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Tsundoku, on 04 May 2025 - 10:36 AM, said:

More for solo leveling

DMC... never played the games so no real attachment to the series. (that being said never played castlevania either but that one was a banger)

Chance, on 04 May 2025 - 01:51 PM, said:

May I humbly reccomend you add Re:Creators to the list

Tsundoku, on 04 May 2025 - 12:20 AM, said:

go on...

finally got around to catching up

Gundam Gquuuuuux 4/4: I find the premise is interesting. I'm just lukewarm on everything else. Ill give this one a few more episodes but im very much on the fence of is this good or is this just average.

Lazarus 3/4: The soundtrack is LIT (also super cool that Kamasi Washington is contributor). Im liking this series so far, we will see where it goes. But just on soundtrack and style I'm digging Shinichiro Watanabe's newest work.


And then at some point in the near future we're going to start watching bubblegum crisis. Im overdue for some 80s anime.

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 30 April 2025 - 12:26 PM, said:

All jokes aside, if you're expected to live for thousands of years... considering mimics seem like more of a nuisance then a life threatening danger in this world, I can see why Frieren would hone in on the 1% chance the spell gives a false positive. That scene was quite masterful in being comedic while also giving us insight into the characters thought pattern.

Having only recently finished frieren a few weeks back I can see why the show is so well regarded. It has the right mix of good main character dynamics, interesting secondary characters, novel exploration of ideas and occasional action.

What stood out to me among others was the episode where it was revealed Himmel was never able to take the sword. Yet he still killed the demon king. While it was mentioned that detail was hidden in order to have a simple story, I think it's infinetly more inspiring to tell the story of someone who became a hero despite everything else telling him otherwise. But just seeing that minor detail being explored as part of this greater tapestry gives this show a surprising amount of depth.

At some point I'll also be checking out Solo Levelling. I just am super sceptical the show is good since it's basically another isekai power fantasy.

QuickTidal, on 03 May 2025 - 01:25 PM, said:

I said the western provinces (not sure if you know this but there's more to the west then just alberta). I also just think in general you have a colossal misread of my position. The impetus for this entire conversation is that the west often feel like their issues don't matter as much. That isn't a controversial statement. Even going through and talking to people in northern ontario they feel their issues don't get any airtime at all. As someone who deals with numbers for a living I totally get that you need to min/max your efforts, but if as a result of those approaches, the only people whose grievances get air time are torontonians and montrealers, then maybe there needs to be a shift to try and address some of those issues, not just pretend they don't exist and write off the opinion of those who feel like that as complete loons.

And lets be honest, are you even remotely surprised at what happened with PP? The guy is a career politician. Thats what he does. You don't seriously think he'd retire to become a productive member society now do you? If anything I almost feel bad for the back bencher that stepped down.

Mentalist, on 26 April 2025 - 10:50 PM, said:

Now thats an interesting idea. I'll be honest I hadn't thought about Senate reform. I know many Canadians feel the Senate is useless and should be abolished. The issue when it comes to reforming the Senate, is would changing it's role help solve this issue or other issues, and would it create other problems? If so, are we trading up, or trading down.

Looking to our southern neighbors having a stronger senate may not neccesarily lead to better outcomes, though I'll also disclose I don't know enough about other democracies to be able to make a comprehensive analysis as to whether Senate reform is the way to go.

QuickTidal, on 27 April 2025 - 02:37 AM, said:

The east coast isn't as Vocal as the west, but without evidence to the contrary i'm not going to claim that the maritimes don't have similar feelings. While the population is smaller, if you take BC, (5.7m), AB (5m), Sk (1.3), (1.4m), Thats just over 25% of the entire country. Thats a decent enough chunk to swing any election and make or brake a majority or even form a goverment. I will say that they delayed the publication of results from polls in the EST, Central and Mountain and harmonized them in this election I think is a step in the right direction.

And to be frank, glass houses and rocks my dude. You can't just give me a farcical response to something and then complain when I claim you're being dismissive.

Tiste Simeon, on 29 April 2025 - 01:30 PM, said:

Given the size of the liberal bloc needing only a handful of votes he doesn't even need a formal coalition. Just a handful of MPs from any of the other parties would work. If you turn back the clock to the Harper Era he was able to govern without a coalition as since the opposition was so incompetent, Harper could just dare the opposition to a vote of no confidence, confident the electorate wouldn't care for another election and would likely lash out against the liberal/NDP/PQ for starting an election they didin't want.

Considering PP won't be back until the by-election is done, the NDP need to rebuild without official party status, we're not likely to see an election for at least a year which mean a formal coalition isn't neccesary.