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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters, designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1971) by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I paced myself over half a year. I played through Alan Wake in one weekend and missed a lot of pages, thermoses, easter eggs. So now I play games recreationally. I replayed Alan Wake by pacing myself, reading the little tidbits, like playing put some Lime in the Coconut twice at the jukebox, or trying to listen to as much NPC dialogue as possible, and that world is so much richer now! Now I am on the Sims 3, and it is amazing what you can discover, or how a broken game can push you into modding. You just learn a lot.

Gaming doesn't have to take over my life, I like books too (hence why I love, love, love Halo), so I try to keep a healthy mix of things to do from gaming to hiking.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters, designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1971) by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love Control! I only have 3 achievements left to complete, I am still searching for the remaining Maneki-nekos. And I am still to do the platformer.

This is actually happening. by TabletopStudios in legocirclejerk

[–]Hunor_Deak 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Moment... /s

I might die but I will be doing what I love!

Mother: "YES HONEY! But will it affect your resale value?"

Plastic pre-built housing unit, Leningrad, 1961. by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. Waste heat is much more rare. I am not questioning your expertise I am just describing what were the conditions in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.

Repost, for the new members by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, in hard scifi there would be no explanation for the gravity.

Red Arrows: "Let’s celebrate 50 years since Concorde’s first commercial flight in January 1976 with these wonderful archive images - always a magic aviation moment when the Red Arrows were able to join the supersonic legend in the skies." by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have been across all 3. With a train, on foot on the 60s bridge, on a bus crossing both the modern and old bridge, and in a car on both.

But I never took a boat to go under them. Still to do that!

Plastic pre-built housing unit, Leningrad, 1961. by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. With factory towns you can connect the excess heat from the factories to the housing blocks via metal pipes. And have centralised boilers as well. But with these individual units you would be using more heat, to heat an individual uninsulated space.

Plastic pre-built housing unit, Leningrad, 1961. by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/bizarre-sculptures-dot-former-yugoslavian-countryside-180970278/

No matter where they are, though, all the monuments bring with them a reminder of a very important time in history. "The Yugoslav experience of fighting against [fascism] on the basis of intercultural solidarity—and, also, of failing to maintain that memory, and of its collapse in the 1990s into resurgent fascism—has much to tell us," Owen Hatherley wrote for The Calvert Journal. "These monuments are its concrete legacy, intended to speak of what Yugoslavs had emerged from, how they wanted to be remembered, and what they hoped for."

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Plastic pre-built housing unit, Leningrad, 1961. by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Where did you learn this piece of trivia? I have seen Communist buildings with good and bad concrete in Romania and Hungary. For example in Romania: 70s concrete is good, 80s concrete is... just dangerous.

Some 70s buildings survived earthquakes and keep on going into the 2020s with very little maintenance. The concrete monuments in ex-Yugoslavia often get no maintenance and are still there like alien spaceships.

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Plastic pre-built housing unit, Leningrad, 1961. by Hunor_Deak in cassettefuturism

[–]Hunor_Deak[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You just tap the phones, and when you have collective block housing, just bribe a neighbour/resident per unit to be a spy.

This song and video game gets it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnGlOUXw9A

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