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[CrowCaw90]

I'm guessing you found us because speaking out on Reddit got you censored?

No, but I sure as hell got cemsored by NJB and his equally obnoxious fanboys. NJB has the worst fanbase, I swear.

NJB has the worst fanbase. Every time I criticise their idol, I get flooded with angry messages calling me a homophobe or a gun nut or telling me to kill myself or some shit that's completely irrelevant. NJB fanboys are worse than MrEnter fans, I swear.

 

[AdmiralRenae]

Do any of you guys have stories of actual people you met irl that talked about how much they hated cars and loved public transport.

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The only reason why they lost him is because he went to the one spot in the entire city that isn't under constant CCTV surveillance: Central Park. NYC is far more dystopian than any suburb.
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Wait so cities make it easier to lock people down in 15 minute prisons like in China? How surprising!

 

[x3firehexx]

NJB has the worst fanbase. Every time I criticise their idol, I get flooded with angry messages calling me a homophobe or a gun nut or telling me to kill myself or some shit that's completely irrelevant. NJB fanboys are worse than MrEnter fans, I swear.

Even tough 90% of said userbase are spoiled kids living the same car depended suburbs they are actively hating on. Ofcourse that and their parents probably also have a SUV or two. Basically the literal definition hypocrisy

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Even tough 90% of said userbase are spoiled kids living the same car depended suburbs they are actively hating on. Ofcourse that and their parents probably also have a SUV or two. Basically the literal definition hypocrisy

That's the very reason why they are urbanist/anti-car in the first place.

Irrational hatred of either their parents or the place they grew up in.

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars user moves from a car-dependent American suburb to walkable Tokyo, but doesn't like being squished on the train:

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I love trains but I hate how crowded they get Question/Discussion (self.fuckcars)
submitted 10 hours ago by kuchiki517

So, I’ve lived in Japan for a couple years now and I have always loved the public transit. Famously one of the best systems in the world. I used to think there were no improvements it could make besides the usual things like having more frequent trains.

But recently, I moved from the countryside to the Tokyo metro area. In the countryside, I only had a bike and used the train/bus for my daily commute and I had a lovely time. Now that I live in Tokyo, it’s a grating crowded nightmare everyday and I think it’s starting to actively impact my mental health? Before Japan, I always lived in the suburbs outside of major cities, so I was really looking forward to finally living in the middle of the urban center, but there’s always so many people, they walk slow, they walk staring at their phones, they shove you trying to get on the train, they don’t move when people are trying to get off the train. In Japan, common etiquette is to put your backpack on your front to make room for more people on the train, but it just leads to people straight up leaning on your back for 15 mins until the next stop. I feel like a canned sardine every morning. Today I had to fight the current of people getting off the train to get ON the train like a damn mosh pit!

But I know I should be grateful! I partly moved to Japan to leave cars behind and I’ve done pretty well at that. But it’s almost like there’s simply not enough cars on the train for the amount of people taking it every morning, and the train companies just…don’t compensate for it? The frequency of trains is fine in the city, literally every 5-10 mins, but the sheer volume of people using ALL of those trains is insane. I don’t know, is this a problem in New York and other cities too? There’s probably a variety of factors of why rush hour is this way in Tokyo, but I find myself missing my 45 minute driving commute in America. At least I wasn’t getting jostled and shoved by salarymen and high school students in my car.

I am still staunchly pro-public transit for America and other countries, but this new commute I’ve got has really shown me that even countries with amazing transit could still make vast improvements.

Tokyo is too suburban and needs more bike lanes:

Unironically saying "one more line":

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[x3firehexx]

So what the hell do they want?? Do they want public transit, or not, if you are "too squished on the train" go buy a car, but apparently you hate those more than you had adolf hitler so you won't do it.

Man, that user, moved to the literally biggest city in the world, and proceeded to complain the public transport was too full... Imean, sorry, but... i don\'t even know what to say, except that this guy should b grateful, because otherwise those people will cram up the road. People, can't teleport. They also can't move at fast speeds for long times. You need either individual ormass transport, and wehn the city is large both are going to be crammed up.

 

[CallmeCicada]

So what the hell do they want?

That's simple, they want to complain.

 

[ToEnsureVerification]

So what the hell do they want?? Do they want public transit, or not, if you are "too squished on the train" go buy a car, but apparently you hate those more than you had adolf hitler so you won't do it.

They think the psuedoscience of their own sort of urban planning and design, can magically change the human condition and behaviors. Tokyo drivers are usually polite enough with bikes. God help you if you are in a bike and the country is poor and their drivers are mad. But Japan isn't that good with bike infrastructure and most roads were originally designed for cars and bike lanes are put later.

