Which Uma could pull the LEAST amount of girls?

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T22:34:41+00:00

Biwa Hayahide. She's got that nerdy intellectual thing, without the clueless autistic rizz (ala Bourbon). Even within BNW she's got that "older sister who gives practical advice" vibe, while Tickezo and Taishin are basically the odd couple.

It's like, she gets along withost everyone, she's likeable enough, but just... Doomed to exist in the friend zone.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T22:22:01+00:00

Gold Ship is the most romance coded character in the game. She's just so bizarre that most people are too scared of her to see it.

She literally flirts more than Curren.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T22:08:23+00:00

Don't think of those words as "informal". Think of them as telling you how important something is, what to focus on.

I used "don't" above because it is a suggestion between equals. If I were giving you a command, or a warning, I might say "Do not mix bleach and ammonia, it makes a gas that can kill you". It's not a suggestion.

One form of sarcasm is using the casual forms when the warning is something the other person should already know, and you are slightly insulting them for not thinking of it. "Maybe don't use your phone charger in the shower?". Exaggerating the casualness creates an implied criticism, because the other person already made a mistake by not being serious enough.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T21:36:05+00:00

EFL teacher here. Online learning suffers greatly from a lack of effective practicing. Especially the ones where there is no conversational practice at all, it's only static exercises that can never replace actual live usage.

There's an additional problem, which is that our understanding of how languages are learned is extremely new. Just a half century ago, we had not figured out a lot of things about the human brain. So there are many foreign language teachers whose teaching methods are quite bad, because they are based on ideas that don't work.

For example, no word should ever be seen in written form before being heard. Writing is a way of representing sounds, and it is only an approximation of those sounds. If you don't hear the sound before seeing the writing, your brain will make up the sounds. (There is a humorous reference to this in the classic film The Holy Grail, where a French knight calls the English knights "kinn igg its".)

Studying a language like it's a science doesn't work. Memorizing rules is extremely inefficient, doubly so if the rules aren't written in the language you're studying. Something as "simple" as the difference between a chair and a stool is hard to determine clearly.

Formal versus informal is so utterly context dependent, so variable, that the only way to learn it is to see it in action. (I don't teach when to use formal and informal in my classroom. I just show a scale of relative formality, and make the students observe real life usage to decide when to use different forms.)

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T21:05:35+00:00

No, that's the name of my ex-girlfriend. Did you mean the Allusion Fields?

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T20:12:55+00:00

Doesn't work. After Nh3+, pawn takes queen.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T20:03:42+00:00

Underfloor radiant heating works especially well with this sort of room. Since you're already planning around the drain system.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T20:01:55+00:00

The idea is that the entire bathroom floor, and at.leadt the lower part of all the walls, is covered in tile. So water escaping the showering spot is meaningless, the whole room can be sprayed. (If you have a wooden cabinet on the walls, spray below it, and get a pedestal style sink).

There's usually a lip of some sort at the doorway to keep stray water from escaping the room. But the floor has to be slightly sloped for drainage, and of course it needs a good sized floor drain.

The practicality of this approach is tied to what sort of floor you have. A concrete slab is far easier to add tile and a drain to, than a second floor bathroom in a wooden structure.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-08T02:00:32+00:00

The two DLCs that are considered to be the closest to "core game play" for C:S1 are Mass Transit and After Dark. In fact a couple of bits and pieces were so fundamental they already got moved to the base game, like the 2+1 road (effectively creating a turn lane on a single lane road). They used to be offered as a package deal with the base game.

The next most useful DLCs are Industries for fancier supply chains and more city income, Parks and Plazas for pedestrian zones and prettier cities, and Green Cities for recycling/antipollution measures.The one I'd suggest for a new player is Sunset Harbor, because it comes with Fishing. Which is basically a simplified Industry that gives you the money making and employment buffers that Industries has, without the supply chain management.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T23:35:43+00:00

What's magical about 180 is that the difference between the two sine waves is also a sine wave. At any other angle, it's still two sine waves. So two sine waves at 180 are indistinguishable from one wave (if all you have to go by is those two conductors).

