Damn, imagine your mother telling you she’d prefer being in a warzone than raising you.
Edit: did you guys not read the article? She says her family doesn’t support her decision and that her unit is now her new family. This isn’t a feel good story at all.
“Progressive Conservative”
Welcome to any gaming community! There’s always a few miserable people who aren’t happy with anything.
And if you don’t upgrade you won’t be able to play at all!
Poilievre, with his fingers in his ears: lalalalalalalala
This monument overlooks Montreal.
Lemmy is serious business!
While I’m all for spray painting a Musk company because he’s a dick, I’m not sure spray painting an electric car company to protest inaction on climate change makes a whole lot of sense.
I play in 4k with DLSS turned off!
I first played it on a 5 year old computer and could barely get 10 fps on the lowest settings. I upgraded knowing that pretty much every other game now is wanting crazy hardware to run. I now have a very expensive top of the line rig that can run the game on max settings with a silky smooth 40 fps…which seems to be the max anyone can get even in benchmarking videos. I haven’t played this patch so not sure if that’s fixed yet.
Other than the ridiculous hardware requirements, the game is very much like all the other STALKER games. You wander around dreary forests and swamps completing quests or searching for items. If you liked the other games you’ll like this one.
Annoying parts for me have been all the walking and the mutants being bullet sponges. Walking takes up a lot of game time and I wish there was an option for fast travel. I know not everyone would want that but I’d personally like the choice. Sometimes I just want to get back to the settlement to trade my loot and don’t want to spend 20 minutes walking through an empty forest. I often run from mutants when I can because it’ll take 100 rounds to kill one and they don’t drop any loot.
Alaska was settled by Russian colonists in the 1800s but the colony didn’t do so well. The Russian emperor at the time decided to sell the territory to the US hoping to weaken the British Empire by preventing them from taking over the territory in the future (ie. to avoid it becoming part of Canada). The Russian emperor had hoped the entire West coast of North America would be US territory eventually but that never happened.
After all the gold was taken from it, Alaska’s benefit to the US is now extending its reach into Arctic waters which are being eyed as a potential international shipping route since climate change means ice breakers might not be needed to escort other ships through the Arctic. The US (via Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (via Greenland), Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all currently arguing over which parts of the Arctic ocean belong to them. They’re hoping to ensure any cargo ships that pass through will have to pay them a fee similar to how Panama and Egypt charge for the Panama and Suez canals respectively.
They could also avoid the Canadian fees by using ships but the US has the Jones Act which increases the cost of contiguous States shipping to non-contiguous States like Alaska. So their own government has already messed with Alaska which is why they truck shipments through Canada in the first place.
Taking furniture from government buildings? Now where did he get an idea like that…
The Tumblr Effect
I loved that the original attack ad they had when he was first running for Prime Minister was that he was too young and handsome to be a leader.
If Kojima wrote a story about Sony, their leaders would be Timed Exclusiveman and Thirdparty Accountman.
Canada actually produces very little vaccines because in the 80s the Conservative government thought it was a waste of tax money. Thankfully that’s changing since the Covid pandemic.
I found this government report on the Canadian Field Vegetable Industry
Tomatoes are the most popular field vegetable grown in Canada making up 23.9% of production. That equates to around 543,000 tonnes produced per year. 98% of all tomatoes are grown in Ontario and most tomatoes are used in “processing”. However, Canada is one of the top importers of vegetables in the world with tomatoes being 5th place in most imported vegetable. An additional 177,000 tonnes are imported (mostly from Mexico and USA) to supply demand.
So while we produce a lot, it still isn’t enough to cover domestic consumption. I’m sure we could make domestic ketchup, but it would be taking away from tomatoes already being used somewhere else in Canada.
Because I’m a Gamer! A Gamer! The most oppressed minority on the planet!
But the author’s actual reason is:
Our hobby deserves better from the companies that made their billions on the backs of PC gaming
Which seems about as true as saying Microsoft made their billions on the backs of PC gaming.
I immediately dropped r/canada after there was an upvoted post about how Canada should switch to US styled privatized healthcare and all the top comments were cheering for it. Absolutely no Canadians talk like that.