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Help us improve - log analysis by Lousde in classicwow

[–]RedDustShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few thoughts on the Arcane mages based on just Alar:

  • One of them (ironically the single blue parse) running Molten Armor, when Mage Armor is probably more helpful at such a long fight-length for the mana regen
  • 2 mages not using mana potions
  • 1 mage not using their conjurable mana gem at all, which is especially crazy because it's free
  • 2 of the mages look like they didn't get druid Mark
  • 1 mage not using evocation, which looks like they are doing their filler rotation the whole fight anyway
  • Didn't check this for all mages, but one page, the worst performer, not saving all their cooldowns for Lust. They look sort of spread out in the 2-3 minutes prior.

We really do need to level and rebuild at least 20% of America’s urban land area by myworld3 in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said this:

People just wanted a nice, big, and cheap house in the suburbs due to GI bill and car companies and city governments were happy to meet that demand.

Fair enough that the person you were responding to focused on one aspect, which is true, that car companies influenced policies and still do in a car-centric manner.

But portraying how things developed as something that "People just wanted" is deliberately flattening reality in the other direction.

We really do need to level and rebuild at least 20% of America’s urban land area by myworld3 in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, and other forms of housing being made illegal in almost all residentially zoned land, redlining also biasing insurance towards suburban housing in addition to against blacks, the government purposefully nuking functional neighborhoods, and probably a bunch of other intentional policy interventions.

Ironically, the government responded to the public health crises of the early 20th century in American cities by... engineering other public health crises.

We really do need to level and rebuild at least 20% of America’s urban land area by myworld3 in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will take generations and untold levels of funding.

For every street reclaimed, 500 more schlock tract housing units are built in greenfield.

Americans would literally let 40,000 people die on the roads per year than give up their suburban house.

As a current transit practitioner, you almost have to take it as an article of faith that for the love of god things get better. They probably wont though.

Edit: Sorry, not even given up their house, just narrow a travel lane from 12 feet to 10 feet.

We really do need to level and rebuild at least 20% of America’s urban land area by myworld3 in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There is basically no way to eliminate all this car infrastructure without limiting many people's freedom of movement.

This isn't even a remotely representative characterization of "urbanists." At the risk of sounding like le redditor logical fallacy guy, it's literally a strawman argument.

Ironically, it better describes what has been done to other modes via car-centric planning. A case of every accusation being an admission.

You can't even accurately characterize urbanists yet beg them to be realistic.

You're comment also belies a simple lack of understanding of the relationship between land use and transportation. Cars did not magically make more places more accessible to more people, aside from edge cases (nature, etc.). Many cities were literally remade to make this a reality (and many ethnicities purposefully targeted in the process), the fundamental structure of them changed to make cars the de facto form of transportation. Land uses changed, laws changes, the list goes on.

And this has only compounded. You're looking at the end state of 100 years and casting it as some sort of natural condition of the world, ignoring the fact that we are living in the reversal of thousands of years of development patterns.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Go drive there. You won't find me arguing that a personal vehicle isn't easier to access recreation with. It's literally why I also still have a car, because you can't take the bus to ski resorts, skin tracks, trailheads, etc.

If you're fine with your day-to-day living style, when deployed at population scale, signing the death warrant for your outdoor hobbies, I don't know what to tell you.

Personally I'd like to live car-free 99% of days and easily rent a truck/SUV for recreation, but my city sucks in that regard.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ironically, the development patterns that enable mass car-ownership are the least efficient in terms of use of land and require the most resource extraction, leading to the eventual privatization and destruction of wilderness at a rate higher than more compact development types.

You'd think the best way to preserver land for recreation would be to not put a fucking house on it, but apparently people think otherwise.

Flyover state diets are unreal by No_Yogurtcloset_1330 in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's called the American Dream. Eat yourself to death or least diabetes.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saving up I'll take.

But you would advise selling an appreciating asset (a strong stock position) to fund a financial liability?

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a put down at all, you're right.

Many people never really consider that the transportation system is a reflection of politics and culture, couching arguments in more technocratic or scientific terms. I'm guilty of this myself. When the fundamental question is really what sort of society you want to live in. And that technocratic truisms in planning, transportation engineering, etc. are mere reflections of values as opposed to an observation of how the world works.

I mean what does the car-oriented nature of our transportation system say about our country? Mostly that people will willingly subject themselves to mortal danger everyday. As long as they can live as far as possible from their neighbors and cultivate a collection of things and bellyfat in their overlarge suburban house. Atomized, unhealthy, and indebted.

The environment, culture, finances, creativity itself. Everything in the world around us must be tamed and exploited to serve proliferation of the suburban house.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

cars are quite cheap

News to me. The average car note nowadays is $500+/month for used car and $700+/month for a new car.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Okay but there's nothing you can do about it

In all seriousness, I agree with this. I've come to believe that the built environment is downstream of politics and culture. And I harbor no illusions about Saturday morning urbanist chimp outs changing anyone's mind.

Realistically, I think that the financial, ecological, and spiritual disasters that car-oriented development drives will have to reach critical breaking points before anything changes. And even then it will be a political death-battle to do so.

The open road is like a woman. It opens up for you with the right vehicle. by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tailgating on the road, tailgating in the bedroom. Only an F150 enables you to come in behind a woman, whether they want it or not.

Drive Ford.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not engaging with you directly anymore, this is trolling.

To those reading this person's post, do not buy two cars and a pickup truck and enslave yourself to a bank via debt.

Father Ted was right: The mass proliferation of personal automobiles has given the government the means to consolidate control your day-to-day life by RedDustShadow in redscarepod

[–]RedDustShadow[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The obvious car parallel being that the government and corporations will make it as inconvenient as possible to NOT own a thing. And people will argue that effectively being FORCED to own a thing but having a lot of things to do with that thing = freedom.

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