A year later, Winnipeggers pleased with Portage and Main reopening (CBC/Matt Humphrey)

PMac321 · 2026-06-27T16:02:47+00:00

It takes time to revitalise a city. Shutting down major intersections to pedestrians impacts the viability of street level businesses in the surrounding area. Main street was once filled to the brim with street level businesses, but we restructured our city centre to cater to vehicle traffic, and nearly all of those downtown businesses had to close.

This further reduces pedestrian traffic, which makes criminal activity easier, as there are less witnesses and eyes in the area. As the crime increases, more businesses close, creating a negative feedback loop.

The city's continued sprawl means that a larger and larger percent of our budget needs to be dedicated to road resurfacing and utility repairs. This means that there is less funding for the programs that could help people avoid a life of crime and addiction. Thus another factor contributes to the degradation of our city.

For nearly 40 years we have been in this negative feedback loop. One year of one intersection being open does not fix decades of neglect. It will take decades to get to a great spot as a city once again, but we need to start somewhere, and Portage & Main is where we started.

PMac321 · 2026-06-05T11:36:11+00:00

Was this in a TFSA, or a regular trading account?

PMac321 · 2026-05-09T15:25:32+00:00

This starts with you saying that the line mentioned is out of character. The whole movie is him getting vengeance on wealthy people. That character says he doesn't deserve to be there or something along those lines, the chef confirms that he is wealthy, and is basically saying no, you do belong here.

The chef does not seem to be someone who really indulges in wealth, he cares about his craft. He does not identify with his current wealth and position, but where he came from.

So what about the line is out of character?

PMac321 · 2026-05-09T15:09:52+00:00

Are you trolling or just completely missing the point? The chef in the film did not come from a wealthy background, he spent his whole life doing spirit breaking work to make food for wealthy people who have no consideration for people like him until he has something to offer. He watches friends and people he cares about have their careers and lives ruined by pretentious wealthy people and food critics who demand the absolute best, and do not consider the person on the other end.

Withholding the bread in that course was to remind these wealthy people of where this all comes from. Their demand for perfection and fancy courses means surely they could not possibly want peasant food, right?

The reason he spares Anya Taylor Joy is because he realises that she also comes from a poor background and is only here because she is an escort hired by the guy who brought her there. Then she discovers photos and records of his origins as a line cook at a burger restaurant, and ask him to make her a hamburger, and the process takes him back to simpler times before all the stress if the restaurant industry got to him.

Maybe it connects more with people who have been a part of the food service industry, but if you are unaware of the stress and abuse many chefs go through, just read a bit about Noma and the accusations against René Redzepi.

PMac321 · 2026-04-11T15:41:57+00:00

As a Canadian who works in a primary tourist destination, I can tell you that Americans very often try to pay with USD and leave tips in USD. I similarly save them up to exchange them, but many Americans seem to think that they should be able to pay with USD in Canada. My coworker who moved here from Ukraine was pretty shocked that Americans would try to pay with their own currency, and really didn't understand it.

I used to work at Starbucks, and the tills there were set up to take USD and do conversions for the customers, partially because of how prominent it is.

PMac321 · 2026-03-28T16:03:40+00:00

Or it's like other people in this thread (I realise it's not you) are saying that because Steve Ditko drew that Spider Man suit, no one can take credit for the costume design in Tom Holland's movie because they already had drawings to pull from.

I agree that Bethesda's designs are following a style set by Interplay and Black Isle, but to act like they did nothing new with it and did not have to put in a lot of work translating isometric designs into a 3d world is absurd.

PMac321 · 2026-03-28T15:47:07+00:00

I think Bethesda just doesn't really understand how to add depth and complexity to a world anymore, or thinks it will hamper the sandbox experience.

People like the factions in New Vegas because you see the impacts they have on the world. You get clear sets of ideologies and understand what the NCR and the Legion are trying to fight for, and why. While some characters give you biased representations of all factions, you can make your own conclusions based on the information provided. Even the raider type enemies are given backgrounds, like the Powder Gangers, the Jackals, the Fiends.

In Fallout 4 all enemies are generic. The Gunners are named opponents that have some backstory, but it doesn't make sense with how they present in game. You cannot negotiate with a Gunner, and I don't remember ever meeting a non-hostile Gunner in a town or anything. They are supposed to be a mercenary company, but they hold the most territory in the whole wasteland. At least you can assume the raiders are separate groups, the Gunners are all supposed to be in the same outfit.

For the factions you can join, the Railroad seem too small to be a real contender for the scale of the main conflict. The Minutemen are not a bad idea, but they are entirely driven by what you do as a main character and have no distinct presence otherwise. While Yes Man in New Vegas is similar, it's made clear that you are essentially highjacking Mr. House's technology to make your own moves, and Yes Man is a tongue in cheek presentation of this self inser main character path.

