Is Canada really all-that?

[Redway]

Inspired by an episode of The Simpsons I just decided to substitute part of the World Cup for tonight (S.30, E.21), I just got thinking about how Canada allegedly stacks up to the U.K. and (especially) the U.S.; (on that note) do you feel like Canada’s really the place to be or are you either okay where you are or more pro.-America?

[bots]

politically, canada are a joke at the moment, but where isn't. Overall, Canada is a much better place to be than the USA

[Redway]

politically, canada are a joke at the moment, but where isn't. Overall, Canada is a much better place to be than the USA

I do feel like Canada’s a little corny sometimes to be fair.

[UserSince2005]

Canada is great it’s like the US but much safer. I was in Toronto recently, that city is really booming

[Mystic Mock]

I'm mixed between them all.

UK has Football, GTA, Walkers Crisps & Cadbury's. Oh and Coventry Blaze & Lewis Hamilton.

Canada has Ice Hockey, the BB that's on the best form, and SomeOrdinaryGamers who has some really interesting YouTube videos.

And America has Basketball, loads of Fast Food joints, and Batman.

Choices, choices.

[Beso]

Canadacunts

[GoldHeart]

Canada seem to have lost the plot , I guess their healthcare is one of their better qualities.

[Zizu]

I'm mixed between them all.

UK has Football, GTA, Walkers Crisps & Cadbury's. Oh and Coventry Blaze & Lewis Hamilton.

Canada has Ice Hockey, the BB that's on the best form, and SomeOrdinaryGamers who has some really interesting YouTube videos.

And America has Basketball, loads of Fast Food joints, and Batman.

Choices, choices.


Hamilton isn’t universally popular in England incidentally


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[Redway]

Canadacunts

How did you get the swear-filter to evade that without any special fonts?

[Redway]

I'm mixed between them all.

UK has Football, GTA, Walkers Crisps & Cadbury's. Oh and Coventry Blaze & Lewis Hamilton.

Canada has Ice Hockey, the BB that's on the best form, and SomeOrdinaryGamers who has some really interesting YouTube videos.
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And America has Basketball, loads of Fast Food joints, and Batman.

Choices, choices.

Sorry to burst your bubble but G.T.A. is very much an American thing.

[user104658]

Sorry to burst your bubble but G.T.A. is very much an American thing.

Incorrect, the original GTA was entirely the IP of DMA Design Limited, which was a games company founded and based in Dundee, Scotland. DMA was bought by Rockstar Games which is a US based company (now under also-US-based Take Two Interactive), and became Rockstar North, which has its headquarters in Edinburgh.

A lot (but not all) of the production of the newer GTA games takes place in the US mainly because the games are US-centric and they're also HUGE now so hundreds of people work on them. But up until, at the very least, the Vice City/San Andreas era you can see tonnes of British influence in the games, as they were still mainly done in-house with Rockstar North.

tl;dr it's owned by American parent companies but the original GTA IP is very much British (Scottish :hee: ) and a lot of the work on GTA to this day takes place at Rockstar North.

[LaLaLand]

I thought so until I read up/saw documentaries regarding the treatment of their indigenous population. Scary corrupt.

[Redway]

Incorrect, the original GTA was entirely the IP of DMA Design Limited, which was a games company founded and based in Dundee, Scotland. DMA was bought by Rockstar Games which is a US based company (now under also-US-based Take Two Interactive), and became Rockstar North, which has its headquarters in Edinburgh.

A lot (but not all) of the production of the newer GTA games takes place in the US mainly because the games are US-centric and they're also HUGE now so hundreds of people work on them. But up until, at the very least, the Vice City/San Andreas era you can see tonnes of British influence in the games, as they were still mainly done in-house with Rockstar North.

tl;dr it's owned by American parent companies but the original GTA IP is very much British (Scottish :hee: ) and a lot of the work on GTA to this day takes place at Rockstar North.

Save the smarty-pants mantra directed at other posters for when we’ve decided who the heck you actually are.

[Redway]

I thought so until I read up/saw documentaries regarding the treatment of their indigenous population. Scary corrupt.

