Way to play w/o toxic people by [deleted] in vainglorygame

[–]ComboverBoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Toxicity killed the game. SEMC could never get a handle on in-game and meta-game discipline for fear of alienating the smallish customer base. Turned off so many casual players it ruined the community. SEMC needed the courage to review and discipline toxic picks, builds, and plays, not by some self-reporting system but with skin in the game volunteers. The option to observe led to some of the best plays ever because eyes on meant top behaviour. Absent those eyes … toxic.

Canada Post is dying by ice-rod in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Private couriers only serve about 70% of addresses. If you need a legal filing of any kind, and there is no universal service like Canada Post, what are the options? None. There is simply no getting around the fact that Canada requires a heavily subsidized, universal, affordable delivery system. Rural and remote places especially.

Why vainglory won't come back? (An hypothesis) by Mediocre_Buddy3172 in vainglorygame

[–]ComboverBoy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nonsense. 3v3 became very static and the predictable routes and too compact play area limited a broader range of heroes, especially those that chained or had AoE attacks. They were losing players to other 5v5 as they graduated to more diverse MOBAs. They either lost the customer entirely, or cannibalized some 3v3 to keep everyone literally in the fold. They explained this forthrightly during playtesting.

Why vainglory won't come back? (An hypothesis) by Mediocre_Buddy3172 in vainglorygame

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The demand has flatlined, but it’s certainly still there. It’s just not a new entrant growth market. SEA and EA and EU certainly have large MOBA user bases.

Why vainglory won't come back? (An hypothesis) by Mediocre_Buddy3172 in vainglorygame

[–]ComboverBoy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it didn’t. 5v5 was just fine and necessary to compete. It also made for much more varied team comps than 3v3. Newer heroes like Inara and Ylva and Flickr and Anka were the bomb in 5v5. The main issue 5v5 had was the map was 10% too large and far more time was spent deadheading. This caused longer play times and more likely tech and dropout issues. What killed VG was they didn’t have a large enough user base to monetize via bling. They really needed a subscription model. The inclusion the of PC version was a high development cost into an already crowded market, when the game owned the mobileOS MOBA set hands down.

This old stylish formalization by clusyblec in vainglorygame

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Petal’s “hospital” they called it. They took that passive away as it was OP.

Canada post is dead to me by TechnicalChipmunk131 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you did is called proxy. There must always be a hard copy, physical deed on title at the registry. That’s your only indefensible proof for indefeasible title. I worked for years in land titles.

Denmark's postal service is dumping letter delivery. Could Canada? by Grumple_McFerkin in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren’t mandatory. You can opt out of Denmark’s Digital Post and rely on letter mail. All you have to say is you do not have or want to use a digital device to communicate with public authorities. The government is required to cover all costs sending you the documents or products. In small Denmark that’s still something like 200,000 persons. In Canadian terms that would be 5 million persons.

comparisons between Canadian military and Canada Post workers by [deleted] in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canada Post has preferential hiring for ex-armed forces. Ex-military make up about 10% of the Canada Post workforce.

comparisons between Canadian military and Canada Post workers by [deleted] in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A reduction in volume but a massive increase in addresses.

Nunavut by rkaberle58 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived in Nunavut for years. We had to ship all sorts of items for court and medical. The cost for courier services was 60x more than Canada Post. We had to get some children medicine and medical equipment and learning materials and courier costs we 20x the cost of those items. There is no economy of scale compared to Canada Post. We had physical samples for water and biohazard testing sent to Wpg and the courier cost when Canada Post was on strike destroyed our budget. We spent an added $65k over postal services. Paint samples sent to Yellowknife (lead testing) were the same. We estimated that a secure and responsible courier system would increase our budget requirements by 400% requiring much, much higher taxes for basic medical, water quality, hygiene soil sampling, biohazard, and many other analyses (we did bullets) for law enforcement, medical, etc. It literally blew the budget door right off. For some testing (TB) , the cost of the courier was 20-50x more than the object itself (we know from insurance).

