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accio-victuuri · 2 years

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A Step Closer : BoXiao in 2017. 🍬🍭

you all know i’m a sucker for pre-filming cql galaxy brain theories / connecting dots that don’t necessarily connect type of posts. so here’s one of those. same drill. this is not real and nothing but clownery.

• Joker, Batman & Legos. 🦇

The reason why this post was made in the first place was because I was reading about this— which led me to look into all the 2017 things. So. We are all familiar with Web’s “Joker” Dance back in 2017. No surprise. He likes the character. They both do. It’s the kind of villain I think they wanna portray someday. So, what happened was, you have him playing “Joker”. Then days later, GG posts with the emoji of Batman. Why Batman? because of the shadow and his whole look? This is taken from Metersbonwe 2017 fashion show. It’s such a coincidence that days before Web was all Joker and then here comes GG as batman.

(caption of GG’s post is : Walking in the dark night)

Then 12/13/2017, in this recording, he described the facemask as Batman.

Now let’s move on to a few years later, they have already filmed. They know each other and are really good friends. ya know, brotherhood and all that. 2019, posted the Joker Manor Lego set. Clearly showing it off and that joker emoji. At this time, it’s the set with most pieces he had assembled. CPN is, GG gave this to him as a gift. ( apparently a 🍤 once said they saw GG buying this specific set, but just treat that as ff cause there is no screenshot )

Why is Batman cooking a shrimp? Lol. He is also watching a movie, and is that a book? Who do we know is associated with 🍤. Loves to watch movies and read books. 🤔

We’re not done, let’s move a bit further to 2020. In an episode of TTXS, he was showing off this one he built. He said he’s been building legos during quarantine and there was a specific car that he built for 14 hours. What???? BXGs speculate that it’s a special edition bat mobile that has 3k+ pieces. it features Batman and Joker as characters too. Then add into the mix the CPN that they quarantined together. Did they build it? 👀

• them being featured in the same GQ Magazine back in January 2017. More on that here.

• posting selfies on Children’s Day— and this famous one ( famous in cpn world ) that Web is copying GG’s style. and the third photo is winter solstice post talking about eating tangyuan. ( disclaimer : i mean copying what your crush is doing to make it seem like you have more in common with them and to feel closer w/ them )

• In the process - In 5/26 episode of TTXS, the bros where at it again with clowning Bobo.

( The subject was dating and falling in love )

WH : Yb is the most serious .. Because he is in the process right now... And look at Yibo’s face omg!

This is months after XNINE’s appearance on the show. It could be WH was just saying this to tease Bobo and he is in that age where most people are into dating. but like, coming from the same show that used a minion emoji ( something yb likes ) on a reply to GG? hmmmm. Plus, I wouldn’t put it pass WH + the bros + select crew to know the actual tea on Bobo’s love life ☕️.

• 5/29: GG posted a video diary, he talks alot but what is 👀 , so he says this message to his fans.

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FYI, he is very sweet and interacts with fans back in the day. Especially since boy groups are required to that + he’s nice. A combination of both. So anyway, towards the end of that video he goes:

And finally, I want to say, I miss you very much, I really miss you, we will meet soon, look forward to it!

Okay. Really sweet. Then he comes back again with almost the same message? Lol. Who is this for?

then the last the last the last the last, and then I will tell you, byebye, and then, look forward to our meeting.

Huh? You said that already! Which leads me to the next item in this post. 👇🏼

• 621 & 622 & 623 & 624- On 621, Web came to Beijing after filming in Changsha. The next day 622, GG posted about cooking, with a caption of : “In the days with no schedule, I transformed into Big Chef Xiao’s Time and made pepper chicken!” Hmmm. He also has a selfie that had a moto in the background, which I doubt is Yibo’s. but there you go. Who is he cooking for? Who just recently came back to Beijing?

Next day 623, GG posted selfies and there is someone behind him in black. Caption was “No filters can beat iPhone’s built-in camera, ahahahahaha face yourself bravely! I’m not really used to seeing myself without the moustache” ( moustache = he had it filming the wolf )

624, Web posts a car that he finished building. Alluding to him having a time off as well.

Then add GG’s message to his fans (same day 624), which is actually really sweet but the CPN 👀 ones are emphasized below:

It's raining here, how about for you guys? Running in the rain feels good, but don't try it, you'll catch a cold!

How is my life going? Ok, I'll stop saying fulfilling. In the days I have no schedules, I really, really don't leave my house, I read and watch movies I like, and I also sketch. The people around me all think I need toget out more, what a headache....

How are you guys doing?

Actually we're all scared to become people we hate after we grow up, that's why we have to do our best to live! ll leave with you a quote that I used to really

like:

Work, like you don't need money. Live, like tomorrow is the end of the world. Dance, like no one is watching you. Love, like you've never been hurt!

