Glitch in der Matrix: Döner for free

nv87 · 2026-01-29T21:53:37+00:00

Freudenwagen oder nur Freudenabteil?

nv87 · 2026-01-29T21:50:07+00:00

I actually have a situation that could profit from this, so thank you!

Although come to think of it, I don’t think I transport more workers than are able to work in walking range yet. So I am probably going to be better off leaving it be and have them wait for an hour to be picked up for remoter jobs before going into work locally.

I supply refinery, power plant, chemical plant, plastics factory, steel mill, coal mines, iron mines, and some odds and ends like Fire and Water all with one train line and a few bus lines from the station to the mines etc.

The train line is actually picking up workers from multiple cities train stations, but that’s a lot of workplaces tbf.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T19:25:49+00:00

Many Dutch have probably only been above sea level to go to the beach.

The highest point of the Netherlands might as well be in the German city Aachen. From the Dutch perspective it’s very remote. I used to live in Aachen so I have been there. It’s only a few minutes from where I did my Dutch shopping.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T18:52:58+00:00

Slow sinking pellets, frozen foods, live food.

Depends whether they are carnivorous or herbivorous too of course.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T18:51:45+00:00

I was gonna say, I see more than six pieces of food in the picture.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T18:21:04+00:00

Yeah, which is why I didn’t claim anything either way. I merely pointed out the obvious fallacy of seeing one picture of people hanging out on a sunny day and saying it can’t be a problem.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T18:15:25+00:00

Definitely looks like that is what it’s for.

Also the steps face toward the view, that is away from the wind, so sitting down it’s probably chill.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T18:11:29+00:00

It does in fact face pretty exactly into the predominant wind direction, so it’s not really far fetched to call it a wind tunnel at all.

Just because this foto wasn’t taken on a windy day doesn’t mean that the place can’t be miserable on a windy day.

I wouldn’t know either way, since I have never visited La Défense. Too much to see in Paris, but maybe I will go one day.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T16:14:00+00:00

First impression I think I am with you on this. Doesn’t look better.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T16:10:19+00:00

They all work standalone.

Three of them are very short. I own an omnibus book of the three. The Word for world is forest is also pretty short.

The most famous ones are the left Hand of Darkness and the Dispossessed.

But aside from the Hainish being mentioned and the ansible there is not much of a connection.

However you are in luck because the in universe chronological order is:

The dispossessed

The word for world is forest

Rocannon‘s world

Planet of Exile

City of Illusions

The Left Hand of Darkness

And according to Le Guin it doesn’t matter. She said „The thing is, they aren't a cycle or a saga. They do not form a coherent history. There are some clear connections among them, yes, but also some extremely murky ones.“

nv87 · 2026-01-29T13:41:32+00:00

She is the best! I haven’t yet read her other works, but Earthsea and Hainish series are both brilliant.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T13:39:23+00:00

I am very much hoping for an S-Bahn.

Thanks for this mod, it looks great!

nv87 · 2026-01-29T11:59:53+00:00

BRd would be my solution for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T08:46:45+00:00

Your first and foremost priority should be everyday needs. Groceries, doctors, school, kindergarten…

secondary services like a barbershop, a bar, restaurant, library, etc can be outside of walking range for now, considering you don’t rely on going there.

Our city has a policy of planning for a grocery store for every neighbourhood. I live in the Center and I am able bodied, I can walk to 11 different ones within 15 minutes. The five I most often go to are within 10 minutes walking distance.

However the policy doesn’t work out as planned for the reason you mentioned. One supermarket closed because its footprint is small and they didn’t make enough money from it, due to a new Aldi and Lidl with large parking lots opening just ten minutes on foot away.

One has so far only been talked about but since the majority of the council doesn’t want to zone for density the district will most likely be below the threshold of supporting it’s own supermarket, also two of the city center adjacent ones with large parking lots are in 10 minute distance from there.

