There are two communities I would really like to see some traffic driven to:
[email protected] - Celebrating Canadian music
[email protected] - Celebrating Canadian games, gamedevs and studios
I think these would be an easy add to the Canadian Social / Culture section.
Chill, it's not meant to be that deep.
This is a community that seeks to celebrate and spread word of Canadian games and studios. I figured it would be nice to have a discussion and come to some kind of conclusion on how we determine if a game or studio is Canadian. Nothing more, nothing less. Any political commentary beyond that can be had in other more relevant communities.
For a gamedev, an individual person? Just being Canadian, I suppose. For a studio? I think it should be by being based in Canada, even if it is owned by a larger entity based elsewhere (Such as the Ubisoft Montreal branch) For the game itself? Made by a Canadian studio.
I took the initiative and actually emailed their support email address and asked them how much of the company is based in Canada. Hopefully I hear from them soon!
I hope it is not a situation where the studio just happened to be founded/owned by a Canadian. A Canadian owning a company does not make it a Canadian company -- by that logic, twitter/x is a Canadian company.
I think this community should decide what exactly constitutes a "Canadian Game" or Studio.
Fair -- it is a bit of a grey area in that regard. I've been playing Rimworld for about 5 years now, and can attest that a large majority of the Game's creative direction is from Tynan himself. The wikipedia article for Rimworld elaborates on the development history of Rimworld a bit more, and seem to imply it was at least originally created in Canada, back when it was just Tynan and a few other devs.
Could be worth directly asking the studio how Canadian they are or consider themselves to be. They are rather active with the community with a active community engagement person on the subreddit.
Tynan Sylvester / Ludeon Studios, creator of Rimworld. Based in Ottawa (or that is where he lives according to his LinkedIn atleast.
Well, the idea is to make the roads safer -- not turn a profit. If people stop speeding so much, they can always take them down again. 6 a day seems like a very achievable number for a long time though.
If the streets are safer for it, then its a worthwhile investment. Especially if you consider the alternative of enforcement would be hiring another police officer, which undoubtably would cost more and be limited in their ability to catch every person speeding. Suppose an argument could be made to say these cameras are taking police officer's jobs, but frankly I think traffic enforcement should be below them, and let them focus on more real crimes going on.
It seems really promising. Even my mother who voted MAGA in America really likes Carney. He is absolutely swaying many conservatives with how comically overqualified he is for the position.
As fun as that would be, I don't think it would be productive. It is to everyone's benefit that Canada and the US remains friends, but we need to start imagining a world where that isn't possible anymore.
You've done nothing to try to convince me that I am incorrect. You've not engaged with my original argument with any logical reasoning or facts. You haven't even tried. All you've done is degrade my degrees and try to bully me out of my opinion like a little school child. In fact, I am beginning to suspect I really am speaking to a child -- even wishing that you could physically smack me instead when losing an argument.
Nothing I said is revisionism but solid fact. It is simply making new conclusions on new emerging research and historical sources -- something that you have no idea about because you're not a historian. Historians disagree all the time on the same historical events. You'd know this if you ever read more than one book on the same historical topic instead of taking the first one you read as gospel.
I stand by what I originally said. You are not equipped to debate history.
They don't ship to the US, bummer. I'll have to pick some up once I am back to living in Canada.
Same! I've got 3,250 hours on it. Tynan really keeps it on the down low that he is based in Canada!
It's strange, somehow nearly all of my favourite games are Canadian made. Despite being disconnected from Canada by living in the US for over a decade, so many of my favourite musicians, games, movies and even youtubers are Canadian. Stuff Canadians make just appeals to me more often than not, and it makes me feel fuzzy and like I'm still Canadian despite being gone for so long. So excited to move back this year.
That is hard to quantify and verify, as most of these studios are privately owned and not required to publicly disclose that type of information.
I'd agree this would be the way, if only we could actually verify this. I think a physical studio/space in Canada is the best compromise because that is something we can actually verify with simple online sleuthing. Remote work is only increasing, and does make this complicated.