@maija@p@meso I almost entirely subsist off these and have for the past decade and a bit. To quote eminent public health authority @sjw, "how the fuck are you still alive?"
@maija@p@meso there was a polish grocer who carried them when I lived in the city and it's honestly one of the things I miss most about being out there
@maija@sjw@p@meso I've never had actual fish in my life, parents have very strong hangups around that due to being true believers for the mercury in vaccines causes autism canard.
@maija@sjw@p@meso it's just low-key chill, has great atmosphere, everything I could want out of a city in terms of amenities, IRL scenes are really strong, and despite the obvious decay and hardship it is broadly run by sane people who aren't blind to the world around them, thus it basically has nowhere to go but up compared to the rest of burgerstan which is too invested in virtue signalling and obscurantist technocratic nonsense to do anything but rot
@roboneko@lispi314@davidho That's one of the issues. The other one (and the far more important one IMO) is that the incentives are totally misaligned for actually building and using said infrastructure. That's why LVT is so important and why a literal Muslim ghetto enclaved in the center of Detroit has better walkability and locality than pretty much anywhere else in the entire Midwest.
@roboneko@lispi314@davidho for public transportation and footpaths to be useful, they need to have business and residential in close proximity to each other with efficient usage of land. the easiest way to achieve that is by fucking speculators out of the equation and encouraging productive development of infrastructure on desirable land. the lvt-adjacent maritime technocracies of east and southeast asia prove this.
@lewdthewides Yes, but I'm talking specifically about the crossover with ochimono/falling block puzzlers. I feel like they have a very similar "crystalline soul" (as Tim Rogers would put it) and appeal to the same kind of instinct. To get even more meta, comboing in something like Puyo or Star Sweep appeals to the same kind of feel-good dopamine release as getting big juicy cancels in latter-day Cave or X.X releases. Just a lot of opportunities to create a bounded set of rules which synergize and interconnect to create a total flow state.
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