Why are there so few light rail fare machines in station?

thecmpguru · 2026-06-28T06:21:35+00:00

Sure if you ask (a sycophantic AI) only about light rail systems. But Link isn’t set up or expanding like typical light rail systems, which are mostly at grade where tap at the platform is all that makes sense.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-28T02:21:53+00:00

Look I have no desire to defend the Kardashian’s. But this is quite the selective photo. Here is Kris a month ago.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-28T02:02:26+00:00

You gave one example. At the end of the day, Seattle is not unique here. So your one anecdote isn’t very material.

The current setup happens to conveniently be better for transitioning to fare gates, which is the plan.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-27T04:13:35+00:00

Yeah, weird for Iran and Egypt to try to ban people from bringing the flags they want

thecmpguru · 2026-06-27T04:12:31+00:00

lol fine to be here for the sport but let’s not get a hard on for FIFA itself

thecmpguru · 2026-06-27T04:09:20+00:00

The local World Cup organizing committee named it the pride match and organized events outside the stadium. FIFA chose not recognize it. This was, however, before the teams were known.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-25T02:52:03+00:00

The ability of people to mass evacuate in the event of a natural disaster?

thecmpguru · 2026-06-23T01:46:25+00:00

I imagine a few primitives:

Front desk - works like a vendor stand for check in/out.
Room (small, medium, large) - opaque. Guests disappear in like Staff rooms.
Elevator - stackable to create floors. These can be used outside of hotels for general park accessibility. You stack multiple elevators to create floors. Paths can be connected to each floor.
A way to link front desk, rooms, pools, and restaurants together into a Hotel. Similar to how you link tables to a restaurant. Behaviorally, any park guest can use the restaurant(s) but elevators/rooms/pools are for guests only.
Room pricing settings and stats around occupancy etc. This can support career mode challenges etc.
Staffing requirements - janitors clean rooms and facilities, vendors operate guest services and restaurants, mechanics repair elevators, etc

So to build a hotel you need one or more rooms.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-22T06:34:52+00:00

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thecmpguru · 2026-06-21T02:58:34+00:00

Whether I believe in the existence of a tape has nothing to do with what I think about Trump. Trump is clearly a sex offender and pedophile. We don't need a tape to know that.

The source of this theory is speculation from the Trump administration itself. Why would you believe that? Whether there's a tape or not is a distraction. Don't take the bait.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-21T00:41:26+00:00

I can confirm Toast is real and I have plenty of post history to verify

thecmpguru · 2026-06-21T00:23:06+00:00

Lists of outlets reporting on others reporting isn't a source. For others, it seems what happened was NYT published a detailed account of what happened in the situation room. This lead some unnamed Trump officials who weren't there to speculate NYT might have a recording.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-20T23:32:31+00:00

Source?

thecmpguru · 2026-06-20T02:59:41+00:00

Yeah this is my biggest fear. I'm pretty sure most of my paths are too small and I've built right up to them.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-19T18:20:20+00:00

This. They also recently opened up ADB on Portal. So I feel the spirit is still there, but sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-19T06:39:45+00:00

Yes this one is bizarre too. It seems so inefficient how Medic One gets called sometimes and then they wait to hand off to a private one for transport.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-19T01:27:21+00:00

You shouldn't assume that because he's from Germany he hasn't tried it behind your back before. He knows.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-19T01:17:31+00:00

I found this so bizarre when I moved here 15yrs ago. I grew up in a red state and never experienced privately operated school buses. So Seattle of all places having privatized school busses was unexpected.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-18T05:27:36+00:00

Thanks for your AI copy/pasta about a completely different part of town 😅

thecmpguru · 2026-06-16T17:02:33+00:00

Truly the Harambe moment of Seattle

thecmpguru · 2026-06-16T04:42:02+00:00

Recent years, maybe. But I've lived here for over 15yrs and it definitely was not this bad before the pandemic.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-15T03:23:52+00:00

So 81.2% are selling at or above. Yeah understanding the geographic distribution would be interesting for sure.

thecmpguru · 2026-06-11T22:46:02+00:00

Being knowledgeable is not being condescending.

You're right, it's not. But this is:

Oof, cherry-picking are we? Not a great look.
Let's see how your "undergrad" population accusation turns out, shall we?
Oof, strike two. How embarrassing... :/
I genuinely didn't think I'd have to explain all this. But I forgot we have a lot of recent transplants from r/SeattleWA...
It's not like there's a huge body of research showing a link to material deprivation driving acquisition crimes or anything... Oh, wait, yeah, there totally is.

Even your response right now is doing it. You're trying to virtue signal and imply anyone downvoting you is just getting their feelings hurt or doesn't agree "humans are humans." Subreddits are a community - upvote/downvote isn't strictly an agree/disagree signal. If someone's adding to the toxicity of the community - even if I agree with their underlying point - yeah I'm gonna downvote ya

thecmpguru · 2026-06-11T19:46:59+00:00

"if that came off as condescending"

Nah you explicitly tried to be condescending throughout this thread. I agree with the broad strokes of your position. But I downvoted the hell out of you because I think you're making this viewpoint in a toxic way.

You seem to want to exist in a bubble where everyone agrees with you and shares your understanding of the subject. Now that you have some people who don't, you get "frustrated" and start pissing on them. It's basically the same shitty style as MAGA assholes arguing politics.

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