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[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Fuck everything about this image

[–] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Where convenience stores in mayor:'s arse?

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago
[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 29 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

if ya zoom in on some of those "houses" they start to lose their ...realism.

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 23 points 9 hours ago

McMansions are so comedically awful that the AI hallucinations horseshoe back around to accuracy.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

I think you might be right. I can't seem to find the original video to see what other images they use and nobody on the reddit thread has listed a location yet. The background seems right for the geography and there are a fair number of developments along Colorado's front range that look almost exactly like this. Without a single landmark there's nothing for me to google and searching google maps didn't get me any exact matches, only a few similar developments.

[–] Biddles@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago

Couldn't be real, I don't see any Mormon steeples

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 32 points 10 hours ago

Receeding roof-line back-front house.

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[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Are these the houses that cost $800,000 and are on just 12 inch concrete slab foundations in some of the harshest winters in the Continental US?

[–] elderKettle@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

The last few years we've gotten practically no snow and followed it up with record breaking high summer temps, so there's less need to worry about winter conditions.

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

you could build versailles in boise and it'd still be shit because it's fuckin boise. death to boise, death to idaho.

the heap of potatoes they export is the only reason to not glass the place

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

the heap of potatoes they export is the only reason to not glass the place

The only reason those potatoes are so prevalent and cheap is because they're cultivated and harvested using imprisoned people's forced labor

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago

wtf not but a grain of surprise

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Fuck Idaho birds, fuck Idaho trees, fuck Idaho rocks and air. To turn it into a vaccum is not enough, because there will be an empty space where Idaho once existed reminding us there once was an Idaho there. We need to fold space around Idaho so that the Idaho-shaped hole where it once existed is contained within an inaccessible pocket universe, forever delisted from the multiversal register.

[–] Big@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago

Every roofer's worst nightmare

[–] agentant@hexbear.net 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Even ignoring the AI slop, this looks awful. It's so drab and bland.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 30 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There was a show on TV when i was a kid called "Beat the Geeks" and it was a gameshow where contestants did trivia against subject experts dubbed 'geeks' and each week they had a guest geek.

Whenever the Simpsons Geek was on, I would beat him handily every time.

I am in awe of your power. My simpsons recall is that of a gnat compared to you.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wanted to beat that fucker so bad as a kid

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I figure i couldnt have beat him every time but in my head i did lmao

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 9 hours ago

I remember watching it one time and the Simpsons geek didn't know which episode "Meh" came from and I was screaming at the TV so loud my dad thought I was having a problem

[–] elderKettle@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The funny thing is, Boise did the Abundance thing before the book even came out. City zoning code got a major rework. A lot of parking lots started turning into small, 3 story apartment complexes.

Did housing prices, or even rent, come down? Nope🙃

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when Shoshone and Bannock people controlled Boise

Remember how there used to be, like, plants and animals back then, and you could actually do stuff and feel a sense of community and all that

Me neither

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

If by community you mean BOGO boneless wings day at Buffalo Wild Wings...

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not a sidewalk in sight. Just a car-centric nightmare.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 21 points 9 hours ago

walk in the street

get run over

walk on the lawn

get shot

doggirl-tears

[–] miz@hexbear.net 8 points 8 hours ago

four entire trees! well... saplings

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 25 points 11 hours ago

That neighborhood looks fucking awful

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's a shame their stretch of the Rockies seems a lot nicer than Colorado's. I'd love to explore the mountains there and in Montana, but driving ten minutes into Wyoming reminds me that I'm in 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖑 𝕬𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖆. The further north I go the more it becomes Nazi territory.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 9 hours ago

If you want some nice stuff you can read about how the natives tended the land and migrated into and out of the mountains to harvest the vaunted huckleberry

It gets less nice once the whites show up but uhh, it’s pretty cool history of how people adapted to one of the most rugged terrains in the world

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The fences carving up the open range were the death of the cowboy herding economy.

kitty-cri-texas

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is Idaho known for it's lack of trees?

[–] regul@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Southern Idaho (where Boise is) is steppe, so yeah.

Northern Idaho has lots of trees, though.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago

Boise is surprisingly green actually. It's on the wet side of a rain shadow, at the base of some mountains. There's also a river running through it. Idk what the boise river valley was like historically but there are tons of trees surrounding it right now, and a significant amount of tree canopy throughout the city.

The neighborhoods close to downtown have reasonably sized houses and a lot of tree cover. Still way too much sprawl and mcmansions further out of course.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 19 points 11 hours ago

Buying Groverhaus in a bad City Skylines 1 map to show I'm hella more richer than you

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago

California’s a luxury state for a damn good reason.

Not being around those types is worth that much.

[–] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, let all the idiots who want their own shitty little fiefdoms move to these awful mcmansions. I'm never going to Boise, it might as well be Mars for all I care. Go live in your excessively large house and fill it with children who will resent you for raising them in a community where everyone distrusts each other.

It is fun though because I remember this exact sentiment about Texas 20 years ago

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 10 hours ago

The problem is if you are the type of person who likes to live near things that since there isn't anything there this community and every person in it for some reason gets outsized political influence over where you live and where the things are and they will ruin it all in their quest to drive to an inner city chain bar

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I am so glad my insta only shows me silly animal videos

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 13 points 11 hours ago

This is a silly video of the complete absence of animals and habitat for them. That's kinda the same thing, you just have to use your imagination to place green and blue things in the city.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago

Totally owned, coping, seething, cope-a-cabana

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

Moving to one of the most mountainous states to live in a McMansion in the big valley bowl in the south of it, what a winner winner chicken fuckin dinner I hate everything between this fuck’s ears, just a proud little hoggy, eminently hateable

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

That looks fucking disgusting.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

you can just attach piece of asphalt to your nose, you don't need to live in it.

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