#endless tower

Бесконечная башня из книг Idiom от Матея Крена (Matej Kren).

В современное время люди все меньше времени уделяют чтению, - это общемировая проблема. Многие века именно книги были главным источников знаний и мудрости в мире. Сейчас эта функция все больше отходит к Интернету, но все равно лишь малая часть печатной продукции, созданной за сотни лет, имеет свой оцифрованный вариант. Впрочем, последнее не очень волнует массовое сознание – все больше людей пользуется Всемирной Сетью и все меньше библиотекой.

Обеспокоены этой тенденцией и в городской библиотеке Праги (Чехия),одном из крупнейших книгохранилищ Центральной Европы. чтобы популяризовать этот процесс, в Пражской городской библиотеке и была создана инсталляция из книг с названием Idiom. Автором ее стал словацкий художник Матей Крен (Matej Kren).

Инсталляция эта представляет собой башню, сделанную из (примерно) восьми тысяч книг на разных языках. При этом, они не приклеены, а просто стоят друг на друге. В боку этого сооружения есть специальное «окно», куда может заглянуть любой желающий. Если человек заглянет внутрь башни, куда бы он ни посмотрел, вверх или вниз, увидит бесконечный столб книг. Дело в том, что в основание и в потолок инсталляции Idiom встроены круглые зеркала. Они и создают такой эффект.

Смысл этого послания понять легко – книги дают нам бесконечное количество знаний. А посетители этой инсталляции говорят, что появляется ощущение, как у входа в другую вселенную.

The endless tower of books Idiom by Matej Kren.

Nowadays, people spend less and less time reading - this is a global problem. For many centuries, books were the main source of knowledge and wisdom in the world. Now this function is increasingly moving to the Internet, but still only a small part of the printed products created over hundreds of years has its own digitized version. However, the latter does not really worry the mass consciousness - more and more people use the World Wide Web and less and less the library.

The city library of Prague (Czech Republic), one of the largest book depositories in Central Europe, is also concerned about this trend. To popularize this process, an installation of books called Idiom was created in the Prague City Library. Its author was the Slovak artist Matej Kren.

This installation is a tower made of (approximately) eight thousand books in different languages. Moreover, they are not glued, but simply stand on top of each other. There is a special “window” on the side of this structure, where anyone can look. If a person looks inside the tower, no matter where he looks, up or down, he will see an endless column of books. The thing is that round mirrors are built into the base and ceiling of the Idiom installation. They create this effect.

The meaning of this message is easy to understand – books give us an infinite amount of knowledge. And visitors to this installation say that they feel like they are at the entrance to another universe.

With the Thank You update that released back in December, Sandfall added enhanced versions of various bosses in the Endless Tower. One of which is an enhanced version of Clea. I still think Clea is one of the hardest bosses in the game (yes, even harder than Simon imo) and her enhanced version is no different.

Because of this I developed a rinse and repeat method that consists of only Verso and Monoco shown here.

Verso is used to build gradient charge and then Monoco to use Break Point to stun Clea. You're forced to parry Clea before attacking her since she is granted immunity automatically when the battle starts.

The other day I tried this method again and it suddenly just didn't work anymore. So I equipped pictos for Monoco to increase his speed. Still didn't work. I made him faster than Verso. Still didn't work. No matter what I tried, Clea would automatically play after recovering from being stunned.

Today I woke up to the change log for the newest update:

I can't imagine how more insane it's going to get for the last 3 stages. I'm putting those off until I finish the main story.

In other news, now I just need the Creation foot, and then Monoco has all the feet. I barely used him in my first playthrough, but he's a constant party member since I picked him up during this one.

Took me many attempts and in the end I had to use Verso solo because I ran out of revival thingies but Steeled Strike with Simoso did the trick.

Yay! Now Clea, Lampmaster and Simon!