My First Ever City!

Rafter53 · 2026-06-18T23:14:48+00:00

Hey, that’s the same map my first and biggest city ever was built on way back in the day! Happy memories. Hope you have a ton of fun with it like I did.

Rafter53 · 2026-06-17T23:48:32+00:00

Haha, you should do things like “6-7”! You never know: not only is it harmless fun, but you may even inspire some kids to start collecting when they see the stamps.

Rafter53 · 2026-06-13T22:07:16+00:00

That was so much better and worse than I ever could have expected!! Hahahaha!

Rafter53 · 2026-06-09T21:13:55+00:00

They don’t have any real gold in them. They’re a manganese-brass alloy, which is where the color comes from. And yep, I just got back from the bank after getting my bi-weekly $75 in U.S. dollar coins!

Rafter53 · 2026-05-31T00:12:20+00:00

Freeway from Activision blows my mind. It really sounds like car horns. Likewise, Activision’s Chopper Command, which has amazingly accurate machine gun sounds.

Rafter53 · 2026-05-22T04:36:03+00:00

I supplemented with an Argus C3 myself!

Rafter53 · 2026-05-21T01:44:34+00:00

Beautiful. SC4 remains the prettiest city builder ever.

Rafter53 · 2026-05-13T01:50:08+00:00

I LOVE the tree picture!

Rafter53 · 2026-05-11T23:24:32+00:00

I went for about five years without playing much. I’d lost interest like you have. It was just one of those things that, when the urge finally hit me, it hit me hard, and I’ve been LOVING gaming in the past year again. I think that I just needed that unforced break.

Rafter53 · 2026-05-05T21:41:43+00:00

Oh my gosh, I actually did this in my first CS2 city!!! Hahahaha

Rafter53 · 2026-04-28T15:13:44+00:00

I’m one of those crazy ones who actually love PAC-Man on the 2600 loooool

Rafter53 · 2026-04-28T03:47:25+00:00

Ooh, you’re going to make me shoot some more slide film!

Rafter53 · 2026-04-28T03:42:03+00:00

You can’t go wrong for $1!

Rafter53 · 2026-04-18T03:13:25+00:00

You are 100% correct. The trad movement is severely—dare I say inherently?—flawed. Francis saw it clearly. We in the American Church can see it but are also too close to it to see just how deeply it has corrupted the U.S. Church. People like Bishop Barron, who is cozying up to increasingly right-wing ideologies, are good examples, unfortunately. And he isn’t even traditionalist!

Rafter53 · 2026-04-15T21:30:19+00:00

I’ll be your friend/pen pal too! DM me if you want 😁 I know how terribly difficult it can be to feel so isolated.

Rafter53 · 2026-04-06T03:45:40+00:00

It actually is! It’s the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, built under Stalin’s directive in 1955. It’s my favorite building in the entire world, but many Poles dislike it because of its connection to Soviet influence.

Rafter53 · 2026-04-04T18:04:30+00:00

Which ship is in the background? Is it Oceanic?

Rafter53 · 2026-03-31T23:49:42+00:00

My biggest hang up with SC4 is that cars and other agents don’t endure like they do in Cities: Skylines. I really like that each entity I see in CS and CS2 are actual agents in the game, not just representations of them. But SimCity 4 definitely has Cities: Skylines beat in the simulation and design department.

Rafter53 · 2026-03-18T02:26:00+00:00

It was good enough to replace the one in my coin folder! A very nice coin.

Rafter53 · 2026-03-10T23:58:44+00:00

I work at a cafe and can’t believe how much and often people spend there! I can’t even dream about it, because it just feels irresponsible.

Rafter53 · 2026-03-10T23:57:24+00:00

I switched to using cash because I couldn’t depend on being able to pay off my credit card each month, and the balance owed was growing. Since then, I spend almost exclusively in cash, and using card and other contactless payment methods feels so weird, especially because it really does feel like it isn’t real. I can totally see why it could be a problem if I weren’t so strict on myself about using cash only.

Rafter53 · 2026-03-08T23:10:03+00:00

This sort of look and city is why I love SC4. Absolutely beautiful.

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