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I would not describe Control as mostly somber.

Things about it that are somber / serious:

Things about it that are whimsical:

Things about it that are both:

I have complete faith in Remedy, both of the Alan Wakes and Control have been surprisingly funny and whimsical, often in unexpected ways. Quantum Break had less humour and was a bit more self serious, but Microsoft also had more control of that project.

Being dismissive doesn't sound cool when you're objectively wrong.

No there absolutely is not 'just as much'.

Literally at a core fundamental there isn't in terms of what users see, since lemmy's algorithm isn't engagement driven.

Just a friendly reminder that a usb microscope is cheaper than a chaturbate subscription.

I was depressed in high school and talking to my mom about happiness and one of the things she said to me, was that often real happiness comes from learning to be happy with being content.

At the time I honestly found the thought kind of depressing, but it stuck with me and I've only seen it to be truer and truer as I've gotten older.

It's worth drawing the distinction between 'if guns are allowed, activists should consider carrying' vs 'guns should be allowed so that activists can carry'.

The former I agree with, the latter I think is nonsense.

Harmonizing building code rules into a single standard that applies province wide does make construction easier. If you want to build a building in north Toronto and you want to build a different building across the street in Vaughan, or across the street in Richmond Hill, you suddenly have three different sets of giant building codes that you have to make sure you follow. Want to put light fixtures on the outside of your building? If they shine upwards at all, you can install them in Toronto and Richmond Hill, but absolutely do not think about doing that across the street in Vaughan, you'll fail your inspection and cost days work and potentially delay opening if that rule isn't caught during design. It's easy to handwave away and say deal with it, but these things to add a lot of cost and complication to projects and the end result of that is people wasting time and resources. Multiply that by a full province worth of people and you end up with economic inefficiency that is felt as things being more expensive and slower than you'd think they would be.

A similar measure is likely to happen with the Ontario Building Code, at the federal level. When Carney talks about harmonizing inter-provincial trade barriers, one of those thing is harmonizing codes and standards so that companies can freely move and operate wherever is needed without lots of retraining, which would likely aim to harmonize the Ontario Building Code and Canada Building Code more than they already are.

Unfortunately, the way Ford is doing it, is just cutting off all modifications that have been made to the OBC, rather than picking and choosing the most sensible modifications that municipalities have enacted. Toronto's green roof laws should apply province wide, as should Vaughan's night sky protection laws, but instead we get nothing.

That being said, if Carney harmonizes the building codes at the federal level, he has the opportunity to strong arm in more stringent environmental considerations into every building code. And if Carney doesn't harmonize building codes, a future left wing Premier will hopefully use that legislation to enact green building standards province wide.

Yeah, their maximum allowed markup of 14%, and the fact that they pay their employees well, is what leaves them as the only American store I'll still shop at. Still won't buy any American made products from them though.

Watch out for their pork specifically. For some reason last time I was there the chicken and beef were Canadian but all the pork seemed American.

Lmfao, enjoy the half second you have firing a tommy gun in the air before an ai drone with an anti tank mine zip tied to it blows to pieces you and everyone you love.

Civil wars are not won by cowards carrying pistols at walmart. They're mostly won by external governments supplying one side with insurmountable fire power and sometimes won by using tactics and strategy to win the hearts and minds of people and rally them to you.

Please cite the incidents in which owning a personal pistol has been essential and why. I will follow with a list of political activists who have been assassinated with pistols owned by idiots.

Let's see whose is longer.

The house was burned down, their dogs were butchered and displayed as skeletal warnings.

[citation needed]

No, the order of operations does not matter because both sides lead back to the other. That's called a feedback loop and you are participating in it rather than breaking out of it.

The only way to win the game of 'whose going to be safest by buying more guns' is not to play.

We need to widely allow handguns because of all the progress that's constantly made from assassinating politicians with handguns?

Please do list all the politicians assassinated by handguns and how much progress that made. I'll follow with a list of activists murdered by handguns.

Let's see whose is longer.

Oh yeah, good luck fighting the army with your handguns.

Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand would all show that what you're saying is false.

This argument is nonsense pushed forward by the gun industry to try and get leftists on their side. Allowing for activists to freely own handguns means that counter activists will which makes everyone less safe.

In most places in the developed world this would have an embarassing punch up brawl, not murder.

Handguns make killing another human being too easy for us to have in our most extreme emotional states. If we truly accept that we do not have perfect control of the universe, and thus can't control when we hit those extreme emotional states, then it would lead us to a specific conclusion about whether handgun ownership is a good idea at all.

To be fair, he navigated Disney / Lucasfilm's grip on the Star Wars franchise pretty adeptly. He was both director and story director on the Star Wars games and both were some of the best star wars media in recent times.

Notably not being described as an RPG but an action adventure game.

Still, interesting given the studio founder is Stig Asmussen, who directed both the Star Wars Jedi games, God of War 3, and came up through the art department working on previous God of War games.

It'll be interesting to see his level of spectacle brought to a DnD universe.

I mean, if it was a sinister plot, the neighbour getting into an argument and shooting him on his front lawn in broad daylight would be a rather inept conclusion.

It may be that there were tensions because the neighbour blamed him for burning the house next to his down or something. Misery tends to beget misery in numerous ways, it's often not nefarious.

Fuck owning guns and fuck owning guns for personal protection.

Handguns are the dumbest fucking thing in the world for society to allow. Lets make killing someone as easy as pressing a button at a distance! That's gotta a be a good necessary thing for anyone to do on a whim.