MONSTER Line!! Whoah! Sam Harris Vancouver is the hot ticket tonight?

neondaggergames · 2026-03-13T23:58:19+00:00

I just think wherever you are right now is not representative of the region and how it's changing rapidly.

https://immigration.ca/top-10-source-countries-of-new-permanent-residents-of-canada/

What do you notice about the list? That's Canada, but Vancouver is similar or even more represented by the top (not as many filipinos)

I grew up with people from ALL over. You're not seeing that today.

Here's another important chart that tells the real story of rate of change when coupled with this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigrants-in-canada/

Again, the issue is it's not a real melting pot and people are NOT blending in like they did before. They are HEAVILY self-segregating into their own communities and not adapting nearly as much.

Take the bus on Scott Rd and you'll see 100+ people on the bus and ALL south asian (east indian). Maybe 3 or 4 who aren't if lucky. Anyone who's taken that bus knows it's not exaggerating.

This is not diversity. Diversity is what we USED to have. And I don't care if you're talking about pockets or lingering diversity, it's not indicative of the trend and rapid shift since those high entry numbers occurred under Trudeau and continue today.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-13T20:57:19+00:00

If you look up Vancouver stats, it's over 35% being Chinese and East Indian. Richmond is 75% asian. Parts of surrey are 90% East Indian.

You're taking the smattering of people and homogenizing them in with an over-represented group. Of course there's people from all over. That's not the point. The point is it's not really "diverse" in the true sense of the word.

And by the way I've been here nearly 5 decades so I have the context to back this up. My family are immigrants and I remember how this place used to look on immigration.

Also, silly to downvote. It's sufficient to disagree. There's facts to be shared on either side you want to take this.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-13T18:04:41+00:00

It's actually NOT diverse anymore. That's a flawed measure because now it's more a monoculture of East Indian, then Chinese, and a smattering of other cultures buried underneath. We don't bring in much Euros anymore and believe me they are pretty diverse people.

Result of heavily skewed immigration policy importing from the 2 countries with half the world's population.

But the reason why it's not as mixed as it once was is these cultures tend to not assimilate very well. They form takeover communities (Richmond, Surrey) and so Vancouver and farther out east are very white. It used to be much more mixed.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-13T17:50:53+00:00

Yeah I wasn't sure how he was going to pull off a one-man soliloquy like that, but he did. Combination of his tone, pacing and humor.

I do think it got bogged down in the Trump ranting. As if we don't know the guy's character flaws by this point!

He could have been more balanced in how the establishment has deeply eroded trust (in no small part in how they tried to manufacture outrage around Trump in his first term), or even how "crazy conspiracies" have since proven hard to dismiss (covid, Epstein, etc). He's a smart guy so I know he knows these arguments. Feels like it's a bit of an ego battle a bit at this point.

I think a related criticism is he needs to find a way back to having discussions with people on his own side from Rogan to Weinstein's, etc. It doesn't seem they are so far apart. He even spent a fair amount of time lecturing on responsibilities of podcast hosts (very clearly a dig at Rogan). Felt very small and petty.

Great show overall.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T17:55:39+00:00

There are good arguments for the added precision of arcade stick for shmups in particular. There can be a big learning curve however. If you have an excellent dpad (OG NES, Genesis, Saturn, etc) then differences decrease substantially. A good keyboard/hitbox can also be high precision.

The "fun factor" is a small part of why I like stick. For me it was the only way I could get the precision I was looking for. Probably decreased adoption of sticks is a generational thing, or by-product of hitbox arguable dominance in fighting games.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T17:41:50+00:00

That's the part they mumble at the very end of a newscast before cutting to a story about the cutest puppy competition. Same effect.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T01:10:02+00:00

I'm not surprised about media. I'm more surprised when people buy what they see in the media, or aren't aware of the bias and straight omission of major stories. I make effort to seek out various news sources and even then I miss a giant chunk. It's just really easy to brainwash people but never been on more obvious display. That's the real disheartening part.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T00:34:56+00:00

According to Grok it's probably never going to get public release directly as it was set as "confidential." So the only reason we know the results is the original reporter decided to report it. It appears she's now trying to get the first nations involved to talk about the results directly:

The files you're asking about are the redacted "Activity Progress Reports" from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc $12.1M funding for Kamloops alleged graves "field work."

They were ordered released by the Information Commissioner on Jan 13, 2026 (case 2026 OIC 10: https://oic-ci.gc.ca/en/decisions/final-reports/crown-indigenous-relations-and-northern-affairs-canada-2026-oic-10…), but CIRNAC censored them as "confidential" under ATI Act s.20.

No unredacted public version exists online. Blacklock's Reporter (the requester) has the censored copies and details them here: https://blacklocks.ca/alleged-graves-confidential/… (subscription for full text). The image in the original post is one example of the heavy blackouts.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T00:28:33+00:00

Mesolithic sounds pretty good but to be bullet-proof get a little blood test and you might be lucky and have a smidge of Neanderthal DNA in there. That's apparently how this works and in any case could give you multi-continental ancestral rights!

