TitaniumButterfly
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Transport Fever 2 is pretty but IMO in sandbox mode it's only worth playing with custom maps manually set up such that the supply chains make more sense. Otherwise the only brickmaker sets up shop three years' journey from the only stone quarry and the game makes this work by paying you absurd amounts of money to make the delivery. The economy generally makes absolutely no sense and I find it breaking suspension of disbelief. Also the game tends toward death by micromanagement when you have to manage the maintenance and depreciation schedules of countless individual buses (e.g.) across the map. But, the sheer beauty and ability to zoom in to street/rail level make the game worthwhile. If you do want to generate and edit custom maps be sure to watch some videos because there are hidden settings to make them extra gorgeous.
In general I find that TF2 makes for an excellent train table sim, but the game elements themselves don't fit right and mainly serve as a fig leaf.
Contrast with Sid Meier's Railroads! which I think is a fun and awesome game despite its age, where laying rail is more intuitive and supply chains make sense because industries tend to spring up near their inputs. The challenge is in competing with AI rail companies, which adds a very fun layer to the game including poaching their vital industries at auction and buying out their stock. Maybe selling some of yours for capital to expand, which makes you vulnerable to takeover in turn. It's fast-paced: a normal game lasts half an hour to forty-five minutes. IDK why this one never got more love but I played the heck out of it when it was current. Installing it now requires some tampering with files and third-party patches IIRC.
Are you at all concerned you'll find stuff that will make you think less of him?
Forgive me for being blunt, but I think it's important to tell you that I don't think this is any of your business or that this is an appropriate time to ask.
My wife isn't technical enough to save my hardware. But I'm wondering if I should set my "personal" files to be at least less obvious or something.
Given that there's some concern about her finding them I don't believe there's any possible justification for you to save such things locally in the first place. Not trying to beat you over the head with this, especially given the above. It's the conclusion I've arrived at after much soul-searching and I wanted to share. As it stands you're just revealing your preference for which you love more.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
Wild. As they say, "It doesn't take all kinds, but we've got 'em."
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
Vaporized would be better. This way generated seconds, minutes, hours of hellish last moments.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
A coordination problem, you say?
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
I'm honestly asking and not looking to argue
Not at all! I appreciate the question. But it would be helpful to know what you mean by 'modern' since it might be doing a lot of work.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
Thanks for the rec
It might be helpful for you to draw up a list of the ways men are better than women, and the opposite; and then draw some conclusions about how societies might function. And the opposite. The exercise itself is likely to yield some interesting insights.
As a general rule if practically every historical human society seems to have agreed on something that seems crazy to you it might be time to stop and reflect.
Satan
What does this mean to you? What do you think it means to me? Consider Paradise Lost or maybe just the traditional understanding of what Satan, highest of the angels, did wrong.
People will notice that a truth-seeking site like this is 99% male and shrug and move on without considering why. This selective blindness used to bewilder me.
Instead of being coy I'll just say it forthrightly: You have been conditioned your entire life to never, ever think along this axis and it might be time to start asking questions about what's going on with that.
mangoodwomanbad
Does someone who thinks adults are superior to, and morally responsible for, children think that adults are good and children are bad? What would have to have gone wrong for someone to immediately leap to that interpretation?
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
I really do!
Feminism and communism are the same ideology: the satanic destruction of natural hierarchy by those who imagine they can fill the shoes of their natural superiors. Children insisting upon receiving the full rights and privileges of adults would be a congruent third leg but at least so far almost nobody seems dumb enough to push for that. Then again it wasn't so long ago that the same would have been said of women. Or vagrants; or indigenes.
Communism is implicitly feminist; feminism is implicitly communist. These are branches, not separate trees.
Didn't I just see Kamala argue for lowering the voting age? Like, yesterday?
TitaniumButterfly
14d ago
Fine post, but tangentially you have me wondering how many feds have discovered this place due to keyword flagging and stayed to lurk our conversations out of personal interest.
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
Gankutsuou was pretty great and I still think about it a lot many years later, but I have to say that the way they tampered with the end was abhorrent to me.
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
How are you finding it?
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
I'm not in the industry but make things for fun sometimes, and my experience with godot is that it can be a bit hard to get one's head around. On the other hand I do everything manually and haven't vibecoded so who knows?
But it seems hard to go wrong with python.
