This is.the equivalent of a timeshare salesman telling me I made a big mistake not buying the DoubleTree Vista Estates package.

Well I'll boycott all except Costco.

Boycotting everything else makes sense, but there's no reason to choose Canadian cronyism and monopolies over Costco saving me hundreds of dollars of years every year and getting more for less.

Costco can't be replaced because Canadian interests dont have competition.

Despite everything I think now is the time to institute a full stop on foreign purchases of Canadian companies, force the sale of all American shares in Canadian media companies, and break up Canadian monopolies to force competition and innovation back. Into our market.

After years of the NDP playing weak and rather performative politics, I'm glad to see aggressive and blunt political messaging.

The NDP catered to some leftist bourgeoise and left the working class in the dust. It always needed to be a party of ushers, not gatekeepers, and the kind of righteous individualism needs to make way for collectivism. People have forgotten that banding together powerless people with discrete experiences against power and subjugation is the only answer right now. Its what the Carney speech got completely right.

Canada really needs to just nuke twitter off our internet. Nothing good will come of it. Just finish the renaming transition from Twitter to X to Volksicher Beobachter.

If you don't want to be the bad guys, then don't act like it. This is what soft power fading looks like.

America is in for a hell of a ride the next ten years. If I was American, I'd be out every day, because foreigners only go by what they experience and feel every day, and when you're overseas, well...

Let's just say I wouldn't feel safe leaving the bubble of the ol' Red, White, and Blue.

What a bone-headed move. I guess we're in the "Benevolent dictator" portion of the AI Boom - Gaming relationship. I feel like we're at such a disconnect now that gamers are looking elsewhere.

Hot take: I think these decisions will drive gamers back to simplicity, community, and y'know...gameplay rather than flash and boom.

It's no surprise that smaller studios are profiting while the big ones are languishing.

Then again people keep buying NHL, NFL, and FIFA 26, so what do I know.

Thank you — genuinely. A $1 donation on day one from someone who's learned to be careful about AI slop means more than a blank cheque from someone who wasn't paying attention.

Stellar Terminus is a great comparison — I've been watching that project. The terminal aesthetic and the weight of the journey are things we clearly both care about. Different approaches to similar territory.

The art in Dead Reckoning is placeholder right now; it's a combination of twitch assets and vector/python. The systems and the writing are where I'm putting the craft. When the drift mechanic starts doing what it's supposed to do, I think it'll be clear this is going somewhere. I'd love to hear what civilization you end up with after a run.

I highly recommend everyone write their MP, regardless of party, to demand more antitrust work and start the breaking up of Canadian monopolies.

If you can gather signatures with names and addresses even better.

At the very least, write your address and name at the bottom. Your MP is obliged to respond to any comment postmarked within their constituency.

You can also formally request a meeting with your MP as well.

Don't be afraid of them. They work for you and they know it.

This is the answer I feel sums up my feelings best. Really good nuanced take on Carney. Love him for the leader we need right now, but the last thing the world needs is more neoliberal and enshittified ideas. Hate how his ideas apply to countries, but not citizens. Corporate hegemony has been an issue in Canada since Confederation.

For Number 9, there were some placeholders done by AI. For the code, it's about 40/60. Most of the logic is done by me, but for the display I used AI.

Writing is all placeholder for now, unfortunately. I had about 20 events I wrote but they have since been expanded on for flavour. I'm in the process right now of looking for a writer & pixel artist because I firmly believe that a game that uses AI for either should be free, as it steals from creators. I wish I could write this but with a full-time job I don't have the time, so this is all hobby work.

Tutorial will be shortened or killed.

You know what? I haven't even tested that. Let me find out. I did keyboard mouse but haven't had a chance to look at accessibility. I'm going to look at it tonight.

Man! You are the perfect player. I've been in the weeds so much that it's things like this I've been missing. Thank you. I'm going to incorporate all your feedback, or at the very least do a spike into what you describe. I was a little burnt out by finding the Signal 11 crash bug but I'll get on it ASAP. Thank you so much for playing.

Alright silly question, but how do I vote for a party leader in this election? I've received a plethora of emails about who to vote for, but not much about the process of how.

This post has more investifative reporting than the editor and "journalist"in the Spec.

Also, don't forget to sign petition e-6879! Don't be distracted by the fact that the biggest imposition on your quality of life is by billionaires who are winning the class war:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-6879

I agree with this comment on unions AND contractors (though not all). I think the problem is when service becomes a game or grift and not actually being efficient.

City of Toronto was one of the worst performing unions in most sectors and stank of corruption and over employment, and then on the other side you have MetroLinx which has been one of the biggest wastes of money a government has ever seen.

Then on the flip side you have Parks Canada and the National Archives doing amazing work with limited budgets.

I know with Toronto the culture came from the top, but these days I think contract farming and middle management bloat is what is really killing efficiency.

Also let the damn people work from home.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is the gameplay data I needed! Incoroprating all of this. Putting it on the itch profile so I don't lose track of it! Thank you so much.

v0.1.7

Thank you so, so much for the feedback!

Just pushed a patch this morning that fixes the two issues reported in this thread, plus a couple of things I caught while investigating.

Settings screen clipped on 1440p / Steam Deck max font

The panel was centre-anchored with no height constraint. On anything taller than 720p, or with a larger font, it silently overflowed off the bottom of the screen. The bottom buttons — including CHANGELOG and RESUME — were unreachable. It's now constrained to 94% of the viewport and scrolls internally. Should be fully accessible at any resolution and font size.

CPU spike and silent crash after ~10 minutes Two things, both embarrassing in retrospect. First, the status bar was rebuilding a BBCode string and pushing it to a RichTextLabel on every single frame — 3,600 parses per minute for no reason, since the values only change once per turn. Second, the event log had no size limit and just grew forever. Combined, they were enough to eventually spike the CPU and get the process killed with no error. Both are gone.

ESC in the intro now exits cleanly rather than skipping to the fade.

Thanks to @[email protected] and @[email protected] for the specific reports — they made both fixes straightforward to find. If anything else surfaces, the bug report link on the itch page goes straight to me.

I've been learning the little ticks in Godot and the number one thing I've been struggling with is display issues. Thank you so much for the feedback. I'll try and incorporate this feedback by end of week.

Just pushed 1.6. Tried to add gamepad support. You can be the guinea pig if you like

https://garanlorn.itch.io/dead-reckoning/devlog/1461980/v016-colonists-controllers-and-a-lot-of-quiet-fixes

Seems like it's been removed. Here's an alternate version. Its old but I've used something similar.

https://www.justanswer.com/canada-law/rj458-debra-debra-example-ofcwhat-write.html