The Great Lakes region and New York is literally choking on Canadian wildfire smoke right now.
This Canadian woman just answered the question everyone’s asking: “Why is Canada always on fire?? This is like the 6th year in a row.”
Her explanation:
“We used to have indigenous fire starters who could light a fire and control it on an entire mountain. They’d do prescribed burns so there wouldn’t be crazy forest fires.
You could drive along the highways in the early ’80s and the sides would literally be on fire — with an indigenous person walking right there controlling it.
But we banned them from their ancient practices.
Now we have crazy forest fires… ’Cause we suck.”
Her words. Not mine. Just like California and how they made wildfires even worse.
The local grocery chain here in RI/MA had a local artist paint its Fourth of July flyer, and I think in a world of AI slop, stuff like this is awesome.
Never forgive them for what they took from us
Cheat codes
Game manuals
Demo discs
Couch co-op being normal
Split-screen multiplayer
Complete games at launch
No day-one patches
Unlockable characters
Secret costumes
Bonus modes
Physical collections
Cool disc art
Simple console dashboards
No account logins
No battle passes
No daily quests
No always-online single-player games
Weird experimental games
Mid-budget games
Licensed games with personality
Buying random games based on the cover
Gaming magazines
Game rentals
Main menus with soul
The feeling of actually owning your games
The excitement of a new console generation