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That bug is me.
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Architecture, Urban Planning, and Cultural Thought.
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That bug is me.
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100% true, mark the date, make it a party.
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Love these two, thanks.
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Good time of year to improve your thermoregulation and resting heart-rate, keep practicing.
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love the texture, great work.
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Taking advantage of an opportunity can be a risky gamble, but hey, that’s half the fun of life.
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Awesome job! Please eat and stay hydrated.
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Maybe the end of the last thread was a little negative; I still remember opening this screen on a weekend morning either hearing birds singer or the rain of bullets. If you can remember hearing this as well, thank you.
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enjoy*
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yes and it great!
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You fill that jacket well, what’s in the mug. 😂
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Please enough the donut!
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While it’s easy to identify horrible endemic corporate behavior within Bizzard and other gaming companies; what plagues TF2 is a systemic problem across the internet as a whole that involves ai and cryptocurrency. I saw the problem during COVID and it’s sad it hasn’t changed.
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Zesty Jesus’s video ‘No One’s Home’ goes over the numbers, but along with trolls flooding servers with aimbots, essentially the player counts are inflated by bots mining for items in private servers. This all in service of a quasi-crypto market fueled by the steam market.
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But despite steam numbers saying the community is +70,000 strong since it went free-to-play, the unfortunate reality is at most there are only 15,000 reoccurring players… the rest are bots.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nnux...
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The community was the best part; outside of game creating steam workshop items to download, and creating amazing animations with gmod humorously and then eventually with source film maker. These animations got recognition by Value, the company of the game. For a time, they cared about the community.
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The game itself for a decade received class updates, got a co-op mode, became free to play, had holiday events, it’s own comic, and a series of innocuous features like hats that were meant as a in-game joke, at least for a time.
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Can’t think of another game that had me playing consecutively for over 10-years; since the OrangeBox’s release in 2007 to a couple years after the ‘Meet your Match’ update, I’ve been playing Team Fortress 2. I hard stopped playing after my first kid, but these guy were internet Dads for a long time.
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Men I Trust - All Night; the garage session they did during COVID was one of the smoothest, heartfelt covers I’ve ever listened to. Feels nostalgic and harm, to have a good night~
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Ah yeah! Looking forward to it.
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And there are many ‘lands between’ in these games that are connected by trees, whose connections we can’t see. But such is the cycle of life.. but that concludes my last thread’s subject on the matter. Can’t wait for the DLC!
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Our snakie boy is an ‘Impaler’ so it’s likely this is in service of some sort of bloodletting, and it also feeds into Marika’s christ like imagery. Still curious how he was able to penetrate his mom from the land of shadows, but that’s too much speculation for now.
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With both residents as actors of a war that has been buried by history, but the weight and pain of their actions still felt, and for our player to confront.
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Damn straight.
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Yeah, you look cute here!
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Oh shit…
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By the way, you know what other DLC had you traverse through an alternative reflection of the games world? One mired with the actions of the past, and is the focal point of the narrative which all ‘outer gods’ scheme to take control of?
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Yggdrasil and Poetic Edda isn’t just about a tree’s branches/roots similar functions, but about the cyclical flow of time. A living river which reflects itself, which all life is given meaning. These games circles are the same; whether its the ‘Dark Sign’ in Dark Souls, Sea/Space, or the Erdtree.
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The trailer hits us with a very familiar motif in the Soulsborn games; need I say it? The birth of Queen Marika’s reign was bloody and violent, and brought (eternal) life to her many children. She took control of the world’s Yggdrasil, the engine of life and death, to the service of an outer god.
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Well maybe not the seduction part, one was a mother while the other a child, but their connection as Empyreans of the current order of their time is apparent. That Order was the Crucible, the original form of what was the Erdtree. When all life lived together, and before the Demi-gods cheated death.
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Or perhaps a spiritual jail; as Miquella is here, whether by force or to accomplish what they couldn’t with the Haligtree, to right the wrong of their mother’s ‘seduction and betrayal’. We’re not sure who was betrayed, but given St. Trina and the Gloam-eyed Queen are missing…
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With the ‘Shadow of the Erdtree’ DLC approaching, I want to cover what we ought to expect based on the trailer, along with similar themes that we’ve seen in other games. From the trailer, we are being pulled into a frozen ‘unsung’ past which casts a terrible shadow on the games current events.
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Planning on seeing them in July; a great choice for whatever today gave you.
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Honestly surprised to hear you haven’t played cyberpunk, because the plot to the ‘Phantom Liberty’ expansion literally feels like something you would write. Plus all of Night City bleeds early 80s punk.
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Need to post this here, just to remind myself how much this song fucks.
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What do you call this trope? Because I love it.
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Your work has always been inspiring and uplifting; forget monetary value and value what you’ve made, and it will always pay back in karma (interest).
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They were really cooking with this design! can’t wait to see what they have planned for the rest of the cast.
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Not to get to preachy, but good design needs to communicate and give room to grow, and not be just a means-to-an-end. An intersection with a form.
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Like how a series of bar joists form a roof or studs are to a wall; the form is present in the negative space, regardless how close or far away we are…All you need are intersections to design a form. Even if those intersections are an abstraction of a ‘form’, a design is present, and room to grow.
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The city becomes an abstraction for the community, a living design who’s form is for us to find. It’s not in a single owner, building, or political structure; but found at multiple intersecting points of conflict and resolve. Eventually everyone comes to terms with the entity.
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The more I read about urban planning, the less I know what the final ‘form’ should be. Or to better put; if you have a garden, you can temper the design, but you’ll never be the owner of it. It’s a living thing with changing rules and a biology; a community outside your control.
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Here’s another project; a 30-acre parking lot at Garden State Plaza New Jersey is turning into +2,000 housing with green space and a real social corridor. Hopefully more post-war sprawl will fade away in place of real community centers in the coming years.
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Today’s episode of Delicious in Dungeon was great, please go watch it; I’ll do a thread about it sometime.
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Than I highly recommend you read ‘Emergent Tokyo’ by StudioLab. As it illustrates the connective tissue and scale of Tokyo’s diverse urban districts. It’s a great guide for building better dense low-rise neighborhoods; a popular subject not just in classes, but in many major American suburbs.
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Been reading more into existing community redevelopment projects; particularly ones focused on housing and public space (as opposed to just commercial) to re-center their townships. On the left is in Sterling Heights, MI and on the right is in Ohio.
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The last part is technically possible, given that it’s true for nicotine, but not sure if THC absorbs the same. Overall sweating off the stress is just as good as the plant, keep it up!
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Was at IIT as a guest as well. Some great work.
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And more.
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Will post more, its just been a busy four months; on an unrelated note, here are some student projects I enjoyed reviewing.
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