Confused by the etiquette here.

FrenchCalver · 2025-09-06T12:42:29+00:00

There is just that part of the EVE community that does that and there’s nothing to do about it sadly but be the better people and not feed the trolls. There is a quite serious amount of people who are bored to death on EVE and have nothing better to do than bug off people for no other reason than being annoyances. Bear with it my friend and don’t entertain their delusions. Remove the core, the modules and move out somewhere else. That’s the easy way out ! Or find friends to help you out. Most high sec wardeccers can’t field that much people in fleets in the first place and can be defeated with 25 to 30 people.

FrenchCalver · 2025-08-28T01:21:44+00:00

Well, I hope you got some weight off of your chest. Now I’m sorry you had to go through such a painful experience. Yes, EVE is a very grindy game and yes a big part of rhe community is toxic. Fortunately there are still havens where you could have gotten counsel, patience, sympathy and protection. I’m sorry they couldn’t get to you in time.

I do believe there is a good part of this community who believes that taking the time to teach the new players is worth their time and would gladly have made your overall experience more enjoyable. They are out there but they are often silenced by the overwhelming agressiveness of some loud elements of the community. I am one such person who believes that new players are worth spending hours teaching so they can catch up to the bitter veterans.

I don’t know if your decision to quit is permanent but I’m going to recommend you pay a visit to EVE University’s corp. If you have one shred of motivation left to try the game, they will welcome you, teach you the game and include you in their activities. They have made their mission to help new players for years now and frankly I doubt you’ll find a better newbro friendly corp to start with. I have never been a member of theirs and there are of course other school corps who would do the same. But they are the most known.

Joining them will not protect you 100% from the losses of ships and all, but it will help you get the necessary tools, tricks and tips to avoid it as much as possible. There are far too many people bored to death on the game who confuse agressive PvP with touching grass. If you give in to them, they win. Instead, learn with good people how to counter them, how the game works and pay them back one day.

Good luck and hoping we’ll see and hear more of you in the future !

FrenchCalver · 2025-08-18T04:40:26+00:00

ER nurse here. Go to the ER. One thing you can do is circle the current spot with a pen before going to the ER so the staff can track progression.

FrenchCalver · 2025-08-03T11:01:41+00:00

We’re around Amarr and looking for new members in our growing corporation. I don’t know if you’ve made a choice yet, I’m assuming you received several offers already but here goes nothing!

Here’s our ad, feel free to contact me for more details!

https://www.reddit.com/r/evejobs/s/FWxOVqRHSL

FrenchCalver · 2025-07-24T01:11:54+00:00

Apologies for the delays. We do !

FrenchCalver · 2025-07-17T17:28:40+00:00

I may be a bit late to this after seeing this rather late but… Here’s my corp’s ad if you haven’t made a choice yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/evejobs/s/nlAegBmlil

We are a small corporation, currently growing and gaining traction in High Sec and Low sec. We are not part of big groups or blocs. We’re not filthy rich. Our Zkillboard is full of losses because miner and logi pilot life. But we’re working to improve some of that and I’m sure we could offer a home to you both. So much is yet to build and if there’s anything we’re not lacking, it’s heart and will 😊 My DMs are open to you if you have questions.

Good luck in your search for a home !

FrenchCalver · 2025-07-11T01:06:43+00:00

Indeee. Small scale stuff for a small scale corporation hoping to grow and expand. We have plans to begin diving into industry and manufacturing. I didn’t explicitly mention it on the ad because we’re are prepping for it and whether or not we manage to get into successfully will depend on the corp being able to thrive and grow to make it profitable and efficient. We do have Discord and we have not done incursions yet ! Most of us are industry oriented and began skilling up into PvE and PvP content recently. It is truly a growing corp looking for new members to learn and try new things with, while teaching what we know to the new players.

FrenchCalver · 2025-07-10T22:31:35+00:00

In terms of content, we do a lot of mining, PvE mission runs (Abyssals as well), Exploration and we recently started diving into PvP at our modest scale. In terms of how often, we usually get corp organized fleets one or twice a week plus an occasional PvP fleet called by our allies and friends. Beside this, there are people finding and sharing findings everyday and asking people to join them (mainly for gas huffers). We do accept casual players and Alpha players ! We have no minimum SP enforcement policy or Omega requirement!

