The enclave as a concept of just fascinating. That is another one of my alt-hist (and occasionally irl too) fascinations, is old-government remnants and what do they do? FEDRA in The Last of Us is another one, technically the last remnant of the old USA order, but functionally has degenerated into just another authoritarian faction in the apocalypse. Arguably the Brotherhood of Steel counts too, remnant of the old world US military.
As for IRL, Taiwan is a remnant of the old chinese government before the communists took the mainland, and Belarus actually has 3 governments right now -- the one currently in power , functionally a puppet to Putin/Russia, the transitional government formed abroad in 2022 hoping to replace the puppet government once given the chance, and hosted in Ottawa for over 100 YEARS is the original exiled government of Belarus from the Communist revolution in the 1910s.
I run a few small communities on the fediverse, and its tough trying to start one up. Granted I try to keep mine canadian focused, but its an uphill battle either way. I was never one to volunteer or be an admin of a community, but I wanted to get the ball rolling somehow. Very disheartening to realize I'm the only one posting in the community, esp because I'm just a lurker at heart.
Less weapon modification I think, but largely the same game really. I'd say its worth a replay. I think 4 has more memorable levels than 5, but 5 if a more polished experience. Lots of levels I wanted to replay in 5, but realized "oh shit that was in 4 not 5".
Definitely recommend sniper elite 4, 5 and resistance when on sale. They're functionally the same game for the most part but damn if its not a winning formula.
I think first and foremost that was to be a foil to explain why the Nazis, who were historically irl incompetent, and canonically just as incompetent in game, were able to make such technology. Kinda the same logic between making jewish actors play nazis in movies, its so real nazis IRL cannot as easily idolize them. I think the whole Jewish magi-tech stuff was a bit much too, but I let it slide because it warms my heart how much it probably pisses off irl Nazis.
Yeah im playing it right now and on one hand it feels like I got more Sniper Elite 5. On the other hand, I paid $60 for what feels like just Sniper Elite 5 again. Thankfully I got 5 when it was during the steep discount sale so im kinda averaging like $23 per game between 4, 5, and Resistance. Considering how many hours I've gotten out of them I cant be too upset
I love Indiana Jones as a franchise, concept, and the look of this video game but even at 40% off it'll be $60+ CAD which is a tough sell for one game. Base price its $90 CAD, which is more like $100+ after taxes. I'll definitely play it eventually, but I think ill be playing the waiting game for a super steep discount.
Hard agree, but there are oftentimes apologists who are summoned from these posts or the people who make the argument that idolizing violence against anyone is abhorrent (nazis have families too!! etc etc), which to an extent I can agree with. However I have two history degrees which has given me insight on many topics, one being that non-violent resistance to true tyranny is a borderline myth. I subscribe to the paradox of tolerance .
This looks like a late 2000s game if it were made today, and I mean that as a compliment. I like that they seem to include some aspects of WW2 that are relatively obscure to larger popular media, like the Sino-Japanese war, the German invasion of Greece, and Final days of the German forces in Tunisia.
The cheap price tag definitely makes this a easy pill to swallow too, $10 CAD and not even on sale. Will definitely consider this as a nostalgic medal of honor allied assault spiritual successor
While I did have shooters in mind, I did leave it open for interpretation for any genre of game!
Never heard of the Jagged Alliance series before, but I do enjoy my turn based games. I struggle with RTS games, I like to take my time and be methodical. It's on sale right now for quite a bit so I will consider this, seems similar to XCOM.
All the other games I've played before but are excellent suggestions. HOI4 has become too feature bloated imo, but it is great fun playing as Canada and building the most specialized shock troops of the allies and just shredding holes into the German front lines for the american and british troops to pour though.
In the spirit of the broad interpretation, I think an argument could be made for This War of Mine, as a resistance against fascism in the idea of surviving as ordinary citizens at all costs. But that is more so anti-war than particularly anti-fascism, although the two often go hand in hand of course.
Fuck that does look about what I'm looking for. I really like the alt-history stuff like Wolfenstein where the nazis have "won" but there are still people out there fighting the good fight even in the face of overwhelming tyranny. Reminds me of some advice my uncle used to give me, it doesn't if you won it matters most that you fought back.
It can be quite difficult, but not impossible to stay away from US goods in Canada. Given our geopolitical closeness, truly buying nothing from the US is likely functionally impossible. Somewhere down/up the chain there will be someone using imported things to make the goods you buy.
Me personally, I don't sweat it too much. I buy Canadian when I can, but I don't kill myself over it. The one big thing I draw the line at is foods, I'm not really in a position to be buying more expensive food over morals. If the US bag of carrots are cheaper, I'm buying them. I do however choose the Canadian option if given the chance, and have been having great fun exploring what Canadian alternatives/products are available.
