I get the need for them, to pay for shared building services. Strata fees pay for exercise rooms, pools, grounds maintenance, whatever. I 100% am behind them, as long as the Strata council is responsive to needs and not corrupted, but there's the rub.
I'd generally be happier with few services and low strata fees tho.
Yeah. I'm pretty much resigned to living in our rental until we get renovicted. No kids, double income, a lot of savings... but the mortgage payments would be way more than it's worth to have a minor upgrade. Strata payments alone are often more than our rent!
Not Vancouver. Nothing that size would go less than 2 million until you hit Coquitlam. MAYBE.
Im assuming you've looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?
Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate
Largest? Implying there are smaller, ie more than one?
I've found that changing my email address works better than unsubscribe sometimes. Just change it to a tagged address and set up a filter. Shields you against future sales as well.
All the Trump emails go rbos+fucktrump now. Probably a hundred a day. Unsubscribe did not work.
Also, Canadian. Incompetent jerks.
Encoding h.265 on a small enough camera might be a problem? But if they have money ...
The cheaters and cheat developers will just move to Windows, and the legitimate Linux users will quit. I don't see the upside, this doesn't solve the problem.
Hey cottage cheese on toast is great, that's my breakfast most days. With pepper and nutritional yeast usually.
Yeah, that's about what the Broadway tunnel is going to cost for the Skytrain extension in Vancouver.
Edit: Though of course an urban tunnel cut down an extremely busy street is worst-case scenario. That money would probably buy you a lot more rail elsewhere.
The Broadway corridor has possibly the busiest transit line in North America and the per-passenger cost will be quite low, when it's finished.
Plastinization, I think is the word.
I'd like you to please step down a little bit from DEFCON 3. :) I feel like you're reading me say "all" regulations when I mean "some" regulations. There definitely exist stupid rules that aren't science-based, or have been ideologically-motivated, or created in response to temporary panics, that could be rolled back.
Like, property setbacks and parking minimums are examples of regulations that I personally think could be removed.
The important thing is that any proposed service cut, or regulation cut, be well-justified, at least as well-justified as the introduction of new ones. We have to consider the consequences of introducing a new rule, or repealing an old one.
Not all regulations are "WRITTEN IN THE BLOOD OF PEOPLE HURT OR KILLED", some are pushed through by (say) lumber companies afraid of losing profit, or tech companies trying to make life more difficult for smaller tech companies. Some simply have unintended consequences and turn out to be worse than not having them.
Ditto government services and spending. There are good government services, and honestly, services that could be redefined, or rebuilt to be more effective.
Yeah. I'm 100% open to cutting government services, regulations, and spending, but you gotta make a case for it. How would it be better? Could it be done better and more cheaply by private services? How would you avoid the downsides?
Like, we never should have sold BC Tel. We're paying more money for less service now, to out-of-province entities taking huge profit margins at the expense of BC citizens. I honestly think we should nationalize all the fibre, copper, and cell towers in the province and force Telus et al to be resellers for wholesale access to lines. That would minimize the monopoly rents and allow innovation and competition on the front end, where currently, they use their monopoly access to the networks to force us to accept shitty front end service.
Anyone planning to sell a government service to the private sector needs to answer the question of how to prevent us from being fleeced by oligopolists and increasing our costs.
0, -7, -14, -22... dangit
It has stayed funny this whole time. WoW provides a lot of fresh material, even if you're not playing.
I agree mostly, even without reusability Starship would be pretty cheap, though. Mass production techniques and cheap materials.
I'd expect a sudden inflation, with suddenly expanded after tax income chasing the same or reduced goods due to less imports.
Then SpaceX is forced to adhere to political considerations and budget priorities. NASA oversight and intensely risk averse culture would not have allowed spacex to build a rocket factory, or risk throwing away prototypes for rapid iteration.
As subject. In Gastown, a plane flew over putting out rainbow contrail. Why? O_o
Some festival?