 

[Yamamura]

Tokyo is too suburban and needs more bike lanes:

Nothing is ever enough for these twits

Unironically saying "one more line":

"Real tawk, look here listen adding one more lane does nothing to stop it. So stop giving advice on something you know nothing about"

Man, that user, moved to the literally biggest city in the world, and proceeded to complain the public transport was too full

Which is why I'm starting to think if the fuckcars people got what they were actually asking for they'd be sorely disappointed. They're so used to living in daddy and mommy's house in the suburbs that it's easy for them to complain. When they actually get put into that sort of environment they keep advocating for it's not as fun.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

But Japan isn't that good with bike infrastructure and most roads were originally designed for cars and bike lanes are put later.

That's the case almost everywhere. Unless a road was built (this includes rebuilds/physical widening) say, after, 1998, it was designed for cars with bike lanes retrofitted later. I live in a very suburban, bike-friendly area, and I'm struggling to find examples of roads that were built with bike lanes in mind but before the 1990s. Some of them were striped with bike lanes later, sure, when they were upgraded from 50' wide through streets, but not many were built as such.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

An urbanist did a review of Balmora from Morowind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk10gner6GQ

I'm not sure if anyone wants to watch this, but the author looks like a real soyboy

 

[Yamamura]

An urbanist did a review of Balmora from Morowind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk10gner6GQ

I'm not sure if anyone wants to watch this, but the author looks like a real soyboy

This video is autistic as fuck and the whole time I was more intrigued on whether or not this individual was a pooner or a really high estrogen male than the video itself. Of course it's "walkable" because it's not real. In the game you have nothing to do but walk. Also because it's not real as well, but that's besides the point.

 

[quaawaa]

Why do small business owners not like it when we make it difficult for customers to patronize their businesses?

Since this is on a less activist subreddit, there are plently of stories backing up the business owners:







OP lives in Detroit and gets triggered when someone uses them as a bad example:


Of course, there are still plenty of callous comments:










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[Dante Alighieri]

Reddit smoothbrains think they know more than the business owners themselves.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

Of course, there are still plenty of callous comments:

>If they were good businesses, they would succeed
> Businesses close all the time for other reasons

These businesses, assuming that they were healthy beforehand, were good businesses- for the market they were in. But now that market has changed, due to change in physical environment. Location, location, location has been a meme forever for a reason. They are no longer good businesses for the new environment, and unfortunately for all the people wanting new businesses to move in, there are few good businesses for that market/environment.

 

[Jhonson the Two]

Of course, there are still plenty of callous comments:
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Alright this one makes me really MATI.
First, antiques, music and second hand books are Really Cool Stuff.
Second, the long-term presence of such shops is a marker of wealth and good economic health in the neighborhood. A city is an entire ecosystem that (should) evolves organically, and they're trying to kill it with their weird obssession.

The saddest part is that most people aren't even against bikes, trains and bus. Hell, most does takes them in addition to using their car.

 

[JJLiautaud]

You can go to this website and see why:

http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/otl/timeslider_racethematic.html

The Great Migration the Confederacy's deadman switch.

 

[ComStar]

An urbanist did a review of Balmora from Morowind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk10gner6GQ

I'm not sure if anyone wants to watch this, but the author looks like a real soyboy

While i love Morrowind in that "i want to forget it so i can play it for the first time" way, this is beyond moronic. Balmora has a grand total of two and a half streets and a small waterfront.



Farnsworth, Texas is bigger than this. Hell, my local subdivision is bigger!

Night City from Cyberpunk 2077 is way better and more interesting for this kind of video. Or perhaps Assassins Creed Origins' take on Alexandria. Places that look alive and are bigger than the local high school.

But that would take nuance and effort, i guess.

 

[Yamamura]

While i love Morrowind in that "i want to forget it so i can play it for the first time" way, this is beyond moronic.

Same with me liking Fallout New Vegas. It's a game that has no driving in it entirely and what cars you do find are broken. But just because I like the game I'm not going to pretend that walking all the way from Primm to Las Vegas is something that's possible or something anyone should want to attempt.

Also not to forget that games where you walk they tend to truncate the actual scale of the map versus something in real life so that the player isn't holding the W key for an hour trying to get to the next town.

But that would take nuance and effort, i guess.

If it doesn't end in the conclusion of "America bad", "cars bad" or both they won't put more thought into it beyond that.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Reddit smoothbrains think they know more than the business owners themselves.

With all these dead store fronts now's the perfect time to open shop and prove all these car loving chuds a lesson.