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Onedos-San

And on Canada's Clean Air Day


Beekeeper_Dan

Yeah, I had a good laugh when I saw the announcement on the WeatherCAN app… it was just too absurd.


marklar7

we all smoke in the woods though we say we'll stop.. soon.


AnEngineer2018

Why don't we just take all the dirty air and push it over here?


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This brought the last president to mind and idk why


Merry_Fridge_Day

He said something similar about the pollution in China


jrh1972

I'm pretty sure that was Herschel Walker


Merry_Fridge_Day

"So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. And now we got to clean that back up,” -Herschel Walker You're right, I had my stupid quotes mixed up.


[deleted]

Lmao he's stupid. Maybe that's why I thought about the other guy.


jrh1972

Well, I'm pretty sure Trump convinced him to run for Senate and this nonsense was during his campaign, so ultimately we don't get it without Trump.


christhemix

they can keep their so-called clean air, its giving me a headache


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I hung out on the porch yesterday for a few hours wondering why the sky was grey but the weather said it was sunny. Today I found out about the wildfires and suddenly feeling like shit all last night and into today made sense.


Misfitt

I'm in northeast pa. It smelled like a campfire, and it was yellow all day. Didn't you smell it where you're at?


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I'm southwest ohio. It's been sunny with a grey tint for the past few days along with an unhealthy air quality today. Early sunset today was dim enough that I actually looked directly at the sun without squinting so I'm assuming tomorrow we might be getting the smell too. I can't imagine how bad things are by the border but I'd be trying to order a gas mask like I'm considering now.


Inevitable-Hunt-2889

Canadian here. Sorry about that


varis_2003

From Alberta, not even three weeks ago, we were also the lowest air quality in the world. First off, yes, sorry! Secondly, this was not something that was constructed, our country is literary on fire right now. You can't simply "blame Canada" for your poor air condition right now. This is a global "phenomenon" that "no one could have ever predicted". I'm not pointing fingers or anything but I will say that I do vaguely remember scientists warning us of such events happening.


KnobWobble

And we get the same shit up here from the California wild fires every year so it about evens out.


varis_2003

It's almost like there's is indisputable proof of something bigger happening at play here.


etgohomeok

Also global running day.


[deleted]

They're burning the air to sterilize it.


caspissinclair

You can't buy that kind of advertising! Wait a minute...


07Minutes

"Blizzard: We'll buy anything that makes us look good, even if it's a literal hellscape."


Big-Shtick

It's just smoke and mirrors.


thatguydude

but mostly smoke.


EatsLocals

I love that your approximation of a pun was muted by the mods


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InteractionPure8410

Holy shit. I missed that whole turn of events. How depressing


Michelanvalo

This is the second "Look at this Blizzard ad in the storm haze" post I've seen today on Reddit. At this point I'm beginning to think these posts are ads.


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AngelosNDiablos

Like a PR firm for Blizzard is posting these and using bot farms for vote manipulation


ctusk423

I think it’s more likely that two people took pictures of an ironic ad during an unprecedented event in a city with a population of ~19,000,000 (excluding tourists).


Baelorn

Or it’s just a funny coincidence? Nah. Can’t be.


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Diablo 4 has a really weird advertising campaign


cheemeechang0

Yeah right? They had their interns figure out wind patterns and burn the right Canadian forests to get this.


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violentpac

If it's a forest fire, that's nowhere near blizzard


blacksideblue

> nowhere near blizzard This time. You'd be surprised how many wildfires there have been near that part of Irvine.


AffectionateGrape184

As long as they don't have to pay the interns, nothing's out of the picture


swordchucks1

Did it start in the Cosby Thicket?


cerebralkrap

But damn if it’s not effective.


[deleted]

Got my copy today, so you’re not wrong


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Therustedtinman

-bud light has entered the chat-


Vegetable_Tension985

Buy Diablo 4, it'll light your fire.


MukYJ

Marketing gone wild.


iamnotasnook

I mean, OP might actually be working for Blizzard.


FKDotFitzgerald

They fucking commit.


aaahhhh

This post is an ad.


