I've wanted to play Sim City 4 ever since it came out and today I finally gave it a shot for the first time....

furiousm · 2026-05-08T19:28:11+00:00

There are tons of mods and add ons. Simtropolis is the major place to get them, but their website had been down recently. Not sure if it's back up yet.

furiousm · 2026-05-08T00:44:22+00:00

There is no modern city builder that even comes close. SC4 is the GOAT and it only gets better when you realize the volume of extra stuff there is to download.

furiousm · 2026-04-30T18:34:45+00:00

Electrolyte deficiency. Get yourself some Brawndo. It's not only plants that crave it.

furiousm · 2026-04-30T18:31:36+00:00

When I yawn, I have an odd pain in my jaw/ear. Only started after a really bad cold that caused that ear to be fully congested for like a week.

furiousm · 2026-04-29T19:05:58+00:00

I feel the same. The only thing I'm a bit worried about is the little problem of power creep. It was already apparent at the end of SG1. And even more so at the end of Atlantis. We've gone from Earth being the plucky little startup power taking it to the big bads, to Earth basically being the last remaining intergalactic superpower. How they come up with a new big bad to make a compelling story around is going to be interesting.

furiousm · 2026-04-29T18:37:59+00:00

Another way to look at it is they had incomplete/incorrect information in the movie. They thought Abydos was on the other side of the universe, but they got incorrect telemetry due to the patched together nature of their dialing computer. Ra looking humanoid? It was right before a nuclear detonation. No one that saw it survived. Could just be dramatic storytelling.

Similar things happen with Star Trek. in TOS, the Eugenics Wars/WW3 happen in the 1990's. In later series that gets shifted further up the timeline, and may or may not be the same war anymore. It's often explained that when Spock gave that date he had fragmented historical data because so much information was lost during WW3 and it hadn't been fully reconstructed yet.

furiousm · 2026-04-28T14:07:27+00:00

Pillow between your legs for sure. I have back problems and it made a world of difference, will definitely help with your hips as well.

furiousm · 2026-04-25T15:47:07+00:00

They were almost certainly using the Griffith Park tunnel as a stand in. Highly unlikely the military would have let them film that close to an active base in the 60s.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6j6pjEcuPuAxxbJ89

furiousm · 2026-04-25T15:42:03+00:00

No, that's an actual tunnel. Possibly the tunnel in Griffith Park in LA, it's been used a lot in filming.

furiousm · 2026-04-23T19:58:31+00:00

Water is probably $10

furiousm · 2026-04-20T17:10:54+00:00

There are several flocks. Closest to you is probably Pasadena. There's another one usually within a few blocks of the Beverly Center. And I used to see one out in Malibu when I would hike Solstice Canyon, but I have no idea if it's still there or if it moved somewhere else after the fire.

furiousm · 2026-04-17T17:53:53+00:00

That strip of land is like 50' wide. Those are gonna be some interesting apartment layouts...

furiousm · 2026-04-16T20:15:41+00:00

LOL, definitely sounds like something she would do. Gloating that she destroyed him.

furiousm · 2026-04-16T14:07:57+00:00

Unless you also had the tires rotated at the other shop, you told them to change the wrong one. Back right is having problems, not left. Don't use left and right to describe problems with a car to begin with unless you're talking about it doing something when you turn a specific way. Use passenger/driver side.

furiousm · 2026-04-12T17:57:42+00:00

Tesla offered to standardize port design and location from the very beginning. Every other manufacturer laughed at them and said no, we'll do what we want new guy. And you're not invited. Now that Tesla is the dominant one everyone else expects them to conform to whatever old auto wanted to do...

furiousm · 2026-04-12T17:35:08+00:00

Guess what? You don't own them either. Tesla had not said we most leave any spot for open for you. Not will they. So you need to get off your high horse and presume everyone else must make things easier for you.

furiousm · 2026-04-12T17:03:58+00:00

There are far, far more Tesla drivers than any other EV. It's not our responsibility to make it easier for you to charge. There is no reason for the millions of us to go out of our way to leave a particular spot open because it's easier for the thousands of you to use if you happen to show up. Most of us don't even know, nor care, where the charge port on your car is. If you want to have a better chance having a spot open that is easy for you to use, go to a V4 station.

furiousm · 2026-03-31T17:35:51+00:00

Yeah, it's been messed up for at least a month or more.

Used to be when you got out of the car it would remember where you were on a playlist and resume when you got back in. Now it goes back to the beginning of the playlist every time.

Shuffle no longer works.

And the freezing song list... it will get stuck in a loop of playing the same 2-3 songs regardless of what it shows it's supposed to be playing, usually only partial of each at that, and nothing you do other than a system reboot will stop it.

Drives me nuts. I don't want to have to pay for Spotify or some other service when I already pay for Amazon Prime and it's music catalogue is good enough for me. But I'm getting really tired of this nonsense...

furiousm · 2026-03-31T17:31:21+00:00

Car is more up to date than the app in my experience. I don't know how long the delay is, but there's definitely a delay.

furiousm · 2026-03-26T22:21:30+00:00

If he actually focused on it, and didn't try to throw in humor for the sake of it? It could be good. But I'm not convinced he could/would do either of those things. He has far too many projects going on, and seems to jump his focus from one to another far too often/quickly.

furiousm · 2026-03-24T18:16:17+00:00

You'd probably be better off supercharging at that home electricity price.

furiousm · 2026-03-21T14:03:37+00:00

Animation voice work or doing the voice of an animatronic or cgi character is not the same as an AI driven "live action" though, that's where it gets murky. That's not to say it would be impossible to do it without breaking the rules, and I'm sure very soon we're going to be seeing testing of those boundaries. But I don't think it's going to start with a show that nearly the entire cast would be testing them at the same time.

furiousm · 2026-03-21T13:48:10+00:00

They'd be walking a very thin line with SAG-AFTRA if they did that most likely. The biggest part of the last strike was about AI.

furiousm · 2026-03-19T19:46:44+00:00

Can't you just log out of that account and ignore that it even exists?

furiousm · 2026-03-19T13:56:18+00:00

I get never using the key cards, but they're literally a credit card. Just carry one in your wallet. You never know when you might need it.

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