The real hit in all this is the business owners of Canada. I've spoken to quite a few people who do little side businesses and it's largely impossible to sell to the US with the tariffs. Vice versa too, I sometime go on ebay to buy vintage enamel pins, and its just not realistic to drop like $30 on one pin, with most of it being tariffs. It's somehow cheaper to get pins from Britain and France on ebay than from the US now. This is just a small anecdote of the situation of course, but you can imagine how it effects everything else in the economy small and large. I worry that if we return to the status quo, we will be simply economically domesticated by the US.
Big respect on not buying games on steam. Personally if its not on steam, I'm not buying the game. The only exceptions I've ever made was for technically Minecraft, Star Sector, and Vintage Story.
Absolutely correct — I for example know that if I buy my canned teas in bulk at Costco, I will drink WAYYYY more than if I didn’t.
But if it’s items like trash bags or laundry detergent, absolutely buy in bulk because you will use it at a largely fixed rate anyways. Bite the bullet of the higher initial cost IF YOU CAN, and slowly you will save money by ironically spending more money — initially. It’s not so different to the infamous boot economic theory but with food.
Always always always gotta be shopping by price per unit/weight/litre etc etc. it needs to be basic financial literacy that is taught and made accessible by transparency laws like this. It’s crazy the amount of people that I gotta explain why you buy in bulk and why not every food item is actually super worth it at the dollar stores.
Nice! This is a new band for me, I'd been wanting to branch out and hear some more of the newer bands from the Maritimes! I may make this band one of the upcoming featured artists.
Glad to see Angine De Poitrine on there. I mean they are already having their songs played during Habs games.
They have a playlist on their Spotify of other quebecois artists that presumably inspired them, I’d recommend giving it a listen. I believe it’s called “Du Quebec”, which roughly translates to “some Quebec” or “of Wuebec”. There are some iconic French Canadian on there as well as some real underground shit.
Crucial, but depending on the design technically not required! There are designs of planes where the entire plane is just one big wing. Buuuuuuut having the traditional rudder, aileron, and elevator is tried trued and reliable.
The enclave as a concept of just fascinating. That is another one of my alt-hist (and occasionally irl too) fascinations, is old-government remnants and what do they do? FEDRA in The Last of Us is another one, technically the last remnant of the old USA order, but functionally has degenerated into just another authoritarian faction in the apocalypse. Arguably the Brotherhood of Steel counts too, remnant of the old world US military.
As for IRL, Taiwan is a remnant of the old chinese government before the communists took the mainland, and Belarus actually has 3 governments right now -- the one currently in power , functionally a puppet to Putin/Russia, the transitional government formed abroad in 2022 hoping to replace the puppet government once given the chance, and hosted in Ottawa for over 100 YEARS is the original exiled government of Belarus from the Communist revolution in the 1910s.
I run a few small communities on the fediverse, and its tough trying to start one up. Granted I try to keep mine canadian focused, but its an uphill battle either way. I was never one to volunteer or be an admin of a community, but I wanted to get the ball rolling somehow. Very disheartening to realize I'm the only one posting in the community, esp because I'm just a lurker at heart.
Less weapon modification I think, but largely the same game really. I'd say its worth a replay. I think 4 has more memorable levels than 5, but 5 if a more polished experience. Lots of levels I wanted to replay in 5, but realized "oh shit that was in 4 not 5".
Definitely recommend sniper elite 4, 5 and resistance when on sale. They're functionally the same game for the most part but damn if its not a winning formula.
I bought my first sniper elite game the same week after Charlie Kirk got shot
I think first and foremost that was to be a foil to explain why the Nazis, who were historically irl incompetent, and canonically just as incompetent in game, were able to make such technology. Kinda the same logic between making jewish actors play nazis in movies, its so real nazis IRL cannot as easily idolize them. I think the whole Jewish magi-tech stuff was a bit much too, but I let it slide because it warms my heart how much it probably pisses off irl Nazis.
Yeah im playing it right now and on one hand it feels like I got more Sniper Elite 5. On the other hand, I paid $60 for what feels like just Sniper Elite 5 again. Thankfully I got 5 when it was during the steep discount sale so im kinda averaging like $23 per game between 4, 5, and Resistance. Considering how many hours I've gotten out of them I cant be too upset
I love Indiana Jones as a franchise, concept, and the look of this video game but even at 40% off it'll be $60+ CAD which is a tough sell for one game. Base price its $90 CAD, which is more like $100+ after taxes. I'll definitely play it eventually, but I think ill be playing the waiting game for a super steep discount.
