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Perspective people; they ain’t all USAians or from Canadia.

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Yes. Some of them live in places designed for walkability, or that have usable transit systems.

North America (most of it) is not the pinnacle of urban design and transportation.

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Whole swaths of humanity live in places not designed for walkability, nor is there any public transportation.

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That’s true. That’s why I’m not against cars entirely. I just don’t see them as an end solution for all cases where they are currently needed.

That would be why Europe, China, and Japan use trains?

Anyway, apart from some folks still trying to polish the Insufficient Intelligent AI fece, there’s been some good discussion.

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I don’t know if this is appropriate game etiquette, or not, but I really enjoyed these posts.

I literally (as in the literal meaning of “literally”, and not the figurative meaning, over which I will fight you) laughed out loud. More than once.

and

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There’s something about this post…

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This kind of dedication to craft is what I love about the people on this site. :heart_eyes::star_struck:

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I don’t get it.

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It’s a text message piped through base64.

It’s like putting spoiler tags around something, except it takes slightly more work to read it, and the reader has to recognize the output format in order to know what to do with it.

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Now I got it. :wink:

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It occurs to me that my enthusiasm is a little in-jokey, which is kind of sucky for the folks who don’t recognize the reference, so here’s a hint: https://www.base64decode.org (copy and paste).

The encoding bit was the visceral, in-character, icing on the cake, but mostly my admiration was for the commitment to the characters from the RDSA. In my imagination, someone serendipitously ran across an interesting image1 that reminded them of our little game, and then shared that in a way that was kind of both a puzzle and a treat. (I don’t know if that’s really what happened, but I like my version).

cc: @fintastic

1. or maybe not a real image? I have a certain affinity for old-school sci-fi paperback cover art, to the extent that I buy books I’ve no intention of reading based purely on their covers, but I’ve so far been unable to determine if the referenced tome is real or imaginary.

ETA: Doh! ninja’d.

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The image seems to be from Phil-Are-Go:
https://phil-are-go.blogspot.com/2018/11/spaceprom.html

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Still, to my mind, the worst offenders are know-nothings: they are feckin’ anathema . It doesn’t matter to me whether it’s some academic who learned some “rules” and has applied them indiscriminately for 35 years, or whether it’s someone who figures that his opinion is just as good as anyone else’s… without researching the topic.

https://bbs.elsewhere.cafe/t/the-other-place-gone-evil/3182/130?u=mrmonkey

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Back at the other place:

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This historian tried, to little avail! :wink:

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I had the exact same reaction upon seeing that picture! :laughing:

Well done!

https://bbs.elsewhere.cafe/t/wanderfounds-tasmanian-migration/3222/687?u=mrmonkey

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