I wouldn’t. Why conduct the destructive mess that is a war in our own living room?

I’d contribute to any effort to make long range drones that strike energy and electronic infrastructure deep inside the US instead.

Keep the destruction over there. Watch American arrogance melt away as they realize that fighting a war isn’t just some thing they send troops elsewhere to die over while they get to stay comfy and safe at home anymore.

How is there a Tetris Company that owns the rights to this? Hasn’t the actual creator of the game never gotten anything for it?

Make sure that includes oil, shitbag.

Trump attacks Canada that because he’s a rich narcissist spoiled manchild who spent his entire lifetime getting what he wants and surrounded himself with people who will tend to every one of his caprices and Canada dared to say “no” when he demanded the country to be turned over to him.

He is a freak of nature of a combination of pure shamelessness, narcissism, confident incompetence, ability to lie like he breathes and megalomania. It is statistically improbable that whatever shitbag replaces him will be anywhere nearly as bad as him. I expect his replacement to do nothing less than immediately try to mend relations with Canada because they will want to fix their country’s economy.

Waiting Trump out is still the more economical option than to move production to the US. He’s just creating pain for everyone for no gain.

Projection again.

We’ve seen how Carney knows how to skate. We’ve seen how Trump can’t even walk properly.

We know he would be the one on his fat ass, probably before he even touched the ice.

Also Canada is absolutely kicking his ass in this trade war.

For North American English speakers who don’t get it: Imagine that Fox decided to replace the original Simpsons voice actors that you grew up with with British ones who sound nothing like them, have thick British accents, use British slang and make local references to things only the British know about in the show. For the sake of the example the decision would have been made by a panel of extremely ignorant non-English speakers who think that the viewers wouldn’t notice the difference because “it’s also English therefore it is the same”.

That’s essentially the effect replacing the Quebec voice actors with the French ones would have had.

Payment 👉 Use Interac instead of credit card.

Seriously that should be #1. They charge 2-3% transaction fee to the vendor, give you 1% back as a “reward” to give you the impression that you’re not being screwed over and pocket the rest. Meanwhile Interac charges only 1/10th of that and it is Canadian.

Paying with a credit card is like playing a 1-2% tax to the US. I’m sure if someone did the math they’d be horrified by his much of a drain it is on our economy while it boosts theirs.

Also Krita has become extremely capable and easier to approach coming from Photoshop than GIMP IMO. If should at least be listed along it as an alternative to Photoshop.

Hadn’t stopped the first one

From what I’ve heard, Trump didn’t give them much choice by throwing in a bunch of last minute unreasonable demands.

You can’t even buy a car that doesn’t come with the built-in equivalent of a stalker’s tracking device anymore.

It is allowed to sell a washing machine that won’t last more than 5 years before breaking without possibility of repair.

It is increasingly difficult to buy a TV that won’t spy on you and inject ads.

It is tolerated to sell a peripheral that installs malware on your computer without your authorization.

It is allowed to sell a product that must be always connected to the internet for no good reason and to remotely disable or severely reduce its functionality after it was purchased unless you pay a subscription fee that was not clearly mentioned at the time of the purchase.

It is allowed to sell products that are completely locked-in that you cannot have reasonable control over and that are specifically designed so you can’t even repair them.

It is allowed to gain control of the majority of a market and dictate higher prices and anti consumer practices.

It is allowed for a private entity to gather data on people en masse to a level of intrusiveness that only 30 years ago would have required a warrant from a judge for law enforcement to do on a case by case basis.

And THIS is what they’ve decided they should spend their time regulating? Most of those companies don’t even pay taxes in the country. I so fucking hate that our government has so blatantly turned towards serving lobbyist interests instead of the People’s.

If you think that waiting him out is expensive, I don’t think you realize the extent of the cost of giving in to someone like him who will come back month after month with new demands until we don’t have a country anymore.

The tactic is to buy time until Trump is gone.

He is an F1 fan who secretly likes NASCAR.

Idk I’m just guessing.

Getting the federal government to stop doing things like that begins with getting Big Oil’s political influence and propaganda out of Alberta.

This is the result of them promoting an astroturf separatist movement which they weaponized to force the federal government to let them pollute the planet unhindered, under threat of destroying the country.

A nice life hack to know, straight from the Canada Post website:

How to stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail

To stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail, simply put a note on your mailbox stating that you do not wish to receive it. Place the note in or on your mailbox where your delivery agent can see it, or on the inside lip of your community mailbox, group mailbox or postal box.

I’d argue that if you make a game with a style, story, time period and even what the protagonist is that have entirely departed from the original content, you’re just slapping the original’s name on it to boost sales.

If they ever made a Halo game where MasterChief removes his helmet to reveal that he was an orc all along and that he’s now riding a literal giant warthog in battle wielding a stone axe, people would flip their lids over this. Especially since because of that the style and soul of the game people love is now dead unless they do a hard reset of the franchise. I think it’s the same there, except that the transformation was made gradually since Doom 2016 that people didn’t notice as much. It really looks like Bethesda preferred to do medieval fantasy games so they just turned the Doom franchise into it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure it perfectly capable of being a good game. But is it really a Doom game still?

It started as a sci-fi shooter. DoomMarine was just a human left behind to guard a ship with a pistol and ends up fighting the hordes of hell with an array of modern and sci-fi weapons. The only medieval elements you would see were when you were in the hell world. The back story was essentially he got assigned there as a punishment for punching an officer who was ordering him to shoot civilians. He was a human, representing humanity in a fight against evil.

Now with all the changes they made The Doom Slayer is a demigod being wielding medieval and fantasy weapons in an increasingly medieval-looking armor of alien origin with an insanely convoluted backstory of him being the twin brother of the devil or some BS I don’t know I just stopped caring at that point. He is completely dehumanized. The whole game looks and feels more like a fantasy game in a medieval world of magic than a sci-fi shooter.

IMO the creators of the Brutal Doom mod/campaign came up with a far better expansion of the Doom universe that stayed much more true to the source material. I’d love to see a high budget game made in that universe.

The more Bethesda milks the DOOM franchise, the more it looks like Skyrim

TL;DR: They probably haven’t actually contacted the authorities and it was likely made up by the customer service representative.

But there is a growing realisation that through age verification they are giving Apple and Google the power to decide who can access web services and who can’t and they’re clearly using it to make life difficult for anyone who doesn’t let them have full control of their personal devices.

Most people don’t use GrapheneOS to commit crimes. They use it to regain control over the device that they own and give the middle finger to all that data collection big tech is doing behind everyone’s backs.