The high speed rail goes all the way inland to Chengdu at the moment, and all the way down the coast to Guangzhou

Further than that. Pretty much every city is connected unless by HSR you only mean the 300kph ones. You can take the 200kph to almost everywhere, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi. Beyond that you can also take the old fashioned 绿皮 to every tiny city, it’s romantic but slow and often annoying (and hot in the summer).

travel across the country from Peking to Shanghai.

If you start in Beijing you can go to so many interesting places though. Go BJ-> Xi’an-> Chengdu -> Chongqing maybe. All of those are huge cities but much more interesting, cultural and lets you see some real china than going to Shanghai. Don’t go to Shanghai, it’s more like an international city, and anything you can see there you can also see in more interesting cities.

“transitioning ta what?”

“hopefully not a jets fan”

lol this show is awesome. bland yet miserable protagonist. pronouns. laugh track that goes “whoo!” when a cool character enters the sitcom house. fucking amazing. like even dumber than a 2002 parody of something in an already kinda shitty south park episode

edit: the big setup and payoff when the old guy gets

is fantastic. this can not possibly be made by actual conservatives, it’s too good

the annotations

I say this confidently, having seen exactly one takedown style video criticizing them, a channel I’ve never actually watched.

putting the onus on accused after falsely blaming

reddit debatelords use human language challenge

the little brothers of burj khalifa holding up the manhattan project bomb together

:yoda-ahegao:

What really gets me about Seppo houses is the doorknobs, though.

yeah what’s the deal with the little globe door handles that give you no leverage and you have to awkwardly twist your wrist to open the door? and what’s the deal with the useles little clicky lock thing in the middle? what smart brain designed this bullshit and what lobbyist paid off their whole nation to get them installed everywhere?

what kind of lazy sci fi writing is this where the dominant species increased like 10 tech levels in a century by using some sticky undergroud goop, and they used it both as a combustible fuel, as a solvent, as biochemistry feedstock and to create polymers?

and pretty much all their vehicles are fueled by different versions of this goo? and all of their doodads and doohickeys are made from it? this one underground goo? sure, why not make it a drug that lets you see the future too.

and the economies of entire neo-feudal states are based entirely on sitting on top of this goo? come on.

and the goo is so cursed that it causes Gaia’s Vengence on the whole planet? storms and droughts and corruption of the flesh? is this science fantasy now?

i expected better from the writers honestly.

i might be corsica (but this is disputed)

what if i get my opinions from four or five midwestern gen-xers who drink craft beer (and one of them drinks soft drinks)

10/10 song names

M ministers are only allowed to listen to dabuzz. MUF dudes are only allowed to listen to somewhat problematic music on very high volume in their dad’s yacht

when you first ask your prospective girlfriend how much she costs a month, she might say “wtf are you talking about weirdo” “why are you talking like i’m a sex worker” “i don’t cost anything haha”, but believing this female lie often the beginner sexpat’s expat flaneur’s first mistake! the real cost will soon become apparent. here are some hidden costs: copyright free music starts playing

• number one: dinner dates

• • your girlfriend might not be happy to cook for for you immediately after you start dating. in oriental culture, a male often displays his value by purchasing food and drinks at overpriced restaurants. understanding this key mechanic can make or break you as a beginner NeoRomancer. taking her to mcdonalds, or insisting on splitting the bill based on your comparative Sexual Market Values, can result in her displaying IABs (intercourse-avoidant behaviours).

• number two: shopping

• • as the old s̸a̸y̵i̶n̴g̷ g̴͍̍ŏ̴ͅẹ̶̓s̸̯̐, ẅ̶̧̨̻́͛́o̷͔̽̕͠m̵̲̞͛̓͋ė̸̛̠ń̶͕̤ b̴̯̹͇̾̓̄ę̵̤͊͑̓͝ s̷̡̩̻̺̗͆̏͑̈́̋̉͑h̶̡̠̞̄̏̀́ȍ̸̡͊̓p̴̧̘͔̦̼̜̖̒̽̀́̏̚͠p̸̛̮̗̏͐̉͑̄̄̓̃ḯ̸͇̺̩̮̞̓n̷͙̝̬̦̗͊g̵̭͚̣̭̟̪̠̍̐̇̍̊̽͛͜ͅ

correct amount of badgers ✅

not enough urban villages, they should be crammed between every other kinda-central highrise development. (if you’re in eastern china they’re the best place for sichuan food)

also a city bigh enough to have a massive ring road would also have like three new train stations on opposite sides of the city. and many cities don’t have an old train station, they went from no train straight to HSR like ten years ago.

HOWEVER if the city does have an old train station, the area on the map labeled “hotels” are going to be the sketchiest type of hostels you’ve ever seen, catering to people just coming in from the countryside. see the hostel scene in Lost on Journey for reference

uncritical support to taking so many drugs in a cave that you get so enlightened that you don’t even need to play 4d chess because you realise that heh, you’ve already won, and then (spoilers whatever) being so prescient that you have perfect vision even after your eyeballs have been hardboiled by tactical nukes

volunteering at the local soup kitchen (btw, do they even have those in China?

I’ve volunteered at an equivalent of a soup kitchen before (free vegetarian kitchen with volunteer staff) a couple of times. the food was pretty good, a couple of vegetable dishes, tofu, soup and rice. it was frequented mostly by old folks rather than homeless, since I guess the town it was in didn’t really have many homeless people. I know bigger cities do have bigger homeless populations though, but nothing like in the west or japan/taiwan/korea.

these kind of veg kitchens exist in most mid-large cities and are staffed by volunteers, most of which are also retired folks, except for the chefs maybe. the groceries are mostly donated, like someone will donate several huge sacks of rice or jugs of cooking oil, or help buy fresh veg etc.

and then in retaliation the Europeans formed a Seven Nation Army that burned down Yao Ming, or something. history be crazy