I miss you guys a lot, goodnight!

In case you can’t tell what I was alluding to, they were spending time together. Lol. and just the whole message of his 624 post about living your life and making the most out of it. Not caring what other people say. Very interesting.

The cute selfie - This was shared by GG on his weibo 07272017, the same one we saw Web show off. Did he save this? Was he already following GG before? Did GG send it, the big question is WHEN.

That’s all for now 🤍🤍🤍

Note: I did not include the day they officially met in TTXS cause we all know how that went already + posted in my 2017 timeline 🤍 I’m trying to include unpopular cpns from that year. Also, excuse the ugly insta stories collage cause i’m on mobile and we can only add a few photos.

#bjyx #yizhan #all of this is cpn #clowning and cpn bye #Youtube

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jaythelay · 3 years

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Ya'll please, I've seen an abundance of new videos of people making stupid simple mistakes that cost them everything from emotional carnage to monetary loss, to lots of lost time.

Stop every dumbass thought you have, ignore the idiot who talks of authority and purity with no knowledge other than trying to act like shit is simpler than it is. It's happened to massive creators, it will happen to you.

Do, your, fucking, research. The simplest steps. The first one is pre-builts. Avoid avoid avoid avoid. No one takes care of them after being made, they are put together by people who don't get paid enough to give a shit or even remotely know what they're doing, all their options for the parts are bad or again, not taken care of.

Second fucking step, is to listen to people, never, ever once, trust a company. Yes, building can be a bitch, and you just want it to work and not put in the work.

But if you're dumb enough to drop like 2-3k on a pc you didn't even build? Nah man, that was you stepping into a world you have no understanding of, that the industry and for some bizarre reason even the community, wants to be kept idiotically complex because nerds want their nerd culture pure.

No company is going to help you as much as steve down the street could using youtube videos. A prebuilt is worse than whatever he ducts tape together.

Every pre-built is awful, the parts are pure insanity in what bottlenecks what sometimes, the price is genuinely fucked up, their sites and customer service are set up so you don't know at all what is what or where and what needs to be changed added or removed, but will do their best to maximize profits, and that might sound like paying for ludicriously priced parts, but no, it's to get you invested with parts meant to be slow, or not work, best case scenario, a part that's been dropped enough times they know it will fail soon.

You spent a week waiting, lots of time saving, you spend thousands, and now? Who's your ONLY option? What devil did you sign the contract towards? Who's going to say your warranty is out of date despite it not? Who's going to say that problem they hear about every hour of the day, isn't covered? One they knew of before release?

Who is then, going to give you a shit worker with barely any knowledge of what company they even work for outside of a 6 page b/w guide from 20 years ago? Who's going to waste your time, and grind you down so fucking hard, and then give you that ounce of hope, with a ludicriously priced part.

Do not. Buy. Prebuilts. If ya do, sorry, but that feeling you get in your chest? That swirling anxiety in your brain? That feeling that, in fact, you were in over your head? That was you getting grifted by yet another company. And they know exactly how to get you to squeel out some more shekles.

To put it simply, you, in computer building, are better off on your own, than ever trusting a prebuilt from anyone. No one is going to buy nvidia or amd if their cards don't work, but give the laziest fucks the most overpriced possible computer, and suddenly it's just magical computer voodoo problems unrelated to it having been built in 10 seconds by a slave child in china.

There is mercy, there is fully realized empathy, and it's not fair or right. But this is reality. And you need to realize your friend indeed was trying to save you...alot...aloooooooot... And your lazy ass costed yourself alot. Like...alooooooooooooooooooooot

And 3rd is to watch a few youtube videos. It's not elitist to say it's easy as shit to build a computer yourself on your own time with your own investment and no whip cracking behind you. It's legos people. Stop being childish and pretending legos are difficult. Literal toddlers have been able to build their own computer ffs.

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thegeeklee · 7 years

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Nintendo Switch Presentation - January 2017

It’s not the first time we’ve seen the Nintendo Switch, but the original reveal did not give us too much info. Now we finally get more information about the console thanks to the Nintendo Switch Event. Here’s the main details you’re probably chasing:

Release

The Nintendo Switch will launch on March 3rd, 2017 in Japan, US, Canada, some of Europe and other territories, which includes Australia. That’s only about 7 weeks away.

The price will be $299.99USD/$469.95AUD. While it is probably worth it from a technical point of view of what it can do, that price range def takes it out of the impulse buy price range. I bought a Wii U about a year or so ago with Super Mario Maker for $300AUD on special. I played Super Mario Maker a few times and then the Wii U gathered dust ever since. I really like the Switch’s portability, but I don’t travel enough to get the most out of this feature, so not being a huge Nintendo combined with my buyers remorse (other that continuing my console collection) with the Wii U, makes me think I won’t be grabbing one of these on launch. I probably won’t consider it until there’s a significant price drop. I mean you can get the much more powerful PS4 or Xbox One S for about $100 AUD cheaper, so it’s not very competitive on price.