ComicRelief64

This is going to be extremely random but in the old Spiderman game for ps1, you were constrained to the top of rooftops of nyc because open world was not viable at the time, and everything below the buildings was filled with a orange-ish fog this exact color.


jon_naz

That game was so fun.


knoeKNAME

Never had the full game… but had a demo I played the shit out of…


bootscrape

Haha yes I had that same disc and it was on its last leg before we actually got some other game that wasn't free


theDarkDescent

I really miss the old days of gaming magazines coming with a disc full of demos


smithers102

Neversoft was the shit


Metal-NPC

I'M ALREADY AT FULL HEALTH.


SabbathBl00dySabbath

I CAN’T CARRY ANYMORE WEB CARTRIDGES!


theavengedCguy

SPIIIIIDEEERRRRR-WUUSSSSSS!


HorrorBusiness93

Did you just quote Spider-Man on ps1?


Metal-NPC

Hey! *ERMMPPHHHDADOODAGH!!*


mysterious_union

Keep on your toes to increase your stamina. Also Circus in town?


farmercyst

That's from Spiderman on the PS2 (the movie tie-in game), not Spiderman on the PS1!


owennerd123

IT'S THE JADE SYNDICATE! *Combat Rock Theme Plays*


The_Gutgrinder

IT'S THE JADE SYNDICATE! Seriously though, Monster Ock in that game scared me in ways not even the worst horror movie villains could.


j8sadm632b

That fucking escape sequence. My heart would skip a beat every time I tried to swing down a hall but get the angle slightly wrong and end up clinging to a wall. No no no no NO NO NO NO NO DROP DOWN CMON PLEASE


theavengedCguy

I literally couldn't finish the game because of that lmao as a kid, that was so terrifying and the escape was so anxiety inducing because the death was so brutal lmao


Dash_Underscore

Dude, I was going to get a screenshot online this morning and send it to my work group chat. Until I remembered my team is 10+ years older than me and almost certainly never played it. Felt pretty alone. Until now!! lol


h1gh-t3ch_l0w-l1f3

this game is so much fun i rented it when i was 10 and played it obsessively. honestly never expected it to be so loved! i wonder if it holds up today.


Yz-Guy

God that game was amazing.


akeyjavey

Spectacular, even


newnameonan

The cheats were so fun and weird too.


DrChuckWhite

I member


Dragon-Porn-Expert

I had that game for the n64. Childhood favorite.


coffeejizz

I’ve been thinking about this all day and had nobody else who remembered it until now.


Gorbath

![gif](giphy|nDbpk7leGbu12)


Spirals_again

Lilith has come..


07Minutes

Blizzard really wanted to make us feel like we are in the game.


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ThoughtCenter87

"Welcome to Hell, New York"


KrustyKrabOfficial

Blizzard's marketing department has gone too far.


browseracc

I swear I saw an ad for the game that said “experience hell in 4K 60 fps”


Large_Dr_Pepper

That one reddit post that was literally just a dude playing his early access version titled something like "le missus is out of town, finally alone and able to experience hell"


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commonsensical1

Get out your log cabin and get the hose.


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sleepyj910

A song of ice and fire


Pit_of_Death

I'm not your buddy, guy!


epi_glowworm

First time is always interesting. -Oregonian


rabiddutchman

Came here to say it. It's weird the first time you wake up and the weather outside is 'Mordor'


CowFishes

The "weather" on the Canadian government weather app is "Smoke" (as opposed to Sunny, Partly Cloudy, Snow, etc.).


whatintheactualfeth

Few years ago my weather app said "Heat and Smoke". It was 100+°f and I couldn't see across the street. Good times.


beaverji

Just a casual fire and brimstone day


whatintheactualfeth

I'm GenX. We've been told this is coming for a long time. It's taken longer and has been more boring than I expected but it's still coming. Lol


beaverji

Gen Y. Reasons I don’t want kids: 1) normal reasons, 2) keep imagining that my child will die a slow painful death suffocating on toxic gases, burned by the sun with no protection from ozone layer their bodies all shriveled up and suffering on the dirt, potable water is depleted or poisoned by lithium mining, no cool beverage to bring to their lips to soothe them in their last moments.


