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I only played the original one. I had a fair amount of fun with it for what it was. It can feel a bit empty and wide, but the gameplay was quite fun, even if the combat is kinda painfully easy most of the time. You can build basically however you want and become pretty OP.

Is the remake worth looking at for those who played the original? I was kinda ignoring it because I'd played through it once already. Wasn't super sold on a second go-through.

...I really did not expect to see Christy Clark on that list, even if at only 4%. If I'd seen her running as a Con, that would not have surprised me so much. Responsible in BC for legislating striking teachers back to work with the argument that they could not legally bargain on topics like class size, something that much later finally got thrown out by the supreme court. She was a member of the BC Liberals, which were really the right-wing party in BC at the time.

I'd wager both left- and right-leaning people in BC have some bad memories of that one for differing reasons. I certainly have to imagine she'd be a quick way to lose the existing liberal voters here.

I'm personally skipping because I already have what I'd want from this one, but I will say P4G is my favorite of the Persona series, and one of the few long JRPGs I've actually finished in the last several years. (P5R is also great, but 4's more grounded story and characters, relatively speaking, give it the edge for me.)

And Cassette Beasts is a truly great Pokemon-like that has so much going for it. If you feel out of love with the Pokemon franchise, or if you still enjoy it but would want more, this is a really fun game with its own take on a lot of the mechanics. Lots of depth combined with customizable difficulty.

I believe the point is that the speaker typically doesn't vote unless needed to break a tie. So if the NDP select one of their own as the speaker, they would have 46 votes, to the 44 Con and 2 Green votes, an exact tie. Of course, they would still have the speaker as tiebreaker, so it doesn't really make a huge difference, but it's seen as a bit more tenuous than actually having the 47 votes in the typical fashion, which they could accomplish if a conservative or green MLA takes the role of speaker.

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure on why the tiebreaker is seen as worse exactly. I understand there's an expectation for the speaker to act neutrally, so maybe it's just an unpleasant look if the speaker is regularly voting in favour of the NDP to break ties.

Regardless, it wouldn't technically be a minority government as I understand it. It's not as though the NDP couldn't rely on their own speaker in matters of confidence. It just would give Rustad something else to rant about.

Spiritfarer is an absolutely wonderful experience that is somehow both a casual open world chill game and a game that delves deep into the topic of death, being prepared for it, and leaving people behind. Really special game.