Canada actually has the borders closed except for essential businesses like shipping supplies, and family. You can't "easily" cross the border right now.
The border is so huge it's hard to control exactly. Some time ago a number of American tourists were caught in Alberta and fined.
Though using Canada to get to the EU is quite a leap different.
Smash 4 doesn't plays quite like Brawl either.
It's similar enough. That floaty/defensive type of play
I don't have a switch so this game hasn't been on my radar. But I just looked at the roster and it looks pretty sweet.
I'm assuming this game will play more like Brawl/Smash 4 though, as opposed to melee.
I think class more than anything. The women's colleges I know do try hard to make sure their students are diverse, but if anything they have to be careful they don't have TOO many Asian girls, or the balance will go off the other way. My cousin went to Wellesley (alma mater of Hillary Clinton), and going to her graduation I swear every time they called a common Asian surname there would be this giant line of girls. Seriously, when "Kim" was announced I thought they would never end.
Although Wellesley has extra attraction to Asian families because Madame Chiang-kai Shek went there. They have a porcelain elephant from her in the Admissions office and everything.
Do these schools also blatantly discriminate against Asian students like Ivy League schools do? Because with the latter I have no idea why that's even remotely considered acceptable.
I can't remember the last time I had a class where the girls weren't the ones standing for the majority of the hands raised, joining student councils and administrating trips for the whole class. A girl taking up the role of the class mommy is damn near inevitable, whether it'd be the kids of a bunch of rich yuppies or otherwise. There is however a noticeable trend for guys to act dumber than they actually are and never commit to anything except the bare minimum because I guess they want to come of all flippant about school.
That's been my experience in my entire schooling life too.
I wonder when US politicians started saying 'Judeo-Christian' as opposed to just Christian
This doesn't make any sense. My understanding was that Quebec was immigrant leery because immigrants ignore French and go right to English in terms of becoming Canadian, outside of that though multi-culturalism would be if anything exactly what French-Canadians should be all about. Versus the Anglo cultural overshadowing.
It's not just about language. Like La Meute wouldn't be happy with a Senegalese hijabi being allowed to immigrate to Canada, just because she speaks French. I think it's similar to places like Newfoundland or the Maritimes- Quebec just has a stronger ethnic identity than most of the country and xenophobia stems from not wanting that identity to change.
I really disliked that whole 'capture a wight and make an armstice' plot but I think they've dealt with it as well as they could now. Should be an entertaining coming season now that all the drama is straightforward and they can just show us massive battles every episode. I don't think there will be any serious conflict between Jon and Dany given how selfless a person he is, but who knows.
I don't think she would ever do this, but it would be wise… and curently were all of them are like we dont want to fight each other and we dont want to burn citys? By sending all her armies to the north and letting Daenerys take the throne after the figth against the night king it would be easy for here to make a deal that she can have the rock with jamie.
She doesn't trust Dany to uphold a deal. She views maintaining power and being safe as basically identical. She can imagine negotiating a deal and then seeing herself executed anyway, it's certainly something she'd do in the opposite position anyway.
Found Breath of the Wild at the library! So finally playing this sob.
The graphics are quite bad tbh. It's not like other Nintendo games, they're too ambitious for what the Wii U is capable of rendering. And I guess a year of PC gaming has spoiled me. And I'm more than a little peeved that they didn't include any touchpad features.
Anyway I'm not very far into the game. I like the physics puzzles and experimenting with cooking. Combat seems like it could really creative if you use the sheikah tablet powers.
This whole armistice storyline feels cheap when we know Daenerys can just descend upon King's Landing and roast Cersei with minimal civilian casualties. Like they've presented Jon and Daenerys with a false dilemma basically.
Just caught up on this season. Some thoughts:
I think it's entirely reasonable to want primarily English literate immigrants, who will provide the most economic and social benefits to the US. The idea that this is racist is absurd.
I'm actually really, really surprised that this isn't the case already for the US.
their nation is a land of immigrants, and that immigration is the very foundation of the nation and why it prides itself as the melting pot. America is unique, and thus its immigration policies is, and should be, unique.
This is far from unique, and it applies to most of the Americas + Australia and New Zealand.
What's wrong with the control scheme? I've heard a few people mention it ( I don't have the game)
The wallet upgrades were probably the worst thing about Ocarina of Time, it seriously felt bad opening a chest only find it's a ton of rupees you can't use. I certainly don't want a whole game of that feeling.
Rainbow Six Siege. I hate it's pricing model so much but good god is it addicting. A tense game about strategic positioning punctuated by really intense periods of gunplay.
Mario Odyssey looks pretty great, so does Zelda.
