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planetaryinfluence 6 months ago

haven't had a chance to check out the announcements yet so this was a pleasure to read! lot of mixed feelings. they butchered my boy (rikiya) but more mine holy dsfkgdjkfds!!!!

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kubikill 6 months ago

look how they massacred our boy rikiya... unforgivable

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saint-images 6 months ago

y3 SPOILER ahead: they really had to kill my favorite character in the entire series twice... first in the actual game and now with this...

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crystalclearcrystalline 6 months ago

hhhh I remember looking at the trailer waiting for Rikiya and thought I missed him... what did they do to my son....

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6 months ago

are there proper simple terms for areas with different amount and concetration of human development? recently in my head I started using "hi-anthro" for very dense areas with high-rise buildings and concrete fields and "low-anthro" for these "soviet" kind of areas with less dense low to mid-rise buildings and a lot of vegetation inbetween. but I wonder if there are commonly used terms for this?

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saint-images 6 months ago

it's definitely not just "high density" and "low density" though, I think what I'm trying to express is a bit more nuanced than just density.

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saint-images 6 months ago

screw AI and Google, I'm gonna ask the real ones...

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unclecatfish 6 months ago

i wanna be on board but not entirely sure what u r asking

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ondine 6 months ago

Maybe "urbanized" for the first kind of place

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darek 6 months ago

Generally all can fall under the umbrella of urbanization, however I don't think there's an distinctions between types or levels or urbanization

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darek 6 months ago

(source: I am studying geography + planning and sociology in college)

darek 6 months ago

If we were to go by the western view of urbanization... In reality, what you see in russia with high rise apartment blocks with greenery in between is practically "sub-urbanized" despite not having the usual characteristics of western suburbs. It's more "sub-urban" as opposed to "suburban" if you know what I mean.

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darek 6 months ago

More so, Soviet urbanization is typically 'inorganic' in the way that it is all a very planned effort to build these apartment blocks as they were made to accomadate working class needs. Soviet apartment blocks are constructed in a way that each block contains a whole blocks daily necessities (shops, parks, schools, etc.)

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darek 6 months ago

The distinction between the concrete jungle (Lower Manhattan, Shinjuku, etc.) and something like the typical Soviet block has no names... Rather, all of it is urbanization, just under different names. You can call Soviet blocks something like "Soviet Urbanization" and high-rise areas as "Dense Urbanization". Something like that

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darek 6 months ago

Hopefully this helps...! Sorry had to flex my knowledge hahaha. The Nuance of urbanization is very hard to categorize, and while I do understand that it is beyond just density... historical context behind why places are urbanized like that can usually be written off as "government wants grid streets because high density and building up is necessary"

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capstasher 6 months ago

Mr. Saint, in such cases you just have to coin your own terminology. It's almost always better than existing ones for referring to the specific thing you notice.

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saint-images 6 months ago

Thanks everyone! Yeah since it's not like I actually have discussions about it with people I can just stick to using my own made up words in my silly head. In Kaliningrad where I live Soviet urbanization is restrained by the old city layout so it's more organic than typical "micro-districts"; they are more dense but still feel organic so they're "low-anthro" for me. I guess that's true for a lot of European cities.

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saint-images 6 months ago

@darek special thanks, that's very insightful

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mr-pibbs-site 6 months ago

trying to think about how i can relate this to my experiences to provide insight... i've never been outside of the US and most commonly there are small "cities" which spread out instead of building up, i would say rarely/not even hitting mid-rise, though with a lot of paved non-road area. it's like the sprawl around larger city areas(DFW for example) but just there in the middle of a forest

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