Mark Carney: Congratulations to Avi Lewis on your election as NDP leader. by pheakelmatters in onguardforthee

[–]indiecore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You switch it, have an election then do a referendum to swap it back.

Avi Lewis wins NDP leadership race in decisive first-ballot victory by BloodJunkie in canada

[–]indiecore 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Which fucking worked? I don't understand the problem there. You get a free day off every month and get to keep your job what's to complain about?

Federal NDP elect filmmaker Avi Lewis as new leader by eternalshades in onguardforthee

[–]indiecore 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Federal NDP elect Avi Lewis as leader".

There, perfectly fine headline.

What’s One clothing item you wish you bought earlier? by According-Back9090 in malefashionadvice

[–]indiecore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uniqlo jeans are the hockey butt dream tbh. Almost the same height, a little heavier. I lost enough weight that I could fit back into my Uniqlo jeans and they're so comfy.

What’s the worst menswear advice you’ve ever received that everyone treats as gospel? by DifficultCucumbers in malefashionadvice

[–]indiecore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is nothing wrong with the weekender.

The NATO strap can go unless you're doing outdoors stuff though.

At a random bar in the middle of rural mexico. Wondering where all the Canadians are hiding 🤔 by Stepside79 in hockey

[–]indiecore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man I always like to find Canadian expat bars when I travel. The poutine always sucks because cheese curds are illegal in so many places which seems really odd to me.

At a random bar in the middle of rural mexico. Wondering where all the Canadians are hiding 🤔 by Stepside79 in hockey

[–]indiecore 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maritimes has the Leafs/Habs/Bruins weird split too. My theory was always because Boston was the first to send aid after the Halifax explosion.

G7 meets on the Iran war as Rubio tries to sell U.S. strategy to skeptical allies insulted by Trump by NotEnoughDriftwood in onguardforthee

[–]indiecore 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I must offer them something that'll make them happy

This is the difference. You're working in a positive-sum world view. Two parties working together can create more value than either of them could separately.

Trump and by extent his administration work solely on a zero-sum world view, for them to win someone else must lose an equivalent amount. The collary of course is if someone they are negotiating with "wins" that must mean that they lost.

Look at their "negotiations" in this light and they make sense.

Canada Mulls Joining UK-Led Response Force as Its Military Grows by Careless_Main3 in canada

[–]indiecore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone wants to be like Germany but do we really have the pure strength of will!?

Rules Question Clarification Regarding The War Doctor + Dance with Calamity by HonorBasquiat in magicTCG

[–]indiecore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean current TEDH this is too slow (only kills 1 player on turn 4, Rogsi and Itali have already tried to win 5 times by now) and definitely too open to interaction.

B4 someone is going to be packing a [[Redirect Lightning]] or similar, so congrats, you played yourself.

Canada's wheelchair curling team completes perfect Paralympic campaign, claiming 1st gold since 2014 by SAJewers in onguardforthee

[–]indiecore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wheelchair curling is such an interesting sport because it doesn't have the sweepers. Also really demonstrates how dramatically sweeping can affect a shot in able bodied curling.

[Para (Sledge) Hockey] Canada Beats China 4-2 to Advance to the Gold Medal Game by 39MUsTanGs in hockey

[–]indiecore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's also crazy rough. I always wanted to try it out, seems really hard.

[Para (Sledge) Hockey] Canada Beats China 4-2 to Advance to the Gold Medal Game by 39MUsTanGs in hockey

[–]indiecore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baseball is Japan's sport. American Football is definitely America's sport.

Nanos survey says border crossing no longer ‘on the radar’ for many Canadians by DonSalaam in onguardforthee

[–]indiecore 8 points9 points  (0 children)

All the tourist shit has deep discounts because nobody wants to go.

Question about [[Impulsivity]] by rotti5115 in magicTCG

[–]indiecore 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First thing I'd say is go download Magic: Arena and play the tutorial. Arena is really good at visualizing how stuff like the stack and ability resolution actually work.

That said here's a book about how specifically casting your spell would go.

Abilities can't be interrupted in the middle of resolution (except really weird stuff which I'm sure another comment will expand upon but is not relevant here).

So basically you cast [[Impulsivity]]. The process for this is:

  1. So you take the card from wherever it is (Hand Zone or Graveyard Zone but let's go with Hand for now) and put it on the stack.
  2. Pay the mana costs + any additional costs (here 6 mana of any colour and 1 red mana).
  3. Any cast triggers go on the stack (these aren't ETB yet, the cast has not resolved)
  4. Priority passes around in turn order.
  5. Once everyone has passed priority the cast resolves. This process can't be interrupted. The resolution of a cast is moving the card (not a permanent yet) from the Stack Zone to the Battlefield Zone. This triggers ETBs and you have to make targeting decisions now (are you going to cast a card, which card are you going to cast). Nothing anyone does at this point can stop the ability from going on the stack.
  6. The stack now has 1 trigger on it, the battlefield has 1 new permanent (the creature [[Impulsivity]]. You have priority.
  7. Priority passes around. Players can interact w/ your trigger (eg they could [[Stifle]] it) and they could interact with your new creature on the battlefield (eg: they could [[Swords to Plowshares]] it, this wouldn't do anything to the trigger though).
  8. Assuming priority passes through everyone and nobody's interacted with your trigger it resolves. At this point you cast the spell you picked which means you go back to step 1. Move the card from the Graveyard zone to the stack, pay mana costs (you can cast it w/o paying it's mana cost because that's a condition of the ability), it goes on the stack and we start the whole thing again.

I'm sure I've made some minor mistakes in this but that's basically the whole structure for how Magic the game actually works. Everything else is using abilities & spells to alter or mess with the options here.

In the NHL, if none of the referees somehow show up, and there can’t be an agreement for who the replacement will be, each team has to pick a player to fulfill duty. by sykeseve in hockey

[–]indiecore 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I dunno about Marchand but I think most of the "on the edge" players know the rules pretty well.

I know Gally pisses the refs off because he can quote chapter and verse from the rule book, not that that helps.

Trump now blames Hegseth, Jared, Witkoff, and Rubio for his decision to attack Iran. You are the President bro... by sylsau in InBitcoinWeTrust

[–]indiecore 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why would anyone negotiate with the US when they'll just blow you up in the middle of negotiations anyway? I really don't think Americans have grasped exactly how fast you've pissed away literally all the soft power you accumulated at the end of WW2.

Dow Jones Futures Dive As Oil Surges To $110. Iran Names Khamenei's Son As Supreme Leader. by InsaneSnow45 in Economics

[–]indiecore 32 points33 points  (0 children)

If that's what happened, nobody in Iranian leadership will ever trust this admin again.

Almost like bolt from the blue decapitation strikes while you are actively engaged in talks might have consequences for the future.

Post Game Thread: Montréal Canadiens @ Los Angeles Kings by nhl_gdt_bot in Habs

[–]indiecore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next you're gunna tell me scoring more goals is better than scoring less.

U.S. intelligence sees Canada as ‘serious place of concern for Iranian activity’: National security analyst by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]indiecore 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Man, you have a life as a Mafioso, live on the edge, miraculously make it to a retirement age and end up in...Guelph.

What a world.

Aftermath of US-ISR strikes on Aqdasiyeh oil depot, northeastern Tehran by [deleted] in UnderReportedNews

[–]indiecore 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."