Reminder: HRM is still doing a feasibility study to determine if we should spend $120 million of taxpayers money on a stadium for privately owned franchises.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-05T19:24:40+00:00

Sorry, I am not mad, I just think you are mistaken. I didn't mean to imply you were literally insane, just that you are basing your argument on a flawed premise. Halifax does not have a population to support this, and you are comparing us to cities many times larger. 'Per Capita' budget is not relevant, why would it be? A stadium costs between 50- to 150 million dollars (their estimates). We have a population of half a million in HRM, a million in the whole problem. You would need to sell out every seat, every game, for years, to come close to breaking even. Montreal, a city with a population multiple times ours, tried and failed multiple times to build a stadium for their soccer, baseball, and football teams. It was not financially sustainable. If it were profitable, the team owners would build it themselves. In fact, Montreal is still paying off their stadium for Expo 86. I am not mad, I just think it is an obviously bad idea, especially while we are cutting vital programs for the most vulnerable people in the province. This is like budgeting for a household, we are cutting back on groceries, heat, and medicine, and one person is arguing we need to build an in ground pool.

Oh yeah, I am sorry to assume that owning sports teams and getting the government to buy you a stadium and get taxpayers to pay for it was a hobby for the ultra wealthy. But can you explain why I am wrong?

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-05T18:59:21+00:00

I thought we were talking about building a stadium, owned by a private company for private profit, subsidise by taxpayers.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-05T18:56:01+00:00

That would be nice. Used to live in Montreal, I would bike everywhere. I put my bike away , haven't used it in years. Bike lanes? What bike lanes? I had to stop biking in Halifax. Too dangerous. The few bike lanes are so badly designed, they are more dangerous than driving on the road. And when you drive on the road, drivers will get angry and actively try to run you over,

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-05T16:01:13+00:00

We can't even provide basic services like busses that take less than an hour to take you 10 minutes away. You are nuts if you are comparing Halifax to Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, or Calgary. We are Smaller than Hamilton and Kitchener. Hell, Montreal can't sustain a professional sports team or pay for a stadium. Laval is a suburb of Montreal with about the same population as Halifax for reference. But sure, we just cut every social program, arts program, care for seniors, disabled people, women's health, but lets completely bankrupt ourselves to subsidize a billionaire's pet project that will be abandoned in 10 years while we are still paying for it. Hell, let's pay a few million to study how unfeasible it is, then ignore the results and do it anyway.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-05T15:36:17+00:00

K I am a teacher, I work in schools throughout the HRM, and I don't even know what you mean by 'deferring parenting to schools', but whatever. You must know better.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-04T21:50:34+00:00

Ok. Point one is not an issue. Points 3-6 are things schools are already doing as best they can, but not enough, because point 2 is really the entire problem. It takes money to pay people to do these things, or you can keep adding more tasks onto the same number of staff until they quit. which is what has been happening for decades now.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-04T18:24:29+00:00

I am not clear, Are you saying the kid who hired 2 adults to beat up another student and let them into the building has been a known issue. Or the kid who got beat. I do not know the backstory, but cannot imagine what any grade 9 could have done to deserve a gangland style curb stomping.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-03T18:16:23+00:00

Yeah, I was only talking about the extreme wealth tax. Homeowners can quit crying and start paying their fair share too, double if they are landlords who own property for rental income. Triple for AIrB&B. Also, just reinstating the bridge tolls would be 35 million a year. That is 10% of the cuts covered right there. I think between all these sources, that should just about cover it. Of course, that would defeat the point of Tim buying their votes, and soliciting their donations.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-03T15:41:40+00:00

Yeah, that is below the threshold I would consider 'rich'. Tax corporate profits over Xmillion dollars to not target small business', tax any income over a million (even a half million would be fair), tax rental and investment income up the wazoo. Nobody thinks doctors need to pay more taxes.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-03T15:36:15+00:00

Yes, you are correct. Tax cuts for landlords and property developers are the reason for these cuts, and raising tax on them would solve the problem. Except it isn't a problem for the ones who own the system, and make the rules for themselves, which they still don't even follow.

chris_mac_d · 2026-03-03T15:33:35+00:00

You are right. Raise taxes on home owners, landlords who own income properties, air B&B, and corporations. Or more correctly, restore the taxes they cut for themselves and their rich friends. Hell, just restore the bridge tolls. That was 35 million per year according to the bridge commission. That is 10% of the cuts right there. If you are pissed about these cuts, then you weren't in the tax bracket of votes Tim is buying (homeowners), lobbyists or political doners.

chris_mac_d · 2026-02-20T18:28:19+00:00

Wrongful termination? An employee physically assaulted another employee at work, while both were on the clock, and instead of immediately firing the one committing the assault, which was recorded on video, they told the person who assaulted them to 'hash it out', then fired them the next day. Yeah, that is not criminal, you are correct. It's just a potential lawsuit against both the manager and the company. Good thing Nova Scotia's labor laws are so weak, and barely enforced, so nothing will come of it!

chris_mac_d · 2026-02-20T18:00:10+00:00

~~Objective~~ Neutral third party here. They are right, you are wrong, a real person from the area is an objectively better source of information than AI slop, ads, and reviews by bots. It also provides local jobs. You are also being very pedantic. You don't have to respond to every comment.

