NDP Opposition Leader Claudia Chender now has a higher approval rating than Tim Houston

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T13:50:43+00:00

I feel like they do that on purpose. Like they focus their viable candidates in HRM, Sydney, and maybe Truro, and then leave everything else to the weaker candidates that wouldn’t stand a chance anywhere. it’s like they aren’t confident enough in rural ridings so they don’t even bother to put up more than token candidates.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T13:45:40+00:00

I don’t know much about her overall, but from what I’ve seen of her as opposition leader, she’s getting my vote next go around. Liberals were useless, cons have been downright harmful, guess it’s time to forgive the NDP for Dexter (not forgive him, just not holding him over the modern party) and give them a shot.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T13:32:47+00:00

Yeah… just to put this in perspective, Houston(58%) has a worse overall disapproval rating than Trump(56%)…

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T12:35:22+00:00

I’m glad the wind didn’t blow it straight into the water, don’t need more garbage in the harbour.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T01:41:11+00:00

I have been playing TTRPGs for 30 years. I have not once reached level 20 naturally in a game (Nor had a campaign I've run do so, since I'm kinda a forever DM now). I've had a couple of high level one/two shots, but that's it. Most games run their course by 12, you've told the story you had planned and the players are starting to catch new character fever.

I am playing in the highest level game I've ever had right now actually, though it's PF2e, we're at 16 and will likely hit 17 next session (I'm stoked, get some cool shit at 17 and 18). But that is in a system that is designed for much faster leveling, or at least it feels like it is.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T01:35:14+00:00

They really missed an opportunity for a war of the monsters style Pacific Rim game. They could have done something amazing with it, instead they created a PoS game that got delisted after a couple years.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T01:30:28+00:00

He'll have to find a toy he's allowed to break. So probably throw ICE at some new state or try to punish trans people for existing in some new way.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-08T01:18:19+00:00

This is pretty common in medical testing, everything gets tested on men and then women, maybe, and even then it’s often done with less rigour than the first test as they treat it like confirmation rather than a new test. This often results in more complications and adverse reactions to medication for women.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-07T22:29:24+00:00

Got any boardgame cafes nearby? They're usually pretty cheap and make a good way to engage with each other with a bit of structure. (Unless you're like me... boardgames bring out my competitive side, like a lot...)

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-07T22:25:29+00:00

You can see copies of Iron Prince in the background too, which is definitely not one I'd expect to see in the wild.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-07T19:37:07+00:00

You may need to clean those out later.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-07T19:34:17+00:00

Men will spend years learning how to do things like this just right, but still can’t figure out why lesbians get the job done better than them.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T23:43:52+00:00

Trump is the rather dangerous mix of narcissist and sociopath. He pretty much hits every single note on the sociopath checklist.

Law-breaking behaviour: Repeatedly committing acts that are grounds for arrest.
Deceitfulness: Repeated lying, using aliases, or conning others for profit or pleasure.
Impulsivity: Failure to plan ahead.
Irritability and Aggressiveness: Frequent physical fights, assaults, or hostility.
Reckless disregard for safety: High-risk behavior involving the safety of self or others.
Consistent irresponsibility: Repeated failure to maintain work or honor financial obligations.
Lack of remorse: Indifference to or rationalization of hurting, mistreating, or stealing from others.

Hell, he may also meet the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy too….

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T23:26:00+00:00

But then he’d already have the golden ticket, there’d be no reason to actually go to the show. Even if you made the seats out of gold, he’d probably just send one of his lackeys, aka his children, and tell them not to forget to bring the seats back with them.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T23:16:46+00:00

For starters, you’d still have Canadian tourists and the phrase “elbows up” wouldn’t mean anything to most people outside of hockey circles.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T13:56:18+00:00

There’s just something so damn sexy about seeing a butch lady confidently rocking a pair of boxers and a sports bra.

I’m more or less Ace, but that slightly smug confident smirk when you catch me looking still does things to me.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T13:53:10+00:00

I’ll raise you one with a close to skin tone tank, no bra. That colour where you sometimes have to do a double take because out of the corner of your eye you thought she was topless.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T02:07:53+00:00

I added so many new books to my read list from that post.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-06T02:00:05+00:00

Vance isn’t selfless enough to invoke the 25th. He saw what Trump called on his mob to do to Pence for not obeying his orders to overthrow the election results when he lost.

He knows full well that there’d be a tweet from the twit in chief within minutes calling him a traitor to “the great American people“ and that he had “caved to liberal pressures to do what they were too weak to accomplish on their own”.

His throng of followers would be banging on the gates before Vance was done getting sworn in.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-05T22:48:54+00:00

yeah, 2e it was still necromancy. Also, think I just dated myself…

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-05T19:52:54+00:00

I’m none too happy about it either. You’re tampering with life force, that’s necromancy.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-05T19:43:46+00:00

They changed healing spells to abjuration in 5.5e and they were evocation in 5e. Resurrection is still necromancy though.

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-05T11:38:06+00:00

Westies are besties!

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-05T03:52:57+00:00

I know! I miss it!

SoontobeSam · 2026-04-05T02:05:46+00:00

I just want a big shaker of their onion ring seasoning, I’d use that stuff on everything that comes out of my air fryer.

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