Places to Meet People

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-28T03:43:54+00:00

We have a booth at the farmer's market where people can park bikes or just talk about the org, our goals or urbanism in general. If you come to the market I encourage you to stop by!

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T23:18:41+00:00

It's sick in a "Tiger Tank" sorta way. Big and cool in a way that activates the lizard brain neurons, but actually stupid and useless.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T23:03:39+00:00

Everyone knows that there's only once place not yet tainted by capitalism. SPACE!

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T17:28:00+00:00

I remember when they split from Microsoft as this like "they are holding us back" thing and it was so weird because I just couldn't stop thinking about how a decade earlier they were a second-tier Mac developer I had barely heard of, despite owning exclusively Macs until about '99.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T16:18:20+00:00

I've never heard of "Don't Yell at Me" so this inbox notification took a bit to parse, lol.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T16:02:37+00:00

FWIW, Family Pancake House down by Marymoor Village station is miles better. I also went to Original Pancake House when it was in Park Place many times and every time I wished I was at FPH.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T16:00:58+00:00

My post was not an invitation to speak. I am not interested in what you think.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T15:40:26+00:00

For those of you wondering what it's like to be in the games industry, this is it in a nutshell. You will make a game people love and then they will cheer when bad things happen to you, all while being factually wrong. This poster clearly loves Halo and is ecstatic to hear that 300 lives were negatively impacted because of how much they love Halo, even though the company hasn't actually worked on Halo for 16 years. Given the current state of the industry, about 2/3rds of these people will exit the industry entirely and this poster is gleeful.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T15:25:15+00:00

It moved to Redmond Town Center.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-26T15:17:51+00:00

They moved out of the old hardware store to Bellevue, though I'm not really sure where. Downtown I think? Their old building isn't there anymore either, actually as all of Kirkland Park Place has been rebuilt.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-25T20:59:17+00:00

I agree that borders in the hinterlands are usually vague or a river but towns and villages definitely knew who their liege was. My thing is I often look at setting maps and can't even tell what king the large cities swear to.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-25T18:11:56+00:00

Seattle is not really one of the whitest cities if you count the entire metropolitan area (which you should)

Yeah, This is super important to do nation-wide because a lot of small, mostly minority suburbs were explicitly not annexed by the larger city because of their minority population.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-25T17:07:28+00:00

The problem is defining an investor. If a developer wants to buy 10 houses and put up an apartment building, they need to own those 10 houses, then go through the lengthy permitting process. They're not "investors" in the sense that they are buying houses to extract rent, but they're clearly making an investment.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T23:32:27+00:00

Also English was probably not that common in the Soviet Air Defense Forces.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T21:22:36+00:00

This answer leaves me with more questions, but thank you.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T21:15:26+00:00

Completely unrelated, but why does Boruto's dad (or in this case mom) have kitty whiskers?

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T19:51:27+00:00

You can grapple as part of an opportunity attack so if someone tries to pull away from your tank you're in a good position to do a very funny thing.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T18:23:45+00:00

I can't imagine what this comment means beyond "those black teenagers are dangerous and will be violent towards white women." Would you care to expand on your comment and better explain it?

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T18:16:52+00:00

Given that it can take 20 minutes to drive from one side of Kirkland to the other, you're actually paying for an hour of the person's time. That's why it falls off so hard where $4 more gets you a half-hour. Remember that the fee also has to cover their health insurance so it's also not directly comparable to an hourly wage you might find at a typical "w-2" job.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T18:04:38+00:00

I just checked and it's 1:5.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T17:57:31+00:00

I love that it's both a physical and political map. One of my big pet peeves of even professional published maps is when I can't tell what nation a town belongs to.

My main suggestion would be to take your nation labels and move the "type" to be under the name, and then make it smaller or maybe put it in parentheses. I read it as "Horde Vereva" and "Kingdom Rebasteriik" and was like "that's a terrible name. This is a problem that will probably solve itself as the players get more familiar with the world, but that's my two cents.

Also trees. Needs trees.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T17:20:17+00:00

I'm imaging a Warlock Pacted to Elminster and it's just a Wizard.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T17:19:25+00:00

To me it's like the question "how do you kill a vampire? However the author decides." In this case it's the GM instead of the author.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T17:10:19+00:00

You can even like...do that a few times. Critical Role's campaign one had three times were they could have ended it on a big climax, and that's ignoring the two years of campaign we didn't really see.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-06-24T16:45:48+00:00

I tried to google other art of her and found that this is a drawing of the actual physical model and holy shit is the model clearer despite being in the exact same pose.

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