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Coastal BC isn't cold. Vancouver gets like 1 major snowfall a year, but its expensive. Vancouver Island is much cheaper, but gets a few more snowfalls. New Zealand would likely get my vote. Seems like nice climate, and doesn't have the poison animals of australia.

Yeah but then they become teenagers and bleed your cash Thats where my friend is. His weekly grocery bill is $300 because he has 2 teenagers and they don't stop eating.

The boy starts school in the fall, so I'll be able to sleep in and have thursday and friday to myself. Its my light at the end of the tunnel

I hope so too. Its been a pretty stressful periiod. Wife was sent to school paid for by her work, but still works full time. The company I work for got bought out 3 years ago and we started seeing the effects last year, and my supervisor is paranoid of being fired if he doesn't improve efficiency even though we are already the most efficient branch. Work stress makes me want to decompress, but as an introvert I need to do that alone, but with the wife in school it leaves more of the childcare and housework to me, so my alone time is usually between 11:30 and 3am,which means I average 5-6 hours of sleep per night. Which sucks when your job is handling 40000lbs of fasteners per day.

Doctor said in men depression often manifests as extreme irritability. Was prescribed zoloft, which supposedly targets that.

I'm not from Obsidian, but from what I understand EA has the exclusive license, so all SW games will be coming from them. Now that doesn't mean EA can't contract a game out to Obsidian, but they own Bioware, so I would think any new SW RPGs will be Bioware games.

So far I feel like Witcher 3 nailed the balance. There is enough random poop for you to distract yourself when you don't feel like progressing the story, but when you do, its executed brilliantly.

I was expecting "I'm Bernie Sanders and I approve this message" at the end of that for a bit.

My son is the big problem. Came down the other day in the morning and he had dumped every bin of toys in the toy rack, and built a train out of the bins into the kitchen. He also dumped out the basket of magazines under the coffee table and spread those around the room, and dumped apple juice on the kitchen floor and didn't clean it up. It took us 2 days to get him to clean it all up, and the day after he did, we came down to see he did it again, plus climbed the bookshelf to get his sister's magic market maker set and spilled ink all over the carpet AND dining room floor. So after making him clean part of that up we had to walk to get his sister at school only to find he had also pulled half the food in the freezer out and left it on the floor. This morning we got up and he had put a chair on the coffee table to get up on top of the bookshelves and broke and spread around my lego sets. After the doctor we're buying a lock for his door so he can't get out of his room in the morning. Edit: Prescribed antidepressants. We'll see if it helps in the next couple weeks. Edit 2: finished putting him to bed and found he had gotten into the medicine cabinet and dumped his sisters gold earings down the sink.

My kids have driven me to a state of perpetual rage. I threw a fit because the dishwasher was left open before the dry cycle finished, then threw the broom upstairs, breaking a picture frame because it wasn't put back where it belonged. Sitting in the doctor's waiting room to see if I have depression or something.

Yeah, I'm way too lazy to install a beta for just one weekend, but I did check out a Twitch stream on it. I saw this guy run around with two or three other guys, going up against maybe 5-6 enemies. The guy streaming had a sniper rifle and he kept popping an enemy in a grey hoodie 5-6 times in the head while the grey hoodie dude just kept running forward without much of a response at all. It might still be a good game but that put me off a little bit. Yeah, headshot damage needs to get beefed up. I was full on assault rifling people in the head and it took like 6 or 7 shots

Playing the Division beta. Not interested in the multiplayer aspect, but the single player aspect is actually not bad if you like cover shooters. You can play the major missions with friends, or a random pickup group, or solo. Beta only has one little mission chain, took me about an hour to beat then it tries to shoo you off into the PVP area which doesn't interest me. Will probably grab the game when it hits 15 bucks.

https://contests.nvidia.com/en-us/the-division-beta-key-giveaway NVIDIA giving away The Division beta keys for people who are interested.

I think it was John Carmack who said, "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie." this is why I think video game journalism doesn't exist, what substitutes for it is a bunch of try-hards trying to earn a living by peddling crap. I bet this same reviewer praised Skyrim and Fallout 4 for their story. what a sorry excuse of a journalist. I can't imagine that quote is from the last 15 years. Games have increasingly become a storytelling medium, and story has been incredibly important for a long time now. Sure Doom and Quake and such didn't really need one, but games that come out now that are just about shooting and don't really have anything to drive the player forward are often criticised pretty heavily now.

Gives me a Book of Life vibe, which is a good thing, as that was probably my favorite animated film of the last decade.

It's been stagnant and rotting for a while. Recent events have pretty much just ensured that it's nothing but a hollowed out corpse. Oh there will be those that use the tag as a community thing, and there will be others that hang onto it for every scrap of relevance they can muster, but as a driving force and a catalyst it is very much dead. Cool, thanks for the update. Dunno what the recent events were but maybe now people I know will settle down some. Honestly thought this thing would never die, figured it would be a constant background noise to gaming forever (from both sides). There will always be flare ups, but it will never be as big as it was. You'll see it rear its head whenever a major reviewer/audience dissonance hits (reviews really good, audience hates it, or vice versa), or if an anticipated Japanese game reveals that its censoring itself because of whiny western reviewers for its western release. Other than that they'll be likely be content to sit and whine about what some random SJW said on twitter.