There’s two Switch packages you can get. The only difference being the colours of the joy-con controllers. The Joy-Con controllers come in 3 colours currently, grey, neon red and neon blue. One Switch package comes with two grey controllers, while the other package comes with one blue and one red controller. I’d be definitely picking the grey controller package. I may be bias as grey is my favourite colour these days, however I just think it looks awkward, having one red and one blue controller connected to Switch.

Other than the 2 joy-con controllers, the other items you get in the box include the Switch tablet console itself and the dock for connecting to a TV. The Joy-Con Grip that holds your two joy-cons together for a more traditional controller experience. Two wrist straps that connect to the Joy-Con that make them easier to hold and stop them flying across the room. Plus of course a HDMI cable and AC adapter.

Specific accessory pricing includes:

Switch Pro Control (available in grey) - $69.99USD/$99.95AUD

Pack of 2 Joy-Con Controllers (available in grey, neon red, neon blue or neon red/blue combos) - $79.99USD/$119.95AUD

1 Joy-Con Controller (available in grey) - $49.99USD/$69.95AUD

Joy-Con charging grip - $29.99USD/$39.95AUD

Switch Dock set (including dock, ac adapter and HDMI cable) - $89.99USD/$129.95AUD

Joy-Con Wheel (set of 2) - $14.99USD/$24.95

If you combine the prices of all the components that you get in the box together equals $199.97USD/$289.85AUD, which means you’re paying about $100USD/$80AUD for the actual Switch console tablet. That probably sounds like a good deal when put like that. Either that or it shows that the accessories are quite expensive. I’d hate to be a parent with one of this in the house, having the buy multiple docks, fighting over who gets to use it, constantly dropping big dollars to replace easy to lose controllers etc.

Specs

There are 3 modes to the Switch. TV Mode whereby you put the Switch into the dock and play on the TV. Tabletop mode, where you utilise the Switches kickstand to have it stand up independently and use the Joy-Cons detached from the console. And of course handheld mode, where you have the Joy-Cons attached and can use it like a portable tablet gaming machine. In Handheld mode it will get 2.5hrs – 6.5hrs of battery life dependent on the game (Zelda will get about 3hrs battery life). This seems reasonable. Should mean people can play triple A titles on the train or bus to work or extended long gaming sessions playing simple indie or retro Nintendo titles without running out of battery. You can also play it while charged it via a USB-C cable.

Other specs include no region locking which makes sense for a console they are promoting to use on the plane. It has a multi touch display, 6.2” display that runs as I predicted at 720p. So smaller than an iPad mini but at the largest spectrum of a smart phone screen size. The same size screen as the Wii U tablet but higher resolution. When docked it will run in 1080p. There’s 32GB of internal storage which is pretty disappointing but can be expanded by a micro SD card. Up to 8 Switches can connect together for multiplayer.

The Switch will of course support digital download games, but also has “Game Cards” for physical games, not too dissimilar to the 3DS. The dock has 3x USB 2 ports plus of course a HDMI and AC adapter ports.

There’s been no mention of the actual performance of the machine. Some of the graphics was looking a bit rough in places, so don’t expect it to in any way compete with the Xbox One or PS4 in the graphics department.

Controllers

The main controllers as mentioned at the Joy-Cons. Think of them as smaller Wii remotes. They attach to the sides of the Switch in portable mode but can also be used separately. They have NFC and support Amiibos. The left controller has a screenshot button that will later support video. It has an accelerometer, and IR motion camera sensors, which of course open up much more potential as to what you can do with them. It also has an advanced “HD” rumble feature built into the Joy-Cons that supposedly helps you feel things (the example they showed was ice being put into a glass).

Being so small you wouldn’t expect many controls but it amazingly includes on each controller a joy stick, plus or minus button, left or right button, d-pad or A/B/X/Y buttons, ZL or ZR button, release button, SL button and SR button. I think the fear at first was the Joy-Con might be quite limiting, but this has clearly been designed so you should be able to play just about any game with even only one Joy-Con controller.

The wrist straps when connected a Joy-Con help beef up it’s physical size including likely making the SL and SR buttons easier to use.

For when you want a more traditional controller setup you can plug the Joy-Cons into the grip and it will also charge the Joy-Cons. If you want even more advanced controls, then there is also the Switch Pro Controller, similar to what was available for the Wii U.

