{"id":8159,"date":"2024-07-04T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2024-07-04T02:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T06:05:37","slug":"happy-canada-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=8159","title":{"rendered":"Happy Canada Day! (2024):"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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– Happily obtaining more Azur Lane cards from Amazon, along with a necessary pair of pants. HMS Monarch on left, Bismarck on right side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy Canada Day! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it may be a few days after, yet it’s still valid up to, and slightly past July 4th, each and every year. I’m proud of my nation, yet constantly disappointed with how morally corrupted people are in this nation. This nation achieved many great things, yet sadly, that’s tainted by fake political nonsense having eroded away at Canada since 1950’s, and most especially in 2017. You’re not even allowed to be Canadian, nor celebrate Christmas. You even allowed to be true to yourself. It may be argued you’re allowed to, it however is needlessly watered down in nonsense. I still admire the patrotism on a grander scale of things, such as the naval achievements, aviation, among other positive, and genuine, progress. None of the fake political nonsense. I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve genuinely loosely desired to visit downtown Ottawa, to document things, and to just have fun. I was about to, yet always have to be pinned down by nonsense. At least I can make note of some overly small stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything was taking place in Lebreton Flats, not downtown Ottawa at the Parliament Hill area. I’m assuming construction is still happening, something which also forced the celebrations to be pushed closer to another LRT transit station, something I was initially going to take advantage of via a bus line. I’m happy I scavenged tiny bits of Canada Day, yet peeved it was “wasted”. I saw what I needed to, and I’m “mostly” happy. Slight frustrations here and there. Perfectionist type mentality. Nagging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m here to celebrate Canada so let’s do that. Happy Canada Day, 2024! WOOOOOOOO!~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disclaimer<\/strong>: I desired to strongly go to downtown Ottawa, sadly not feeling healthy enough to do so. I had to also do house related chores, something to which kept me locked up in the house. Nobody desired to go (homework, etc. Everything was done around the neighborhood, or slightly out of it.<\/em> I made note of planes via flightradar24 to at least make note of “something”. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– BRMA06 at Ottawa airport & SNBD01 being snowbirds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Snowbirds looping around.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– The overly beautiful Lancaster! You can even make note of the Globemaster via the icon, among other fun military & historical planes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– The Beech C90B King Air is also awesome. I’m curious how many planes I missed this way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– It’s amusing to see various planes in holding patterns east of Ottawa. Just holding, waiting to be paraded into the city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Pilatus PC-21.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Allied Wings – Bell 412CF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– This Beech 3N popped up onto the radar very late. I heard it ahead of the Lancaster, yet couldn’t quite pin it. I wish I saw this flying. I wish I saw this in person. It pains me not having seen it flown with my own eyes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Various military planes of the Airbus variety. A Globemaster & other engine transport aircrafts flying ahead of this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– One of my favourite aircrafts – The Aurora.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– A red De Havilland aircraft variant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Airbus CC-295W Kingfisher, among others in the area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Lockheed CP-140 Aurora heading back to base.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– A pair of CF-18s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– A lovely sound accompanying them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yes, I have my regrets of not heading downtown. I wasn’t feeling well, certain moods were sour, and I had chores to do. I was practically chained on this perfect Canada Day occasion at home, even if I could have easily seen this lovely show downtown. I could have easily taken a bus or two, yet had to sadly skip on it. For once, there were no chances of rain, no thunderstorm. Just pure sun and awesome aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– An Porter Airlines Calgary-to-Ottawa flight forced into a holding pattern while Ottawa had its airshow. Same case with a Vancouver flight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was amused how both the Calgary & Vancouver flights were both forced to be in a holding pattern, all thanks to the airshow. I proudly noted my favourite flight code (ACA342).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ACA342 – Vancouver to Ottawa – Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. You can also see the snowbird downtown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Lockheed C-130H Hercules – Flying above Ottawa. We could hear it, yet sadly couldn’t see it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Azur Lane Cards – Vol. 3 – Re For You:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– Happily obtaining up some Azur Lane cards while using Azur Lane’s AR game function showing Miyuki.