machiabelly [she/her]

Racist piece of shit

Its weird because I loved dragon age origins and Pillars of eternity. I thought Wasteland 3 was ok.

I think with D:OS 2 I was annoyed that I didn’t choose a premade character at the start, and that the storyline was just, become a god. I don’t find that kind of narrative compelling. I also didn’t like the fairytale lighthearted vibes. The world didn’t feel “meaty” somehow.

What didn’t you like about it? I didn’t like divinity original sin so I’ve been hesitant on buying bg3.

WHAT? THE FREE MARKET GIVES TAX BREAKS TO CORPOS WHEN THEY LOSE MONEY??? I DON’T KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED BUT I’M MAD

Why do they do this? It doesn’t make sense. They don’t have to pay to keep it listed.

Dudes rock

Hawaii was great until the haoles fucked it up. So was a lot of pre colombian america. And parts of pre colonization africa.

Just because Europe was shit doesn’t mean it was shit everywhere. Europe is pretty unique in that it has been total warring itself for over 2000 years straight. The streak ended in world war 2, but goes back to the bronze age.

Could those places I listed be improved by modern medicine and trains? Sure. Doesnt mean they were terrible.

damn google has really gotten shit then. I used to avoid duckduckgo because of how much better google was.

thanks bb

I downloaded freetube, is that one ok?

I had no idea there was a vanced replacement!!!

lmao theres literally a movie about someone from the south being stranded in the north

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064932/

It’s kinda funny to me that anywhere in france could be considered the sticks. You can’t go 5km without some kind of a town or village. Relative to apalachia or the rockies it may as well be manhattan.

I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?

Eventually I think lab meat will be cheaper than factory meat. When that happens there will be. Until then fast food will always be made with the cheapest ingredients possible. Until then I’ll be vegan.

Actually I think rural highways are fine. In my ideal world every city and town is connected by two lane each way highways. The highways would be along side freight and passenger rail lines.

The problem, imo, is with all the 4 lane each way highways. Making all the highways 2 lane each way would probably reduce total land use by a lot. But I could be misinterpreting the map. Its not clear what “rural” highway means. It also doesn’t show total road usage. Extra road from sprawl is way worse than from rural highways. Poor town planning in the country also contributes. We should have villages instead of the weird clusterfuck of separated houses that are 2 hours by car from a hospital and 30 minutes from a grocery store.

Regardless it should be trains instead of trucks moving freight. In such a world I would imagine the train land usage would be around 1/3 of rural highways. In that map its about 1/9. Its less about the size of the rural highways and more about the size of the railways. If the USA didn’t tear up all their rail infrastructure in the early 1900s it’d probably be like that today.

I think personal cars will always be a part of country life. And thats ok. But they should have an accessible train for long distances. Between ambulances, firetrucks, disability transportation, various work vehicals, and isolated people, cars have important uses. And they need roads.

Literally the problem is just suburbia. 15 minute cities, 5 minute neighborhoods.

seeing this all at once. its a lot. There is so much you can learn about the US just by looking at this. I hate it.

Not a single one of these sections is the correct size. Except maybe the maple syrup and the beer.

Replacing half of the cow pasture with (properly managed) timber would solve the worlds lumber shortage. I’d like to see more bamboo being grown. Its great for any buildings that are 4 stories or less. Or is it 3?

LOOK AT RURAL HIGHWAYS VERSUS TRAINS. FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Samosa!!

Ugh I should probably try reading things