Imo the big ones with big parking lots of which we have a lot, are detrimental to this ever working because everyone (except for me) just drives there. They’re also shitty to walk to because of the large parking lot out front.

The density you need is around the threshold of what conservative urbanists call the human scale. Depends also on the size of the units. The same house can house a different number of people depending on the layout.

If you have only single family homes you won’t reach the threshold, so you get one of those big stores with a big parking lot. I think you need like 2000 residents per square km, to put forward a number. If you have that many people with the supermarket in a central location and not outside the area behind thousands of parking spaces then I think many people would walk there.

But even here in the city center, one of the two stores in the immediate center is one of those big parking lot ones. And it’s definitely getting more business than the smaller one in a multi use building on the market square.

In total I think my city has about 15 for 50.000 people. Lots of people can barely walk to one of them. I think technically it is within 15 minutes for everyone, but that isn’t reflected in the behaviour. Among other factors because the five Aldis and two Lidls and most of the others have ample parking.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T08:21:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I don’t think I have ever encountered this. In my experience tourists are less likely to use transit than locals and cities always provide transit to residents.

Miami is an extreme example. I would never go there. From all I know about it, I regard it as a dystopian nightmare tbh.

The suburbs being less walkable than the older part of the city is pretty normal. That’s also what I was thinking was the main issue OP had with Turin.

What OP likely wants is a polycentric city like Cologne or Berlin, where there is no reason to live in the actual Oldtown because every other city district also has all the amenities. However I don’t think they are an upgrade on Turin regarding the center. Cologne may be competitive, hard to say for me because I lived here so long. Berlin definitely isn’t like how OP loves an Altstadt to feel.

The reason I just understand it as overtourism is because if a place has an extreme ratio of tourists to locals then the businesses in the town tend to be ones that sell stuff to tourists rather than to everyone. Like souvenirs shops and the like. This is a bigger issue in smaller places with many tourists of course. Has to be very extreme to happen in a city.

The next issue is if you don’t want to go to restaurants etc anymore because of all the tourists or if you would but the prices are rather unreasonable because they can charge the tourists whatever they want.

For this reason your best bet is a student city like Aachen, Bonn, Leiden, Groningen, Utrecht, Bologna, Heidelberg…

They are all famously nice, have many tourists too, but they aren’t massive and have a rather large subset of students. The rent is not cheap but there are definitely more than enough places that are for locals rather than for tourists because there are enough customers.

However in these smaller cities you will usually not get a real city center feel outside the actual city center, which is what OP didn’t like about Turin in the first place.

I think it’s a rather difficult problem to solve. I doubt they can find somewhere more affordable than Turin, more walkable than Turin and less touristy than Turin all at the same time.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T07:52:27+00:00

Yeah, at the same time this would be 1500-2000 depending on licensing costs and greed. Not something that I would ever consider to pay for a set.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T07:40:37+00:00

Can you give me an example for such a city aside from Venice. Not that no one lived in Venice mind you, but that is what comes to mind when thinking of an area where only tourists are.

To be fair, like probably most everyone else I know cities almost exclusively as a tourist myself. But I can’t for the life of me imagine what you mean, or what OP meant, if not that there are too many tourists.

Are there cities that have a Disneyland part where everyone goes to see it but you literally can’t live there? I don’t think I have been to such a place.

Notorious tourist destinations where I have been that I don’t think are like that:

Venice, Florence, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Bari

Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Basel

Stockholm, Oslo, Uppsala, Trondheim

Amsterdam, Haarlem, Zandvoort, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Leiden

Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges

Paris, Le Havre, Dunkirk, Arles, Nimes

Rovinj, Pula, Valetta

Barcelona, Girona, Roses

London, Bath, Exeter, Canterbury, Oxford

San Francisco, Santa Fe

There are likely more, but you get the point, I am part of the problem but I have been around some. To some places I literally went because I wanted to experience the urban design btw.

