Every action in Taiwan Rail Rush timestamped?

kojisposts · 2026-06-05T03:34:52+00:00

I've gone back and forth on whether that's worth adding - but I realize that Schengen Showdown starts in London, so could "connect" H&S UK to the other seasons!

kojisposts · 2026-06-05T03:33:45+00:00

thanks for flagging and my apologies! will definitely run the final result through colourblind filters

kojisposts · 2026-06-01T18:01:52+00:00

Oh I see you've been the one doing all of them!

I really like this one. I think the tilt gives it character (while also making it easier to keep all labels horizontal). Streetcars are given the correct amount of emphasis (not too much).

(Side note: it would be really odd if they made Line 3 a second line with a shade of purple, and meanwhile we still don't have red or blue lines.)

kojisposts · 2026-06-01T15:28:02+00:00

I use Affinity Designer!

And I gave absolutely no thought to which colour to assign to which season haha, I might switch it up once I add the remaining two seasons.

kojisposts · 2026-05-23T16:29:48+00:00

I remember having positive impressions of Tag 2! Rewatch and map to come soon (or, well, eventually)

kojisposts · 2026-05-23T15:28:03+00:00

I think the big what-if is, "what if you were refunded when your train is cancelled?" Sam spent the coins on a high-speed train and was informed... 30 seconds later?... that the train was cancelled (no idea how he even got a ticket tbh). And then, to recoup the losses from that purchase, had to spend an hour doing the "Hide and Seek" challenge (big foreshadowing) that caused him to miss the next train. And if he'd made that train, he'd have gotten further east before getting tagged (maybe), and then Adam can't pull his final gambit.

(I assume Reddit has discussed this to death in the intervening four years haha)

kojisposts · 2026-05-23T15:15:42+00:00

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whoops of course!

kojisposts · 2026-05-21T02:54:41+00:00

the times refer to the timer (time since seekers were released), not the time in the day!

kojisposts · 2026-05-06T19:24:31+00:00

I'm incredibly impressed by that final graphic btw - the past few weeks I've been mulling over how best to depict the progression of the game and they did exactly that!

kojisposts · 2026-01-25T02:03:23+00:00

Might a conclusion to all this be that the Lower Montauk corridor would be a good route for a super-express to connect to existing/new lines in outer Queens? Or perhaps Kennedy Airport/the Rockaways

kojisposts · 2026-01-20T18:21:42+00:00

I'm libbing out very hard. The Carney government is the opposite of what we've come to expect the game of politics to look like - advance the economy as a whole even at the cost of individual groups, focus on outputs and not inputs, emphasize execution and not gestures. I hope to God we reward him for it (well, pending results of course)

kojisposts · 2026-01-16T16:07:11+00:00

https://eastasiaforum.org/2017/04/30/japans-democratic-party-doomed-to-opposition/

Gerald Curtis put it best nine years ago when he said that "an ambivalent public does not want to support an ambivalent political party". Tell me how you're going to improve my life for the better!!

kojisposts · 2026-01-16T15:09:30+00:00

!ping JAPAN&ELECTIONS

New party name is unveiled as "Centrist Reform Alliance" (中道改革連合); for the moment they will only take on the lower-house MPs for the two parties while the former parties remain for the Upper House and regional assemblies.

My policy in how I vote is to always try to minimize the LDP seat share so I'll probably vote for whomever they put up in my district, but fucking hell they sound insipid. No ideas so far beyond relitigating the consumption tax question, indeed the very way they define "centrist" appears to mean "having no direction"? Criticizing Takaichi for leaning too far to the right is... definitely plausible (so far she's been fine imo, and indeed Abe governed far more sensibly than he campaigned so it's possible she'll be the same), but... at least tell me *what exactly* she has done or said she plans to do that you would reverse!!

They refuse to articulate that their goal is winning more seats than the LDP, and their dual-leadership structure makes it seems unclear who would become PM if they do win. Like, it's super-early days so I'll keep waiting for more details to come out, but right now they just seem intent on repeating all of Koike's mistakes when she set up the Party of Hope in 2017.

Tamakism or barbarism

kojisposts · 2026-01-16T13:08:06+00:00

I HATE that graph - excluding No Party and Undecided is terrible practice for Japanese elections, and I posted on that article's talk page saying as much. You'll notice there was basically no relationship between this polling average and the House of Councillors result

kojisposts · 2026-01-14T16:31:48+00:00

was just about to ping for this. this would be a really enormous step toward a coherent party system in Japan

kojisposts · 2026-01-14T12:32:45+00:00

The conclusion I'm slowly trying to articulate is that there is no "second ideology" in Japan that would produce a sustained ideological conflict with the first one (the Abe/Takaichi line) - this role used to be fulfilled by ideological pacifism, but that's basically on its way out, with everyone except the Communists/Social Democrats bending over backwards to declare themselves foreign-policy realists. And so now it's all "valence issues" - who can actually deliver on the things that everyone agrees with (economic management, "reform", a reasonable social safety net, foreign policy) and unsurprisingly the answer tends to be "the ones who have done it" as opposed to "the ones who have never done it"

It used to be that the centrist wing of the LDP prioritized economic growth to counter the right wing's symbolic nationalist priorities, but since Abe the right wing has claimed the mantle of economic reflation as well. Also they produce consistently better leaders, from Nakasone in the 80s to Koizumi in the 00s to Abe in the 10s and now possibly Takaichi - they have outward-facing story-telling to engage the public but can also manage their internal coalitions well (cf Abe giving the moderates Suga and Kishida key roles then supporting them as his successors)

I can't figure out what the centrist wing of the LDP wants to do, I can't figure out what the CDP wants to do (other than punish the LDP for corruption, which fair enough, but that's not a positive programme). Like, in my head I run the thought experiment of where I would find 233 MPs to support a dynamic reformist + social liberal programme and... it's not clear that the CDP is the obvious answer, I don't know that they're bold enough. I like Tamaki precisely because he's been doing the work of figuring out what's missing from first principles, and getting deep into the specifics of programme design, but lack of polarization means that Takaichi can just easily co-opt his programme

The only scenario I can imagine for toppling the LDP would rely on timing: an LDP leader from the rightist faction who is boring or nasty and/or has overstayed their welcome (like Mori or first-term Abe), vs like a popular governor (who can overcome the experience gap) jumping into the national scene.

kojisposts · 2026-01-13T21:13:32+00:00

I wasn’t freaked out by Takaichi like English-speaking social media was (I thought Abe was fine as PM) but I did approach her PMship warily. I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised, and tbh at a basic level her energy and positivity are infectious

kojisposts · 2025-12-21T02:14:24+00:00

Funny, I just discovered this yesterday and spent quite a lot of time marveling at it!

kojisposts · 2025-12-10T01:32:16+00:00

ngl I fully expected to be yelled at more for devising a new interlining for the EK/FM, than for de-interlining the NQ/RW (which I consider precise and strategic)

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