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by GaryBluto23 hours ago |
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upvoteby jak6jak15 hours ago|
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OP must of hit a nerve here but In games like city skylines a big difficulty of large cities built in the game is handling car traffic. A lot of which is solved by public transport, walking paths and other "apirational" city structures that are hard to realize in real life. I've watched alot of fun videos on youTube of a certain youtuber apply these techniques to other people's saves to great success. It's honestly a fun challenge to solve.
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upvoteby prmoustache15 hours ago|
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> to people who more often than not want to design semi-realistic, typical cities in an entertaining strategy game.[...] more so if you actively punish traditional city structures.

What you call "typical" and "traditional" is not in any way universal.

Or you haven't travelled a lot.

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upvoteby cheschire23 hours ago|
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upvoteby GaryBluto23 hours ago|
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I live in the United Kingdom. I have never once stepped foot in North America.
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upvoteby cheschire22 hours ago|
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upvoteby dang21 hours ago|
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Please don't cross into personal attack. The idea is to abstain from that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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upvoteby cheschire15 hours ago|
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That is an interesting interpretation of my question.

Notice how in the continued thread after receiving confirmation that they were not just making up a story as many do, or otherwise living in an area of the UK that is not GMT, I immediately switched to asking for confirmation about their point about simcity.

Could you help me understand how digging is personal attacks?

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upvoteby dang8 hours ago|
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Your comment implied that the other person was lying.
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upvoteby cheschire7 hours ago|
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Ah. I’m not sure I understand how that is considered a personal attack. Especially when I see others calling each others messages AI slop with no recourse. Perhaps people just don’t flag those comments because they agree, whereas people flagged my message because they didn’t.

I have great respect for what you and now also Tom provide to the community, so I don’t believe I have much ground to argue from. So I will just say as I do not understand the application of this rule, I may potentially run afoul of it again in the future. Please understand it won’t be out of disrespect, simply out of ignorance and a need to grow my definition of what a personal attack is one instance at a time until it aligns with your views.

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upvoteby dredmorbius2 hours ago|
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<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292220>
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upvoteby cheschire2 hours ago|
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Oh indeed. I was referring to how the community itself views it by their choices to flag or not flag things. But thank you for the confirmation of my understanding.
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upvoteby GaryBluto22 hours ago|
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My sleep schedule varies from week to week depending on whatever miscellaneous project is sucking up all my attention (with some constants). It's hard to stay on a strict schedule once I've gotten into "the flow".
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upvoteby cheschire22 hours ago|
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Ok so do you feel strongly then that simcity is representative of civil engineering in the UK?
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upvoteby GaryBluto22 hours ago|
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No, but SimCity (and most games) are designed for a primarily American audience by American developers and are "build-from-scratch" games. I feel a game for designing UK cities would be much harder to design, especially because most cities in the UK are the way they are because of historical restrictions while the United States and Canada were unburdened by this.
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upvoteby nonethewiser22 hours ago|
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You're making his point! It's a city builder, not a long-established-city-transformer.
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