Does Cities: Skylines have a different hook than just a Sim City game or not really?
It’s a much more detailed and accurate simulation, and much more moddable out of the box. Depends whether you think the hook of SimCity is granular simulationism or more laid back high level abstraction
Gotcha. I got it through PS+ but honestly I just might watch some videos of it on YouTube sometime
donoteat01 on youtube uses it to talk about the points where social issues intersect with city planning.
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my cities skylines experience was building a nice coastal city then accidentally flooding the entire thing 3 times because of course it simulates realistic water flow and i am not a civil engineer and should not be in charge of placing hydroelectric dams
so yeah, it’s simcity + more simulation. if the idea of figuring out how to not flood your city with a single dam placed in a river miles away, planning individual train and bus routes, and going “why are all of you slamming into this one intersection i’ve built 4 other alternatives, i’ll just bulldoze it to show you the truth” then watching congestion get even worse sounds fun to you, it’s your kind of game. i found myself attempting to read Serious Urban Planning Literature in the few weeks i was obsessed with it lol
probably one of the more successful translations of a very PC control scheme to console too
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i need to buy a new TV soon and this has somehow become as confusing as pc hardware since i last bought one like 8 years ago. does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap 40-45 inch TV for someone who doesn’t have anything that can output 4k and gets nauseous from the weird frame rate smoothing thing?
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TCL and LGs are decent and cheap. I have the TCL 43" S525 and it’s fine and was like an even, $300 (which was the most I was willing to spend on a TV), and if it has motion smoothing it’s something you’d have to turn on (I also hate that shit). I chose it because it had relatively low input lag compared to other TVs in the price range, good contrast ratio, and deep blacks. You could probably get a non-4K model for less, and it’d be fine.
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I have a TCL as well and I recommend it. Their TVs punch above their weight for the price point.
when we got a tv i remember finding that tcls were weirdly hard to find in canada? i think it is probably not that difficult to have one shipped to you from the us though. we ended up getting a samsung tv. it’s … fine
by that i mean it is good? i think when tv shopping i overestimated how much i cared about how good my tv was
The way I got over days of agonizing over a TV and finally settled on one was realizing that anything within my price range was just going to be OK and my best bet was to go with the company with the best reputation on TV review sites where the reviewers are super anal about testing every single minute detail of a TV. Every single Google result for “best budget tv” is either sponsored nonsense or compiled based entirely on Amazon reviews which is just absolutely fucking useless to a degree that makes me very angry.
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Is Canada on the same voltage and current as America?
Like Japan and America share 2 prong plugs and most things work fine but Eastern Japan runs on 50hrtz not 60hrtz so stuff like american christmas lights are a seizure warning in action.
I think everything’s the same here as the US but tbh I’m not completely sure, I’ve never had any issues though.
The TCL thing may have just been a temporary shortage? I just checked and it seems like they have a lot of them in stock at normal places now. Maybe only certain models? IDK
I’ve noticed for electronics in general sometimes the model numbers are different even when it’s the exact same thing otherwise. Canada… it’s like a whole other country
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Everything’s the same
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actual comment on a TCL TV i was looking at lmao
(edit: don’t worry i’m not crossing a picket line, just using amazon to get an idea for prices)
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I have this sudden weird craving to play the Cold War Call of Duty that I can’t understand. I have never bought a Call of Duty in my life and have only played 2 and 4. Mainly interested in singleplayer. Can anyone recommend/non-recommend?
I bought Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War because I just wanted to shoot things and feel the PS5 adaptive triggers. I turned it on and went straight to multplayer, where I was then presented this bewildering 5 minute opening cutscene. It goes from 0 to 10 in the matter of seconds and I couldn’t figure out what this had to do with Team Deathmatch and King of the Hill.
And then I tried the campaign where it made me watch another cutscene that seemed way too intense while talking about nothing.
It starts with two hollywood blockbuster action sequence levels and then the rest of the missions are mostly walking slowly through areas in disguise and taking pictures of people with your binoculars. There’s this funky system where there are some side missions but you need to collect intel in other missions to solve some puzzles which I guess make it more likely you can beat the side missions?
Every time anyone starts talking in the story mode I start browsing my computer because they’re just talking about how Enemy Spy Guy has information on nukes/etc and we gotta find this Other Guy who knows how to find info on finding Enemy Spy Guy and it all just goes in one ear and out the other.
But now later in the campaign I’m switching characters and there’s some weird thing where it’s like you’re finding some optional collectible in a mission and then red numbers start scrolling on the screen and you’re like “oh man, I remember now. The mission we’re on actually went like this” and I guess there’s some sort of memory alteration plot. But I have no idea what’s going on.
I have no idea if any of that helps. People say the campaign is fine- one of the better ones- but not one of the best ones. The only COD campaigns I’ve ever played were 1 and one of those console only ones of the OG Xbox, like maybe Big Red One.
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This spy white noise nonsense sounds weirdly comforting. I think I’m caught in a desire for the specific kind of dumb paranoia plot it seems to be offering.
These cutscenes really do just wash over my glazed eyeballs. I think I like it?
The game has some decent music too, surprisingly.
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Does anyone know why I didn’t get a prompt to win the round here? It let me do a Chi (I think it’s a chi ) to get the 5 dot tile that’s in the group of three, but not a ron or tsumo or whichever it would be. Am I just misunderstanding the rules?
I have not played mahjong in Yakuza recently so I don’t know what rules are enabled, but your hand would be an open tanyao: open meaning you called on tiles to form sequences/triplets that are visible to your opponents, and tanyao meaning using tiles numbered 2-8 only. There is a rule called Kuitan that determines if open tanyao is allowed or not, so you would need to check if that rule is used in Yakuza. Tanyao are considered a cheap value yaku because of how easy they are to put together and the game can get warped by aggressively aiming for tanyao before other players can really get their hands together, so making tanyao closed only limits the effectiveness of that strategy.
I think that’s what’s going on anyway.
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