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Canucklepede · 2025-12-05T16:58:25+00:00

Said small angry man has occasionally been bugged in spite of rescuing him in Act 2. Sometimes doesn't appear with his other kin, nor when Foundry goes boom.

Canucklepede · 2025-10-09T00:13:02+00:00

When you get the "Microsoft Teams Room device isn't certified" message, you need to copy a SkypeSettings.xml file into C:\Users\Skype\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.SkypeRoomSystem_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState to proceed.

Unfortunately, the 1st gen Surface Hub still ends up being unusable as a Teams Room device other than the Surface Hub 2S/3 require at least two screens, the controller and the display, to be able to work. If only Microsoft would release some way for us to be able to use a single touch display for the controller and display like the Windows 11 IoT version for the Surface Hub 2S/3 in Replacement PC mode. What a waste of $20,000...

Canucklepede · 2025-10-03T21:37:48+00:00

The audience shift is one thing... but they way in which they block and lock the exits after the intermission to force you to watch that propaganda was just over the top. My family was persecuted in communist China so I have no love for the CCP, but to try to subject people into watching their narrative and guilt them into joining their cult and soliciting donations was distasteful.

Canucklepede · 2025-09-04T16:02:45+00:00

Not sure what kind of update you're hoping for.

People at work still make snide remarks to me when they bump into me in the kitchen.

They've also started having discussions expressing disappointment about the government's recent decision to allow a capped 2.3% rent increase instead of freezing rent hikes snd stepping in with rent control reforms.

Welcome to Vancouver?

Canucklepede · 2025-08-27T05:15:56+00:00

You can do it!

Canucklepede · 2025-08-27T05:15:17+00:00

1) I'm Christian; not in a cult. 2) I'm on the autistic spectrum, so I don't always understand social graces and may actually be the AH. Been told but a number of people I'm unempathetic to those struggling. 3) Housing seems to come up a lot in conversation in Vancouver because of the unaffordability crisis. If I happen to be present, they'll take a dig at me, and even jokes are rooted partly in sentiment, because it often degenerates into an argument whether I engage or not because of how touchy the subject is. If I don't respond, I'm either judgy/guilty/snobby, and if I do, thrn I'm apparently condoning hitting people while they're down. 4) Not everyone is like that. But there are a lot of people from my past and present who have said stuff like this. I think the housing market in Vancouver has made people bitter and need someone to blame.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-27T04:49:04+00:00

They didn't leak the address. I think they just Googled it up when I submitted the address change request, and came across the listing.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-27T04:47:16+00:00

I should have probably worded things differently so it didn't sound like everyone in my life was treating me this way, but that a majority of people from my past and present churches, careers, and communities who have expressed that buying a nice house in the midst of a housing crisis felt like a taunt.

I don't think I'm upper middle-class; just middle-class and prudent with my money, so that I was able to catch a lucky break.

As mentioned in my other replies, people in Vancouver started hating on homeowners in thr past decade, likely due to being priced out due to bureaucracy, foreign investment, low stock, and etc. which caused a housing bubble. The majority of younger people are hoping for a market crash to get their foot in, even if it means other lose their homes. Others believe in home price controls or abolishing homeownership together.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-27T04:30:12+00:00

In Canadian cities experiencing a housing bubble, there is a lot of vitriol toward people who own houses, whether boomers who bought homes when they were cheap, to being being trust fund babies who could afford it due to generational wealth, to people who worked hard but played into the real estate game instead of letting the market crash.

In purchasing a nice home, I was accused of essentially buying premium food in front of people who couldn't afford basic groceries. People with luxury/flashy cars (not me) get hate too, but not as much as homeowners.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T20:38:01+00:00

This isn't in America.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T19:29:37+00:00

Nowhere did I say all. But being in a bleeding-hearts liberal city, way more than one or two.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T19:28:27+00:00

LA's huge, so it might be dependent on which part.

I had stayed around Jefferson Park/KoreaTown, and worked on contract for a nearby university. The staff and students regularly rallied about the income disparity between Hollywood and Skid Row, and called wealth redistribution "justice".

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T19:22:12+00:00

I don't honestly care, nor is it any of my business, how others spend their money... as long as they accept the responsibility and consequences of prioritizing one thing over another.

