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  1. Comment on 30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis in ~life

  2. Comment on 12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote in ~society

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    I read this as actually mocking the Intelligencer piece more than Millenials honestly. I'm a quintessential millenial and I truly don't find caricatures like that insulting at all. At least among...

    I read this as actually mocking the Intelligencer piece more than Millenials honestly. I'm a quintessential millenial and I truly don't find caricatures like that insulting at all. At least among my group of friends, I find we lean into them. If I make anything with an avocado you can be SURE my boyfriend is going to make a crack about us not living in a house. We tell people we can't get married because we have to kill the diamond industry, and that even though we honestly work ridiculous hours we are obviously THE laziest most entitled brats on the planet.

    Now I understand how we've been berated with this shit for at least the past decade minus the sarcasm, and that it is really affecting people our age. However; I find articles like the OP far more harmful and reinforcing of negative stereotypes than a satirical piece posted here.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What are some of your favorite "lost" games? in ~games

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    Oh man, I forgot about CCC. I miss that game.

    Oh man, I forgot about CCC. I miss that game.

  4. Comment on Halloween game sales are live. What are your Horror/Halloween-themed recommendations? in ~games

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    I'm disappointed I don't see any love for Darkwood or Layers of Fear here. Played Layers of Fear probably a year ago and really enjoyed it, but I am a huge fan of walking sims as well. I find...

    I'm disappointed I don't see any love for Darkwood or Layers of Fear here.

    Played Layers of Fear probably a year ago and really enjoyed it, but I am a huge fan of walking sims as well. I find running around shooting things to really take away from the story in a horror genre. This game is story focused and uses art and music effectively to create a really unnerving environment.

    I've only been playing Darkwood for a few days but I'm finding the tension it builds (especially at night) awesome. While there is combat, I really don't find it to be the game's centrepiece. My only complaint so far is the sheer amount of crafting involved in survival.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Is there any objective value of having your biologically own kids? in ~talk

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    Agreed, I've tried to write a response a few times but I can't seem to string together an argument without sounding hostile/defensive (and I don't even have/want kids). It's just an ugly conversation.

    Agreed, I've tried to write a response a few times but I can't seem to string together an argument without sounding hostile/defensive (and I don't even have/want kids). It's just an ugly conversation.

    13 votes

  6. Comment on Platform for discussion not centred around the sharing of links in ~talk

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    I have to say, I'm with Deimos on this one. I don't think for a second link sharing quashes meaningful discussion, an article or a video is the starting point that presents the idea/point and...

    I have to say, I'm with Deimos on this one. I don't think for a second link sharing quashes meaningful discussion, an article or a video is the starting point that presents the idea/point and users' various opinion follow. I'd agree if it were low effort image macros and in-jokes being targeted, but it's just the word "link" which is such a broad spectrum of content.

    13 votes

  7. Comment on How Manhattan became a rich ghost town in ~design

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    I don't know if they're going to be centres in the way we think of them now. I'm speaking from the sprawl 30 minutes to an hour (depending on traffic) north of Toronto, so I won't claim to know...

    I don't know if they're going to be centres in the way we think of them now. I'm speaking from the sprawl 30 minutes to an hour (depending on traffic) north of Toronto, so I won't claim to know what's going on in Austin. What I'm finding is working remotely slowly starting to become an acceptable thing to help reduce the disgusting commutes we're facing. The business are still physically located downtown, but it is (I reiterate, very slowly) becoming possible to work for them without dragging your sorry ass down there every day. I don't think that my little piece of the sprawl is going to start sprouting 50 story buildings or a proper subway/streetcar system, but we're certainly building low rise condos, getting more bus stops, and the line into the city is running more and more trains. I think it'll be more like if Toronto is the heart, these smaller centres are becoming the arteries.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on How Manhattan became a rich ghost town in ~design

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    The one nice thing about urban centres essentially throttling themselves is that it's chased those quirky small businesses to the burbs and even further. As someone that will never be able to...

    The one nice thing about urban centres essentially throttling themselves is that it's chased those quirky small businesses to the burbs and even further. As someone that will never be able to afford to buy downtown, and doesn't want to pay the prohibitive cost of rent for the rest of my life, I've been quite happy to see privately owned board game shops with event calendars, artisan cheese stores, cafe/used book store combos, and small chef owned-operated restaurants popping up and thriving within a 10 minute walk from me. These people and businesses didn't disappear, they moved, like the rest of us that got priced out. From where I live now, I'd have had to drive half an hour or to an hour to find any of those things not even 10 years ago. Of course there are Wal-Mart based "smart centre" plazas and drive thru fast food joints all over the place out here too, and they're not going anywhere, but I've been happy to see little splashes of culture making their way in the "Clevelands".

    7 votes

  9. Comment on What are you looking forward to right now? in ~talk

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    I'll have a drink inside my house, away from you, with you!

    I'll have a drink inside my house, away from you, with you!

    6 votes

  10. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games

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    I've had a very hard time deciphering just what you can do with tinker's tools. I have a sorc in a campaign I'm DMing who I've been allowing to make very rudimentary traps/alarms when they're...

    I've had a very hard time deciphering just what you can do with tinker's tools. I have a sorc in a campaign I'm DMing who I've been allowing to make very rudimentary traps/alarms when they're camping as long as he can explain to me the components he has on him and roughly how it meant to work. Unfortunately I feel like most tool proficiencies don't really shine naturally in the game.

    1 vote