Hard agree, but there are oftentimes apologists who are summoned from these posts or the people who make the argument that idolizing violence against anyone is abhorrent (nazis have families too!! etc etc), which to an extent I can agree with. However I have two history degrees which has given me insight on many topics, one being that non-violent resistance to true tyranny is a borderline myth. I subscribe to the paradox of tolerance .
This looks like a late 2000s game if it were made today, and I mean that as a compliment. I like that they seem to include some aspects of WW2 that are relatively obscure to larger popular media, like the Sino-Japanese war, the German invasion of Greece, and Final days of the German forces in Tunisia.
The cheap price tag definitely makes this a easy pill to swallow too, $10 CAD and not even on sale. Will definitely consider this as a nostalgic medal of honor allied assault spiritual successor
While I did have shooters in mind, I did leave it open for interpretation for any genre of game!
Never heard of the Jagged Alliance series before, but I do enjoy my turn based games. I struggle with RTS games, I like to take my time and be methodical. It's on sale right now for quite a bit so I will consider this, seems similar to XCOM.
All the other games I've played before but are excellent suggestions. HOI4 has become too feature bloated imo, but it is great fun playing as Canada and building the most specialized shock troops of the allies and just shredding holes into the German front lines for the american and british troops to pour though.
In the spirit of the broad interpretation, I think an argument could be made for This War of Mine, as a resistance against fascism in the idea of surviving as ordinary citizens at all costs. But that is more so anti-war than particularly anti-fascism, although the two often go hand in hand of course.
Fuck that does look about what I'm looking for. I really like the alt-history stuff like Wolfenstein where the nazis have "won" but there are still people out there fighting the good fight even in the face of overwhelming tyranny. Reminds me of some advice my uncle used to give me, it doesn't if you won it matters most that you fought back.
It can be quite difficult, but not impossible to stay away from US goods in Canada. Given our geopolitical closeness, truly buying nothing from the US is likely functionally impossible. Somewhere down/up the chain there will be someone using imported things to make the goods you buy.
Me personally, I don't sweat it too much. I buy Canadian when I can, but I don't kill myself over it. The one big thing I draw the line at is foods, I'm not really in a position to be buying more expensive food over morals. If the US bag of carrots are cheaper, I'm buying them. I do however choose the Canadian option if given the chance, and have been having great fun exploring what Canadian alternatives/products are available.
The real hit in all this is the business owners of Canada. I've spoken to quite a few people who do little side businesses and it's largely impossible to sell to the US with the tariffs. Vice versa too, I sometime go on ebay to buy vintage enamel pins, and its just not realistic to drop like $30 on one pin, with most of it being tariffs. It's somehow cheaper to get pins from Britain and France on ebay than from the US now. This is just a small anecdote of the situation of course, but you can imagine how it effects everything else in the economy small and large. I worry that if we return to the status quo, we will be simply economically domesticated by the US.
Big respect on not buying games on steam. Personally if its not on steam, I'm not buying the game. The only exceptions I've ever made was for technically Minecraft, Star Sector, and Vintage Story.
Absolutely correct — I for example know that if I buy my canned teas in bulk at Costco, I will drink WAYYYY more than if I didn’t.
But if it’s items like trash bags or laundry detergent, absolutely buy in bulk because you will use it at a largely fixed rate anyways. Bite the bullet of the higher initial cost IF YOU CAN, and slowly you will save money by ironically spending more money — initially. It’s not so different to the infamous boot economic theory but with food.
Depends… do you live in a village or the city?
Always always always gotta be shopping by price per unit/weight/litre etc etc. it needs to be basic financial literacy that is taught and made accessible by transparency laws like this. It’s crazy the amount of people that I gotta explain why you buy in bulk and why not every food item is actually super worth it at the dollar stores.
Nice! This is a new band for me, I'd been wanting to branch out and hear some more of the newer bands from the Maritimes! I may make this band one of the upcoming featured artists.
Love these guys, they're essentially Canadian Dragonforce lol
Glad to see Angine De Poitrine on there. I mean they are already having their songs played during Habs games.
They have a playlist on their Spotify of other quebecois artists that presumably inspired them, I’d recommend giving it a listen. I believe it’s called “Du Quebec”, which roughly translates to “some Quebec” or “of Wuebec”. There are some iconic French Canadian on there as well as some real underground shit.
Crucial, but depending on the design technically not required! There are designs of planes where the entire plane is just one big wing. Buuuuuuut having the traditional rudder, aileron, and elevator is tried trued and reliable.
Oh thats neat! I had no idea this was a thing.