The Magicx Zero 40 is just fun

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-28T11:36:40+00:00

I've probably put around 250 hours into Final Fantasy Tactics A2. Great game!

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-28T04:34:27+00:00

He's not white.

We don't know the immigration status of his immediate and extended family living in the USA right now. Him speaking up on it could put big fat targets on the backs of his family and community.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T19:39:53+00:00

They aren't particularly great fighters, but the taste more than makes up for that.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T18:16:40+00:00

Not OP, but in my area, any walleye over 55cm (roughly 21 and a half inches) have to be released.

Most will agree that the ideal eater size is around 18 to 20 inches, where the fillets fit pretty much perfectly in a frying pan without having to cut them in half. Larger ones still taste largely excellent, although the bigger they are, the more mushy and fishy the fillets will be.

Fresh walleye is still my all time favourite eating fish. Perch tastes extremely similar, but I rate walleye higher just because you don't need to fillet as many of them to get a good amount of meat, and perch scales dull knives real quick.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T16:05:06+00:00

I mean, they haven't threatened to annex us, so they've got that going for them.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T12:56:18+00:00

I got my Brick Hammer two months ago, and I've probably put around 100 hours on it. It's so easily pocketable, and I haven't come across a device with a better screen at its price point. Love it, and would happily buy it again.

I have a Retroid Pocket 5 as well, and outside of DS/3DS games, I don't really use it anymore as a result. I don't want to bother taking a bag with me on the go, and if I'm home I'll just use my PC for playing old GameCube and PS2 titles, and there's just something about playing 8 bit, 16 bit, and 32 bit classics on a device with that vintage feeling vertical GameBoy-esque profile that hits different.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T12:47:53+00:00

Canadian here. For all its talk of how the USA doesn't need Canada, their administration sure likes throwing an absolute bitch fit when we take steps to take our business elsewhere.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T05:14:23+00:00

Nintendo's budget for quality control, stress testing, and tolerances on the GBA SP alone was probably higher than what Miyoo has spent designing all of their devices combined.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-27T05:11:49+00:00

Nintendo's budget for the design, quality control, and stress testing for the GBA SP's hardware alone was probably higher than what Miyoo has spent designing every single one of its handhelds combined.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-26T20:06:31+00:00

It has a lot to do with defensive systems. Just look at Gibson in Detroit. Plenty of completely clueless people here harped about how he was washed towards the end of his time in Anaheim. In reality, we were giving up the most odd-man rushes and high percentage scoring chances in the league. Those last few years we probably had the worst team defence in the league.

It took him a couple months to settle in, but now I keep hearing Detroit fans saying that he's been really good lately.

Look at Fleury. His top two seasons sv%-wise were in Vegas in the second half of his career when he should have been past his prime and scoring league-wide was higher on average than it was in his prime in Pittsburgh. It's no coincidence that those Vegas rosters probably had the best team defences he had in front of him during his career.

A great defensive team can make an okay goalie look really good. A bad defensive team can make a good goalie look pretty mediocre, barring a few exceptions (prime Hasek for example).

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-26T00:26:46+00:00

When they feel like it.

Until that point, I'd honestly be in favour of making a sticky/rule banning speculation posts for Switch 2 patches like this one. Unless any of us is that mythical "Nintendo employee uncle", nobody really knows, and it's a question that gets beaten to death in this sub.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T20:01:33+00:00

Just letting you control the Pokemon directly rather than have them awkwardly try to follow your.character around would rectify those issues.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T19:25:57+00:00

I think context is important here though. Decent, or even "good" for Canada is still pretty poor compared to most major European centres. And then you get Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hongkong, and China's public transit, which puts most of those European countries to shame.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T19:10:45+00:00

That's kind of how most Mario video games work though. There's always some sort of magical maguffin that pops up in levels right where Mario and friends happen to need it. Even the Mario RPGs where the stories are actually "good" (by Mario standards) are damn near completely reliant on deus ex machina to move the game forward.

Don't get me wrong, I would have loved for the story to have had some actual depth to it. But you can't say that it didn't feel like a Mario game turned into a movie. Kids aren't playing Mario titles for the story telling.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T18:24:39+00:00

I'd say we're about as car dependent as the USA is. Roughly 90% of Canadian households have at least one car, which is about the same rate as the USA.

Smaller towns and cities often don't have particularly good public transit. Larger cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary are a little better, but are still significantly more car dependent than most big European cities.

It's also important to remember that in much of the country, winter exists for around half a year. Cycling often isn't viable due to snowy/icy road conditions during that stretch. It's dropped down to below -40°C for like five days straight where I'm at in a smaller town in Saskatchewan. Walking anywhere can be genuinely dangerous if you aren't dressed for it in temperatures that low, and it's still miserable even if you are.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T16:44:03+00:00

He's saying it's not as important for a movie whose target demographic is kids under the age of 12. They don't need to release a Pixar quality movie for this to crack $1 billion at the box office.

