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Decided to download SimCity4 and I found a WTC building mod. Now I'm trying to figure out if you can make a plane crash into buildings. Edit: Fucking libs took that disaster type out after 2000. Cowards.
i always thought this one looked like a giant balancing two plates with it's legs crossed half submerged in the earth.
Can't wait to fill my city with these bad boys and then blast off to Alpha Centauri or whatever
Looks cool but needs some color. Don't know if this is just a western mainly corpo US thing but what happened to colorful schizo-tech futures? Or is afro-futurism and solarpunk the only places with palletes beyond white, grey, and silver?
me, looking at paint prices and realizing when I'm covering square kilometers of surface my choices are limited:
:oh-shit:
Truth, but I think public work projects should have some pizzaz to them
you want green? we do the blended lichen and buttermilk wash. anything else i'm out of ideas
Lime wash with the oxidized blood of capitalists? Give it a nice mesa red coloration...
Tech that people would think belongs in other time periods but being paired with one another. So water wheels but the roof also has solar panels, or a steam engine powering a local library with a projection screen.
Actually a reference to schizocarp (and root word schizo, not the slur) a meaning for split of fragmented in botany for particular flowers, but yeah I could understand the relation to schizophrenia given the internet being a big shit
That's a relief. Some people here think it's okay to use schizo as an adjective or insult and I just wanted to be sure this wasn't another case of that.
Yeah sadly it's best to assume the insult usage given the internet given that using the actual root schizo in proper term would be like someone sincerely using gay to describe someone that is joyful and carefree (the dated terminology).
This is an arcology from SimCity 2000, if it's not clear. And yeah it makes basically no sense spatially.
Nah I got that, it's just that most future tech is always either apple store aesthetic or dark gray minimalist.
No doubt.
I think it's the limit of a particular Silicon Valley nerd's aesthetic. "Put a national park on top of a big tech building in a glass bubble". End of thought. That's how you merge self-sufficiency with tech, apparently.
Any approximate reality is probably less identifiable. If there are productive windows, they look in on green and green alone. Just green blocks contrasted with gray.
I think it's that and was also especially born out of the idea of mass appeal (i.e. not all people like all color but most people are at worst ambivalent on plain white walls and minimalist styles). I would hope any eco future would likely see an integration of diverse plant life into specific zones paired with vertical living spaces and thoroughfares. There's a lot of interesting permaculture research now and it's nice to see attempts at replicating that in a larger scale in the future.
In retrospect I wonder what you do going from the ground to the top. It's it a nauseous helical route or is that just for show and you can actually go straight up or down?
