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Cities should be designed around this.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

No matter where you park your car — land, air, sea, space, underground — one of these will tow it and toss it into the nearest volcano. This is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bus for intra-city travel, heli for inter-city travel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

100% more capacity, 100% more Y-axis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wont need huge highways anymore either, just do freight by rail or ship instead of truck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Exactly. You make a helicopter big enough to carry a cargo ship or long enough to carry a freight train, BAM you've solved so many issues overnight.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The tim traveler did a video some time ago, abou a town in germany who's only access is by train, but because the train was being repaired, they just flew everyone on helicopter in and out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That was Switzerland but yes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Real Thunderbird 2 vibes. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Where we dropping, boys?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I want to ride in the smiling helicopter transporting a bus with large windows

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

pretty sure you can do this in Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

[CW Locusts fucking]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

We need a reboot of Riptide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

it even has a happy face wholesome

[–] vexikron 1 points 9 months ago

You know, something like this inserted into SimCity 2000 + SimCopter + Streets of Sim City would be fucking hilarious.