Splatoon 2 doesn't look like it has much going for it to justify it's existence. Maybe if it came with a full-fledged single-player mode, but there's no evidence of that. And also, doesn't a side-step/dodge defeat the point of swimming in ink to dodge?
As usual the Switch appears reasonably priced but on closer inspection it's pretty terrible value-wise. 32 GB of internal memory- why? I'm pretty sure I can buy a PS4 for less too.
Also I wouldn't mind paying for online if Nintendo had a level of service comparable to XBL, but it no doubt won't. Using your smartphone to chat sounds like the most clueless Nintendo-y thing ever.
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edit: not to mention I think the point of my post was missed about how people keep complaining about a system not getting support while concurrently asserting they will ONLY buy it if a hyper specific first-party title happens for it. This makes no sense.
I think you'd want both
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So I just read that Breath of the Wild is a 13.4 GB download on the Switch. Goodbye to half your available internal memory if you buy it digitally.
It's honestly pretty impressive that they kept it so small. I'm downloading Assassin's Creed Unity as I type this, and it's 50 gb
"The only people who have ever had Yerushalayim as a capital have been the Jews,"
Is this even true btw? Surely at least the Kingdom of Jerusalem had the city as its capital for a little while.
@Cyan:
basic paper ballots that need to be hand-counted.
That's kind of insane, why not use a scantron type machine to count them?
Yes, they should. Our country's elections should not be decided by California, Texas and New York. Combined, they make up nearly 1/3rd of our population and none of them are swing states.
Lol, did you even read what you wrote… If they make up only 1/3 of the US population then they wouldn't be deciding a popular vote election!
There are Democrats in Texas and Republicans in California, millions of them. But their votes mean relatively little compared to some suburban Pennsylvanian city. And this is a 'fairer' tally of the American electorate to you? Even the reliably red rural states don't get much attention from presidential candidates.
It looks like the more sparsely populated states already have a lot of disproportionate power in the House, there's nothing wrong with letting the President be decided by the popular vote. At the very least, EC votes by state can be handed out proportionally instead of a winner take all system.
Plus, goodluck with Keystone with Trudeau in power in Canada… at least I hope.
No Trudeau has said repeatedly that he supports the construction of the pipeline. Trump has as well, but his whole rhetoric about patriotic trade-deals and profit sharing might complicate things. This would be really good for Alberta.
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Trump won 31 states to Clintons 19 and was leading her all the way in the popular vote until she defeated him overwhelmingly in the far-left leaning California. It's not perfect, but the electoral college allows for a more broad perspective on how the entire country feels as opposed to allowing just a couple of titan states likes Texas or California decide entire elections all on their own. That's my take on why we use an electoral college, anyway.
California doesn't decide the popular vote on its own. You're acting like there aren't any Republicans in California, or that some of the votes in the swing states weren't really close (Pennsylvania for example). The EC makes Trump's victory look much larger than it was because it's winner take all.
Well I certainly hope the Democrat's lesson from this is not to whitewash their message and start pretending racism and sexism doesn't exist. This whole 'poor disenfranchised white voter' narrative smells like bullshit- did they or did they not control Congress for most of Obama's term?
The one good thing is that the Keystone pipeline may get built I guess.
Think I got this right.
So with North Carolina going to Trump, is there any other way Clinton can win now?
Instead of they to go all Street Fighter to Smash, I prefer they to wait 3 years or so to actually deliver Smash 5.
Yeah me too. I just don't like Smash 4 very much and I would like a totally new game that's not so defense/turtling orientated. (It won't happen)
Also, will the Switch be more powerful than the Wii U? The fact that it's portable and the rumours it will be sold for $250 USD leads me to believe otherwise.
So what about the new world Caths, can they just smack up a church in a teardown down the street or do they need the bishop to survey and approve that shit beforehand. I sorta feel like i've never seen a really shady catholic church in the way i've seen like basement churches or mosques. Feels more regulated somehow.
I had no idea how many random podunk churches were around me until I played Pokemon GO
This is mine. Apparently I sound both like a Southerner and a New Yorker.
I'm deeply startled that "sneakers' is a super strict Northeast regionalism. I thought that was outright vanilla American wide English.
We say sneakers in Toronto too but more often we use more specific terms. Running shoes, low-tops, skates, kicks, the brand, there's a lot of them.
Jumping on leaf piles unfortunately doesn't work that well anymore when you're a heavy adult without fluffy snowpants.
Best thing about fall is Halloween, easily. Also my university is giving us a whole weekend for thanksgiving next week, which is nice.
