Everyone can be an artist. The only requirement is that they create art.

Now, a professional artist, yeah I agree with you.

That’d be an interesting turn of events - phone bans leading to a zine Renaissance among young people.

Don’t see it happening, but it’d be kinda cool.

IIRC from the Pokemon days, there were a lot of concerns around the ‘prize’ scoring system, with the idea that you’d take the opponent’s prize cards when you knocked out a Pokemon. Misunderstanding/holdover from Pogs, I think (where getting the other player’s pogs was a thing).

Couple that with stories of kids getting knifed over holo Charizards, and I kinda get why schools were concerned (putting aside the ‘that’s not how the game works’ + ‘that was one disturbed kid’ elements).

Not their original colour, please wash them. Next question.

Yes, next question.

Sounds like a fun Hack a Day-esque project for someone out there. If you can secure it well enough to stay in place while you sleep, can probably make something with a repurposed Star Wars Force Trainer headset, an Arduino, and some means of triggering an alarm (the fact that we’re just out there selling EEG tech as a kids toy is nuts to me).

Best way to know if you’re in a simulation is to observe when it glitches (in a way that can’t be explained by a glitch in the sub-simulation that is human perception).

You and several complete strangers see someone floating in the air without any technological support, assuming y’all haven’t been poisoned in a similar way and are hallucinating, either a) there’s some support you don’t know how to look for, b) there’s a condition of reality that hasn’t been accounted for in the study of physics yet, or c) the rule set just straight broke somehow.

I don’t think anyone has totally eliminated glitches in the human or an incomplete understanding of physics to really support a ‘we live in a simulation’ explanation for strange phenomena, at least not yet.

Fantastic stuff, and it’s great sober. But I’m not gonna lie to ya - it’s really great with drugs.

Bro, party at your house. It literally sounds like the perfect site for a Gathering of the Lemmys.

I admit that tourists anywhere often have piss poor situational awareness, and are often rude re: how they go about taking pictures.

Doesn’t mean someone can’t take a picture of a train pulling in without violating the rules though (off-peak times, cropped angles, etc.). Fuck anyone carelessly or deliberately taking pictures of folks on the platform without permission, though. I agree with you there and know it’s probably common, which sucks.

If you’re not used to it, the subway can be a really novel experience. The metro is also an interesting part of Montreal’s history for tourists - it’s relationship to Expo 67, the development of RÉSO, the kind of things that can lend more interest for someone learning about the city. Plus the station designs are pretty neat.

Source: One of those tourists who loves the metro in Montreal. + trains in general are dope.

It’s common to say it in Canada too, but it can either mean no, yes, or simply be a placeholder phrase.

It’s the Schrödinger’s Cat of utterances - you don’t know which it is until the sentence is finished/you elucidate from the broader conversational context.

Good! And no worries, that one is on me. It’s a very poorly written sentence :)

I’m so sick of guys asking me about my body count…

Well I mean, obviously they are hippies you can capture and collect. Sometimes people try to get them to battle, but 99% of them don’t like/aren’t particularly good at fighting, so they are mostly pets.

Lol, j/k. By poke I meant a conversational poke/prod technique, by hippy I meant…well, a hippy that shared the tip.

Yes, this is indeed what it sounds like. But when I wrote it out like that, I couldn’t help but imagine seal noises.

Not a great lead itself, but a useful poke a hippy at a festival taught me when the opening conversation starts to fizzle out a bit: “what do you want to tell me? It can be anything at all, take a moment to think about it.” Then sit with the silence a bit (don’t stare at them, let them think).

Some people will tell you some wild shit and/or open up like crazy if given this invitation. The person who used it on me got my whole life story, shit I was trying to work through by (in part) being there in the first place, etc. The last person who I did this with told me some defining moments in the development of their politics and worldview.

Create comfort, give an open invitation and a little space, and you’d be surprised how quickly you might move from small talk to more substantial stuff. Recommend everyone try it once just to see what the outcome is, so far it’s been pretty neat.

hearty pirate laughter

Drink more, dance on the 2nd player pad with more freedom than he can since my side doesn’t work. Insist that I won. Say, “it’s ok, the bar isn’t the only thing you’ll be humping* tonight” with a wink, in an effort to go home because idk what else to do in this barcade.

*I call the folks that play DDR while holding onto the rail bar humpers. Idk if this is common.

Those Stern games still play if you don’t make an account, though.

Source: My local Godzilla machine has consumed many of my toonies, but I refuse to make an account out of principle. Still really fun though.