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Spent a month in Prague and I can 1000% agree with this sentiment. Yes the old city was heavily touristy, but even with all that crap it still felt more like an integrated whole community than the outskirts where my apartment was and was built like your typical American suburb.
Unpopular opinion: Housing in the ideal socialist society of tomorrow will be closer to old Prague than to the modern high-rises surrounded by greenery that most leftists seem to like.
Completely agree. A lot of Soviet housing was very flawed and while modernism and brutalism can be neat, an entire city with only that architecture can be suffocating.
I'll only be happy when I can live in a building that looks like it belongs in Halo 1
Which is why I propose Modern High rises surrounded by greenery in art nouveau style.
I tend to agree, since I think that we tend to fallaciously view the addition of technology/industrialism as a positive even when it doesn't appreciably improve living conditions, with the caveat that the ideal socialist city of tomorrow should probably be apportioned to the population density of the city in question. I wouldn't want to roll up to densely packed community and force them to spread out in order to chase some idealized version of an Eastern European city.
it doesn't work everywhere (especially in more dense cities populous countries).
It can result in sprawling concrete jungles like this
In Beijing for instance, you can see older parts of the city being demolished and replaced with high density buildings
This is like when my family "visited" Boston when I was a kid. My whole experience was the city as seen through the passenger side window of a car.
Visiting a city without driving is one of the true joys in life (except if it's LA or something I guess)
That totally sucks - it's one of the worst places to drive that I've ever been.
Its because Boston isn't made for driving, it's made for walking.
That's true, but the driving sucks more because of the other drivers than anything else.
I actually have no clue, but it's been a while and it feels like something they'd do. Best way to lead up to that is generally promote old stuff about your game and see how the reaction goes.
Probably not, since Square has Eidos chained to the giant money pit that is... hurk that awful Avengers live disservice
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i visited old prague last i went to czechia. being able to walk places is nice, though its marred because my family lives in some rural mountains so... still gotta car to get there. visited it from the airport then went to family's place.
tbh despite being a czech citizen i havent really been to prague much. usually just fly in and go straight to the rural area where my family is. ive considered coming in during pride when covid is less of an issue and hanging out in prague then to make up for lost time
I actually felt Mankind Divided didn't resemble Prague all that much. the sidewalks in Prague are made with smooth white and black stones. it seems like a simple enough detail to include but they overlooked it, I guess. It was also way more open than in the game. also a lot of pedestrian tunnels everywhere, some large enough to have stores in.
GTA V is mostly just commuting and racial slurs. I can't understand why people think that it's fun.
Nah, if they wanted to nail the LA experience they needed to add in the much more racist area of Orange County, the mindnumbing suburbs of The Valley and the polluted hellscape that is Long Beach
It's like having New York without Brooklyn
