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For somebody who has no idea about them at all:

When I was a kid in the 80s, a "synthesizer" was an electronic keyboard. Now, a "synthesizer" is a mess of knobs and buttons that looks more like a drum machine than a piano.

So, uh... my Q: "what's a synthesizer?"

Right? Seems like there are ways they could make that less one sided. "Unnamed Canadian man killed in Cancun; Mexican authorities say he had a record of gang activity". And the preview contradicts the headline -- was he killed at the resort or at a mall?

I have trouble believing that petition matters since it reads like business as usual for the CPC. The only thing that stands out is that it doesn't specifically call out the carbon tax.

I was thinking it's not too late but the Bloc would never support a system with PR outcomes since it's the FPTP system that gives regional-intense groups like them outsized power.

A shame. I still insist that a regional-based open-list MMP would be the ideal fit for Canada.

http://angryflower.com/513.html

The problem is that 70 years ago a massive baby-boom happened and there aren't enough people in Canada to keep the economy and healthcare system running properly as those people all become systemic burdens. Immigration is the only thing that keeps our demographic system from being as upside-down as every other 1st-world country.

And student-immigration is actually the best kind, because they're young and healthy and already finished the expensive free-education-schooling-years and are ready to go right into the workforce after they dump a crapload of money into the educational economy.

The problem, of course, is that in order to make this work, you have to make sure there's enough housing. And instead, we stopped building government-funded housing 30 years ago, and we let municipalities declare new housing basically illegal (well, it's legal if you Know A Guy, which is why all the builders are mobsters now). And also we don't have enough people to build as much as we need.

So yeah, the Fed has some good ideas and a reasonable top-level economic plan but they've screwed up the details catastrophically.

Basically, the "no immigration" path is either Logan's Run or every young person gets taxed to the gills as we try to support an elder-heavy country on an increasingly anemic economy. How much "opportunity" does that sound like for your kids?

Which is why immigration is still important, as long as we're focusing on bringing people who will be filling needs to help with our various crises.

Doctors, nurses, builders, etc. Not business students.

I love the concept but that gameplay looks hella repetitive. Combined with a black and white art style that could get tiring, I'm worried about longevity.

This. They could've offered literally any other plan, like saying "we're charging fuel-burning home hearing per BTU so oil doesn't cost much more than natural gas and offering more subsidies for heat pumps." or something.

I think I saw some co-op in the Golden Axe. If they lean into the multiplayer I could see it being good fun as a co-op soulslike without the oppressive grimdark atmosphere that tends to define the genre.

Shinobi looks cool, but there are enough amazing pixel-art platformers out there already.

No interest in Streets of Rage.

Crazy Taxi looks like Crazy Taxi. Which is neat but I don't really have nostalgia for that.

I'm mostly disappointed they missed how awesome Armored Core 6 was and didn't jump onto that bandwagon with a new Virtual On game.

Powerstone 2 was basically a Super Smash Bros-style 4-player fighting party-game but with the 3D-platformer gameplay of a Wrestlemania game. Instead of Smash Balls, there were a set of "Stones" where you'd get an ultimate if you got 3 of them. Very fun party/fighting game, much like Smash.

That's Capcom. It was a Dreamcast flagship game but resurrecting it still isn't up to Sega.

Right?

"Hey, I got an idea, let's add some expensive electronics and moving machinery to the most disposable part of the car."

Why would they intentionally screw up so badly idk.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

They probably started with an overambitious design, took some ill-advised short-cuts, and pivoted the to the "extraction" format after they'd already marketed it as a different concept, and made a bad gamble or two. Normal gamedev stuff. Same as every Molyneux game.

A few years back this could've been another No Man's Sky story where they fix it after launch... but that means going deeper and deeper into debt while you salvage the mess you've made. Post-COVID interest rates make that impossible. So now they're broke and the project they spent the last years on is a stinker and they don't have enough runway to fix it.

So they're done.

Uh, have you not seen how many game studios are collapsing? It's more likely an "oh crap we're bankrupt interest rates jumped and we can no longer pay our loans' carrying costs".

The interest rate jump screwed a lot of businesses that depend heavily on loans to make it to profitability.

They probably took one look at their launch-day take, compared it against their loans, and said "fuck this we're filing for bankruptcy and I'm and going to go get a regular-ass job".

Yup. I had that one. It was awesome. Only disappointment was that it wasn't RC.

edit: also isn't Galoob such an AliExpress-ass name for a toy company? Can't you imagine "GALOOB Harrys Potters Wand Gyro Children Luminous Rotating Gun Parents and Children Outdoor Battles Boys Light Toys" next to the lead-painted dildos and self-destructing flash-drives?

So literally this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afofc_Jt86s

edit: gif form (does lemmy support gifs?)

Did they miss the memo on Armored Core 6? If they're bringing back a Dreamcast franchise, it's Virtual On

Tags are a workaround for bad search systems. They've been a solution looking for a problem since platforms started getting better at search.

Imho, Mastodon should be using hashtags like subreddits/lemmy-communities (they have moderators who can control what gets posted under that hashtag) then they'd have a real reason to exist on that platform now that they've got proper search, especially since a F/OSS platform like Mastodon has difficulty with moderating.