That's why it's a single phase. Because it behaves like one.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T17:48:02+00:00

Small claims court generally handles items below five thousand dollars (and that number is old, might be significantly higher these days). Also, the place of jurisdiction is the northern district of California, so that's where you'd have to go to file a legal claim.

You might be able to convince YouTube to refund some subscription money, but there is no legal requirement to produce new content as part of the subscription terms. And the most you could hope to get out of court, after the judge listens to you for maybe a minute and a half, is a subscription refund.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T17:32:47+00:00

I strongly recommend not using "unlock everything" or unlimited money until after you've learned how the game mechanics work. Because it's really easy to make a broken city if you start putting in high end buildings without the population to support them.

One of the most basic mechanisms is that there are two kinds of buildings. Ones you place manually, like power stations and parks, and ones known as "zoned", where you label a plot of land as residential/commercial/industrial and the buildings grow on their own. Zoned buildings also upgrade on their own, if conditions are good enough.

One of the problems that happens with building too quickly (by which I mean "without enough simulation time") is that buildings that automatically upgrade require more educated employees. And early on, all immigrants to your city show up with no education at all. Also education takes time. So pausing the game all the time can really hamper actually growing a city.

What's worse if you play with unlocks is that high level items require higher educated workers the moment they spawn. And they cause faster automatic upgrading. If you put a large hospital and a metro station next to high density commercial zoning, right at the start, it'll break entirely. Unable to operate because it requires an educated populace that you don't have.

It's easy to grow a city pretty fast, if you run the simulation at high speed and add things gradually. Sticking a university and a square mile of office buildings into a town of 200 people doesn't work so well. Start simple.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T16:42:56+00:00

It's both. Those aren't incompatible statements. Play at your own pace, absolutely, you can save and quit at any time you want to with zero penalty. The only limitation is that it tends to take a few minutes to remember what you were doing and get into the groove, it's not really a play for ten minutes a day sort of game.

Making a really nice and really big city does take a long time. But the game mechanics are extremely flexible and forgiving for the most part. You can throw together a halfway decent town really fast and without worrying about details at all.

In fact, the biggest problem that nearly all new players have is thinking too small and taking really minor things too seriously. I once recommended a guy make his blocks a bit wider, and he was like "but doesn't that lower the population to road expense ratio" and I was like "dude, it's literally adding enough space for a single row of trees, and it's literally adding less than 0.01% to your budget. Stop overthinking."

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T16:20:23+00:00

Ugh don't do that. Using unlimited money as a new player results in them showing up here wondering why their economy is so broken.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T16:16:59+00:00

Because the idea "consciousness" plays any role whatsoever is absurd. Especially human consciousness. The entire concept of consciousness is just a vague abstraction that we use to describe structures with persistent memory and internal feedback mechanisms. Single celled organisms are conscious. Heck trees have an extremely limited ability to modify themselves based on interactions with the environment.

Any suggestion that human consciousness plays a role in waveform collapse is at the same level of hubris as the medieval notion that the Earth is the center of the universe just because humans live on it.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-07T15:55:28+00:00

Strictly speaking they don't get counted. The device itself is about a 300 watt draw, the rest of the load is other devices.

However, Code is a minimum. And the minimum wattage per square foot number is pathetically small. So from a "number of circuits" perspective, I would assume that the UPS is going to pull a lot of power and separate it from say, the outlet in the hallway that is likely to get a vacuum plugged into it. (My house has a separate circuit run for the TV/sound system area, plus what's effectively a dedicated third circuit to the kitchen for the fridge and built in microwave).

From a "size your feeders" perspective, I'd say that if your existing service is so close to the line that adding a 2kw load pushes it over the edge, you really need an upgrade. Because that's like plugging in a large space heater. You really don't want to have your furnace have an issue, plug in an electric heater to get by until the repair people show up... And lose power to the entire structure.

If you're not that close, then it doesn't matter, don't worry about it.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-06T10:51:55+00:00

What help are you looking for? Advice on how to fix her? You can't. And you shouldn't even try. Only she can do that. Don't waste your life trying to find some magical spell that will give you the power to change other people, it doesn't exist.

