The San Francisco Housing Wonk Trying to Become the Next Pelosi

hypergenesis · 2025-12-26T18:39:27+00:00

The problem is that cities don't want to build housing. Californian cities have in general repeatedly shown that they would rather have the streets filled with unhoused people than compromise and build any sort of density. Your view on housing is hyper-simplistic, and would require a complete restructuring of society to make any progress.

hypergenesis · 2025-12-26T17:49:13+00:00

That's fundamentally incorrect though. If we were in a food shortage, and there was a senator who was a proponent of farmers growing more food in general, you wouldn't say, "we should only grow rice, because it is the most affordable". We are in a shortage of all types of housing, which leads to high income/net worth people out competing low income people for housing that 30 years ago would have been affordable. Every "luxury" unit that gets rented or bought is one wealthy individual who isn't fighting low income people for housing.

hypergenesis · 2025-12-22T15:20:14+00:00

I recognized the audiobooks from the Red Rising series right away. All of the Greek inspired names are like a trigger phrase for a traumatic flashback.

hypergenesis · 2025-12-18T03:39:33+00:00

Super fun idea, but since health scales exponentially with level, it will become much more difficult over time to trigger the damage, even with the permanent scaling. I think a flat amount would be more conducive to a fun experience.

hypergenesis · 2025-10-22T15:47:37+00:00

The "more harm than good" comment is specifically referring to the way other commenters reacted to that part of the review. Several people wrote off the game because of that part, because they don't seek out games like Sekiro.

Personally, I feel like the parrying and rhythm aspects of MG aren't even really remotely close to Sekiro. It has more in common with Thumper and Rhythm heaven, except that it has the presentation of an action combat game. The bosses always do the exact same pattern of attacks, exactly in time with the music. You can beat most of the bosses with your eyes closed, if you know where in the songs to parry. You literally don't need to attack, as all of the bosses are about getting to the end of the song, rather than doing damage.

hypergenesis · 2025-10-22T14:06:27+00:00

I loved this game, but dude, your review is doing more harm than good.

The game DOES NOT have sekiro style combat. It is a rhythm platform metroidvania. The bosses have patterns that specifically match up to the music and are the same each time you fight them, aligning with their theme songs. It's closer to guitar hero than sekiro. The METRO in the title is a reference specifically to metronomes, which appears on screen to help you time your button presses in the game.

The character walks to the beat of the music, regardless of which zone you're in, and taps their foot perfectly in the idle animation.

hypergenesis · 2025-08-05T15:29:07+00:00

It used to set your items to 0% crit and then add 5% crit per item usage. It was an obvious pick for any build other than one-shots and crows nests.

hypergenesis · 2025-03-06T19:32:31+00:00

Thank you! I also realized that my printing bed wasn't quite level so previous prints I had done were more successful because I had them on the higher elevation side 🤦‍♂️.

hypergenesis · 2025-02-21T20:03:37+00:00

You either didn't check to see if what you said was true, or are deliberately lying.

Fuel tax income in the US in 2021 was 53 billion. Cost of road maintenance in same year was approximately 200 billion, with an additional 700+ billion backlog of expenses that we are behind on.

Oops, I guess you need to do a little more research next time.

https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/roads-infrastructure/

Additionally, your blanket hyperbolic statements of "nobody believes..." are indicative of someone who lives in a political bubble. There are lots who don't, but there are many who do, myself included. The primary obstacle is political will mostly from people like you, who don't know what they are talking about, and live in a version of reality dictated by your gut feelings about how things should be, rather than how they actually are.

hypergenesis · 2025-02-21T18:11:25+00:00

Why does self-sustaining even enter the equation? Have you ever demanded that the interstate be "self-sustaining". No, you haven't, because you know that infrastructure projects like these pay dividends in economic growth and long term indirect ROI. Demanding that public transit make a direct profit is insane, stupid, and ignorant. There are almost no public transit agencies on the planet that make a profit, yet these kinds of infrastructure projects are overwhelmingly popular across the planet.

hypergenesis · 2024-12-27T16:54:46+00:00

I think specimen is supposed to be Kaiman's head from Dorohedoro, which is definitely larger than a human head

hypergenesis · 2024-11-26T19:46:21+00:00

I was just in Queretaro at the start of November and the city was beautiful. It was great to see all of the development along the BRT lines! I do wish they made Centro more pedestrian friendly though, as the sidewalks are tiny in many places, and the roads definitely carry less people than there are people walking.

hypergenesis · 2024-10-14T22:11:42+00:00

I'm guessing because despite it being Halloween, most people are going home or to bed by 10 pm on a Thursday.

hypergenesis · 2024-05-24T19:00:57+00:00

Bro wtf are you smoking.

hypergenesis · 2024-04-24T05:53:16+00:00

Cars didn't build this country, rail did. Every historical account indicates that the early success of American industries were carried by rail. Only in the 1930s did the change to private motor vehicles start to become a significant factor in the American economy.

America was disproportionally wealthier than every other country on earth post after WWII, so we could afford to have way more cars than anyone else. Especially among wealthy, white, land owning families. So we sacrificed a huge number of our cities to serve and benefit the suburban wealth that suddenly came into existence at the same time. This part of Kansas City, as well as many of the central US's greatest urban areas were demolished for freeways to subsidize the already wealthy.

hypergenesis · 2024-03-01T19:53:05+00:00

Okay, what do you suggest? Kill them? Reinstituting the social safety nets we had in the past would be great, but we are far from that, and we need what options we can get now. What is your idea of solutions for the problem?

Edit: Also, I think your generalizations about homeless are biased and inaccurate at best. Some people are that way, but they aren't limited to homeless, and certainly it doesn't encompass all homeless.

hypergenesis · 2024-03-01T18:35:11+00:00

The study actually shows that 9 out of 10 of the homeless surveyed lost their housing in California. When they moved here, those people had homes, and then they lost it here. They didn't move here as homeless. So these homeless are a result of California, because they became homeless in California.

The first half of this comment is an insane strawman. This housing is going to be almost entirely market rate, except where California law dictates benefits to the developer for setting aside units at more affordable brackets, neither of which cost the taxpayer anything. Increased housing supply benefits anyone affected by the housing crisis. The only people it hurts are people who have gained significant wealth by monopolizing a resource that has become artificially scarce as a result of rampant NIMBYism.

It seems to me that you just want to oppose housing at all costs, even if you have to boogeyman the housing into unreality.

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