The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Dear Mr. Albanese
Prime Minister of Australia,
Dear Sir,
We were wondering if, along with your delicious beef and extraordinary wine, you would be so kind as to send us 100,000 of your notorious Drop Bears for homeland defence.
We notice that you have never been invaded, and research has concluded that it must be the dreaded Dropus Ursus providing defensive deterrence.
You must know that Canadians, like Australians, are cool with deadly wild animals.
We appreciate your support as a trusted ally, and wish you good luck at whatever kind of football you play this time of year.
Your mates in Canada.
Much appreciated.
Hey video game analysts…
We need to see global numbers on physical games.
We need to see data on consumers not being able to find sold out games in stores and deciding that digital is the only way to play something new.
We need to see a comparative analysis across different consoles and different generations.
We need to see data on whether companies have been printing less and less physical media in an effort to speed up this change to digital.
We need to see pricing data for physical games and digital games over a multi-year period.
We need to see data on the collector/resale/cultural value of physical vs digital media over time.
We need to see data on the public awareness for games that physical retail provides.
We need to see data on holiday gift shopping for new physical media.
We need to see data on the losses to businesses, collectors, conventions, the game playing audience and the public discourse around games that the end of physical games will create.
And then if the consensus is that physical games are over, we should see a plan that allows players to truly own (back up, gift, share, sell and play forever) the digital games they buy.
Okay. I’m giving this one… more… go.
Some of you already found me…
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The game industry spent its first 40 years growing (with bumps) training players how to consume, collect and enjoy videogames.
It has since spent the last decade or so changing all the rules and making things very confusing for its most loyal and long term fans.
I think all of this “progress” has twisted the entire modern medium into some pretty perilous positions. We are seeing the ramifications of some of these major business decisions play out in real time.
I don’t understand.
Killing physical media for videogames is equivalent to movie studios killing theatrical releases. It’s not just the sale of the media, it’s the IRL bump in awareness and cultural value that these products get at retail and by people seeing these brands in the real world.
Game biz should stop just counting beans and start counting its lucky stars that so many people care.
No one needs to give you a reason or right to leave Canada. You’re free to do so even today. Pack your bag and have a safe trip.
However, you don’t have the right or privilege to take any part of Canada with you.🧳
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Happy birthday to John Stinsman—the artist on the very first book I ever wrote.
Back when I had no idea what I was doing and was just trying to figure out how to tell a story in comics, John was the one actually bringing it to life on the page. That first project turned into Lady Pendragon, and seeing those characters exist because someone else could draw the hell out of them… that’s a feeling that never really leaves you.
It’s easy to forget how much trust that takes early on—someone buying into your ideas enough to spend hours making them real. John did that from day one, and it made all the difference.
So yeah—happy birthday, man. Thanks for helping turn that first swing into something real.