The SNES version was superior to the PC one. There were a few weird changes to how you could command the hive that worked better in the SNES one.

The large scale colony land ownership system was just crazy, though. Each time would devolve into full 300 to zero for colonies and it was tough to grind control back one way or another.

They got frakin’ hard! Especially the mechanics of the trains and when the baddies started shooting further. Tracking where the action was got tough when you had to split the team.

Airborne! And Airborne 2.

It was a tower defense game before the term existed. Way back on a Macintosh back and white machine. You sat in the lower corner with a mortar and machine gun against people, tanks, helicopters, and jets trying to charge/shoot your position.

Oh! And The Dark Castle. There was a big the prevented you from finishing the game. Man I wish I could play it to completion.

Another awesome one is the tank game where you spawned on hills, then insulted each other before flinging various crazy weapon shots around (nikes, mirvs, napalm, dirt). Such fun.

I loved that game. Only for to play for a few weeks in Germany back in 1995.

Ran into it again years later somewhere and finally made it much further through the missions. Great game.

Of course a super of people would prefer a more convenient way to access anywhere in the city at the expense of everyone else not in a car.

The answer should be: no, you don’t have a right to drive everywhere with maximal preference to your desires.

It’s a city with many people, not just some local drivers.

Nothing but the basics that way!

The hardest core version I saw someone do that was long ago. My best friend and I were using OpenBSD back in early 2000’s. He installed a minimal install. From there he pulled the source tree makefiles. Then he started running make on Mozilla (pre firefox days). He just kept building, patching, fixing, and hammering away. Eventually he built the whole GUI environment, dependencies, and Mozilla which took that computer months to complete it all.

Today, he’s the lead engineer for a massive tech company.

The annoying younger sibling?

After a run of RedHat - Fedora - OpenBSD - OSX to about 2007, I gave Debian more of a try in the form of #! Linux. That was a great minimalist distro. Ever since then it’s just one Debian variant or another. It does the job with minimal fuss.

It really helps that I don’t push the hardware with shiny new equipment or need much in 3D drivers. Linux Mint on desktops, Debian servers, Ubuntu only for driver issues, Raspian/Armbian on SBCs.

Sure: billionaires from other countries keep coming in to drive up costs across the board (supply, construction, and buying politics to reduce competition). When the 0.1% own half of the nations wealth they are the only real economic drivers.

Lies + fraud + hurting families serving the nation. It’s a Republican trifecta. Medals for everyone!

It’s a terrible attempt at bread and circuses in the waning power of a wannabe dictatorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

We moved from the US to a developed nation. Sold the car on the way out the door. Haven’t looked back. Love living without the car. Our kids are so much safer here. Even the cars that are around driver slower and the roads are human scale so we have wide sidewalks with narrow streets to cross.

I commute by tram and train to work and shopping is mostly done on foot. When we need more, we can always rent a van for a day or do a delivery service. There’s also the cargo bike option, which works for upwards of small appliances without much trouble.

When all you have is a car, everything looks like a place to put more roads.

It’s worse than that. In the US cars are the #1 non-medical way people die. They’re fucking killing people and we’ve grown so accustomed to just shrugging our shoulders when yet another person is killed by a car that it’s weird just how little we notice what’s causing our suffering.

I’m up to two dead family members from different car accidents. Another few have been in major accidents and others hit by cars. Once you start looking at just how many people are harmed, both directly and indirectly (family, friends) its scary that these predators are allowed to just roam our cities on the scale they do.

There’s no lack of cities, especially in the US, who will gladly tear their inner city neighborhoods down for the chance to drive slightly faster for a bit on a slightly wider road at great expense.

The same construction coat on the interchange of two freeways in my old city is going to top 450 million USD. For the same money they could build a 4 to 8 mile tram network that would move as many, or more, people without really trying. The city has an operational, and well regarded, bus system but it’s nothing compared to most developed nations outside of the US. At least they’ll have a shiny new interchange and fewer homes instead of building modern transit infrastructure.

I dunno, I think Houston is in the running for similarly stupid infrastructure spending.

Yes.

Build out more metro lines faster too. Add in some trams that don’t share lanes with cars. Wall off some serious bike lanes and plow them first during the winter.

The whole point of having fewer cars choking your city to death is to have more people moving around, not fewer. So: reduce the cars and then also enable the people to move and it’s a winning strategy. One without the other isn’t going to truly help the city.

It’s a good price, but should be lowered over time. Drop it below inflation to push people into transit over driving. That said, the pillars of German economic thinking still revolve.around car manufacturing, so it’s a tough sell.

May we should make it cost an inverse amount to how badly DB does every year? I don’t know, but 63€ isn’t killer, but we have five people to pay for and kindergeld isn’t going up as fast as the D-ticket is. Nor is my raise, of course.

They’re building high density transit to go with the high density housing, right? Cars are not high density transit.

I was handed a Windows laptop. I used it for a few weeks and then quietly just upgraded to a personal Linux machine. It’s been six months and no one cares. Fine with me.

There’s plenty of trains here. What time they’ll arrive, though, it a bit of a mystery.

I ride the regionals and local trains daily. Some are highly variable on timing, but most of time it’s fine. Riding the long distance ones is basically just hoping you’ll get it the right city.

The trams and metro system in Helsinki is amazing! I spent a few days there and the quality of the system is top flight.

I did manage to fall into the Baltic Sea while visiting, but that was my own efforts. It did give me a broken phone so I couldn’t show my train ticket. Helsinki uses the “no gates, we’ll check you sometimes” model and it saved me then. No phone, covered in seawater, in October (gentle snow), and I was able to get on a tram to make it back to my hotel no issues. Thank you, Finland!

I’d go back any time. Hell, I’d live there given a chance again.