‘Final Fantasy 7’ actually had a funny version of this, since the backgrounds were drawn 2d pictures, but interactive objects were 3d looking distinctly differently.

I love exploring the levels in some games like ‘Half Life’ and ‘Deus Ex’. One of my favorite gaming moments was when I put the hovercraft in HL2 up on the wooden platform three meters from the ground. Then I promptly fell from that platform myself and had to finish the watery level on foot, including running away from the firing helicopter.

Doesn’t thermal ink basically fall off the paper in a few weeks? At least receipts and such fade pretty quickly.

People recently became familiar with this kink by the way of Kristi Noem’s husband’s example.

Kristi Noem’s husband was the unwitting popularizer of the term, via his own practical example. So it’s not just women.

I don’t think the dialogue is even affected, it’s probably just the titles. At least, some videos are definitely uploaded multiple times with different titles.

Since the UK either had a proposal to ban, or already have banned incesty porn, I’m guessing the platforms will just provide an option to show the same video under different titles for particular regions and various other targeting, including random a/b testing.

‘Angina’ in Latin means tonsillitis, i.e. throat inflammation. It was borrowed in this meaning into Slavic and some Romance languages. Somehow English missed the note that ‘angina’ already means a particular disease, and borrowed the other sense of the word: ‘choking, suffocation’, and uses it mostly for angina pectoris, i.e. crushing chest pain caused by myocardial ischemia.

If you have worse cognition than LLMs, you should just turn yourself into compost. That would be more beneficial for the entire planet.

These detached blocks here in Lund

Those look pretty cool to me, as they resemble old European districts and seem also to work similar to townhouses like those in NYC. The paint scheme is also much better than in the Bratislava example, breaking up the block but not patchy.

Curiously, I’ve seen some new builds in Russia that are of typical block scale, but clearly inspired by modern European styles. These are way better than those still affected by the post-Soviet aesthetic and remainders of the aforementioned caprom malaise. Russia has the oddity that current regulations don’t quite allow denser low-rise districts, so developers inevitably gravitate to big blocks, but at least some of them apparently strive for better looks. E.g.:

I’ve been looking at post-Soviet architecture for decades, it’s still broken by the prolonged Soviet rule with its central imperative. It’s generational trauma, and it will take two or three more generations to recover from it: the sense of visual taste of all these people, previously cultivated over centures, was effectively stomped out, and they need to acquire it anew, which takes time and effort. The deeper you go into Russia, the worse it gets, but the ripples are seen far and wide. I posted some examples here. That last pic you provided is like a little baby compared even to your original photo from Bratislava.

If you want to see some really bad shit, check out Luzhkov’s style and capitalist romanticism. Those are prime examples of the looks being dictated by people who have money but no taste, and this has been going on through the nineties-zeroes, having been barely attuned in the 2010s by some hints of attention to modern Western architecture. And low-rank officials on the ground, responsible for painting the buildings, are certainly much less likely to read ‘Architectural Digest’.

Indeed I am. Because what I’m saying is that folks who got their aesthetic sense botched by decades of Soviet doctrine, don’t do well at dressing up the high-rises, even though buildings of a similar kind in the Nordics do splendidly.

And, as I mentioned in the thread, one can look at Stalinist housing and Khrushchevkas for examples of Soviet-type housing that didn’t need gaudy paint to look decent, because they were built at smaller sizes and with the last remainder of the sense of beauty. Russians also never bastardized the old districts in Moscow and SPb, because those had established aethetics (except for new buildings inserted here and there, which predictably look shitty for the most part).

What I wrote above: “Eastern-European countries tend to overcompensate and overdo the painting, making the result too noisy”. Just like in your above pic from Slovakia. But not in this one.

No need to inform me that some Western-European countries and even the US did housing of this style, as I’m perfectly aware that it was peddled by Le Corbusier at the same time as the USSR developed its approach, likely with cross-pollination at least in the west-east direction.

Also, Dresden will remain East-European in spirit until the former East Germany stop trying to recreate GDR with their conservative voting.

Tell me you don’t know how important old growth forests are. Oh wait, no need, I can see that already.

It’s always funny how everyone between Germany and Russia say that they’re in Western Europe. Yeah keep telling that to yourself bud, Slovakia is certified Eastern Europe.

That’s not enough. It’s also important that the water is boiling when one initially drops the eggs in, instead of them putting the eggs into cold water and bringing to boil.

Could be, but it’s still not the patchy mess that Soviet blocks tend to be colored into. New builds in Russia are often painted those very strong hues that apparently no place has. It’s horrible.

https://bankfoto.info/zdjecia/petrzalka-3/

Not the best example: Eastern-European countries tend to overcompensate and overdo the painting, making the result too noisy. Nordic cities look much better, precisely because they choose muted and coordinated colors, and usually paint the whole house instead of making patchy blobs. It so happens that khrushchyovkas are again better at it too, because they were built smaller and painted in one color, often muted orange or brown.

It would help if you found something less dope-looking. This pic is like 1920s New York, but with a swastika.