for me sc2k hits differently after reading the city planning theories it’s based on. they’re just… wrong. and the simcity series have always been aware of this and has had to design around that fact up until sc13, where the statistical model was thrown out in favour of an agent-based model.
the parking thing is the most obvious at first glance, but the striking thing for me has always been the theory of crime, which uses a statistical model that’s way out of wack and causes airports to be hotbeds of crime simply because they lower property values and cover a large area.

…which makes it so scary that there’s been at least one mayoral vote that was swung by a game of sim city.

followups of the genre have not fixed this either; cities: skylines is notorious for every citizen being able to pull a car out of their pocket, which is why the vanilla game’s traffic simulation is so difficult to balance. also, since C:S is a “hybrid” of statistics and agents, the stats lie to you. crime rates, the number, are lowered by proximity to a police station, but criminals, the agents, spawn based on whether a police agent can actually catch them. which means you can have a statistical crime rate of near zero because of your police station coverage and still have massive amounts of crimes happening because the cops are all stuck in traffic.

also yeah, as brought up in the article, the most important thing that’s never modelled in these games is time. the time it takes to build something is massively influential on how future developments take shape.
think about your early-game base in factorio; as you advance along the tech tree it inevitably ends up as a huge random ball of belts, pipes, rail, and weird quirks like inserters pulling from chests around corners to avoid a belt that goes underground right there which comes up there because there used to be an assembler there which fed to another belt which has since been removed but we haven’t moved it and…
real-world cities are full of these old quirks that came about because of the resources available at the time. like how many english towns have huge canal networks because that was the easiest way to move massive amounts of goods, or how many cities have earthen embankments running through the center because of medieval walls or old train lines. yet there is none of that in city builders. i had this discussion with anselm, the citybound guy, back in 2014 too. doesn’t seem like we’ve gotten anywhere since then.

i think it’s more about him having gotten used to it when he played a character on a children’s programme. he also has the face for it, which randall does not.

thus rendering them redundant, because their strength is being bound to a single physical device. if they’re portable, they’re as good as asymmetric key pairs.

and when was that?

you try blowing air through a fish and see where it ends up

what do i get for looking like human shrek

…isn’t this your thread?

i’ve gertainly never met anyone that does. judging from the news, most people don’t seem to care.

i’m unemployed, can i get people to come home and play games with me?

your mouth is typically not directly connected to your bloodstream

if you have cooling and power handled, yes. the threadripper has like 3.5x the tdp.

they generally deal with it by it not being in their blood

they do record, so it will be quite obvious which person suddenly starts looking like a star in the footage.

in the comment i replied to you only mention that there’s no benefit, and you replied to me talking about carbon footprint.

we do a lot of things for no benefit. video games, golf, horse racing, grilling… all those have far larger carbon footprints. as someone else said, focus on the actual negatives of generative ai, like the proven cognitive decline and loneliness.

put it this way, i’m no patrick stewart. i did not pull the look off.

we already know how to build bigger planes. the lockheed CL-1201 design study is from like the 60s.

i shave my head twice a week, because i have the fantastic luck to have incredibly thick hair, and since 22, mpb.

they list the others in the article.

no, there is no difference. at least if ubuntu studio has hooked apt up to discover; it’s usually mainly used for flatpaks.