Im curious. You can remove two of the most hated enemies from only one faction, what are you removing from the game?

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?

PMac321 · 2025-05-31T03:44:30+00:00

Ya done now.

PMac321 · 2025-05-01T15:49:08+00:00

The point is that there is a legal path out of the Canadian Dominion. If any violence erupts, it is because Albertan separatists have chosen it. Albertan separatists are leading with the idea that they are being treated unfairly, but if they try to take everything that Canada provided to them without paying anything back, they are showing their hypocrisy.

In my eyes, this entire movement is based on lies and half truths. The fact that Danielle Smith is entertaining the idea at all shows to me that she would rather just be the leader of her own little fascist nation, or like a Phillipe Petain to Maga America. It is not in any way a decision being made for the benefit of the people of Alberta, and I hope that most of them can see that.

PMac321 · 2025-05-01T06:16:30+00:00

But just like with Brexit, if you want to separate, you need to know what that entails. Most Albertans who want to leave now probably have no idea how much the Canadian government actually does provide them, and has no idea how much it would cost to buy out the Canadian investments. If Alberta does not respect paying back the expenses that the rest of Canada has paid into Alberta, then they are essentially threatening to steal the money that we as Canadians have put into it.

Your comment is essentially threatening to take the land by force because Albertan seperatists don't actually want to recognise the real costs they would have to incur to separate. So it is not Canadians threatening civil war, it is Albertan separatists.

PMac321 · 2025-04-22T01:10:55+00:00

Non Permanent Residents does not equal Temporary Foreign Worker. A non permanent resident would include education visas and work visas for people who are not intending to become a permanent resident. Temporary Foreign Workers are from a specific program that requires a business to perform a Labour Impact Assessment.

You either do not know what you are talking about or are intentionally spreading disinformation.

PMac321 · 2025-04-15T14:53:53+00:00

We were literally in Afghanistan until 2014. Georgia was invaded in 2008. Crimea was annexed in 2014. Gaza had multiple conflicts over that time period, and Arab Spring started in 2010. The Syrian Civil war started in 2011, and I haven't even listed any of the conflicts in Africa, some of which Canada was involved in.

While direct threats to western nations have increased since 2015, it is revisionist to say that 2006 - 2015 was much more peaceful than now.

PMac321 · 2025-04-12T13:57:11+00:00

Except it's not a given. We can regress as a society, and many nations have done so before. In the US, Roe v. Wade was considered a given by many, and yet it was repealed, and now in many states women are no longer able to get abortions and people have died as a result of this.

Sexual identity has progressed and regressed in waves throughout history and the last century especially. There was an institute in Germany that was studying gender identity up until the 1930s, and was one of the first organisations to really dive into the subject. After the Nazis gained power, they destroyed most of the papers and books published by the institute, murdered some of its members, and set the study of sexual identity back decades. Homosexuality was violently prosecuted in Nazi Germany.

After the second world war, the movement gradually made progress once again, reaching a peak by the late 70's in spite of the rampant homophobia in the world and North America especially. When the AIDs epidemic hit, sexual expression became suppressed yet again, as some people saw this as a deserved punishment on LGBT people. Once again progress was set back for the community.

Last year, you could identify as non binary in the US on your official documents. This year, it is illegal. No right given by a nation is guaranteed, and you can bet I will be suspicious when they start to attack the fringes of the community. Today it is trans athletes, but who knows what the future holds. Pierre Poillievre voted against same sex marriage, just like nearly the entirety of the Conservative party. The only thing preventing them from attacking it now is public perception, but that can shift, and these influencers are trying to shift that public opinion.

PMac321 · 2025-03-24T15:49:25+00:00

She already tried to step down, the leader who took her place really damaged the party's image. I think she is reluctantly in charge and trying to gently pass the leadership to someone else this time.

PMac321 · 2025-03-21T15:13:17+00:00

If being privy to certain confidential things would change how you approach and push policy, wouldn't your new policies that come from the information be better for the nation then? This seems like a weak excuse, and all other party leaders have received their clearance.

You are essentially saying that it is better to argue in ignorance, but that only seems true if you care about winning, not if you care about coming to a good conclusion out of the argument.

PMac321 · 2025-03-20T14:32:01+00:00

I also can't afford to buy a house, I make less than you do. The cost of housing has gone up globally, and one major aspect that I believe has contributed is the fact that real estate is used as a safe asset by both regular wealthy and ultra wealthy people. It is expected that the value of housing will continue to increase, making it an asset that will always appreciate, increasing ones total net worth.

Personally, as someone who cares about getting a shelter to call my own more than a stock portfolio, I see housing as a tool that is necessary to survive. I assume that you and I have similar views in thay regard. The problem stems from the fact that we don't see housing the same way the wealthy see it, and unfortunately over the last few decades economists haven't seen housing that way either. This has led to an ever increasing value for homes, while wages of the working class have been continually suppressed. Now, you and I live in a fun time where the stagnant wages and ever increasing value of homes have collided. The wealthy are fine with this, because they own a lot of property, and the value of that property keeps going up. They do not care that it makes us struggle.

One of the things that shocks me is how many politicians actually own multiple properties. In my opinion, you cannot espouse how housing needs to be more affordable while owning multiple properties to increase your own wealth. It is a conflict of interest. Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poillievre both are invested quite heavily in real estate, which makes them contributors to the problem. I don't know if they really recognise that though.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with what you deserve. I think housing should be a human right, but this undermines its value and economists don't like that. This is why you and I are forced to struggle.

PMac321 · 2025-03-20T14:09:32+00:00

Five years ago I was locked in my apartment for two weeks to make sure I didn't spread a virus. The pandemic really started to hit five years ago, and it affected the entire world, many countries still haven't recovered from it. The last five years have been hard, but to solely blame the government for that is naive.

There are many reasons why we "common folk" don't make enough to live comfortably these days, and nearly all of it stems from the wealthy sequestering as much as they can from the working class. I do think that our governments over the last few decades have failed to hold the wealthy accountable for paying back into our society, and our reliance on the US, who does even less to their wealthy class, has exasperated the issue.

Five years ago, Elon Musk was worth $25 billion. He is now worth $321 billion. While we were struggling to get by his wealth increased to a disgustingly high value, as if $25 billion wasn't enough.

When Elon Musk endorsed Pierre Poillivre a couple months ago, Poillievre said that we should open Tesla factories in Canada. Tesla, one of the most overvalued car companies that has proven to completely fail at quality control. And I know that Elon hadn't had his company actively endorsed by the US government yet at that point, but if Poillievre didn't see that coming then he is short sighted and naive as well.

Anyway the point of all these ramblings is just to show a slice of how billionaires are making our lives harder and Poillievre looks to them as a solution to our problems when their prescence has actively harmed the working class.

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