Navigating the Cities Skylines 2 Milestones

This game, unlike the first does not depend primarily on city population for milestones though it certainly helps. This is historic as even the early Sim City games depended on the population mechanic, instead this game gives you experience points (XP) for various actions from building roads, placing districts to putting down buildings. Here we sho...

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Heritage Fire Tour - Heritage Fuego - Miami 2023

The Goya Heritage Fire tour this year in Miami was held at the Biltmore in Coral Gables, Florida. The festival celebrates local heritage breed livestock farmers and emphasizes live fire cooking. To me, I treated it as an excuse for a good time with good food and good spirits. The different booths are set up in an all you can eat fashion a...

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Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 2 - Wreckers

The episode continues with cool tech from body implants to sonic guns. In the end, it is the story of being together or alone that is on display. Show Summary and Recap The cliffhanger from episode 1 is resolved through the course of the whole episode as some thugs from QTA (unclear what it stands for) invade the Beacon looking for "something ...

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Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 1 - Corbenic

Starvation is an interesting phenomenon, as the directors and screen actors guild strike finally come to a close, I feel starved from good sci-fi since Silo season 1 ended. Sure, there were some good morsels, such as Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Ahsoka, but I miss the intricate writing of Hugh Howey as he builds a new world for us to discover. ...

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Cities Skylines 2 up to 200k population

There continues to be a mass complaints on the steam forums, the colossal order forums and reddit.  However in my next full weekend able to play, I was able to build a city from scratch to a megalopolis and 225k population.  I did see a few issues that I had to overcome in my cities: traffic got out of control pretty quicklya lot of traff...

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