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Regular maintenance and high quality in initial construction really helps keep something old around for a long time, though. Like the Parthenon example above I gave, most of the stones (and the façade with the inscription of Marcus Vipsanius fuckin' Agrippa from over 2,000 years ago!) are still the originals or the ones put in almost 1,900 years ago. As relates to current events, Notre Dame was in dire need of serious TLC even before the fire last week, especially because the mid-1800s renovation was pretty poorly done. So a lot of renovations even beyond the basic repairs to the roof, spire, and vault are going to get done now that might have still languished. It's a silver lining, at least. e: I thought some human brain cells lasted a lifetime even if most got replaced on a regular basis.
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It should be an opportunity to improve history when adding to it, Cio-style. Better history! Blastier! Sexier! It's not without precedent. https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1032064307247435777
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^^^ That's a high quality gargoyle.
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Constant renovations can be very cool, it gives us places like Cardiff Castle, where parts of the fort foundations are Roman from the 3rd century, Normans built an interior keep in the 11th century, and part of the structure was progressively renovated into a gothic revival mansion into the late 1800s. Now you can see a huge range of the city's history in a neat architectural cross-section.
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fritz posted:Ben Grimm is the closest to Royalty among the Fantastic Four but I've been out of marvel comics to know who the most Royal in that whole universe is. Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. IMPERIOUS REX and a furious idiot.
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habeasdorkus posted:That's a high quality gargoyle. Vader's on the national cathedral. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/darth-vader-grotesque
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Duodecimal posted:Vader's on the national cathedral. I love that he's adjacent to just a normal rear end racoon.
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His name is Rocket!
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Duodecimal posted:Vader's on the national cathedral. The little itty bitty arms really make it for me.
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Apparently the Lancer kicistarter is nearly at a quarter of a million. I'm sure a lot of that will be lost to production costs and fees, but Iit should still be a hell of a payday for our boy Operant. Very well earned in my opinion! Edit: Oh, he's just one of various artists, for some reason I thought it was a solo project haha Mr. Lobe fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Apr 19, 2019 |
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Apr 19, 2019 14:47
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Mr. Lobe posted:
Well, it's originally his project, and he hired those other artists.
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Well, it's good news in any case.
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Fish Noise posted:It should be an opportunity to improve history when adding to it, Cio-style. Better history! Blastier! Sexier! The National Cathedral in Washington has similar ones too!
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iospace posted:The National Cathedral in Washington has similar ones too! Holy poo poo, can you post a link?
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MikeJF posted:I read Aesma and the Red Eyed King again the other day and burst out laughing aloud a bunch of times, I love that story. The "this was a fabulously bad idea" line still leaves me in stitches. All the myth stories have been great, but that one is my favorite I think.
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https://twitter.com/orbitaldropkick/status/1119718728260902913?s=21
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aspiration makes monsters of men
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I appreciate that Meti hacked off her hair, too. She is, after all, as much a fool as they are for following her path.
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It's easy for her to say that, but personally I don't know what I would even do with the primal power of creation besides some occasional fireworks.
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I love Meti's dripping contempt for the murderous arts.
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YaketySass posted:It's easy for her to say that, but personally I don't know what I would even do with the primal power of creation besides some occasional fireworks. public works my man
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Makes me wonder whether these are first or second generation demiurges although I'm leaning towards the latter? The philosopher-kings and scholars definitely threw down, even Zoss himself took the fight to the heavens. But I remembered a post from Ortibal saying most had died out before the universal war even started. And I can see Meti's contempt being even greater realizing that a bunch of people who killed or stole their way into power were using the energies of the cosmos just to make flails and whips.
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Tollymain posted:public works my man You can accomplish the work of a hundred men with the same strength that would cut them down.
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More power, really, since you also keep the power they generate.
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Yeah, you could lift, like, a really big stone block.
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Bongo Bill posted:Yeah, you could lift, like, a really big stone block. You know, when you phrase it like that, Solomon doesn't really seem like such hot poo poo.
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I really hope we get to see Meti apply some pure Cutting to folks.
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https://twitter.com/negaversace/status/969724762623758336 zizek confirmed for royalty
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Zizek, bearer of the word "Moist"
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Ashcans posted:I really hope we get to see Meti apply some pure Cutting to folks. Meti could single-handedly destroy all of the Seven but chose not to exert her power her unwavering disgust towards the violence of which she is capable is the fulcrum of what makes her Royal. when faced with the choice between peasant and king, she chose peasant, but she did so with a force of conviction that would make Aesma's knees buckle
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Coulda made poo poo. Coulda learned poo poo. Coulda sat around and done nothing at all. Any of which would have been better than starting a universal war.
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Tollymain posted:https://twitter.com/negaversace/status/969724762623758336 
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Tollymain posted:https://twitter.com/negaversace/status/969724762623758336 honestly, i'd say that zizek is in fact pretty royal
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paranoid randroid posted:Zizek, bearer of the word "Schniffffffff"
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re: doomguy - doomguy from the doom comic isn't royal (too concerned with earthly concerns (radiation), isn't able to punch a cyberdemon's spine out unaided) but doomguy from DOOM 2016 is definitely royalty
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Murder the gods, and topple their thrones
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President Ark posted:re: doomguy - doomguy from the doom comic isn't royal (too concerned with earthly concerns (radiation), isn't able to punch a cyberdemon's spine out unaided) but doomguy from DOOM 2016 is definitely royalty You got some guts, friendo. Huge guts. paranoid randroid posted:Zizek, bearer of the word "Moist" Zizek was the perfect/worst person to debate Peterson. But if he generally won the debate, that's so sad for fascist clean your room dude.
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habeasdorkus posted:You got some guts, friendo. Huge guts. https://twitter.com/altctuallyd0ng/status/1066399739774685184 But yeah, outside the people who are fanatically in favor of Peterson, most people saw it as Zizek crushing him and/or Jorp coming off as am unprepared moron. At least two noted that Zizek is very nice and generous with people he does not respect, and he was extremely nice to Peterson as the debate went on. For specific moments, at the beginning Jorp admitted that he didn't read Zizek's work, because there's a lot of it, and instead just read the Communist Manifesto. Later, Zizek asked Peterson who these supposed cultural Marxists spreading their lies in society are, if he could name any specific people, and Peterson couldn't. Also: https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1119420897033621504
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Yeah, I'd read that Peterson admitted he didn't read the communist manifesto before peeling for this debate, which if true lol but also loving sad. Peterson and his goobers are as far from royalty as possible.
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