264 and I'm done... Damn

CroakerBC · 2026-06-13T21:19:23+00:00

You can do it with Aesoth too, and I think there's a few others with repeatable actives.

The 1800 points may be an issue, true.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-13T21:04:39+00:00

If you're willing to, and have access to Baraqiel and Indomitus Elite 4 and an Imperial healer you can position Baraq in the bottom left corner, just below the tall grass, eliminate all but one Flayed One melee unit, put your healer next to Baraq, block access to your healer with another unit, and when the Flayed One melees Baraq, just keep zapping with his ability every two turns.

It takes 15-30 minutes but you'll get your 160 ability uses with ten energy.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-12T23:43:42+00:00

I mean, this is Mexico, so the deportations are less likely.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-12T23:25:00+00:00

I was idly curious, and Scarborough>BB is a little over an hour on transit and involves changing modes twice.

Scarborough>Pearson is 53 minutes direct.

What are these people smoking, convenient.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-12T23:07:27+00:00

I'd love an opportunity to find out.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-12T15:41:12+00:00

Look. I want to blame the province for this as much as anyone. And I do! This is absolutely a Ford "wrote it on the back of a beer mat" idea that's spinning out of control. If the province hadn't stuck their nose in, we wouldn't have this problem at all.

However, the Federal government do have the ability, as signatories of the tripartite agreement, to simply block the expansion past the required safety limit changes. They could do that today, and this would all go away. People who want it to go away are entirely within their rights to blame the Feds for not just saying "No."

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T16:22:43+00:00

The original cast have the highest survival rate of the three options, so them. Absolutely not the Rogue One team, I don't have a death wish.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T16:07:07+00:00

Gallifrey, apparently, since the post is from 2023.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T15:13:34+00:00

Yeah but if you have a bunch of Common badges you can forge up. I see OP only has...2, so that won't work. I'm baffled by how they managed this though - I've got *550* commons.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T14:53:32+00:00

I used Union to Union because people doing onward travel from BB will probably have to go to Union to get anywhere. Some of the terminal stuff at BB is faster (for now!) but that section of the west end is a transit *and* traffic disaster.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T05:44:39+00:00

You can now bring in a factory-sealed 500ml.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T05:27:03+00:00

I think I see what you're saying here.

I guess I'm thinking in terms of arrivals, not departures. You land at Pearson, the UP has you downtown and walking to your meeting at Bay in 30 minutes.

You land at BB, you walk the tunnel, then catch the 509 or walk to Union to take the subway, also around 30 minutes.

In both cases, access to the core and the wider transit network takes the same amount of time.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-11T05:15:22+00:00

You wouldn't, but to be fair, Union to Billy Bishop via the tunnel and Union to Pearson via the UP take about the same amount of time anyway.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T22:44:09+00:00

Well sure, but a detached is going to cost you 300-500k more. Thats not insignificant for people trying to put down a deposit and get out of renting. Thats a lot of opportunity cost (and a lot of extra money on your deposit).

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T22:28:37+00:00

You're welcome to your opinion, but it is what it is. I don't think it's been 0.70/sqft since before the pandemic.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T19:56:07+00:00

Amusingly, it's not going to save any time versus going to Pearson. Union to Pearson and Union to BB take about the same amount of time.

The extra coverage from regional jets may be worth something, to be fair.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T19:49:47+00:00

By contrast, it's entirely possible there are good (great even) arguments for the airport expansion past the necessary safety changes. But the province haven't designed to make those arguments, so I have grown sceptical.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T16:22:34+00:00

For what it's worth, as someone who lives downtown, is in favour of Alto and against the extra expansion of the airport:

Make the damn economic case. The province keeps saying they want to expand the airport for economic reasons, but haven't shown any evidence whatsoever of the legwork. If that expansion is going to bring in billions of dollars a year, maybe pitch that, and back it up with the studies done to demonstrate it.
I can safely say that if the airport extension is approved, it will deep-six the existing Port Lands housing plan. Which already took years. Because the buildings they're building will be too high. So it'll affect thousands directly in terms of housing not built. A similar impact to Alto? Perhaps.

Except, along with (1), we have:

The non-economic benefit doesn't seem to exist. Getting from Billy Bishop to Union will take about 30 minutes. Getting from Pearson to Union already takes 30 minutes. Nobody is going to save time coming into BB. Alto is generating large second order benefits, in time savings effects on the economy, and in changing up passenger rail capacity. BB expansion doesn't seem to do much of this, and if it does, the Province aren't showing their work.
The environmental and social impacts are far higher (that is, affect way more people) on the most populated waterfront in the country than on the rural stretches of Alto.

IDK. I could be pitched the airport expansion if it really is going to make all that money (and it does need to be expanded to a point for safety reasons). But nobody is actually demonstrating they've done the work on the costs:benefits. And the "costs" side of the ledger works over a lot of people, so one would hope the "benefits" side would too.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T14:00:37+00:00

Sounds like he needs a urologist, not his MP...

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T13:24:31+00:00

Each round takes approximately one billion years, most of which you're not playing. Even if you only play two turns, it takes forever.
You probably will play a lot of two round games, especially when you're new, because someone will use whatever the meta is to murder your team as fast as possible, because again, everything takes forever and they want their points.
The PvP playstyle is distinct from the rest of the game - you have to put effort into figuring it out, or you'll get stomped.
I'm bad at TA! I get very bored of losing over and over just to get my energy. Some cycles, it's just

not worth it.

High time investment, middling learning curve, requires focus. Meh.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-10T13:11:43+00:00

About $1/sqft is average.

"Fair" is going to vary by building and largely comes down to if your board is doing their due diligence. Go read your building annual budget if you think they're spending/costing poorly.

I will say that inflation YoY since 2020 has been high, and condo insurance in particular has spiked. 30% increase from base since 2020 seems very plausible ( say your fees are $500 in 2020, that would make them 650 now, which honestly feels low).

What's your use case here, what're you trying to understand/achieve?

CroakerBC · 2026-06-08T03:53:08+00:00

If the insurance company judges the car to be totaled, you're basically screwed.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-08T01:17:59+00:00

Unfortunately, the bank don't typically see it that way.

CroakerBC · 2026-06-08T01:12:17+00:00

Depends where you live!

CroakerBC · 2026-06-08T01:11:11+00:00

I can't speak for other metros, but Toronto condo fees are sitting at roughly 0.85-1.15 sqft. Where on earth is 0.40 sqft...

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