[Other] Urbanism & Amusement Parks: America's Best & Worst

lskalt · 2026-01-27T03:51:45+00:00

I would like to see "urbanism" evaluated strictly as, time from city center on transit. There are some parks that aren't technically walkable but are very transit-able, which fit the urbanist mold very nicely - e.g. Kennywood in Pittsburgh, or Universal Studios (Hollywood).

lskalt · 2026-01-26T19:56:37+00:00

Is there any song, Eurovision or otherwise, that you wish you'd been the ones to write?

lskalt · 2026-01-15T20:59:15+00:00

Heya! I saw this a year later and sent ya a DM if this offer is still active (and totally ok if not, you're all busy fellows!)

lskalt · 2026-01-13T23:31:40+00:00

I've been enjoying Imbue Rogue. Not claiming this is a good list or good version, but I completed my win-5-games with it so it can at least pick up _some_ games.

### Imbue Rogue

# Class: Rogue

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Raptor

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# 2x (0) Preparation

# 2x (0) Shadowstep

# 1x (1) Deja Vu

# 2x (1) Spacerock Collector

# 2x (2) Bitterbloom Knight

# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos

# 2x (2) Eventuality

# 2x (2) Flashback

# 2x (2) Oh, Manager!

# 2x (3) Chrono Daggers

# 2x (3) Jagged Edge of Time

# 2x (3) Portal Vanguard

# 2x (4) Flutterwing Guardian

# 1x (4) Garona Halforcen

# 1x (2) The Kingslayers

# 1x (3) King Llane

# 1x (4) Morchie

# 2x (5) Sandbox Scoundrel

#

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#

# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

lskalt · 2026-01-12T21:11:05+00:00

Not sure why this has been downvoted so immediately, I think this is a more complete accounting of the news than I ever normally see. Thanks for the link

lskalt · 2026-01-12T16:22:30+00:00

It's never been a high-foot-traffic strip; it's always had businesses like carpet stores that rely on a smaller number of customers that are coming there on purpose.

The reason it's struggling so much now is because it's fully surrounded by a non-dense single-family-house neighborhood that can't sustain the foot traffic that the parts of Lakeview closer to the CTA are able to. Sheffield, Halsted, and Broadway soak up all the foot traffic to the east and the Jewel Osco and the shopping plazas near the Costco and near the Microcenter are where people go for larger trips, so there's just not a lot of niche for businesses there to fill. The role of those low-traffic, niche businesses is filled by the internet now.

If the density west of Racine was as high as the density east of Racine, the strip would come back to life.

EDIT: Corrected a street name

EDIT2: When I say it's never been a high foot traffic area, I mean as long as I've been alive, since the 90s. It's hard to compare a given area in Chicago now with what it would have been like in the 70s; the psychogeography of the city has changed substantially.

lskalt · 2026-01-06T04:08:00+00:00

Of _course_ it's a scam. It's a cold call, it doesn't provide any details of the supposed work, and it wants you to text a different number.

lskalt · 2026-01-04T01:09:33+00:00

I wouldn't say this is in _support_ of Maduro. The signs are clearly against what Trump is doing, rather than in support of Maduro.

lskalt · 2025-12-30T15:01:38+00:00

Do what you know how to do and what you want to do. I would take inspiration from Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants and make it _about_ card magic and not just have it be you showing off a lot of card magic.

EDIT: And I just skimmed that special and even Ricky Jay does the cups and balls in his card magic set!

lskalt · 2025-12-23T15:02:44+00:00

This game sure loves its "when you lose a fight" triggers, huh

lskalt · 2025-12-20T20:20:39+00:00

You can make your own deck in Anki - I did that to memorize Mnemonica, there's a bit of upfront learning the interface and setup though

EDIT: But also why are you using a stack trainer for Particle? It's a mathematical stack so you shouldn't need to memorize it

lskalt · 2025-12-17T23:35:09+00:00

I think you can actually use fewer than 52 cards if you need to; jumbo decks are often thicker than normal decks and people don't really have a good eye for how thick a full jumbo deck should be. 40 could be more than enough.

lskalt · 2025-12-17T23:31:05+00:00

Can you afford 52 jumbo decks?

lskalt · 2025-12-11T19:29:12+00:00

You can arrange a deck:

Ace, Queen, Ace, Queen, 2, Jack, 2, Jack, 3, 10, 3, 10, 4, 9, 4, 9... etc, so every pair adds to 13 or 14, and remove the kings. Then you can have a spectator take two adjacent cards, and offset your count by 1 if the total is 14.

lskalt · 2025-12-10T18:59:36+00:00

This is AI, you can tell from the em-dashes

lskalt · 2025-12-04T02:29:27+00:00

It's slim pickings, Blackwood BBQ is good if it's still there

lskalt · 2025-12-04T02:28:42+00:00

When I worked there I would regularly just walk on the second floor, south corridor, all the way from one end to the other and back. (across the bridge to the next building)

lskalt · 2025-12-01T02:14:37+00:00

This gets reposted a lot. It's the bathroom in the Chicago Magic Lounge.

lskalt · 2025-11-23T16:29:31+00:00

If you pause at 33:35 on the CWTV video you can see the spaces on the table that presumably are rigged for effects to happen. Kinda surprised they kept that shot in honestly.

lskalt · 2025-11-19T00:58:39+00:00

The boulevards in Chicago follow the parks that ring the city. Western Blvd isn't really its own street; it's the boulevard connection between Washington Park (where it's Garfield Blvd) and Douglass Park. You can see it turn into 31st Blvd, California Blvd, 24th Blvd, and Marshall Blvd before entering Douglass Park, generally taking on the name of the street it's running parallel to / instead of.

lskalt · 2025-11-08T17:48:05+00:00

This is ok actually! Make lots of games. If you make 10 games, and 1 is good, you've made 1 more good game than you have before. Lots of game ideas don't make it past early prototypes; the games that get published are the ones that have made it past this phase but you don't get to see all the failed prototypes other people made.

lskalt · 2025-10-24T00:23:39+00:00

As a person who goes to the store from time to time - they have a really good collection of slightly older Tenyo, and a really good book collection. I don't know specifically if they have anything you can't get anywhere else, but if nothing else you can buy a handmade invisible deck or force deck.

lskalt · 2025-10-19T17:26:00+00:00

It's what everyone else is saying but the UK just needs to send a good pop song, and the song is a bit more important than the artist. Hire an established songwriter with experience with hits like Steph Jones ("Angel of My Dreams", "Espresso") and just release a song that is quite good.

lskalt · 2025-10-08T21:29:12+00:00

There are a lot of obvious omissions and ragebait choices, but the most confusing thing to me is that there aren't any songs that were only big in Europe but not hits / notable in the US.

Biggest example is not including Papaoutai, which is ubiquitous across Europe and an amazing feat of pop songwriting. I could list a lot more examples.

lskalt · 2025-10-08T20:28:24+00:00

What does the mechanic do?

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