BenVimes

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[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I played a lot of the second game. I borrowed it from the library on a whim and it captured my imagination like very few other things did. I remember always checking the CD-ROMS in every visit after that to see if it was available again, and snatching it to every time it was.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It might have been 22 Minutes instead of Air Farce, and it might have been Stockwell Day instead of Preston Manning. I couldn't find a video clip using any combination of show and politician.

As I said, it's deep memory from long ago. I mostly remember it for personal reasons and not the actual joke. But, you've reassured me that it wasn't just a hallucination on my part.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's the Christian Heritage Party. I've known several people who have voted for them at one time or another.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Somewhere deep in my memories there is a Royal Canadian Air Farce skit about Preston Manning (I think) and how he "didn't campaign on Sundays." The joke is that him highlighting his supposed piety of respecting the Sabbath was, in and of itself, an act of campaigning. I did a quick search for the skit and couldn't find it, unfortunately.

Now, decades later, we have a party leader not just campaigning on Sunday, but making political speeches from the pulpit. I can't help but think this is a step backwards.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Other users have pointed it out: this data set likely includes induced births and c-sections, neither of which would be scheduled on a holiday.

You can also see a dip around 4 July, so this data is probably from the USA

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Wasn't the "sigma" personality just invented by incels when they realized that "being alpha" didn't work the way they thought it did and therefore they needed a new paradigm to keep their worldview from collapsing? Or am I remembering that wrong?

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It took a lot of inspiration from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, but the two games had basically the same creative team anyway.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I'll point out that you can use Dragon Age Keep to plan out key choices in the narratives of the first two games, and even create a world state for import into Inquisition. Helpful if you want to play Inquisition and want a refresher and/or don't want to replay the earlier games

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wordle 1,102 3/6*

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spoilerThat is not how this word is spelled in my country.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Different denominations have different traditions. Christianity is not a monolith and has split many, many, many times.

My experience is that the more separated the church is from the oldest denominations, the less likely the priest or pastor is to wear "traditional" garb. The church in the picture is some flavour of southern evangelical, and so is pretty far removed from Roman Catholicism.

I grew up in a reformed Calvinist tradition and the pastors always wore suits. In later years, younger pastors would even ditch the jacket in the summer.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think those screenshots look like something closer to Ogre Battle or the recently released Unicorn Overlord rather than any RTS.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Wordle 1,099 4/6*

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The answer was fairly obvious after my third guess.

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