Zucchini

so the current standard is more like a bunch of vertical and horizontal graham crackers, with a single horizontal layer of licorice under it and several braids of licorice standing vertically under the lines of vertical graham crackers. There's also sometimes vertical and horizontal licorice mixed into the graham cracker pattern, but that's for the really big ones usually

(the shell of modern office buildings would be comparable to tissue paper in this analogy, so we'll ignore it. it provides no structural support in most modern cases)

so you just have this hollow cube with graham crackers resisting every force (above, sideways, shear aka other sideways, diagonal from adjacent, etc) plus the fact that these graham crackers are also expected to carry up to a certain amount of goldfish crackers on them. a total cracker weight if you will

time itself can eventually wear through the graham crackers enough to cause partial or full collapse (depending on where it is). this would typically result in all the levels above it coming down. if all of that graham cracker weighs more than the max cracker weight allowed, then it'll collapse everything under it too

so the visual would be as if a kaiju hand smashed a weak cardboard box. which ironically would be the same result if the deterioration was an immediate result of a kaiju hand

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

Waitress taking my order: Such arrogance! Not only do you presume to boast under the guise of being humble, but your order employs the most decadent of linguistic excesses - the tautology!

My date, who until recently thought "tautology" referred to the study of tensile strengths and upon learning her mistake compensated by reading through its Wikipedia article: That would be more correctly identified as a "pleonasm".

The editor I hired to curate my posts who styles himself as a sort of scheming court advisor: My liege, this one is getting away from us. The punchline loses much of its impact when the rest of the joke is derailed by this increasingly self-indulgent meta humour. Were it up to me, your Grace, which of course it is not, I would cut the others and leave myself as the only supporting character. You need noone else, Your Majesty...

I had a thought

Edit:

Having remembered that Piglins can be swayed with gold, Nil gives the Raiders an idea, but it takes some convincing and even more bluffing...