As a fellow Jew, I agree, but it’s worth noting. I wouldn’t ever call someone an antisemite for referring to someone as a lizard-person, because at this point no one intends it that way. I have a friend who’s pretty receptive to social justice issues and mentioned it to her recently just as an interesting point of conversation.

The reptilian conspiracy theory can be considered at least antisemitism-adjacent, which makes its popularity with respect to Zuckerberg… interesting.

You cannot just make it Smart iTraffic 3D without removing the major challenge from the game. Fixing some bugs and not having traffic that dumb like in the 1st game would be appreciated though.

AFAIK the way it worked in the first game, the pathfinding was a simple A* algorithm that used only the length & speed limit of each link in the network to determine the shortest path. The way this video makes it sound, travel time will be the most significant factor, which means traffic will make a difference in the pathfinding. Then they’re also introducing factors related to the individual cim’s need for parking, comfort, and risk-taking. It should be a lot more realistic and just as challenging, without the ridiculous situations where traffic would come to a complete standstill because everyone is taking the same route even though there are hundreds of alternative side streets to take.

As someone who’s done some advanced coursework in traffic engineering, I’m pumped.

So cims choose a route based on multiple criteria, now. That’s how transportation network analysis is done IRL. AND they can turn around and reroute in the middle of a trip. Super cool.

Also, they had one of two songs in Crazy Taxi for PS2.

YA YA YA YA YA

Last.fm says my top 5 artists are, in order, Vampire Weekend, Billy Strings, The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, and Green Day. There’s a lot of context missing there, though, lol. If you go down the list, you’ll find a lot of punk & punk-adjacent stuff with some folk, pop and alt/indie rock interspersed. There’s one metal band in my top 50, two if you count Porcupine Tree.

Okay, I’ll be that guy… TOOL

My mom was way into his music. I think it was a lot more interesting in the 70s before the whole folk-pop singer-songwriter thing had been done to death.

Still…

I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain

I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end

I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend

But I always thought I’d see you again

Lyrics don’t do it for everyone, but I think they’re one of the main draws of his music.

I figured my boy Johnny was a comrade, but I never had proof until *checks video description* 12 years ago? Shit, where have I been?

Also there’s lead in perovskite! This stuff is sounding better by the minute.

That all happened on Windows, too. I don’t know how they let it go on like that for so long.

Hah! It didn’t even occur to me that someone would not have listened to Zeppelin before. They’re so foundational in classic rock. Incidentally, a lot of people accused Zeppelin of ripping off earlier blues and blues rock acts when they first blew up. To me, all art is just people riffing on what came before, and you’re bound to encounter artists across space and time that have very similar aesthetics to each other. No one owns an aesthetic.

Oh I definitely hear a ton of Rush in them too, as well as more diverse 60s/70s influences, and even some 90s alt (Mountain of the Sun in particular). It’s basically just Highway Tune and Safari Song that have gotten them branded as a Zeppelin ripoff - understandably in the case of those two songs. The singer is definitely heavily influenced by Robert Plant (although as you say his voice has more of a Geddy Lee timbre to it or something) and the guitarist by Jimmy Page for sure.

But they did not go back and add things they promised but didn’t deliver on.

Not yet, anyway. There are a lot of improvements coming with the DLC, supposedly. The police overhaul on its own has the potential to add tons of replayability. Getting a wanted level & running from the cops was like 90% of my GTA IV time.

I’m one of those game tourists who hardly ever finishes anything. I don’t have enough time to game so I’ll just drop a game if I’m not really into. Cyberpunk was one of the few games I’ve finished in recent years.

I guess I never really thought of it that way, but I’m in the same boat. I even have trouble finishing games I really enjoy, like Outer Worlds. Cruised straight through Cyberpunk though. The quickhack + sniper gameplay was endlessly satisfying for me.

Thanks, yeah, it’s not unbearable. The worst part is just the limitations it imposes on me. Doctors haven’t been much help so far, but I need to try again.

It’s kind of hard to explain. There’s some level of constant pain and certain activities will cause it to flair up. Some of those activities it doesn’t really bother me while I’m doing them, but the next day I will feel it and it takes weeks of rest, medication, stretches & exercises to get it under control again. Guitar is one of those, did a bunch of yard work recently that I think aggravated it. Oddly, typing doesn’t feel great while I’m doing it, but it doesn’t seem to cause the problem to flare up the same way more strenuous activity does.

I’ve basically stopped playing guitar, and I try to stick to gaming with a controller, which sucks because my favorite genre for my whole life has been city builders.

Was playing guitar on and off for a decade and then started seriously practicing around the end of 2019. Got to the point where I was fluent enough that the melodies and chord progressions started just appearing out of the ether as I was noodling. I wrote one full song and have stubs of a few others, but now my hands have rebelled against me after 3 and a half decades of abuse. Don’t know if they’ll ever get back to normal, as I can’t even figure out what exactly is wrong with them.

Curious about your thoughts on the Greta Van Fleet “they’re a Zeppelin ripoff” stuff. I like their music and I’m hoping they are able to shake that reputation a bit. Also, apparently I’ve only listened to From The Fires and Anthem of the Peaceful Army, so apparently I’ve got some catching up to do.

Also, first post on lemmy, lets gooooooooo!