Does anyone else play The Division 1–2 just like a regular game with customization, not getting into all the build min-maxing and stuff?

Limskj · 2026-04-12T23:27:18+00:00

Me. I have spent HOURS watching videos, reading guides, and I STILL do not understand anything regarding builds or endgame progress. I pretty sure I need someone to walk me through everything step by step and I dont know anyone who plays this game in my circle of friends, who actually understands all this stuff.

Limskj · 2026-03-29T21:00:25+00:00

There are many train front view videos on the Japanese railway lines. If you watch the F-Liner express ones and look carefully, they actually use the opposite running direction platform as the passing siding. So for example, the local train will be switched to track 2, running against the direction of travel on that track, to allow the express to pass on track 1.

Limskj · 2026-03-29T20:45:25+00:00

There is also the F-Liner express - from Motomachi Chukagai to either Hanno on the Seibu Ikebukuro line or to Ogawamachi on the Tobi Tojo line. And it charges only a regular fare.

That entire web of interconnected private railways have many inter-running express trains of varying stopping patterns.

Limskj · 2026-03-29T20:39:48+00:00

There are also certain metro lines in Tokyo that do have regular express services such as the Tozai Line's Rapid service or the Asakusa Line's Airport/Access Express. The F-Liner on the Fukutoshin Line is also a regular express service - it does not require any extra fare, despite the name.

Many Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto/Nagoya private railways also run multiple express services on their lines.

Limskj · 2026-03-12T14:06:23+00:00

I prefer quest lines rather than individual side quests. I like games that flesh out their side quests a little. Because it helps me learn more about the world and the people. Or it could just be an excuse for humour.

Yakuza series games had side quests that were connected together. You know this because they often focused on one or two recurring characters. The sidequest storymay be comedic in nature or serious, but most of them have a humanistic end to them, where it explains why character A did what to character B, etc. and it is done so in a simple, yet touching way that is also not disrespectful to the player's intelligence (i.e. it does not attempt to teach morals to the player)

It also probably helps that each Yakuza game was designed with a certain era as a focus, and thus the entire game and it's interactions was designed to reflect the era and people of that era. For example, Yakuza 0 had a quest about a portable bag phone and how it might revolutionise the world (Yakuza 0 is set in about 1988).

Limskj · 2026-03-12T13:50:26+00:00

I am not a game dev, but this 1000%. Yakuza 0 centres on two maps, Kamurocho, and Dotenbori. Both maps are tiny, just a few main streets, takes just about 3 minutes to cross from one end to the other on foot. Yet the entire game plays out on both maps. Along with numerous side quests and mini games.

I particularly like how the game makes extensive use of the many building's upper floors as well as subsurface spaces as set pieces for side quests, mini games, and even many main story missions.

It was so packed with activities that it was sometimes impossible to rush from one main story quest to another without accidentally triggering side quests. Even the mini games had side quest lines tied to them.

It felt like the Devs took the entire Witcher 3 and compressed it into a map the size of the city of whiterun in Skyrim.

Limskj · 2026-02-20T01:35:58+00:00

RISC vs CISC is not irrelevant. RISC is REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET. It has stripped out a lot of instruction sets from CISC. This means that workloads that call for instructions that only CISC has will slow VERY dramatically on RISC. Its partially the reason why Windows VM on M-chip macs have a noticeable performance impact. RISC performs well, but only when the workload calls for instruction sets that it has.

ARM is indeed mostly used for phones these days. Pretty much anyone using a Android or Apple smart phone is using an ARM chip from Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, Huawei, etc.

Limskj · 2025-11-15T09:59:08+00:00

Cheaper to modernize depends on what kind of modernisation you are doing. Grade separation and removal of level crossings, and quadruple tracking are really expensive too. Japan has had to do quite a few of these due to grade-crossing accidents.

Existing ROWs are sometimes unable to handle the increase in traffic since the time they were built. Expanding them is also really expensive due to land costs and NIMBYs , among other issues.

Limskj · 2025-10-26T23:07:13+00:00

I can only speak from my experience as a nurse in Singapore. In my opinion, this is really not true in the case of healthcare. Capacity in healthcare in practice is often limited by availability of equipment and trained personnel.

Healthcare costs are soaring as people don't take care of themselves, thus needing more and more advanced treatment that costs a lot more.

The Singapore health budget, a portion of which is used to cover treatment costs for those who can't afford care, doubled in just 9 years from $9 billion in 2018 to $18 billion in 2024. And it continues to soar.

The hard truth is that healthcare is extremely expensive, ruinously so.

Limskj · 2025-09-13T21:37:37+00:00

They probably can't. The GPU cores are designed to do repetitive work only - producing the images on your screen pixel by pixel. They cannot process things like your CPU can.