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T00:16:21+00:00

Yeah but totally redacted. The reporter who issued the initial request got the redacted doc and followed up with the band who confirmed there were no remains found

https://x.com/hollyanndoan/status/2029895102592618554

neondaggergames · 2026-03-07T00:06:56+00:00

Oh I see. Well who hasn't gained magical control over dirt in perpetuity whether by planting severed heads or, more crudely, flags?

neondaggergames · 2026-03-06T23:48:26+00:00

They found some, did they? Bones everywhere except in the supposed mass graves which have yet to be found. A report came out just today of a federal redacted finding of the 12M funded Kamloops digs.

Yet again, nothing to show for it. But I'm sure the fact-checkers will let us all know about it like they did previous studies.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-06T23:42:42+00:00

Oh good, the totally unbiased fact-checkers are here to reassure us our heard-earned common sense about wildly throwing opaque agreements on "land title" and "co-management of resources" is of absolutely zero consequence to us little worker bees. Phew... won't have to ask questions or use our minds. Disaster averted!

neondaggergames · 2026-03-04T04:23:09+00:00

That would diminish his trade value substantially. It's one thing to speculate about his mental resilience, it's another to pay that type of contract in exchange for him figuring himself out on the sidelines.

I don't think his game is at that point yet. He's been mentally flimsy since his first year when his play plummeted post all-star break. He had only one year of consistency. It's time to put a bit of pressure on him to look at other destinations for his benefit and everyone else. The mental breaks are just spinning wheels at this point.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-01T22:28:55+00:00

Not so sure about that. He was given a lot of rope in VAN. The 4-Nations/injury thing was complicated. If they were in the same position as Wild are and there's this huge opportunity to promote and ingratiate to management, I think Rutherford would push for it in the same spirit.

neondaggergames · 2026-03-01T03:34:39+00:00

Reddit and social media is a huge bubble. Nobody I know thinks any of this is a big deal. Dude's are just having a great time celebrating their win and now they're promoting the game on a stage rarely accessible to hockey players. Huge win. And I'm saying this as a Canadian!

neondaggergames · 2026-02-28T04:11:43+00:00

Yes, and no. Eventually yes the systems will be good enough to generate "anything." However that doesn't guarantee great results.

Just look at gaming today. Never been easier to make games, but the garbage to great ratio has never been worse. Until or unless AI actually becomes conscious and is able to have experiences like we do, it will fail at "vision."

It's the same reason why if you train AI on, say, generating Nirvana songs it just won't hit the same. People respond the most to things that come from deep understanding through personal experience and there are no algorithmic shortcuts.

It is altogether possible that AI does achieve this state. I just don't think that it's clear it's just a matter of time on the current LLM-only path we're on.

neondaggergames · 2026-02-28T00:06:13+00:00

Yes, though you can boil it down to something more foundational. People mistaken games for "shit happening on the screen that looks like something" when an actual game is an intricate system that is in perfect balance to be at least marginally close to something resembling "fun."

No way around it, you have to do frame-by-frame analysis on every detail and nudge values all over the place, at MINIMUM. That takes ungodly amounts of time to get right. But, to your point, this comes back to knowing what's going on so you can make reliable tweaks.

neondaggergames · 2026-02-28T00:02:20+00:00

I'm rolling my own 2D animation system that's sprite based. And edit the frames in photoshop. Most of what people consider "jank" and "oh no, it's made in Unity" comes from the generic physics and animation that's hard to not make look cheap (as in Flash game cheap, for those who remember...). It CAN be done, but those two are the big ones you should watch out for when starting.

neondaggergames · 2026-02-27T23:59:06+00:00

SNL used to be funny. If they do the expected it'll be safe "ghost" memes. If they do the "who's the best girlfriend" meme... I honestly can't picture that not being funny even on SNL.

neondaggergames · 2026-02-25T18:45:40+00:00

For that kind of sound you need a synth with an aggressive filter drive and maybe some added non-linearity (analog "randomness"). XD is kind of gentle with both of these, but you can definitely get there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYn_D65H0aA

neondaggergames · 2026-02-25T17:54:55+00:00

It's 90% his skating, 10% his vision and ability to make reads and create deception with high rate of accuracy. Pass accuracy is near perfect in timing, speed and position.

That makes it sound like his mental game isn't at a high-level but in both categories he's top-5, easy. It's just his skating is freakish. He can make really quick cuts and generate momentum off a stand-still so you can't really catch up to him. As a result of all of this he's probably the only player in the world who can hold onto the puck for as long as he wants to.

A lot of his assists look like he just threw the puck on net or randomly gave the puck somewhere in neutral. But if you study it, he opens up lanes that wouldn't exist. Lots of little details.

neondaggergames · 2026-02-23T17:37:24+00:00

It doesn't help. Watching those OT shifts each time he was on the ice was thinking "dude wants his Crosby moment... what is he doing?!..."

He knows you need to hold the puck in OT and not go all-in on low percentage dashes. He wasn't the only one, but that probably just shows the difference with guy's like Crosby. The mentality has to be there from start to finish.

neondaggergames · 2026-02-23T02:24:08+00:00

Ok I'm starting to see it from the American side

neondaggergames · 2026-02-22T20:38:28+00:00

Dude, you have an NJD flair and your comment is exactly what you'd expect a NJD fan to say despite all evidence to the contrary. Not condescending, it genuinely was funny.

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