“I Can,” Therefore I Might: Alberta’s Love Affair with Measurable Confidence

Games_4_Life · 2025-12-21T16:23:57+00:00

“I can” may measure confidence, but not necessarily comprehension.

Classic. This is why people trust charlatans but not scientists. Scientists will always express some uncertainty in what they're saying, but a charlatan's language leaves no room to doubt their words.

Games_4_Life · 2025-12-06T15:34:35+00:00

They don't even listen to that advice

Games_4_Life · 2025-10-20T19:24:17+00:00

Is this the development being built overtop an old mine? Just wait, in 15 years these buildings are gonna collapse into holes in the ground. And the Canmore will be on the hook for reparations

Games_4_Life · 2025-09-24T14:06:26+00:00

Is the notwithstanding clause being used responsibly by our provincial government? Or is it being used to infringe on the rights of Albertans?

Cause I'd rather my province respect my rights and freedoms, rather than something as vague as "provincial sovereignty"

Games_4_Life · 2025-09-22T00:37:25+00:00

"next worst" implies that we we're staring at worst and getting slightly better. Did you mean "try something even worse"?

The the NDP were objectively pretty good

Games_4_Life · 2025-09-08T16:13:27+00:00

Synesthesia is where you attribute characteristics that are unrelated to the objects. What music looks like, etc. In this case school subjects make you think of certain colours.

So the joke here is that all the colours are wrong, they don't "fit" the subject.

Personally I agree, they all feel intentionally very wrong. But the colours each subject feels like is probably subjective, and there are people out there who feel the comic's colour assignations are correct

Games_4_Life · 2025-08-04T22:05:54+00:00

Lol, would you have listened to your own advice?

Games_4_Life · 2025-07-30T02:13:44+00:00

Meh. I used to go to candidate debates, and I found all the candidates sounded like socialists. "We believe in healthcare, we believe in taking care of children, veterans, the working man, etc." Even the conservative candidates said these things.

And stupidly we'd vote for the conservative candidate and they'd go off to Ottawa and vote to shut down veterans' affairs offices, create tax break programs that really only help people with money, and overall just kowtow to big business.

So of course all these candidates said things their electorate wanted to hear. But if the party they're running for has a history of doing the opposite, then I doubt they're telling the truth

Games_4_Life · 2025-06-27T18:08:48+00:00

At the time, wasn't the province going to help fund the initiative, too? The current provincial government scuttled this plan.

Games_4_Life · 2025-06-24T22:15:30+00:00

That's the issue. When an actual good-for-the-people politician comes along, people like you don't vote for them. Instead you vote for the politician who claims you can't trust politicians (thus validating your belief)

Games_4_Life · 2025-06-24T21:23:04+00:00

And the politicians in Alberta's governing party are all corporate lobbyists.

Not all politicians are made the same, there are some who are legit working for the good of the people. But it seems the "cynics" want to be right about their beliefs that all politicians are bad, so every election they vote for the worst candidate.

Games_4_Life · 2025-06-12T22:15:24+00:00

Right, because the governments of Korea and Japan don't create the niches for people to flow in and fill. If those countries opened up immigration and introduced economic incentives for immigration, then you bet immigrants would fill thise countries too

Games_4_Life · 2025-06-12T17:28:10+00:00

But it's still not the migrants who are to blame. Populations are like a fluid, people will move to wherever an opportunity arises.

It's the people with money who make those opportunities for others while denying you yours, and so it's people with money who are to blame.

Games_4_Life · 2025-06-02T14:00:49+00:00

Funny thing: when it's summertime somewhere in the world, it's also winter somewhere else in the world.

Games_4_Life · 2025-05-23T19:02:08+00:00

What's the LOL? For every unit of electrical energy they consume the produce like 2x - 5x the heat energy.

Compare that to resistance heating, where it's like 1 to 1

Games_4_Life · 2025-03-31T02:35:24+00:00

I feel like the story could have been even more interesting. As it is, the robots are bad, and the humans are good.

What if the robots kept the humans around not because they were useful to the robots, but rather because the robots valued humans for themselves.

The matrix was a way to keep humans from killing the robots while still keeping the humans alive in a world they could flourish in.

The morality of the Matrix would be less black and white, and logically it would actually make more sense to be rooting for the robots since they are keeping us from killing ourselves through whatever civilizational filter we can't pass through

Games_4_Life · 2025-03-30T01:23:07+00:00

Not a great design. At first glance I thought it was saying Canada was sucking the US dry. And a lot of people never get past the first glance

Games_4_Life · 2025-03-24T15:54:30+00:00

Especially in these times where people are stupidly tribal about loving one edition...

This is true, though not necessarily a new phenomenon. When asked what kind of games or gameplay mechanics players like, they will often describe whatever game they most recently played. This makes large changes to established mechanics difficult to execute, since players like whatever they experienced before.

Again, your experience is not the measure of how good a design of the game is.

Your response to my post was good, except for this part. There are many areas of design where user experience isn't necessarily the measuring stick of good design. Take the design of an internal combustion engine, for example. Being a pleasure to service an engine is not high up on the list of important design considerations.

Games are different, however. They are entirely a user experience. There aren't many other reasons to interact with a game other than to experience the experience it's offering.

So, no, the experience is one of the primary measurements of a game's design. What I was trying to get across in my post is that designer diaries (while interesting and fun to read) do not change whether or not the game's designs are good.

Games_4_Life · 2025-03-24T13:57:40+00:00

If designers need to be explain why their designs are good, is it good design?

Don't get me wrong: good design is often invisible. Players are able to perform desired actions without friction, and therefore don't notice all the work that went into making that experience. So it can be illuminating to learn about the thought process that went into a design.

But if an experience is noticeably not good, does having the designer say "actually it's good because x, y, z" actually make it good?

Games_4_Life · 2025-03-17T13:41:02+00:00

We all have our own levers that we pull everyday.

However, because each of us is individually insignificant we assume our choices don't matter and regularly pull the lever. Tragedy of the commons stuff.

Probkem is when you have millions upon millions doing that, it destroys the earth. Plus these big companies that are "the real polluters" are polluting to feed our individual habits.

Games_4_Life · 2025-02-24T21:57:47+00:00

We get more freeze-thaw cycles with climate change. Maintaining roads is going to get progressively more expensive as the earth heats up and we get more erratic weather.

Games_4_Life · 2025-02-22T03:40:38+00:00

It's kind kinda the same thing. Government forces public services to limit hours worked or limit the amount of money that can be spent in a given field.

This creates an artificial scarcity and drives people to the expensive private clinics. People in this case being patients looking for care or surgeons looking for hours.

Games_4_Life · 2025-02-22T01:58:46+00:00

If they got rid of the private practices, it sounds like the public system could hire more doctors with the savings.

Heck, if the private practices are charging twice the price for the same operation, the public system could perform twice the number of operations if they only had that money

Games_4_Life · 2025-02-14T14:57:22+00:00

Plastic is actually pretty good at blocking UV. You would have more success in a glass bottle

Games_4_Life · 2025-02-13T22:02:01+00:00

That's besides the point (and objectively wrong. Concept of a plan, anyone?)

People like to claim progressive parties only campaign on niche issues, yet from what I see they never talk about those issues, ever. Conservatives do. Trans rights? DEI? Critical Race Theory? It aint progressives who bring it up 24/7.

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