduced attention spans?

    Especially as it’s becoming more accessible and common for younger people to get more exposure during key points in brain development.

    It goes beyond simple accessibility and engagement, if young people are not participating in these social medias it can become harder to connect with your peers - so you’re almost socially punished for not embracing and participating in brain rot (all social media, not just Tik Tok).


  • Even if you have been greatly wronged by everyone you trust, that doesn’t necessarily mean you were ever even around trustworthy people. So personal experience may feel like the only reality or truth but once you realize that it’s only true specifically for you and only up to this point, you might be able to understand its not a universal rule or experience.

    There’s so much to experience beyond pain, loneliness, distrust and suffering (outside of incurable medical pain)

    It does exist and it is available to you, but when anyone has their trust destroyed beyond repair multiple times it will take work to let the pain go and look inward and forward to get what you want out of life.

    For all I know, you’re the asshole in everyone else’s life and you blame them for breaking your trust - or you are a complete victim who has been taken advantage of every step of the way and it’s impossible to conceive of a person existing who isn’t working every angle to take advantage of you.

    You do have agency and you can control how you think and feel about most things. It sounds like you are convinced that life only exists in a single, permanent, unchangeable state - and if you don’t attempt any change in this perspective it will become a self fulfilling prophecy.

    But once you realize the control you can exert over these thoughts and perspectives you’ll hopefully realize that despite other people, when you’re an adult life is what you make of it, not what it makes of you.

    It does take monumental, constant effort. Especially compared to how easy it is to give up/admit defeat/believe things are permanent and unchangeable. Doubly so if that’s the mental state you’re already in.

    Therapy can give you the tools to climb the mountain, but it’s not gonna move your arms and legs up the mountain for you.


  • I mean, you don’t have to accept the current state of the world as good or natural because of therapy But you’d probably have to accept the state of the world is currently happening and that should be accepted because, well, it is, regardless of good or bad.

    Honestly, the world seems like it’s always been a brutal place. Nature is fucked and most things die being eaten alive. With all it’s flaws, society is still far better than the jungle.

    The goal of therapy is not really to convince you society is our only real choice and therefore it’s good. A therapist would probably be able to suggest healthy ways you can participate in your community that gives your energy against the corruption of society a positive outlet that can help you participate in making a difference, instead of feeling helpless or engaging in potentially negative thought and behaviour spirals.

    Give it a try homie, talking things out with a professional can give you perspective of your own opinions and how they are formed, and how to process them in a way that is helpfu to you specificallyl.

    It sounds like maybe you don’t want to accept something that might suggest your opinions or beliefs on society may not be 100% correct, or that someone trying to shift your perspective is a personal attack or judgement or manipulation - which doesn’t sound healthy.

    Therapy isn’t some trick, it should help you understand and accept your own limits as a human, healthy boundaries with others, how to begin trusting people or how to identify those who are more likely to be trustworthy, and give you better understanding of your own agency and how to let go of things that are beyond your control, or individual abilities to influence/change.

    No amount of therapy with teams of the world’s greatest therapists will matter if you don’t want to understand and grow into a better version of yourself though!




  • I’m generally a patient gamer, but I shit a brick when I heard Deadspace was getting a ps5 remake (still on ps4, but not for long). I have hard copies for my Ps3 but my disk drive is kaput.

    I’ve just bought my first full price game in about 20 years with REmake4 and am loving it. Can’t wait to play on PS5 when I get one, but might hold out for the upgraded ps5 expected for Christmas 2024.

    Armored core VI looks amazing, considering getting VR specifically because it looks like the perfect game for VR, but VR sure ain’t cheap.

    There’s also a new final fantasy and the second entry for FF7 remake comes out this year as well I think

    My video game cup runneth over for the first time in a long time.

    I’ve generally been happy playing the classics in my library and haven’t spent much time dedicated to gaming lately, but I have also only had PS4 for about 2 years now. Loved horizon zero dawn, thinking about trying RDR2 or God of War after REmake4 and hopefully the price of armored core 6 drops a bit by the time I’m finished!


  • I do believe some Canadian industries should be subsidized by private interests because they’re just selling our own resources back to us, and they should pay for the privilege (while still receiving some profits). Telecom, utilities, energy, farms over certain capacities etc.

    News Probaby shouldn’t be one. I’m more than happy with government funded news so long as its independent of government and held to a higher standard than “entertainment” like we have with our neighbours to the south. This forces private news to compete with a competent news source, and it’s not like the business model for news has really changed by much, selling ad space next to information, or offering subscriptions is as old as information sharing.