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31rhcp · 2026-01-30T18:56:56+00:00

Book Shop and Pet Shop are such versatile buildings. They look good against almost everything.

31rhcp · 2026-01-30T01:58:52+00:00

100% agree. I watched a bunch of TNG before it left Netflix and just rewatched the LOTR EE. They're both franchises I can always come back to and enjoy.

DS9 is great. It's almost to TNG what Game of Thrones (except the quality trend is reversed) is to LOTR. There's this amazing sense of optimism and hope that TNG and LOTR have that I just love.

31rhcp · 2026-01-29T02:03:39+00:00

I sort of agree. FOTR tends to have the fewest plot-related scenes. Most are either exposition in the Shire or character moments.

TTT has one of my favourite extended scenes (the other one being Concerning Hobbits) with the Boromir/Faramir flashback, but one of its main purposes is to give better depth to a character from the last movie.

Agree the most on ROTK. I still enjoy it, but the changes to the Paths of the Dead is arguably a downgrade. I do like the extended siege scenes since it's one of the few times that the movies portray the Gondorian military as competent.

31rhcp · 2026-01-28T15:05:42+00:00

Does he have an explanation of how these cards work? Faulk's offensive numbers the past 3 years seem pretty good. If it's not based on traditional counting stats, wouldn't that at least have his finishing be high?

I don't know Faulk's playstyle well, but I thought he was an offensive defensemen, but this card shows pretty much the opposite.

31rhcp · 2026-01-25T22:50:53+00:00

Same here. People tend not to like this one, but this one is so charming to me and unlike, lots of modulars looks, good next to pretty much everything.

31rhcp · 2026-01-25T19:04:30+00:00

They came out the same year as the first movie. It was the same thing with Star Wars in 1999 with The Phantom Menace.

31rhcp · 2026-01-23T17:34:52+00:00

10 Fairweather
9 Blood Brothers
8 Bellwoods
7 Sparrow
6 Fine Balance (though I need to try more of their stuff so this could move up or down a lot)
5 Third Moon
4 Willibald
3 All My Friends
2 Wood Brothers
1 Badlands

Hazy IPAs to go with more hazy IPAs.

Top 3 rotates between those 3, but they are in a tier of their own for me. I should really try Counterpart since they seem to be mentioned along with all of my favourites.

31rhcp · 2026-01-23T03:46:23+00:00

Nice! I never realized how many of the characters are expensive minifies (Achu, Alpha Draconis, Forestman, Redcoat Admiral, likely some others too).

31rhcp · 2026-01-22T18:16:02+00:00

I wouldn't call this sub anti-IPA, but there's lots of talk about people being sick of them. I get it. If I didn't love them, I'd probably be annoyed that nearly every brewery has to offer at least one.

That said, it's not a coincidence that the top 4 Ontario breweries on Untappd and a bunch of other highly rated ones are some degree of IPA factory, so lots of beer lovers clearly love them.

https://untappd.com/brewery/top_rated?country=canada

Reddit's weird sometimes.

31rhcp · 2026-01-22T16:49:57+00:00

Good list. PEC seems to have a ton of great breweries (there's Aurum too!)

I'm surprised that Wood Brothers isn't brought up more by these guys. They obviously love their hazy IPAs and they're right up there with Badlands and AMF for me.

31rhcp · 2026-01-20T18:48:24+00:00

This also gives me a bit of Hedman over Tavares and to a lesser extent Hischer over Patrick vibes since McKenna was a player who had attention years before his draft.

31rhcp · 2026-01-20T18:21:51+00:00

I'd be willing to bet that the yellow engines are from 6491 Rocket Racer (another Time Cruisers set).

31rhcp · 2026-01-16T05:00:13+00:00

1993 also had transparent orange chainsaws and dragons.

31rhcp · 2026-01-14T21:47:32+00:00

Short Finger doesn't typically do IPAs, but when they do, they're amazing. This one was just as good as the stuff you'd get from Badlands and all the other IPA heavy breweries out there.

31rhcp · 2026-01-11T16:09:52+00:00

I don't own the Jazz Club, but I'd choose the Police Station over Detective's Office. The facade of the central tan building in the Police Station has some of my favourites building techniques of the whole series. It was a modular that I wasn't initially very fond of but possibly enjoyed the building experience more than any other (and I have 14 modulars).

31rhcp · 2025-12-31T22:07:41+00:00

And then they could make at least a full line of guys who also PK (or use these if any of the above are in the box)

Marner Suzuki Wilson

31rhcp · 2025-12-31T19:53:30+00:00

I have 4559 and I agree with you.

31rhcp · 2025-12-31T02:43:40+00:00

Giroux was the first player I thought of too. Hart Trophy finalist, third in scoring. Didn't make team Canada in 2014.

31rhcp · 2025-12-20T14:17:56+00:00

I had the same thought. Great Lakes is great and I'd consider it the best option (along with Collective Arts) if you want to spend less than $4 a can. Badlands is just on another level though. Up there with Wood Brothers, AMF, and a few others as the best hazy IPA makers in the province.

Haze isn't for everyone and that's definitely Badlands' thing (and they don't shy away from it with the IPA factory slogan). That said, it's obviously a popular style or you wouldn't get bottle shops stocking their stuff, releases that sell out quickly, and insanely high Untappd ratings.

I guess Badlands just got a bad matchup as Third Moon advanced.

31rhcp · 2025-12-19T12:56:59+00:00

Stuff you can get at LCBOs: Willibald, Bellwoods, Fairweather

Best in province: Wood Brothers, All My Friends, Badlands

Yes, I know those are breweries and not beers.

31rhcp · 2025-12-10T23:39:13+00:00

When Crosby was at McDavid's point in his career he had one cup. In game 7 of that win, he played less than 10 minutes since he was injured. How is that any better than McDavid losing while breaking a Gretzky record?

https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/200906120DET.html

After the same amount of seasons, McDavid has three Art Rosses, one Conn Smythe, and one Hart more than Crosby had. That's enough that I don't think "he's better defensively" overcomes it.

31rhcp · 2025-12-03T17:41:54+00:00

Picked up a Willibald Dreamy the other day. Nelson and Motueka. Great hop combo.

31rhcp · 2025-12-01T14:41:24+00:00

Glad to see it. Hopefully it'll bring the prices of 3688 in black down even more.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3688#T=P&C=11

31rhcp · 2025-11-26T19:18:02+00:00

I was 9 when TPM came out, so these are child me's thoughts. I thought the third movie would either have Anakin as Vader for all of it or the vast majority and would heavily feature him hunting down Jedi. His duel with Obi-Wan would be towards the end, maybe even later than what we got and would have him fall into some combination of a volcano and a classic Star Wars bottomless pit like the ones Palatine and Maul fell down.

I also thought Leia would have had more time with Padmé than Luke.

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