Part Five of the Expansion Pass DLC for THE LONG DARK Survival Mode adds the Cougar, Misery Mode, Sundered Pass Region, and more features & content + bug fixes!
The next part of TALES features the Cougar, Cheat Death, Misery Mode, and a new Region!
Splitsie's Scrapyard Engineers scenario is pretty great, I've been enjoying it, and if you haven't tried it, it's worth a crack.
The concept is that you basically don't get refiners or assemblers, and only a limited number of blocks you can make. Everything else, you have to find from wreckage strewn about the landscape. The goal is to get to space.
In addition to the base modpack, I strongly recommend Improvised Experimentation. The author also recommends it, but tunes down the carry weight so that you have to use cranes more. I didn't, but a crane is still extremely useful.
Apologies for the English, my monolingualism is entirely my own fault at this point.
The tldr: my grandmother grew up during WW2 in the occupied Netherlands, and migrated to Canada in the 1950s in her 20s.
She is likely in the stages of early dementia, and one of the recommendations for dementia patients is to find music that they'd likely enjoyed as teenagers or young adults. I'd like to see if I can find something that fits that rough description. I expect I can make do with the English catalogue of classic rock and country from that time, but it'd be nice to find something a little different.
Can someone make any broad recommendations for popular Dutch music from the 1950s? Ideally, something I can find in mp3 format, but I'm willing to spend some money.
May 2024 Developer Diary Hello fans, Here’s some news about what to expect in Part Five of TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY, which we are targeting for the second half of June (depending on how long it takes to test and clear console certification), as well as an update on progress around bringing TA...
The Long Dark is a survival game about living with your bad choices.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22324944
> The beauty of The Long Dark. > > To clear up some confusion: there is an article behind that link and I'm not the author.
Hello players, We have just updated THE LONG DARK to version 2.27, build 127976. This is a Hotfix to THE LONG DARK and THE LONG DARK: SURVIVAL EDITION and contains fixes for issues introduced with our Part Four release. **Spoilers Below** Update Details ADJUSTED REQUIREMENTS TO START ‘BURIED ECHOES’...
TLDR: Lotsa bugfixes.
Unique Artstyle & Basic Informations...
Oliv on Steam created a set of very nice maps for TLD zones, including the new Zone of Contamination.
Hello Survivors, Just a quick message to bring the end of the year to a close. In my November Dev Diary and in the recent update video for TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY, Part Four, I promised to post one last message before the end of the year, and that it would include an Episode Five teaser. So ...
A brief note announcing the title of the last chapter of Wintermute, "slated for release in late 2024".
Hinterlands thread as above. Steam community forum Reddit thread
Hello players, We have just updated THE LONG DARK to version 2.26, build 126828. This is a Hotfix to THE LONG DARK and THE LONG DARK: SURVIVAL EDITION and contains fixes for issues introduced with our Part Four release. **Spoilers Below** Known Issues The team is currently aware of the following ...
Looks like mostly bugfixes and such. Clipping, art, visual bugs mostly.
I've been impressed by how solid this DLC release has been so far, nothing super gamebreaking.
The Long Dark is launching part 4, video is livestreaming at time of writing.
Survivors, the November Dev Diary includes an exciting update on Part Four of TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY and more.
Some neat and unexpected stuff! Looking forward to the harvesting animations.
Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thelongdark/comments/17sgpgj/dev_diary_november_2023/
Steam thread:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/305620/view/3820802116159638806?l=english
Hinterlands forum thread:
https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/44270-november-2023-dev-diary/
Hello Community, We have just released our v2.23 (120705) Quality of Life Update for THE LONG DARK (including Survival Edition), and TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY on all platforms. GENERAL Fixed an issue where inaccurate time values were shown in the player Journal during the Nomad Challenge. Fixe...
Some interesting stuff here.
Survivors, the September Dev Diary includes information on an upcoming Quality of Life, new details on Part Four of TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY, and more.
