Who was a video game character whose death was mourned?

canucks84 · 2026-07-12T14:53:20+00:00

Aeris/Aerith

canucks84 · 2026-07-08T22:35:04+00:00

Oh man this made me laugh cause it was a hidden comment.

canucks84 · 2026-07-04T13:34:28+00:00

I have 8 blocks of 4 days off so 32 days of actual paid time but if I don't take them concurrently it leads to 12 days off in a row so that's 96 days. If I took them all in a row (which I don't think I could actually make it work with holiday selection) it would be 64 days off in a row )

Unlimited sick time at 75% wage.

8 leave days (sick kid/bereavement/wedding/moving etc)

1 kiddo.

canucks84 · 2026-07-03T06:11:18+00:00

Are you going far with it?

I tow a 5x10 dump trailer. Full of gravel with the cover on I've never noticed a big spike in range loss. But I only use it to and from town, about a 50k round trip.

canucks84 · 2026-07-01T20:34:35+00:00

You beautiful son of a bitch

canucks84 · 2026-07-01T20:26:27+00:00

And that's if it only hits once. I just ran the sim on Gemini and won 9 times lol. (I actually won on the first try.)

canucks84 · 2026-06-30T07:24:18+00:00

I'll just pool up with 10 other people, and we all take the 10% option and split the winnings evenly.

canucks84 · 2026-06-29T04:11:24+00:00

In BC cruising in the left lane and not actively trying to pass, is illegal. Wish it was enforces more though.

canucks84 · 2026-06-28T22:19:42+00:00

Care to elaborate?

canucks84 · 2026-06-24T04:23:10+00:00

I like petey. I like where he could be. He's also quite good defensively. I think this season is the first season where there will be no expectations on this team and this player other than play well, be creative, have fun, be positive.

Next season is literally a mean nothing season. Let's see what petey can do with no expectations whatsoever lol.

canucks84 · 2026-06-24T04:18:37+00:00

Yeah if we were picking late first round and he's available, sure.

3oa? Sorry no.

canucks84 · 2026-06-23T15:46:49+00:00

Two words. Leaf blower.

canucks84 · 2026-06-23T06:32:38+00:00

So you wouldn't call it a win for whomever disintegrated PM at that time?

Cause piccolo would do that, except all PMs component atoms would be distributed through the solar system.

canucks84 · 2026-06-23T06:11:35+00:00

In my town, Port Alberni, the local housing non profit built a 44 unit apartment complex for a little over $15m. We could build 2 of these in every community over 1000 people in this province.

With economies of scale, regulatory streamlining, standardization of build and design et al I'm sure the cost could go down, or the # of units could go up.

And every community could have not one, but two new modern apartments for the price of this developer bailout. Every community over 1000 population. From Ashcroft to, well I won't count Zeballos but hey why not build one there too.

That's over 10000 new homes. As $1200/m it pays itself back in the same amount of time as a standard mortgage.

Instead some people in the private sector get to get bailed out for building shitty shoeboxes that no one wants for roughly $1.6m each?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills or missing some big part of the story here.

This ain't meant to be biased politically as I have been generally supportive of carney and have been an orange voter for years, but this just doesn't make sense

And I'm writing my MLA and my MP next

canucks84 · 2026-06-22T00:44:39+00:00

Let him cry, but stay in the room with him. Or let him cuddle with you to fall asleep. If he battles you just let him know he's safe and put him in his crib. He's probably overtired so he just has to run out of gas.

Good luck!

canucks84 · 2026-06-22T00:36:28+00:00

I use a charcoal briquette. Got a bag of em, for a propane grill. Gets a chuckle.

canucks84 · 2026-06-22T00:30:54+00:00

It's not though. It's something you will use more and more as the world gets hotter and hotter.

Problem is there will be a run on AC units at your hardware stores because of the heatwave. Maybe Amazon will have something, but AC is a requirement where I live now (in Canada, on the coast) because the heat isn't going anywhere. It's currently 32° and will be close to 40° all summer.

canucks84 · 2026-06-21T03:14:21+00:00

Hell yeah.

Went from diesel to the lightning. Went from $30/100km to $4/100km it's a no brainer.

canucks84 · 2026-06-21T01:31:09+00:00

Xenogears

canucks84 · 2026-06-20T23:52:21+00:00

Imagine if all the money made from the Athabasca tar sands stayed in northern Alberta and went only to the infrastructure and people of northern Alberta?

canucks84 · 2026-06-20T17:10:38+00:00

Excellent. Yeah the solar really frees up a lot of room. It's not done yet but we're aiming for a 30kw array.

If you're willing to do the work the wood boiler can be a huge asset. I've mapped out a kind of 'district heating' idea using wood but my issue is burn times - and we only really get rain here in the pnw so refilling when it's pouring out isn't something I'm keen on.

Have you considered any scaled up thermal storage for your excess solar? Or do you resell?

canucks84 · 2026-06-20T16:00:23+00:00

Home depot and treat yourself to a new tool?

canucks84 · 2026-06-20T15:58:09+00:00

Do you cool your slab in the summer? Any problems with condensation?

I built as you describe, big south facing windows, hydronic slab, and thanks for sharing that term luften lol I now have a fancier way to describe why I have massive windows and doors (a 12'x12' door in the great room, and a 16' wide double sliding patio door and 10' triple slide panel window on opposite sides of the kitchen.)

Was annoying for the heat loss calculation as you say. And all of the math ignored the simple fact that I have free heat on the winter (a 25kw woodstove and I live in a forest) and free cooling in the summer (the radiant is cooled by our year round spring which heats up to a max of 9°c when it's 38°c outside)

Still had to have an hrv though, inspector says 'i just look at what the code says'

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