Project Saskatchewan has a nice ring to it.

I really enjoyed the GoT RPG, it didn't really feel cheap to me. Graphics were good, voice acting was top notch, game was fun, story was good, even had a nice cameo from GRRM himself. It actually surprised me how good it was. Its pretty linear yeah, but it was a tie in to the show, so there wasn't a lot they could do.

I have games I was excited for sitting on my HD unplayed, so its hard to get excited for new ones

Its interesting how they've changed the actor playing the ex-husband from the original pre-air pilot. Seeing that slight editing done for each scene he was in. The guy playing Lucifer seems to nail the role quite well, and I get the feeling it might become one to watch more for his dialogue and interaction than anything going on with actual plot lines. Like Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod and his disappointment in the future is the main reason I watch.

Well, that's mostly due to the the fact that there wasn't really much to talk about when it came to journalism. Most of the legitimate concerns were adressed in the first few months. That's why imo the decision to center GG around journalism was wrong, since it's obviously not the case and can only lead to confusion and misunderstandings. It started with journalism but was always an anti-censorship movement too. When most of the journalism stuff was resolved it began focusing on artists rights and such too, and that gave it broader appeal which brought in more crazies. Now its just the anti-pc sub.

Shows how far KiA has fallen. CBC edited an article to add details of the case including a paraphrase of the judges comments. KiA claims its slander and anyone informing them of the details of the judgement that shows the statement is just the judge's opinion is being downvoted.

I bought all the B5 seasons, watched the first 1 and a half, then met my GF who wanted to binge Buffy, Angel, Docotr Who and Supernatural and I just never got back to it.

If, aside from dramatically underdeveloped reading comprehension skills, the gamer persecution complex that has been, over the decades, steadily fed by the complaints of right-wing moral guardians like Jack Thompson, and a negative bias against anything that has the whiff of social justice to it (causing it to be interpreted in the least charitable light possible), there is no reason for them to feel that way, I hardly see a need to condone it as wrong. Has the article been written in a way that pretty much made it impossible for civil disagreement and mutual respect to dominate the tone of the discussion? Surely. Was it, perhaps, needlessly inflammatory? I can see that. But was it morally wrong? That's an interesting idea, which, I feel, is fundamentally at odds with the dominant perspective of GG that the creation of more content, by itself, can never be morally wrong. I hear you, this is a much better way for me to try to make my point as opposed to that long post as we need to agree on certain stages of the whole GG development in order for me to progress to my final point And funny enough I already share your view on most parts of this topic but I want to share something new with you ...thats what this about for me. Just giving you a different perspective But before I continue do you want to have this debate and I don't mean to sound condescending but maybe you just don't feel like debating this again in which case I wouldn't want to wast either of our time? Go on, share your perspective. Yeah I agree with your rejection and annoyance around this automatic knee-jerk reaction and dismissive nature we see from some people whenever anything they perceive as SJ related is discussed or raised. So sometimes people are more concerned with just undermining the core SJ idea than actually debating if the SJ suggestion makes sense And I'll take it even further, in South Africa there are some white people who claim they are victims of racism because of efforts to address the past and the economic imbalances Apartheid created and trust me when I tell you they aren't really victims of racism So for example an unemployed black person, and understand this person has been unemployed his whole life, will phone in on a radio station and say something like " South Africa belongs to Africans....why can't we get out land back and why dont we have access to our mineral resources" . Because the reality is most of the land in SA is owned either by the government, private companies or white farmers and the mines are owned by large global corporations like Anglo American. So you can understand the frustration from your average unemployed black South African..yet some white people will phone and act very " offended " and say things like " that guy is racist ...how can he say white people don't belong in South Africa " Anyway I think they are over reacting and not understanding where the criticism is coming from But back to our debate, what is your definition of SJ? For me it is about an objective in society where all groups of people are treated equally and allowed equal opportunities to succeed and achieve economic success. You shouldn't marginalize one group at the expense of another but sometimes this may seem to be happening as we address historical injustice ...like affirmative action So whats your definition because this is relevant to GG and what caused it The problem in my experience is that most Social Justice advocates don't want equal opportunity, they want equal outcome.

I don't know man, the people I see complaining about immigration the most tend to live in wide open spaces surrounded by mostly white people. Typically living among a diverse community makes it harder to be against diversity. The opposite seems to be true with my family. My mother, like myself, lives in an area that is plenty racially diverse. She cannot stand black people (though she makes an exception for my black cousin) or Hispanic people. My extended family however, being the reasonable people they are don't have any issues at all with minorities; though they live in pretty much all white neighborhoods because of their wealth.I find this as well, my 95% white hometown was all about welcoming minorities and such, in greater Vancouver everyone hates the chinese and indians because they make up 50% of the population. Familiarity breeds contempt.