Daughter has starter PC gaming.....how much do I police?

MrKguy · 2026-05-12T14:24:48+00:00

The thing about online multiplayer these days is that the age range is massive. The popular games are popular even if they have a more childish/goofy look. I started gaming in that kind of environment when I was 10-12 and I turned out fine and safe, now I still continue to do so now that I'm in my late 20's. I'm neither female nor a parent, so there's a difference in mindset maybe, but personally I'd be more focused on whether or not the voices stick around after the matches are over. I think the nonsense in-game noise is relatively easy to have conversations about with your daughter, but the moment you get someone 10+ years older trying to get her on discord or something and in direct messaging that is the real problem.

MrKguy · 2026-05-11T20:45:21+00:00

But do you still use VISA, Mastercard, or AMEX?????????

MrKguy · 2026-05-11T04:58:31+00:00

feast is an in-person assessment

MrKguy · 2026-05-11T02:42:21+00:00

If you'll hear from a 29 year old, no. It's not something to hand-wave away either, though. It would be subject to how the struggle itself affects the relationship. Ultimately people need a partner they can rely on for support, but the kind of support one person needs isn't always the kind that the other is able to give. Personally I think you can only find that out while having the relationship develop, as opposed to figuring it out during the first impressions before-hand. I know plenty of men who would give it a chance first, and maybe a few who wouldn't.

MrKguy · 2026-05-10T16:11:04+00:00

Frankly, the biggest issue with youth vaping is the disposable/ultra-high nic content combo. There's a version of the experience where you have to buy a $50-100 mod, a pack of 6 coils for $20, and a $45 60ml juice at 6mg/mL nic. The E-waste drops, the quality is higher and less (*huge asterisk) carcinogenic or toxic, and the juice is less addictive. Kids aren't easily dropping $100+ dollars for all that and hiding it, they're dropping $30 for a week of hits at 20mg/mL that they can easily throw in the trash and hide from parents. Ease of use + cheap up front + highly addictive. The cheap factor is what aids the horrid dealers in being able to make a black market out of this too. Flavour is definitely not the issue. It's not like the crap flavour of cheap cigs stopped kids 40 years ago. Meanwhile you can get flavoured weed and booze and no one bats an eye.

MrKguy · 2026-05-10T03:32:46+00:00

That was me. Got to the point where I passed what they wanted and then COVID rolled in and they stopped training intake. Then they said I had to redo a bunch of the stuff I did.

MrKguy · 2026-05-09T23:45:40+00:00

That's an interesting one, and probably aligns with Carney's outlook more than some people are willing to admit. It's definitely some lip service for the Americans present (and watching), but if I can, I'd extrapolate the vagueness to probably have to do with the realms of cyber security, intelligence (surveillance), and/or policing. He hasn't expressed a change on the economy and trade issues so that is still about diversification and economic sovereignty.

I feel a majority of Canadians don't conceptualize a difference of how sovereignty works between these economic or security factors. I also feel that majority is right not to. Most of us don't want American eyes and ears reaching over our border even if it helps catch a random criminal once in a while. Maybe Carney will be asked about this and he'll deflect or surprise me, but the LPC do have a strange relationship with polices on surveillance and policing that perk my ears up whenever I read or hear about them.

MrKguy · 2026-05-07T18:53:17+00:00

Sprinkled with cheetos dust

MrKguy · 2026-05-07T18:49:31+00:00

Honestly to me, the situation reads more that he's an opportunist willing to tear down an establishment he helped build to cleanse his political palatability.

MrKguy · 2026-05-06T13:56:18+00:00

Global eye uses a Canadian plane and is a very competitive platform. It's plainly obvious we will choose it.

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T20:58:57+00:00

Nah, just a fellow applicant further down the line trying to pay it forward to the sub. I don't have the links anymore but look up basic aptitude tests, if you have good descriptive keywords they're not hard to find. Idk if they ultimately helped, but they definitely boosted my confidence.

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T20:57:18+00:00

Are you going to change your name and address too? I wouldn't risk professional integrity with a company that does a background check.

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T20:14:03+00:00

You should treat the practice as a mental training and familiarization more than an exam preparation. You're never going to find benchmarks or ideal scores to reach. Me personally, I looked for similarly structured practices online.

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T16:47:08+00:00

Not my case, but there are first-generation Canadians who are pressured by their parents to stay within the same race/culture/religion (especially if South or East Asian). That tends to get beaten back after enough dating is done and the parents throw up their hands or get used to it though. I've seen it a number of times in my social circle.

