LoathsomePete

1) What's your absolute favourite old-school video game?

I'd probably have to say Tex Murphy's Pandora Directive. It was the second in the FMV Tex Murphy games and improved on a lot of the problems in the previous one, Under a Killing Moon. I have a lot of strong emotions tied back to this series though, as it was what allowed my inquisitive mind to flower and implant the seeds that one day may grow into me actually being a detective.

2) Where's the last place you went on vacation?

Vancouver Canada, where I pretty much only go to on vacation. It's kind of frustrating when there's so much of the world to see, but with so much of my life being there it's hard to go anywhere else. Friends and family all want to see me, and I usually only have the time to go see them at Christmas, which doesn't leave a lot of room to go to other places. I'm hoping that in the next few years I can start to make up for this hubris and start visiting other places in Canada. I've been giving some serious thought to Toronto and Montreal.

3) What's the last lie you told somebody?

I told a friend that I couldn't go to the pub with them because I was gaming at another friend's house, when in fact I was at home watching a movie. I heard her boyfriend in the background when she called and decided that I'd rather crazy glue my dick to a bullet train than go drinking with that asshole.

4) What do you think was the most pivotal moment, period, or person in music history, going thousands of years back?

I'll be first to admit that my knowledge of music doesn't extend far back to really say one way or the other. If there was a Shakespeare for the music world I'd probably say them, but using the knowledge that I know I would probably say what's-his-name going electric.

5) Do you listen to any music that you though you would never, ever listen to?

For the longest while I never thought I'd get into hip hop and country, but now they're two of my biggest genres. If you look hard enough you're bound to find something to your taste, but you also have to start weighing how much work you feel like doing, to how much you care.

As to the actual question itself, I will probably never get into radio pop.

6) Do you think everyone has a soul mate, or is that just an idea derived from fairy tales?

I actually do believe in soul mates, I just don't think you're going to find them in your town/city/state/ or even country. With 7 billion people to choose from, why would that person be sitting on the other side of your classroom or office space or on the other end of the bar? You'll find people who fit the bill, but there's always someone who will fit it better.

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I love it here, but it's always funny to me how people always want to visit Toronto. In all honesty, I can't wait for the day when I can leave the city and go live somewhere else, preferably out on the West Coast, like Vancouver or Seattle. I want to be able to come back as a tourist.

Also, so many people in Canada hate Torontonians. I was called a pompous arrogant bitch once by some lady in Montreal because I said I was from Toronto

Howard the Duck

i loved that series - my fave bit is when you foul up something and end up being lobotomised

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Janszoon

Haha, well if anybody would know all about being pompous and arrogant it would be someone from Montreal.

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Hey, hey, my mother's from Montreal

LoathsomePete

West Coast is definitely different, I'm not sure how well an Easterner would like it out here. Everyone I know who lived in Ontario or further East, and wound up in Vancouver always went back, and everyone who lived in the West and went East never wants to come back.

I personally and looking at Toronto because of the history in the city, which is something Vancouver sorely lacks. Everything is brand new that it makes the city seem almost sterile, like it was grown in a test tube, and the areas of the city that do carry historical significance are in the worst neighbourhoods in the entire country, so there's not much reason to go and visit.

As for why people hate Torontonians, I think it's largely an inferiority complex. Toronto really is the center of the country and therefore people from other places will always feel left out or unappreciated. This is a pretty common thing in B.C., where some people feel like they're not even apart of the country because of our minimal involvement in national politics, but I mean you have to rule by consensus and more people live in Ontario and Quebec than in B.C. and Alberta. I've personally never understood these weird feuding between the cities, seems rather childish, I mean isn't that why we have hockey teams?

It's been awhile since I've played them, I remember in Under A Killing Moon you'd meet "God" and he'd tell you where you messed up, then send you back to Earth. I kind of liked how they incorporated death into the story, and if you kept dying in a particular area, "God" would get more and more upset with you. Can't remember which game you got lobotomized in though.

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That's interesting. My aunt is from Montreal originally, and has been living out West for over 25 years now. She's lived in several places over the years - Squamish, Abbotsford, Kelowna (and some other parts of the Okanagan Valley), Prince Rupert, and then she moved to Tacoma, WA but now she lives in Seattle. She has only been back this way once and that was last year for a funeral.

Yes, Toronto has a lot of old buildings and a extensive history. Of course, it is also much older than a city like Vancouver. The city passed a law that says contractors are not allowed to tear down old buildings, instead they are allowed to build around them but they need to maintain the original integrity of the building. However, west of Toronto, in Hamilton (which is just as old if not older, and where I spend most of my time now) old buildings are being torn down to make room for condos and offices, which is an absolute shame because much of the city's rich history is disappearing. They even tore down the old city hall which was (I think) about 150 or 175 years old to build a newer one that is uglier. Hamilton is slowly becoming the "sterile city" that you say Vancouver is. But it's only 40 minutes from Toronto so if people want to see the old buildings they just take a drive

Thom Yorke

LP, it's all about personal preference, but I'd visit Montreal over Toronto hands down. I have never enjoyed myself more than I do when I go to Montreal. The city's absolutely beautiful, there's a lot of history and places to see, and the nightlife is absolutely awesome. I may have "soured" on Toronto slightly after living around here for my whole life (don't get me wrong, I still love it), but to me there's no competition between the two cities.

LoathsomePete

I don't blame your aunt, Squamish, Kelowna, Prince Rupert, and Abbotsford... that's brutal, it could have only been worse if she lived in Armstrong.

As to the historical buildings of Vancouver, we still have some, but they're all pretty much in the Downtown Eastside, which is slowly being gentrified. Not that it's a bad thing mind, I mean Grandville Street is a lot nicer to walk nowadays than back in the '90's when it was just dive bars and porn stores, and Yaletown was once just empty decaying warehouses, but is now a thriving little community of yuppie buildings, trendy clothing stores, and overpriced restaurants. Better than industrial decay? I suppose, but I wish there was some middle ground answer that helps preserve what was once there, while still making it usable by people of today.

To respond to Thom Yorke, I would like to go to Montreal one day, but I've always been deterred by my less than proficient French. I dont want to pretend to be American, but I also want to at least try and acknowledge their culture and its overall importance to Canada. In 2008 I was suppose to go out and visit a friend but circumstance conspired against us.

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I speak near perfect French, but have barely ever used it anytime I've visited Montreal. In fact, the only time I used my French on a regular basis was when I was working in Ottawa as a tour guide at the Parliament Buildings in 2008.