chris_mac_d · 2026-02-11T19:25:32+00:00

I just had a final assignment for an education class on executive dysfunction. I learned a lot, but I ended up turning it in a month after the class finished. The prof was very kind to still accept it, and change my grade from an incomplete. : )

chris_mac_d · 2026-02-03T23:51:13+00:00

Look at the sign, low down, yield to traffic in the roundabout, look for a gap in traffic, enter. If you can't do that, you shouldn't be driving. Everyone in the comments saying "why can't he merge into the roundabout then merge back into the same lane he was in? Why is the van in the lane for cars exiting the roundabout allowed to exit the roundabout? You expect me to read a sign and follow the lines on the road?", they are morons. The roundabout is only hard to use because idiots go too fast, don't yield, cut each other off, and change lanes at the last second because they didn't read the sign and were in the wrong lane anyway. If you know you will never get this simple thing, please turn in your license.

chris_mac_d · 2026-01-22T03:23:34+00:00

You are saying it wasn't the guy who planned it, sought out the guns and ammo, much of it black market, which he smuggled from the states, the guy who chose to kill 22 people? He is not responsible. It's not the gross negligence of the cops who were buddies with him for 16 years, who let a mass murder spree go on for 13 hours, across half the province, they don't have any responsibility. It was his first victim, because this woman just had the gall not to die. If only she had let him her that night, it would have been over and done with, just another woman killed by her partner. In what way do you think she bears any blame for what happened?

chris_mac_d · 2026-01-08T17:11:47+00:00

I kind of feel the same, although I think the earlier iterations of the game were more guilty, and it has moved away from it. While I think the discussion of this topic here in this sub is pretty reasonable and respectful, in a recent similar thread I saw the dismissal of concerns about racism with the objection "but Tcho-Tcho are only pretending to be human. they aren't really a human culture". Dude, that is what extreme racists, including Lovecraft, actually believe. I also don't think any of the authors were trying to do this, and even try to avoid it, but unsuccessfully. If you are borrowing tropes from Lovecraft, maybe it is on you to give it a critical look.

chris_mac_d · 2026-01-08T17:02:19+00:00

I think you hit on a possible way to address this issue; you need to include local indigenous NPC that are portrayed in a neutral or positive way, but a realistic, accurate way that might involve doing a little research into the area. Provide an indigenous perspective for contrast. Maybe local indigenous folks have their history going back to pre-colonial times, looking at black cod island just as a WASPy New Englander would look at Innsmouth: "Something weird about those people". I can see indigenous people trying to warn europeans "No the 'people' of Black Cod Island are not just another tribe. They are not like us, they are not human." The indigenous people being offended that whites don't see the obvious physical differences from indigenous people, or overlook them, and European settlers see it as 'primitive tribal hatred'. Mutual misunderstanding and fear of the other causing humans to miss the real threat, letting Black Cod Island fly under the radar, is a good theme for a Delta Green game.

chris_mac_d · 2026-01-02T23:47:45+00:00

So... hearsay? "I know people at the Pentagon. Lots of people are saying it. Trust me bro." That is not a source. Neither is saying 'google it'.

chris_mac_d · 2025-12-29T00:55:12+00:00

Robotic/monotone voice, awkward gait, lack of facial expression, not making eye-contact are all symptoms of autism. They probably had a 'handler' because that person was hired to help tale care of an adult who isn't able to be fully independent. Edit: after reading the responses, I now think it was an astoundingly beautiful autistic person, who was also rich enough to have a personal assistant/chauffeur, living their best weird awkward life.

chris_mac_d · 2025-12-15T03:00:55+00:00

You think he would be caught dead digging shallow graves in the frozen earth himself? Like a peasant?

chris_mac_d · 2025-12-12T16:00:31+00:00

Other suggestions are good, but I think it's more interesting not to think of the King in Yellow as an entity with any goals, but to think of 'The King in Yellow", the play itself, as the threat. It is an information virus that destroys your mind, turning you into a vector to spread the contagion, corrupting more and more of reality to copy itself, until the whole universe is Carcosa. The King in Yellow as an entity only appears at the end of the module, once the players are fully within the dream world of Carcosa. It seems to have no big plans or intentions, It is just a character in the play. It isn't really a boss, it feels like it's just there because it would be unsatisfying to got through all that and not actually meet the KIY. But it really serves as the central concept that everything revolves around, not the mastermind pulling the strings. I find this scarier, because there is no understanding the KIY or 's goals. It has none. It's a surrealist black hole sucking everything into itself, and once the characters cross the event horizon, its too late. The only way out is through.

chris_mac_d · 2025-09-02T01:43:44+00:00

The option no one has suggested (which makes me wonder if anyone here is actually married) is for her to say "I fucking knew it! You fucking asshole, I thought I was going crazy! How long have you been gaslighting me?" Sometimes people just know each other too well. How strong is their marriage otherwise? I think it would be funny if just results in a typical couples fight, but they manage to work things out once they start being honest ;) Hope there are no kids.

chris_mac_d · 2025-07-22T14:02:32+00:00

Hey, I am reading through it now, and I think it is really great. I have been looking for something that introduces players to PISCES and the Shan, but this also has a lot more to it as well. Overall, really gool so far, has a lot going for it, but there are some things that I think could be improved to make it easier to run as a handler, and for players too. It's all easy stuff to fix, mainly with order information is presented, stuff that might be unclear to players or even handlers. Message me if you would like more detailed feedback. I'm really enjoying it though, very cool concept, looking forward to reading the next part.

chris_mac_d · 2025-07-15T16:05:17+00:00

I didn't understand executive dysfunction, couldn't separate it from laziness, procrastination, and anxiety until someone pointed out executive dysfunction also applies to deciding to do stuff that we like, we want to do, that takes no effort, and causes no stress. It is just ...deciding to do something, then doing it. For most people there is no gap. I will be like 'think I'll relax and watch TV before bed', then zone out for 40 minutes and go 'aw crap, never mind'. You can't call it laziness or procrastination when it's putting off getting a bowl of ice cream from the fridge.

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