The allure of
Cities: Skylines isn’t just a result of its terrific city-builder bona fides (though that’s very much a part of it). It comes from how deep in the weeds you can get in micro-managing every square inch of your realm. You can zone various areas as commercial, residential, or industrial districts. (Sorry, NUMTOTs, no mixed-use zoning in
Cities.) You can designate districts, rename them whatever you want, and tweak the jurisdictional tax rates right on down to the percentage point. You can impose limits on density, manifest new parks out of thin air, construct hospitals and other essential social services, level highways, widen roads, build metro lines, build bus stops, taxi stands, or train stations, and even terraform the surrounding geography. And you can do all of this without having to bend to the frustrating whims of a community board.
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Like Gundam? Have lots of money? Well, does a Japanese jewelry company have a product for you. Several, actually.
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Here’s a trio of pure golden Gundam statues, with the larger ones costing a whole lot of money and the smaller one still costing a lot of money, too.
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The RX-78-2 Gundam Beam Rifle version measures 180mm and weighs roughly 1,000 grams. Made of 24K gold, it’s priced at 26.4 million yen or $240,822. This statue is limited to 20 pieces worldwide.
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This week get ready to creep around scary, dilapidated houses searching for green herb and bullets, because
Resident Evil Village is out on May 7 for basically every platform.
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Resident Evil Village. I’m going in mostly blind and I’m excited. I’m ready to sink away for a week into a
Resident Evil game. That sounds wonderful. May 7 can’t get here soon enough! There are also other games coming out, I guess. Besides
Resident Evil Village other stuff is coming out this week too. Check out the full list below:
Tuesday, May 3
Hot Tub Streams Are Waning, But Some People Still Think They’re Destroying Twitch
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It’s hot tub stream summer, and everybody’s got an opinion. This week, for example, the biggest streamer on Twitch, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, called hot tub streams “trash,” saying that they’re “the most pathetic thing we’ve seen on Twitch in forever” and petitioning for them to be removed from the front page. It was the latest in a long line of similar opinions from names both big and small that date back to when hot tub streams first popped off in March. But according to hot tub streamers, this trend, like any other, is already coming down from its peak.