BenVimes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife is from an Eastern European country, and whenever we visit her folks I have a similar experience. Every single restaurant reeks of smoke, and there is apparently no political appetite to change that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Stone Angel.

It's a miserable story about a dying old woman regretting all her life choices. It's also required reading in Canadian high schools because the author is Canadian.

And then, on top of all that, my teacher absolutely insisted that its only major theme was "hope" and docked marks for having any other interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

This is my read of it as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Canada's military is small enough that there is typically only one officer with the rank of General (or Admiral if they are from the navy), and their position is the Chief of Defence Staff. I think a second General is appointed if Canada gets a seat on the UN Security Council, to act as the senior military advisor for the delegation.

There are more Lieutenant Generals (and Vice Admirals), and the CDS is appointed from their ranks when a new one is needed.

EDIT: To clarify further, there are multiple ranks with the word "general" in them. In order of increasing seniority, they are (with equivalent navy ranks in parentheses):

  1. Brigadier General (Commodore)
  2. Major General (Rear Admiral)
  3. Lieutenant General (Vice Admiral)
  4. General (Admiral)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been a Star Wars fan for almost three decades and I think almost all Disney Star Wars is "fine" at worst. Even most of the things I didn't like had some sort of redeeming qualities, or I could recognize that I wasn't the target audience. The only thing I truly hated was Rise of the Skywalker, which is quite possibly my least favourite Star Wars thing ever.

I realize this puts me in the very small minority among Star Wars fans, and it's the reason I tend to avoid fan discussions these days - the relentless negativity is exhausting and leaves little room for discussing the things about Disney Star Wars I find good and/or interesting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They do seem to have half-assed it. Maybe they searched something like, "who built the ark in the Bible," and ended up on the page for the Ark of the Covenant by mistake.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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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