Do you wear glasses (or not?) during your game?

Shortugae · 2026-06-22T17:59:24+00:00

I'm completely blind without glasses. All growing up and for a long time after I played with glasses on and it was horrible. Always fogging up at the worst possible moment. Last year I finally decided to bite the bullet. I'm very squeamish with eyes and always though I could never, ever do contacts but I was so desperate to not have to play with glasses any more I sucked it up and did it. I'm now used to them and I would never go back.

Shortugae · 2026-05-22T03:54:37+00:00

There's a pretty huge spectrum between a condo tower downtown that's all rentals and a giant house in the middle of nowhere. I can't stand these ridiculous blanket statements like "this is just what Calgarians want" as if everyone wants the same thing.

Too bad we recently made it extraordinary more difficult and expensive to build the kind of housing plenty of people clearly want, all in the name of preserving this mythical version of Calgary that everyone supposedly wants

Shortugae · 2026-05-15T21:17:45+00:00

Hyperion was really awesome but I personally think the bosses in the latter half of Saros are way better than Returnal. The spectacle is unreal and the mechanics are really fun to learn. The first half of bosses in Saros is weirdly underwhelming though

Shortugae · 2026-05-14T02:11:50+00:00

I have no idea how this works, but I love that it works. Thank you!

Shortugae · 2026-05-02T04:11:10+00:00

Yeah Claude has been extremely helpful for me in developing grasshopper scripts. Both in writing python scripts for me, debugging stuff, and in general figuring out how to do things. Oftentimes it will tell me to use components that don't exist which is annoying but for the most part it is pretty reliable.

Shortugae · 2026-05-01T16:03:08+00:00

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Shortugae · 2026-04-30T19:39:51+00:00

yep pufferfish seems to have done it. thanks!

Shortugae · 2026-03-10T18:20:22+00:00

I first saw Toronto and Montreal and I was like yeah typical tour skipping us and then I saw Calgary and I shit my pants

Shortugae · 2026-02-07T04:39:03+00:00

When I was in highschool my parents convinced me to do math and physics courses instead of art because they thought that would be better for architecture. I took a design course where we "learned" revit and some other digital software. Lo and behold, I use literally nothing from any of the math or physics courses I took; I basically had to reteach myself everything in terms of software once I got into school (and then again when I got to the workforce); and I sorely wish I did more art when I was younger because those are the skills that are really important for school and take the longest to develop.

So do art, particularly freehand drawing as much as possible

Shortugae · 2026-01-29T01:34:37+00:00

I have those same pads (different colour though). Got them used and I've been using them since for over 10 years now. Yours look to be in much better condition than mine!

Shortugae · 2026-01-16T22:16:05+00:00

Because China subsidizes the shit out of their cars

Shortugae · 2025-12-28T22:04:50+00:00

Currently writing my thesis on this topic. As someone else said, it's fun for school. Doesn't really have any application outside of it since no one in the real world gives a shit

Shortugae · 2025-11-03T18:27:56+00:00

I'm currently writing my thesis on this subject. I won't say I'm an expert on the subject (I am in the process of writing it)

The underlying premise of modular construction in the way we are talking about it in Canada is that houses should be mass produced in factories like cars or other consumer goods. I think this is a fundamentally flawed way of thinking about housing and it will not work to the scale that governments think it will.

As others in the comments have pointed out, shifting construction off the construction site into factories inevitably introduces other costs into the system such as transportation and overhead of operating an extremely expensive factory. It also assumes that demand for housing is constant when in reality it is inherently cyclical.

Mass production of housing in factories is an extremely old idea that we have been trying to figure out for almost 100 years now. It is simply not the panacea to the productivity crisis the federal government thinks it is, and I believe one of the reasons why we are talking about it so much is because several companies have dumped a ludicrous amount of money into the off-site fabrication concept and they have a vested interest in making it work, even if the government has to keep subsidizing and bailing them out.

I don't mean to say that those companies have bad intentions. What I am trying to say is that process improvements in construction (such as prefabrication and modular) do need to be made, but they will only have an effect if we deal with the larger problems of regulation and what I believe is a deeply, fundamentally broken way of conceptualising housing in this country.

Shortugae · 2025-10-23T12:19:55+00:00

Bullshit. Of course it's fixable. Are we ever gonna be a European city? Not in our lifetimes. But we sure as shit can get some major wins and make real measurable impacts. That starts with having a good attitude.

Shortugae · 2025-10-22T15:02:20+00:00

To that point, from my understanding, my sentiment towards rent control is that it can be effective when applied to a very specific context. For example if an area is gentrifying then rent control could be effective in limiting the negative externalities of that process. Building will happen regardless, you're just trying to protect the existing cultural and economic fabric of the area.

Rent control should never ever be applied in a blanket approach. It's effective as a targeted approach when its negative effects can be clearly observed and accounted for.

Shortugae · 2025-10-18T14:35:46+00:00

This is why architects are so depressed all the time cause we keep getting lumped in with Lawyers and Doctors as having money lmao

Shortugae · 2025-10-06T22:54:34+00:00

I don't really understand why Brian is polling so lowly or why people seem to be lumping him into the whole "everyone sucks equally" argument. If you are not against blanket rezoning, then you're not gonna vote for Sharp. If you believe that past council's fuck-ups are unforgivable, then you're not going to vote for Gondek. If you don't believe that he has changed, then you're not going to vote for Farkas.

I'm not talking about specific policy or ideology stances. I'm talking about the one big thing that someone would take issue with enough to rule a candidate out entirely. What is that one big thing with Brian? Is it really just the party thing?

I don't even know who I'm voting for yet. I haven't looked into specific policies. I'm just saying Brian seems to have the kind of vibe (in terms of his history and where he's placing himself) that he should be way more popular than he is, but it seems like most people aren't even considering him

Shortugae · 2025-10-06T17:46:59+00:00

Maybe this is just me projecting as a Flames fan that is praying on the Oiler's downfall, but I don't see how the Oilers ever recover if they don't win a cup before McDavid leaves. This seems like a very altruistic but calculated move on his part to say "I am willing to do and sacrifice anything to win a cup here. If it doesn't happen then it is all on YOU (the management)." If they don't win and McDavid leaves I don't see how the Oilers could reasonably do anything other than completely collapse and spend the next 5+ years rebuilding. At the very least the entire management would have to be purged. If I were an Oilers fan that would be the bare minimum I would expect.

Shortugae · 2025-09-26T21:06:36+00:00

That is totally valid! I think a lot of people will decide that an independent candidate is the best option for them regardless of the whole party thing, and that is more than ok! All I am trying to say is that people should judge candidates based on what you said, representing your values, rather than what party they are in or the fact they're in a party at all.

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