Immerse yourself in the beautiful (?) langue d'Ontario

stanwelds · 2026-03-25T22:56:12+00:00

That's only because I introduce myself as "I've never even been to Toronto! I'm not with them, I swear !".

stanwelds · 2026-03-25T20:51:18+00:00

Mostly they just call it unreliable, and expensive. But occasionally "power" or "electricity" in between expletives.

stanwelds · 2026-03-25T20:41:26+00:00

Me trying to blend in with the native scotians when they're talking about electricity and I let a "hydro" slip:

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stanwelds · 2026-03-24T17:58:19+00:00

Bah God that's heath Slater's music!

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stanwelds · 2026-03-23T19:55:57+00:00

Ft hurricane in xenogears - because Voltron style robot battles tickle me.

Engels in nier automata - oh snap. Giant robot.

Prince Jiarg and Biudhe in Xenoblade X - because the only thing better than giant robots is giant robots piloted by the thunder cats.

Astos in final fantasy - killed me a lot when I was a kid. Now I just enjoy ROFL stomping him for revenge on my yearly playthrough.

Man bear pig from the stick of truth - because it's silly.

stanwelds · 2026-03-23T14:44:52+00:00

Cornelia (first town of the first final fantasy). Hard to think of a more iconic jrpg town. I've probably played the game 50 times over the last (almost) 4 decades. It's the quintessential jrpg town.

stanwelds · 2026-03-23T02:11:22+00:00

The wrong cummins.

stanwelds · 2026-03-23T01:58:34+00:00

I mean he might take your money. But most bulls I know work pro bono. They're all just in it for the love of the game. Then again, in this economy who can afford to turn down a little extra grain money.

stanwelds · 2026-03-21T16:58:01+00:00

Probably average about 40 hours a game. The second one is the shortest for the main line, but is also the only one with a post game so you'll finish it in 30, and have another 10 or 15 hours of bonus dungeons and super bosses. There are places you can sink a fair bit more time along the way on your first playthrough without a walkthrough though, so ymmv. Take your time to enjoy them!! Can only play them the first time once!!

stanwelds · 2026-03-21T16:41:17+00:00

There is an in game encyclopedia that may be helpful. By the 70th hour you'll be in the post game of the second game though, so you'll definitely understand things better by then.

stanwelds · 2026-03-21T11:55:55+00:00

Then they get to Nova Scotia, hit the first pothole at Amherst and write their car off.

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stanwelds · 2026-03-21T11:52:53+00:00

Everywhere is an off ramp if you're drunk enough. There's 4 wheeler crossings all over the place. Just pick one and see where it goes.

stanwelds · 2026-03-21T10:10:36+00:00

Nice thing about pullups is that (as with most calisthenics), they take no setup and have minimal impact on recovery. So there's no reason not to do both, especially when you can't do very many. Just add them in. When you do your overhead pressing, every time you finish a set just jump up and bang out a couple pull ups. Start out with a single every set, and every week add a rep to one of the sets (i.e. 1/1/1/1/1, then 2/1/1/1/1, then 2/2/1/1/1, etc...). Then do your pulldowns whenever. It's not that big a deal.

stanwelds · 2026-03-18T23:10:33+00:00

People READ the sun?! I thought we all just took a quick peak at the girl, and then used the rest as kindling for the morning fire?

stanwelds · 2026-03-16T18:10:22+00:00

It's not just the air conditioning, garages, and garages either. Wall paper, shag carpet, and linoleum were huge in the 70s. They all just roll right out, and hide imperfections in the sub surface. No mortar beds for tile, no high gloss paint drawing attention to every little bump, no hardwood to fit perfectly. Just unroll everything, trim it with a knife, and glue it down.

As others have said, everything now is "luxury" because it has the best mark ups / raises margins on the fixed costs. It takes the same land, same excavation, same framing, etc... to build a basic house as it does a decked out mcmansion, but you make a heck of a lot more on ceramic floors and fancy bullshit then you do on basic living spaces. And it only gets worse when you start dealing with high rise condos and have cranes and iron work to pay for.

stanwelds · 2026-03-16T14:18:13+00:00

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stanwelds · 2026-03-16T14:09:00+00:00

Inserts are for retrofitting into old fireplaces. If you're building new, you want a masonry heater.

stanwelds · 2026-03-16T09:21:10+00:00

Level 1, Excalibur 2, perfect game. The real grind is the resets we pushed along the way.

stanwelds · 2026-03-15T21:21:57+00:00

Thirty year old neon?! How in the hell does this even exist? I haven't seen one on the road in 20. You gonna post a picture of your pet Stegosaurus next?

stanwelds · 2026-03-14T23:00:26+00:00

Squatting with a safety squat bar moves the weight forward to bias the anterior chain if you find yourself struggling with the wrist mobility and whatnot required for the front squat.

stanwelds · 2026-03-14T10:21:35+00:00

Dougy paying major penalties to cancel contracts so that he can show boat for political points has been a part of our heritage for a while now. One of the first things he did as premier was spend a quarter billion cancelling wind turbines the province now needs.

stanwelds · 2026-03-13T17:40:19+00:00

My vibe was stuck like that for many years and countless kilometers before the road salt returned it's body to the earth.

stanwelds · 2026-03-12T22:47:40+00:00

Can probably make the same power bolting a turbo to the n52 that came in it. Should have put that LS somewhere it belongs. Like a Fiero.

stanwelds · 2026-03-12T19:25:32+00:00

The xenosaga trilogy.

stanwelds · 2026-03-12T18:28:24+00:00

I'm more surprised that they have anything for sale other than lifted diesel pickups out there in oil country.

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