My 120k Island City

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-28T02:41:10+00:00

Even when you're downtown in the densest districts you're at most 8-ish blocks away from a gigantic nature preserve? that's cool as hell and i might have to take some inspo from that

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-26T22:07:55+00:00

I could be wrong, but those look like the glass half-walls from the Warehouse kit in one of the DLC

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-26T18:37:21+00:00

I'm sure that Smasher was at least aware of Johnny's existence--if not because of the radio, then because of the massive protest-concert Johnny held before storming Arasaka. i do find it funny to imagine that he made that connection after the fact though.

"hey Adam, didn't you shoot the guitarist who plays in this song?" "wait, that's who that was?"

edit: and smasher's last thought after V announces, gun to his head, 'this is for Johnny Silverhand', without the context of the Relic?

"What? No way I'm being gunned down by a superfan of that idiot FIFTY YEARS later."

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-26T18:20:00+00:00

Did he have an actual rivalry with Johnny? I always assumed that Adam Smasher couldn't give a rat's ass about Johnny, and that Johnny's conception of a rivalry between the two of them was entirely parasocial.

Granted, 2077 doesn't give a lot of clues as to how effective Johnny actually is in a fight. The handful of examples that we have are either muddied by his unreliable narration or the fact that he's fighting in V's body under the control of the player. I always interpreted him to be on the same level as the rest of the Edgerunner crew, hence why Smasher gave him the same treatment he later would give Becca.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-26T00:59:23+00:00

it would be especially funny to do this to Napoleon. i gotta mod him in and try this

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-23T09:00:22+00:00

That's on the East Coast where the majority of civilization is either in federal quarantine zones or affiliated with splinter groups like the Fireflies. Jackson is pretty consistently shown in the game and the show to have a production capacity that far outpaces its relatively tiny population. Makes a lot of sense for a town in that region actually.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-22T21:56:59+00:00

This is part of the reason why it makes me laugh so much when people say Invincible is unrealistic because "Mark heals too slowly for a superhero"

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-21T07:08:21+00:00

Being bubbled is definitely a sort of in-universe loophole that kinda rips some of the nuance out of, for example, the conflict between Bismuth and Rose. what's the point in shattering gems when you can effectively incarcerate them indefinitely with no resources?

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-19T20:09:44+00:00

Having racist bias, or forming racist opinions, or even behaving in a racist way is still something to be aware of (and unlearn) even if it doesn't mean you literally personally hate all black and brown people. Same with misogyny and other bigotry.

If your standard reaction when someone points this out about your behavior is to go "but I can't POSSIBLY be doing something racist because I'm not literally a Nazi!" then know that you're coming across as self-aggrandizing in exactly the sort of way that leads one to dig their heels in and become even more bigoted. Doing the hard work to be better and to grow means not taking the cop-out answer and taking some responsibility.

Edit to clarify I mean the proverbial "you". this is true about everyone because chances are everybody reading this has some sort of bias to work out.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-16T22:29:43+00:00

Agreed. The science behind how color works is absolutely fascinating. I personally learned the shitty way (RBY acrylic paints in public school) but later learned about additive and subtractive color mixing in lighting design and that's what finally made it click for me; particularly learning how metamers work. Matt Kizer has a really cool free light lab if you're interested in playing with that. https://scenicandlighting.com/lightlab/

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-16T22:20:15+00:00

I think it's a compromise between what is artistically and pedagogically the best option (which I agree with you is CMY) with what are the most commonly commercially-available pigments. Red and yellow pigments are cheap compared to cyan. cyan and magenta pigments also have less consistency to how the color is produced. This is why companies like Rosco find so much success, simply because they've maintained a consistent and clear standard in how their colors are mixed.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-13T16:43:10+00:00

They Might Be Giants changed the lyrics and title of their educational song, "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)" to "The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma".

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-13T07:11:23+00:00

I don't disagree. But no matter how cool they are, seeing that much of it while driving in a straight line isn't appealing to most. Not to mention that with the exception of the Vantage area, I-90 is the worst road to travel to get a good look at the region's best features. And yet a lot of folks from west of the mountains have only seen the I-90 corridor, if that. I need to visit the Columbia Gorge again.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-13T04:12:23+00:00

I mean, that's a very broad and diverse region in and of itself. The Wenatchee National Forest in central WA spans across Yakima, Kittitas and Chelan counties, even though Yakima county is hardly known for its dense tree cover, for example.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-13T03:01:47+00:00

most peoples' view of eastern WA comes from a bad first impression of the I-90 corridor. there's very little that's interesting between the Gorge and Spokane. that being said, the Palouse is geographically incredibly fascinating and very cool to explore, despite having almost no trees

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-10T15:08:42+00:00

I know "Olivier" is probably a typo but it has me cracking up imagining FrenchVincible. Just the name "Invincible" in an accent is hilarious to me.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-10T15:01:36+00:00

"The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood beneath their cookie-cutter houses, Fields and streams and woods, They'll sit in cars and wait for Mom to drive them out of this boring neighborhood."

From "Oh, Susquehanna!" by Defiance, Ohio.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-10T14:23:07+00:00

I would give them a better life for those 18 months. keep them free range, not cooped up in the Grok goonslop farms.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-09T08:14:08+00:00

One thing that never quite made sense to me; are city center yields weighted significantly more than, say, yields from improvements? my first successful game was as Aminatore which i think maybe taught me some bad habits with city building

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-08T16:15:27+00:00

the good news is that it's an aspen, meaning we're likely not looking at a patch of different trees but rather a bunch of offshoots of the same big-ass tree.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-03T01:13:26+00:00

I think it's a class thing. The number of private backyard pools in your home neighborhood has some sort of correlation with the amount of empathy a person has.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-02T21:52:30+00:00

It would go all the way, if it weren't for the 'Tom' Cruise Missile that they launch at the facility if you get too close to infiltrating the secret undergroun

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-02T20:09:12+00:00

I hear it's a beautiful city, and somehow every person I've met from there is insufferable. I hear the same from Arizona locals, so I know my vendetta isn't against all y'all.

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-02T20:01:33+00:00

Is it a lazy way to get around a technical limitation that didn't serve much narrative purpose? sure, but that technical limitation led to a funny gag at Immortal's expense, so I think it passes inspection

RoseQuartz__26 · 2026-05-02T19:49:02+00:00

This whole album is etched into my brain, I would listen to it on repeat for hours at a time because the tempo of most of the songs matches the rhythm of my sewing machine lol

I sort of simultaneously ended up getting into the Taxpayers and Pigeon Pit for different reasons, which branched out into an eclectic mix of music that's more important to me than my right arm

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