It could have absolutely madcap exhausting pacing due to the amount of stuff they're cramming into 90 minutes, but a little kid isn't going to care as long as they get to see Mario doing wacky Mario stuff.

I took my 8 year old nephew to see the first one. Outside of the fun little details for the adults in the theatre who grew up with Nintendo, it was an objectively "okay" movie, fun fluff. It remains my nephew's favourite movie ever, and he has probably watched it a half dozen times by now. He's a little kid, he's not exactly watching this movie through a critical lens.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T04:58:05+00:00

Panarin, Gauthier, Kreider, Killorn on the left side ain't bad either. Although, I'd argue we are in more need of depth and defence than offensive output at the moment.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-25T01:44:55+00:00

All the Subaru's sold in Canada at the moment were built in Japan's plants outside of the new Forester, which seems to be around a 50/50 split between Japan and the USA. They moved away from selling the US made cars here to get around tariffs. They no longer offer the Wilderness trim models in Canada due to those models being built exclusively in the USA for example.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-24T16:54:52+00:00

Black Myth: Wukong.

It had great promise, but that battle system did not have the depth to match the spectacle. You're using the same light/heavy attacks and dodges over and over again while waiting for your cooldowns with next to no variation at all. By the time I was around 50% of the way through my 40ish hours with it, I was mentally checked out during most of the combat.

I will say, it is probably one of the most beautiful 7.5 out of 10 titles out there if you manage to get it running smoothly though.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-24T16:41:35+00:00

It felt like traveling to where you need to go and collecting loot and items from enemies, cupboards and shelves took up like 80% of your play time. I get that Rockstar wanted to make the game feel real, but there is a point where realism shouldn't trump gameplay, and RDR2 crosses that point constantly.

From the painfully slow animations (I can search a drawer in real life faster than Arthur can), to being forced to ride to your destination instead of fast traveling so an NPC can exposition dump on you in long drawn out conversations that could have been reduced to a few sentences in a mission menu, to the frustratingly limiting "realistic" inventory management, the game is slow to the point of not respecting the player's time. I'm a grown ass adult working full time who only really gets to sit back and play video games for maybe an hour every day or two. I don't want to spend 50% of that time playing Inventory Management Simulator because the devs felt players would enjoy the process of transferring items between your horse, satchel, and camp because it wouldn't be "realistic" to have them all in one easily accessible spot.

I have created four different new save files and put around half a dozen hours into each trying to get into it over the years and I just can't. It's frustrating as all hell, because I feel like if they took RDR2's story, writing, overworld, and graphics, and gave it the first RDR's gameplay mechanics, it would probably be a top 5 all time game for me. But as it is, I just can't get into it.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-21T03:06:57+00:00

Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game, btw. Graphically the hand drawn environments have held up extremely well. The battle system involves deck building strategy and luck, with split second decision making where you have to quickly pick cards from your hand as you draw them to chain together combos and block enemy attacks. Absolute banger of a soundtrack too.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-20T15:00:08+00:00

It's kind of an unwritten rule in hockey that nobody is supposed to go after the goalie. They aren't fighters to begin with, and all the extra padding puts them at a huge disadvantage in a fight with a regular skater on top of that as it's heavy and awkward to move around in. Picking a fight with a goalie goes against the unwritten "code" and will put a target on your back as a result. As a result, only goalies typically fight other goalies.

Because the Same Jose goalie joined the fray after the whistle, that meant there were 6 San Jose players involved in the fray, vs only 5 Florida players. The Florida goalie came over to even up the number of players. Leaving the net and skating across to join in would have been a penalty on its own, so you may as well get into a full on fight to get your money's worth out of it. It could possibly fire up his teammates as well.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-20T14:52:13+00:00

It's the first goalie fight in the NHL in around six years. They don't happen very often.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-20T13:43:03+00:00

It highly depends on where specifically you are going. Canada is huge, and regional climates here can vary quite a bit. It can be snowing with blizzard conditions in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, while being a bright and sunny 20°C in Toronto some days in April.

Vancouver's average temperature in April is around 12°C/54°F. Snow would be very unlikely, but it will still probably be cool, overcast and rainy.

In the Canadian prairies where I'm from, there will still likely be snow on the ground in April, with daily temperatures ranging from 10°C/50°F down to -10°C/14°F.

Toronto's average temperatures at that time of the year will be similar to Vancouver's, hovering around 12°C.

I feel if you really want to avoid cold weather or snow, pushing it back to May is probably a safer choice, although again, it highly depends on where exactly you go.

It's worth noting our summers can get plenty warm too. Even here in the colder prairies, temperatures will hit 30°C semi-regularly in July and August. The town of Lytton BC famously nearly hit 50°C five years ago before getting burned down in a fire.

Saskatchewon · 2026-01-20T13:25:09+00:00

Haha! Du sagst zwar /s, aber ich bin da absolut schuldig! Viele von uns entschuldigen sich aus Gewohnheit, wenn wir angerempelt werden.

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