City-Builder Gamer Hats

Reticulating splines started as a joke. Will Wright coined the phrase as a loading-screen gag in SimCity 2000, saying it sounded cool, and the game does not reticulate any splines. The phrase later turned up in SimCopter and The Sims, but it was born in a city-builder, and it is still the handshake between the people who bulldoze one district for a better bus line. These city-builder gamer hats are for the armchair mayors of Cities: Skylines and SimCity. The Steam threads supply the traffic wisdom: five roads into one roundabout is a no no, and a Dedoimedo write-up of Cities: Skylines traffic is titled It's all in the roundabout, stoopid. SimCity supplies the rest of the lore. The 2013 launch's server failures spawned a wave of memes, SimCity shirts were part of a March 2023 MoMA x Uniqlo collection, and The Register once covered the SimCity 2000 source code. The designs cover the sewage planner, the person whose first city was SimCity 2000, and the mayor who builds a city up and sends the monster. CITY BUILDER and CITIES: SKYLINES give the page its plain terms. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for the player or for whoever loses weekends to rezoning.