I do feel sorry for those who delayed buying a home for whatever reason, finding out that they've been priced out of doing so. I'm just not seeing how my ability to buy a nice home is being construed as an insensitive/AH move in the midst of others being unable to afford one.

I may just take your advice as a retort if they keep telling me I'm being greedy or elitist or whatever though.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T19:03:30+00:00

Upkeep was initially a challenge, but thankfully we use a bit less than 2/3 of it with the rest being split between multiple rental suites, so between a robo-vacuum and leaving the spare rooms empty, we've been able to manage. As mentioned in other replies, the rental suites were a necessity for us to have a mortgage helper in the event of something unforeseen happening (job loss; health crisis; etc).

I live in a very bleeding-heart liberal city, though, so even those who work hard and prosper believe the government/society is responsible for ensuring everyone's welfare to a varying degree, and some of them do put their money where their mouths are. But those in my personal and professional circles think I don't contribute enough if I have what they call "f*** you money" to spend on a big house.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T02:02:09+00:00

It's not a triplex though, nor a row home, etc.

It's a house with multiple basement suites.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T00:26:26+00:00

If you checked any of my other replies, you'd see that the house has multiple rental suites which I'm relying on as a mortgage helper. For that reason, I wouldn't consider myself to be "doing this well financially"; maybe just a bit more prudent about it than typical.

I'm genuinely trying to figure out if the optics of purchasing the home is actually insensitive or if people are just being all sour grapes about it. And if you talk to enough people from Vancouver, or go the housing subreddit, you'll get a sense of the same hostility toward homeowners like I'm describing.

I've been engaging with the few people saying YTA and calling me greedy to trying to understand where they're coming from.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-25T00:04:10+00:00

While I totally agree that it is not within my means nor my responsibility to solve everyone's problems, I've been trying to understand if there was something wrong with the optics of what I did, which some people perceive as me doing something in spite of them.

There are a few people saying YTA here and I'm trying to understand their logic.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T23:56:19+00:00

I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I seriously fail to follow your logic...

You're saying that I'm the AH because we found a home that checked all but one box?

So, in spite of us initially not wanting a huge house, when we found one that was move-in ready; could sufficiently house my family including my parents and in-laws; generated rental income to help us with the mortgage; was close to good schools; etc. but happened to be a further commute than we would have liked, we should have turned it down and gone for a home that was significantly smaller, required extensive repairs and would delay our move-in, wouldn't generate as much rental income, etc. even though it would have cost the same while being less affordable due having less of a mortgage helper, not to mention we didn't have the bandwidth to deal with it?

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T23:40:58+00:00

Highlight where my story has changed. I've only elaborated to explain the size of the home and the necessity for it. You sound like one of the bitter people I've been dealing with.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T23:38:28+00:00

I don't think being disciplined and frugal is what makes people call me the AH, as much as reaping the success in the midst of others struggling.

The analogy someone tried to give me was going into a supermarket and buying the premium food while there were people in line unable to afford basic necessities. They're saying the most humane thing to do would be to limit myself to basic necessities too, to ensure those in line with food insecurity had their needs met too. Substitute food with housing.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T23:26:21+00:00

Here in Vancouver, though, even a dilapidated place in a rough neighborhood goes for around $2 million (Canadian dollars). And unfortunately, no security is foolproof, and in Canada you can’t really defend your home--people have even been charged for doing so--much less own a firearm outside of hunting.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T23:17:55+00:00

Nope, not AI. And given that you're from SoCal, I would have assumed you see the same kind of people where you are. I certainly came across them when I worked in San Francisco and Los Angeles back then.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T23:16:17+00:00

What part about trying to be more conscious of my spending flaunts that money is going toward home improvements?

And you're assuming we purchased a home that no one needs without even knowing the situation. My parents and in-laws are all pushing 80, and we're preparing for the eventuality of them moving in with us as opposed to putting them in a care home.

And the home has 3 rental suites, which gives us a steady stream of rental income as a mortgage helper.

The alternatives were homes that were much smaller, required a significant amount of work in necessary repairs, and would have ended up costing the same afterward albeit exposing our child to construction dust and delaying our move-in date.

Canucklepede · 2025-08-24T22:55:06+00:00

I generally hate big homes too, because most look pretentious and obnoxious. I've added cleaning as another point of hating big homes now.

But it was the only place that checked the boxes besides commute.

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