I’m aware this is belatedly shared from when it was celebrated, but that is what happens when you’re busy tending to everything in life. Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day!
Sure, it’s belated from when I’m sharing it (July 9th), it’s still within the month, and early half of the month. This day was spent relaxing at home with how fatigued I was that day. Just resting, especially with how no air show or special attraction was announced. It was also brutally humid forcing me to stay close to home. The weather also threatened to have it thunder, at which point it actually thundered (7 PM), forcing me to run back home after a Pokemon GO run to order Chinese food.
My drone complained of low battery, beeping and attempting to auto-land. I attempted to manually guide it straight back down, if in vain. The drone took off a few blocks away from me, something which caused me to panic. I feared it would land in a tree, or in someone’s backyard. Thankfully, it navigated itself back towards me. I saw the navigational lights. Somewhat relieved, I attempted to guide it back down with inverted controls, hence my initial dilemma. It failed to acknowledge my initial commands via inverted controls.
I eventually regained my drone, landing it safely on a flat surface. Safe! I won’t send off my drone into the night, not until I’m highly confident of its behaviour. What a scare, especially with so few fireworks on display. I heard them locally, failing to capture them via drone picture and video capture.
I switched back to video games from there on in.
Gaming Wise – For Canada Day:
G Eternal (Gundam) decided to provide me with Windmill Gundam, also known as Nether Gundam, based on G Gundam’s Netherlands nation. You know, the Neo-Dutch. Bad timing, especially with how if I was supposed to obtain anything, it should be Grizzly/Lumber Gundam representing Neo-Canada in their lore.
I’m gradually, if slowly, making my way towards G Gundam universe story. I’m on Gundam Wing story mode farming, leveling up, and tending to the tech-tree to eventually obtain my precious Tallgeese, Gundam Epyon, and all those fun Wing-era mobile suits prior to doubling back to Gundam SEED, and other universes.
I have bad blood with the Dutch folks after they betrayed me over political and low personal integrity on their side of things. Everything was always allegedly my fault, everything was always “wrong”, and any signs of friendship was viewed as a taboo and sin. I wasn’t allowed to send gifts to my Dutch friends, nor show respect and hospitality, as Japanese and traditional Europeans would. Anything Dutch has is viewed as an ‘dark cloud’, as they put it. Always viewed as negative. Who knows what they’re doing, but one of them appears to be venting how Uma Musume Pretty Derby (a horse racing game) is banned in Germany & Netherlands. Sucks to be them, especially how Pro-Left-Wing they are over there. Self-caused harm caused by their own decisions. Karma is fun, eh?
I’ll eventually make it to Grizzly/Lumber Gundam, if sadly not in time for this year’s time-frame of Canada Day celebrations.
Happy Intentionally Ignored Canada Day for 2025! Fuck the Canadians! Fuck the Canadian Truckers! 😉
(But let’s acknowledge the Americans in falsehoods.)
Every year with SCS Software and American Truck Simulator is the same, and it’s always boring. I used to firmly enjoy casually trucking along in ATS, something which has become more tedious and sterilized as the years go by. SCS Software is afraid of releasing the Euro Truck Simulator 2 DLC featuring Belarus, Russia, and those allegedly controversial regions, and they’re also failing to release/acknowledge various other types of content. They can provide multiple Canadian themed paintjobs, DLCs, etc, yet decided against it.
China decided to release any Russian oriented content without censorship, without issue, if keeping some decorum and moderation over overexaggerated political protesting. Azur Lane released Russian ‘Northern Parliament’ shipgirls without censoring them, as they should, because games should be free. When it comes to Eastern-Asia (China, Korea, Japan) they simply release things as they should. Granted, Japan itself has been severely slacking, and they’re paying the price for sabotaging themselves, if with the aid of Left-Wing activists group.
Secondly, and the main issue as here, is how SCS Software constantly gains cold feet on everything. Another year, another Anti-Canadian stance. Intentionally ignore the Canadians, hold back on any Canadian paintjobs for the various trucks, even if there are signs SCS Software genuinely desires to venture into British Columbia, Canada. They desire, yet they’re being very skittish.