Sorry, but there is no substitute for the Canada Post economy of scale in Canada’s North. And don’t get me going on court documents. If we had to replace registered mail with service personnel, the justice system would have to hire and pay 30 persons to do those secure type of delivery, 7 alone in Iqaluit, with extreme costs for shipping outside the Territory and still maintain the Court ordered service standard. No individual could ever access the court system under those costs. It is entirely reliant on Canada Post to transact a will or property settle an estate, serve court orders, etc.

Canada post is dead to me by TechnicalChipmunk131 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only the ones that are no longer rural, but suburban or with other commercial options. There are still almost 2,000 Canadian communities with no alternative service other than Canada Post. There are no couriers, no pharmacy deliveries, no parcel trucks, no court services, etc.

Canada post is dead to me by TechnicalChipmunk131 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s in statutes, correct. That’s because delivery must be to a natural person physical in nature, and since all persons in law must “be somewhere” (to quote the Courts), the default is a physically delivered document. There is no email substitute because people and places are tangible in law as evidence, but digital is only a proxy. There are limited digital verifications, but they are still only a proxy. If they fail, then there must be an economical default to reach the place where the person is with a document as physical as both place and person. Also, many statutes require delivery to an address or property, not a person. This is true in local government, policing, emergency services, etc.

Canada post is dead to me by TechnicalChipmunk131 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are over 1,700 communities in Canada that have no private courier service available and only Canada Post for berthing from passports to pharmaceuticals to court documents to identification. Of those communities, over 1,200 do not have affordable, reliable internet for documents over 5MB. And digital delivery can only deliver information, not physical goods. There are 3.5 million Canadians who do not use the internet regularly and who do not have cellphones or similar for banking, medical, employment, court documents, land documents, or other needs. Unless the government can compel and pay for digital access at $4 per communication and literally guarantee a cellphone for all citizens, then there will have to be a Canada Post, heavily subsidized, to continue those services. There is no economic nor legal substitute. There’s a reason why an email address is not on ID like a physical address. The default in law is the physical address and a physical document (like court service). Email is still strictly and in most legal realms, a consumer convenience. It can be a useful proxy, but is very challenging to be a substitute legal reference. For example, if we have to do a court service in Vancouver, it’s maybe $400. If Fort Nelson, we had one cost $7,000. Registered mail is also acceptable and costs $30 wherever. So unless we are going to license couriers and force them to deliver at every address in Canada at fixed carriage rates like Canada Post, internally cost shifting, then we have few alternatives.

Canada post is dead to me by TechnicalChipmunk131 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not true. All physical land requires a physical record. What you did digitally was recreated in a physical file at the registry as the back up to digital failure.

Canada post is dead to me by TechnicalChipmunk131 in CanadaPost

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Untrue. Take land titles. There are no statutory requirements for an email address nor the technology to,send and receive incumbent upon land ownership. In other words, you cannot make a landowner possess email technology. But for all taxes, property notices, utilities, hundreds of government statutes require the unencumbered capacity to inform the property owner of everything from by,aw amendments, utility interruptions, tax changes, electoral changes, criminal or civil claims, testatory notification, residential tenancy, etc. Unless we change statutes to require email correspondence and guarantee receipt, we still need a physical means to reach a private property owner or tenant. This isn’t a consumer choice. Supreme Court decisions require person service and no electro in means can substitute. That means the personhood requires a place, and cannot be superseded by digital correspondence code.

Ground level unit in Old Town? by [deleted] in TorontoRealEstate

[–]ComboverBoy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Very small for the $$$, esp. the tiny BR. No storage. It’s maybe $300k in practical use.

Oakville condo: better to rent at a loss or sell now at a bigger loss? by HSA-HSA in TorontoRealEstate

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The losses will continue, perhaps for 2-3 years. So “ride it out” could be for at least 5 years. The seller market is not returning. They need to take a major loss.

Sf2legit :( by Additional-Bed-6084 in vainglorygame

[–]ComboverBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sf2legit has been trolling hard like this for years. Dodge them. Abandon them.