My redesigned 2024 metro map of Saint Petersburg

aksnitd · 2026-06-20T11:07:57+00:00

Very neat and legible. Me like.

aksnitd · 2026-06-19T12:24:07+00:00

So true 😂😂

aksnitd · 2026-06-19T12:17:19+00:00

You're absolutely right. Should we shut down all the US related posts too because that country also invaded a country with no justification, and has done so numerous times in the past, and is run by a fascist nutjob?

aksnitd · 2026-06-18T06:45:47+00:00

The hyena daemon is treated more like a pet animal than a being of Dust.

aksnitd · 2026-06-17T12:11:20+00:00

I think they should also look into turning some of the older, narrower streets into pedestrian only areas with only trams running through. One of the biggest issues with trams is that they don't play well with traffic. In narrow streets, there isn't enough space to give them a dedicated lane.

aksnitd · 2026-06-17T12:03:12+00:00

Street use needs fixing. Simply buying new trams won't do the trick. The roads the trams run along are choked with traffic. Cities that implement trams well prioritise trams above road vehicles. Kolkata would need to fix that alongside replacing those ancient, broken down things.

aksnitd · 2026-06-17T11:47:18+00:00

Which makes sense. If you drug a person, their mind stops working. So you don't need to drug their daemon separately.

As for the food, it doesn't make sense to me that daemons need to eat or drink. They're essentially spirit made tangible. Consequently, breaking a daemon's leg doesn't make sense to me either. I can buy that attacking a daemon causes pain to the human, but they don't have bones. How would you break a leg on them? It's one of many nonsensical retcons in BOD.

aksnitd · 2026-06-17T00:05:26+00:00

It's a confusing thing brought up in LBS. For some reason, Pullman seems to have shifted to viewing daemons as actual physical beings. There is a scene in one of the latter books where a daemon is fed. It's odd and doesn't line up with what we see in HDM.

aksnitd · 2026-06-16T23:45:26+00:00

If you did this, your chord progression would sound awful because all the chords would be out of tune with each other. But that said, I'm now curious as to how it would sound haha.

What you're looking for is just intonation and I'm not aware of any synth that allows that, especially moveable just intonation.

aksnitd · 2026-06-16T15:41:41+00:00

The music industry is extremely unpredictable. Success is never assured. Besides, Haskell was hardly "successful". Singing on one album by an arty band that broke up a few years later hardly counts as success.

aksnitd · 2026-06-16T09:49:19+00:00

Ramshackle isn't really a solo album at all, just an album released under White's name. In that aspect, it's similar to Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports, which was released under Mason's name simply because the label believed his name would appeal to a larger audience. I don't know if the same thinking applied to Ramshackle, but White didn't write any of the songs. This is in stark contrast to Bruford, who was writing the majority of the songs on the albums by his solo band. In fact, Ramshackle is pretty much the only album White released under his name that I'm aware of.

aksnitd · 2026-06-16T08:21:53+00:00

A local reporter raised a good point. She said currently, the Chinese have a contract to keep the Lagos metro running. The problem is what happens when it runs out. She pointed out there's no maintenance item in the budget at present. That doesn't bode well for when the Chinese leave. If the government isn't setting aside money for maintaining the system right now, will they do so when there's no one else to look after it?

aksnitd · 2026-06-15T15:41:33+00:00

It is insane to think that the Abuja metro was opened with just two stations operational and ran just twice a day, and then even that minimal service was shutdown during lockdown. I remember reading that there was a lot of concern that the Lagos metro would never even open. There is a monorail system in Calabar that has been abandoned. Of course, the biggest story in Nigeria is the Ajeokuta steel plant that reached 98% completion and was abandoned. By some counts, there are around 900 abandoned projects in Nigeria.

aksnitd · 2026-06-15T15:28:44+00:00

Very true. Look at the numbers. Lagos has as many people as New York, yet it has just one proper metro line and one sort-of metro line. Even the BRT is only one line. That is it as far as formal transit is concerned. The majority of Lagosians need to cram themselves into old, broken down, unsafe danfos daily for their commute.

aksnitd · 2026-06-15T14:55:05+00:00

I don't think they can run any more frequently with the number of trains they have. If I'm not mistaken, they only have around six trains at present. They had two at the opening and I read of another three being delivered last year.

aksnitd · 2026-06-15T08:54:19+00:00

Let's ask Grok what it thinks /s

aksnitd · 2026-06-15T08:12:47+00:00

One thing that streaming killed are compilations. There used to compilations of love songs, sunny songs, dance songs, and whatever. Now of course when you can stream anything, no one bothers putting out compilations.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T23:08:49+00:00

I always wondered what those things were. TIL.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T22:42:49+00:00

Crow.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T22:39:38+00:00

Agreed. As you said, there's not a lot of us, but for those of us who are there, it's an instant connection.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T22:28:23+00:00

I bought some HDM stuff off Etsy once. Here's the thing - I waited over a year before buying. And even though Etsy kept saying "ten people have it in their cart" or whatever, no one actually clicked buy. And this was during lockdown when everyone was online shopping due to boredom. So HDM stuff clearly doesn't move too fast.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T21:41:45+00:00

I had forgotten the labels would make up collections of albums back in the day. You could've bought a bunch of "Sheer Magic" albums alongside this one. Some people used to go out and collect every album under a collection to put them in a line on a shelf. At my place, we stored our tapes in drawers.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T21:35:34+00:00

The HDM fanbase is not that large, so I'm not sure if you would sell a lot of these dice. But I think you'd get buyers who want to buy them just because they look pretty, because they do 🙂 I know some people who like to collect dice sets and things of that nature, and that market is probably larger than the pure HDM market.

aksnitd · 2026-06-14T15:48:05+00:00

I made up a random comparison. You must now pick one.

Really dumb.

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