Online

For the first time, Nintendo’s online services will now cost you money to use (like Xbox and Playstation). There will be an initial free trial and then it’s time to pay up if you want to continue. This also could get costly for parents. Though there is one bonus. Each month you will get to play a NES or SNES classic game for free. With Playstation Plus and Xbox Gold you get multiple free games per month and you can play them as long as you are subscribed, and even when you resubscribe. That doesn’t look to be the case here, so price will be critical to not seem like poor value compared to the alternatives. Smartphones will also be able to connect to it’s online service for chat and arranging online games.

Games

This is great and all but it doesn’t matter if there isn’t a big selection of games to support it. This was the major problem with the Wii U. It wasn’t overly apparent during the presentation what the full launch line up was but Nintendo assures us that there’s currently over 50 devs working on over 80 games for the Switch. Here’s some of those games:

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Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, after much speculation, is a Switch launch title.

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1-2-Switch is a series of mini games that make use of the joy-cons. It is primarily a game that you don’t watch the screen while playing. It’s a launch title and could be the Switch’s equivalent to Wii Sports.

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A boxing style game called Arms is also making much use of the joy-cons. Each player needs two joy-cons each, one for each hand. You play split screen in TV mode, or use two switches to battle, or online. Released in Spring (US) 2017.

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Super Mario Odyssey is the first large sandbox Mario game since Sunshine. There’s parts based in like New York with regular size people, which is just bizarre. Mario’s hat being thrown is a major game mechanic. Out end of 2017.

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Project Octopath Traveler from Square Enix looks like pixel art paper Mario/final fantasy style game. No release date as of yet.

Other upcoming titles include FIFA, Ultra Street Fighter 2, Skyrim, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Has Been Heroes, Just Dance 2017, Snipperclips, Super Bomberman R, Arcade Archives, Disgaea 5 Complete, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Farming Simulator, Fast RMX, Fire Emblem Warriors, Minecraft, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Rayman Legends, Rime, Skylanders Imaginators, Syberia 3, Steep, Sonic Mania, NBA 2K18, Lego City Undercover, I am Setsuna, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and more.

So there you have it. Pre-orders are now open and going by how hard it’s been to get a NES Classic mini, it could be hard getting a Switch at launch. That shouldn’t be a problem for me, because at that price, I’m just not big enough a fan, or trust Nintendo’s game support to wanna jump in straight away. With the expensive price of the console and accessories, plus a lack of launch titles, it’s just not competitive at a time when Nintendo really needs to be. Perhaps by Christmas with a big price drop and a larger library it might be worth it. I also a bit disappointed with it as Nintendo weren’t touting the Switch as a successor to the Wii U, yet Wii U games aren’t backwards compatible with it.

The presentation overall had it’s highs and lows, and some seriously awkward moments, and somewhat underwhelming unless you’re a Nintendo fanatic. Still I commend Nintendo for a great design and it will be interesting to try it out sometime. Because I would like a portable hybrid console like this some day. It does feel like the future.

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Construction is one of the largest industries still resisting the call of the 21st century, its practitioners opting for decades-old but tried and true methods. Ben Huh, of Cheezburger fame, aims to modernize the planning and assembly of buildings with software-generated floorplans and rooms that fit together like LEGO bricks.

Huh’s new company, Social Construct, handles everything from design to execution, leaving only the actual in-person work to construction contractors. By optimizing layouts, laying cables and pipes below floors instead of in walls, and standardizing both pieces and assembly, this new tech-informed method could reduce the time and cost of constructing a building by 20 to 30 percent.

The company emerged in 2017 out of a project at Y Combinator, where Huh worked after leaving web culture trailblazer Cheezburger. While researching the economics of construction, he was surprised at both the scale and dated nature of the industry.

Compared with the cost of manufacturing electronics or launching other large, multi-million-dollar endeavors, which have dropped precipitously, the costs and timeframes of construction have either remained fixed or increased for decades.

“There have been productivity increases everywhere, but not in construction. It peaks in the ’70s, then drops,” he explained, illustrating the problem as follows: “Imagine you have a 55-inch hole in your wall — it’s cheaper today to buy a TV to cover the hole than to get it fixed.”

It’s unarguably true, but why should that be? The simple fact is that most construction-related work hasn’t gotten any easier or more precise, and the jobs aren’t so desirable as they once were. So labor costs go up along with the costs of ever more sophisticated buildings. But this just raises another question: Why hasn’t the work gotten any easier or more precise?

It turns out that construction, although a huge industry, is a very fragmented one — and, understandably, rather risk-averse. Even if someone wanted to question the doctrines and practices by which buildings are made, they don’t command the capital to do so.

“People do stuff because it’s what they were taught to do. No one has the millions in venture dollars to say, ‘What if we did it different?’ All these benefits show up, but then you have to reinvent part of the wheel, and companies have no reason to. There’s just no reason a contractor would ever think about doing that,” Huh explained.