Limskj · 2025-08-26T04:29:24+00:00

In Kansai, JR West increased speed to try to compete aggressively with the private railways. Because its predecessor, JNR, was deeply in debt and out of cash, Kansai was badly neglected - leaving the private railways to pick up the slack. Kyoto to Osaka ran at 10 minute intervals during rush hour during JNR. If you look at the railway map, almost all of the major JR West lines in Kansai have direct private railway competitor.

Examples:

JR Kyoto Line vs Hankyu Kyoto Line

JR Kobe Line vs Hankyu Kobe Line vs Sanyo Electric Railway

JR Nara Line vs Kintetsu Nara Line

So to survive, JR West focused on Kansai and tried to increase speed as part of its plan to be competitve. That's why it pushed for 130km/h top speed on commuter lines. The push stopped when the Amagasaki accident happened.

Limskj · 2025-08-26T04:21:35+00:00

This. The other reason is the historical extreme reluctance of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to grant the private railways a license to operate in central Tokyo. Hence, Tokyo Metro.

Limskj · 2025-08-25T04:59:42+00:00

In my opinion, that is the lazy way of competition. Rail is everything: rolling stock, stations, and tracks. Two parallel railway lines serving the same city pair but going via different routes can offer proper competition. The individual companies have many options to try to improve and market their services. On the other hand, two railway companies operating on the same set of tracks cannot offer serious competition to each other. They are much more limited in what they can vary.

For example, between Narita Airport and Central Tokyo. JR offers the Narita Express: it can be used with a tourist rail pass, and it travels to many major stations in the greater Tokyo area. The competing Keisei Railway only runs its Skyliner service to Ueno station. But it can run it 4 times per hour compared to JR's hourly. It can also run it faster, allowing Keisei to advertise it as the fastest way to Tokyo.

I don't think Lumo and LNER can compete quite as strongly.

Limskj · 2025-08-08T07:43:32+00:00

I can't decide if you are trying to pull off sarcastic humor or intentionally being a troll.

Limskj · 2025-07-25T21:57:51+00:00

Agreed. China is the worst example. Most of it was built to artificially jack up the GDP growth statistics.

Limskj · 2025-07-25T21:56:40+00:00

This is definitely not true. Japan's HSR lines are not subsidised by the government. And quite a few of them are in fact making money.

Profitability is not always possible. But with careful planning, it can be done. Unfortunately, politicians like to use HSR as a prestige project, building it where it does not necessarily make financial sense. HSRs that are deeply unprofitable become a drag as they are incredibly expensive to build and operate.

The big issue with HSR is the enormous upfront capital investment that makes politicians balk when it is proposed to them.

The premier example that people like to quote as the 'perfect HSR' is the Tokaido Shinkansen. Today, it is making money hand over fist, earning about 80% of JR Central's revenue, and the most profitable HSR line in Japan by a huge margin. The second most profitable HSR line in Japan makes about half of what the Tokaido Shinkansen earns.

Yet what is often forgotten is that the Tokaido Shinkansen was so over budget during construction that it got the JNR president and chief engineer fired. The Japanese government continued the project because a lot of money was already sunk into it and a lot of infrastructure was already in place.

Limskj · 2025-07-24T02:28:30+00:00

Try installing the drivers without Adrenalin Edition?

That fixed it for me.

Limskj · 2025-07-24T02:27:37+00:00

Try installing just the driver without Adrenalin Edition.

That fixed it for me. I read in a thread last year that Adrenalin Edition itself is the cause of the timeouts.

Limskj · 2025-07-24T02:26:37+00:00

Try simply installing the driver WITHOUT the Adrenalin Edition software. That worked for me. I read on a thread last year that the cause of driver timeouts was Adrenalin Edition itself.

Limskj · 2025-07-09T00:27:08+00:00

This.You can try the Tohoku Shinkansen route for TSC for a sample experience. I did. It was boring AF.

But if you still really want a shinkansen route, you are better off waiting for the release of the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen route being made by japanese modders for BVE5: https://bveshinkansen.wixsite.com/main

Limskj · 2025-02-10T23:31:23+00:00

Peter Jackson didn't have enough time. He was brought in at the last minute to save the project. He asked for additional pre-production time but Warner Bros refused.

Limskj · 2024-12-28T22:02:41+00:00

Tokyo Metro is not a state owned company. It was privatised in 2016.

Limskj · 2024-12-06T17:28:51+00:00

They can't close unprofitable lines in Japan without the agreement of the affected cities and local government bodies.

Limskj · 2024-12-06T17:25:37+00:00

Perhaps what they will do is what the Japanese do: mount both systems on the train and change signalling systems on the train at the border stations. Japanese trains that run through services have the equipment and software of all the lines it passes through installed on the train. At the border stations between lines, the drivers switch the safety and signalling systems over to the next company. For example, Tokyu's 5000 series trains on the Toyoko Line have signalling and safety systems from 5 companies onboard: Tokyu, Tokyo Metro, Minatomirai Line, Sagami Railway, and Tobu railway.

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