SCS Software has hypocritically noted they’re being “neutral” in these political matters, yet act otherwise. They follow the genuinely destructive mainstream political agenda, and it shows. Same with Microsoft with Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 & 2024. Heck, even Minecraft is treated politically with false “forever-victim” representation. Sad state of affairs, especially with how Asian media, games, and Anime portray things as they should. SCS Software censor their own DLC, even preventing it from being released. But then, in the same motion, they screw over the Canadians year-after-year. Where the fuck is the Canadian Paint Job? They have Canadian paint job in Euro Truck Sim 2, just not in American Truck Sim. Where is the acknowledgement to Canada’s July 1st Canada Day? You’ve wasted a worthless, political Tweet/Post on Ukraine instead of acknowledging the Canadians, a place they themselves have also shown they desire to go through various assets placed and shown in their own game!
SCS Software are allegedly “neutrally” against Russia and their allies, yet openly hate Canadians and common sense. It’s no wonder why I had Czech relatives of a family member steal my Slovakian Koruna from my 2006 High School year book back in 2008. They went through my possessions grabbing all my stored up currency. Wishy-washy, wibbly-wobbly, zig-zagging motion.
I understand why gamers are leaning into China, even if China is Pro-Communist. China at least provides to the market, something SCS Software does in a scummy manner. Whatever the Western market fails at is supplied by the Chinese market. Not just them, but also Korea and Japan, especially when they’re left unfiltered by Western observations. SCS Software’s own American Truck Sim fanbase (actual truckers) hate how poorly represented Oklahoma is. SCS Software is too sloppy, arrogant, and to Czech-arrogant for their own good. I was looking into purchasing DLCs, people weren’t happy with Western scummy, sloppy practices.
SCS Software continues to irritate me year, after year. Too hypocritical, political.
I’m hoping the next time I’m able to play is when Canada is properly, politically neutrally implemented, and everything is done as it should be. The Asian way, the Japanese/Chinese/Korean way! The trucking way. The amount of apologizing to the Canadian fanbase is vast, and they need to start making amends sooner than later. They’ve already betrayed the Canadians during the Freedom Convoy, yet side against berating the Russians at every chance. It’s amazing how sly the Chinese are, and it’s no wonder people migrate to their games more often. 😉
(Sidenote: Yes, I’m fully aware of how dishonest the Chinese can be. They make far better products than the politically charged stuff. Their upcoming Euro Truck Sim 2 Coach DLC shall be a fun one, a nice addition to the mix. They need to focus more on that than they do on political stances and fears. Just release content as they should be without leaning one way or another. Be actually neutral, as Azur Lane has been with the Russian Northern Parliament.)
I also obtained a few shiny Pokemon (special Pokemon) on the day of, and following Canada Day.
It’s an interesting line-up, if disappointing. I feel highly disconnected, pushed away, and disinterested in this line-up. If anything, I admire the designs of Mecklenburg and Kanas for how special they appear. Mecklenburg reminds me of Hololive’s Irys and Fate/Grand Order’s Elizabeth Bathory character mixed into one. Others have seen these similar similarities, and it can’t be helped. Mecklenburg is neat.
Kansas has this neat jellyfish vibe going on, and I admire that. Sleek, smooth, and normalized. A uniformed, classy American Eagle Union shipgirl. She is a simple, sleek beauty.
Vittorio Cuniberti appears awesome with her academic, if cat-like personality to her. That’s two, or even three, neat shipgirls (KANSEN). I don’t dislike Dmitri Donskoi, but we’ve seen that design before with previous Russian Northern Parliament shipgirls (KANSEN). I don’t dislike her because she’s Russian, but because she’s too “common”, and shoe-horned into the line-up.
People have also voiced both their speculation and concerned about desiring a Royal Navy affiliated research shipgirl (KANSEN) for Azur Lane’s Priority Research. None was announced, further dejecting people who desired anything tied with Royal Navy. Doesn’t have to be Canadian, nor Australia, but of Royal Navy origin. None was provided, further tainting the vibes of Azur Lane itself. The water is figuratively murky.
What about Gouden Leeuw?
