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i understand it has no move speed penalty, but is there a reason its preferable? i noticed a lot of streamers do that

-2 damage wasnt really the game changing nerf they thought it would be. My thoughts on how to nerf the halberd would be actually changing it to the armor piercing weapon it was designed to be.

Reduce the flat damage by 7-10 to keep it on par with Zwei/Longsword/QStaff, and instead add an AP value of 10-15%. This would allow for it to fulfill a different niche from bardiche (thank you) , and make more sense to what the weapon was actually for historically.

It also doesnt make sense a wood staff has more AP than it.

After this recent case in the UK surrounding the death of Henry Nowak, I realized Kirpans are also legally carried in Canada.

While I understand (sort of) their "religious reasoning" behind daily carrying a weapon, I don't exactly agree with the religious opt-out of laws the rest of us have to follow.

from multiple sources it would seem the purpose of a Kirpan "is a symbol of justice in Sikhi. It demonstrates the Khalsa’s motivation for justice and freedom. Kirpan serves two purposes. Firstly, it is to defend ourselves and secondly, it is to defend the rights of other people. 

Yet, if the police were to pull me over with a knife and I said it was for self defense, I would be charged would I not?

One of the things I'm wondering is how is this regulated? Do they get stopped and cuffed by police by open carrying? Do Sikhs have to be in a registry? Do they carry a card around saying "I am in fact a Sikh and this is a religious item"? Or does it really just boil down to "trust me im a Sikh"?

And if the latter is the case, what is it to stop me, someone who is obviously not a Sikh, to say "yeah I'm a Sikh, its allowed" ?

just got it for the first time and wondering if it means anything

yeah thats pretty much the post

(by the time you are reading this, I will have provided the admins with evidence of what I am saying, that could only be seen by someone I claim to be.)

With the housing crisis being a huge topic of debate, I've started noticing a trend myself.

For some context, I work in Housing First, and I have access to HIFIS, (Homeless Individuals and Families Information System). My work is hybrid between in-office case management and frontline work. I'm either finding people housing, or out in community. I've been working with the homeless for some years now, starting in shelter work.

While I'm constantly told by EHW that the majority of the homeless population is Indigenous, I am seeing what are to me, alarming rates of Asylum/Refugee/PR's being added to the system en masse. We currently have around 10,000+ files marked as "active" here, and page after page of those seem to be foreign nationals, mostly military aged males. When I sort by "A" the first 10-15 pages were 80-90% not from this country, and when flipped to Z, the same thing.

Upon looking into these files, I noticed a lot of them were receiving the maximum amount from the CMHB fund, which has recently been exhausted. There are people with PR of less than 2 years who are renting out detached homes in Saint Boniface for 1800 a month, receiving $422 in monthly payments to offset said costs of living there - yet I cannot find housing for actually homeless Canadians, because rental rates have now climbed over what is allowed by EIA. Yet when I ask, no one can explain to me how someone who can afford $1800 in rent in a detached home (plus utilities) is "at risk of homelessness". HIFIS has no way of sorting by citizenship status, which means I have to click into each profile and look through the information by hand. The CMHB has not released any statistics in exactly WHO they are helping, whether it be citizen or not. I've noticed a good number of these files being created/handled by EHW workers themselves. The question I have for them is: What is the plan to end homelessness, if the Federal and Provincial governments are deadset on importing the problem?

I have also seen more and more foreign nationals accessing support services as well. MB housing has a waiting list spanning months, while the office is lined up with people not from here. There was a backpack giveaway in front of Salvation Army back in the fall, and half the people lined up were wearing brand new clothing and certainly not from here. I saw a man who was clearly not from here wearing Yeezys, standing next to an obviously Indigenous man who barely had shoes on his feet. It had me wondering whether or not Canada is starting to be seen as an "easy target" for a subsidized lifestyle.

Some of you may look on my words as though I write them with hatred, but I can assure you that as an Indigenous Canadian myself, it comes from nothing but genuine love and concern for my country. If they are truly homeless, and we are continuing to grow the number without real supports in place - we're creating quite a huge problem. If the other suggestion I made is true, and that we are seen as an easy place to scam, then I believe certain measures should be taken to make sure we take care of Canadians FIRST, before anyone else. As is stands now, I cannot place any chronically homeless Indigenous clients anywhere besides the lowest tier rooming house, like the Woodbine, while people who have been in the country less time than my car has been on the road can access every fund available while living in a nicer house than mine. Because, as someone who makes 50k a year - I couldn't imagine affording 1800 a month in rent before utilities, and I don't qualify as "facing homelessness".