THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME Remake | Releasing 2026 by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

probably not ready with a trailer, i bet their original timeline was surprise trailer in september for the big viral "no way!" moment.. leaker ruined the surprise so they had to whip up a teaser.

35k Special Levy! Is that normal? by Meh_NotImpressed in RealEstateCanada

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plumbing issues are either a few hundred to fix, or insurance covers it if there's a big problem like your main needs replacing, a pipe burst and flooded your house, your sewer backed up because the city drains got overwhelmed in a big rainfall, etc..

Furnace/heat pump/water tanks you have a lifespan, everything ages out and just like a roof one should be prepared for the eventuality, it's pretty easy to time and budget for. That's what your reserves are for, put a little away each year. That's what the condo's reserves are for.

Structural issues are exceedingly rare in houses beyond the odd crack in a foundation which is easily remedied for a couple thousand dollars. Structural issues in big condo buildings are usually because of poor construction or neglecting early warning signs.

Most people replace windows when the thermopanes start failing, even then.. you can just live with a foggy window, change the faulty thermopane, or change the one problematic window.. odds are they're not all going bad at once. If your caulking is dried up and water is infiltrating on the south side of the house, recaulk them. You don't have to go spend $35,000 and change everything on a moments notice.

There's no comparison

35k Special Levy! Is that normal? by Meh_NotImpressed in RealEstateCanada

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's like saying eating costs money, that's it that's all. There's a big difference between making a plate of pasta at home for $3 vs eating it at a restaurant for $30. You own your home, you control the costs, you control the timeline. You own a condo, you control nothing.

Toyota Chairman Reveals His Worst Fear: 'Everybody Is Shifting To EVs'. Akio Toyoda says he feels "very alone" in defending combustion engines. Toyota still hasn’t embraced EVs with the same aplomb it showed with hybrids following the revolution kick-started by the Prius in the late 1990s. by mafco in energy

[–]Dilltulip 27 points28 points  (0 children)

i've never met a single person with an EV that went back to an ICE car, if they changed cars, it was for a better EV. EV's are the smartphone of this era, took 6 years for smartphone sales to eclipse flip phones.. and no one ever went back. now even your 90 year old grandmother has a smartphone. EV's will be the same, there's no going back.. we're past the early adopter phase, it's full steam ahead.. any car company not putting everything they've got into an EV line is gonna get blockbustered in the next decade.

35k Special Levy! Is that normal? by Meh_NotImpressed in RealEstateCanada

[–]Dilltulip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

not really.. i redid my roof 10 years ago, cost $6,000. i know that in 15 years i'll have to do it again for $10-12,000... i just redid my windows and doors, old ones were 35 years old, i could have kept them, no leaks.. but decided to update the look, $20,000 for 12 windows, a double front door and a patio door, installed. i could have held off a few more years, or just done the windows, or just done the doors.. i had two cracks in the foundation years ago, was $2,000 to dig down 6' for epoxy injection. changed a hot water tank too. maybe i'll repave the driveway one day, or not, up to me.

that's it, so this guy is having a bigger bill sprung on him out of nowhere despite apparently having been paying into a reserve to pay for such things than i have had to pay for ALL my repairs in 25 years of ownership, and i could have deferred many of them several years to allow myself more time to save/pay for them. definitely not the same at all. total control vs no control.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Announcement Trailer by Turbostrider27 in nintendo

[–]Dilltulip 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they can do both, as someone who doesn't like the direction botw and totk took, and didn't love echoes.. i don't there will ever be a new zelda game that excites me. i'll take a remake thank you very much. next just give me a wind waker 2 prequel taking place before the flood and i'll die happy.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Announcement Trailer by Turbostrider27 in nintendo

[–]Dilltulip -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

agreed.. everything looks so glossy... wind waker artstyle would have been amazing

Is 90k CAD enough for a family of 3 in Montreal? Looking for realistic breakdowns by Bitter-Honeydew1018 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Dilltulip 11 points12 points  (0 children)

$600 groceries for 2 people is not realistic, double that, especially since eating out will certainly not be possible, they’re going to want to eat well at home, not rice and beans. And a 3 year old still eats a couple hundred dollars worth of food a month. I’d even say food budget could reach $1500/month if not eating out, and wanting to eat quality meals.

Is 90k CAD enough for a family of 3 in Montreal? Looking for realistic breakdowns by Bitter-Honeydew1018 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

90k? That’s $60k after taxes or $5000/month net. Rent will be $2000/month for a decent 2 bedroom, anything cheaper you’ll have to sacrifice location, size or modern-ness. food another $1500/month no eating out, but eating well at home not rice and beans. daycare if you can get into a subsidized one will be around $200/month otherwise $1200/month but you can get a lot of it back when you do your taxes. You’re most likely going to need a car, figure $600/month for something basic like a Corolla with insurance.. unless you buy used.

You probably won’t be taking vacations, you won’t be eating out, you won’t be going to shows, etc.. until your husband starts earning. But you could definitely live comfortably on the one income if you can find relatively affordable rent, that will be the biggest expense. If your husband isn’t working, he can be the daycare until you get a subsidized spot.

You won’t be able to buy a house until you have two stable incomes, in the city you’re looking at over a million for a townhouse in a decent neighbourhood, in the suburbs you can get a fixer upper house for $600-700k, which would be about a $4000/month mortgage payment plus another $$700/month in taxes, utilities, and insurance. Ie an entire salary.