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Happily obtained Drake, Musashi, Centaur, a foiled Enterprise seen, Noshiro, Renown META, and Elbing. Nice! Renown META was the special PR card in the silver packaging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Building up a mini Haro gunpla while using Kure’s Yamato pad as a viewing stand. I realized I could have used my Yamato pad as an Azur Lane card backing. I obtained this lovely mini-Haro from my trip to Japan 2024 – Fukuoka’s Lalaport assuming this was limited edition, and it was. I’m happy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Interrupted by some Canadair CT-114 Tutor flyovers. I constantly heard them, yet failed to catch them on camera. I failed to document them for blogging purposes. I caught a small glimpse, and that’s it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– SNBD01 going “woosh” all over the place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Looping around for landing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Back to my Haro, I guess.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Attempting to capture any fireworks in a hasty manner. Fireworks smoke far away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– A few scattered fireworks shows were seen in localized areas. Captured via my DJI Mini SE drone via video mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– A few fireworks here and there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Freedom Convoy was also noted being downtown, and I’m happy for that. I’m glad they cursed out Dictator Trudeau’s name just as much as they had seen how bad Biden is for USA. Reality needs to come sooner than later.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AI Art – Canadian Celebration:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few AI art because I was curious. I genuinely desired to see my fellow Canadians in two naval games, one being ‘KanColle’, and another being Azur lane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– Downtown Ottawa (Parliament Hill), Beaver Statue, and Beaver girl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– Beaver Statue – Maple Monarchy (Azur Lane game influenced & dream influenced.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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– HMCS Dominion – Essex-Class Aircraft Carrier (hypothetical, and based on Azur Lane lore. Maple Monarchy aligned). Holding a Wisdom Cube in attempt to summon more Canadian shipgirls, specifically for Canada, and for Azur Lane’s Maple Monarchy side of things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rising World (Unity):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising World is a game you can purchase on both Steam and as a standalone game. You can build, as you would in Minecraft, while also admiring the graphics in a more realistic manner. More life-like, detailed, etc. Sadly, the game hasn’t updated in a lengthy while, nor were we provided our desired maps sooner, something I had hoped to have made use of months prior. Red51 may have gone rogue turning his back on his actual fanbase. Even so, I still have loose desires to implement various Canadian monuments in memory of Canada’s 2024 celebration, yet sadly also waiting on a necessary upcoming update to do so. I had used further AI image generation (Bing AI) to loosely concept any future designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If, and when I do play, may probably be when Rising World and Red51 both get their head out of the dirt. Stop shaming me for petty nonsense, and actually focus on Rising World as a core game again. Too much petty toxicity, too much blaming normal people, and just not enough normal enjoyment, something which you can actually get in Palworld now. It’s a shame Rising World may be lost to the politically corrupt, the morally dishonest, and petty saboteurs. Especially of their own main regular member variety. I would genuinely love to see Rising World stay true to its roadmap, conceptual designs, and actual proper fun and proper gaming practices.<\/em> Maybe I may never play Rising World again. Everything is up to Red51 whether he decides to be genuinely honest or a rogue piece of turd. Everything is up to him.<\/em> Good game? Bad game? The next step is in Red51’s hand. If ‘Red51’ desires to go ‘rogue’ (against his community) then I can for 100% certainty his own game shall die an unnecessary pre-mature death. Shame.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I genuinely wish I had some 2024 related in-game content to share. Sadly, I can’t. Both Red51 & the community desire against it, especially with highly belated game updates, rogue behaviours, etc.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus – Azur Lane:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not really Canadian, yet a part of my Azur Lane fun is having maxed out Dunkerque from the Vichiya Dominion faction (France). She helped me out greatly in establishing my fleet by being the first ever shipgirl to get to level 100. HMS Monarch was ringed prior to Dunkerque (having helped both JP & EN version), yet finally, in July we finally have Dunkerque specially ringed to note her special significance in my fleet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunkerque now joins Bismarck, Tirpitz, Friedrich, Taihou, HMS Monarch as the sixth special shipgirl in my naval fleet. A game is a game, yet I still hold fond memories over these lovely, yet beautiful characters in Azur Lane. They’re gorgeous, and they’ve contributed a lot to my positive gaming experience, as they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, if only I had my properly implemented Maple Monarchy\/RCN shipgirls in Azur Lane then we can finally have real true naval fun. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– Had a blast playing Palworld both on Canada Day, and on July 3rd while feeling under the weather. Just happily playing, leveling up, gathering materials, etc. Watching my Pals enjoying their bath. Now level 25, as of this blog post. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thanks for viewing, and Happy Canada Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8178,"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}