Good. Outdoor dining is great. Fuck all those cars wasting space

Maybe this could also go in c/fuckcars

In absolute time spent, driving 20mph instead of 45mph for a few minutes is rather small. But people lose their mind, and don’t care if it means putting kids in danger. People don’t think like that.

I think the problem isn’t so much the signage and limits as it is we built roads that encourage driving unsafe speeds. That and we built a world where everyone driving their own private vehicle is normal, and often the only practical option. But changing all of that is a lot harder than lowering speed limits.

On the one hand, you don’t really want to give people the power to decide what books are available. Assholes would use that to remove queer books, for example.

On the other hand, that power is already implicitly in place. There’s finite space in a library, so they must choose a subset of all possible books. I’d want to know how the existing processes work before suggesting changes.

Well, we were literally walking in Manhattan when it came up, and couldn’t take the euclidean straight path. We could only walk on the grid of streets.

(This is setting aside factors like waiting to cross, or a busier street)

Interesting. The inability to pan and walk around makes it very different. I liked “walking” around in geoguesser until I found a landmark or something, but I never played competitively or obsessively.

On the one hand, fuck the police and all that.

On the other, I want people who park in the bike lane to suffer

I’m the kind of guy who will look stuff up. I think it’s really important to admit when you’re wrong and the other person was right. Don’t move goal posts or claim you misunderstood. Just own it.

Like I was having a debate with my partner about if it was faster to go all the way up and over, or make a lot of turn-right then turn-left. I thought the ladder was faster because it approximates a straight line. She was like no that’s crazy. Eventually I found that’s called Manhattan distance and she was right, and I fully admitted defeat.

I’m ready for that style of language to be passé. But probably the next slang will also be unpleasant.

As others have said, working from home has many benefits

• no commute
  • save time
  • save money
  • less risk of disease and accident
  • often easier child care options
• greater control over environment
  • offices are often too hot or cold for some
  • stock own food, drinks, toilet paper, etc
• better pet access. Cat on lap. Dog walk easier.
• easier wardrobe
• several distraction categories removed
  • people walking up to your desk
  • loud meetings

The commute alone is pretty big. If your commute is like an hour, that’s changing your salary from like $x / 10 hours to $x / 8 hours. That’s a big bump. If your daily pay was $1000, that’s like going from $100/hour to $125/hour.

Not good.

They could be ignorant and not understand how politics affects pretty much everything.

They could be foolishly cynical and think that “none of it matters”, so they just don’t pay attention.

They could be like pathologically avoidant and don’t want to talk about a potentially disharmonious topic.

They could have shitty views they don’t want to talk about.

Not good. Not good people.

It’s not as bad as it used to be.

Racism and capitalism, mostly.

Those things lead to poor education for the public, which makes all subsequent decisions stupider.

Then, the stupid people try to make as much short term money as possible for themselves.

Simultaneously, anything that benefits the minorities (eg: black folks) is disliked. Mass transit, for example.

Ooh I remember that. That game was really popular in my friend group around 2008-ish. It spread to my work, too. Someone put a post-it note about the game by the time clock, and someone else invented a hand signal for it.

Like some variant of the paradox of tolerance, I feel like someone who does something so flagrantly in violation of social norms should forfeit their protection.

Fine, park your shit on the sidewalk. Now no one’s going to help when you’re bleeding out.

Bg1 and 2, Dragon age, and mass effect famously had save imports, so “the only way” doesn’t check out.

The dark souls games are so far removed in time that the previous game is legend, so that’s an option.

For the tv show they also could have, as I said, just set it somewhere and somewhen else. They can have rumors about what’s happening in Vegas, but it’s 20 years ago and you’re in Chicago, so who knows what’s true.

So, yeah, they could’ve done something else and still made a TV show.

What made new Vegas interesting was that it’s not just another kitschy wasteland romp. It’s post-post-apocalypse, and it asks who rebuilds after.

My limited understanding is the TV show nuked the NCR so they could do more wasteland theme park, and not continue that train of thought. But also didn’t just set it somewhere else.

But admittedly I haven’t actually watched it.

But also, again, trying to make a TV show intersect with a video game with multiple endings is a foolish idea. You won’t make everyone happy, and it’s an entirely avoidable problem. They could’ve just set the show in a different part of the world that hasn’t had a game.

I found a pizza place near me that still has like 2010 prices. It’s like a large pie with 5 toppings for $20. Most places are more like $30 now, here (NYC)

I kind of refuse to watch Fallout. Partly because I read they fucked up the NCR. But also Amazon sucks , and Bethesda is kind of creatively bankrupt.

Spoiler for Shadowheart’s story

And for the main plot in act 3, with a certain bhaalspawn.

Annoying, but I get why they didn’t do like a save import from an ancient game.

Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.

Technically I don’t have to watch it. I don’t have to play any more games in the franchise either. But if I do want to play more games in the franchise, I’ll probably have to deal with the show.