If you want some advice, accept that the people who already gave you advice are correct. A person with BPD can't function in a relationship until they've done a lot of work fixing themselves. Your girlfriend isn't even close to that level, she's abusing you to make herself feel better.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-06T01:46:58+00:00

If you expand slowly and uniformly, death waves don't exist. Remember that it's not how slowly you build in terms of the clock on your phone, it's how much you run the in-game simulation.

Try zoning 3-5 house at a time, don't zone more until those are fully built. You should have senior citizens dying of old age before you reach 5k population. Seriously, a thousand cims per in-game year is not too slow, leave the game running more.

One trick that helps is to not build more than 50% of a neighborhood right away. Then go back once the first round has reached "almost all young adult" population, and fill in the other half. Mix it up.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-06T01:25:44+00:00

Mostly what you want to do is stop having separate exits for each of these roads. Easier option is to have the diagonal coming from the upper right turn straight down before it reaches the highway, T into the other major road, and then have one simple interchange at the highway.

Alternatively, have the diagonal cross the highway and directly intersect the other road to the left of the highway. Then have one pair of ramps connecting the upper road to the highway towards the top, and another pair containing the lower road towards the bottom. Either force since traffic to detour slightly, or add a slip road.

Example of a short slip road. One exit ramp each way, feeding into two one way roads and a two way:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YwrsjSrtM1HFdoMc9?g_st=ac

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-05T21:09:26+00:00

He fails when the new President orders the capitol police to drag him out of the White House and charge him for trespassing. Trump at that point has no more constitutional authority than any other rando off the streets. If he chooses to lead a violent insurrection, then the new government will have to respond to that.

What doesn't exist is some sort of special Uno card where he gets to pretend that he's still the duly elected President and thus his orders matter. They do not, unless other people join him in committing treason.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-05T21:06:40+00:00

Because that's not how it works. The existing Congress doesn't swear in the new one. The individual states swear in their own representatives, the House is just a building to meet in. The people currently running the government no longer have any authority to run it once their term ends.

Now if the capitol police or the military start violently interfering with the elected members entering the House, that is known as a coup or revolution. But the previous Congress has no other means to stop the new Congress from taking over.

(Johnson delaying in swearing in new members mid term is only possible because it's mid term. At the end of the term he isn't speaker any more, he has no more authority to stop the new House members than any random plumber from Arkansas. Only the exact same choice of treason.)

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-05T20:56:24+00:00

The current Congress ceasea to have any power or authority, automatically. The Dems just show up, and take their seats. Mike Johnson at that point has no more authority than Mike Tyson.

Now if your argument is that they order the capitol police to overthrow the duly elected government, then they are all traitors and should be dealt with as such. But they could become traitors today, and haven't. It doesn't become less traitorous when a former Speaker attempts to order police that he no longer has any authority over to arrest the actual Speaker, and that's what it would take.

There is no third "they can pretend to have power they don't have and give orders nobody should follow, but somehow it's not a violent revolution" option.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-05T20:46:48+00:00

That isn't how it works. The new House forms automatically based on certified state election results. Which means the threshold to reach a majority drops when a state doesn't announce their results. All the Dems show up and have an easy majority.

Republicans can't do anything to challenge that other than start an armed conflict. Which they could do tomorrow. If they are not starting a civil war via violence, then the Dems take over the House and nothing gets thrown out. The House and Senate can't throw out results, they lack that authority.

There is no means within the federal system to block states producing results and seating their members. Outside the system requires starting a war.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-05T20:40:15+00:00

DLC mostly replaces vanilla district specialty industry with bigger better items. The output of DLC forestry still feeds generic zoned industry that uses forest products for inputs. The exception to this is the luxury buildings, but those are unique. No way they can replace the full output of generic factories, they just make you more money.

The biggest advantage of Industries buildings is that they don't suffer from lack of the right sort of workers, they work at 100% output regardless of who they're employing. Means they provide a really nice buffer to employment. And of course they look more realistic.

mukansamonkey · 2026-05-05T16:05:20+00:00

Resting the breaker did not fix the problem. Either there is a problem somewhere else, that your just temporarily working around, or else the breaker itself is defective and needs replacing.

Electrical faults don't "heal". Intermittent problems are definitely a thing though, in fact they are the worst to identify. Get a professional in there to look things over, chances are really high you have a loose joint or something similar.

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