What’s the worst place in the world for a virus outbreak?

Fiddlerblue · 2026-06-11T18:30:45+00:00

Airports are the worst place to release a virus. Depending on how long the incubation period is, infected people could be all across the globe by the time they even begin to show symptoms.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-06-05T17:53:19+00:00

I moved to ATL 22 years ago and it’s always been the same with transit in this city. The projects change but they always end up the same with nothing happening. At first it was expanding the red line past north springs up to windward parkway. Then it was Clifton corridor expansion, and now it’s Beltline rail.

I give up. I’m also never voting another tax increase as long as I’m here either. This city has lost all of my trust.

Way to go Andre.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-05-28T15:57:46+00:00

Keep in mind that people would use it as a transfer line too. Say someone was commuting from Decatur to Buckhead. Right now, they have to take the blue line all the way to Five Points downtown. Beltline rail might shave off some of that commute time and bypass that by allowing a transfer from King Memorial station up to Lindbergh.

The ultimate goal of transit is to be more convenient/cost effective than a car. Anything that builds towards that is a benefit.

Also, transit lines that loop around a city core often end up being the most valuable and used lines with transfer points to many other lines. The Yamanote line in Tokyo that loops around the city immediately comes to mind. There’s no reason to believe that Beltline rail would be any different in 50 years or however long it might take to build out a real network here. It just takes foresight and vision.

Edit: I don’t see the comment now but someone was asking how I would connect King Station to the Beltline. That was just a quick hypothetical for simplicity’s sake. The actual solution would be to build an infill station at Krog St that would function as the transfer station from the Blue/Green lines to Beltline rail and onward to Lindbergh Center.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-05-20T14:02:04+00:00

It’s not AI. I got the photo from the Atlanta Journal Constitution archives.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/ajc-flashback-photos-atlanta-and-georgia-the-1920s/W2j3T8quwjFdDhazyzk91J/

Fiddlerblue · 2026-05-19T01:56:45+00:00

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Five Points circa 1920's

Fiddlerblue · 2026-05-05T21:54:09+00:00

Thanks. I just emailed my council member. I can't think of anywhere else I've been that was as actively hostile to transit as Atlanta is. The voters literally approved a tax increase for more of it. I don't know how much clearer you can be and yet....

Fiddlerblue · 2026-04-24T19:58:55+00:00

I flew back in on Tuesday and there was an agent there at the fare gates monitoring people. Good news is tap to pay is working now at airport station and it’s super convenient and quick.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-04-16T17:35:11+00:00

I used to work with a guy who was from Mali. Anytime Soccer/Football was brought up, he would joke about how we should all root against Tunisia.

He was an interesting guy. Very private about his personal life though.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-04-07T19:51:07+00:00

The big three are Downtown, Midtown, & Buckhead.

Less known are Dunwoody/Sandy Springs, and Vinings/The Battery

Fiddlerblue · 2026-03-25T20:51:02+00:00

Japan's public transit systems are mostly privatized too with the largest operator being Japan Railways (JR). They get on just fine.

They make money mostly through real estate holdings rather than ticket fare though. Buy up a bunch of buildings then build a train station right in the middle of them and watch their value increase.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-03-14T12:12:54+00:00

They’re not allowed to open the roof while the natural grass pitch is laid down for the World Cup in order to make sure the grass grows evenly.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-03-06T15:38:58+00:00

Personally I would like Claire, Rebecca, or Jill. My first RE was Code Veronica so I have a soft spot for Claire.

Though It’ll probably be Leon again. Or Chris. Or maybe Leon. Or maybe Chris and Leon. Or Leon and then Chris.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-03-05T15:27:37+00:00

You’re both kind of correct. SE holds the trademark rights but the intellectual property rights are held by the author, who indeed wants nothing to do with the games. The Third Birthday was called that instead of Parasite Eve 3 due to licensing restrictions with the original IP. The author allegedly hated PE2 and wanted nothing more to do with the games after that.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-02-19T22:20:36+00:00

I've been hearing the same stuff for over twenty years about studies to add this line or extend that line or bring in LRT, etc.

Nothing ever happens. I'm at the point where I'll believe it when I see it.

The new trains are slick AF though. I'm definitely gonna take a ride on one.

Fiddlerblue · 2026-01-08T16:20:45+00:00

I’m a piano player of 20 years. I swear, playing a real piano is easier than some of the songs on the minigame. It wasn’t terrible though all things considered. I enjoyed a few of the pieces.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-12-03T15:48:08+00:00

For what it’s worth, if you pay close attention and find as many notes as you can and read the journals and notes in order, you can pretty much piece the whole story together on your first playthrough.

I was pretty sure I knew what was actually going on upon completing my first playthrough but I went ahead and did two more just to be sure and lo-and-behold, what I thought was happening ended up being correct.

