Hanniballs

DESPERATELY trying to find the source of this image. where do you come from. i need to find you. you're like my dead wife

(Use your judgement for definitions of "extant," it doesn't have to be used for its original purpose but my intention is a building that could theoretically still be used, not just the remnants of one.)

Japanese Art Collective ‘Mé’ Creates a Hyperrealistic Landscape of Ocean Waves at the Mori Art Museum

oh okay

And of course both of those are examples of things that could be seen as holdovers from an earlier point in development where Disco was going to be a very different kind of game, but it's clear that they were very deliberately left in to fuck with the player about their expectations of traditional CRPG game design conventions.

Tile flooring at the Oceanário de Lisboa, an aquarium in Lisbon, Portugal

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

the alphabet as seen from directly above

Carved ripples on granite. Shen Lieyi.

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It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)