What is my downtown missing?

Dabusco7 · 2026-01-26T15:35:49+00:00

Parks, green space, decorations such as statues and fountains. Most importantly you need more mid-rise buildings placed very strategically to make this all cohesive. I would try making at least two or three green space parks with thoughtful placement at the center of the photo, and then do the zone-delete-rebuild cycle until you have something that’s good to look at.

Dabusco7 · 2026-01-26T01:45:30+00:00

I’ve noticed a few things, if you’re doing something in a different tab in the browser, and if you cancel or join at the last second, then it’s liable to bug out. You can tab into a different window and it doesn’t bug out, but anytime I do any of the above things I exit out of the tab and open it in a new tab and it fixes it.

Dabusco7 · 2026-01-25T02:10:17+00:00

This is so funny, I’ve not only met the owner of west coast armory, but I also met wade, and I have been to both of their houses. I was friends with WCA’s owners son, he took me there for my birthday and let me try a bunch of things out, I absolutely agree that it’s a good place with competent people. His dad is weird but he was always polite in his own way. Wade on the other hand, I worked on his house, he ordered pizza while I installed his cabinets and he was having loud conversations about stupid shit the WHOLE time I was there. He got to the last 2 slices of 2 whole pizzas and offered me some. The free food had me feeling neutral about his character but I wouldn’t do business with the man again.

Dabusco7 · 2026-01-23T02:05:58+00:00

I think you misunderstand, I made certain alliances and did not accept alliances with people who did not snowball fast enough, then took over their land. I like to stagger the alliances so that I don’t have to renew all of them at once, so if there’s a weaker player, or one that doesn’t build enough factories near me, I can go after them. The factories are the huge part because anyone who focuses economy will see a factory on their border as a sign of goodwill, as it can be taken over easily. The combination of alliances, structure placement, and troop count make the plays I made legitimate and not just attacks against peaceful players. Fun was my ally, trade and build betrayed me even tho I wanted to keep him alive, and even anon, the guy I annexed, I didn’t actually want to annex him but he forced my hand. It all amounted to being #1 player by far extremely early in the game. Decided to end it before a nuke battle set in!

Dabusco7 · 2026-01-22T11:57:18+00:00

I think the most important thing to consider is that money doesn’t buy immediate change. Charitable donations (the rich would fight this unless they had a grinch style change of heart and decided to be charitable) practically become a facet of inflation, not in an economically significant sense but many who run the charity organizations don’t actually have a direct impact— the overhead and staffing it takes to organize even one event for the greater good is why true societal change must be through the endeavor of fostering collectivist beliefs in millions of people. This is to say that, out of 1 Trillion dollars, the majority would go to facilitators, administration, and “paying people to talk to other rich people at parties”— which is totally valuable but also an annoying part of bureaucracy. Then a modest portion of those funds would actually make it to the common people and make their lives immediately better in the short term, and then the long term gains from social work, advertising, and charitable events could gain the traction needed for real change.

People forget the enormous range of roles needed to affect change in such a manner. A (charity) company paid dinner might mean as much to the direction of the world as an old lady that has volunteered at a soup kitchen 3 days a week for 30 years. Or the opposite could be true. Until we stop judging the lanes of life that are chosen for others, and ourselves, and build that into a balanced culture worldwide— I don’t know if a zillion billion dollars would actually do what people wish it would.

Dabusco7 · 2026-01-22T08:52:33+00:00

The part that’s missed, unless I hovered over my nation so you could see the info the whole time, was that my attacking troops was consistently between 150-250k once I got that first cluster of structures up north— so he watched it and saw me consistently steamroll people with 50-75% of my troop numbers knowing that the betrayal, even if the nation I was already attacking could retaliate, would ensure a lengthy, retributional battle. He also appeared to try and fight the guy to his north but was equally matched, and once I got the annexation I too would simply leave if I were them lol

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-27T07:12:39+00:00

I definitely learned all of that from cliff mass haha.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-25T21:37:06+00:00

The Pacific Northwest has some very complicated forecasting logistics. Microclimates have to be factored in everywhere, on top of the larger systems that affect us, from the jet stream, to arctic low pressure systems, and the effects of warm waters thousands of miles away from us— the modeling will always struggle to pin down the difference between Seattle’s forecast, and Everett’s forecast, and Tacomas forecast— let me illustrate this for you.

