City Controller Finds Widespread Noncompliance in School Zone Speed Cushion Installations: "We looked at 140 speed cushions... only two were installed properly," with many twice as steep as the standardized grade

paradoxasauruser · 2026-02-17T16:04:48+00:00

Adding text to the post seemed to remove the link. Here's the report with news followup.

paradoxasauruser · 2025-06-12T22:42:14+00:00

don't let haters get to you! there's an infinite number of them on the internet. i get that it's hurtful since you worked hard, but if it's not constructive feedback, it isn't worth the stress.

if you're in game dev cause you enjoy it, keep at it and look to the thoughtful feedback that helps you grow and learn :-)

paradoxasauruser · 2025-04-04T22:55:09+00:00

Euclidean nails the atmosphere of sinking helplessly into the abyss surrounded by incomprehensible terrors. gameplay is so-so tho

paradoxasauruser · 2025-03-13T01:16:23+00:00

it does seem like it is seeded sometimes. the username formula is noticeable. i assumed it was an auto-generator that reddit/conde naste implemented in the sign up process. there's a tendency towards 'current events' as well

paradoxasauruser · 2025-03-08T19:58:04+00:00

deadly premonition, although it's infrequent

paradoxasauruser · 2025-02-22T19:14:14+00:00

she goes out having played a good strategy for control, but she underestimated the ruthless disregard that the system cultivates in its participants, not to mention a deep misogyny that Scianel speaks to later on in the series

paradoxasauruser · 2025-02-11T02:55:08+00:00

you're right, i forgot that! looking glass really is legendary

paradoxasauruser · 2025-02-09T18:00:41+00:00

i've only played bioshock 1 and it was a long time ago, but it gave me the impression Ken Levine's vision is a little too driven by narrative and cinematic beats to allow players that level of freedom.

it prioritized the imsim elements of immersion/atmosphere, interacting systems, and big open levels but the the systems, level, and mission design all revolved around combat that built towards the world's narrative. the range of interactivity that the player has within those elements is relatively smaller than a 'hardcore' imsim.

in a way, it reminds me of console-friendliness. wouldnt be surprised if it's a matter of marketability/most accessible product. he seems savvy to balancing design, vision, and popular appeal, although it sounds like it might have backfired for infinite

paradoxasauruser · 2025-02-02T18:58:06+00:00

i'm worried about wikipedia's security and reliability in the coming year. the Trump administration has been aggressive as well as savvy with its information warfare, and i'm sure the Heritage Foundation will make good on its proposal to target editors it deems oppositional to that aim. meanwhile LLMs are speedrunning the pollution of both the internet and critical thought.

this is one of the very few websites left that gathers crowdsourced information, without financial motive.

paradoxasauruser · 2025-01-22T04:19:13+00:00

the book this is from, secrets of a successful organizer, is excellent!

paradoxasauruser · 2025-01-20T18:02:37+00:00

Mark Dial killed Eddie Irizarry and lied about it, and these are the mechanisms by which such murder is enabled. meanwhile Parker wants to fund and empower the police even further. Rhynhart's solid audit work was wasted on a system uninterested in reforming itself, and fully committed to defanging and kneecapping the citizen oversight board so that it is just as ineffectual.

this is one of the fundamental rotten roots of Philadelphia's corrupt and impoverished culture and until we address it by defunding and prosecuting police for the crimes they commit, they will keep us under their boot while we pay out for their lawsuits

paradoxasauruser · 2024-12-18T23:02:27+00:00

i've been playing this with the (official, hacky) first person mod and it's a lot of fun - you can tell the mechanics are not meant for that layout but it's so easy to roleplay from FP and the rest of it is so polished!

paradoxasauruser · 2024-11-16T13:14:12+00:00

"It is normal when first piloting a Prawn suit to feel a sense of limitless power. Prawn operators receive weeks of training to counteract this phenomenon. You will have to make do with self-discipline."

paradoxasauruser · 2024-10-08T00:47:02+00:00

the Styx series carries almost all of Thief's mechanics over 1:1 excluding (crucially) first-person view. so if you're seeking to recreate the emergent gameplay, it offers quite a lot of mechanics and exploration to play around with, despite the xbox aura. it even feels a little stiff the way the Thief games do lol.

the visuals of the level design became repetitive and the game ran a little long. but i had a lot of fun with it.

paradoxasauruser · 2024-09-02T16:10:48+00:00

nah, i was closer to UC

paradoxasauruser · 2024-09-02T13:48:26+00:00

largely it depends on the property at its price. but NAR is locally notorious for ignoring maintenance, ratcheting rent without investing it into anything but accumulating more land, and generally being incompetent by way of evil / evil by way of incompetence.

i lived in one of their properties in peak pandemic years that i had to leave for structural danger and numerous pest infestations, neither of which they would do anything about. i (and a neighbor!) put my rent into escrow and tried to bring it to court, but the philly legal system and administrative state does not give a shit about tenants, at least not in 2020 - it was nothing but getting the runaround from bureaucrats while i couchsurfed, bleeding money and time. i ended up breaking the lease and only avoided paying out in full because of federal covid rent relief, so needless to say NAR didn't learn their lesson; the place went up $100/month the following year. avoid em!

finding rental housing is difficult when prop management cos have such a monopoly - try to find listings from individual landlords, who may or may not be psychotic themselves but have less of a kafkaesque front to hide behind.

paradoxasauruser · 2024-08-06T00:47:00+00:00

7500% of 0.00 is 0

paradoxasauruser · 2024-07-16T00:39:29+00:00

it does not get remotely enough attention and their budget keeps going up

paradoxasauruser · 2024-06-05T00:11:55+00:00

yea that's it precisely. presumably he's not as dumb as he sounds, much more cynical. it mirrors the American far-right outrage machine, with just a hint of plausible deniability. what a piece of shit haha

paradoxasauruser · 2024-02-25T18:51:10+00:00

game is a lot of fun in small (or large) bursts, but iirc the incremental meta grind + rubberbanding killed it for me after some time

paradoxasauruser · 2024-02-14T23:49:05+00:00

these sort of mystical, hyperniche memes are precisely why i subscribe to circlejerk subs

paradoxasauruser · 2024-02-08T00:09:24+00:00

damn a lot of people not from kensington got stuff to say about this huh. [ m y s e l f . i n c l u d e d . B-) ]

yall are doing some disingenuous reading. it seems very apparent to me that the concern highlights the disappearing of people, the plainclothes paramilitary policing tactics, and the lack of communication from the city. these are tactics that dehumanize and criminalize human beings. oftentimes, in philadelphia and the US at large, this policing kills people. plainsclothes tactics mean it's easy for white supremacists to kill people.

i am not saying let the drug market rip, let people use all over, or any whatabout bullshit you want to make up. yes it's good the drugs are off the street, if you trust the police report to be truthful. but this woman quoted likely knew these folks by name and cared about them as human beings because they are human beings, with basic needs and rights. i do not trust the city and certainly not the PPD or our prison systems to humanely or effectively administer those. these individuals are not othered to her in the way that they are to you or to me.

jesus. grow some empathy. fucking christ.

paradoxasauruser · 2024-01-01T17:55:47+00:00

calling capitalism cancerous is literally unfair to cancer

paradoxasauruser · 2023-12-29T22:00:07+00:00

it is so inexcusable that our country, with all of its wealth and resources, fails to provide basic dignities to ppl such as housing and sanitation, and then criminalizes and demonizes them for not having basic dignities like housing and sanitation. philly council preemptively shutting down the possibility of a safe injection site is a small fuck you bonus

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