the fact that i refuse to build trains should be proof that i'm a true american

True American don't have a complex against Buffalo Bill

I like building buses too actually. And ships. But they're supplemental, trains are the main thing. Here's a map I've been working on this weekend:

http://wedemandhtml.com/tmp/Straight%20Ace%20Transport%202093-04-19%20GIGANTIC.png (GIGANTIC image, 19 MB)

edit: I loathe planes, though.

yeah, planes are terrible.  buses are really fun, i've not done too much with ships though.  right now i'm playing an offline map that's really tiny, has only like four cities and only a handful of industries.  i'm trying to see how big i can make the cities/how much i can make in general via just trucks.  it's two islands though so i had to build a HUGE bridge

also it must have been a while since i downloaded this game because i didn't know you could play without the original files now :o

edit: i remembered that there was a 'load heightmap' option so i opened some pixel art i did a long time ago of a 3do and this map rules

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one day we have got to play on this map

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one day we have got to play on this map

My word I never played the game your playing but that map alone makes me want to play it.

I would have a flipping good old time.

Does openttd have anything in the way of renewable transport solutions or is it just a big carboon boot stamping all over the nice isometric landscapes -.-

Are the actual terrains and buildings different or is it just the UI? Because the UI is a little ugly but I didn't even notice a difference in the rest (well the water looked a little funky but it could have always been that way for all I've noticed)

seems like every arts degree is the same old shit.

i dunno what i'm gonna do about that. i get a year abroad out of it, bunch of student loans for easy living just now (maybe not even a good thing), don't have the qualifications to just up and do masters of space tech. or anything outside of arts really (and maybe totally dissatisfied and unsure is just me so i'd maybe hate that too like NO I NEED TO CREATE instead of THIS IS EGOTISTIC AND NOT KNOWLEDGE JUST OPINIONS. do i even like arts?

I don't know what same old shit is. egotistic not knowledge just opinions sounds more like bad professors and bad classes or just you because that isn't the experience you should be getting from arts. I've had to read awful papers on egotistical garbage opinions, but that's just 'those guys' and I'm over here doing whatever the flip I want

I'm glad I'm doing an art+something concrete degree tho because I know I would get fed up with just wading around in arts every day every class. and I just have to feel like I'm doing something, art and design is too natural and too enjoyable I need to math and science it up

its my birthday today

its my birthday today

hbday

hbd

commercials that are completely fake and gay and ineffective:

* Any CapitalOne commercial ever
* These new Energizer commercials that have Energizer batteries doing amazing things saving people in Haiti stopping forest fires and like worships firemen etc. in this weird combination of like those student films from the 50's + Soviet Propaganda + Rescue Heroes THE GREAT FIRE DISASTERMEN I mean not the part that firemen are heroic just that they kind of throw the BATTERIES in there with them. Also the other one where it was BRICKHOUSE CHILD LOCATOR (jasooon some mom yells but her voice is absorbed by the illuminati mind control rays) the world of energizer is constant natural disaster + must keep your childs safe at all times from terrorists causing mudslides in springfield usa if they could say their batteries are illuminati-free they would do this


there are also these commercials now for Samsung?? I don't know but they have some fake movie scene in the commercial that appears in the guy's living room that is like METAL NINJAS FIGHTING and it was probably just meant as a generic action movie scene like they've done forever making fake movie scenes for commercials but it could almost be a real movie scene from a current movie this is how horrid movies are right now

tbh I'm just jealous of people who are a kid right now they don't comprehend recession and they get like a new superhero movie every day meanwhile I just get terrifying 8-bit Shadowgate game my body explodes as I plunge into the lava. Damn those old Nintendo Power covers were cool though I grew up thinking were they clay, cg, really good drawings??? and it turns out they were this weird mixed-media shit that not like nobody does mixed media anymore but the Nintendo Power covers had the GRAIN of early 90's on their side really made it difficult to tell how someone made the images

Edit: Oh yeah

* fucking Enterprise Rent-a-car

Damn those old Nintendo Power covers were cool though I grew up thinking were they clay, cg, really good drawings??? and it turns out they were this weird mixed-media shit that not like nobody does mixed media anymore but the Nintendo Power covers had the GRAIN of early 90's on their side really made it difficult to tell how someone made the images

this is a bit later than you're referring to but the nintendo power issue about pokemon stadium (i have it at my house for some reason still but i can't find a pic online) had this cover (or maybe it was art in the article??) where the pokemon did look like clay even though they were cg (i guess????) and i'm pretty sure most other covers were like this too.  this is what i immediately thought of when you said clay because they never quite looked CG but they didn't exactly look like anything else either and it was always very weird!

i really miss the days when nintendo power determined the bulk of my video game purchases.  it sounds weird from today's standpoint but i mean nowadays i don't even hear about anything but the main games coming out (call of duty again: this time it's serious).  i mean with the internet i should hear about MORE games but instead i just hear less!!!  at least with GW if something like deadly premonition comes along i'm aware of it but nintendo power would have a fucking list of almost every game coming out for their systems the following month.  i'm not aware of games other than halo call of duty w/e coming out unless i am in a store and happen to see them or unless it's something like ghost trick where yeah it's not one of the huge franchises but there's enough excitement around it to have seen it on joystiq.

but when i was a kiddo it wasn't like this at all, i mean you still knew what the big games were because nintendo paid more attention to pokemon or donkey kong or mario but they reviewed everything.  i can't remember the name but there was some game where you played a big fat redneck (probably named bubba) and you played all these redneck themed mini games and i remember seeing it and going "jesus this looks like the worst game" but i still liked the fact that nintendo had a mini review on it!  i wanted an n64 because of nintendo power but i didn't want it because of mario 64 or OoT, i wanted it for snowboard kids 2.  because i read a little feature on it and it sounded hella cool.  and it WAS hella cool!!!  i also got legend of the river king because of nintendo power, which is a game i still really like even though there's nothing too special about it (except fishing rpg....) and i got revelations: the demon slayer and idk i can't remember if the shadowgate thing was in nintendo power or another magazine but what i'm saying applies to other magazines too though nintendo power seemed to have weirder games

the point is if i had grown up with the internet as it is right now i never would have bought any of these games because i wouldn't have even been aware of them.  yet i'm always painfully aware when a new halo or call of duty comes out despite the fact that i don't play either one.  and video game magazines right now, from what i've seen of the ones that still exist, have gone this way too.

that's actually pretty much spot on? i never thought about it before that way no way...

Some mother fucker stole my Toaster Strudels at work and I hope they choke on them or even better have a heart attack. BTW they could just asked I would of let them have one don't just take the whole thing that's just bull shit.

Edit: happy birthday JMickle.