First off, she’s Dutch. You should know how I feel about the Dutch, viewing them as an “black cloud” of negativity thanks to how slimy Dutch people have portrayed themselves in my proximity. No integrity, failing to understand the concept of “loyalty”, and have lofty beliefs causing them to blow in in the wind with no personal self-worth. They follow the current of the mainstream, not of their own interests. Real world is where I’m on my guard, yet in the Azur Lane realm is where I admire them. They appear to be appropriately neutral, youthful, and willing to be an actual pre-2017 nationality. Azur Lane’s Kingdom of Tulipa is a nation I could actually admire, if a bit heavy on the stereotypes. Moderation is key here, and I hope moderation is applied going forward.
I’m actually happy to see the Dutch represented in Azur Lane, especially with a swiftly injected research Dutch shipgirl. I’ve fought to have them naturally represented in every naval war game, especially anticipating their implementation in KanColle. I was hoping to see them in ‘Victory Belles’ (now a dead game), and their eventual addition into Azur Lane. I’m happy we’re to see more nationalities represented in Azur Lane, as it should be. Even so, Gouden Leeuw’s addition was far too swift, something in the planning for months, or even a year in the making. She has a neat design, is of the Dutch Elf perspective, if overly sexualized to the point I wouldn’t blame normalized Dutch nationals being afraid of connecting with their own ‘Kingdom of Tulipa’ shipgirls. She has that overly ‘Motherly’ vibe to her, and she’s respected on that level.
Sadly, everything has to be tainted by my experiences with Dutch folks. Dutch cloud here, frustration over there. Rejection, dejection, and being made to feel I’m not allowed to even set foot in either the real world, nor fictional depiction of the Dutch Netherlands. I’ve been made to feel everything is my fault, hence why I lean towards the German’s Mecklenburg, and the American Kansas shipgirls. I’m not allowed to morally support the Dutch thanks to these real-world betrayels, ones Left-Wing activists happily jump on to falsely blame and pin back on me. I’m aware people are dishonest and intellectually untruthful, and that’s how it’s going to be. Both Mecklenburg and Kansas are the “normal” bunch of the group, even knowing full well real world Germans are morally compromised as the Dutch folks. They can’t be truthful. The fictional representation of Kansas and Mecklenburg is enough for me to escape in the Azur Lane realm.
“How is this [PR8] tied to Canada Day?”
(https://arcticukitsu.com/Blog/?p=9499)
According to other people I’m not allowed to wish, desire, nor anticipate the Canadians eventual addition into Azur Lane. Canadians don’t exist, nor do their warships. HMCS Haida doesn’t exist in Hamilton, that vessels is a figment of your imagination. Armchair activists have stated I’m not allowed to admire Canadians, let alone Canadians in Azur Lane, even if they’ve been faintly acknowledged via the ‘Maple Monarchy’ tag. That’s just “flavour text”, in the similar manner to how Yamato is “flavour text”. Both Maple Monarchy and Yamato don’t exist in the Azur Lane realm, and my sourcing for that are the various armchair activists who’ve firmly stated such time and again. If they say it, it must be true, hence why I’m sourcing them.
The Kure Naval Museum in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan? That also doesn’t exist. My sources told me so, and they’ll keep stating such to continously discredit Canadian participation and existence in World War 2. Yamato’s battleship display? That also doesn’t exist. It’s only an Anime hallucination. Yamato doesn’t exist, and that’s a fact stated by those who have also stated Canadians never owned, operated, or commanded their own naval fleet during WW1, WW2, and onwards. Both Yamato and the Royal Canadian Navy are an illusion.
I was hoping to see HMCS Yukon via World of Warship’s research line. Alas, we’re not allowed to have fun with our Canadian warships, especially when the Dutch have taken their spotlight via Gouden Leeuw for this 2025 year of Azur Lane. You’re not allowed to admire Canadians, they’re tied to the Royal Navy, and they’re ripe for vandalization. Go ahead, urinate on the war graves, on the sacrifices the Canadians have made during the war, and all that stolen valour by Americans and the British. Canadians do all the dirty work, yet Americans and British steal all the thunder and recognition. How boring, lame, and idiotic.