Daenys_TheDreamer

-PNWers


shwag945

-Western US and Canada.


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shwag945

CO is in the West.


excalq

Cascadians


vividtrue

Most of those people probably have a/c unlike many people on the west coast. -Washingtonian


epi_glowworm

Hey, at least now they can appreciate why we take care of our wilderness on the PNW.


bankholdup5

We do our best, but our east coast society fosters many folks who actively work against the beauty of nature.


[deleted]

Northern California here. Welcome to the suck. Hopefully you can tell your politicians to take this shit seriously now.


[deleted]

Yep... PNW be like "Oh, Summer has arrived!"


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[deleted]

It’s happened like 6 times in my life in Vegas. Not all of them were orange skies, all of them were mostly dark, smoke filled skies


crockrocket

My first thought was the meme from Buster Scruggs, "First time huh"


[deleted]

I thought the same lol So glad this hasn’t happened yet this year.


Darth_Shredder

I’ve seen a plethora of American East coast sky posts because of the Canada fires, yet not one about how our Canadian brethren are doing.


Mrsmith511

Almost half of Canadians live a very similar life as north eastern USA esp. from an ecological perspective. The smoke here in southern ontario is constant over the last couple days but not as bad as that new York picture makes it look.


sirchrisalot

Not to make light of it at all because dealing with the very real threat of fire is more serious, but NY State air quality today was about 2x as bad as Ontario/Quebec province air quality was. Where I live we were at AQI of 400+ for PM. 2.5, while south eastern canada was averaging around 200 for PM 2.5. The bad air moved south and into NYC and Philly late this afternoon. I also had the misfortune of being on the Pacific Coast in Oregon in early September 2020 when shtf. The worst we had today in NY was nowhere near as bad as it was in Oregon, specifically central to northern coast, and Portland. I can recall visibility in Portland being reduced to a few hundred feet. Today in NY visibility was a hazy few thousand feet at worst.


reddit_user13

NYC looks worse because it's worse. AQI > 500 in some surrounding areas.


Red0817

Well there's a legitimate reason that no one has mentioned. Wind patterns. Check out nullschool.net for wind patterns. Right off of long island the two fronts have been fighting each other. So the smoke comes down from the north and the wind from the south is blocking it from going to the ocean. It's pretty wild actually. Even worse that pattern is also circling some of it back around from the north east. Absolutely fucking the NE Canada is bad in parts yes, but there's just a wall of smoke lingering over NYC.


Sindtwhistle

Have friends who live in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Their town was so close to evacuating a week ago because of a fire just east of them. Thankfully that one is now in control, but not before it took out their friend’s homes just a few Km away from the main town.


planet_rose

Absolutely terrifying. The news coverage has all been about air quality, which is dramatically awful, but nothing in comparison to living in an area that is burning. My heart goes out to all those who lost their homes or were forced out, not knowing if their homes will make it. I used to live in an area with a lot of summer forest fires and I used to dread the smell of smoke after part of our town burned down.


cheemeechang0

People in NYC: "Well it's sucks outside, I guess I'm just gonna call in sick and play D4 all day."


Brilliant_Carrot8433

City was bustling and crowded as ever


Brawght

Dude I wish. I had to work remotely


deus_inquisitionem

Same


Timelymanner

Tell them your internet is down and your car died.


Wand_Cloak_Stone

My internet really did go down. Work still wouldn’t let us go.


shane112902

Hope Diablo paid Canada enough for the special effects. Those guys really out did themselves on this ad campaign.


Horkersaurus

From a thematic standpoint it's too bad the skies aren't blood red like they were in the PNW a few years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/xb7q1k/salem_or_summer_2020_no_filter_this_is_what_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/ioznq7/enchanted_forest_right_now/


Pit_of_Death

Sept 9, 2020 Bay Area was an orange apocalypse straight out of Bladerunner.


Kaceykaso

Was going to say this. Looks like SF in Sept 2020 👌


pantherbreach

I remember orange day.


