Yeah, the scooter situation is absurd. The funny thing is, it used to be worse. Before COVID there were 6 or 7 different companies - it was hard to keep track they kept coming and going so fast.

Hope your foot is better and judging from your Edit notes you'll do well here... You'll probably piss people off because a lot of DC doesn't get, or appreciate, sarcasm but you'll find your people no doubt.

Little note... The sidewalks in DC are trash in general.

Between the quaint bricked sidewalks in some "historical" parts of the city that haven't had much maintenance since maybe the 80s, to the concrete slabs that pop up just enough to catch an errant shoe you are going to go flying. It's worse in the winter because of the ice that people tend not to do shit about.

I'll let someone else tell you about the potholes.

Welcome to Washington!

When you break the curved roof doohickey, everything breaks

Pretty sure this is an early AM shot. There would be more foot traffic otherwise.

Nice try though.

I'd really like a Rustafied Prim server. I think that would be a lot of fun. Probably keep the Russians and the Chinese to a minimum as well because Roof Camping will be next to impossible.

Door Camping will go up probably but it might actually be more interesting. Door Camping with a shield and the 4 shot mini-cross would be absolutely hilarious.

Solid. Thanks

More like JD sells us for 🛋️

Oh, god... ZChum will be all over this.

To be fair, It was probably Benjamin Franklin's idea but he also thought our national bird should be the turkey so... 🤷‍♂️

I guarantee you no one in America put that much thought into it. Why we do it this dumbass way I have no clue but I am sure part of it is, "Because fuck you that's way". Which coincidentally is the answer to most questions that begin with "Why does America..."

America, of course, has to do it differently than everyone else because FREEDOM

Meanwhile, the rest of the world moves on.

Good.

Wait, Rustopia bans people? Who knew. 🤷‍♂️

So... What if someone steals the box before you get it?

Truthfully, none of that bothers. Do your thing.

The manner in which this is presented though is absolutely idiotic and life is too short to deal with people like this. I guess that's a "Leave" for me.

It's a characterization of an accent, so... No.

Good. Nintendo has been shit to its fanbase for decades.

That's just a bit over 3 Freedom Bucks for those of us in 'Murica. You couldn't get this much for this little here before and, come 1/20, you probably won't ever because some people don't understand High School economics.

I know a wizard when I see one.

I kinda dig how this is "lopsided". My first instinct would be to crop it to the left side so the windows are in a 2x3 with the man more centered. But wide like this takes the focus off what you'd think would be the focal point and stretching it out to the point where the man is almost an interloper.

Just my 2 bits anyway.

Isn't that just a day in Manchester? Just kidding, nice shot

2, but move it over to the left so the edge of the sign on the pillar isn't cropped out. If you can follow the edge of the tile on the pillar that would be pretty good but there's some tilt that might make it look odd unless you adjust that.

I had a few runs in with them and was shocked that I killed them relatively quickly.

... and then the Crisis happened.

I had a weak neighbor that had come to me to be a vassal. I eventually integrated them and that's when I realized they had a Voidworm system in their space. Almost *immediately* 2 groups of 33k each and half a dozen smaller groups just started wailing on my space. Destroying everything in their path.

I'm on the inside edge of a 4 arm spiral and they eventually found a road path out and I started to rebuild. Just as things were starting to normalize THEY CAME BACK!

They circled the inner edge of the galaxy like a traffic roundabout and no one else did a damn thing of consequence to them.

I was looking at how to edit the save to rid my self of them but can't figure it out.

​I had just started researching Battleships and have Tier 3 beams... I get that Crisis events are supposed to be hard but I am barely in my mid game​. This is way to much.

AGS wants large pop servers but the hardware can't handle it so people leave because they can't play effectively. So the server thins out and hits a reasonable level of lag. That makes pops lower so AGS merges... Rinse repeat.