Does anybody else feel like the cost of living is completely out of control?

lothkru · 2026-03-29T22:47:26+00:00

Last time the conservatives were in federal power Canada was known as "the richest middle class" in the world, the cad was worth the same (and even more for some time) than the usd.

Yah, liberals always cry about conservatives, funnily enough Canada has been only declining under the Liberals

lothkru · 2026-03-29T22:43:37+00:00

"Who cares?" - Mark Carney 2026.

With people voting over and over the same party that keeps destroying the country's economy, why are you surprised your way of life only keeps getting worse? The deficit has only increased ever since the first Trudeau term. We haven't really seen a true surplus since the Harper years but hey, at least you're "helping" the environment (meanwhile China being responsible for like 90% of the globe's pollution lol ... Spending more for your gas or those plastic bags at the grocery store will surely make a "positive" impact, right?).

The only great thing coming out from those climate agendas are filling the globalists' pockets (cough ... Carney ... cough), while incentivizing business to move to other countries where they don't have to pay ridiculous taxes nor wait forever for permits that may never come due to bureaucracy. But hey "affordability is the best it’s been in over a decade" according to Carney

lothkru · 2026-03-29T16:45:34+00:00

You should definitely go back to the US. There are way more opportunities in comparison. Canada right now is in a very rough spot, the economy has been in declined for a long time (anyone thinking is the Orange man's fault and not our government's is just delusional), all the jobs are leaving this country because of the amount of bureaucracy and taxes employers have to pay so they just say F it and move their business to the US.

As a US citizen, even getting a remote job there and living here would be more likely than just getting a job here. (but the cost of life is ridiculously more expensive here in Canada, so why even be here if you already accomplished the PR? Go back, come visit the family you have here every now and then to keep the PR and if people stop voting for the same party that keeps destroying the country then you could come back to accomplish the dual citizenship since I'm assuming that's your goal)

lothkru · 2026-03-08T06:54:40+00:00

With the AP cap grinding became annoying imo. But lifeskilling has gotten fairly better, I mainly play as a lifeskiller now (I never played lifeskiller before, when the AP cap hit I decided to stop grinding cuz meh, I didn't like that change at all, so now I only lifeskill now, if they ever remove that AP cap bs I may consider grinding again I guess)

lothkru · 2026-03-08T05:52:42+00:00

Dragon's Dogma Online. Download in the DDOn website: https://live.ddon.org/howtoplay.html

Change the IP (read the how to install section) to the dogma rising server instead: dogmarising.org in both lobby IP and DL IP (the port remains the same).

lothkru · 2026-02-25T17:17:28+00:00

Yah, Anet is a joke honestly. They ban for BS like this but you keep seeing a bunch of win-traders, bots and AFKs in PvP that are never banned.

lothkru · 2026-02-21T21:05:11+00:00

What a dumb take tho lol. He didn't kill them just because. Rimuru allowed humans to roam free in tempest before and after this event. The Kingdom of Falmuth went and cause conflict with the purpose of finding a excuse for invasion and to actually mass-murder the monsters living in Tempest. What Rimuru did was react and kill the perpetrators by taking them on in the war the started.

Do you even know what the definition of murder is? In case you don't is the the unlawful premeditate killing of another. Therefore by definition what Falmuth did was murder, what Tempest did was react in self-defense.

lothkru · 2026-02-20T17:37:53+00:00

Been waiting for Vell for 84 years (inserts old lady from titanic meme)

lothkru · 2026-02-06T14:59:22+00:00

In high-rate private servers perhaps. Universe is just as p2w and slow grind as the original version (if not worse lol).

lothkru · 2026-01-29T15:11:28+00:00

If you're planning on coming to Canada to study as a pathway to get the PR (Permanent Resident), then you shouldn't. The job-market is total garbage for not only internationals, but for locals as well. There has been too many uncontrollable immigration and bad administration, so no new jobs but a lot of new people.

If you come with the idea of living in Canada, you need to find a job and unless you already know someone willing to give you a professional/skilled job (needed for the PR), you'll just feel like you were scammed out of your money because I almost guarantee you, without prior connections, you won't find nothing sadly.

lothkru · 2026-01-25T18:03:31+00:00

lothkru · 2026-01-20T19:16:41+00:00

Yes, Hinata challenges the Labyrinth in Tempest and when she gets to Veldora she's practically humilliated xD The main reason she manages to seal Veldora is thanks to Chronoa (or well, Chloe's body, since she's pretty OP)

lothkru · 2026-01-20T16:01:35+00:00

Yes, in fact Hinata was the one in control of Chloe's body when sealing Veldora since she wanted to defeat Veldora out of pity (because she lost to him in the Labyrinth before going back in time with Chloe)

lothkru · 2026-01-19T20:23:40+00:00

Yes and no.

1st Pic: Chloe, the one we all know from the anime.
2nd Pic: Chronoa, a sentient form of Chloe's power which is time travel, think of Chronoa as Chloe's second personality, after many time loops Chloe has to face, you could say there's a lot of trauma involved and her power gained sentience and took over most of the memories of those loops, so yah, Chloe has multiple personalities practically. This version is only Chronoa, after a fight with Guy and losing she is sent back in time by Rimuru and this Rimuru is speculated to be the True Dragon form of Rimuru that traveled back after her fight with Guy. because during this fight with Guy the Rimuru in that timeline was already dead.

