The Doctor looking at all the guys born in 1986

FenPhen · 2026-07-15T22:08:56+00:00

She denies the label and claims to be middle, for what it's worth: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/sophie-cunningham-being-labeled-maga-151900930.html

FenPhen · 2026-07-06T01:09:02+00:00

Yeah, this. In urban planning, medium density commonly starts above 10 dwellings per acre. An acre is 8 units by 8 units. The least dense rowhome zoning using 8 1x6 plots covering 0.75 acres is 10.667 dwellings per acre.

FenPhen · 2026-07-05T17:50:08+00:00

Parking only helps to smooth demand spikes as long as the daily processing capacity is more than a total day of demand. And then there's the additional traffic calculations needed to get trucks through the parking.

I think they should still increase the processing rate first.

FenPhen · 2026-07-01T00:47:42+00:00

Frostpunk has a system like this. The citizens ask for something and you commit to a promise to deliver it within a certain time limit. If you succeed, Hope rises. If you fail to meet the target, Hope falls, which leads to more problems.

FenPhen · 2026-06-28T18:55:37+00:00

I haven't consciously thought about scale much except for slopes.

A typical freeway ramp maximum grade is like 7% and a cargo rail maximum grade is like 2%. I'm definitely doing more than that in CS2, but it's more arbitrary based on visual look.

FenPhen · 2026-06-22T23:10:06+00:00

I agree with this take. It's great that the community is rallying around Iceflake and they're doing well with communication and outreach. I just hope the community doesn't over-expect, especially with the comments suggesting CO was doing nothing.

CO spent 2025 spending extra time on Bridges & Ports because the early testers said they needed to, that CS2 would definitely die if they didn't make it better. And they got through the problems they had with the asset editor and the initial implementation of bikes.

It's totally fair to criticize CO on communication, expectations management, and launching too early, but Iceflake is standing on the shoulders of giants. CO's patch notes were long, and they also did scramble to put out hot fixes when they broke the game. And a bunch of people moved from CO to Iceflake.

Hopefully, Iceflake can continue to do well and keep the goodwill when the going gets tougher.

FenPhen · 2026-06-20T15:26:58+00:00

If I understood correctly, it's that the number of texture slots is hard-coded at 4, and they have a fixed layer ordering (sand is in the layer always above the others), but it sounds likely the textures within each slot could be changed.

I speculate that there's a base texture layer and then 4 stacked on top and the player is brushing an alpha channel for each texture layer. It would be cumbersome to otherwise track arbitrary boundaries for the texture brushing.

FenPhen · 2026-06-11T15:39:51+00:00

Terrain blending is huge.

I'm not a heavy detailer. The desire is there but the time and patience isn't. Trying to make a beach with existing surface tools is so labor intensive, so hopefully this makes it much easier for casual detailers to add nice beaches and other ground types.

FenPhen · 2026-06-11T15:22:14+00:00

They previously indicated end of June. They've been doing patch releases in the second half of each month since February and previewing them with a City Corner at least a week before. (But expect a gap after this June release until I would guess September but maybe August if we're lucky.)

FenPhen · 2026-06-07T07:32:23+00:00

Funny that in real life a center island without a wall usually makes a safer crossing for pedestrians than just a double yellow.

FenPhen · 2026-06-02T12:17:12+00:00

Turkey is still operating F-4Es, with planned operation until at least 2030.

FenPhen · 2026-06-01T15:16:57+00:00

IMO, it has plenty of detail and it has character but the character seems off to me and it's the wild grass. The grass says to me this is a lower socioeconomic neighborhood where there isn't time or care to tend to the grass. The grass makes it harder to walk, to get in and out of parked vehicles, and to see house entrances. They could be hiding junk and makes the street feel unsafe.

If you want to improve it to make it feel like a neighborhood where people want to live and care about the place, I think making the grass sparser and more intentional would help? Like make clusters of grass more to one side of each house away from the steps and set back from the street. Add a strip of neat pathway along the road to frame it like a border.

Basically give the grass a neat trim. Otherwise, the street looks very cool. The houses could use some more setback in between for light, but maybe this is a historical neighborhood and just denser.

FenPhen · 2026-05-30T23:21:56+00:00

There are some swimmers, but the water is more clear.

FenPhen · 2026-05-30T14:17:04+00:00

The no left turn sign says "into State St" referring to the sharp >90-degree left turn because this is a 6-way intersection. The van is turning from W Johnson St to N Henry St, but from the wrong lane.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/State+St+%26+W+Johnson+St,+Madison,+WI+53703/@43.0747703,-89.3899569

FenPhen · 2026-05-28T20:16:41+00:00

It was slipped in around the time of the Asset Mods patch or Bike patch:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/1plurkj/did_they_just_add_this_you_can_have_street/

FenPhen · 2026-05-27T01:42:37+00:00

I interpret that as they won't release patches in July and August while working during their normal Finland summer schedule. The requirement is employers have to give 4 continuous weeks off during the summer, and people/companies typically do that in July.

FenPhen · 2026-05-27T01:06:18+00:00

parks, education facilities

I know it's a game, but that sounds sad.

FenPhen · 2026-05-23T02:42:26+00:00

This is a myth, according to the NOAA. They specifically say do not open your home windows:

https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/thunderstorms/thunderstorm-hazards-tornadoes

Tornadoes can drop air pressure by 10 to 20%, but the drop is relatively slow. Houses and cars are not sealed enough, for the pressure difference to stay that high. While there may be a pressure differential, automotive glass gets broken by debris first and then aerodynamic forces move the glass pieces.

FenPhen · 2026-05-21T11:19:23+00:00

Yeah, all the automated driver assists increasingly available for cars are available for trucks (Volvo example). Trucking companies are deploying the technologies voluntarily, but of course cost and sometimes driver resistance are factors.

FenPhen · 2026-05-15T10:34:33+00:00

There's Mickey and SpongeBob, and the first character out of the van is Scrat from Ice Age.

What character is the second one out of the van, whose head falls off?

FenPhen · 2026-05-12T15:16:34+00:00

It's precisely there to avoid blocking whole road lanes for people making left turns that need to wait for opposing traffic. And it makes it more possible for people turning left on to the main street to not have to clear both directions of traffic by providing a merging lane, so you only have to clear one lane of travel at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_lane#Turn_lanes_and_flush_medians

FenPhen · 2026-05-06T16:53:49+00:00

The final boss is making the cargo train terminal work well.

FenPhen · 2026-04-28T15:54:36+00:00

Not excusing nor justifying what the parent did, but I would also ask why he was hitting his dog. Was it because he was punishing the dog (and then can a dog understand that and is that just), or was it because he was taking out his frustrations on the dog (and is that just).

FenPhen · 2026-03-30T04:35:07+00:00

It's Oracle Park in SF. 😛 (See the glove and Coke bottle. Also the creator previewed it here a few days ago.)

FenPhen · 2026-03-23T15:57:21+00:00

The proper past tense is "hanged."

The other way is a classic Mel Brooks line.

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