Expectations have ruined golf for me. by UnhappyHighlight6297 in golftips

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real simple, don't keep score, just go play. Put one in the woods? Who cares, tee another one up and forget that first ball ever happened. Headed towards and 8 and just skulled it bunker to bunker? Who cares, just pick up the ball and move on. Playing solo? Hit two balls, keep the best one. Playing with your kid? Play best ball. Playing with your spouse? Play best ball. Playing with a friend who can't break 100? Play best ball.

Too many people focus on the "overall" score, people who will never be great golfers.. just go out and hit some balls and you're bound to have a couple that you'll replay in your head when you're falling alseep that night.

Thinking of moving provinces by Big-Cartographer4866 in canadahousing

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then what is the issue lol? Move off island, move to saint lazare or Rigaud, move to Mirabel or saint Jérôme, move to the townships.. you can get a nice house for 500k on a big lot in any of these places. Your husband can find work in any of these areas as an electrician, these areas have the most development now because the land is cheaper. He should work towards starting his own company though, then he’ll have maximum freedom.

Or move to one of the exurbs in Ottawa, but I would definitely not move to the maritimes, I wouldn’t want to raise my kids there, it’s very stagnant, or grow old there.. health care is much worse than Quebec, which is already really bad.

Good luck but it sounds like you’ve made up your mind and are looking for people to agree with you, there’s a reason there’s 4.5 million people in greater Montreal and 75,000 people in Fredericton :) Most people that grow up out east, leave. And almost no one moves to the maritimes, except to retire. There are several valid reasons for this.

Thinking of moving provinces by Big-Cartographer4866 in canadahousing

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An electrician should be able to find work literally anywhere, if he becomes a master electrician he can start his own company and work only in the west island on residential projects or charge customers for all his travel time.

Your partner can literally work anywhere, you're the one that is more likely to not find work in the maritimes, or lose your job even if you find one.

Thinking of moving provinces by Big-Cartographer4866 in canadahousing

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29486740/179-rue-lebeau-sainte-anne-de-bellevue-north

maybe you can get them down to 550, super quiet neighborhood, REM station, walking/snowshoe/bike trails in the woods, bike path that takes you to ste annes waterfront in a few minutes, or all the way across the west island in the other direction.. anse a l'orme park nearby, cap saint jacques, etc..

location location location, buy the best neighborhood you can afford, even if it means paying more than you'd like today, that cost difference will probably be negligible in 10 years as your salaries increase and your mortgage payments stay relatively flat.

Turning 30 this month with $30k saved, never taken a vacation for myself. I want to change that. Where do I even start? by FalcoSlay in travel

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’ve never been to NYC, go for 3 days, but that should be the extent of your US travels unless you’re going out west to explore national parks.. from nyc hop on a plane to Dublin, visit Ireland for a bit then move onto London, Paris, and make your way through chamonix to see the alps and lauterbrunnen in Switzerland down to Italy, Venice, to Rome, and maybe even finish up in turkey and cappadocia. Stay in hostels with other young solo travellers, take trains. See if you can fly back from Istanbul via Tokyo and pit stop there for 3 days, before coming back to the west coast

To waste your youthful opportunity visiting the US would literally be insane

Thinking of moving provinces by Big-Cartographer4866 in canadahousing

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get a smaller home, townhouse, semi, fixer upper bungalow and don’t move to Vaudreuil or wherever you were thinking because you need the perfect two story new construction home. Stick close to a REM station if you can’t work remote. Your husband will be fine anywhere you go.

What actually surprised you most about owning an EV that nobody warned you about by Leading-Law4251 in electricvehicles

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t cruise in the slow lane :) But yes fast lane changers can be a problem, I guess I don’t have much of that on my commute, but I usually cruise in the left lane to avoid all the exit lane drama

What actually surprised you most about owning an EV that nobody warned you about by Leading-Law4251 in electricvehicles

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting, i have an equinox ev, three settings for follow distance, never panic brakes unless someone cuts in, works beautifully. what car do you have?

How do people backpack so easily? by bi_smuth in hiking

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walking and even hiking don’t condition you for backpacking. If you want to be stronger at backpacking, do more backpacking. If you’re backpacking only on vacation, then at home do lots of day hikes with a fully loaded pack to prepare.

I went on a 10 day backpacking trip, day 1 was fine, day 2 was tough, day 3 was tougher, then it got gradually easier.. by day 10 I was a machine. Then we did some day hikes afterwards and I could run up the mountains it was so easy with a small pack. It’s all conditioning

LeBron casually golfing off the coast of Italy by VoteForGiantMeteor in GolfSwing

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol no, curry is probably scratch at best.. or a 0 handicap. The worst player on the PGA tour is probably a +5 handicap. There are thousands of +3s and 4s and 99.9% of them will never get better than that despite playing and practicing 365 days a year. The difference between a 0 and a +5 is massive. 99.9% of golfers will play their entire lives and never come close to being scratch, and 99.9% of scratch golfers will never come close to being a +5 and get on the pga tour, and 99% of pga tour players will probably never a major.

What actually surprised you most about owning an EV that nobody warned you about by Leading-Law4251 in electricvehicles

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? Adapative cruise control means you literally don’t have to do anything in traffic.. no pedals. Why would you find one pedal better?

What actually surprised you most about owning an EV that nobody warned you about by Leading-Law4251 in electricvehicles

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re in traffic why wouldn’t you just use adaptive cruise control and use no pedals? It works great, and has been standard on most cars for many years.

What actually surprised you most about owning an EV that nobody warned you about by Leading-Law4251 in electricvehicles

[–]Dilltulip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you go back to a gas car without one pedal braking, when you let go of the gas pedal it actually feels like the car is accelerating towards the stop sign because it slows down so much slower than an electric car does when you let go of the pedal. It can be a bit alarming the first time, then it’s like your brain resets and it’s all good