Post 2746975 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #2723301 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T03:03:17Z
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. @gemlog Hah! Check this out: I bet I know where these animators are from! (There where more BC references higher up on the page)
(DIR) Post #2723380 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T03:07:44Z
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@Canageek @gemlog Given it was produced by Network of Animation in Vancouver, that would make sense. Although it was actually animated in Japan by TMS Entertainment.Presumably the English text bits were part of NoA's contribution.
(DIR) Post #2723401 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T03:08:42Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Yeah, that is what I figured. I knew it was a Canadian collaboration, but not that it was YVR (a lot of animation was done in Toronto)
(DIR) Post #2723452 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T03:11:25Z
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@Canageek @gemlog Ottawa was (and is) a pretty big centre for television animation too. These days, Vancouver seems to be more specialized in film and shorts.
(DIR) Post #2743295 by gemlog@mastodonten.de
2019-01-07T16:18:25Z
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@Nezchan @Canageek Wait, what? I have never thought of Ottawa as a place des art - for anything! It's just a place we store politicians so they don't infect the rest of us. I'm not even kidding. I've been very unfair to all the normal people who live there for most of my life.
(DIR) Post #2743296 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T18:46:05Z
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@gemlog @Canageek Ottawa is also a big town for music festivals. For much of the summer, there are at least a couple every weekend. Jazzfest, Bluesfest and City Folk continue to be big draws.
(DIR) Post #2743297 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T18:55:54Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog It is, but its also a) Barely a real city (only 500K people) b) Rural as FUCK as soon as you leave city limits. Like, be used to talking about hunting and fishing as soon as you walk outside it as there isn't much else.
(DIR) Post #2743350 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T18:57:46Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog (Chalk River is a very interesting place as a result. I've never met so m any chemists with home improvement hobbies, as you need SOME way to fill your weekends, so as soon as they'd finish building a guest house, they'd start on a shed or house extension or whatnot. Except for my boss, who was a rockhound. That is he would walk off into the woods with a GPS and a rockhammer on weekends and return with boxes of mineral samples.
(DIR) Post #2743723 by gemlog@mastodonten.de
2019-01-07T19:11:23Z
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@Canageek @Nezchan I have never understood that.Mind you, I've never understood collectors of anything. My rock collection, my leaf collection, my butterfly collection... Weren't they fine where they were?
(DIR) Post #2744222 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T19:30:46Z
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@gemlog @Nezchan Well, a lot of it for him was the aesthetic, he could make some really beautiful displays once he cut and polished them and whatnot.
(DIR) Post #2745965 by gemlog@mastodonten.de
2019-01-07T20:20:32Z
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@Canageek @Nezchan True, there is that.
(DIR) Post #2746279 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T20:27:39Z
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@Canageek @gemlog Wow, you must have real contempt for Halifax/Dartmouth, where I lived before this.
(DIR) Post #2746280 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:28:30Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Never lived there, so can't comment? Lived outside of Ottawa for two summers.
(DIR) Post #2746293 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T20:28:27Z
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@Canageek @gemlog It's only 400k there. Barely a village. Why even bother with it?
(DIR) Post #2746295 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:30:10Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Oh, there are nice small places to live (I grew up in Burlington, about 100K population). But it isn't a CITY. Ottawa tries to pass itself off as this cosmopolitanism city that is as good as Toronto, and it really isn't. (Hamilton does the same thing)
(DIR) Post #2746346 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T20:32:10Z
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@Canageek @gemlog So Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia isn't a CITY by the same definition and can thus be written off.Toronto, I take it, is the gold standard for something?
(DIR) Post #2746385 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:34:17Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Closest city to where I grew up. Vancouver is about the same (a bit different cultural mix, of course). There are places I've been (Kingston, for example), that know they are small and embrace that. Kingston isn't a big city, it knows that, and tries to be the best damn large town/small city it can be. Its friendly, there is a nice FEEL to it.
