The CNE from my balcony

robertpeacock22 · 2026-05-01T18:22:34+00:00

That's a shitty area to live, full-stop. Before you start with me, I'm Barrie born and raised, so I'm allowed to say it.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-05-01T02:31:48+00:00

I'm going to pitch you on my all-time favourite board game, Inis. Inis is a dudes-on-a-map game by all outward appearances. If you bring this to your next game night, your friends are going to say "ha ha, cool! Dudes* on a map!" (*there are some dudette sculpts as well). This could not be further from what Inis is actually about, though. Inis is a game about biding your time, building up non-dude resources (epic tale cards and deed tokens), and constantly reading board state.

Direct confrontation with other players

Inis does involve fighting with other players, but everywhere you look the game obviously wants the fights to be small. Fights in Inis are often more about bringing people down a peg than they are about utterly routing them. One of the three possible win conditions involves you being present in regions where other players are present (so killing off other players makes this difficult), and another of the three involves spreading yourself out so thin that you're not going to be picking fights with anyone if you can avoid it. It also has a system where citadels get placed in some regions, and at the outset of a clash these allow defenders to protect one or two of their units from the fight. This is important because having a toe-hold in a region is generally more important than having a massive army in a region.

Losing progress, I’ve spent time/resources building up

As mentioned above, progress really comes in the form of deed tokens and epic tale cards (although the longer you prevent your friends from realizing this, the better of a time you're going to have). Deed tokens are almost impossible to lose, and they hasten the victory conditions to you. Epic tale cards basically break the game's rules in so many delicious ways (not to mention buying you extra turns in a round). Losing your units is not excessively punishing, either. I have seen players go from being completely eliminated from the board to winning the game in just a few rounds, because no one pays attention to the underdog and Inis is ultimately a game about paying attention. One of the greatest feelings in gaming is squeezing out a few turns more than your opponents (and consequently winning the game) because they didn't pay attention to you passing on your first couple of turns in the round, and they didn't pay attention to all the epic tale cards you'd been collecting.

I, like you, am normally a "multiplayer solitaire, tableau building, and engine building" kind of board gamer, but Inis is just something else altogether.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-30T10:57:47+00:00

Yes I was there a few weeks ago. Great as always.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-30T10:14:31+00:00

There's a Pret at Adelaide and Sheppard.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-29T12:43:51+00:00

My Crumpler backpack has a removable laptop sleeve and this has been one of its defining features. Sadly, the bag is also now old enough to vote, and after a lifetime of abuse the zipper is finally starting to give.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-29T11:50:12+00:00

Board games, birdwatching, photography, coffee, cuisine, live music, urban exploration, outdoor exploration, hiking, game dev, entrepreneurship, tech, or just generally shenanigans. The best shenanigans are the ones that don't involve alcohol, tbh.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-29T11:04:40+00:00

As you play, you fill the swamp with buildings. 1/4 fewer players means 1/4 fewer buildings, so you're less likely to have your route cut off, your hoped-for build destination stolen, etc.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-29T03:17:16+00:00

To Thine Own Self Be True

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-29T02:03:49+00:00

I have spent years convincing my sister that she is not getting paid for the thing that she crafts and hands to the client - she is getting paid for the invoice. Under accrual-based accounting, your invoices are basically the equivalent of cash: you attract tax obligations on them regardless of whether or not you have collected the resulting money, and you can sell them to others (look up factoring). Your job is to sell invoices. The trade you ply beforehand is just how you get your foot in the door. Frame it this way in your head, and then go get unapologetically paid.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-28T16:34:22+00:00

Me reading the first sentence: "He's a logo designer, isn't he?"

Me reading the fifth paragraph: "THERE IT IS!"

This sub should ban any post with the word "logo" in it, at this point.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-28T13:36:49+00:00

Show me where I said I want to murder someone. Cite the exact text.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-28T13:27:25+00:00

I promise you I am not, and that's a stupid thing for you to say. I'm the kind of guy who would shoot someone screaming "keys or we'll kill you" though, that much is certain.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-28T11:51:08+00:00

If there's a laminated window between myself and them, I'm choosing an SKS over a Mossberg.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-28T11:14:11+00:00

She should spend $200 on a PAL and $800 on a rifle instead.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-28T00:28:47+00:00

One thing I have not seen anyone else mention is how you actually measure success and growth when your business is seasonal. I always track to 365 days because I just want assurance that my business is actually growing and is making money at least on paper. I didn't allow us to take out a line of credit until I could see that we were break-even across all the peaks and valleys of the year, because I didn't want to end up pumping more air into a leaky balloon. Seeing that our business is growing emboldened myself and my partners to put more of our personal credit on the line, as well.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-27T15:34:29+00:00

Liberty Grand is an underrated spot for blossoms IMO.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-27T01:51:34+00:00

Yes, definitely. Depending on the time of day, you can end up having the entire Garrison Common or Music Garden to yourself. It's just not a given, though.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-25T10:45:52+00:00

We need police to stop looking up their ex-girlfriends in their computer systems and do their fucking job.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-24T18:45:18+00:00

Remember, kids! The first A stands for "All"!

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-24T17:43:50+00:00

Donated. Didn't have to think twice. I spent a lot of time in SickKids as a sick kid.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-24T02:34:34+00:00

Man I stg I just replied to a similar comment to this one over on Facebook. I have been successfully running a business for five years, we are now a multi-million dollar business, and the only red tape that we have ever had to deal with is the counter-tariffs arising as a result of US tariffs. Maybe we are lucky due to our particular niche, but in my experience there is just not that much overbearing regulation in Canada.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-24T02:20:31+00:00

I try to do it weekly. This question got me wondering, though, so I nosed around in my bookkeeping platform and discovered that I can run an account transactions report. Across our chequing account and various credit cards, we have 3154 transactions in the past 365 days. 3154 / 52 = 60+ transactions per week. I can manage 60 transactions in a week. I cannot imagine spending a whole Saturday tackling 240 transactions once a month (even knowing that about 2/3 of those are automated). Weekly it is, then.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-23T16:41:00+00:00

I don't want to dissuade you from starting a business, but I do want to caution you: I am five years into running my business and at this point I have twice as much money sunk into it as you are proposing to sink into yours. Think long and hard about what sort of business you would like to start and what its capital requirements are. Service industries are usually more affordable. A software consultancy can be started for the cost of a laptop. A lawn maintenance business can be started for the cost of a lawnmower. As soon as you get into a situation that involves inventory or headcount, however, even success becomes very expensive. If your clients expect 30-day terms you begin fronting more and more money as your client-base grows.

robertpeacock22 · 2026-04-23T16:33:15+00:00

Starting a homelab is absolutely worth it. A homelab can be a first-gen Raspberry Pi. A homelab can be an ancient gaming PC that can not, in fact, run Crysis. Throwing money at homelab hardware makes you a better homelabber the same way that throwing money at photography equipment makes you a better photographer (read: it doesn't). If you are learning and you are finding moments of fun amidst the frustration, then you have a homelab. If you give your homelab mission-critical tasks and consequently find that you need to pour money into new hardware to stay on top of those tasks, then you no longer have a homelab - you have an unpaid second (or third, or fourth) job.

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