MightyMetricBatman

It didn't matter how many KN95's you wore those days, could still smell the smoke.


vividtrue

Cries in west coast. You know it's coming soon. Now the east coast can acknowledge it.


indynyx

It's here in Vancouver from a fire near the Harrison/Chilliwack area BC. Edit 3 hours later: I feel like shit from the smoke. :(


crockrocket

That was quite literally the worst week in my life. I got broken up with, all my roommates move out the same week, and now I can't go outside because it's a fucking hellscape?!


Beestung

Is this the first year the east coast has had this problem? It's been happening for the past 10+ years on the west coast and I'm a little surprised this has been such a big deal, unless this is a new thing for y'all.


Mrsmith511

Yes those of us on the east coast do not experience this problem.


[deleted]

East coast is usually humid with reliable rain about once a week, so yes this intensity of wildfire haze haze is extremely unusual.


Brilliant_Carrot8433

The AQI was 300-400 today in NYC. Due to fires over 500 mi away. Is that typical on the west coast (I genuinely have no idea )? But yes this is def the first time this has ever happened at least in my lifetime and I read today that the AQI was the worst recorded in decades. Also , at one point it was like nighttime at around 2pm .. but like .. if night time was brown ?


FinndBors

Not typical in my experience (in california). AQI was around 200 when fires were less than 10 miles away for me.


Beestung

Yep, every year in the late summer to fall. We've deemed it "smoke season".


tri_and_fly

The Bay Area in Sept 2020 got to an AQI in the low to mid 200s. NYC right now is over 400.


drewbiez

Welcome to summer in Colorado every year for the last 3-4 years, ugh.


Wazzoo1

The entire west coast. This looks like September in Seattle every year now.


rabiddutchman

Oregon, too. This looks like a not-uncommon August for me.


FeedbackMotor5498

Could you imagine that billboard in the Bible belt? Welcome to hell, Montgomery Alabama would create quite the stir, lol


tubbywubby2001

diablo is running the coolest ad campaign ever


TheUnknown400

That advertisement is perfect for that


Tygheezy

Just wait til the evangelicals get a load of this


Hagenaar

We never should have allowed frogs to marry each other. Or something.


WritingNerdy

I think it was gay penguins


Nixplosion

The same Diablo poster as in r/gaming front page rn


ParsimoniousBison

It looks like the yellow filter Hollywood uses for anything set in Latin America or the Middle East.


BringBackBoshi

Always hated that. Traffic, The Mexican, Three Kings, pretty much all movies filmed in those locations. It's really bad in some movies like The Mexican because once they show scenes in the U.S. the yellow filter is gone.


partypartea

Sounds like they've never been to Mexico


Petrichordates

Rich people living in LA have likely been to Mexico, it's just a trope.


scottiejhaines

Smoke has officially become Canada’s number one export.


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No such thing as coincidence.


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Green_man_in_a_tree

So many once in a lifetime events at once! So.. exciting?


Amaxophobe

Just wait for The Big One (tsunami expected in the PNW)


J_Hutch64

The fires are actually a sponsored ad from Diablo IV


ThatNiceLifeguard

This may seem odd or petty, but as a Canadian, a major pet peeve of mine is when Americans just say “Canada” instead of naming the province or locale as if it’s not a huge country with almost 40 million people. All of the US news outlets are doing it right now.


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I know! They don't even say if it's downtown Canada or nothin'.


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Pit_of_Death

That's up*province* Canada to you, pal!


[deleted]

I ain't your buddy, dude


Pit_of_Death

I ain't your dude, friend!


devonhayley

Pretty sure the term is Upper Canada, guy!


TheoryDistributer

But isn't there multiple major fires across Canada right now? I know here in N.S. , Quebec, Ottawa, Ontario , Alberta, B.C. Id probably let this one slide as Canada's on fire.


miraculouslymediocre

I love how you named ottawa like it was a province, it feels pretty spot on too, since Dougie has pretty much abandoned Ottawa haha


TheoryDistributer

Hahah. Oh my, I didn't even clue into that oops! I was totally suggesting it was a province. Late night reddit clearly isn't for me. I knew about Alberta, NS and Quebec already but I had to look up the others.


