Each of these districts houses about 5000 residents and includes a supermarket, a school, a hospital, a library, a bar, and a sports field. This setup is only possible if you choose Eastern Europe as your region (its bonuses include the top-tier social housing).

I can create an 8000 resident variant by replacing most of the greenspace with apartments. Mechanically it doesn't negatively impact resident quality of life, and in fact it eats up a lot less maintenance, but it looks ugly as hell, so it's only something I do when I'm minmaxing.

• "I don't kill anyone, they can all choose to live, so if they die that's on them"
• "Please ignore that many of them try with every ounce of strength they have to escape but it turns out their bodies are physically incapable of enduring the damage it requires them to sustain"
• "Also ignore that the only reason they're in the traps is because I kidnaped them and put them there"
• "Also also ignore that some of my traps are explicitly designed so that not all participants can survive"
• "Also also also ignore that some traps have victims whose survival is entirely out of their own hands and determined by the decisions of others in the trap"
• "Anyway, don't feel bad for them, they definitely deserve their horrendous suffering because [insert ridiculously petty reason here]"

So, I have 2 train routes for exports, highlighted for visibility:

• A cement train that runs between the red line (at the end of which is a loading station for cement) and the customs house at the far end of the green line
• A gravel train that runs from the aggregate loading station at the end of the blue line to the same customs house

Here's the behavior I want:

• When returning from the green route, a train has right-of-way to return to its loading station
• If a train arrives at the intersection from the red or blue route, it should proceed only if there is no train on the green line; otherwise, it should wait until the green line is clear

I'm not entirely sure how semaphores work and no combination of them seems to do the trick. I get trains unable to return from the customs house, trains colliding, or trains forever deadlocked at the junction. I've watched/read like 3 different tutorials and I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to do.

I am now producing gravel at a steady rate which I am exporting for modest amounts of money. My next goal is to set up multi-step supply chain so that I can produce and sell concrete.

I'm aware my setup is probably inept for any number of reasons, please do not hesitate to tell me where I fucked up as I want to get better at the game

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Players identified a couple of dialog errors and a potential CTD, so I've updated the game to a new v1.1 version, available at the post link. Previous version save files will be compatible with the 1.1 update.

Game is Digimon Story: Time Stranger

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those who otherwise require less support, face severe difficulties in everyday social interactions. Research in this area has primarily focused on identifying the cognitive and neurological differences that contribute to these social impairments, but social interaction by definition involves more than one person and social difficulties may arise not just from people with ASD themselves, but also from the perceptions, judgments, and social decisions made by those around them. Here, across three studies, we find that first impressions of individuals with ASD made from thin slices of real-world social behavior by typically-developing observers are not only far less favorable across a range of trait judgments compared to controls, but also are associated with reduced intentions to pursue social interaction. These patterns are remarkably robust, occur within seconds, do not change with increased exposure, and persist across both child and adult age groups. However, these biases disappear when impressions are based on conversational content lacking audio-visual cues, suggesting that style, not substance, drives negative impressions of ASD. Collectively, these findings advocate for a broader perspective of social difficulties in ASD that considers both the individual’s impairments and the biases of potential social partners.

The society described is a boring-ass soul-crushingly conformist cookie cutter suburb, as in, exactly the sort of "good old American small town" conservatives like Shapiro champion

The only difference is that in the society in the book, the boring-ass cookie cutter housing was guaranteed and rent-free

Like what is the enforcement mechanism for "nobody is allowed to grow crops or build things anywhere on Earth"

Or do they actually expect the entire global population to unanimously decide they don't want potable water or antibiotics anymore

I am a Marxist and a materialist. Ideas and beliefs don't arise ex nihilo. They emerge to fit the material reality in which they exist. What are the material realities that lead to carnism? I would argue that there are only two that matter:

1. "I benefit from objectifying these animals."
2. "These animals are too weak to stop me from objectifying them."

Boil away the justifications, strip away the decorum, and this is what you get. But what if that person enters a situation where they benefit from objectifying me? What if I'm too weak to stop them? What barrier prevents them from doing so? My intelligence? My capacity for suffering? Their empathy and goodwill? None of that saves cattle, or pigs, or chickens. Why would it save me? I'm not foolish enough to think I'm special.

And look, survival situations are one thing. If you kill and eat an animal because the alternative is starvation, you have decided that the animal's life is worth less than your life. If someone decided that my life was worth less than their life, and a situation came up where they had to act on that decision, I wouldn't begrudge it. I wouldn't like it, I'd fight it, but I wouldn't begrudge it. The thought of someone deciding my life is worth less than their pleasure, though? Turns my blood to fucking ice.