CitizenVectron

lol so pretty much the entire path...except Montreal!

My wife and I (and a few friends) are going to Montreal for the weekend to view it. I expect it will be able to handle crowds better than Niagara Falls, but it will still be busy. Fortunately, we're staying in Old Montreal and should be able to walk pretty much anywhere we want to be, while there.

Russia is performing zerg rushes near Vuhledar, throwing columns of APCs and light tanks at the lines. So far Ukraine has destroyed all these attacks. Possibly 90+ armour losses for Russian yesterday alone.

Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees? - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM A gold-standard source shows a stunning boom in U.S. honeybee populations. Could that possibly be right? A Department of Data analysis found two possible explanations, one more surprising than the other. Insect populations are still probably only 10% of what they were 50 years ago, but at least it's one success story.

I also give big credit to indie developers, I was only comparing between the big three. One of my most-played games this past year was Slay the Spire (got into it late) and it's incredible. I'm not spending $80CAD on a AAA game with a 12-hour single-player story when I can spend $15 on a Steam indie game that will get me 15-20 hours of unique content! That's not to say all AAA games are bad. I'd consider BG3 AAA (even if some don't) and it's amazing. It doesn't really push boundaries, but it does max out everything it's trying to do, and it gives the player a huge amount of freedom.

Yep. As far as I am concerned, Nintendo is the only one that is actually pushing boundaries. Graphics don't count as pushing boundaries, by the way—maybe they did back when you could literally make something that looks completely different between gens (I'm thinking SNES->N64 type change), but these days it's incremental. Make games more interesting and more engaging. I'd take 2 AA games and 5 A games that all try new things over 1 AAA game that costs the same to develop and is just the fourth iteration of a franchise with better graphics (and now has paid microtransactions).

Just started Gideon the Ninth, a scifi/fantasy book. Tagline is "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted palace in space." Pretty good so far!

One of my strongest memories of playing GW2 was with D1P (specifically chatting with Wade at the time as I was making food for the clan) and getting a call that my aunt had been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Weird how that stands out.

I really liked GW2 when it launched. Still one of the more fun MMOs for playing solo and just running around.

Russia shot down one of their own jets over Sevastopol today: Pilot managed to eject.

On the one hand, Overwatch with Marvel stuff sounds fun. On the other...I can already tell that the reason it's third-person is because they are going to push skins soooooo hard and they want players to be able to see them. Can't wait for the $15 Wolverine character DLC and the $5 skins (32 in total!).

How is Ukraine detecting low-flying (but slow) drones before they hit civilian targets? They have strapped 8,000+ cellphones connected to mics on poles around the country, allowing for an audio warning system that can track heading and speed. They have detected 84 suicide drones this way, and have shot down 80 of them using AA guns (200 mobile AA teams along the front).

Sounds like the crew did everything they could in the circumstances, and the city as well: Notified authorities within minutes of power trouble Port/city got in touch with the construction crew on either end of the bridge, they managed to stop traffic before the ship hit (unfortunately one crew was in the middle of the bridge and did not escape in time) Crew dropped anchors in desperate attempt to slow The real root causes here are: Infrastructure not meeting modern safety requirements Ships being allowed under their own power rather than by multiple tugs

"Hey we should blow up a bridge." "Awesome, what's the best way?" "Dynamite" "Nice, but that would be discovered too easily. We'll need cover." "I agree. We'll plow a giant ship into the bridge at the same time the dynamite blows." And real people believe this. They also likely believe that it was done to cover for/promote minorities being hired in companies.

UAF is claiming to have hit another landing ship (in dock) with a Neptune missile. For a ground invasion of a country with basically no navy, Russia's fleet losses are devastating. There is a real chance they could lose most of the Black Sea fleet by the time this war is over.

Cargo ship that hit Baltimore bridge was involved in Antwerp collision in 2016 | Baltimore bridge collapse | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM The Dali was reportedly detained in Belgium after scraping side of quay and significantly damaging part of hull in good weather

Diddy's LA home raided by Homeland Security WWW.FOXLA.COM Diddy's Los Angeles home was raided by the feds Monday, officials said. Almost certainly related to the investigations his rapes and sex trafficking allegations.

My wife plays a tonne of cozy games on Switch Lite, but wants even more on Steam (but hates playing on her PC in the evening). Right now the old LCD Decks are on sale in Canada for $499 CAD...is the LCD Deck still a good choice? Or is it worth the $200+ to upgrade to the OLED? Main two choices would be: 256GB LCD - $499 CAD ($367 USD) 512GB OLED - $689 CAD ($507 USD) Any thoughts are appreciated!

At this point in American capitalism (I hate to call it "late stage capitalism" because I don't think it's ever really been that different) I don't think institutional reforms are really that possible. Shareholders and private equity firms (when they control the capital) are hell-bent on extracting as much value in the short term, and if boards want to make that harder (by acting more ethically and slowing profits down for safety, etc) then the boards will just be sacked in favour of ones willing to extract more money.

One of the captured "suspects" has had his ear cut off. The knife is already up for auction in Russia. One suspect has been electrocuted by his genitals (video was released by Russian police). This is what Russia is.

Sounds like Ukraine's strike on Sevastopol may have damaged or destroyed two more large Russian landing ships, possibly three.

14 strategic bombers in the air right now. This will be a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine tonight.

Major issue (unless something has changed) is that they are basically anti-news (political).

Very large Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol right now. 25 to 30 Ukrainian missiles "shot down" (i.e. hit their targets). Some videos of massive explosions at the Russian base. Edit: Looks like Ukraine hit the "Information and Computing Center of the Black Sea Fleet" with at least 3 Storm Shadows.

Putin is now saying that the terrorists were trying to escape to Ukraine, where "a window was opened." Absurd, of course. Also turns out the four Tajik men they've accused are likely all innocent (at least three are not in Moscow).