That oneUI 5.0 turtle looks actionable. Look at the legs. It's really obvious they traced the Apple one.

Bought one for my kid because he's a little artist. Seems nice. I use a Pixel, but honestly I miss the moto "chop chop to turn on the flashlight" feature from my old Moto.

I did too, but I got back in when they gave you a pretty easy achievement-based unlock the next season after the hero drops. I don't love it but it means you'll get the heroes at most 1 season late if you're not active enough to complete the free-tier battle-pass.

So it's not nice but at least there's no FOMO. It's more like unlocking weapons in TF2 in terms of difficulty than true "pay to win".

To me the big pisser is that the OW1 gameplay of 2-2-2 is no longer available. 5 players is not large enough team for a game with a respawn timer and slow rollouts - losing one player (especially the tank) means the teamfight is over. That much pressure is just bad gameplay for a game that was originally supposed to be an approachable take on TF2.

If they wanted smaller teams, they needed to rework how costly deaths are in teamfights. And OP tanks was just a dumb idea altogether.

Ah, right, I hadn't even thought about going that way around - that's way north of the parts of Ontario I know. But it makes sense - that's also part of the Trans Canada, and it's probably closer to as-the-crow-flies.

Are you going through Toronto or taking the 417 around it? If you're going through TO, hit the Science Centre. It may be your last chance to see it before Ford destroys it - he wants to tear it down and build a smaller version on the waterfront. And there's also the Big Apple which is a fun little pie-shop with a giant apple-painted water-tower in Colbourne. But that route would only make sense if you're going through the USA until like Manitoba or Saskatchewan (in that case: Milennium Park in Chicago, London Children's Museum in Fake London, and Pinery Provincial Park for the best freshwater beach in Canada).

If you're taking the 417 and going North through Ontario, I strongly recommend Science North in Sudbury, which is an amazing science museum your kid will love. There's also the Big Nickel there which is a nickel mine converted into a museum of mining, if you've ever wanted to go down into a mine.

For camping near Sudbury, I recommend Killarney Provincial Park. It's an amazing landscape like nowhere else I've ever been, since it's so rocky - all the foliage like pine trees and wild blueberry bushes are growing out of cracks in rock. Nothing like sliding down giant rocks into the water for a swim. In the Ottawa Valley, Bon Echo park is similarly beautiful rocky landscape. Both these sites were the subject of various paintings by the Group of Seven. Bon Echo is an excellent "my first time in a canoe" camping trip because there's a very short canoe-across-the-lake then hike up to the top of Bon Echo Rock for a nice little bite-sized adventure to an amazing view. But both of these provincial parks may already be fully booked up.

Most of these are afternoon activities, not little "20 minute stops". Honestly, I'd think hard about changing your plans to buy yourself more time if it's at all possible. I mean, when are you ever going to be back in Sudbury if you're moving to Vancouver? You might see Toronto again one day, or Montreal, or Ottawa. But you ain't ever going back to Sudbury, and it's worth a day or two.

See with the brown coloring and the working-class subject-matter I'm thinking this is more 19th-century French Realism than Renaissance.

The trick is they're all "guidelines" that planners will use to arbitrarily foot-drag on approvals. None of them are formally "regs" but just tools for a kangaroo court to dither.

Don’t take my word for it, see this video of deposition by Mark Richardson of Housing Now TO (an affordable housing builder):

https://mastodon.social/@Pxtl/110300343308877005

He specifically calls out "guidelines which are treated like they're cast in stone". An example of such a "guideline" would be angular plane rules, which result in Toronto's wierd stepped buildings, resulting in this complaint:

"You want green buildings? Green buildings are big chonky boxes made outta wood. They're not Mayan pyramids, which is what the urban design guidelines require."

Or even vaguer height limits that seem to be complaint-based:

"$20 billion dollar intersection in Forest Hill; somebody said that should be a 7-storey and 70-unit building in 2018. How...where did that number come from? Somebody picked that number. Because it "conformed to the current planning policy for Forest Hill" and somebody adjacent to the site had a backyard swimming pool. That can't be our priority in 2023."

I loathe the Poilievre conservatives, but they’re right about this. First step to stopping the housing crisis is to kick some municipal government ass. Trudeau is trying to do it with carrots through the Housing Accelerator Fund, but it’s long-since time for sticks and not carrots.

Alrighty, the leaf is looking good, now nobody freaking touch it.

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