Sunday August 6, 2006

Sim City Freemason street layout

Urbanity

Posted by Rob (#1) on August 6, 2006 20:37 CEST

Washington DC's street layout could be more than an oasis of landmarks, museums and parks for tourists: it is allegedly an occult centre of devil worship. Many followers of conspiracy theories claim that the WWashington D.C. street layout is Satanic and Masonic, full of goathead pentagrams. And amidst all this, the Freemasons rule the world.

But for this Sim City post the validity of those claims matter not. I will also not answer whether worship of Lucifer might not be so bad considering Bible text show God is a jerk himself. I don't care whether my Sims are Satanic or not, I care about urbanetics and ambitious city building plans.

Therefore I wonder whether it would be possible to create a goathead in Sim City. Two limitations: the 45-degree building limits (72-degree angles are required for a true pentagram) and the lack of majestic boulevards in Sim City 3000 - this would be much more fun in Sim City 4 which alas I do not have installed.

Nonetheless I managed to create a city pattern that seems to create a goathead surrounded by major transportation routes. This layout would best work on a large map using my 14x14 street grid pattern:

I have yet to actually build this, but I'm interested to find out some day how this would look. I have always liked the idea of building cities with majestic downtowns and always try to build my cities in such a way that landmarks, boulevards and parks complement the CBD in such a way that each city has a unique look and feel. Making a city that resembles Washington DC in such a way that paranoid Sims turn to the occult for an explanation definitely sounds like fun!

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Resident Evil Happiness

Anglosphere

Posted by Rob (#1) on August 6, 2006 23:25 CEST

I just found out they're planning to release Resident Evil: Extinction next year. A pleasant discovery because I love the first two movies, as well as Milla Jovovich (I liked her since 1990, go figure). Yay!

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