The Simpsons made a little mention of that in the episode I watched (in as much as I dislike pretty-much everything from season 20 onwards it’s become a bit like Family Guy as far as undisguised, borderline-libellous political references go, sha) but generally I can’t imagine it being any worse than the treatment of Native Americans in the US. They’re marginalised so white.European-Americans can think of themselves as some sort of indigenous majority who the world more-or-less revolves around.

[Mystic Mock]

Hamilton isn’t universally popular in England incidentally


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He is still ours regardless.

And unlike the England Football team, he can actually win Championships which I can appreciate.:laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

Sorry to burst your bubble but G.T.A. is very much an American thing.

Rockstar is a UK company, so it's a UK thing.

Even if admittedly it's based off of American culture.

Edit... To clarify, Rockstar/Take Two are based in America, but the creators of the company & GTA are English to be exact.

[Mystic Mock]

Save the smarty-pants mantra directed at other posters for when we’ve decided who the heck you actually are.

:joker:

[Redway]

Out of interest (and slightly off-topic), does anyone actually know how old Patty and Selma are supposed to be?

[Crimson Dynamo]

hideous woke enclave

[Beso]

Out of interest (and slightly off-topic), does anyone actually know how old Patty and Selma are supposed to be?

49?

[LaLaLand]

The Simpsons made a little mention of that in the episode I watched (in as much as I dislike pretty-much everything from season 20 onwards it’s become a bit like Family Guy as far as undisguised, borderline-libellous political references go, sha) but generally I can’t imagine it being any worse than the treatment of Native Americans in the US. They’re marginalised so white.European-Americans can think of themselves as some sort of indigenous majority who the world more-or-less revolves around.

Pretty much.

Stacey Dooley did an eye opening documentary on it iirc.

Stacey Dooley Investigates - Canada's Lost Girls

Canada has a dark secret - the disappearance and murder over decades of over a thousand indigenous women and girls. Stacey travels to British Columbia and Alberta to find out more about what some believe is a national scandal.

She begins on a remote road dubbed the Highway of Tears, where dozens of woman have vanished or been murdered since 1980 whilst trying to hitchhike. As a national enquiry is launched, it has emerged that there are cases across the country - but why do so many remain unsolved?

Stacey meets the family of Amber Tuccaro, who was 20 when she was abducted and murdered in 2010, who feel there are still so many unanswered questions about Amber as well as four other victims found in a six-mile radius.

The indigenous Canadian community has criticised the police, accusing them of failing to investigate indigenous cases properly. In the words of one elder, 'some of the biggest racists carry a gun and they carry a badge.'

Stacey meets the police to ask what they are doing to address this issue and bring closure to the families of the missing and murdered.

[user104658]

Rockstar is a UK company, so it's a UK thing.

Even if admittedly it's based off of American culture.

Edit... To clarify, Rockstar/Take Two are based in America, but the creators of the company & GTA are English to be exact.

Don't listen to Redway and his "I don't listen to people when they're right and I'm wrong because waaaaahhh" rhetoric; everything in my post was right :hmph:.

Rockstar is a US company. DMA design was a Scottish to be exact company (not English in the slightest) and became Rockstar North when it was bought by Rockstar. Rockstar North is still based in Scotland.

[Redway]

49?
Ouch.
Don't listen to Redway and his "I don't listen to people when they're right and I'm wrong because waaaaahhh" rhetoric; everything in my post was right :hmph:.

Rockstar is a US company. DMA design was a Scottish to be exact company (not English in the slightest) and became Rockstar North when it was bought by Rockstar. Rockstar North is still based in Scotland.

Get over yourself.

[Mystic Mock]

Pretty much.

Stacey Dooley did an eye opening documentary on it iirc.

That article sounds like a Mr. Ballen YouTube video.:laugh:

But being serious that's terrible what happened to the girls.

[Mystic Mock]

Don't listen to Redway and his "I don't listen to people when they're right and I'm wrong because waaaaahhh" rhetoric; everything in my post was right :hmph:.

Rockstar is a US company. DMA design was a Scottish to be exact company (not English in the slightest) and became Rockstar North when it was bought by Rockstar. Rockstar North is still based in Scotland.

Dan Houser was born in London.