You might need to rendezvous with another vessel mid-trip for gas, but amphibious cars do exist.

Off-road travel, even in a car not explicitly made for it, is usually safer than traveling a derailed train. But I get your point.

Initially, for shits and giggles. I can’t ride a bike and I also can’t drive, so I’m stuck on foot.

Then bikes are not more freeing than cars. The means of easy, unscheduled, interstate mobility should be the American symbol of freedom. That’s not a bicycle.

Trains only travel along previously laid rails, at specific times. Plus, you’ll need to rent a car at the other end to get anywhere. Better to take your own car and have personalized comfort the whole way. Also, yes, it does sound miserable. But if you’re in a car, turn up the heater, turn on the radio or your favorite music, and just vibe while driving safely.

Failed the brief on at least two counts. First, you took a bus when it got “nasty” - thus proving automobiles are more adaptable, and thus superior. Second, a 10 mile commute is not across the USA - granted the terrain in Utah is varied, but not coast-to-coast varied. You also didn’t put up your times vs. average car travel time for the route, so I’m going to assume that your average speed was lower, and your average time was also longer.

I dare you to travel on your own bicycle in the depths of winter across the USA in the same timeframe as a car.

Literally advice from Gary.

I’m willing to be ridiculous, because the pittance most workaday programmers and designers get from their hits is also ridiculous.

True. But in 21st century colloquial speech, a linguist would have to admit that, descriptively, “widely applicable” and “allegorical” are nearly synonymous. But I’m also a fan of the quote, history does not often repeat itself - but it rhymes. So whether it’s fictional history or rough allegory, the end result is the same.

I haven’t even heard of it, but I’ll check it out!

It’s not analogy, it’s allegory. It applies too well to the world.

If only it was the programmers and the development team that received 100% of every purchase.

Still no interest. I want to see my avatar, my party, the enemy, and the terrain. I don’t want a ‘first-person’ camera.

It’s an FPS. I’m totally uninterested in the gameplay.

Unless it can be played as a 2D turn-based strategy RPG, I’m not going to bother with it. If they made a Geneforge 6 and made it an FPS, I’d be just as turned off. I feel the same way about Might & Magic vs. Heroes of Might & Magic.

Can confirm. Source: am short white guy, my ex is a truly statuesque black woman. Only way I know it’s not about me is because I don’t bother with Fallout past 2.

The dyslexia tango!

I used to have a USB floppy drive too. Now I just have disk images.

Hi, posting from Mbin. I have Lemmy & Mastodon.

Brand? Bic.