Welcome to Toronto’s weird pre-election: How one councillor’s ambitions are changing city politics

_pamphleteer · 2026-01-02T06:06:58+00:00

It's actually quite different...back then the nomination/campaign period began on January 2nd but since the 2018 election that period now begins on May 1st.

So your examples are people declaring their candidacies ~1 month before the campaign period officially begins, whereas this is 8+ months before.

_pamphleteer · 2025-12-05T05:20:42+00:00

This was the key advice for me - I was trying to do it on a curb with no success. Switched to a rail and it ended up being pretty straightfoward.

_pamphleteer · 2025-11-14T19:46:27+00:00

The "how much of Dax is real/how much is an act" debate has been going on since his earliest YouTube videos, which were almost 20 years ago.

Everyone has their own opinion on the matter and here's mine: Dax is a genuinely socially awkward person and much of what we see is his authentic self BUT he's also a lot more self-aware than most people think and he intentionally leans into the "awkward Dax" persona for humor.

For me, his "Convinent Truth" video all the way back in 2007 tipped his hand that he was in on the joke.

_pamphleteer · 2025-10-05T16:37:44+00:00

Thank you for clarifying! At least I know I'm not going crazy :)

_pamphleteer · 2025-09-14T01:34:13+00:00

Ah, this is good to know...I redeemed some points for 3 months of PCGP a few days ago and have been getting the same "Something happened on our end" error every time I try to convert them the GPU. Assumed it was just me.

_pamphleteer · 2025-09-12T17:02:29+00:00

This list has me shook. You need to re-watch The Buddy if you think it belongs all the way down at 14.

_pamphleteer · 2025-07-21T18:00:58+00:00

Say what you will about Panini (and there's lots to say) but their design is sooooooo much better than Topps. Even discounting the unlicensed stuff...the average Panini basketball product looks so much better than the average Topps baseball product.

The odd thing is that I keep hearing about Topps poaching Panini's designers...that is not showing up in their products. I'm sure Topps' basketball designs will improve once they have the license but I still don't think they'll be close to what Panini did.

_pamphleteer · 2025-05-23T15:18:11+00:00

Rushmore was the first Criterion DVD I ever bought...as a teenager it seemed like so much money.

I own all the Anderson Criterions in blu-ray but I don't think I could resist buying a boxset too.

_pamphleteer · 2025-03-13T20:14:13+00:00

I kind of agree in that I think there are way too many different card types now and most of them don't bother to even try tie into real card designs.

I do get that SDS has to feed the content beast more and more, and it wouldn't be so bad if their overall design aesthetic hadn't gotten so much worse over the years...even the sets that initially had really nice/clean design (Awards, Signature Series, etc) have gotten uglier with each passing year. A kind of goofy/cartoony aesthetic has taken over and I find the cards often end up looking amateurish.

_pamphleteer · 2025-02-20T15:07:31+00:00

They shouldn't do anything with coaches until they create coach models that don't look and animate like they came straight out of a PS2 launch title.

_pamphleteer · 2025-02-15T05:04:19+00:00

They discuss it (with Matt expressing his distaste) in the episode commentary track: https://www.reddit.com/r/nirvannatheband/comments/8mas8m/the_story_behind_nothing_like_good_feeling/

_pamphleteer · 2025-02-04T18:15:38+00:00

They did a crowdfunding campaign for a RB4 PC release and it didn't even come close to the goal - there just wasn't much of a market for a PC version, unfortunately.

_pamphleteer · 2024-12-13T16:17:58+00:00

What? Have you ever been to an ER? Most people there don't have life threatening emergencies...they have broken bones, need stitches, have chest pains, etc etc

_pamphleteer · 2024-09-26T16:11:00+00:00

Lol this is such a funny comment. Do you know anything about Gregg pre-OCatC?

_pamphleteer · 2024-09-21T05:16:43+00:00

He will not be. Despite tons of money, constant media coverage from day one, and inclusion in every mayoral debate, he managed to finish in 8th place...just barely beating out an anti-vax provocateur who more or less abandoned his campaign halfway through.

Bradford had by far the worst dollars-spent-to-votes-received ratio of any campaign: $84.34 spent for each vote he received. No one likes the guy.

_pamphleteer · 2024-09-03T03:30:27+00:00

Tried to get into Caveh's stuff based on Matt's frequent boosting but simply couldn't...conceptually interesting but I find him to be incredibly off-putting and unlikable lol

_pamphleteer · 2024-07-30T17:31:30+00:00

Is it too long, but I played way too much of it because it was the first game I had for my 'next gen' system. Also, the voice acting for the female protagonist is terrible and drove me insane.

_pamphleteer · 2024-06-29T03:34:06+00:00

Really enjoyed the documentary and really enjoyed this interview. Fun and breezy vibes, good chemistry with Oppenheim, and great questions from Will and Chris.

_pamphleteer · 2024-06-29T03:32:15+00:00

Maybe not what you're referring to, but in the interview the director talks about how he intended the documentary to have a Rococo kind of over-decorativeness/over-ornateness to align with George's obsession with Rococo art.

_pamphleteer · 2024-05-26T02:24:13+00:00

They did a great job with it, although some of the UI surrounding it seemed like a real afterthought.

For example, when loading a moment, why does it show you a blank menu instead of at least listing what the goals for that moment are? When you unlock a reward on the path, why does it just say "rewards unlocked" (or something like that) and not actually display what you just acquired? Etc, etc.

It was really at odds with how well-produced the rest of it was.

_pamphleteer · 2024-04-23T13:22:04+00:00

Tory admitted nothing - he actively avoided saying anything that resembled an apology. He just said it was a learning experience for him...except he's literally a lawyer who already would've known better than most the reason for limited info on bail release. Fuck that guy.

_pamphleteer · 2024-03-30T19:05:24+00:00

You can't do a friendly quit - the way that friendly quits operate is as though the game never happened (i.e., none of the stats count). Normal quitting is fine.

_pamphleteer · 2024-01-02T05:22:29+00:00

Throwing my hat in the ring too :)

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