(DIR) Post #2746440 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:35:47Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Hamilton (and from what I can tell Ottawa), THINK they should be just as important as Toronto, so they really puff up, claim their food is just as good, that they can do everything Toronto can (They can't, there is no nightlife, and very little actual culture in Hamilton) and come off as pretentious and aggressive as a result.
(DIR) Post #2746550 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:38:38Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Its like, no one in Flesherton (pop 200) claims they have all the resources and services of Toronto, and everyone in Burlington (pop 100K) KNOWS there is stuff they can do in Toronto they can't do in Burlington (Nightlife, culture, good food, wider selection of specialty shops). Its just like, these almost-cities of half a million that are near bigger cities have serious cases of small dog syndrome.
(DIR) Post #2746640 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:41:01Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog (You know, when a small dog tries to push a giant mastiff around?) (PS I'll only speak ill of places I've lived:GTAHamilton (5 years)Ottawa Valley (Not IN Ottawa, but spoke to a lot of people from it)Montreal (Well, Kirkland/Point Claire)VancouverKingston (Really nothing bad to say about Kingston)
(DIR) Post #2746710 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:43:41Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Victoria also claims to be a city and everything in town closed at 8 pm when I was there last, though that was a lot of years ago. My definition of real city is pretty much:Enough transit you can get away with not owning a carCan take a bus to somewhere you can walk around and DO stuff for hours on end (ex the Main-Commercial area of Vancouver, or that area between one of the Chinatowns and Union Station in Toronto that I forget the name of)People of more then a couple cultures
(DIR) Post #2746768 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:46:59Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Hamilton was well, the term we used was 'cultural wasteland' when I was there. Even around McMaster there wasn't anything going on, just bars of drunk students and coffee shops. (and most of the close bars went out of business in 2008-2011 due to terrible management)
(DIR) Post #2746906 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T20:52:29Z
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@Canageek @gemlog All of those apply to both Halifax and Ottawa, so what's your point? I've never owned a car, I get on pretty well.I've taken a bus to the Byward Market (Ottawa) or Historic Properties (Halifax) and had no shortage of things to do starting from there.Ottawa and Halifax are both crossroads (military, gov't, commercial port, etc.), so both have multiple cultural communities. Big Lebanese commonity in Halifax, for instance, and folks from all over in Ottawa.
(DIR) Post #2746926 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:53:22Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog As I said, I can't speak about Halifax. I could be wrong about Ottawa, but I'm suspicious of it from having lived next to it and talked to people from it.
(DIR) Post #2746975 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T20:55:07Z
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@Canageek @gemlog Halifax, at least at one point, was known for having the most bars per capita in North America, and boasts live music 7 nights a week at many venues. So there's nightlife for you.
(DIR) Post #2746976 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T20:55:48Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog That would do it. As I said, I know nothing about anything east on Montreal (and I only lived there for a couple of months)
(DIR) Post #2747031 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T20:58:09Z
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@Canageek @gemlog I dunno about nightlife in Ottawa, since I'm not really into the bar scene, but I know there's a lot of live music here even in the off season. I know Roomie goes to a lot (considerably over a hundred live shows last year, more lined up this year, including some pretty big acts). But there's also the National Gallery, Fringe Festival, a handful of live theatres, Aviation museum, Museum of Civilization, and so forth.
(DIR) Post #2747111 by Canageek@cybre.space
2019-01-07T21:00:36Z
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@Nezchan @gemlog Oh the museums in Ottawa are amazing. I want to take Mara there sometime. (Science museum was the best when I was a kid, but last time I went it had displays still reading 199X and two counties missing from the list of countries with astronauts, and one of those had gone into space more then five years before).But yeah, my impression is largely from ppl from Ottawa I met when I was in Deep River two summers.
(DIR) Post #2747628 by Nezchan@mastodon.social
2019-01-07T21:18:12Z
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@Canageek @gemlog Ottawa gets a bad rap over "nothing to do", and I dunno if it's something that changed over the years but these days there seems to be a fair amount, especially in the summertime when the festivals really get rolling, and there's free live music on Sparks Street and so forth.