every time somebody starts talking about power plants i go back to the seeds of my liberal poisoning ----- sim city 2000
anyways, i choose the microwave plant so i can do really sick tricks on my deck in that massive dish
Solar looks like a giant death ray pointed up to fire at God so naturally I choose that
I like fusion so I’m gonna go with the one on the bottom left
But they’re all fusion powered. (Except maybe the middle one, and even that is arguable.)
Fusion - It’s shaped like a U. I want a power district that reads “Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu”
Soulja Boy tell 'em (about renewable energy)
Fusion bc that number is the biggest
I love that this game gave you so many choices of power plants, was mostly correct about their tradeoffs*, treated pollution as a thing that people actually might care about, and made room for some rando pie-in-the-sky idea with microwave power.
*Solar and wind power suck in SimCity 2000, but they legitimately were bad until the 2010s, and I can’t really fault them for failing to predict that. It also overstates the chances of nuclear meltdowns by an order of magnitude (but whatever these games overstate the chances of Godzilla attacks too), and misses the extreme variability in how good hydro power is based on the site (which would be so fiddly, and I can’t blame them, though it’s funny that the best hydro site in SC2K is a long series of rapids, which is like the opposite of what you want).
Hydro since it looks like a lego and I’d imagine I can build lots of them.
Coal, because I’m developing and we all need to start somewhere. But that shit is getting yeeted at the first opportunity that presents itself.
This is such a good problem for forcing kids to think about rates of change
I’m spamming thousands of wind turbines all over the place
heh. let’s see what aristotle47 says
what, do you disagree with aristotle47?
DEBATE DEBATE DEBATE DEBATE
Counterpoint: Aristotle47 is a huge nerd
Whatever happens in DSP when you have the solar swarms
Microwave because space based solar rectennas are awesome and hilarious
I’m all in on that cleeeean coaaal.
Beautiful clean coal
I want to hug and kiss the handsome coal miners!
Solar + Arcologies
What are you cooking in that huge microwave
It’s a rectenna for collecting space based solar power beamed to earth via microwave
Yeah, obviously.
It’s not really obvious to anyone who hasn’t heard of the concept
Is this actually what a ‘microwave’ would be in this context? I don’t know about this kind of stuff so not sure if this is a joke
big fucking burrito
BFB 9000
WARNING: the Slayer has the burrito 🌯
The Only Thing They Fear Is Carnitas
FS Shifty + Stalefish Tweak into a (somewhat sloppy) Eggplant Nose Pick
An eggplant is a handplant variation lip trick while a nosepick is a BS disaster into an overcrook stall instead of a lipslide stall, therefore making an eggplant nosepick impossible
You probably meant a beanplant, which is a boneless variation where the board is popped like a no comply into a nosegrab before the footplant instead of an earlygrab indy footplant jump.
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I love how fucking goofy skate trick names are
Like “dudeeeee did you see that fakie disco flip to seatbelt grab salad grind?!”
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Beanplant posting
we found him everybody we found the skate nerd
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gnarly
Birds?
I don’t know if the power density would actually be high enough to cook birds… but I don’t really care to check because it’ll never be built in reality so real-world performance is irrelevant, and sci-fi maser satellites are cool. Unless you’re a bird.