My main interests are Canadian cultural heritage, and just about all things Canadian!
I prefer to keep it largely anonymous on the fediverse, respect that as you can please. But, there are some things I don’t mind sharing about myself!
I am French Canadian (second generation Franco-Ontarien), but through circumstances of how I was raised I am only now learning French as an adult. I am currently at the A2 level. I often post and reply in French speaking communities as applied practice.
I am a trained historian, with a MA in history, and in my spare time I often am researching and learning about both Canadian and French Canadian history, culture, and art. This research is often the source of inspiration for my posts. Ultimately, I aspire to one day own land in Quebec around either Quebec city or outside of Montréal.
I am the same person as grizzlybur@lemmy.ca. I often use this username across multiple services, but not every Grizzlybur is actually me.
I run a few small communities on the fediverse, and its tough trying to start one up. Granted I try to keep mine canadian focused, but its an uphill battle either way. I was never one to volunteer or be an admin of a community, but I wanted to get the ball rolling somehow. Very disheartening to realize I’m the only one posting in the community, esp because I’m just a lurker at heart.
Less weapon modification I think, but largely the same game really. I’d say its worth a replay. I think 4 has more memorable levels than 5, but 5 if a more polished experience. Lots of levels I wanted to replay in 5, but realized “oh shit that was in 4 not 5”.
Definitely recommend sniper elite 4, 5 and resistance when on sale. They’re functionally the same game for the most part but damn if its not a winning formula.
I bought my first sniper elite game the same week after Charlie Kirk got shot
I think first and foremost that was to be a foil to explain why the Nazis, who were historically irl incompetent, and canonically just as incompetent in game, were able to make such technology. Kinda the same logic between making jewish actors play nazis in movies, its so real nazis IRL cannot as easily idolize them. I think the whole Jewish magi-tech stuff was a bit much too, but I let it slide because it warms my heart how much it probably pisses off irl Nazis.
Yeah im playing it right now and on one hand it feels like I got more Sniper Elite 5. On the other hand, I paid $60 for what feels like just Sniper Elite 5 again. Thankfully I got 5 when it was during the steep discount sale so im kinda averaging like $23 per game between 4, 5, and Resistance. Considering how many hours I’ve gotten out of them I cant be too upset
I love Indiana Jones as a franchise, concept, and the look of this video game but even at 40% off it’ll be $60+ CAD which is a tough sell for one game. Base price its $90 CAD, which is more like $100+ after taxes. I’ll definitely play it eventually, but I think ill be playing the waiting game for a super steep discount.
Hard agree, but there are oftentimes apologists who are summoned from these posts or the people who make the argument that idolizing violence against anyone is abhorrent (nazis have families too!! etc etc), which to an extent I can agree with. However I have two history degrees which has given me insight on many topics, one being that non-violent resistance to true tyranny is a borderline myth. I subscribe to the paradox of tolerance .
This looks like a late 2000s game if it were made today, and I mean that as a compliment. I like that they seem to include some aspects of WW2 that are relatively obscure to larger popular media, like the Sino-Japanese war, the German invasion of Greece, and Final days of the German forces in Tunisia.
The cheap price tag definitely makes this a easy pill to swallow too, $10 CAD and not even on sale. Will definitely consider this as a nostalgic medal of honor allied assault spiritual successor
While I did have shooters in mind, I did leave it open for interpretation for any genre of game!
Never heard of the Jagged Alliance series before, but I do enjoy my turn based games. I struggle with RTS games, I like to take my time and be methodical. It’s on sale right now for quite a bit so I will consider this, seems similar to XCOM.
All the other games I’ve played before but are excellent suggestions. HOI4 has become too feature bloated imo, but it is great fun playing as Canada and building the most specialized shock troops of the allies and just shredding holes into the German front lines for the american and british troops to pour though.
In the spirit of the broad interpretation, I think an argument could be made for This War of Mine, as a resistance against fascism in the idea of surviving as ordinary citizens at all costs. But that is more so anti-war than particularly anti-fascism, although the two often go hand in hand of course.
Fuck that does look about what I’m looking for. I really like the alt-history stuff like Wolfenstein where the nazis have “won” but there are still people out there fighting the good fight even in the face of overwhelming tyranny. Reminds me of some advice my uncle used to give me, it doesn’t if you won it matters most that you fought back.
The enclave as a concept of just fascinating. That is another one of my alt-hist (and occasionally irl too) fascinations, is old-government remnants and what do they do? FEDRA in The Last of Us is another one, technically the last remnant of the old USA order, but functionally has degenerated into just another authoritarian faction in the apocalypse. Arguably the Brotherhood of Steel counts too, remnant of the old world US military.
As for IRL, Taiwan is a remnant of the old chinese government before the communists took the mainland, and Belarus actually has 3 governments right now – the one currently in power , functionally a puppet to Putin/Russia, the transitional government formed abroad in 2022 hoping to replace the puppet government once given the chance, and hosted in Ottawa for over 100 YEARS is the original exiled government of Belarus from the Communist revolution in the 1910s.