Chinese cities are ludicrous by the way. Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are all neverending identical highrises 40+ stories high and filled with people. It looks like a straight up sci-fi dystopia. You look out and instead of a distinctive skyline you see a jungle of thick, consistent development.
it's a function of the poor land planning and compressed development timescale, I think
Also just doing a quick search the Roman metro area is 4.3 million. So it is pretty decently populated.
810 per square kilometer.
Good density there too.
Boston metro is 5.4 million at a density of 1471 people per square kilometer and I usually think of it as a city on the small end. Probs because the new yorks are close by and never shut up and my definition of big city has been skewed badly by china.
I should recalibrate my expectations of world cities.
Boston is a weird hybrid of like a college town and a city that only feels like a world city because of the T.
*never shuts up*
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Wait rome only has 3 million people in it? That seems really low.
Usually for megacities you have to include the metro area.
But we tend to forget a megacity is like like anything over about 2.5 million. Though I think density is probably a better indicator than pure population.
Some of the megacity areas are ridiculous. Like isn't the greater Tokyo area like over 30 million?
Greater Tokyo (so suburbs included) is 37 million people. It has a density of 2,631 people per square kilometer.
To compare to NYC's metro area is 23 million people and a density of 688 people per square kilometer.
But Americans are big and burly s we take up more space
Having been to both NYC and Tokyo a lot I can say NYC always feels more crowded. Tokyo though in size basically makes NYC look like a small town.
Tokyo though even though it is way more crowded never felt nearly as suffocating to me as NYC does especially Manhattan. Also part of that is Tokyo is clean. Like that smell New York gets in the summer? That isn't a required smell of a big city.
Looking at the wikipedia article on the NYC Metro area it seems a little off. The include the immediate city and surrounding cities but also include as far west as Pike County PA and as far up as Ulster County NY. There's some small cities in those areas but most of that shit is fucking empty countryside
Metro areas include suburbs. You can do metro area or the city itself.
Rome and Tokyo both have stuff you are describing in their metro areas. Most major cities do.
But difference in density is still there.
The Boston metro area thing that I found was just the land inside of 495, the city's outer ring highway. That was a lot more sensible than the other "greater metro" areas which were gigantic and stretched halfway across the state and into new hampshire.
For NYC it's a lot less clear cut where to stop if you're going by density. You'd end up with a blobby thing including a bunch of jersey.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Prague was an interesting experience for me. Partially because I was helping my friend find a place to live while I was there so we went to a lot of the old soviet tenement blocks around the old city. The complete disconnect between the amazing and gorgeous old city of Prague and the Soviet era buildings is stark.
I found that in Berlin, going from West to East was like going to a different city, architecture wise.
I've been working from home and instead of enjoying the luxury I realized that all I did yesterday was bounce between twitter and the forums. Mostly twitter and not to read funny tweets. I've been weening myself off the rage cycle regarding the state of the world but haven't done a good job on consuming negativity.
As of now I've just read the headlines and glanced at twitter and now I am going to put my phone down and only use it to glance at chat.
Gotta make myself do this. Things are what they are and refreshing twitter and "waiting for the nukes to hit" is no way to live life.
I mean this is something I've always known intellectually but compulsion and anxiety don't really care for logic. Gotta break the cycle.
I feel like as a person who cares about the world, I can't just "go dark" with the reality around me but this constant input into my brain is accomplishing nothing.
Like I said. Nothing revelatory for anyone. Just using this as a mantra and a sort of decree as letting go of the anger (compared to before anyway) simply hasn't been enough.
Channel your anger into handling my anger about my Surface network adapter failing and being forced to to into the office and work like a sucker
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Also I apologize to anyone who was offended by my shoot the messenger joke yesterday. I really only meant it as a play on the fact that messengers aren't always innocent of fault.
Wait rome only has 3 million people in it? That seems really low.
Usually for megacities you have to include the metro area.
But we tend to forget a megacity is like like anything over about 2.5 million. Though I think density is probably a better indicator than pure population.
Some of the megacity areas are ridiculous. Like isn't the greater Tokyo area like over 30 million?
Greater Tokyo (so suburbs included) is 37 million people. It has a density of 2,631 people per square kilometer.
To compare to NYC's metro area is 23 million people and a density of 688 people per square kilometer.
But Americans are big and burly s we take up more space
Having been to both NYC and Tokyo a lot I can say NYC always feels more crowded. Tokyo though in size basically makes NYC look like a small town.
Tokyo though even though it is way more crowded never felt nearly as suffocating to me as NYC does especially Manhattan. Also part of that is Tokyo is clean. Like that smell New York gets in the summer? That isn't a required smell of a big city.
Looking at the wikipedia article on the NYC Metro area it seems a little off. The include the immediate city and surrounding cities but also include as far west as Pike County PA and as far up as Ulster County NY. There's some small cities in those areas but most of that shit is fucking empty countryside
Metro areas include suburbs. You can do metro area or the city itself.
