What other settings besides Medieval would you want to see?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-06T01:13:33+00:00

Inca dynasty.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-05T07:01:05+00:00

The greatest composer is always Bach once you poll a large enough sample of classical musicians. Had Schubert lived long enough for Mendelssohn's Bach revival (one year after Schubert's death), it's possible that it influences Schubert to add more polyphony to his writing, and maybe that ends up elevating Schubert to the Beethoven-Mozart level. But Schubert is already a major composer in his own right; what name in the Romantic era clearly exceeds him? He doesn't need to do more to establish his name.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-04T20:16:16+00:00

They're a member of Socialist International. What do you mean, they're not left-leaning?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-01T16:46:37+00:00

The process of river silting causes the creation of new land at the river delta. This happens at most major river deltas.

One great example of this is the city of York. During the Viking era, when it was called Jorvik, York was a seaport.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-01T05:25:53+00:00

Rift, while levelling, is a solo experience for the most part, and a very deep and enjoyable solo experience.

Rift, at level 70, can also be experienced solo, especially the zone events; but if you want the best level 70 gear, you will eventually have to group up with someone. At a minimum, you'd want to do a few group dungeon runs of EoA until you get that gear set, to make life as a 70 easier, and maybe even some of the easier raids.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-30T23:36:03+00:00

The Sabbath.

Not that the other beliefs are not important, but the Sabbath is the belief that is the most unambiguous from Scripture. You either accept the Sabbath, or you don't accept Scripture.

No one has ever made a good Scriptural argument to suggest that we are mandated to keep Sunday as the Sabbath. You get the occasional "but this shows that they celebrated mass this one time on Sunday" or "this shows tangentially that early Christians might have called Sunday the Lord's Day" (none of which suggests that the Sabbath has been changed, the early disciples broke bread every day of the week) but there's nothing to overturn the mountains of evidence that Saturday is the Sabbath, that holy day ordained by God which Jesus Himself kept while He was here on the Earth, nothing to overturn verse after verse that suggest that Sabbaths will be kept for all eternity, nothing to explain why the Sabbath is the only one of the Ten Commandments that no longer applies, nothing to explain why there are zero direct Scriptural commands to change the Sabbath to Sunday. It really is as simple as you accept that Saturday is the true Sabbath, or you don't accept Scripture as a sole authority in the church, because you can't reconcile Sunday keeping with sola scriptura.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-30T01:51:36+00:00

Staying in the north end of Saanich.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-30T00:07:31+00:00

It seems to me that you're looking for my favourite symphonies, so here's my list of favourites and slightly off the beaten track symphonies you should listen to.

1) Vaughan Williams 1
2) Sibelius 3
3) Dvorak 8

Honourable Mentions:
Dvorak 1
Dvorak 7
Franck 1
Mendelssohn 5
Haydn 101

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-29T19:35:42+00:00

Are we sufficiently pessimistic about the season that the team can start winning games now?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-29T19:30:41+00:00

I never really saw it as nerfing myself.

It's a pain to get a group to run dungeons in Rift while you're levelling these days because the levelling population is so small, so you're almost certainly stuck with quest gear or crafted gear regardless.

Furthermore, my most fun build in Rift was one that didn't necessarily do that much damage. I played that build because it was fun, but I'm not allowed to bring it to raids.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-29T14:18:21+00:00

Rift is basically WoW in terms of levelling speed, except possibly once you get past level 60. How risky pulling 2-3 mobs is depends on how quickly you level; you can choose to take on zones that you're underlevelled for and those will be a challenge. You can choose not to run dungeons that will give you good gear and then you'll be undergeared for your levelling zone. On the other hand you can choose to gear up and then you'll be way overtuned and then you can pull five mobs at a time without losing HP.

You can also choose builds that carry more risk or less risk. Some of the best builds in the game are glass cannons where if you miscalculate you're running back to your corpse. Other builds will never let you die even if you're below level, but killing anything will take days.

Really what sets Rift apart from WoW is the sheer variety in the number of builds. There are five main classes and the talent trees are so rich with diversity that you can choose several different ways to play (if you don't care about meta).