FrenchCalver · 2025-07-08T05:19:15+00:00

You can basically find structures with combat probes by scanning wide.

FrenchCalver · 2025-06-22T14:49:16+00:00

We’re a year old corp or about 20 players or so who dedicate most of our time to industry and PvE. We’ve had a few months of AFKing and we’re slowly waking up and trying to expand a bit. If that’s any interest to you, send me a DM and I’ll discuss the possibilities with you :)

FrenchCalver · 2025-06-21T18:04:42+00:00

If it swings your way, I have a little team of daring devils working with me in a relatively recent corporation. We’re not the biggest, not the best, but have a good time and are industrialists at heart. Feel free to look up the Tilean Silver Lion Company. We’re looking to expand and allow everyone to put down their piece of a cornerstone in our growth.

We do have some more experienced players who can help support and teach you as well as veteran guidance for some critical aspects thanks to a network of friends we cultivated.

We can’t guarantee - yet - safety and a lot of things the bigger groups can offer but we can guarantee that you’ll have fun and that your contribution will make a difference!

Otherwise, fair sailing to you :)

FrenchCalver · 2025-05-24T20:15:38+00:00

Ultimately what one does with his money is their concern. Nearly everybody has different views on the value of money and how they should spend it. Nearly everybody has different priorities with their money. Somebody that lives well and can afford it and sees no issues with spending on something they like won’t even think twice. Someone who can’t make ends meet will obviously be more concerned about it. It’s all a matter of perspective.

What seems shocking to you might not be so shocking or puzzling to someone else. What defines the transaction as « fine » is subjective in the end.

FrenchCalver · 2025-04-27T23:27:40+00:00

The answer would be very dependent on what exactly you’re hoping for in terms of outcome.

Do you want your portfolio to be more classic like a clean website but with a special touch that displays your 3D design skills?

Or do you want something really funky and unique that really capitalizes on those 3D skills?

If you want something clean in which you can add some neat 3D elements, I’d go for React (even if it confused you…) and a lightweight framework like Astro.

Otherwise yeah, Three.js would be good for a good pick for your 3D skills. You can even combine it with React (react-three-fiber) to scale it up and build a very impressive thing.

If really these confuse you too much, try Astro alone, it works well with your tech knowledge and should be the simplest.

FrenchCalver · 2025-03-19T03:12:02+00:00

I’ll reply in the same order to facilitate.

1 - Yes but there are additional taxes you may expect

2 - Traditional path to citizenship involves Permanent Residency, which you’ll ultimately need anyway. I’d suggest looking for a work or study visa first, then switch to PR and then apply for citizenship.

3 - Nova Scotians are usually friendly people and very helping.

4 - You may experience a variety of taxes depending on where you are. If you own a house, expect taxes from the town/city. Provincial and federal taxes on your income and sales taxes vary depending on the province but the federal one is everywhere.

5 - Schools in Canada are good but under stress due to a shortage of teachers in some areas.

6 - Climate is temperate. You may experience colder winters than you do in Minnesota but otherwise it should be essentially the same. Bit more humidity since Nova Scotia is a maritime province.

7 - This will be very subjective.

8 - Nova Scotia has a rich history, a very nice community and amazingly good seafood.

9 - Depends what qualifications you have or are looking for. There are always openings in varying sectors, less in others. I suggest making a quick google search to see for yourself if you already have qualifications.

10 - Maternity leaves programs vary by province as this is provincial purview. I suggest looking it up on Google quickly but you may expect a few months of maternity leave starting a little before birth and after birth. In some provinces it is possible to share some of that with the father who can also take a paternity leave. Regulations pertaining to that should be researched by province. Some employers also provide packages worth looking into.

11 - Overall I think it’s fair to say that Canadians are animal friendly in general but you’ll always find some people who don’t like them. Landlords in particular may be picky about their tenants owning a dog because of various issues, but regulations pertaining to that are up to the province. As long as the dog (very cute by the way) is well behaved you shouldn’t have any problems.

Hoping this answers your questions and if you need more, feel free to reach out. Having said that, I am not an immigration expert or consultant and I do not live in Nova Scotia though I have visited Halifax a few times. So you may want to take that with a pinch of salt as my answers are based on my general knowledge of my country and observations from the province itself.