Rome and Tokyo both have stuff you are describing in their metro areas. Most major cities do.
But difference in density is still there.
The Boston metro area thing that I found was just the land inside of 495, the city's outer ring highway. That was a lot more sensible than the other "greater metro" areas which were gigantic and stretched halfway across the state and into new hampshire.
For NYC it's a lot less clear cut where to stop if you're going by density. You'd end up with a blobby thing including a bunch of jersey.
The unofficial city lines is hard. Do you base it off of percent of population working in the city? Or a set number of miles? A set number of counties? It can get really hard depending on the region.
Some places like Denver are easy. Just use RTD+Douglas County. That is basically all the countries that contribute to the Denver public transportation system and Douglas which has a huge suburb of workers but due to politically fuck muppetry doesn't like to contribute.
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Trying to sell vidya games on ebay I wonder who the hell actually buys games at $60, given that brand new games that just came out are going sealed in box for $37
my profit maarggiinnns
shit I might keep watch dogs 2 for that price, looks like I can still get at least $45 for last guardian and dishonored 2 royal protector edition
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Chinese cities are ludicrous by the way. Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are all neverending identical highrises 40+ stories high and filled with people. It looks like a straight up sci-fi dystopia. You look out and instead of a distinctive skyline you see a jungle of thick, consistent development.
A friend was sent to Chengdu for work and posted some photos. People commented, "Oh, the smog isn't that bad!"
She replied "Actually, Instagram filters" and posted the unfiltered photos and also pictures of trees with actual fake leaves attached to them
In shanghai they have to send out cleaning crews to hose down the fake trees regularly to get all the soot off them, otherwise they start looking dingy after a few days. It is a land of nightmares for sure.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
my only complaint is the circuit system is kinda eh (it seems like maybe some of the more impactful circuit choices aren't implemented yet?)
oh and i guess i don't really like the rpg aspects, but its already pretty rpg lite in that you can do everything even underleveled, it just takes forever and you have little to no room for error
but i am otherwise shocked at how good it is and thus far it has felt amazingly complete for an early access and what a steal at $20
I've been working from home and instead of enjoying the luxury I realized that all I did yesterday was bounce between twitter and the forums. Mostly twitter and not to read funny tweets. I've been weening myself off the rage cycle regarding the state of the world but haven't done a good job on consuming negativity.
As of now I've just read the headlines and glanced at twitter and now I am going to put my phone down and only use it to glance at chat.
Gotta make myself do this. Things are what they are and refreshing twitter and "waiting for the nukes to hit" is no way to live life.
I mean this is something I've always known intellectually but compulsion and anxiety don't really care for logic. Gotta break the cycle.
I feel like as a person who cares about the world, I can't just "go dark" with the reality around me but this constant input into my brain is accomplishing nothing.
Like I said. Nothing revelatory for anyone. Just using this as a mantra and a sort of decree as letting go of the anger (compared to before anyway) simply hasn't been enough.
Channel your anger into handling my anger about my Surface network adapter failing and being forced to to into the office and work like a sucker
Why didn't you just go to a big box store and get a USB network adapter? Wireless/ethernet they make both
Well at least I got good grades this semester, apparently the secret is only taking 4 classes at a time so I can spend 8 hours on the internet and still have time to do my homework. #millennialprotips
Well at least I got good grades this semester, apparently the secret is only taking 4 classes at a time so I can spend 8 hours on the internet and still have time to do my homework. #millennialprotips
Chinese cities are ludicrous by the way. Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are all neverending identical highrises 40+ stories high and filled with people. It looks like a straight up sci-fi dystopia. You look out and instead of a distinctive skyline you see a jungle of thick, consistent development.
A friend was sent to Chengdu for work and posted some photos. People commented, "Oh, the smog isn't that bad!"
She replied "Actually, Instagram filters" and posted the unfiltered photos and also pictures of trees with actual fake leaves attached to them
In shanghai they have to send out cleaning crews to hose down the fake trees regularly to get all the soot off them, otherwise they start looking dingy after a few days. It is a land of nightmares for sure.
Yikes
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my only complaint is the circuit system is kinda eh (it seems like maybe some of the more impactful circuit choices aren't implemented yet?)
oh and i guess i don't really like the rpg aspects, but its already pretty rpg lite in that you can do everything even underleveled, it just takes forever and you have little to no room for error
but i am otherwise shocked at how good it is and thus far it has felt amazingly complete for an early access and what a steal at $20
I guess unless I play it's just a demo? it's pretty cool I must say, and I could play it at work
I've been working from home and instead of enjoying the luxury I realized that all I did yesterday was bounce between twitter and the forums. Mostly twitter and not to read funny tweets. I've been weening myself off the rage cycle regarding the state of the world but haven't done a good job on consuming negativity.
As of now I've just read the headlines and glanced at twitter and now I am going to put my phone down and only use it to glance at chat.