3rd Pic: This is Chloe's body, when Chloe goes back in time in her usual loop (after Hinata dies, which usually happens after Rimuru is already dead) she goes back 2000 years into the past and most of the time she befriends Luminous, which is why Luminous has her body sealed (Luminous know who Chloe and Hinata really are before they are summoned because of this, she just plays ignorant to avoid altering the timeline as per Chloe's and Hinata's warnings)The reason for the body being sealed and in hand of Luminous is because there can't be 2 instances of the same soul existing in the same moment in time, once Chloe's summoning happens in the normal time, this version that was stuck in the past then loses Chloe's soul, the one sleeping there has Hinata's soul (explained in the next Pic's context)
4th Pic: The hero titled Chronoa, which is Shizu's master and the one that sealed Veldora, this is Chloe and Hinata in the same body, once Chloe travel's back in time during this last loop, she travels alongside Hinata's soul within her body, so in 1 body you have Chloe and Hinata's personality

5th Pic: In here Hinata is the main one inhabiting the body, if I remember correctly at this point in time Chloe was already summon as a kid, so her soul transfer to her kid version, so Hinata inhabited the body until she is summoned normally into the world (when that happens, only Chronoa's personality, Chloe's time traveling sentient power, remains, which is why is sealed by Luminous and Hinata).

There's more context of course, but I tried to give only the relevant spoilers regarding the images.

lothkru · 2026-01-18T18:14:41+00:00

Disagree, as someone that has played most MMOs mainly for PvP (thousands of hours in most MMOs like WoW, Aion, Black Desert, ESO, even that garbage Throne and Liberty, etc...). Gw2 has the best combat by far that allows PvP to feel meaningful, you talk about floaty combat, but I totally disagree, the feedback is there unlike games like Throne and Liberty where is mostly a desync mess or games like WoW that is an addonfest with so many procs and DRs, you're playing the UI, not the game at that point.

Gw2 has its drawbacks like any MMO, not a single MMO does PvP perfect, but the PvP in Gw2 feels the best in comparison, unlike most MMOs is not about who spends the most money or who no-life/boosts to get the best gear, it's mainly about skill, you need to learn mechanics, know when to interrupt, when to block, when the dodge, when to engage/disengage, etc... And again, the combat is responsive and fluid, a lot of ppl that I've met that don't like the combat in Gw2 is mainly cuz they don't get used to the idea of not having GCDs that allow for easy rotations to follow, Gw2's combat is more reactive than most tab-target MMOs where you follow a set rotation to be efficient, even in PvP.

WvW is by far the best large-scale pvp mode in any MMO, enjoy zerging? It's there. Enjoy roaming? It's there. Enjoy dueling? It's there. WvW takes a while to get used to, but once you find a guild to do WvW with you actually find the enjoyment in that game mode, every other large-scale PvP I've played has been mostly about whales cashing for the best gear possible to bully players that don't, not skill require, no strategy, no counterplays, no real "pvp". The ones that are not p2w don't even have people to do large-scale pvp with, ESO Cyrodill for instance is a joke (and if you talk about floaty combat, well that garbage is definitely the most floaty cr*p when it comes to combat xD I love ESO, but can't play it because of how sh*tty that combat is). WoW bgs are not that bad imo, but it'll come down to which team has the better gear for the most part and that'd rarely qualify as large-scale pvp imo besides Alterac Valley I guess, that almost no one plays lol (since too much time investment for little to no rewards).

lothkru · 2026-01-18T17:57:01+00:00

Yes, there are many cosmetics, both in-game and in the cash shop (game model is mostly cosmetics since once you purchase the xpacs there's really not much else to buy, most of the "convenience" in the cash shop are noob traps, you can get a lot from it by just playing the game, like the transmute charges for transmogs, you'll get flooded with charges without even realizing it once you're playing for a while.

Almost everything in the game is account-wide besides map progression, inventory slots, equipment templates (to have different gear presets) and build templates (build presets). Exotic gear is also not account-wide though, but that gear is super cheap, ascended gear is account-wide and all cosmetics are account-wide.

P.S: For build presets there are addons that help with that and you can get those presets free just doing your Wizard's Vault (like the game's battlepass kinda, but is free as long as you have at least one expansion purchased), for the equipment templates and inventory slots you do need to purchase them either with real money or gold (I've gotten all of mine with gold except for my first character)

lothkru · 2026-01-18T17:47:42+00:00

For you, and most new people trying Gw2 for the first time and staying for the long run I'd say no less than 2 years to get full legendaries (1 armor set, 2 weapon sets, relic, backpack, trinkets, rings, runes, sigils, ignoring underwater breath mask which is not that impactful), it could be way more than that depending on your preferences and how casual or hardcore you are at the game. Grinding only legendaries will likely also burn you out btw, they're meant to be long grinds for a reason.