Worst thing is the clothing situation, at least in early fall. You dress for 5-10 degree Celsius weather in the early morning and then your car becomes an oven when it goes to 20 degrees with full on sun in the afternoon.
Platforming games are nightmare to play on a phone. I do not like where this is going at all. The mobile platform is full of money, and I hope that Nintendo doesn't forget about handhelds.
On the other hand, I don't much care for 2D Marios anymore. They are such a bore to me now. 3D Marios have lost their spark, too.
You trippin 3D Marios, are better than they've ever been. 3D World is basically Galaxy 2 but with better controls and multiplayer, it's absolutely fantastic.
Been playing the Far Cry games. I was playing Far Cry 3 but it froze and I lost a huge chunk of progress, so I just said fuck it and started playing Far Cry 4.
And they're really great open world games! I felt like something exciting was going to happen every time I wondered out into the forests. They've got a good, open ended approach to their missions. It's usually just 'kill these enemies in this area in whatever way you want'. As opposed to the scripted nonsense that plagues so many other open world games (i.e GTA).
I know a lot of people criticize Ubi open world games as being just endless series of menu upgrades and checklists, and that describes the AC games really well. But the shit you have to do in Far Cry to complete those checklists is genuinely fun, and it results in a little bit of progress every time you want to just fuck around in the world. Except for the towers though, they're completely pointless beyond the traveling you have to do to get to them.
Yeah somehow this French style secularism tends to only really inconvenience some religions. The PQ here proposed a bill that would ban public servants from wearing turbans and hijabs, but allow religious necklaces.
TOTAL COINCIDENCE that Catholics tend to wear necklaces more than turbans
I kinda like the idea of a portable/home console hybrid. I could buy into Nintendo's entire current library at once.
Nintendo's pretty bad at regularly supplying either the 3DS or the Wii U with a steady supply of games, and part of that problem is that their focus is split between the two.
Of course I'd rather that they release a powerful console with better online communication features but that's a pipe dream I think.
Bernie people should encourage him to start his own party after the election and take a bunch of Democrat politicians with him. He seems perfectly poised to do so.
I don't understand the rationale for no music. Just because the map is really open, doesn't mean they can't change music in different areas? Also not enthused about degrading weapons, I don't like that kind of micro-management.
Other than that game looks pretty great.
If you're saying that high-profile news items like this might bring additional attention/visibility to poaching issues and the like, then sure, I guess. But it sounds like you're saying "poachers actually help animals because they force the funding and creation of measures to protect the animals… from those very poachers!" Which is pretty dumb. Might as well say "hey murderers are great for the population because they help fund prisons to jail murderers."
Habitat loss is often a bigger issue for these animals and in that sense organized hunting can be really beneficial. With limited quotas on the amount of animals that can be killed each year you can create a sustainable population and the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the hunters spend can then be put into conservation efforts.
Ancho-V games is such a great stage. It's just so delightfully chaotic with the rising platforms and the small center area. Perfect for carbon rollers.
I like how they've started implementing features from the single player in the new maps. Though I still haven't gotten the chance to check them all out.
I decided to play ranked again, after not playing it for ages to protect my S rank. Ended up sliding back to A+ as soon as I did…
Punjabis pretty much dominate the popular conception of 'Indian' here in Canada
Am I the only one who went to see Avatar and was NOT that impressed with the 3D?
Really the 3D movie that has impressed me the most was Coraline. And now I don't go see 3D movies because they give me headaches.
The visuals were great but I totally didn't get the 3D hype either. Ditto on getting headaches. I have a lazy eye, I dunno…
It doesn't seem to be dying at all either.
Well it's a good thing Azami isn't actually part of that cooking noble family, now I can properly hate him
Amazon just listed the digital version of TPHD for $49.99. If you don't care about the Amiibo, you have that $10 price drop to look forward to.
Geez. At a time when other companies are selling 3 in 1 HD collections for $20 you'd think Nintendo could be just a little less miserly
Are folks actually invested in seeing Avatar 2? I could have sworn that after the initial viewing, most folks have become jaded to it and realized how "meh/terrible" it was (err aside from the visuals). I have yet to hear anyone actually excited for the prospect of Avatar 2.
I don't think anyone's invested right now. It's been so long since the first one and the story wasn't interesting enough to generate interest about new plotlines. But that will change once the marketing machine starts moving again.
I'll definitely see it in theatres just for the visuals. These are the only kinds of movies I like seeing in theatres, otherwise I feel like it's just a waste of money.
Just saw the movie yesterday and am really surprised at all the praise it's getting. There was really just too much fan service. I was expecting a lot of dumb references to the older movies, but not the plots to be straight up copied. Very, very lame.