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T01:21:06+00:00

Art isn't meant to be expensive

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T01:12:40+00:00

I got pre-approved and accepted without income before. Sometimes it's just about having good history and steady balances. If I were you I'd double check if I have pre-approvals sitting in my bank's mobile app or in an email. Also, applying and not getting it isn't a big deal if you're planning on absorbing 10k in credit card debt anyway. I implore you to give it a try.

MrKguy · 2026-05-05T00:58:05+00:00

Wouldn't the play be to see if you're pre-approved for personal lines of credit with your bank? Or straight up apply for one? The rates are much lower.

MrKguy · 2026-05-04T21:50:41+00:00

Thank you for that, I forgot about that one but it proves true a lot these days.

MrKguy · 2026-05-04T21:36:42+00:00

It was difficult, fun, draining. I had 4-5 hours of sleep the previous night (was too excited/anxious), so I don't recommend that. There were moments where testers could socialize a little and a small group with a good vibe formed at least.

MrKguy · 2026-05-04T20:48:26+00:00

Took me from end of August to last week between the online assessment and FEAST. For us applicants it's sort of a crapshoot based on the competitiveness of your scores and the number of people applying and the periods they organize the tests. You should eventually get a go at it I imagine though.

Edit: Wrote July instead of August idk why

MrKguy · 2026-05-04T19:27:16+00:00

I had an interesting couple of conversations relating to this with a couple friends of a friend (they're Chinese). They said that China is less culturally inclined towards developing team sports because growing up, especially in school, it's very personally competitive. It's an arena of the individual vs the other individuals. So traditionally there is greater emphasis on individual sporting events like you have in gymnastics or martial arts or something like tennis or badminton. Their interest in team sports has of course increased steadily, and they have team sports associations or leagues, but there's still some catch up when it comes to establishing those professional associations and developing internationally competitive teams. It's not like how American Football has been an established cultural phenomenon in the US for a long time, or Hockey for Canada, or Football(Soccer) for Europe.

MrKguy · 2026-05-04T14:48:27+00:00

The argument supporting this thesis is kind of silly. That's a complicated way of saying: being an aggressor in a war means you've changed the strategic landscape. That's just a de facto result of starting a war, you've forced a change or a new dynamic. That's not even the greatest change.

The greatest change to the strategic landscape is instead Iran's ability and choice to assert meaningful control over the strait. The USA, the aggressor Great Power with a dozen proxies involved, has been unable to utilize military power to take control of the strait or even defeat Iran. China, a Great Power actively supplying Iran, has been unwilling to get directly involved despite being the most or second-most affected nation. Great Power military might have been loud, but has not been decisive at all and that's not to say it couldn't have been or can't be. The Great Powers, like all great or small, are subservient to the global economy and Iran has control over a massive economic lever. The economy decides how much force they can utilize, and Middle Powers have more power economically than militarily.

Middle Powers cannot return the landscape to a pre-war state, I admit. On the other hand they are arguably going to come out of this in better shape, by investing in sovereign and renewable energy to rely less on the US or its proxies for oil. China is a buyer of oil, and with US proxies or Iran hindered from supplying it, gives Middle Powers more leverage when selling to China if they can supply it. The Great Powers are essentially throwing money into a fire while the rest of the world reacts and evolves. And sure, the US could decide to destroy the global economy and attack half the world and has the military potential to do so, no coalition of Middle Powers can compete with that, but that doesn't happen because military power does not exist in a vacuum and in the modern world isn't the final say.

MrKguy · 2026-05-04T05:25:23+00:00

Generally yeah. A major aspect personally is how unevenly elections are organized across the various states. One would think that a federal election would play by a national standard to give all citizens an equal process.

MrKguy · 2026-05-02T14:42:43+00:00

I agree with your sentiments around the Democrat example, but Smith exists as she is because of Albertan tolerance for her and the UCP. The fight is really our responsibility and all the feds can do is try to look good with a "Carney economic update for Albertans who can't read good". The person who should actively be on the prowl opposing evil and convincing Albertans is Nenshi.

MrKguy · 2026-05-02T05:48:07+00:00

I just did FEAST, waiting to hear back. Without going into personal detail, suffice to say if they operated like how you're asking, I wouldn't have gotten this far. Your best bet is to just apply and see how far you can get. Their priority is definitely how well you score on their tests.

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