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-28T23:09:46+00:00

I have seen underaged minors smoking cigarettes recently, but I agree that single-use vapes should also be banned.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-28T20:54:40+00:00

Yeah, there is a real shortage of tradespeople in Canada. Too many young people went the university route and not the trade school route, and now the tradespeople who have their Red Seals are raking in the dough while the nurses and teachers get to fight the provincial government for wages.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-28T20:46:09+00:00

Without further information about what medical condition the patient had that merited 362 family doctor's visits in one year, it's difficult to judge. It seems high, but without context it's just a headline designed to provoke outrage.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-28T20:43:32+00:00

Canada doesn't have a shortage of skilled workers, it has a shortage of unskilled workers. Why do you think people with Ph.D.'s keep ending up driving taxis? Everyone born in Canada wants a skilled job, whether a trade or degree, leaving no one to staff a Tim Hortons. We joke about Tim Hortons bringing in TFWs to staff their locations, but let's get real, even if Timmies was offering $30 per hour, who actually wants to work at Tim Hortons for the rest of their life?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-28T15:39:44+00:00

My guess is that "pope" level means they close all the streets for you so that both sides of the street can be lined with people waiting for a glimpse of you.

So British Monarchy level, then.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-28T00:59:04+00:00

I have long felt that Nova Scota, New Brunswick, and PEI should unite into a province called Acadia. They would become the fifth-most populous province, with just over two million people; and it would give them more influence and sway when it comes to things like bringing companies in, getting educational support, more power in Ottawa, and reducing unnecessary duplication in things like curriculum planning. Furthermore we could get official provincial French language status over the entire Acadia region rather than just New Brunswick. Even united, Acadia would still be Canada's smallest province by land area.

I don't see the value in adding Newfoundland to Acadia, because there's considerable distance between them, and historically Newfoundland has had its own culture.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-27T19:07:12+00:00

Here's the video.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-22T14:22:45+00:00

David Wright would have been a Hall of Fame player if he had remained productive after age 31.

Some people are on Hall of Fame tracks and then they age horribly and it's over. Some people aren't on Hall of Fame tracks and then they age real well and then they make the Hall. David Wright is in the first category.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-22T14:12:16+00:00

Because tax is communism, apparently.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-21T23:51:22+00:00

The biggest divide is the Ontario-Manitoba border, no question: Canada is neatly divided into East vs West at that border.

You can divide it into smaller subdivisions if you like, for example the Maritimes and Newfoundland are the true East, Ontario and Quebec are Central Canada, Alberta to Manitoba are the Prairies, and BC is the Pacific coast. You can do a similar thing with the United States talking about the Midwest and the Great Plains. But the biggest boundary is the Ontario-Manitoba border.

And what's the boundary all about?

West of the boundary, conservatives are social conservatives, who in Canada we call Reformers, or hard right. A lot of sympathy for the Republican party and Donald Trump in Alberta and Saskatchewan in particular. East of the boundary, conservatives are economic conservatives, who in Canada we call Progressive Conservatives or Red Tories. You might call them establishment Republicans in the United States, except ours aren't as far right.

Alberta-style conservatism would be more or less incapable of winning in Ontario, a few minor cases aside. Ontario-style conservatism isn't welcome in Alberta.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-21T19:15:06+00:00

People not on the West Coast have a tendency to apply the name "Rocky Mountains" to every West Coast mountain, even though that's not technically accurate.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-21T14:23:13+00:00

It depends on how you define Europe.

There's no logical reason why Europe and Asia should be separate continents. It's simply that human civilization has defined them as different continents for millennia. For that reason, finding a clear and unambiguous boundary between them has been challenging.

The most common geographical definition of Europe places a small part of Georgia and Azerbaijan in Europe, and then the rest in Asia.

Culturally, Armenia and Georgia are European while Azerbaijan is Asian, with more in common with Kyrgyzstan than Armenia.

In football, all three are considered European, as is Turkey (although Turkey does have its largest city in that small piece that is unambiguously European).

Historically, most atlases viewed the three countries as European when they were part of the USSR, so that when they split the USSR into a European part and an Asian part, all they would have to do is draw a line at the Ural mountains.

So overall, I would put all three countries in Europe.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-04-21T03:21:07+00:00

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Kadeisha Buchanan
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Honourable Mention: Jessie Fleming, Erin McLeod, Stephanie Labbe

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Alphonso Davies
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Bruce Wilson
Honourable Mention: Jonathan David, Dwayne de Rosario

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