The industry has effectively insulated itself against a great deal of innovation with an “if it ain’t broke, don’t spend millions of dollars fixing it” attitude. It would take a venture-backed newcomer to upend the conventions that have held construction costs and methods in stasis for decades. So at least is Huh’s hypothesis, and he believes that Social Construct is that newcomer.

Computational construction

Huh recalls his team questioning the status quo: “We wondered, could we build a whole building out of precisely made parts, the way you’d build a plane?”

Turns out people have made attempts a few times, even before CAD made the idea so attractive. “They tried this in the 70s,” Huh said. “What they found out was they could never get the parts to fit. The designs assumed an idealized space – exactly 10 feet or whatever. but it’s never quite 10 feet, the parts just aren’t that precise. Half an inch of error over 10 feet is actually pretty good. So everyone works around each other, which means the parts have to be cut to fit. Flexibility is more important than precision.”

Where Social Construct’s process diverges from the industry norm is at the point where the general shape and purpose of the building and its floors have been decided. For instance, it may be a largely triangular building with flat corners, the elevator in the center, and with three one-bedroom and one two-bedroom apartments on each floor.

That sort of design can be roughed out by an architect in a few hours, but the specifics of where exactly everything goes, from water fixtures to electrical lines, can take much longer. So that’s where the computer takes over.

Image Credits: Social Construct

You could call it an AI, but Huh has deliberately shunned the term to avoid any suspicion of trying to take a ride on that particular hype train. Working from that level of detail, the Social Construct system plans out every aspect of the construction, optimizing the layout for a variety of parameters.

There are three key aspects:

First, construction uses pre-fabricated “assemblies,” of which there are about a hundred types total: walls with kitchen cabinets, walls with holes for shower fixtures, lighting and so on. These pieces can be carried by a single person or at most two, and snap into place onto the framing. This minimizes the chance that there will be any unusual dimensions or requirements that mean this wall has to be extra thick, or you need an extra length of piping to supply the bathroom sink. It also makes assembly and repair work simple. Where there are normal walls or non-standard widths, ordinary drywall is used.

Second, all the pipes, cables, and assorted in-wall infrastructure has been moved under the floor, the routes pre-determined by the computer. It all goes in a tiny space below the floorboards — which provides better sound and heat insulation as a side benefit. This further simplifies construction, as there is no need to adapt or improvise the angles, lengths, and other aspects of water or electrical work. The light switches don’t even need to be connected, as they’re wireless and kinetically powered.

Image Credits: Social Construct

Third, the layout is calculated to minimize the possibility of variance in measurements or construction. Cuts can never be perfect and microscopic errors add up so 20 feet hallway in the design document might actually need to be 20 feet and a quarter inch. The computer knows this and plans around it, avoiding situations that tend to create that type of variance wherever possible and allowing for last-minute adjustments when it’s inevitable.

So the sequence of events is that the basic “shell” of the building including all the usual stacks and structural pieces gets built as normal — that part doesn’t change at all. Once it’s done, the team measures the actual dimensions inside very, very carefully, which lets the computer design for exactly that space. Then the walls are raised per the generated plan, the cables are laid according to the same, the assemblies are carted in and click into place, and finally the hardwood floors are installed, with the pieces cut to fit what little differences from the plan have emerged.

Image Credits: Social Construct

“We compared this to a conventionally built building, and we’re seeing that we can save 20 percent on construction costs,” Huh said — and considering construction is about two thirds of a building’s entire budget, that may be saving tens of millions right off the bat. The Social Construct building was also finished 2 months faster.

Faster work may sound like less hours for subcontractors and the like, but Huh said they’re emphasizing that lower costs and quicker work mean more productivity, so take-home pay is comparable but jobs will be easier and more numerous.

It’s important to note that Social Construct isn’t actually getting into the contracting side of things. The plan is to partner with, train, and certify contractors so that they can scale more like a platform than a boots-on-the-ground company — “Which makes us venture-backable,” Huh noted.

Right now the first building built with these methods has been sold and the company is looking for its next site, local partner, and land owner — and so they decided to exit stealth mode.

Social Construct already has about $17 million in funding, from Floodgate, S28 Capital, Felicis, Founders Fund, and (“of course,” Huh said) Y Combinator. They’ll be looking for more soon as they begin the process of truly scaling up, but it seems wise to have remained quiet until there was a whole building they could point to and say, “look, it works!”

So if your dream was to live in a computer-designed building and apartment, you’re slightly late — but it sounds like this will be the first of many.

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dizzedcom · 4 years

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Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Computational construction

Huh recalls his team questioning the status quo: “We wondered, could we build a whole building out of precisely made parts, the way you’d build a plane?”

Image Credits: Social Construct

There are three key aspects:

Image Credits: Social Construct

Right now the first building built with these methods has been sold and the company is looking for its next site, local partner, and land owner — and so they decided to exit stealth mode.

