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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 9638449" data-attributes="member: 58401">Yeah the tricky bit is “falling in love” with a new publisher. This hobby produces a lot of non-substitutable products, e.g.: if I love DCC, then I might have a difficult time replacing that game with another if it isn’t suitably similar. An American TTRPG that I’m invested in might be hard to replace. That’s the struggle, combined with limited eyeball time for new games in my adult life.Truthfully as a Canadian gamer I need to invest more time in learning about the Canadian games and publishers. I’m not really aware of any, and that’s probably on me. I won’t fall in love with a Canadian game if I’m not putting in the work of looking for one!Plus, this isn’t the first rodeo with Trump-related trade uncertainty. The first administration it was easier to believe behaviour this was an anomaly, but now it’s back… and worse!?!? Any trust or benefit of the doubt towards American intentions are gone now, and it’s gonna be YEARS before Canadians (and many others) trust the USA the same way again.Uncertainty is a psychological aspect of economics, but it’s a bit misleading here. America’s trading partners aren’t uncertain anymore… they’re becoming CERTAIN that instability is here to stay, and they’re looking for every possible way to remove themselves from it. In the best case, it’ll be much longer than 6 months to repair the trust and relationships now destroyed. (The biggest counterpoint is the massive inertia of trying to escape a certain economy. As Morrus and others have said, moving a business is extremely difficult and expensive especially in a hurry. We’ll likely see more companies give up altogether than actually shift their operations.)Canada has all these trees and mills and paper! We’ve got paper for days! Alas, I don’t think our printing industry is anywhere near ready to seriously domesticate the next steps in that supply chain yet. Ask again in a decade? lol</blockquote>

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