Gaming
Ha ha, I thought, I remember going to Penny’s with my friends! Oh yeah, I miss hanging out at Penny’s! I thought it was pretty funny, so I took the screenshot and kept playing Cities: Skylines. Then I figured out how to go first person on foot through
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I'm in Chicago to celebrate New Year's before New Year's. Every year for nearly 20 years, a group of my college friends have gathered, even as we've grown and spread across the country. Most of us started in the Midwest, and Chicago
Quotes
Today, like its predecessors, the expressway has struck a technological threshold. Its downfall is its limited capacity. Even the biggest highway can move at most a couple hundred thousand cars per day—sufficient for small cities and for long-distance trips, but inadequate in a city of millions. And while people
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I've lived almost all of my life in the Midwest, where the streets run North to South or East to West. My hometown actually had North, South, East and West Main streets. And it's easy to just take that for granted, that all streets are the
Gaming
I’ve been working on coming up with a definition of “deep play” as I use it to refer to video games. I went back over the games that I’ve played so far this year, and looked at how many experiences I had that really grabbed me, and what
Gaming
Cities is essentially a SimCity clone. It’s not even subtle about it. You build a city by placing roads, zoning Residential, Commercial, or Industrial, supply power, water, santitation, health, education, fire and police services. And build parks. And maybe SimCity is close enough to reality that you could say