AL Patch issued at EA website
Alex:
No fixes for any of the real problems. Surprise, surprise...
It says that "buildings no longer overlap downtown lots". Did they find a way to fix it, or did they just remove the building from the hood altogether?
Liz:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 02, 11:48:28
I just bury the newspaper. It eliminates all the newspaper-related annoyances, including that damn kid. Newspapers are barbaric, anyway.
That kid does annoy me (rather a lot, really, for some reason), but I keep the newspaper coming on home-farming lots as a free source of daily compost. Likewise, I don't get *too* bent out of shape when my rarely-employed nanny starts dropping bottle-bombs all over the place just because Junior's pulling on the bunny ear at the precise second she seems to think he needs to eat something. For lots without gardening, though... yeah, that kid needs to be stopped.
Quote from: Mirelly on 2008 October 02, 13:36:14
Quote from: Inge on 2008 October 02, 12:25:57
The game should not be encouraging people to cut down all those trees, now that we all have televisions and internet access and can see the news by other means.
Yeah, like TVs and computers are utterly eco-friendly as opposed to old-fashioned paper, which is theoretically 100% sustainable, is 100% recyclable, is a handy carbon sink, is a useful resource for lighting fires, is useful in the lavatory, and is especially invaluable for lining the bottom of a litter-tray when house-training kittens.
None of which, aside from recycle/compost, can be applied to the game, but I know that's not your point.
I'd be in favour of an all-purpose paper product that's manufactured for purchase in order to be used in multiple ways, as you describe (particularly for sinking my excess carbon ;) ), especially if said product came without all those dyes and inks applied, but as a means of conveying daily news, it seems a wasteful and inefficient use of our CO2 scrubbers. I think the main difference between the 'paper vs. electronics for news' arguments, though, is that while the TV/computer can be used to get daily news in addition to the other uses to which we usually put them, newspapers are manufactured for the express purpose of disseminating news, after which some find additional use for them before their disposal, so as not to have wasted all that paper simply for getting a crossword and some news, most of which they didn't read, anyway.
J. M. Pescado:
The other drawback to newspapers is that they can only get yesterday's news. The computer can get you news as it happens, from a wide variety of sources all at once, including sources that will tell you bad news that the normal media won't.
HomeschooledByTards:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 02, 18:36:58
The other drawback to newspapers is that they can only get yesterday's news.
In some cases you don't even get yesterday's news. My mom regularly gets her local Sunday newspaper by 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night.
nowhereme:
Quote from: jesslla on 2008 October 02, 18:40:31
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 02, 18:36:58
The other drawback to newspapers is that they can only get yesterday's news.
In some cases you don't even get yesterday's news. My mom regularly gets her local Sunday newspaper by 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night.
Here we don't have a Sunday newspaper, we have a weekend newspaper. So, Saturday morning you get delivered Friday's news and then nothing again until Monday morning.
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