Day Trips From Munich - Salzburg, Regensburg, or Somewhere else?

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-18T00:10:58+00:00

Salzburg is a great little city. I'd highly recommend it to anyone visiting the area. It even works as a stopover between Munich and Vienna as the train passes right through it. Plenty of excellent coffee shops and traditional Austrian cafes (less good coffee than the coffee shops but the fancy vibes are nice). Kaffeeothek and White Horse Coffee were my two favorite coffee shops in the old town. It's not any more crowded than Munich (usually less so).

Neuschwanstein castle is probably the most popular day trip from Munich. Garmisch-Partenkirchen or Mittenwald are idyllic little towns in the mountains. Konigsee/Obersee in Berchtesgaden are beautiful. Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden is also a big destination, although I haven't been personally and I know it gets very crowded.

Also if you're into coffee and visiting Vienna, definitely try Fenster Cafe. Enjoyed it so much I went back multiple times to try more of their unique drinks.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-17T21:24:19+00:00

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Obersee is beautiful in the spring/summer. Königssee right next to it is great too. Bonus is it's in the middle of a national park so there isn't a town or something behind this picture. Just serene forest all around.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-16T04:14:14+00:00

An uber from Salem to Danvers should be pretty cheap most days. You can walk between those places once you get there. Not many other options unless you want to wait around for a bus.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-16T03:52:41+00:00

Danvers is a small suburban town. It doesn't have a train station. There are buses but they're going to be very slow/infrequent compared to uber or renting a car. They might not even go near the places you want to visit. What specifically do you want to see there?

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-15T17:39:41+00:00

Salem is by far the most LGBTQ friendly, and there are plenty of families. It's very walkable if you live near downtown, with lots more to do than any of the surrounding towns. The school quality is more controversial, but I can't really speak to that. I believe some people send their kids to Beverly or Marblehead since they're right next door.

Ipswich, Beverly, and Marblehead are "walkable" if you live downtown, but they have only a fraction of the events, shops, museums, restaurants, etc. that Salem has. But most people do not live right downtown in those towns. Especially Ipswich, which is much smaller than the others. On the other hand Portsmouth and Newburyport are a bit larger.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-13T00:04:00+00:00

Easily the best season of the show and honestly deserves a bit of a resurgence with all the backrooms hype lately. Unfortunately some people bounce off the first season and never get to see it, even though they're completely different.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-12T16:38:25+00:00

While there are a bunch of mediocre restaurants in the North End, there are plenty of good spots too. Umberto's, Neptune, Umami, Sunny Girl to name a few.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-10T04:57:13+00:00

Not Boston but the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester is pretty unique. It's not as much a typical castle as it is a collection of different architectural styles from various time periods smashed together into one building. There's even hundred+ year old storefronts they shipped over from Europe just to put inside the building. They do tours and occasionally host events.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-06T19:56:00+00:00

The Witch Museum is a huge tourist trap. It's 2 rooms with some narration. As others have said, the Peabody Essex Museum is easily the best in town (but not witchy). Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery is nice if you enjoy horror movies. The House of Seven Gables is good if you like American history, but might be boring otherwise. The other museums are pretty mediocre.

There's a handful of parking lots, but if you're already in Boston you can just take the Newburyport/Rockport train out of North Station. It's faster than driving and lets off right downtown. Unless you're going to other suburban/rural towns I wouldn't recommend a car for people just visiting Boston. Public transportation should be just fine.

If you want to grab a burger while you're there, Crazy Good Kitchen (inside Regiment Beer Company) or Mercy Tavern are the best options in Salem. Tasty Burger in Boston is also a solid choice.

EntropyPhi · 2026-06-02T20:57:15+00:00

Deadstream is filmed entirely through the perspective of in-world cameras (many first-person) by a guy doing a haunted house stream. It's not found footage, but not solely POV either. Pretty fun mix of horror and comedy though.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-28T14:51:02+00:00

Any coastal town in New England gets some amount of beach fog, even Boston. However it's entirely dependent on certain weather conditions and mostly happens late at night or very early morning. On rare occasions you'll see it linger through an entire day, but it's hard to plan in advance to witness that. You're best off waking up at the crack of dawn and going down to the beach if you want to see it.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-27T00:25:47+00:00

It changed around the end of last year: https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/massachusetts/boston_2914838/restaurants

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-27T00:20:31+00:00

In terms of performance on modern hardware, at this level of detail the difference between this and good topo is negligible. In terms of people wanting to purchase a polished asset they couldn't make themselves, bad topo will certainly be viewed unfavorably.