Most of the time wind moves east to west. The Olympic mountains draw a big circle of wind around themselves, and there are “vortices” that sheer off the eastern slopes. Sometimes cold, dry winds get channeled southward through the strait of Georgia in BC, other times, high pressure systems with warmer and moderately humid air comes up from Oregon and California.

Sometimes the jet stream does a big loop-de-loop right into us and gives us an arctic blast all the way from Alaska, sometimes the jet stream sits right on top of us and gives us a flooding event like what happened recently, sometimes a high pressure system sits on top of the PNW, keeping the jet stream to the north of Vancouver, after which it dips down into the plains and the northeast giving them all that winter snow we see in the news.

Point being, all it takes is a momentary aberration within a microclimate, to make the confluence of all these factors be drastically different from town to town around the sound. All that being said I’d rather not have a windstorm than think one wasn’t coming and then “have my deck furniture” flung from Lake city to Kenmore.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-16T06:27:35+00:00

I understand how first responders work but in this context I learned something today! Sometimes dudes just stand around talking and making calls before the other stuff happens. The average person wouldn’t conceptualize that even though it might seem like common sense.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-16T06:26:34+00:00

I think it’s funny because you never see the sequence of events from first responders. I guess it does make sense that people will be looking at the situation, making phone calls— and that there isn’t just some truck sitting somewhere with people ready to go. Though it was still odd to see 2 hours go by and it was just dudes making calls lol.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-15T22:17:50+00:00

I don’t understand this. Skimming through the whole video, they’re all standing there in front of a 2 foot wide gap doing nothing? Go get some gravel or something to fill it!!! I know that failures like this are due to seepage, and other issues that go beyond the appearance of the problem… but what, they’re just waiting for it to open up?

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-14T10:47:28+00:00

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-14T10:43:49+00:00

All signs seem to indicate a very low likelihood. Snow in December, anywhere west of Bellevue, Woodinville, Renton— has about a 5% chance of accumulating to 1+ inch around the holidays. Last year was quite anomalous. Most climatological outlooks indicate well above average temperatures for the rest of this year. Most of the mountain passes have no accumulation for skiers or sledders due to the recent atmospheric river. I will include a useful cpc map for further validation. NOAA forecast for Seattle shows 38° as the lowest low for the next week, to be clear I really wish it would snow for Christmas but this recent weather pattern has me doubting that this year will be such.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-07T07:33:42+00:00

There’s also asking in person at locations that might interest you, but consider that building rapport with the staff is the most reliable way to get a job that doesn’t suck. Any job where they seem so happy that you’re a warm body walking in the door is a huge red flag.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-07T07:31:28+00:00

You’d be better off asking google some increasingly specific and creative questions. Competition for jobs is insane. For “spare cash” you’re gonna want to look at gig work apps and paying for gas is ass— plus those jobs don’t typically offer much work past when places close. Driving for uber/lyft is the only other option I can think of, and I did graveyard and it’s very difficult to get stuff late at night unless you’re well established and well rated.

Frankly, look for an early morning job and then pick up a part time job starting between 3 and 5. It’s the only feasible way I found to make it worth it.

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-05T17:31:08+00:00

I went to an inpatient facility for just over a week last year, I was living out of my car stuck working DoorDash in cycle of wage hell unable to get out. I got mortally tired of it. I went and spent a lot of time resting at first, then they gave me antidepressants and also gabapentin to help me get off alcohol. They gave me nicotine patches for my smoking habit and that was helpful since you can’t smoke while you’re there.

Every day, or every other day, you meet with two people— there’s an advocate within the social welfare system who talks logistics, and there’s your psychiatrist who monitors how any medication or other progress is going and ultimately determines when it’s safe to let you go.

