It’s a bike with only one gear with a freewheel. Lets you coast without pedaling.
They’re more popular than fixed gear where I live, cause you can ride them like a normal bicycle.
The reason is less maintenance and fewer things to break. I guess they work well for utility cycling in flat areas, but some people are crazy enough to compete in Mountainbike races with them.

Oh god, those old adventure games.

Where doing things in the wrong order (which was explained nowhere) would lead to permadeath, or worse, getting stuck with no way to progress and no hint what you missed in a previous area you can’t return to.

All I remember from police quest is getting killed or fired for missing a step at a routine traffic stop, or forgetting to check the tire pressure every time you start driving.

In Leisure Suit Larry 1 you straight up get killed without warning if you step onto a street (run over by a car) or into a back alley (mugged and clubbed to death), or take a cab with wine in your inventory (cab driver takes it, drinks it and crashes).

Fun times!

NHL Hockey 95 was really good!

Can I combine this with my water-cooling setup?

One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue?

The answer to that question is “no”.
It’s turquoise. You wouldn’t argue about whether orange is yellow or red, either.

Look, just don’t, OK?

Fixed Gear advantages:

• can slow down by pushing back on pedals -> almost no brake pad wear
• almost no maintenance
• can do trackstands and ride backwards
• unique, fun riding style
• completely quiet drivetrain
• less interesting to thieves

Drawback:

• can’t switch gears

Geared Bike advantage:

• can switch gears

Drawbacks:

• basically the inverse of everything above

Single-Speed bikes can do none of the things fixed gear bikes can do, and also can’t switch gears.

The best game of the early 90s was “Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge” (later translated and re-released with dumbed-down mechanics as “Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny”), and I’m willing to die on that hill.

The “cost” of maintaining trees is paid by the city to people living, buying things and paying taxes in the city.
People who don’t have a college education and get to make a living working outside, improving their neighborhood.

The fake trees are likely put up and maintained by a tech corporation from out of state.

I love this about lemmy.
Like someone stumbling into the wrong house and still being welcomed.
It’s a lot more informal and relaxed than on the piss page of the Internet.

tl/dr: “Yes it is, but not as much as other things so stop worrying.”

What a bullshit take.

… and a .ml user pops out from the woodwork

It’s the only way I can get off.

Riding down a mountain road on a bicycle, going 50 mph, without a helmet on.

My body hated it when I started, but peer pressure was too strong. Then the addiction took over.

I miss old PC Games from the early 90’s.
I’ve reinstalled all that I remember and they sucked, but back then, they didn’t.

Also, you get the exact same effect of 5 minutes relaxation, just by stepping outside, concentrating on your breathing and being in the moment.

Seems to be down.

Single-speed bicycles suck.
They combine the drawbacks of a geared bike with the drawbacks of a fixed gear bike.

A fixed gear bicycle with wide, flat-resistant tires and a belt drive. Plus a hand pump, a set of tools and a box full of inner tubes.

That should be enough to keep it running for a lifetime, offers actual utility, and it’s understandable enough what it does so I’m hopefully not burnt at the stake, and people can build their own with what they have.