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      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        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.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    i always thought this one looked like a giant balancing two plates with it's legs crossed half submerged in the earth.

  • SickleRick [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Can't wait to fill my city with these bad boys and then blast off to Alpha Centauri or whatever

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      me, looking at paint prices and realizing when I'm covering square kilometers of surface my choices are limited:

      :oh-shit:

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Lime wash with the oxidized blood of capitalists? Give it a nice mesa red coloration...

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        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.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            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

            • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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              2 years ago

              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.

              • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                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).

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This is an arcology from SimCity 2000, if it's not clear. And yeah it makes basically no sense spatially.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Nah I got that, it's just that most future tech is always either apple store aesthetic or dark gray minimalist.

        • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            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.

  • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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?