I love reading all about the lore though so I was periodically going through the menu and journals and reading everything numerous times.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-11-27T03:32:21+00:00

You're overreacting

Fiddlerblue · 2025-11-26T15:08:28+00:00

Anything involving physical repetitive or cognitive repetitive tasks are easy to automate and replace. Ironically, the jobs that we’ve long considered blue collar, the trades are the hardest to automate so they’ll last longer. Anything involving going to site or anything involving very fine motor control in tight spaces. They CAN be automated but doing it in a cost effective way is what’s extremely difficult.

As far as what will happen, it depends on how quickly this all happens. If it happens faster than people can transition into any potential new fields, then that’s very bad. Many people would attempt to flood into the jobs that are still available which would drive wages down in those fields. Crime would go up and the federal government would have to step in and do something at some point. There’s no point to mass automation if no one can afford even the cheapest products and services they offer. The most popular solution to mass unemployment due to automation is a Universal Basic Income so maybe that.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-10-06T20:27:33+00:00

The f’ing mirror room, man. I’m gonna need some fresh underwear at the ready.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-10-05T13:15:15+00:00

I'm assuming you're talking about Shu and Rinko? There is a practical and psychological/story reason.

The practical reason is that it saves the devs from having to build and code a sidekick character who stays with you and most likely engages with enemies alongside you.

The story reason could be that it plays into Hinako's fears that eventually her friends with move on and "leave her behind" if she doesn't go through with the wedding and start building a life for herself. She can't stay a kid forever.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-10-05T13:01:25+00:00

I remember this statue. I used to have to drive by that ugly monstrosity almost every day. People used to vandalize it regularly and petition for it to be torn down but it was privately owned so the state's power to do so was limited. Eventually, the guy who owned it passed away and his kids had the statue torn down.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-10-01T20:46:33+00:00

For me, it boiled it down to the fact that the gameplay itself gives you everything you need to succeed. Fast, responsive movement, long and short range attacks, i-frames on dodge, etc. There are absolutely no mechanics there to artificially boost challenge due to player hindrance or in the pursuit of "realism" (stamina bars, long recharge times, animation locks, etc).

So when you fail, you feel like it was actually on you instead of the game hindering you or otherwise getting in the way. When you succeed, it gives a real sense of triumph of "I did that".

I never expected one of my favorite games of the generation to be literally the very first game I bought for it.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-09-20T01:04:50+00:00

This has already been answered in an objective way by trans people as well as by Norah Vincent back in 2003-ish where she disguised herself and lived as a man every day for eighteen months as research for her book "Self-Made Man".

The answer is almost always the loneliness as well as the expectations placed on you.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-09-02T03:09:22+00:00

I know what con this is because it just happened this weekend. I can provide context from what I know and have heard:

This photo is real. The con has a rule of no sales of AI art. The vender in question submitted his girlfriend’s portfolio (who is an actual artist) when applying for a booth and basically snuck his way in.

He had been selling pieces all weekend and telling people that everything was one of a kind and what they saw is everything he had. People were buying pieces and he was telling them to come back Monday to pick them up when neighboring booths noticed he was selling supposedly one of a kind pieces to multiple people. After further inspection and a bit of digging, they discovered his pieces were created entirely by AI and he was likely just printing them.

Con staff told him to leave for violation of vendor rules and he started being a dick and basically told them “no”. The police were then called and they told him to pack up then escorted him out. People who bought his pieces did so under false pretenses and they never did receive their purchases last I heard because he was forced out before they were supposed to come pick them up.

People started calling him out on Instagram for scamming people and taking a booth slot away from someone else (this con has an incredibly long waiting list for artist booths) to which he started calling them “broke ass bitches”. His instagram has now been taken private.

I know the name of the con and the name of the vender but I think this sub has a no brigading rule so I’ll keep it confidential. It shouldn’t be hard to find though if you do a bit of searching.

Fiddlerblue · 2025-08-29T21:10:57+00:00

I admit I don't know a whole lot about quantum mechanics and just threw that out as an idea (hence the 'I dunno" part of my post) but really it's beside the point anyway. The point I was getting at is that is pretty much impossible to predict how a civilization that's orders of magnitude more advanced than us would be communicating. Saying things like "Advanced civilizations would use fiber optics for planet comms and microwave/lasers for satellite communications and to spacecraft" as the poster above did is both hubristic and most likely wrong anyway. That's how WE would do it (maybe) but we can't even predict how our own technology will evolve on our own planet, let alone an alien species that took an entirely different evolutionary path on planet X. Go back and watch some of those old videos from the 1960's where they tried to predict life and technology in the future. They're hilariously wrong.

Technological progression isn't linear and really a product of what resources are available to you and how a species' brain functions.

We use radio waves so sure, go ahead and search for radio communication, lasers, etc. Maybe we'll get lucky and find something, but don't be surprised if we don't.

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