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Sturgist

Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Sweet scribbles

  • It's a goddamn masterpiece

  • Yes, Hasbro wants to make another Baldur’s Gate game that continues to “raise the bar” without Larian

    Pfffffff.... Hasbro has a great reputation for being greedy as fuck, and completely deaf blind and dumb to what fans love and enjoy about established IPs. So I'm sure whatever travesty they release will be just great 👍

  • So....got a link to anything credible backing that up?

  • That's nice....wonder how much the growing excitement for the Skyblivion project and the progress they've been making influenced Bethesda's decision to remaster Oblivion. My guess is that they caught wind a while back, saw people were interested, and decided that there's enough interest to churn out a "quick" remaster, try and beat Skyblivion to completion, and milk the cash cow dry.
    It'll almost certainly be a muddy sepia, soulless, bugged to all fuck travesty. Hope the Skyblivion team is able/allowed to complete the project. I'd be super angry if they were sent a cease and desist....

  • My mum was at a party a few months before Pickton started being investigated, he was there and invited her to an after party at his. Luckily one of her friends knew his reputation for having Native women disappear from his property and warned her not to go.

    When people say that the FN community feels hostile or standoffish to them, suspicious of them...they never seem to remember that we're still actively being oppressed in a lot of ways. There's almost never an admission to the wrongs still being committed against the First Nations people in Canada and the US.

  • The Ford government got hoodwinked.

    Press X to doubt.... Over-under favours Ford getting a tidy sum to act surprised.

  • Yeah, samesies. Which is why I mentioned it. Try and give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but that only goes so far.

  • Nope, nah, nuh uh. Factually untrue. Minimum 50% of those issues are due to....checks notes....yeesh, sorry...you had it right.

  • Correct. Skoda cars factually have no wings. Can confirm.

  • And the owner, don't forget that Mr Desperate To Be Loved is also a flailing tire fire....

  • Yeah, you're gonna have to be more specific....that doesn't actually narrow it down much

  • Canadian Association of University Teachers for the curious. Full text is below, emphasis and bracketed commentary is mine.

    Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
    In addition, CAUT recommends that academics who fall into the following categories exercise particular caution:

    • Citizens or residents of a country identified in media reports as likely to be subject to a travel ban.
    • Citizens or residents of a country where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S. (so everyone)
    • Travellers with passport stamps evidencing recent travel to countries that may be subject to a travel ban or where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S.
    • Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
    • Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration.
    • Travellers who identify as transgender or whose travel documents indicate a sex other than their sex assigned at birth.

    Academics should carefully consider what information they have, or need to have, on their electronic devices when crossing borders and take actions to protect sensitive information where necessary.

  • @[email protected]

    From what I could see in the video I disagree with HonoredMule. They look sturdy, and built at least to code, and likely much better judging from the few segments where you get a half decent look at the window and door frames.

    I do wonder why they're not made like "strip malls" or designed to connect with an enclosed cavity between.

    It's cheap sound proofing, and maybe it's easier to adjust to the site?

    There's a few reasons I can think of off the top of my head:

    • sharing a wall, even if only slightly connected like with an "enclosed cavity" does in fact let sound travel much easier
    • easy rearrangement is also likely a factor
    • having an enclosed cavity creates a space for debris and vermin to gather
    • also makes access for any regular inspections and maintenance very difficult
    • fire loves enclosed cavities

    $7,500 is probably six months rent in most Canadian cities. If they last a few months longer than that, it's probably a win.

    Without physically being there to look at the quality of work, or seeing video/extensive photos of the construction it's really impossible to say how long these would last unmaintained without anything like a massive catastrophic weather event or a fire or whatever. I'd say that barring the aforementioned disaster scenarios, and absolutely no maintenance whatsoever? These structures would easily be habitable and safe for minimum 5 years.
    I doubt that they'll go longer than 6 months without an inspection and routine maintenance considering the project seems to have broad approval and support from the community and several levels of government.

  • New Democratic Party @lemmy.ca
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    Richmond East-Steveston(BC) riding question.

    Anyone tied in with the BC NDP? I'm an export(I hate the term expat, doesn't apply to me, always be a Canadian regardless of where I live) currently in the UK. Elections.ca says the candidate registration deadline is the 7th, and details to be released 9th. But I'm a bit antsy to see who's running for my registered riding. It'd be nice to have a chance to look into who I'm going to be voting for. My main concern is that sometimes mail can take quite a while to get through to home from here, and I want to be able to send my ballot as early as possible so I'm positive that it will get to Ottawa before 6pm of the 28th.
    As we all know this election has a lot potentially hanging on the outcome, and I want my say counted.

    Thanks for any info or thoughts. ✊

    Lemmy.ca Support / Questions @lemmy.ca
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    Photo upload for embedded in comments, intermittent success/failure

    Using Voyager, so maybe an issue with how it's communicating with the picture services?

    3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    I recently came into a 2nd hand 3dSystems Cube3...with no power lead

    Just hoping someone here can give me info on the pin out of the power lead so I can buy a replacement. I contacted 3dSystems, and they sent me the EoL package along with the code to unlock the printer. The EoL package has not been helpful for the power supply issue, and weeks of combing the web and forums has come up with nothing. So I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

    Thanks for any help you lovely folk can come up with!

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    Sturgist @lemmy.ca

    Issues with Discord

    Hey all, had some weirdness with the native discord app on Arch today. Was trying to screen share and discord just noped, went hunting for logs but no dice. I tried a few different programs with screen share, but it just seems to completely nuke disord. Any ideas? Anyone else have the same issue? Any clue where I might find crash logs?

    Edit: installed Vesktop, problem went away, thanks everyone for the input.

    Photography @lemmy.world
    Sturgist @lemmy.ca

    Lamp Outside Work

    Unedited picture below.

    Wallpapers @lemmy.ca
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    View down the Forth Valley with the Haar(6432×3136)

    Sunrise with the Haar, Wallace Monument left middle. Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland. Taken from the French Spur

    Wallpapers @lemmy.ca
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    Frost on the QA Gardens (3648×2763

    Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland

    Wallpapers @lemmy.ca
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    Fog Off the Prince's Walk (3648×2736

    View off the Prince's Walk SW with the Queen Anne gardens in the foreground.
    Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland

    Vita Piracy - Discussion of all things related to piracy on the PS Vita @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Sturgist @lemmy.ca

    I've messed myself up cheating in Trails in the Sky: FC Evolution

    I don't have a pre-cheat save, and I'm stuck in Ruan because I have turned in one of a stack of key items, but since I still have a load of them I can't progress. Also can't hand the item back more than once. Looking like I'll have to either find a save that's around the same area as I am, or start from scratch......

    If anyone has any idea how to delete items from your inventory.....for the love of f**k please clue me in....

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How do I setup 2FA on lemmy?

    The title says it all

    Project: Gorgon @lemmy.ca
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    OMFG! YOU GUYS ARE FINALLY HERE!

    The PG sub was one of the ones I've been missing, glad you guys are here!