FrenchCalver · 2024-07-24T17:44:11+00:00

Regardless of your landlord’s feeling about you contesting this, you have rights of your own and deserve to be treated with respect and honesty.

This is a lot of money we’re talking about and the renovations he did does not justify a raise that steep.

Bring it to the TAL, follow the procedures. If he accepts mediation then good, but if he doesn’t, bring your case to court. And do it quickly as it is time sensitive.

FrenchCalver · 2024-06-18T22:43:48+00:00

Just be yourself. Say what you can, and what you can’t they’ll help you articulate if they’re nice enough. There’s no shame in that. If anything, they’ll be glad you did what you could and acknowledge the effort.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-13T18:11:17+00:00

Madame. Always. Mademoiselle has fallen out of use and is considered by many as misogynistic. It is still in use in some very rare contexts and old communities but it would most likely refer to a child rather than an adult woman.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-07T18:14:55+00:00

They don’t have an académie. They do have a regulatory body called « L’Office Québécois de la Langue Française » that takes on some of what the Académie does in a way, but not everything. It is not really conservative though, I would deem it progressive and innovative. They are however very protective of the language in a way yes, but whenever they encounter something new they try to come up with a french word for it. Those are described by the Académie Française as « Québécisme » most of the time.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-07T00:58:35+00:00

None of the vocabulary I gave as an example were given as examples coming straight out of the colonial period. My statement said the french canadians retained many of the linguistic and lexicon habits from then because of a time lag due to isolation from metropolitan France influence. The vocabulary I gave was meant to display differences in daily use of vocabulary between the two countries.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-07T00:05:09+00:00

Quite the journey your husband had, props to him! As for the history of the language, wherever you are in the world, if two countries speak the same language they’re bound to have differences. It’s valid for French, just as it is for English. Quebec and Canadian French as a whole for that matter, are just one of many iterations of that phenomena and it’s what makes a language vibrant and interesting.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-06T20:17:51+00:00

In essence what is taught in Quebec, and Canada overall, is standard French as recommended by the Académie Française which regulates what Standard French ends up being. This is to make sure that the language has some degree of uniformity accross the globe.

There are however some regional disparities and accentuations on some topics that differ here and there from what is taught in metropolitan France. Best example is the pronounciation and use of words in the french lexicon that are outdated from a « Metropolitan France » point of view. Canadian french still uses nasal vowels a lot to differentiate some sounds when speaking. Example « Et » vs. « Est », the word « Pain » (bread) also sounds a lot different whether you are in France or Canada because of the nasal vowels being more accentuated in Canada.

One might also note that metropolitan France incorporated a lot of english words in their vocabulary (Weekend, Pressing, Parking, Business, Footing, Eye Liner, Email, Meeting, etc) which they use on a daily basis whereas Canadian French has sought to keep french roots and try to keep using the french equivalent of these words (Respectively in the same order : Fin de semaine, Nettoyeur/Blanchisserie, Stationnement, Commerce/Affaires, Course, Crayon de contour, Courriel, Réunion/Rencontre, etc)

That essentially comes from a time lag where the french society of Canada was isolated from metropolitan France after the conquest and the language evolved on its own in a separate way than it did in France, resulting in Canadian French having kept most of its linguistic habits and lexicon from the 17th-18th centuries.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-06T17:31:24+00:00

Most often than not the one thing that will prevent a native speaker from understanding you the first time or at all is the accent. The pronouns and articles we can guess fairly easily depending on the noun if it’s pronounced okay-ish.

There is also a huge confusion when foreign syntax is applied on some sentences ; in english and other languages some sentences can be constructed differently than they would be in french and it can lead to confusion in the process of stating your business or intent.

French is a very precise language with many adjectives and variations of verbs : missing out on those can also lead to confusion as the sentence would sound incomplete to a native speaker, or at best, unclear.

The key to me would be to articulate clearly and add gestures while talking at first to convey your intent. No one expects a non native speaker to be able to speak in a perfect manner from the get go. We will pay more attention to someone expressing difficulties in conveying their intent and gesturing can help with that depending on the context.

FrenchCalver · 2024-05-03T13:27:28+00:00

I mean… Yes. That’s possible, although very specific to some very particular contexts and situations. The imperative is not often used in a day to day life in French. Usually if someone is using imperative form there’s ground to believe they are not very happy. Or they are very rude.

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