Social Capital already has about $17 million in funding, from Floodgate, S28 Capital, Felicis, Founders Fund, and (“of course,” Huh said) Y Combinator. They’ll be looking for more soon as they begin the process of truly scaling up, but it seems wise to have remained quiet until there was a whole building they could point to and say, “look, it works!”

So if your dream was to live in a computer-designed building and apartment, you’re slightly late — but it sounds like this will be the first of many.

Social Construct’s computer-optimized buildings could shake construction industry’s foundations Construction is one of the largest industries still resisting the call of the 21st century, its practitioners opting for decades-old but tried and true methods.

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paulriedelposts · 4 years

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A Dream of Nuremberg in Germany

Nuremberg is the second-largest city in the region of Bavaria in southern Germany. It’s common for travelers to fly into the region's capital of Munich and spend a day tour and explore the prolific city of Nuremberg.

Nuremberg, Germany – The Franconian Utopia

Arguably the most influential region in the history of Western Europe, Nuremberg’s past extends from tribes nearly 2000 years ago. The unofficial capital of Franconia got set up by the Franks, who are considering themselves as far back as the 3rd century. They would move north and east to what is today Belgium and France. The Franks power and wealth allowed them to build some of the most historically elaborate and breathtaking churches and monuments in Germany. Nuremberg has structures still standing that are dating as far back as the roman empire. The preservation of its monuments, artifacts, and landmarks is a seemingly impossible feat, and is nothing less than a testament to the people living there.

Nuremberg Castle and City Walls

Dominating the skyline of the Old Town rises the cluster of historic structures that together make up Nuremberg Castle. The Imperial Castle of Nuremberg is carrying real power in the era of the Holy Roman Empire. Imperial courts met here, and every newly-elect emperor's obligation is by decree to hold his first Imperial Diet at Kaiserburg. The imposing 351-meter-tall fortification was the home of all legitimate German kings and emperors from 1050 to 1571. Nuremberg Castle is one of the most important surviving medieval fortresses in all Europe. The city walls were first put up in the 1000s and got their modern appearance when they were modified for canons in the 1500s. In the long history of Nuremberg’s fortifications, the city was only captured once. In 1945 Americans took the wall's original construction, which is nearly a millennium after. Some four kilometers of the Medieval walls are still standing, and they incorporate the castle to the north and 67 defensive towers.

Nuremberg’s Underground Passageways

Over the course of centuries, Nuremberg’s tunneled into the sandstone bedrock in the north of the Old Town to create a labyrinth of passageways, cellars, and water conduits. The tunnels are estimating to consist of up to 20,000 square meters and are anchored in the city’s beer brewing industry. There were over 40 breweries in the city in the Middle Ages, and each one had its own cellar cut from the sandstone. As production got higher, the cellars grew and shared storage. Even today the Hausbrauerei Altstadthof still stores barrels of its Rotbier in the Nuremberg passageways.

Nuremberg’s Bratwurst

The production of the local sausage is in Nuremberg and it's protected by the EU Laws. Nürnberger Bratwurst production is dating since 1567. The flavor is also like no other German sausage as they taste good with fresh marjoram. The sausages themselves are smaller than their German cousins, generally consisting of about 3 inches long. The locals of Nuremberg cook the bratwurst on grill over a beech-wood fire with sometimes as many as 6 in a serving, and then comes with sauerkraut, potato salad, horseradish. For more information about tours for the historical sites or guides to the traditional culinary locations and recommendations, click the link here.

Nuremberg’s Germanic National Museum

The Germanic National Museum is a treasure for the German-speaking world. Displaying its artistic and cultural past with over 25,000 exhibits and containing more than 1.3 million items. Some art exhibits you can’t leave without seeing are Albrecht Dürer’s rhinoceros, Lucas Cranach portrait of Martin Luther, and Rembrandt’s famed Wide-Eyed Self-Portrait. The museum highlights a collection of roughly 300,000 prints and drawings, paintings representing all the major classes, as well as historical musical instruments, sculptures, and antique toys and dollhouses.

Nuremberg’s Toy Museum

Nuremberg's superb Toy Museum is widely regarded as the leading museum of its kind in the world. It's location is in a historic home dating from 1517. The museum is celebrating Nuremberg as a traditional toy-making capital in Germany. Many of the older toys, some dating back to the medieval era, were made in the city itself, which was renowned for centuries for its doll makers. On the first three floors are the pre-war games and toys, like dolls, dollhouses, magic lanterns, wind-up figures, and a model railway that is nothing less than extraordinary. The top floor is all about toys since 1945 like Lego, Playmobil, and Barbie, and has an interactive zone with building sets, table football, and all kinds of nostalgic toys and games for all ages.