Gotta make myself do this. Things are what they are and refreshing twitter and "waiting for the nukes to hit" is no way to live life.
I mean this is something I've always known intellectually but compulsion and anxiety don't really care for logic. Gotta break the cycle.
I feel like as a person who cares about the world, I can't just "go dark" with the reality around me but this constant input into my brain is accomplishing nothing.
Like I said. Nothing revelatory for anyone. Just using this as a mantra and a sort of decree as letting go of the anger (compared to before anyway) simply hasn't been enough.
Channel your anger into handling my anger about my Surface network adapter failing and being forced to to into the office and work like a sucker
Why didn't you just go to a big box store and get a USB network adapter? Wireless/ethernet they make both
$30ish is waaay better than going into the office
I did order one on Amazon, yeah. Hopefully the spotty USB won't be an issue.
If I went to a big box store I might as well have gone to work...
Man, can't wait till this Friday which I get off (technically a floating holiday--sort of, but only to be floated elsewhere in this pay period, so not very useful). Going to finally set up my new computer! Question: what's the best way to back up my old computer? It is my windows desktop (running windows 7) which is only used for gaming. It has saved games and a few documents that I'd want to carry over; not much else, I guess. Should I hunt down savegame locations and the couple of documents I want and upload them temporarily to some online backup service, or...?
Wait rome only has 3 million people in it? That seems really low.
Usually for megacities you have to include the metro area.
But we tend to forget a megacity is like like anything over about 2.5 million. Though I think density is probably a better indicator than pure population.
Some of the megacity areas are ridiculous. Like isn't the greater Tokyo area like over 30 million?
Greater Tokyo (so suburbs included) is 37 million people. It has a density of 2,631 people per square kilometer.
To compare to NYC's metro area is 23 million people and a density of 688 people per square kilometer.
But Americans are big and burly s we take up more space
Having been to both NYC and Tokyo a lot I can say NYC always feels more crowded. Tokyo though in size basically makes NYC look like a small town.
Tokyo though even though it is way more crowded never felt nearly as suffocating to me as NYC does especially Manhattan. Also part of that is Tokyo is clean. Like that smell New York gets in the summer? That isn't a required smell of a big city.
Where were you in Manhattan? There are a few hot spots that are always ludicrous most of the rest is pretty calm
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My Munchlax evolved. He is longer a cute like monster. Now he's a giant Snorlax. Dang it.
It is interesting how the list of most populous city changes when you do it by proper city instead of metro area. Shanghai gets number 1 at 20 million but you get places like Lagos and Karachi up at the top. Tokyo is at the 8th on that list. NYC is 23 after London. Well below like Mexico City and Moscow.
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it's a function of the poor land planning and compressed development timescale, I think
Because at this point they just can't help themselves
superhero aesthetic is awful fyi hth
Boston is a weird hybrid of like a college town and a city that only feels like a world city because of the T.
*never shuts up*
The Boston metro area thing that I found was just the land inside of 495, the city's outer ring highway. That was a lot more sensible than the other "greater metro" areas which were gigantic and stretched halfway across the state and into new hampshire.
For NYC it's a lot less clear cut where to stop if you're going by density. You'd end up with a blobby thing including a bunch of jersey.
I found that in Berlin, going from West to East was like going to a different city, architecture wise.
Channel your anger into handling my anger about my Surface network adapter failing and being forced to to into the office and work like a sucker
Ironically I guess I sent the wrong message.
why would you make Wonder Woman have the skimpiest costume instead of Ezra Miller
The unofficial city lines is hard. Do you base it off of percent of population working in the city? Or a set number of miles? A set number of counties? It can get really hard depending on the region.
Some places like Denver are easy. Just use RTD+Douglas County. That is basically all the countries that contribute to the Denver public transportation system and Douglas which has a huge suburb of workers but due to politically fuck muppetry doesn't like to contribute.
great music damn
my profit maarggiinnns
shit I might keep watch dogs 2 for that price, looks like I can still get at least $45 for last guardian and dishonored 2 royal protector edition
In shanghai they have to send out cleaning crews to hose down the fake trees regularly to get all the soot off them, otherwise they start looking dingy after a few days. It is a land of nightmares for sure.
oh and i guess i don't really like the rpg aspects, but its already pretty rpg lite in that you can do everything even underleveled, it just takes forever and you have little to no room for error
but i am otherwise shocked at how good it is and thus far it has felt amazingly complete for an early access and what a steal at $20
This is pretty dope. I'm diggin it!
Why didn't you just go to a big box store and get a USB network adapter? Wireless/ethernet they make both
$30ish is waaay better than going into the office
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Yikes
I guess unless I play it's just a demo? it's pretty cool I must say, and I could play it at work
If I went to a big box store I might as well have gone to work...
Where were you in Manhattan? There are a few hot spots that are always ludicrous most of the rest is pretty calm