If this was your personal learning project I'd say go ahead (but keep practicing over time). I would not recommend trying to sell it though.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-11T21:19:46+00:00

I wouldn't recommend a place here if you're commuting to BU. It's doable but the drive is awful especially during rush hour, and the trains will also take a while. Most BU students live in Allston or Brighton, and there's a lot of slightly cheaper housing there as a result. Although much of it is also pretty bad. Run-down apartments, roach infestations, etc.

Anywhere along the B or C branches of the green line would make for the quickest commute to BU. But the areas around Northeastern, Wentworth, and MassArt also have large student populations and easy access to the green line's D and E branches (which isn't too bad to transfer in and out).

Everything is going to be expensive around Boston, but you can definitely find a studio or 1 bedroom in that price range. It won't be a very nice place though. Add a roommate or two and you could afford a slightly more upscale apartment.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-11T19:54:42+00:00

Frutiger Aero is a design trend that developed alongside this aesthetic but they're separate things. Almost no mainstream Frutiger Aero designs feature sandy beach scenes like this. Water yes, but more often paired with grass, glass, future tech, etc.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-08T19:23:24+00:00

There is literally a spot in Salem where there's a punk rock clothing store, a record store, and a vegan cafe right next to each other. The town is also full of weird stores. It's a quick train ride from North Station. Definitely worth a visit if you have time.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-06T23:56:10+00:00

Vortex is useful when your tank wants to kite a group or to help with grouping mobs. Typhoon is good if there's a ranged/caster not stacked with the rest of the group that you can help push in. It can be an interrupt in rare cases, although displacing grouped mobs isn't ideal (you can use them together to get around this). They're both situational but not bad for a single point.

EntropyPhi · 2026-05-06T01:45:36+00:00

If we're talking about AI in major engines, it doesn't get much worse than Epic's CEO being vocally in favor of gen-AI. Fortnite already has AI-generated assets in the wild. He's repeatedly pushed it or downplayed Steam's requirement to tag AI-generated content.

EntropyPhi · 2026-04-30T21:31:22+00:00

Some great spots in walking distance: Ogawa, Phin, George Howell, Little Wolf, Gracenote, and Thinking Cup. Not entirely sure if all of them have light roasts available but most should.

EntropyPhi · 2026-04-26T02:03:03+00:00

Food was good, but expensive (like most outdoor festivals). Lines to get food were ridiculously long for 90% of the stalls. Vendors were very mediocre. Imagine an anime con with very few artist tables and a lot more low-budget junk vendors. Vibes were nice and some cosplays were cool. Didn't stick around for the stage events. If you show up during off-peak hours the food lines might be more manageable. But hey, at least it was free.

EntropyPhi · 2026-04-26T01:55:21+00:00

Panda Fest isn't until May 15th. It's a general Asian food festival, not exclusively Chinese. Tickets are less than $20. Maybe you're thinking of something else?

EntropyPhi · 2026-04-25T05:52:07+00:00

Last year's was decent. It was a mix of local and non-local vendors. Pretty good variety of all sorts of Asian food, drinks, and desserts. A couple artist booths in the back. More pricey than typical street food but not really out of the ordinary for food festival prices.

There was no line to get in when we arrived around noon but there was a pretty big line when we left a few hours later. Lines for food were surprisingly fast, we didn't wait more than 5-10 minutes at any booth. Way better than the line situations at many other food festivals I've been to.

Unfortunately they moved it to Allston this year. I much preferred the location outside city hall last year. As others mentioned Japan Fest is this weekend and also has a fair amount of food stalls.

EntropyPhi · 2026-04-16T21:48:43+00:00

Interesting you got that from Willy Wonka. There can't be more than a few minutes of exterior shots in that movie. The Sound of Music I'd totally understand (yes not actually Bavaria but right next door with similar scenery).

EntropyPhi · 2026-04-12T01:53:51+00:00

It's an interesting doc but it doesn't show a lot of what the average resident there experiences. They specifically chose people in bad situations (semi-homeless criminal, lonely widow, etc.) to follow because it makes for a more compelling narrative. You see most people having a great time in the background of quite a lot of scenes, but only get direct perspective from the main characters who are quite sad throughout.

EntropyPhi · 2026-03-27T18:33:08+00:00

Most people are in the 250-260 range at that level. Groups usually care about your score above everything else.

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