BenVimes

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[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Part of it is the pendulum of Canadian politics. The Liberals have been in power for a long time and many people in the "great Canadian middle" have swung over to the Conservative side. That makes the prospects of another Liberal government forming in the next election slim.

But also, yes, there are some people who hate Trudeau on principle. My holidays this year were exhausting.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think their situation is somewhat akin to where Bethesda was c2012: they've just released the most talked‐about game of the year, a game that was a critical and commercial success despite not being of the general gaming zeitgeist.

I really hope they don't follow Bethesda's path.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

When I was learning French I was told penser and croire were interchangeable in this context.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

He sparked outrage by torching the GOP. You'll never believe what happened next

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I've gotten the pop-up once or twice, but updating uBlock fixed that.

I have instead noticed a large decrease in quality, things like frozen images/pages and endless buffering. I don't know if all that is related, but it did start around the time YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The most profoundly puzzling thing to me is their insistence that magic words will somehow make authorities back off.

Like, they believe that there is this grand conspiracy involving the Federal Reserve and maritime law and birth names and whatever else. And yet they also believe that the forces behind this conspiracy must acquiesce if you just invoke the right language.

Do they never consider that an entity powerful enough to do all that could also just ignore their demands? Like, even if the conspiracy is true, why would its perpetrators just give up because some random person told them to?

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Don't be afraid to mess around with the class system and try out things beyond the default mono-elemental classes. There's no penalty for changing your class setup every so often, or even after every fight

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Between my wife and me, we have Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Curiosity, DropOut, and Nebula for videos. I also have one paid Twitch subscription. We could probably stand to cancel one or two.

For music, I have Spotify and my wife has YouTube Music. We have different preferences in sorting and recommendations, and at this point either of us migrating to the other's preferred service would be more work than it's probably worth.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Apparently I was like this, due to Ringo Starr playing Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

There's a reason why university students in Ontario like to go to Montreal to party, after all.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Maybe Radiant Historia fits your bill. It's a JRPG by Atlus originally on the DS, with a remaster on the 3DS. You can time travel to different nodes in the story and the game will replay identically, which of the "loop" part. It has a branching storyline stemming from a choice early in the game, and you have to hop to the other branch to get abilities and information for the other.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My first attempt to cancel my SiriusXM subscription saw the agent tell me that it was "impossible" because I had "just renewed." It was true that I had recently renewed, but only because I had forgotten to cancel it in time. Since that was my mistake I was willing to just let it go and just use the service another year. But in order to stop that from happening again, I wanted to cancel early, which they didn't let me do.

My second attempt three months later saw the agent protest again, saying that I should call back when it was closer to renewal. This time I put my foot down and got them to cancel my renewal.

Or so I thought.

I finally had to call them again eight months later after I started getting emails hyping up my impending renewal. It seems that instead of outright canceling, they had instead put a note on my file to cancel at a later date - a note I'm presuming they were going to ignore.

Maybe their system really did make it impossible for front-line agents to cancel to far out from the renewal date. That would explain the agents' behaviour, and if true it makes SiriusXM look even worse

Definitely the worst experience I've ever had trying to cancel a subscription.

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