(Side-note: Lion’s note about the Maple Monarchy in another realm called ‘Realm of the neversetting sun’ may actually be my actual feedback from a survey implemented in ‘The Rose on The High Tower’ event. This event featured Lion, Glorious META, and friends coming from a Royal Navy ruled realm feeding into an Alien-occupied and destroyed world full of portals leading to other realms. May be coincidental, but I do take pride in running with this knowledge of how I may have influenced Azur Lane’s events. We may not only see Canadians, but ANZAC as well. Also hoping for Poland, Romania, Sweden, Finland, etc. Canada is my main goal, other nations are my secondary goals.)
Even if I knew there was a 2% chance of seeing HMCS Yukon, I still desired and wished for it to be so. I still have my hopes, I however wish Manjuu/Yostar/Yongshi wasn’t so bloated. They need to hear actual feedback, and not from – “how do you do, fellow kids” – fake players. Now that I have confirmation that HMCS Yukon, nor any other Canadian shipgirls have been implemented, it’s another year of suffering. More teases of Essex META, Yamato, Maple Monarchy, and now of Australian and New Zealand shipgirls going forward.
Victory Belles (The Game) is shutting down:
Honesty is always your best policy. You shouldn’t have bullied me, nor downcasted my Canadian shipgirl & faction desires. 😉
I still admire KanColle, even with all the flaws behind it. I backed Victory Belles to support additional KanColle, and later Azur Lane, inspired shipgirls gameplay for future entertainment, for integrity, national variety, and for gaming void feedbacking purposes. Alas, Western nations are corrupt, and they feel the pain of their own corruption. Who knew dishonest people would kill a game, especially when people within the Victory Belles community were also anti-Canadian, holding anti-Canadian sentiments. They failed to financially support the very game they support. Shocking. Yes, the game had HMCS Skeena, they however stiffened their own gameplay into being too rigid to be played actively. But seriously, who knew dishonest players, followers, and individuals fake-supporting a game would cause a game to perish. You have to be authentically interested in a game to keep it afloat, especially supporting it financially by providing funds TO the developers. That’s a lesson for intellectually dishonest folks to learn. 3 straight months of financial pain leading to the demise of a game desired by political activists.
They’ve done 80% correctly, 20% incorrectly, and have paid the price for that. If they simply focused on their game, updated their forums, “quick-bite” gameplay, and focused on a healthy community upbringing they would have reached further, performed better, and had far better general karma. God wouldn’t have been furious with Victory Belles. A fellow disrespectful Canadian female moderator actively voided my opinions, threatened to refund my pledge, and to kick me out of the Discord Group, the same one she, herself, became highly arrogant about. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and that arrogance assisted in destroying the very game our Highness governed as a moderator. Her attitude assisted in the downfall of Victory Belle’s demise. It would have been awesome if Victory Belles followed in the foot steps (or inspired by) Silent Hunter 3 and 4 by having all the nations at play, and by their own banners, but alas, they had to constantly be disingenuous.
If they simply had Canadians (and other minor nation) things would have been far better. Gameplay if it was made more accessible, streamlined, and more visually pleasing. Any future games need to be singleplayer games. No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it, as it been had done with Silent Hunter 3. Granted, It’s a shame Silent Hunter 3 is outdated with necessary mods being inaccessible. Can’t command Corvettes, let alone Canadian vessels now with how ancient the game is now. Victory Belles could have easily solved it, instead going down the gutter of arrogance, rigidness, and false-pride of being a bunch of in-denial prudes. 😉
People actively bullied me, voided my perspectives, down-casted my opinions, all of which led into the game being poorly supported by prudes, arrogant nerds, and “in-denial” members. If only the members were more truthful, honest, and respectful to others and themselves they wouldn’t be in this state. Their precious “safe-space” game would still be alive, if with tasteful lewds and proper fluid gameplay. If only a certain Italian arm-chair Commanders didn’t block me on Twitter/X because I stated things as they were, offended by the artistic form of the feminine body; More open to a respectfully tasteful feminine female form. If only they knew what actual “fun” was. If only they’ve listened to my feedback seriously, and actually produced an overly fluid game with fluid gameplay. Actual fun, actual entertainment, and with proper “I’m busy with work and school” gameplay loops, as ‘G Eternal’ and ‘Azur Lane’ operate. Heck, even KanColle, if you take smaller bites.