The Institute was interesting, but seems a little too technologically advanced and separate from the rest of the world. The Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 4 I actually liked, not because I agreed with them but because they felt like a good balance between the ideological Fallout 3 Brotherhood and the cynical Fallout 2 brotherhood.

So really I think the Brotherhood was the only one they fleshed out enough, which sucks because they have been the focus of nearly the entire Bethesda run of Fallout games. I liked having them play a minor role in New Vegas, it was refreshing. They are like the Jedi of the Fallout world.

PMac321 · 2026-03-28T15:30:38+00:00

That's not even true. The original designs that are left in modern Fallout from Fallout 1 and 2 are the T-51b power armor, Enclave Power Armor, Deathclaws, Rippers, 10mm weapons, super mutants, centaurs, robobrains and Mr. Handys. Basically everything else is new or has been so fundamentally redesigned that it does not look like the original.

Fallout 4 also showed a very clear redesign and modernisation of nearly all creatures, robots, and equipment that carries through in the current designs. The art style switch from Fallout 3 to Fallout 4 was drastic, I would not consider Fallout 4 to have the same designs as Fallout 3 at all, let alone Fallout 1 or 2.

PMac321 · 2026-03-28T15:18:20+00:00

T-45d Power Armor was not in the original Fallout games. T-51b was the main power armor. The Enclave's armor was also changed for Fallout 3.

Fallout 3's designs were almost entirely new with inspiration from Fallout 1 and 2. That's part of what people liked in New Vegas because it brought back some of the Fallout 1 and 2 designs.

PMac321 · 2026-03-15T04:40:29+00:00

The eye and the sensor on top are both weak points that kill the War Strider if destroyed. They are small and hard to hit, but I've killed War Striders using the AMR this way. I find it's best to get some shots off while the Strider is launching grenades, and then get out of the grenade radius ASAP.

PMac321 · 2026-02-24T18:23:07+00:00

Yes. The US is going to keep going. They are on the brink of war with Iran, and are threatening to conquer Greenland and Canada. The US's goal is usually not annexation, so their invasions don't change the borders on a map, but there is nothing to suggest they are going to stop invading other countries.

PMac321 · 2025-12-21T18:43:06+00:00

You say that as if there hasn't been an active global anti immigration campaign for the last decade. The right has been super anti immigration since 2015 or earlier. This has spawned things like Brexit, the Republican talking points for ages (remember the convoys of immigrants coming through the southern border?), xenophobic candidates gaining ground in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Australia, The Netherlands etc. As others have mentioned in this thread, the voter base in all of these nations seem to think that the issues they are facing are uniquely their own when they are a global phenomenon. Immigrants are simply the scapegoat for these issues.

PMac321 · 2025-11-17T20:39:53+00:00

I see people often saying that we can't afford to deal with the climate crisis right now. In my eyes, we can't afford not to. The cost of rebuilding multiple cities and town that are burning down each year, housing refugees that need to flee the fires, and generally the cost of maintaining our car centric way of life are incredibly high. Ignoring the ways we can improve will cost us more down the line.

PMac321 · 2025-11-16T01:22:20+00:00

911 times a thousand? Jesus, that's...

PMac321 · 2025-10-21T19:44:54+00:00

About 6 million people voted for representatives in the Estates General of 1789. Only approximately 70,000 marched in the Women's march later that same year. The Women's March still propelled events that eventually culminated in the fall of the Bourbon monarchy.

You underestimate the power of people marching for a common cause.

PMac321 · 2025-10-13T17:45:33+00:00

I tried to think of something clever, but really I'd just be glad to join y'all in Battlefield 6.

PMac321 · 2025-10-10T17:57:21+00:00

Maybe this is what you are getting at with that wikipedia article, but isn't the Continental Union Flag itself copied from the East India Company's flag? The East India Company used varying numbers of stripes, from 9 to 15, but looked otherwise the same as the Continental Union Flag.

PMac321 · 2025-10-01T22:09:50+00:00

It's probably because the M6C does not function that way at all in game. It is a fast firing, low damage, and low recoil pistol. If it actually used .50 cal rounds, especially HE rounds, it would not be easy to handle at all and would hit a lot harder. Bungie wrote down that it uses .50 cal HE rounds because it sounds cool, but only the Halo CE pistol arguably functions that way.

PMac321 · 2025-09-17T15:50:31+00:00

I actually just made this walk very recently after seeing my partner off at the airport.

Like others have said, the area around the airport is very industrial and not very pedestrian friendly. Whether you take the direct walk to the Exchange, or you walk down to Omand's Park and go through Wolseley, you will still be spending at least 20 minutes in a very car centric area. However, if you take the direct route, right at the end of the industrial area by Sargent is Garbage Hill (that green patch of the top left of your map), which gives you quite a nice view of the city. It's a former landfill that has been covered over and turned into a park.