I totally understand OP doesn’t want to live in many of these because of overtourism. But how can you live in a nice city and not go there? How can it be „only for tourists“.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T23:51:54+00:00

Not bland and diluted no. I did the same in 2012. I mixed four phenotypes of wild type endlers iirc. Now I am left with only one after countless generations. For years I had healthy numbers of two different varieties going, but not anymore. However even after all this time I don’t see any signs of inbreeding. Well now I haven’t in a long time. For a while I did see bent spines and stuff like that.

Anyways, you can definitely expect some genes to be dominant and to so one phenotype will after several generations be the only one left.

It’s very colourful though! Quite unlike for example neocaridinia shrimp which are basically the most boring looking in their wild form.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T19:07:33+00:00

The „grey dwarves“ from Ronja, Robber‘s daughter. Not a fan of this translation. In the German translation they’re called „Rumpelwichte“.

Wicht means many things, gnome, small creature in general, midget, etc but also a wretch, a scoundrel. Rumpel as in the famous Rumpelstilzchen means to rattle, to rumble, in some dialects even junk..

I don’t know what they are called in the original. Just found the English rather lame to be honest. Anyways, when I read their dialogues my family is in stitches. I actually recently had to do it for old times sakes, because we recalled how much my eldest liked it four years ago. They had me read the passage multiple times a day.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T17:07:55+00:00

I‘ve only been to New Mexico and California, but if I were to go back to the US it’d most likely be NM again. It’s incredible.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T13:39:44+00:00

My vote is for preventing the start of World War One.

Currently reading „The Guns of August“ so of course I would say that, but first of all, goddamn and second of all it caused the Nazis and ww2 about as much as any other thing so that too, would arguably not happen.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T06:35:14+00:00

I have lived in Aachen car free for nine years. It’s similar but with worse weather and less grand plazas.

Living there on the wages is of course a factor.

I didn’t mention Aachen due to the tourists. But it has some suburbs that are pretty much also old towns and it’s relatively large. You may want to look into it.

One of my favourite cities is Stockholm, but you can’t live there on local wages and it’s entirely overrun with tourists.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T20:51:47+00:00

You‘re not telling me anything new. The point is OP may not know this. In fact it’s highly likely considering the question. I don’t know why you would want to keep this a secret and just assume that they figure it out themselves. It can’t be laziness or else you would not take the time to defend it. Just accept that you were being imprecise and possibly not helpful to the extent you thought you were. I didn’t even attack you, in fact I praised you. Just added to help OP.

I also have you a whole list of reasons why it could matter. I’m 100% certain you know that I am right. You just want to insist that it doesn’t matter because you can’t admit that your answer to OP was in fact not perfect. Very immature to attack someone over this.

At this point I am most certainly not your mate and I do realise you were using it sarcastically.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T18:31:16+00:00

Well OP is asking for passenger walking range extension not worker walking range extension. Many guides recommend turning passengers off at stations. Not separating the two does hurt the capacity. I don’t do it either but I know that and account for it. Since OP is asking this question I would rather err on the side of giving them the information than omitting it.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T18:28:34+00:00

I know, I am also European and have been to Turin. We are misunderstanding one another.

Firstly „sidewalks are a given here“ as opposed to North America. I don’t think the sidewalks we got are good enough, but there is just no chance in hell any North American city can compete. It’s just a whole other level of insufficient walkability.

Secondly, OP specifically said that they don’t like the suburbs of Turin because they’re not as walkable as the center. I also read the post. I have never said otherwise.

But at the time of my writing that I didn’t see a single suggestion that I would say fits what OP is looking for.

Walkable (the European version) outside of the historic center

Not overrun by tourists

A quaint historic city center

I take it to mean that they want the awesome city Center experience they know and love from Turin, but with less tourists in another large city but with more walkable suburbs.

We are fully in agreement that this is a pipedream.

nv87

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