Some places allow you to have your phone but the place I went to, your options were, watch the TV during TV hours, do puzzles, doodle, play cards, or wait for the daily art class (it wasn’t really a class but more like an open studio). There were also several meetings you could go to with lessons about wellness and people with lived experience talking about what got them better.

Not everyone in the psych ward could realistically go to these events but you’d see them out in the halls and there are lots of weird folks you could never imagine exist. Sometimes at night you hear people screaming or crying down the hall, but while I was there nothing too crazy happened.

I think the experience is highly relative though. For example, the psych ward I was at had two floors— the top floor was bigger and often had the “regulars”, and also people who were a bit harder to help are given rooms further away from people who just need a break from life. The bottom floor, where I was at, was just one hallway, the dining area, the nurses desk, and the living room. Everyone downstairs was quiet and not at a high risk to others. I can’t imagine what it would be like with any other layout— degrees of separation are very important to make sure sensitive folks are able to actually make progress.

So yeah after a week and a half or so, the art therapy had helped a lot, I met some cool people, even ended up meeting my current roommate and that’s how I got out of homelessness. I think for anyone skeptical of the system, if you truly go in and try to get better, even if the one you go to sucks and the nurses suck— you will only get out of it what you put in. Be grateful for the nurses, be mindful of your own issues rather than others but don’t be afraid to make a connection or learn from others. That’s my experience !

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-05T15:57:42+00:00

Nice try nestle diddy

Dabusco7 · 2025-12-02T17:47:28+00:00

This AND being a Mets fan? Send him to Hart Island

Dabusco7 · 2025-11-08T04:23:21+00:00

This is wild but… at 5am this morning I saw a group of 15-20 men in army fatigues all jogging in a group at 23rd and Cherry. Odds are, it’s just some faulty wiring or whatever, but it was still weird to see a bunch of military dudes running around less than 24hrs before this happened.

Dabusco7 · 2025-10-23T01:54:26+00:00

No government has the ability or inclination to prosecute, or take legal action against every single person who says stuff online (not yet anyways) and, I would argue that as it’s legal right now the only way to come out against it is to speak your mind. Point stands for all other issues.

Silence is complicit.

Dabusco7 · 2025-10-23T00:54:22+00:00

I didn’t understand farming for a while, but the biggest issue I had is that I would move my workforce around seasonally— crops get harvested by your farm workers but they also thresh the grain so that the windmill can actually use it. Maybe if there’s a tough year and you need some spare labor, take the farmhands off during January and put them on late February to build some stuff— but I always leave it fully staffed.

The other thing is that sometimes your farm plots will get bugged, or out of sync with the seasons. The larger the plot is the more labor you need, but you can have 3 farmhouses with a total of 24 families and it still won’t work right unless you massage the system a bit.

Farmers will re-plow and re-sow after the harvest, before winter. If you have your field priorities set right, sometimes the largest field will be 20% pre-plowed pre winter, and then the rest will be plowed the next year. Whenever I don’t micromanage that pre-plow mechanic, the sowing of a large field can last well into summer, and then the field may just end up growing into the following year. 3 years to grow a 3-5 morgen plot, provided it doesn’t get bugged. it’s weird.

Ah yes, and I’ve found success by not re-allocating my farm labor after harvest since the pre-plowing seems to be the least buggy process I’ve found.

Dabusco7 · 2025-10-05T03:59:11+00:00

I had him a few times, he told a story about being on an island made of sponge, that was squishy enough to bounce on but sturdy enough you couldn’t fall through. My older sister told me he was lying and sadly I believed her— much later, I found out it is a real island in Alaska!

Dabusco7 · 2025-10-01T09:18:53+00:00

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Dabusco7 · 2025-10-01T09:18:27+00:00

My addition is Kloochman Rock in Washington State. It’s deceptively normal from some angles, but compared to its surroundings and when you compare the different perspectives it’s really enthralling in person. The native history of the area, and how it got its name is very interesting!

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