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Game of Thrones

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Now that Ramsay is dog food, who here is still holding out hope that Walder Frey will meet an equally grisly fate in Episode 10? That wedding scene in the preview seemed a little ominous...

Compare a website to a city in the US (Or whatever terrible country you live in)

Facebook is Toronto. It's the centre of the universe, in a prolonged period of stagnation, and everyone hates it.

Is world building a thing here?

Really? I don't want to role play a group of any kind though, just want to kind of experiment?

@Mimic

This is known as "GMing".

Is world building a thing here?

I'm new and basically enjoy creating things and worlds. As my name and my introduction shows, I love D&D and all that it encourages, so of course LOTR and Warhammer are also passions of mine :)

Anyway, just wondering if anyone is up for a fantasy world build and discussion with a roleplay afterwards maybe or, yeah..still not sure how things work.

@Mimic

You definitely want the Nation Roleplay section.

Hey Canadians

@Wade WilsonChanging the lyrics to a country's national anthem is a big deal. The changes are relatively minor and innocuous in this case, but altering national symbols in general is something that raises eyebrows.

Hey Canadians

What a polite individual you are. Really respectful.

@Jotunn Draugr

I agree completely.

Hey Canadians

The Canada of 2016 is not the Canada of 1966. The Oh Canada of 2021 will not be the Oh Canada of 2015, and that's fine. No country remains static as time goes on, and as a living country I feel that it's appropriate that our anthem is a living piece as well, that will change over time to reflect the current state of our nation.

@Primal Conundrum

I originally wasn't bothered by the change, but when you put it like that it disturbs me. We shouldn't be swapping out O Canada's lyrics every six years because political sensibilities change.

Everyone is a hipster

If you go against the grain for the sake of going against the grain, you're a hipster.

If you prefer lesser known music, movies, books or video games because they're lesser known, you're a hipster.

They're important distinctions.

Hey Canadians

There isn't any utility whatsoever in abolishing the monarchy or writing a new title for the BNA Act or renaming Dominion Day or any of the other examples of historical revisionism that the Trudeaus peddle. These aren't troublesome political bodies or legal documents or holidays that are somehow holding us back from the future. There are simply no practical benefits to removing them, meaning that there is nothing at all being gained by their systematic destruction, only history being lost.

If abolishing the monarchy magically erased the national debt or axing Victoria Day somehow fixed the asymmetry of Canadian federalism, I'd get behind them. But they don't. It's all just history being shunned for no good fucking reason.

Hey Canadians

How is still holding a foreign monarch as your monarch not tangentially related to prior British subjugation? That's where that came from. And I know B shouldn't be the case, but seriously that is the vibe I am picking up from this conversation, that the Queen is the tender thread that keeps you from being an extension of Minnesota.

And I'm not saying you need to have pride in your own achievements for my sake, or the sake of outside judgement. I'm saying you should have pride in your achievements for your own sake.

@Vilageidiotx

There are a few different points here for me to take issue with, and I'm going to be approaching each one individually.

1. "holding a foreign monarch"

Queen Elizabeth II is not a foreign monarch. She is the Queen in Right of Canada. Canada is not currently and has not since its confederation in 1867 been a British possession—a territory over which, as a part of the legal domain of another country, a foreign ruler presides. Victoria through to Elizabeth II have all been monarchs of Canada, independent of their status as monarchs of the rest of the British Empire and Commonwealth. If you'd like an example of a country which is a territory of another country and thus presided over by a foreign ruler, take a look at Puerto Rico.

2. "British subjugation"

Canada has never been subjugated by Britain. North America was, and it was under this state of British subjugation that the Dominion of Canada was eventually born, but that subjugation was ended by the arrival of the Dominion of Canada, not continued through it. Read up on the Chateau Clique and the Family Compact and Lafontaine and Baldwin and responsible government. I don't intend to recite that entire period of history to you.

3. "That's (British subjugation) where that (British monarchy) came from"

Yes, in a similar way to how the borders and names of the Thirteen Colonies all originated from British subjugation, as did the colonists themselves. A historical connection isn't a good reason to excise something from the national consciousness. For the Dominion of Canada this is doubly true, as it is, as much as anything else, what distinguishes us from the rest of the entire Western Hemisphere. Rather than our historical ties being violently severed (at great loss of life), and their cultural impacts ignored, the ties persisted. They were simply peacefully altered to accommodate self-government. I don't see how being the only one of the nations of the Americas to achieve democracy through democracy is something deserving of shame. May peace forever be our lot and all. Hell, that's even one of the few actual historical aspects of Canadian identity that fit the contrived multicultural Canada that the Trudeau family invented.

4. "Have pride in your own achievements"

We do. That isn't mutually exclusive with the monarchy. Canadians are obnoxiously proud of their country's achievements, even really mediocre achievements like the country's healthcare system.