Any future games should be single-player games. Make them open world, RPG, and inspired Silent Hunter 3’s level of freedom. No end-game limits. Add in ALL factions, including the minor nations, Canadians, etc. Respect the Canadians.
Victory Belles perished because it was too dishonest for its own good. Too stiff, rigid, and naively introduced into a false environment. Too many pieces of the pie with far taster pie pieces being supported. I’ll always admire KanColle first, Azur Lane second, even if it appears otherwise. If Victory Belles hadn’t mistreated me their karma would have been in far better hands. God would have shown actual mercy to Black Chicken Studio and Victory Belles. They failed God, and they were punished for it.
To Conclude:
I’m going to say that 2025 wasn’t a good year to be a Canadian. Yes, I was able to accomplish various things here and there; eat awesome food here and there; to purchase neat goods here and there; to play Pokemon GO here and there. I feel disconnected from everything, especially when the current mainstream goal is to make people feel less patriotic of Canada. Every Western nation is being made to feel less patriotic of their own nationality. I saw less fireworks than in 1990’s, or even early 2000’s. Look at Germany, they’ve been programmed to be fearful of their German identity. Mentioning their flag, Bismarck, or anything actually German (which isn’t WW2) has them running to the hills. They hide behind furniture, or faint from seeing nude females in both real world settings and fictional gaming & Anime settings. Similar case with Canada.
I would honestly be amazed if I saw true Canadian pride in Canada. I mean actual true, authentic, Canadian celebrated patriotic Canadian pride in Canada, and not some politically-charged patriotic nonsense. I’m sure they’re there, if in more localized areas. If the weather hasn’t been too humid I would have probably felt human again in Ottawa seeing all the awesome people celebrating in downtown Ottawa.
“You may not care about politics, it’s important to me. We need to make them [USA] suffer! They need to pay.” – Some old lady venting to a produce clerk about Strawberries being from USA.
Only stupid people hate Americans, and especially when programmed by the mainstream media. People are willing to starve themselves, go without certain luxuries or necessities all because someone else dictated how they should live. The amount of retardation I’ve seen regarding American strawberries is moronic. That’s not the Canadian way, but it is the Nazi-Germany way, and it is the Communist Russia way. I’m aware the Left-Wing activists have hollowed out the meaning of fascism, but ironically that’s what actual fascism is about. Salami-slicing people’s free-will into false believes to punish others over false ideals to attack America because President Trump offends the easily offended and criminals in the Western world. Canada is turning into that, and it’s very unCanadian. Pretending you’re doing something for the “greater good”, when instead it leads into an actual war people genuinely have no interest in. That’s how Germany, Russia, and China fell, but I digress.
I wish I obtained Grizzly/Lumber Gundam in G Eternal game, and even HMCS Yukon in Azur Lane, but alas, it’s not yet the year for Canadians to be acknowledged, represented, nor respected. It’s another year where Canadians are treated as trash, down-casted, and disrespected by armchair activism. At least ‘G Eternal’ (Gundam game) has done something Azur Lane and KanColle are afraid of, adding at least one Canadian Gundam into their Gundam game. Was it so hard? No! But it is made out to be in such a way, especially by those behind KanColle, Azur Lane, and Victory Belles. Easy solution made overly complicated. Shame. Big shame!
Brace yourself! Incoming thunderstorms! They’re occuring on a near-daily occurence (every other day) making me suspect weather engineering to drum up Global Warming concerns. View Dubai’s cloud seeding disaster causing severe floodings. Cats in trees, people needing to be rescued, and sports cars submerged in water. Granted, it could also be your standard 2025 Ottawa summer. All that brutal 30+ Celsius humidity.
Happy Belated Canada Day! Hope you’re having fun, and staying safe riding out the near-daily stormy conditions of 2025.