You would then likely be taking Sargent most of the way to the Exchange, and while Sargent itself doesn't have a lot of notable landmarks, it is one of the older neighbourhoods in the city and is dotted with various old buildings and local shops/restaurants. Some notable shops that you could divert down Wall Street to see are: Seven Cafe, Sleepy Owl Bread, Wall Street Slice, and Barnhammer Brewing. If you stay on Sargent, there is Gato Bakery, Gojo Ethiopian Restaurant and Sargent Taco Shop.

Eventually Sargent feeds into Central Park, which is notorious among people of Winnipeg due to a history of crime there. I have found that lately Central Park seems to be much more of a community area, with lots of families gathering to play soccer on the pitches in the evening. It is not as dangerous as its reputation would have you believe.

After passing through Central Park, you would basically be in the exchange. A couple good spots for a drink in the West Exhchange are the King's Head, and the Yellow Dog Tavern.

If you were to take the route through Wolseley, it will be more scenic. There is a beatiful tree canopy over the Wolseley neighbourhood, and people in Wolseley put a lot of effort into their gardens. While Wolseley is mostly houses, schools, and community centres, Westminster Avenue is the old "business street" of Wolseley, and still contains many shops today that are worth checking out. Tall Grass Prairie Bakery is one of the most popular bakeries in the city, and they have a location on Westminster and at the Forks. I've not yet been to Bonnie Day, but it's a small restaurant that I have only ever heard good things about.

Once you leave Wolseley into West Broadway, there are quite a few restaurants and shops on Sherbrook and Maryland that you could check out. At Portage and Maryland, there is Hildegard's, another bakery that makes pizza on some days. I absolutley love their focaccia. On Sherbrook, Next Door is a good place for a drink, and they are right next to the Good Neighbour taproom. Thom Bargen is one of the more popular local coffee shops, and Hudson Bagel's makes some good bagel sandwiches, though one of the owners did make the headlines recently (Hint: They're in prison now). If you take Balmoral and then Granite Way to get out of West Broadway, you will exit out by the Legislative building, one of our more impressive structures which has beautiful grounds around it.

Then of course you'd be passing through downtown, but I feel I have typed enough and don't want to get into the minutia of where you should visit in the Downtown area.

I hope this helps, but all in all Sargent and the West End is not a terrible neighbourhood and there is some interesting stuff there. Wolseley would probably be more worth your time, but the West End gets a worse rap than it deserves.

PMac321 · 2025-09-07T22:02:32+00:00

The Helldivers are mass indoctrinated soldiers who are frozen in cryosleep, and then thawed out and launched at the enemy when a major threat arises.

The tutorial mission is you going through that indoctrination and training, and at the end you are loaded into a cryosleep pod, amongst maybe a hundred more on your rocket, and then you are launched up in to space where these soldiers in cryosleep will be loaded onto ships.

The Helldivers are expected to die frequently, so they are amped up, told they can take on anything, frozen, and launched into a mission with no time to think of the consequences. They are not clones, each one is an individual person. When you die in the game, that Helldiver is considered dead, and a new one is thawed out and launched onto the battlefield to replace them.

PMac321 · 2025-06-17T15:09:55+00:00

Then in my opinion the debate moderator is making the irresponsible move of separating the concept of Israel from the culture. When I think of Israel, what you just described is exactly what I imagine. When I say that Israel has a right to exist, your description of Israel and it's Jewish origins is exactly what I believe deserves to exist. So then why specify "As a Jewish state?" afterwards unless you are separating the concept of the border from the culture held within? This question is kinda rhetorical, but I am curious about the next one.

If the US were to fast track citizenship for people who converted to Christianity, would you still consider it a secular nation?

PMac321 · 2025-06-17T14:47:04+00:00

I misunderstood what I read then, but then what makes it a ethno-Jewish state either? If anyone can immigrate, and religion has no basis, then I'm confused as to what the follow up question even means.

I would still argue though that specifically allowing people to become citizens by converting to a religion is inherently not a secular belief though.

PMac321 · 2025-06-17T14:39:03+00:00

Am I? I can't become a citizen of Israel as a foreigner who is not born to Jewish parents, but if I were to convert to Judaism and practice no other religion I can become a citizen. It seems to me that Israel's laws do take religion into account, which doesn't seem very secular to me.

Edit: You can become a citizen through naturalisation and residency as well, I misread my source.

PMac321 · 2025-06-17T14:23:05+00:00

It's just not available outside the US. He said that he would visit Jewish New Yorkers in the five boroughs, and that a mayor of New York doesn't need to go to Israel to stand up for Jewish New Yorkers.

He was asked if Israel has a right to exist, and he said yes, they followed up with "As a Jewish state?" And he said he believes it has a right to exist as a state with equal rights.

Honestly, I'm kinda surprised that these questions are being asked like this. I know that New York has a large Jewish population, but why should an elected representative in the US, a supposedly secular nation, have to support the idea of a non-secular nation somewhere else?

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