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
I'm not familiar with the methodology there but Iranians are a different racial group (Persians) than Arabs, so it's plausible to me. I've also known many Iranians and they've generally been smart, competent people, though c.f. usual caveats about filter bubbles.
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
Iranian average IQ (IIRC estimated between 99 and 105) does enable all sorts of things that weren't feasible in Iraq or Afghanistan.
It would be interesting to see how Iranian culture compares to Japanese in context during some kind of major reconstruction.
But the US of 2026 is not the US of 1946. I don't think there will be any titanic reconstruction effort in Iran. Here on the homefront we're already panicking about budgets, spending, and general sclerosis. Show me that we can build a rail system here before we speak seriously about reforging Iran nearer to our heart's desire.
TitaniumButterfly
16d ago
This does keep me up at night. OTOH it's already happened to me once and in the long run that turned out to be an incomparable blessing.
TitaniumButterfly
18d ago
All too often. I'm thinking that this may be the last time.
TitaniumButterfly
19d ago
"Hi girls, now you've turned ten, here's a complete shaving kit because men don't like hair on women! Now that you've started growing some in those places, it's yucky and disgusting, shave it all off or no man will want you!"
I don't find this statement appropriate in context and appreciate it even less in quotation marks.
TitaniumButterfly
20d ago
A professional chef of (legit) Chinese cuisine once explained to me that in Chinese thought there are two categories of object: food, and rocks.
With this in mind I expect that you might field very low-cost Chinese food for yourself if you're brave enough.
idk where you are but at least in the US there's an enormous amount of alpha in majority-Caucasian minority-Latina. You can even get light hair and blue eyes sometimes.
TitaniumButterfly
20d ago
That veers too hard into personal info, unfortunately. But I don't mind that you asked.
TitaniumButterfly
21d ago
I don't think that men in general think that way, and yes you're fairly unusually pedo-adjacent. Certainly pedos exist and that's probably some kind of a spectrum and hopefully you're on the right end of it, but this doesn't imply anything about normal male sexual preferences.
You bothered to write that so I'll respond in kind.
Shaving the pubic area only came in for the West relatively recently.
Not really pertinent imo.
It really does smack of wanting a Barbie doll/immature partner, where normal female hair growth which comes about with sexual maturity during puberty is now seen as "ugh, disgusting, unnatural".
I've met plenty of women who seem hellbent on making this analytical leap, and about zero men who think that way at all. I don't think women's pubic hair is disgusting or unnatural. I do think it hides the structure of the pussy, which I enjoy looking at, and that going down on her is about fifteen times more pleasant when I'm not fighting through hair and stopping constantly to pull loose strands from my mouth. Also, any grooming methods coded as 'interested in enjoying sex' are going to be de facto attractive on some level.
I've never met a sexually-confident woman who has weird paranoias on the subject, whereas every woman I've met whose mind runs immediately to 'this is some kind of weird desire for prepubescent girls' has been, uh, we can say sexually-not-confident. In short it seems to me that it tends to have more to do with personal insecurity than any kind of rational objection.
When guys start normalising shaving their legs, pits, and groins as well as faces, come back to me on this demand.
I wouldn't. But it is worth noting that 'more body hair' is masculine-coded and 'less body hair' is feminine-coded so this is a pretty poor equivalence. Roughness, coarseness, and hairiness are masculine traits; smoothness and so on are feminine ones. Calling attention to, and amplifying, places and patterns that are sexually-dimorphic is normal human sexual behavior and no weird motivations need to be imputed beyond that.
Also just... just, while we're here, I have several prepubescent daughters whose hairless vulvas I see fairly often (during diaper changes, bathtimes, and general little kid craziness) and hopefully it doesn't need to be affirmed that I don't find anything attractive or sexually-compelling about that per se.
Same (just got to Fulgora for the first time) but I'm increasingly feeling a desire for something like factorio plus population management. A colony rather than a crash site. Trains are more fun with conductors and passengers rather than fully-automated engines and cargo that could just as reasonably be carried by bot or belt.
When I do want the train fix, I edit the settings such that resources patches are at maximum scarcity but also a bit richer. Trains should be all about those long journeys between nodes. It can be done. And this way there tend to be big stretches of unspoiled countryside along the way.
Also a big fan of the cargo ships mod.
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