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i don't REALLY want to play cities skylines, i want professional traffic simulation software but as a game

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and i haven't seen a mod that fixes the underlying scale issue that bothers me so much. i suspect it might be difficult to change something so deep down within the core of the game without changing that actual source code

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and sure there's mods that will let me manually move every piece of road with pinpoint precision, but if i make it look even close to realistic then it comes out all cursed and causes rendering issues and weird bugs with the driving simulation

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real life highways merge in long stretches where the small road slowly matches the angle of the big road then seamlessly merges into it; but cities skylines always treats it like a regular junction, and doesn't let the roads get close enough to each other to truly merge

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i looked at some 3d models of the real life city i live in and its various roadways and highways and it cemented in my head the idea that Cities: Skylines needs narrower roads, and highway merges/splits at less obtuse angles

autism?, alc, cishet men on podcasts, i am friggin amazed by this innocuous thing 

just casually listening to the latest episode of william osmans chaotic podcast, and i am just in awe from this one fragment of an exchange that just perfectly encapsulates everything

william: we made new friends; we learned... nothing; and we got drunk

alan: yeah, so every-- all the good things put together: not learning, getting drunk, meeting new people

like i had to pause the podcast and stop whatever i was doing just to sit there gaping and processing this for several seconds, and now i'm typing out this post in like,,,, a rush of amazement and validation, from a real allistic person finally confirming something i've been suspecting for the past half a year or so

allistic people really do just want to: not learn, get drunk, and meet new people

it's so stupidly simple and i finally understand 😳

the ship of theseus is still the same ship after every part and crew member has been replaced if and only if it's still legally owned by theseus shipping and cargo industries ltd

noise sensitivity, joke probably, an activity which might result in injury and should not be tried 

maybe the solution i need is wearing foam earplugs, with in-ear noise cancelling earphones on top, then over-ear noise cancelling headphones on top of that, and gigantic over-ear earmuffs(?) around my entire head with the added bonus of also completely blocking my entire field of view

apocalypse 

also it would come in handy next time there's a combined lockdown + protests + war + no internet + whatever else this god damn country/region/continent/planet comes up with next

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several 1080i video streams!!!! and they're just!!!!! floating in the air!!!!!!!!!! for free and funded by taxes alone!!!!!!!!!!! amazing; incredible; unbelievable; truly the future

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tomorrow i'll go buy a tv antenna because antennas were a mild interest of mine at some point, and because the idea of hd broadcast tv is incredibly cool to me despite never watching broadcast anything

re: body image, ~, ?? 

this is in fact why deciding(?) which pants/shirt/socks/shoes to wear sent me into a meltdown this morning

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re: body image, ~, ?? 

human bodies are disgusting and disturbing and ugly (but there exists simultaneously the ability for me to be attracted to some????) and whichever gender presentation i have and whichever clothes i wear, it's all just a costume, and it's all part of some sick game of 4d chess of social interaction that i can't even begin to process the rules to

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re: body image, ~, ?? 

i cannot for the life of me imagine something that i WOULD want to see in the mirror. can i just be a vampire?

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body image, ~, ?? 

it is so weird and distressing to look in the mirror and see: 1. a man 2. who is moderately attractive 3. and is definitely not me

like what? what is going on here?

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