Today is election day in BC. Please get out and vote to keep the BC Conservatives out of office! The fact that a party that promotes dangerous conspiracy theories and promises to roll back transformative housing reforms is this close to forming government is frankly terrifying.
In Toronto? You might’ve heard Presse Internationale’s landlord raised rent by $4000/month. With Toronto retail rent up 67% in 4 years this happens all the time - but rarely gets media. We must protect businesses NOW or many more will disappear. toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10/17/a...
Finally finished work, so I can start focusing on our honeymoon to Japan on Monday and hopefully not so much about the extremely stressful and potentially terrible thing happening in BC tomorrow!
According to one Japanese creative leader, games are being impacted by conservative American "puritanism." According to other American gamers, it's because of liberal "wokeness." Guess what? They're both wrong! Read about it here: blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/when-pop-c...
Dragon Quest III HD-2D and the pitfalls of producing content in a polarized world
It's starting to feel like nobody cares if a QAnon nut job gets elected as premier of BC, but John Rustad has stated that he would support "Nuremberg 2.0" trials for doctors and officials involved with COVID-19 public health measures. globalnews.ca/news/1079766...
After Comments by the BC Conservative leader surfaced, he said comparing the Nuremberg trials or Nazi Germany to COVID-19 public health measures is unacceptable.
A major appeal of the original Ranma 1/2 was that it contained frequent casual nudity and treated it like it was no big deal. This was a popular example of how anime was different from other media, and it's something that was celebrated. Kind of feels like we're supposed to be ashamed of it now.
I've been waiting for someone to make a video about this! I really hope that governments take more action to improve the variety of street level retail in Metro Vancouver which is being consumed by dentists, nail salons and currency exchanges. youtu.be/IeUbMs2kZSU?...
YouTube video by Adrian Mak
