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keiranlovett commented on Abandoned villages of Hong Kong cnn.com/2024/02/13/style/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

jojobas · 2 years ago

Anywhere else in the world 1-2 hours away from a metropolitan city centre is anything but remote.

People commute from Pakenham to Melbourne (~1:20), from Alpharetta to Atlanta (~1:30) etc.

Yes, which is my point…

For Hong Kong, the density and “business” driven expectations of the city make it so that a 1-2 hour journey sitting on a bus is considered a long route. People do not want to waste time traveling within the city.

It is common for some people to roll their eyes at the thought of traveling to Kowloon side if they live on Hong Kong side, even if it’s a 5minute train / 15 minute ferry trip.

keiranlovett commented on Abandoned villages of Hong Kong cnn.com/2024/02/13/style/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

jojobas · 2 years ago

>remote villages

Please, the entirety of Hong Kong is like 40x50km.

There sure are some tall steep hills making some areas just not worth messing with.

keiranlovett · 2 years ago

Remote in this context can mean “out of the way and hard to get to”.

Some of the outlining villages that are heavily populated are regarded as “remote” because they have limited public transport infrastructure. The density of the city combined with the mountainous topology makes it impossible to directly go to your destination.

Then, these abandoned villages are on outlying islands from these heavily populated villages. You need to hire a private charter boat or a “tour service” to get to.

So it can take 1-2 hours from the city center to get to one of the villages (if you’re going to Sai Kung Village, you’re on a single road prone to congestion during peak traffic), then you’re taking another 1-2 hour ride on a boat to the islands you want to go to.

Certainly possible as day trips, but also certainly an inconvenience.

keiranlovett commented on Abandoned villages of Hong Kong cnn.com/2024/02/13/style/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

etrautmann · 2 years ago

I was hiking in the outskirts of HK a while ago and was amazed to wander into the middle of a massive airsoft game that was being played in these abandoned villages. The players were decked out to 100% realism, where I couldn't tell that it wasn't a military exercise. Pretty surreal

keiranlovett · 2 years ago

You just unlocked a childhood memory of my time in Hong Kong. There was an “abandoned” anti-aircraft battery on one of the mountains on the island. We would occasionally go there for airsoft games. Not fully decked out like you’re talking about (but I’ve seen those too).

keiranlovett commented on AAA games are coming to iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the new A17 Pro chip engadget.com/assassins-cr... · Posted by u/astlouis44

kridsdale3 · 2 years ago

They say this every single year. Then they show demos of games that were AAA 7 years ago.

keiranlovett · 2 years ago

They literally showed off a game coming out end of quarter 2023.

keiranlovett commented on AAA games are coming to iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the new A17 Pro chip engadget.com/assassins-cr... · Posted by u/astlouis44

callalex · 2 years ago

AAA games will never be on the iPhone until the Steam and Epic stores are allowed on the platform. Even then I would be reluctant to buy a $60 game because there is a huge chance that the game will just stop working after two years of iOS updates.

keiranlovett · 2 years ago

“Never be on the iPhone”…. Yet here we are.

keiranlovett commented on How Tokyo became an anti-car paradise heatmap.news/economy/toky... · Posted by u/jseliger

keiranlovett · 2 years ago

I spent half my life in Australia where Cars were a requirement for anything, and half my life in Hong Kong, another Asian city where Cars were basically a luxury.

I very recently moved to North America and was really taken by surprise in a lot of regards with care culture, primarily how "pedestrian hostile" the city is as a whole. Without a car you're really limited in where you can go and what you can do. In Hong Kong I felt a lot of freedom of movement, and even casual visits back to Australia the public transport is both safe and efficient (not compared to Asia but still in really good conditions).

Parking space was the big blocker for owning cars in Hong Kong too, not to the degree of Japan, but it certainly inflated that barrier.

keiranlovett commented on Tell HN: Microsoft limits GitHub accounts of Russian citizens anywhere · Posted by u/throwaway290

darthrupert · 3 years ago

If you share liberal values with the rest of us, you need to emigrate. If not, well, perhaps you can create a github clone for Russia.

keiranlovett · 3 years ago

Not everyone can immigrate. This is not a "simply do this" option.

It took weeks to get my partner that was simply visiting family out of Russia. They had the full support of my resources and my employers HR team assisting in relocation of families with members in Russia - and it was still an expensive, time-consuming, and stressful process.

keiranlovett commented on Ask HN: Is there a video game dev alternative to HN? · Posted by u/eezurr

keiranlovett · 3 years ago

There's Gamasutra (now renamed to GameDeveloper), there's 80lvl, Twitter - a lot of game devs are just active on twitter, so if you follow a few that intersect your interests you can build up a bubble around that. Discords are great as well, especially for local level communities. Look at GameJams going on online and around you?

There is really no central meeting point that is a constant (except maybe GDC itself). From my experience as organising game developer meetups it is really hard to get devs to talk - BUT when they do its a great experience for all!