Albrecht Dürer’s House

As a place of historical significance and home to arguably Germany’s greatest painter. Albrecht Dürer’s House is incomparable building, as no other examples of a 15th-century artist’s house in Europe exist. The five-story house itself dates to 1420 and is currently serving as a museum with dedication to Dürer's life and work. Along with its many fine displays of some of his best-known creations, the museum houses authentic period furniture and a reproduction of Dürer's studio workshop.

Nuremberg’s Neues Museum

The Neues Museum is a must-visit for any art lover, with its large and impressive collection of modern and contemporary art. This world-class museum is a work of art itself. Consisting of bright open spaces, clean lines, and interesting architectural features such as its exquisite spiral staircase. The artwork covers works from 1950 to today. It has notable exhibits of applied and fine art often shown side by side adding a unique perspective to the experience. For guides or tour information for the museums, click here.

St. Sebaldus Church

The 8th-century Saint Sebald in Nuremberg's patron saint. St. Sebaldus Church was constructed from 1225-73 and in the chancel, you can view his tomb. The tomb's design contains Early-Renaissance bronze figurines depicting scenes from his life by famous Peter Vischer. It’s simply one of the many incredible works of art in the church. Other works include the Tucher family epitaph, stained-glass windows, and wood sculpture by the Renaissance virtuoso Veit Stoss.

St. Lorenz Church

The spectacular twin-towered 14th-century Gothic church of St. Lawrence is the city's largest church. One of its notable features is a large rose window, nine meters in diameter. Inside you can find lavish works of art that are providing the city's richer classes over the centuries. Other notable features include its unique three-part organ boasting over 12,000 pipes. It is one of the largest such instruments in the world. It also includes a set of 16 bells, the oldest of which date back to the 1300s.

Frauenkirche: The Church of Our Lady

The Church of Our Lady dates back to 1352. This must-see Gothic landmark you won't want to miss when you’re visiting Nuremberg's Hauptmarkt. The building's stunning facade is rich with detail. The church has notable features in its interior, which designs are by Emperors in mind. Some include the Tucher Altar from 1440, and two handsome monuments by famous Adam Kraft. For guides or tour information about Bavarian and its historical landmarks click here.

The Hauptmarkt

The Hauptmarkt is home to the Schöner Brunnen aptly named 14th-century “Beautiful Fountain”. Heinrich Beheim is the designer and architect of the popular fountain(1385-1396). The design is like a Gothic church spire and has forty polychrome figures on four levels. Those evoking the “worldview” of the Holy Roman Empire. Be sure to touch the fountain's famous gold ring for a spot of good luck. In the Second World War the monument was wrapped in a concrete shell and came through unscathed. It's also where you'll find the Old Town Hall built in 1616. Notable for its magnificent doorways, dungeons, and torture chamber. Between the two buildings is another famous fountain, the Gänsemännchen, built in 1555. Depicting a Franconian peasant carrying two geese, with the water flowing from their beaks. For more information on the markets or historically significant locations click here.

The Future of Nuremberg

When people think of Nuremberg, they think of gingerbread, toys, Christmas. Others think about the Reich Party Rally Grounds or the Nuremberg Trials or any combination. However, the old town of Nuremberg stands in the shadows of it’s history, as seemingly unconquerable. As it’s towering imperial castle as it restores its history and moves towards the future as it always has. The Gothic churches, medieval houses, and innovative people prevail throughout Nuremberg. Existing in an atmosphere of lively co-existence of the medieval and modern. For any additional information pertaining to guides or tours for any of the remarkable cities of Bavaria please click here. Read the full article

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Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie subsist the digital era?

From Star Wars sequels to superhero dealerships, blockbusters still rule the film industry. But with Amazon and Netflix tearing up the freeing planneds, are they on iffy sand?

Is the blockbuster in hardship? On the surface, to indicate such a thing might seem as absurd as handing out the incorrect envelope at the most difficult happening of the movie docket because you were busy tweeting pictures of Emma Stone. This is the blockbuster were talking about. Its Luke Skywalker, Jurassic World, Disney, The Avengers, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Pixar. Its the Rock piercing his fist through a house. Its the effects-driven cultural juggernaut that powers the entire film industry. Does it look as if its in difficulty?

A glance at the balance sheet for its first year to date would cement the view that the blockbuster is in inconsiderate health. Total grosses are higher at the present stage than any of the past five years. Logan, the Lego Batman Movie and Kong: Skull Island have all attracted in big-hearted audiences globally. And then theres Beauty and the Beast, a true-life cultural phenomenon, currently racing its behavior up the all-time rankings. All this and theres still a brand-new Star Wars instalment, another Spider-Man reboot, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Alien: Agreement, Blade Runner 2049, plus sequels of (* deep sigh *) Guardians of the Galaxy, Cars, World War Z, Kingsman, Transformers, Fast and the Furious, Planet of the Apes, Despicable Me, Thor and Pirates of the Caribbean still to come. Hardly the signs of a crisis, it would be fair to say.

