Colossi as cute girls but you still have to horribly murder them in the exact same way would be a pretty gnarly game lol.
Secret SignatureBonus content! Video of them getting video for their Shadow of the Colossus diatribe! Sillines abound!
We already have a set of designs for Gijinka Collosai so we're like 25 percent of the way there
If you can't handle being outed by a signature, that's on you.Today, Red talks about Total Eclipse:
If you missed the video about the October eclipse: Space Did Something Cool
Cleo cameo!
Secret SignatureIn today's History Summarized, Blue talks about how Athens (accidentally) invented democracy:
-Herodotus if he had a blog.
In today's Trope Talk, Red talks about the trickster heroes:
In today's History Summarized, Blue talks about Brutalism:
okay i disagreed with Blue before but since he put my boy Giesel on his shitlist we're gonna have issues.
edit: As evident I'm quite fond of Brutalism for being monolithic, utilitarian, and minimalist, sort of like a blank canvas for whatever is in its walls. My favorites are of course from the UCSD campus: the Giesel, the Salk Institute (which Blue likes), and Muir College, which interplays greenspace and sweeping verticality that evokes the granite canyons of the Sierra Nevada. When it does get greebly and pretentious, it looks ugly, there I can agree.
Edited by Morgisboard on May 10th 2024 at 10:06:48 AM
AMA about my unfinished writing projectsLe Corbusier can definitely bugger off, though.
Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.Yeah, but given that it's stated principals are supposed to open the space to invite people into those areas for public use but most people find them oppressive, off-putting and unpleasant it's pretty hard to argue against Brutalism fundamentally failing as a design movement.
But I liked some of those building he showed me. That slanty one looked cool. That one that was made of other shapes, I liked picking out the different ones, it felt nice.
I wanna go build with blocks, with giant concrete blocks
Brutalism to me seemed like a microcosm of the Eastern Bloc's fall TBH. Too shacked by the desire for uniformity and ideological purity that it failed to be art and instead became the aesthetic to soul sucking dystopia. Much like how the USSR and NK became known as dystopic hellholes because they refused to compromise and admit their ideology had flaws.
And then you have stuff like the (technically proto-Brutalist) Plan Voisin which looks like set dressing for a Judge Dredd movie.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on May 11th 2024 at 7:21:19 PM
Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.In today's Fables and Folktales, Red talks about the Great Zodiac Race:
Nice to see Red talking about the Chinese Zodiac. I always liked the Chinese Zodiac a bit more than the Western Zodiac, though it's kind of funny that it's a way for people who are skilled at math to try and calculate your age.
The version I heard about this particular race had the cat and the rat riding on the ox together, only for the rat to shove the cat off the ox, resulting in the cat being swept away into the river and ending up in thirteenth place as a result.
Funnily enough, there is a cat in the Chinese Zodiac, we just call it "the Tiger."
Edited by dragonfire5000 on May 17th 2024 at 8:38:07 AM
Finally, my knowledge of Fruit's Basket throughmy sisters rambling will pay off!
One of the funnier zodiac-related stories I heard was from my mother, who said that one of her co-workers once said the phrase "Year of the Chicken" and an Asian co-worker basically went "Please call it 'Year of the Rooster.' 'Chicken' sounds undignified."
In Vietnam, instead of the rabbit, we got the cat as number 4 because in Vietnamese myth, the cat was on the Ox but got kicked off by the Rat and because it can't swim well, it only manage to get the 4th place while gaining hydrophobia.
E.T technically is a Isekai movie
On the one hand, Bombergirl prove you can alienate people to deterrence by replacing everyone with waifus.
OTOH that game had the wrinkle of also be an an arcade game. It is possible that applying the same treatment to a console game would yield enough results for it to be its own thing.
That said I'm expected it to be more of a spiritual sucessor from an indie or dojin group rather than a spinoff from the ICO trilogy. something that would also mitigate issues because it would be clear that its going for a different audience anyway