20km/h is just too slow though. It turns transportation infrastructure that is quite useable on 20+ km journeys and turns it into infrastructure really only usable for short trips.

Also if you were to trying to get somewhere fast with a 20km/h speed limit that you abide by your effort would esentially be a lot of short sprints up to speed and a bunch of trundling in between, imo maybe the most annoying way to ride a bike.

I could see like 30km/h city and 40km/h country or something like this but 20 is just too low.

A 20km/h limit makes an average of ~ 20km/h impossible and i'd recon most long bike commutes find around a 20km/h average to be quite comfortable, but a 20km/h average even on flat terrain requires stints well past 20 to make up for lights and such. If it gets hilly this limit gets even more ridicoulous, depending on the grade the bike rolls way faster than 20.

These things are at most half as wide as most modern cars so no its not car sized. Its not really bike sized either sure but its not just a car. Actual bikes both motor and pedal variety alreay cope fine in city traffic these are fine as well in terms of safety, maybe not in the dessert but otherwise its alright.

Of course its cost cutting at the expense of some comfort, but I'd much rather have this or any similar aliby cargo bike delivering in my neighboorhood than vans, even electric ones. These things are speed limited and the acceleration is fairly tame as well, the driver generally has a much better view than a van, and requiring the pedal input for forward movement makes the driving a bit more conservative/safe.

These should not be on standard bike paths they are just too big for that, but on pedestrianized/ bike streets these are infinetly better than cars for anyone except for maybe the driver, and on low ish speed limit inner city streets they are also just better than cars.

It is actually progress but its also just companies being cheap of course. I do see them as a genuine city quality indicators here in the EU, if they don't exist it's a sign the urban area is either pretty small or just super car centric.

This month it's probably temcandoanything - teto's territory

I mean yeah sts is by far my favourite and most played game at well over 2k hours in sts1 and already past 200 in sts2 which is barely out. So my perspective on playtime and ascension clears might be a tad warped.

I just remembered my first a20 heart to have taken like 400h so sts2 a10 felt kind of like a joke in comparison. But granted act 4 made sts1 a20 quite a bit more difficult and doesn't exist yet for this one.

Nice job on the A10 clear if you've not spent tons of time on the first game that is quite fast. Killing bosses in intangible is always a good time.

Yeah Necro and silent are kinda broken still, in the first few weeks of the game they all were quite broken tbh.

Sly discard is a lot of fun on silent, makes her so strong both via shiv and poison, somehow only doing damage on draw is a completely resonable win con in some runs.

I love that they put status card angle on defect and made 0 cost defect so viable, focus is still easy to come by if you want it, just give up on having defrag so often.

clad having vulnerable as a core mechanic feels quite good, also self damage getting phone more kit is nice, but yeah no heal apart from burning blood and the new rare in beta makes that whole path not quite so broken.

necro is fun and kinda broken if you can get mana and draw econ going you can mostly just chill behind osty and run away with it, also lethality stacking plus debilitate is fun and powerful

regent also is fun but I still struggle with consistency with him, stars seem almost necessary but ive not yet internalised that part, only thing I really know is to pick cosmic indifference if there isn't anything significant offered.

Have you tried coop yet ? IMO it might be the best mod of sts1 that ended up in this one. If you want to try and have no one else to play with hit me up.

Idk a tram is still superior in all aspects apart from purchase price. Especially maintainability being easier /cheaper on asphalt vs steel rail i absolutely do not buy. But at least these things get largely dedicated right of ways so the upgrade to a real tram is much simpler. Bus ride quality is also absolutely dogshit compared to trams. BRT and this kind of tech augmented BRT is fine if your city is just learning to do transit. It's good even. But if they have learned a bit rails will always be king for mass transit.

The 'Screamer' remake of this year definitely has story and progression. I haven't played it myself but I've watched quite a bit of playthrough and for racing games the narrative was downright impressive.

The driving is apparently some kind of twin stick drift thing which seems interesting but yeah I can't say much about that.

Presentation is very modern gatcha-esque, so some impressive cg plus 2d animation, and a lot of character sprite plus textbox vn style dialogue, fully voiced but with subtitles as default as the characters are voiced in their in universe language. So unless you are a real polyglot you'll be reading.

There is main and side story's, several teams with 3 characters each, seemingly real world building, writing that is especially for racing games quite bold and competent, lots of narrative conflicts, with characters having interna. Depending on how you feel it might be a tad edgy or anime for you, but from what I've seen it's not particularly egregious, no high school stuff, only somewhat exaggerated characters, no edge without some story basis...

So it's definitely big budget, but it seems to not have really gathered that much attention.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2814990/Screamer/

Context:

In cologne Germany there is a huge carnival culture, historically carnival is sorta anti establishment, but for a variety of reasons in post ww2 cologne carnival is the establishment. So the Karnevalsvereine have shows/plena called Karnevals_Sitzung. Because these events had lost their anti establishment air, at some point a reaction formed called the Stunk_Sitzung (roughly grievance session as opposed to carnival sessions) which re focused on anti establishment satire, both satirizing main stream carnival and broad local to global politics. This event then became the de facto cultural institution in terms of carnival satirical stage show running several shows weekly throughout the entire season (Nov-Feb/March).

Story:

Getting tickets for this show for a weekend close to the end of the carnival season (the season ends with the main parades and festivities)requires ordering tickets in person on the day the tickets go on sale, with the ticket offices opening 9am lining up at 10pm isn't uncommon, and I have been part of such a line. Although it is also common for the spot in line to be transferable, so I did a shift roughly midnight to 5am at which point I went home to bed and someone else did the last 4h shift and bought tickets.

Ahh yeah I have mine separated into machine and other screws. At least mostly separated.

For the screws apparently what happens if you do it long enough is that you aquire a sifting pan for well sifting through your screws.