Funding bart and muni through taxes rather than ticket sales *is* the reform we need. It’s not practical to operate transit in the bay and cover the cost with ticket sales. The biggest problems with both services are poor land use around stations and lack of stable funding.

Have you tried godot? Im curious how it compares. I haven’t used gamemaker in a while so I’m out of date, but I’ve found godot to be a great balance. It’s lightweight enough that I don’t need to spend that much time reading docs but it’s got enough built in to handle all the common problems.

I don’t know what it is about Nintendo, but they seem to legitimately have some of the worst UX possible sometimes. The botw and echoes of wisdom menus were so bad it seriously harmed the quality of the game. I don’t understand how it’s getting through their process.

For that, you’ll want to search for information about A* pathfinding. Godot should have built in tools for this already. Check out AStar2D.

It’s not surprising the industry is struggling like this. Most players are locked into one of the “games as a platform” titles, or just buy cod/madden once a year. imo we need smaller budgets, less scope, and better targeted games. Most broad appeal AAA budget games will flop in this environment.

Modern hardware feels like a curse. Because it’s possible to make a game with massive environments that look super realistic, these AAA studios feel pressured to make every game gigantic. imo a smaller game with a unique art style will be more memorable 9/10 times than a generic huge AAA blockbuster

If H5N1 mutates to become human-to-human transmissible, it presents a huge threat to the general public. Of course a highly contagious respiratory virus is a bigger deal than a virus that's only transmitted through skin to skin contact. We shouldn't minimize h5n1 by comparing it to mpox.

The general public is barely aware of mpox. I follow this stuff closely and barely heard about it from the white house or major outlets. I'm all for criticizing how the media handles public health, but if anything the US media is *under* reporting those risks relative to much less severe issues.

Meanwhile in CA our DoT agreed to not back any projects that increase VMT, which is great! Except they just ignore the rule and constantly do it anyways. 🙃

It feels like DoTs are structured so that they always want to produce highways, and they won’t change unless we change those incentives.

This specific problem might be fixable with some clever routing changes, but the subway (and most US transit networks) needs massive investment and there’s no way around that.

On the other hand, when you defer maintenance and upgrades for too long it causes serious problems. We see this a lot in US transit networks. I agree throwing tech at a problem is bad, but we probably shouldn’t let systems rot into disrepair and then act shocked when the replacement cost is high.

Voyager really had so much missed potential. The fact that they didn’t highlight the maquis tension way more feels like the other missed opportunity. The xindi arc in ENT captured some of what voyager could have been, though.

The actual issue was very real and needed tons of work to fix. As with anything major, there was also tons of fear mongering and scams. People were slapping Y2K compliance stickers on things that never had a chance of breaking, selling BS insurance, etc…

I always think of Chris Hayes’s article on undecided voters in 2004. It lines up pretty well with these quotes. None of them understand “the issues” at all, and they can’t be swayed by good policy.

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It’s frustrating to still see opposition for such a modest proposal. We’re taking about a few bollards, a mural, and a forced right-turn lane. People died! It’s wrong to treat deaths as an acceptable outcome of the traffic system we’ve designed.

These vacancy statistics are often misleading imo. A lot of times the “vacancies” are Appartments that are being renovated or not habitable, units that are owned as a second house with out of town owners, units that are leased but people haven’t moved in yet, etc…

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