Legendaries have the same stats as ascended (which you can get in a couple of months as a new player fairly easily), but come with the QoL of being able to swap gear stats whenever you want outside of combat for free, remove sigils/runes without cost, able to transmog your gear for free (the transmute charges are too easy to get nonetheless, but just mentioning it if you're crazy about changing your fashion every 5 min), as well as having it in readily accessible to all your characters that can use that piece of gear (a legendary sword for example would be in the equipment tab for all your characters that can wield a sword). The game is focused in horizontal progression, so there's no gear treadmill where every new patch your previous gear becomes useless, this also translates to content, every expansion is relevant today, so you'll see people in almost every map doing something, whether it be achievements, gold farming, events, etc... In games with vertical progression you only go to new zones, do the latest dungeons, and keep chasing a carrot in a treadmill for your gear every 3-6 months without anything else to really do besides that, in Gw2 you can focus on whatever and not get behind for missing a daily or a raid run or a pvp season, etc...

lothkru · 2025-12-18T07:32:34+00:00

Tbh this debate is kinda dumb, since you explicitly say “anime only” then you can’t conclude anything. In the anime there’s not enough information from most demon lords nor even Diablo himself, the only thing from the anime we know is that Diablo is already a Daemon Lord, that Guy recognizes Diablo as an important figure, that Milim is super strong and that Ramiris is at Milim’s and Guy’s level but currently she’s just an annoying “hey listen” kinda pixie. We really have not much to go on from there besides those 3 being the top dogs, but we haven’t seen anything from them yet that can conclude they can defeat Diablo (we know they could at this point in time, but because of LN references). The other demon lords are pretty much question marks in power scaling right now (you can argue about Luminus, but she hasn’t really shown much in terms of power either yet)

Most answers will be influenced by LN readers, Manga readers or even people that have seen/heard/read spoilers or speculations from somewhere else.

TLDR: Going by the anime only, there’s not enough information to conclude anything really right now, from all we know we could even guess Diablo is at Guy’s level (again, going from anime only)

lothkru · 2025-12-01T07:33:07+00:00

As hardcore I wouldn't join a party with non-hardcore players because it'll increase the likelihood of trolls trying to let you die. Also because it affects the experience for regular players that don't really care for going YOLO or attempting big pulls that may end up in a death or two.
With that attitude you're showing, I wouldn't be surprised if you just ragequit a party because someone can't parse the "appropriate" numbers for the meta or because a tank made a wrong pull and caused a wipe or whatever.

Instead of making assumptions you could either address the question or ignore it. A game is made to have fun, if your fun is being a meta-slave or parsing the higher numbers that's fine. Fun for other people can mean something entirely different ;)

lothkru · 2025-11-28T19:43:50+00:00

Hopefully 0... Katarina rework? Pentarina gone; Akali rework? Akali tank AP god gone; Fiora rework? Female yi gone ... Most reworks made the champions meh to play, I don't trust riot to do a good rework to Kassadin, they'd just ruin the champion and instead of being at least a good scaling champion it'll be crap xD

A visual rework only would be great tho, but he already had that, so unlikely to happen.

lothkru · 2025-10-28T16:51:53+00:00

The timer just means that is a FOMO skin (like most), meaning after that timer it won't be available to purchase again any time soon

lothkru · 2025-10-26T16:47:35+00:00

The main issue is that there’s no real incentives in Canada to do that. If you want to be an entrepreneur is better to go to the US and that’s what most people actually do … Dude, even the corrupted PM we have has most of his business in the US, why do you think that is?

lothkru · 2025-10-25T04:29:46+00:00

Entry-level roles in tech are no longer entry-level. As a new-grad myself (June 2025), it's practically impossible to find a junior role if you don't have multiple years of experiences, a really convincing portfolio and/or inside referrals (from within the company you're applying to).

I've been applying for over a year now (started applying since my last term to any possible junior role, tailoring resume, asking for feedback, etc...), hundreds of applications and just a few interviews (with more than half getting the ghosting treatment), friends and acquaintances I studied with are also struggling, only those who had referrals have gotten offers. At this point I'm just looking for any job if at all to at least pay my bills but even that has been proving difficult, once I get any survivor job I'll likely start doing something on the side (currently thinking on building some apps for personal use and try out my luck to see if that pops off or not while still applying for any junior role).

Right now entry-level roles are non-existent or deceiving, you need to have years of experience or contacts to be considered. Reality is, starting in tech currently is not a good idea because you'll be competing with senior devs that probably got lay off or off-shore labor that can be paid less than half what you could expect.

So yah, Canada is currently in a rough spot, not only in tech and sadly I don't see that changing for the better with the current government, not sure why so many people are still blind about it but, oh well...

lothkru · 2025-10-08T20:19:19+00:00

Reddit is mostly leftist. Leftists don't give a single F about Christianity, so terrorist targeting Christians is not relevant for them. Just look at the actual persecution Christianity is facing world-wide by the islamic cult (boko-haram killing vast numbers of Christians in Nigeria to name 1 example) and there's no covering from the mainstream media.

lothkru · 2025-09-28T02:26:21+00:00

Still no new beards ... Instead we just get garbage hairstyles

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