7bicycles [he/him] @ 7bicycles @hexbear.net

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pretty sure the red light district in my town fits that definition.

Unless you get like seriously scientific about it a sovereign nation is basically vibes based

15% is not a hard success rate to beat but. This isn't dickriding self driving cars, that shit is never going to work without fucking everyone outside of a car over more, but that's kind of the point, the answer to this problem is not cars (any version)

sounds like a skill issue to me

I think it's important to note that the US approach to speed limits is absolute fucking garbage and maybe one should be able to expect people piloting a vehicle to actually read and follow speed limits

yeah, but if you start whatever car based countries biggest dig of the century to reconfigurate it all this minute it'd still take you 30 years and it'd be nice for non car users in the meanwhile to not get killed

yeah, where inappropiate speeds on the autobahn, 200kph fits this, is the number one cause for accident and even if somebody doesn't wreck their shit is among the top causes for traffic backing up because traffic flows far worse if you have the 15% of people doing speeds nobody else does

You could almost double that safely if people actually used the lanes properly when not passing.

big if

"Well if people were just better" is a theoretical panacea to nigh all imaginable societal ills and it has never actually improved anything

The solution to this problem is not to say fuck it and legalize faster speeds is the point

No, definitely on the list though, I hardly find time to game these days

It's a sort of you know it when you see it (play it) thing. Something along the lines of becoming more than the sum of their parts and also using the interactivity that the medium provides.

When I played TLOU I enjoyed it but I kept thinking "this might as well be a TV show and lose nothing for it". It's a well made story, presented with technical prowess in an interesting setting, then it's also a sort of well made stealth cover shooter but it just doesn't come together. That's not to denigrate the individual efforts and art made there, I'm not saying it's shit, but there's just so much potential left on the table there. If you can 1:1 translate your game into a TV Show, like TLOU, why was it ever a video game to begin with, if you come at it from an art standpoint.

I don't know if you played Gothic or S.T.A.L.K.E.R., those are quite similar in how it's a great setting, well made (well, bar eurojank), the story is serviceable at best and for stalker especially veers off into nonsense at the end but crucially neither games would work as a book, or a film, or a visual novel. You could use the setting, sure, the art design and lore and stuff is solid enough to carry lots of interesting stories and have been used as such but it'd lose such a tremendous amount of what makes it great that it just doesn't work. The first episode of Gothic (TV Show) is a man who walks into a city after pullign some beets and buying his way in. Or possibly sneaking in. Or maybe he murders someone and steals the uniform. Sure, that can be well made, but the point of Gothic is that you have all these options, go nuts. Fuck, transform into a raptor and cause mayhem then revert to human in the confusion, game will let you, but that's the sort of thing that can't be translated to other mediums well.

I'm currently playing through Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, that certainly goes more the indie artsy route, and I love it because again, doesn't work in another medium. What makes it great is that it hits the line between the trash collection being tedious and frustrating, but still engaging enough, that it conveys the feeling the little sanidrone would have through interactivity. It sucks, but it is your only hope. And then the rest of it is also just very well made.

Current mood is a toss up between

"I dream of a society where I would be guillotined as a conservative." - Proudhon / "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" - Marx (Groucho)

Another contender for greatest quote (george lucas subcategory)

The UBA is truly one of the funnier institutions. It's a federal agency tasked with suggesting and studying how to cut emissions, so they propose goals for legislation, none of which ever have been listened to even slightly. It's basically a welfare program and I don't even mean that derogatory.

I genuinely like to engage with video games as an art form and I think some of them are among the actual best works of art there is.

It lands like absolutely nowhere. EIther people see you as a capital G gamer, but even the capital G gamers hate you because they want to enjoy product, not art

laughs in Dutch... we don't do crap like that. Just buy a bike you use daily, and fix the parts that brake. (stadsfiets)

yeah except of course when y'all invent something like the now defunct VanMoof

pick targeted crime instead of wanton crime then

So much shit around bicycles is a scam because barring some major inventions like shocks for mountainbikes or maybe carbon frames it's very much a solved problem, but it doesn't fit into a capitalist economy if everybody just buys one bicycle and then occasionally parts for it to fix it.

Rocking up the working class bank to get a loan for a 90 acre property

Yeah…he lives on 90 acres of land that he wants to build a farm on and raise livestock. Doesn’t exactly scream “working class.”

I mean props to them for using the well documented "equating farmer (owns land) with farmer (does farm work)", it does usually trick people