Also I couldn't take the villains seriously. That giant guy looks like a cross between Voldemort and Jean Cretien. Kylo looks like he's 15, though that might have been the point.
I liked the chemistry between Finn and Rey I will say.
Next european splatfest: 12.12.15
Pineapple or no pineapple on a pizza?Whoever thinks of those topics.. I want his job.
This is actually an amazing topic. It's really strangely polarizing. I like Hawaian pizza but some people really hate the idea of pineapples on pizza for some reason.
The Conservatives in Canada did a similar thing. They tried to drum up support by making wearing 'niqabs during the citizenship oath' an issue out of nowhere. This…is on a bigger scale though.
But my mom actually agreed with what Trump was saying. "Canada should do this too so the muslims don't come here and outbreed everyone like India" were her words. And then she started talking about the 93 bombings of Bombay like she does every single time someone brings up islam.
With the Luna blaster, which has almost no range, it's equally exasperating to pop up in someones face, hit them, and then they survive. It's a death sentence. The entire point of the damn weapon is that it's super lower range and fire rate, but it's supposed to be a sure kill. When I tried a sniper for a bit what shocked me was the instances where I'd have a shot lined up and release the trigger only for nothing to happen. Gun decides not to fire. Uhhh wat?
Blasters have a weird range where if you're too close you'll miss. Basically the bubble's pop is the hit radius so you can end up firing the bubble behind the opponent and have it completely miss
A sniper that can hold an entire team at bay deserves it. That shit ain't easy.
Best weapon against snipers holding an area is stealth ninja. They'll try to block your path of course but try and be sneaky. Lay down multiple paths so the sniper won't know which one you're going for. If you're a roller just give up and accept your faith
There's apparantly a lot of non-USA people who think Arkansas is pronounced Ar-Kansas and not Ar-Kan-Saw.
Yeah I'm constantly forgetting it's supposed to be arkansaw until someone on tv or whatever says it right
And then it's the opposite with Detroit somehow. The name is too french, I read it mentally as day-troa everytime.
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We have Athens, Dublin, London, Palestine, and Paris in just Texas alone. There's also a China, TX, Ireland, TX, and an Egypt, TX.
Our Canadian Berlin was renamed to Kitchener after WW1, lol
Yeah /pol/ is way too much for me but sometimes I can stand /int/
I've seen people there from really small countries too
Kind of shitty night of playing. Most of the stage modifications are worse IMO, and the new ranking system (both for unranked and ranked) seems meh. The lag is at least as bad. There's some interesting new gear I guess. The one thing I found super refreshing was the new music. Even the one that's just a remix of an existing theme.
I still have to figure out how the Splatling is even supposed to be used in turf wars. I guess strategically it's kind of similar to a sniper? Does feel weird.
The Slosher I don't know. Almost everyone I see using it is basically treating it like a Blaster. In other words, jump up and dump ink at someone, swim to the side (or whatever strategy calls for), rinse and repeat. Only staying above ink to do a mid-air fling. I can't really do that. It's okay at covering ground and it's reasonably powerful, but I always find myself taking at least two hits to kill and it never worked well. I want to give it more of a chance at some point but I dunno.
I think Splatling is kinda like a sniper but more squiffer than e-liter.
Definitely requires you to play defensively and predict your opponent's moves well but it still has mobility
You pretty much ned to use the splat wall constantly because of the charge time.
The slosher I'm finding more fun. It as a good amount of range and great when it comes to sloshing upwards or over obstacles.
I don't think it can kill without at least two shots, but I could be wrong. It's a bit like the nozzlenose in that you have to time your trigger finger right. It's not as slow as the blaster to get another hit in so you gotta spam it a little.
Also how do squad battles work?? I'd totally join a squad with peeps here
Or play private battles, whatever
I nominated Punch Out but I like the idea of playing Metal Gear Solid for this
Dude Akainu was about to kill Coby in the middle of the war, for a really dumb reason at that. He's pretty evil. Did you forget about him blowing up that ship of innocent civilians at Ohara? And his whole beef with the Celestial Dragons was that they caused him to lose face, that's it.
He's different form the kind of chaotic evil Blackbeard is but it's obvious he only cares about a kind of top down, perverse justice that has nothing to do with the rule of law
Sengoku we've seen actually demonstrate some kindness.
If he could eat multiple devil fruits, Blackbeard wouldn't be so special now would he?
I don't like the ope ope fruit idea. Kaidou most likely has some special devil fruit that helps, but I think Oda was mostly trying to show us how strong this guy is. He's so powerful he can't even kill himself type of thing