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It should be illegal to put two toll booths on one road a mile apart from each other http://rainbowdash.net/url/876176
Monday, 01-Aug-22 15:44:55 UTC from web-
@scribus It’s those goddamn Australians, I tell ya hwat, they bought the road and put seven million toll booths on it. These are some of the cheaper ones. There’s a variable-rate booth coming out of DC, right near where I went to community college, that has charged me anywhere from just a dollar to $10 depending on the time and day.
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@zeldatra ffffuuuuuuuu hhhoowwww do they a) justify, and b) expect people to pay that N-times per day!?! Ours are just toll lanes, which can go up to 15.85+ afaik for maybe 1/3 or 1/5 of the entire trip
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@scribus I’ve never been a single issue voter but I got real close in 2021 when a Republican (“independent” but only because the word “Republican” is a four-letter word in my district) candidate for local office promised to introduce legislation regulating the amount and cost of toll booths on the greenway, if the rest of his platform wasn’t so cartoonishly evil I might’ve been willing to cross over just for that.
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Paper Girls on Amazon Prime is waaaay different to the story in the comics, despite being produced by the writer of the original comics. I can understand why because the original would be waaaaay out of budget. Still strange.
Monday, 01-Aug-22 18:12:06 UTC from web -
it costs $5 to drive to work now, so I’ve decided to become a racist
Monday, 01-Aug-22 14:57:19 UTC from web -
Big fan of the conspiracy theory that Democrats are only pushing for popular, bipartisan legislation because they know Republicans will reflexively vote against it and make themselves look bad, and that actually they’re the ones who are against it.
Sunday, 31-Jul-22 19:13:37 UTC from web-
@zeldatra If the R's are so r'd that they will knowingly and willfully vote against their own self-interest, and even their own wants and desires, how tf could anyone work with that at all? I mean I know already but jfc man it is really tiring being neck-deep in hell and watching bubble-headed news anchors whine about how thousands dead in an historic heat wave isn't "fun" enough and asking what is wrong with *meteorologists* these days.
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@scribus I dunno what’s more embarrassing: Believing Democrats have concocted an evil scheme to make everyone’s lives worse by using reverse psychology to get Republicans voting against things Republicans want, or watching Republicans fall for the reverse psychology mind games and still deciding to vote for them.
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Sunday, 31-Jul-22 22:29:55 UTC from web
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Man I sure hope Life in general advances as the Universe goes on, even if it never happens **here**
Sunday, 31-Jul-22 20:42:08 UTC from web -
re:that last bullet, i think the push for inclusivity is broadly good because it's a life simulator and i think the more inclusive games like this are, the better, but it seems like they use inclusivity as an all-encompassing shield to stymy criticism when their updates come out half-baked and even broken. this most recent update breaks the aging system beyond repair, removes most whims in exchange for wants and fears that cover exclusively the base game and the latest expansion pack, and somehow bungled relationship checks so now my sims wanna papaya their brothers. but hey, they've added a sexuality system that probably should've been in there seven years ago eight years after release, so all is forgiven, we can move on to The Sims 4: Need for Speed, which finally adds (a) car (which cannot be used outside of its specialized map)
Saturday, 30-Jul-22 03:32:31 UTC from web-
@scribus I wouldn’t, at least not until they do at least a couple of bug fixes. Sims are currently aging up at random AT BEST, and at worst just straight up dying. It only affects long and short lifespans, and it’s actually an issue that has apparently existed for a few patches now, although I never encountered it before this one and the issue has verifiably been exasperated by something they did to the backend to support new features added by the High School expansion pack. And that’s just ONE of the problems… a lot of the new features are straight up broken and the new wants & fears system is actually less in-depth than the previous whims system, which it replaces, so… I don’t see many reasons to update ATM.
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@scribus the update DOES add sexual orientation and it’s surprisingly in-depth (albeit it is currently very gender binary), but that too is broken and is resulting in Sims rolling incestuous wants because the orientation check happens after the relationship check.
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Judging by those prices, Trump Burger is a massive grift. $11 for an 8oz burger and drinks are SEPARATE?? That’s a scam.
Saturday, 30-Jul-22 23:51:40 UTC from web -
And also everyone starts out pansexual so you have to manually change every single family in-game if you want the feature to be even remotely in play.
Saturday, 30-Jul-22 22:32:41 UTC from web -
The Sims 4's release cycle:
-New expansion pack announced, big promises of exciting change to the game
-New pack comes out, it's super broken and promised content is underwhelming.
-Radio silence.
-"Hi simmers, we are aware of..."
-patch making Bella Goth gay
-silence & repeat.Saturday, 30-Jul-22 03:25:50 UTC from web -
I Google pictures of the highways in Los Angeles County sometimes so I don’t feel as bad about bad traffic where I live.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 20:16:53 UTC from web -
I’ve been transferred to a new store closer to DC for my new promotion starting on Sunday and I gotta say: now that I have to deal with the traffic repercussions, I firmly believe that all construction on the metro line should immediately be halted as not having to stop for construction workers would shave ten minutes off my drive easily.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 17:11:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Promotion! Yeah! Hopefully construction won't take forever. When I had to commute about 30km to work I had often construction work on the Autobahn, which made the traffic so bad at rush hour that it added 30 to 45 minutes to the commute and forced me to start work at 6 AM to get around all of this. Even then the construction added 10 minutes to a 15 minute drive (under good circumstances and at about 140km/h and traffic signals.)
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@adiwan I’m hoping they’ll be done soon but also they’ve been working on this metro expansion since I was 12 so I’m starting to think it’s a mob front and they’ll never be done.
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The store I’ve been at for the last year is actually next door to the site where the expansion is supposed to end. It was built in anticipation of that with the hope that we’ll get a lot of commuter business. That was in 2006.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 19:03:23 UTC from web -
It’s unfortunate that we now will never be able to do our hour long Virginia Is For Lovers crossover event where Chris Chan and the guy who shot Reagan help the Swole Foods gang prevent the dimensional merge.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 18:56:24 UTC from web -
Today I was shopping for a new pair of jeans and on my way there I saw a man with a very peculiar printing on his T-shirt. It showed a naked furry anthro wolf in fetish gear and bat wings. I wish I could make a photo to show it. Just for the laughs of bad fashion taste.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 14:11:12 UTC from web -
As a good software developer I refactored a huge chunk of code and committed it to the DEV branch just before my vacation. As far as I could test everything works as well as it did before but who knows what I didn't catch. So far the new functionalities work too but on the way to the test and production server some errors could occur. I just finished implementing them.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 10:54:24 UTC from web -
Steven Universe costs ten real dollars so I haven’t played him yet.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 06:07:44 UTC from web
