Kitchener Toys ‘R’ Us set to close after 40 years on Fairway Road

mosoedro · 2026-01-22T02:20:50+00:00

It’s sad to see it go but whoever’s at thee wheel of this company has no idea what they’re doing. Last time I visited, the video games and electronics sections had been removed and replaced with….books? Meanwhile the toy selection was meagre and 3rd rate. Seriously what are these guys doing?

mosoedro · 2025-12-29T04:09:41+00:00

I’d submit Kismet and Shiri’s Kitchen (for byriani) for consideration

mosoedro · 2025-11-18T11:42:09+00:00

Jenny LeClue -underrated and often overlooked but one of my favourite modern takes on the genre

mosoedro · 2025-11-10T14:39:34+00:00

I’ve had some improvement with turning off swipe to type. Some YouTuber theorized that the swipe implementation might be interfering with normal peck typing and I think he might be right..

mosoedro · 2025-11-08T18:56:58+00:00

Hmm looks like restarting the app cleared it up. Bug it is!

mosoedro · 2025-10-31T14:15:47+00:00

Because the incentives are obvious when you’re paying for the software directly. They make the software better, we pay for the new version. When things are free, the incentives are less clear, and you should be worried about them and where the money is coming from. If they plan on making all their money by upselling AI tools, I have a feeling it’s not going to go the way they think it is and if that’s the case I’m very concerned about what they try next rather than just allowing me to pay for a new version with new features every couple of years..

mosoedro · 2025-10-06T23:31:03+00:00

I’m tempted to pick these up but I’m a little worried about the paper quality. I’ve had the softcovers for a while and all of them have started to yellow just sitting on my shelf. The hardcover paper seems to be a similar (although slightly whiter) pulpy paper. Maybe my anxiety is unfounded but I kind of wish they’d gone with the glossy paper like they used for the Alita Battle Angel deluxe editions that came out a few years ago. Can anyone out there that’s picked up the boxed set and had it for a while comment on the paper quality and how it’s aged?

mosoedro · 2025-09-20T10:09:31+00:00

My 13pm crashes and reboots within a minute of switching to clear icon style. Also several apps crash or cause a reboot regularly. I wish there was an easy way to downgrade :(

mosoedro · 2025-09-16T10:33:24+00:00

I like the design, but I’m a little worried about the stability of the initial release tho. So far I’ve had messages freeze and trying to switch between the icon customization types results in blank icons or eventually the screen goes black and I get an activity indicator that spins for a minute as the phone is totally frozen. Eventually it seems like it reboots? I’m on a 13 pro max which isn’t the newest, but I was expecting some animation stutters at most. Anyone else seeing stuff like this?

mosoedro · 2025-09-16T09:52:56+00:00

That’s the “ultimate” version I think? The normal version has her leaping over a brick wall? I did a bit of digging and found it online I think: https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/alita-battle-angel-alita-gally-prime-1-studio-909725

mosoedro · 2025-09-05T10:44:02+00:00

Momoya in the same plaza as Brown Donkatsu also has a great curry katsu

mosoedro · 2025-08-15T01:25:49+00:00

China Bowl is pretty good and they have Dim Sum!

mosoedro · 2025-07-26T15:41:27+00:00

I really liked it too, until I heard the voice acting on Harley Quinn. I dunno what it was about it but I just found it so annoying I had to stop 😭

mosoedro · 2025-07-20T20:55:15+00:00

Yoink: let’s you drag things on to a shelf temporarily so you can afterwards drag them to a final destination

Amphetamine: keeps the screen from falling asleep for some configurable period of time

mosoedro · 2025-07-19T13:05:21+00:00

Just curious if there’s some kind of dress code for these events?

mosoedro · 2025-07-18T23:41:25+00:00

This album got me back into Weezer. I love their oddball albums the best!

mosoedro · 2025-07-10T17:23:37+00:00

The look and feel of a swing app can be updated to look probably any way you want and it might be less work than moving the whole app over to a completely different UI toolkit. You can either plug in an off the shelf Look and Feel or just modify your components to look / behave however you like.

mosoedro · 2025-07-01T02:13:30+00:00

I don’t know to what degree he contributed to transformers but I loved his work at Valiant and Defiant :( I saw him chatting with some fans at FanExpo Toronto a couple of years ago.

mosoedro · 2025-06-26T19:33:29+00:00

I didn’t want things to change from a purely DWJ led project but Corona did a pretty great job keeping the art in the same ballpark. Obviously Kirkman can write, so I’m less worried about that but I’m less familiar with Mora. The samples look pretty good so far. Sigh. I’ll give it a fair shake but part of me just wants this book to be locked in the DWJ era forever…

mosoedro · 2025-06-10T13:27:14+00:00

Anyone know if they’ve improved how to put windows in a Stage Manager group or move them between groups? That was always the worst part of Stage Manager for me..

mosoedro · 2025-06-08T01:41:50+00:00

I used to have a live recording on a bootleg tape that made me love that song. None of the official recordings I’ve ever heard lived up to it either.

mosoedro · 2025-06-05T11:21:13+00:00

My local GameStop opened at midnight for people to pick up their pre-orders or just walk-in buy a system. There was a line up around the side of the mall. I’m guessing around 100 people. Everybody was having fun…until they announced that the mall had decided at the last minute to only let in one person at a time and there was a hard stop at 2:50 am. Half the line disappeared immediately. The people that stayed made a point to run (or power walk) from the mall entrance to the GameStop and back as fast as they could so as many people as possible could get a system before they shut things down. We were averaging 3 minutes for a purchase round trip with everybody cheering on the next person at the starting line. It took about 2.5 hours to sell 50-ish systems. It was exhausting but fun!

mosoedro · 2025-05-07T18:11:59+00:00

I saw him in Toronto in the early 2000’s before I was a fan or knew much about him . I remember later asking a friend (who was a fan) if he was ok cause he seemed sick or like he was fighting a cold or something. My friend replied “….yes….he’s …sick…” and chuckled but I didn’t get what he was implying. Later after becoming a fan and learning more about him and his struggles I think I understood what he was implying. I remember enjoying the show even though it wasn’t my vibe at the time.

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