A relaxing morning (Day 520) cooking in the airfield. I've found the control hut to be the best spot for it: the sheltered place between the two buildings shields you from the wind from two directions, and the opened doors mean that if the wind blows straight through from either direction, at least two fires will keep going.
Personally, I don't bother to repair my (Interloper) gear until it hits about 70% condition. I feel that reaches a good balance between keeping gear in good condition and not feeling like I'm wasting cloth/hides. If I have more than (say) two bearhides or four deerhides around, I'll repair earlier. And of course rabbithides are super easy to get and renewable, so I try to keep those above 90%.
Of course, I have a lot of cloth laid up now, and beachcombing is a fairly reliable source, so maybe 70% is too low. Should I go to 80%?
Clothing issue, in my opinion: The moose cloak doesn't have much practical use in difficult game modes. It doesn't really win on any useful metric. Pretty much every Interloper player goes for double bear coats.
Bearskin Coat: 6C warmth, 5C wind, 80% water resist, 20% protection, -20% mobility, 5kg. 1.20C/kg inner slot, 2.20C/kg outer slot. Wolfskin Coat: 4C warmth, 4C wind, 60% water resist, 12% protection, -15% mobility, 3kg. 1.33C/kg inner slot, 2.67C/kg outer slot. Moose Cloak: 3.5C warmth, 4C wind, 90% water resist, 20% protection, -10% mobility, 4kg. 1.875C/kg outer slot only.
For the outer slot, the wolfskin coat has the best temp/kg, and the bearskin has the highest raw boost (11C). For the inner slot, the wolfskin coat has the best temp/kg, and the bearskin again has the highest raw boost.
Water resistance, wind resistance, and protection are fully irrelevant for the inner slot. Water resistance is irrelevant unless you travel during a blizzard, which is fairly easy to avoid, and the high water resistance of a bear coat makes it almost as good as a moose cloak. Protection is generally never worth optimizing for, unless you plan to get in struggles, but the bear coat matches the moose cloak.
I've never used a moose cloak, since for only one extra kilogram, you gain 3.5 degrees of extra warmth on the outer slot, one of the best bargains in the game, only losing 10% water resist and 10% mobility.
So how do we make the moose coat useful? Some ideas:
- Nerf the bear coat's water resist. Make it much more likely to get soggy.
- Buff the moose cloak's weight. If it was 3kg, the weight ratio would be 2.5, making it more weight-efficient than the bear coat, almost as warm as the wolf coat, but substantially more water-resistant and slightly better for mobility and protection. It would then be at least a sidegrade for the wolfcoat, and might make sense in some situations.
- Make the moosecoat more appealing. Give it say 3.0C warmth and 8.0 wind, so that it matches the bearcoat for the outside slot. Then, the moosecloak-bearhide combo would be the same, but 1kg lighter, and it would add additional logistical challenges for survival, forcing you to bag the odd moose in addition to the bears.
A couple observations:
- Sewing needs some kind of quality buff. The percentage condition boost you get from repairing is almost always partly wasted, and higher levels only increase the wastage.
- The amount of effort needed to get to level 5 mending merits a much better reward. In Interloper, you aren't ever going to be leaving your gear to 50% condition before repairing. I don't know what such a buff would look like. Maybe you use less cloth when you hit level 5, or maybe you can repair your gear to 120% instead of 100%.
- Sports socks are gold if you're just aiming for level 5. 0.10kg, and very fast repair time. Hoard them, haul them with you until you have level 5. You can consume a lot of cloth fast.
Couple of my favourites:
- Archimedes: https://www.youtube.com/@ArchimedesLP
- Zaknafein: https://www.youtube.com/@Zaknafein
- Grind This Game: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6STTjHxnSXp-r8NPQIutAQ (though he hasn't done TLD in quite a while, I think. I like his Oxygen Not Included streams as well).
Any other good watches? I love this game for background atmosphere.
Rob Bos @lemmy.ca Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.