BenVimes

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[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Somewhere deep in my memories there is a Royal Canadian Air Farce skit about Preston Manning (I think) and how he "didn't campaign on Sundays." The joke is that him highlighting his supposed piety of respecting the Sabbath was, in and of itself, an act of campaigning. I did a quick search for the skit and couldn't find it, unfortunately.

Now, decades later, we have a party leader not just campaigning on Sunday, but making political speeches from the pulpit. I can't help but think this is a step backwards.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

Other users have pointed it out: this data set likely includes induced births and c-sections, neither of which would be scheduled on a holiday.

You can also see a dip around 4 July, so this data is probably from the USA

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 78 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Wasn't the "sigma" personality just invented by incels when they realized that "being alpha" didn't work the way they thought it did and therefore they needed a new paradigm to keep their worldview from collapsing? Or am I remembering that wrong?

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

It took a lot of inspiration from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, but the two games had basically the same creative team anyway.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

I'll point out that you can use Dragon Age Keep to plan out key choices in the narratives of the first two games, and even create a world state for import into Inquisition. Helpful if you want to play Inquisition and want a refresher and/or don't want to replay the earlier games

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Different denominations have different traditions. Christianity is not a monolith and has split many, many, many times.

My experience is that the more separated the church is from the oldest denominations, the less likely the priest or pastor is to wear "traditional" garb. The church in the picture is some flavour of southern evangelical, and so is pretty far removed from Roman Catholicism.

I grew up in a reformed Calvinist tradition and the pastors always wore suits. In later years, younger pastors would even ditch the jacket in the summer.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think those screenshots look like something closer to Ogre Battle or the recently released Unicorn Overlord rather than any RTS.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The story seems generic at first, but it goes places later.

One feature I really liked about this game was that you can adjust the encounter rate, even down to 0%. No in-game consumables or equipment needed, just an option in the menu. If you want to gain a few levels, you can crank it up. If you just want to revisit an old location because you missed an item, you can turn it off.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The hardest part of the Water Temple is that one of the keys is hidden way better than the others, and if you start opening doors in the wrong direction you will run out of keys without it. Combine that with the clunkiness of swapping to/from the Iron Boots and raising/lowering the water level, and the place quickly grew tedious and frustrating.

The 3DS remake added an extra camera sweep and some decor highlighting the hidden passage where that key is found.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I will never again buy a Samsung product after they refused to honour the warranty claim on my dishwasher. It had a legitimate design defect, I alerted them well within the warranty period, and I provided all the appropriate receipts. They just plain ignored my complaint while putting on a contrite facade in every interaction.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I've never experienced that, and I've definitely told Google Assistant to fornicate with itself on multiple occasions.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Octopath Traveller is a game I should have theoretically liked because I have so much nostalgia for SNES RPGs. Unfortunately, it felt more like a proof-of-concept demo stretched to a full-length game than a complete experience in its own right.

I've heard that the sequel is better, but I haven't tried it.

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