ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 53 points 19 hours ago

Not everyone has tics they must surpress while in public.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

remember this video game is Open World. That means we must open our wallets and pay all the money in the world.

Honestly surprised this hasn't be used by a game studio yet.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Innocent until proven guilty. Nobody should be in jail without a conviction.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Make sure you use a VPN! The only time I ever got a letter from my ISP to stop pirating was when I torrented a ROM of a Nintendo game.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I played through Part I and I could only imagine how much people complained. It's got US soldiers following orders to kill innocent people, a black woman as the leader of a paramilitary group, a rough and tough guy who only showed his soft side to his now dead husband, a group of religious nuts who are lead by a pedophile, and the whole thing is about vaccination against a deadly virus.

Thankfully most of my investments are in GICs (Guaranteed Investment Certificates) which are Canadian investments with a guaranteed return. Interest rates were jacked up recently and these were giving guaranteed returns of 5%+ which I thought was good enough. They've dropped to about 2.5% and I was thinking of moving more money into mutual funds. Good thing I didn't.

The only mutual fund I bought into is mostly based around US stocks. I bought in at $13.20 per unit and its now worth $12.40 per unit so a loss of $0.80 per unit. I have 800 units so that's currently a total loss of $640. At its height it was about $14.50 per unit which would have meant a total gain of $1,000. Even if the value dropped to $0 I'd still have plenty of savings so I'm not worried!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ProtonDB is a popular site for checking how well a game runs on Linux systems. Users upload reviews that rate the level of support along with their system specs.

I switched to Pop!_OS and I've rarely run into issues with games. Games with anti-cheat typically won't work. It seems like Escape from Tarkov doesn't work. It uses Battleye which requires special configuration to work on Linux and it seems the devs don't care to do that. Other games that use Battleye work fine.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People can't decide to secede and be sovereign citizens. Why would that change just because it's now a larger group of people?

Wyoming has about 600,000 people. What if they all wanted to leave? What if 1,200,000 people in California wanted to leave? That's twice as many people! Can they leave? What if 70% of a state wants to leave but 30% want to stay? Do the people who want to stay just get dragged out? There's just no nice clean way for secession to happen. If people want to secede, they unfortunately need to want it enough to fight a civil war.

The government eventually said exotic dishes with no French name are allowed as an exception. Looking up menus of Indian places in Montreal shows they have completely Indian names for many of their dishes.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It really sends the message that nobody is going to dominate them (except their scalie mommy).

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 63 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Quebec government, specifically. Other provinces only require government services to be provided in both French and English but private businesses can mostly do what they want. Quebec requires private business to be conducted in French unless the customer requests service in a different language. Any non-French text or speech made to a customer before they request it can be seen as a violation. They can be a little overzealous at times.

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