This take is bordering on delusional. It's the annexation threats, trade war, internal collapse of law and order, border issues, and complete disrespect towards a close ally.
"Governing Council members discussed recent data on economic activity and inflation in Canada. They noted that the Canadian economy entered 2025 in a solid position, with robust GDP growth and inflation close to 2% since last summer.
"Canada’s GDP grew by 2.6% in the fourth quarter of 2024, led by surprisingly strong household spending, business investment and exports. Supported by past interest rate cuts, final domestic demand grew by a solid 5.6% in the fourth quarter, and business investment increased by 6.5%. Members also noted the significant upward revisions to GDP growth for the third quarter of last year, from 1% to 2.2%."
I live in Canada and I have no idea what you are talking about with regards to the Canadian economy being in tatters. Perhaps you should be paying closer attention to the actual media.
Your reality check comment is giving me hardcore "Fake News" vibes but I'll lave it at that.
Thus far I’ve got one anecdote from someone who knows someone renting out cottages on airbnb in Ontario, and another person who lives in Canada and therefore knows exactly what is and isn’t going on.
This sounds like HN alright. I didn’t expect this place to change.
This hn where someone will create a new account complain about hn and then tell everyone they are wrong because a friend of a friend said something.
This place hasn't changed where we ignore facts and rely on third person accounts from an account who never posted before today. This wouldn't even fly on slashdot.
I've always had phones with FM receivers when possible. They're not rare (in UK) - my Huawei has it, my wife's Samsung has it. In the past our LG and Sony Ericsson phones had them.
I've played all of the mentioned games except modern Final Fantasy titles and I think it's a big disservice to the TW3 to say it's at best on par with those games.
The only way I could imagine saying that is if you focus only on the mechanics of the RPG game loop and ignore world design, dialog quality, voice acting, characters, breadth of content, quests, etc.
Quite frankly, I feel Skyrim and the Mass Effect series blows Witcher 3 out of the water in regards to the criteria you just listed. I found the game rather boring given the limited character customization and rather linear skill progression. I couldn't bring myself to complete it and it sits on my shelf gathering dust.
Wait, what? "Regards to criteria you just listed"? His criteria was "dialog quality, voice acting, characters, breadth of content, quests, etc.". And you cite something completely different (skill progression, character customization)?!
More than 50% of it's imaging business in 2022