SwampYankee

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[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“In 2016, the Green Party played an outsized role in tipping the election to Donald Trump,”

They'll blame anything other than the facts of Hillary being unlikable and Wasserman-Schulz being incompetent. Johnson took 3x as many votes from the Republicans as Stein took from the Democrats. In the end, Hillary was an electoral dud and Wasserman-Schulz' mishandling of the primaries led to faithless electors.

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.