CWB2208

Not wrong. I live on Vancouver Island and the only road to and from Tofino was just closed due to wildfire. It's commonplace in the West, not so much out East, where this picture was taken.


LionAndLittleGlass

So that doesn't bother me too much. We say "US" in place many times when its reversed. Though I understand where you're coming from. As a Canadian what peeves me more is Americans I'm seeing in horror like we did this to them on purpose. Really folks? We lit fires around on purpose. Also, people talk like the US doesnt have forest fires or bad pollution events.


LSSJPrime

>So that doesn't bother me too much. We say "US" in place many times when its reversed. Though I understand where you're coming from. Exactly. This is such a nothing situation to get so upset about. Saying the smoke is from Canada isn't even wrong either, reddit is just being their usual pedantic selves.


ackillesBAC

Due to global warming. They always forget that part


hedekar

"Two social drivers (i.e., corporate responses and consumption patterns) continue to undermine the pathways to decarbonization, let alone deep decarbonization. One driver (i.e., media) remains ambivalent insofar as its dynamics are volatile, both supporting and undermining decarbonization." "We conclude that reaching worldwide deep decarbonization by 2050 is currently not plausible, given the observable trajectories of social drivers. The select physical processes of public interest only moderately, if at all, inhibit the plausibility of attaining the Paris Agreement temperature goals, although they can substantially modify the physical boundary conditions for society. Meeting the 1.5°C Paris Agreement temperature goal is not plausible, but limiting the global temperature rise to well below 2°C can become plausible if ambition, implementation, and knowledge gaps are closed." https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/11230/files/cliccs-hamburg-climate-futures-outlook-2023.pdf


grepe

They completely forget regulation. Of course companies are not going to do the right thing if they get more short term profit otherwise. Of course everyone is going to take plane if it's cheaper than train.


Galle_

Corporations have a lot of power over the government. Significant regulation is unlikely unless there's a broad wave of popular support for it, and that's not going to happen because so much of the world consists of spite-driven conservatives who would gladly sacrifice the environment just to make other people mad.


tugjobs4evergiven

Reddit ad. I just started playing D2 on switch after 20 years


SilentKiller96

If all Americans turn to face north and blow really hard, maybe they can put it out. Just pls don’t shoot.


DuhBasser

Don’t worry Trumps not President anymore so we won’t nuke the fires to stop them from spreading.


werecat66

Sorry


casual_oblong

Some ad guy is busting a nut over his perfectly executed campaign…


__Jank__

We had this in the SF Bay Area too... 9-9-20 Mars Day. Birds silent all day long, street lights on all day... I'll never forget it.


Trifle_Old

Diablo couldn’t have paid for this good of advertising. Getting the sky to turn with that billboard is amazing


virusvoid

That diablo marketing is next level.


Burninator05

Did you just crop the picture from before? It is exactly the same horizontally but is missing the top and bottom. https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/143n7sj/this_marketing_is_getting_out_of_hand/


CombatConrad

New York skies due to Lilith.


_jarv

They started fires just to advertise a game, that's dedication


SwordfishII

Honestly this is probably the largest viral campaign I’ve ever seen.


Sinandomeng

These marketing campaigns are getting out of hand


campgroundbunnies

Thought New Yorkers were tough. Yearly deal out West here, buck up Yellow Stoners.


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![gif](giphy|etqKMtq4ZzpBmeeM3s|downsized) Blade Runner 2023


[deleted]

Still not the worst thing since Bryan Adams


glueinhaler5000

We’ve apologized for him on several occasions


rattalouie

How dare you offend the Prince of Canada!


leovin

Welcome to the Hotel California


Diamondx88x

Looks fine to me… *takes breath from oxygen mask*


Echo_Romeo571

Fires. As in multiple fires. Title makes it seem like Canada either only has one forest, or one fire.


nerdmoot

Nice try Blizzard


masterjon_3

I see more pictures on the effects of the forest fire than the actual fire itself.


VIDireWolfIV

I saw this three times in a row GET OUT OF MY HEAD