Dig a little deeper though and the foundations that blockbusters are is built around start to look precariou. Last month, Variety wrote a tale that covered a picture of an industry scared stiff by its own future, as purchaser flavours change with a difference in engineering. Increased pressure from Netflix and Amazon, those digital-disruption barbarians, has caused the big-hearted studios to consider changing the mode they liberate movies. The theatrical opening, the 90 -day cushion between a movies entry in cinemas and its freeing on DVD or stream, is set to be reduced to as little as 3 weeks in an attempt to bolster lessening residence amusement marketings. Its a move that service industries sees as necessary, as younger spectators develop more adaptable, portable considering techniques, and certainly many smaller productions have begun to secrete their cinemas on-demand on the same day as in cinemas it was one of the reasons that Shia LaBeoufs Man Down grossed a much-mocked 7 in cinema.

Ana De Armas and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049. Photograph: Allstar/ WARNER BROS.

At the same time, investors from China long thought to be Hollywoods saviour have abruptly chilled their interest, cancelling major studio spates as the Chinese box office accepts growing stings( with domestic ticket auctions simply increasing 2.4% in 2016 against a 49% rise its first year before)and the governments crackdown on overseas investment starts to bite. Add to that got a couple of high-profile recent busts Scarlett Johanssons Ghost in the Shell, Matt Damons The Great Wall, the unintentionally creepy-crawly Chris Pratt/ Jennifer Lawerence sci-fi Passengers, Jake Gyllenhaals Alien knock-off Life and you have an manufacture thats not as prospering as the blockbuster bluster might suggest.

Hollywoods response to this instability has been to double down, focusing on blockbusters to the exclusion of just about everything else. In the past few decades the summer blockbuster season has mission-crept its style well into springtime, a phenomenon that has been expression cultural global warming; this year, Logan was secreted a mere three days after the Oscars intent. The ensuing aftermath is of a full calendar year of blockbusters, with a small drop-off for Oscars season in January and February and even in that season this year we are continuing received the liberations of The Lego Batman Movie, The Great Wall, John Wick 2 and the lamentable Monster Trucks.

Meanwhile, the mid-budget cinema that hardy perennial that used to help prop up the industry by costing relatively little and often deserving fortunes( imagine Sophies Choice or LA Confidential) has significantly been abandoned by the major studios, its full potential profit margins seen as insufficiently high when the cost of things such as market is factored in. Which isnt to say that mid-budget films dont prevail, its just that theyre being made by smaller, independent studios witness Arrival and Get Out for recent successful instances or most frequently as Tv line.( Theres that Netflix, disrupting things again .)

In essence, what this all means for the industry is that its blockbuster or failure. Studios have looked at the shifting landscape and decided to react by filling it with superheroes, activity starrings and CGI beings, making more blockbusters than they used to, but fewer cinemas in total. The old tentpole formula, where a few large-hearted cinemas would shelter the mid-range and low-budget substance, has largely been abandoned. The blockbusters are about reducing the movies these studios produce down to a minimum, reply Steven Gaydos, vice-president and executive editor at Variety. They oblige nothing but big stakes. You have to keep building a bigger and better spaceship.

Its a high-risk strategy and one that, in accordance with the arrangements of Disney and their Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar franchises, has brought large-hearted honors. But this abrupt ratcheting up of the stakes means that the cost of collapse has become far more pronounced. Last-place time Viacom was forced to take a $ 115 m( 92 m) writedown on Monster Trucks, while Sony took a writedown of practically$ 1bn on their entire cinema fraction after a faltering couple of years.

Hugh Jackman in Logan. Image: Allstar/ 20 TH CENTURY FOX

While those losses might be explained away as the result of bad stakes on bad cinemas Monster Trucks was infamously based on an idea by an executives five-year-old son they hint at the cataclysm who are able to follow if a broader, industry-wide question were to present itself. Namely, what if the public loses its appetite for the blockbuster?

Its not entirely without precedent: in the late 1950 s, as video threatened to plagiarized a march on cinema, studios responded by proceeding big. Spectacle was seen as the key: westerns, musicals and sword-and-sandal epics reigned. But audiences soon germinated tired of these hackneyed categories and ticket marketings continued to diminish. That hour the industry endured, thanks firstly to the injection of vitality provided for under the jumpy, arty New Hollywood cinemas, then later with the early blockbusters such as Jaws and Star Wars.

Could such a mass tuning-out happen again? Surely, theres an spooky repetition in the way that Hollywood has reacted to changing days with width and sight, but also in their restricted focus. Once an sexual thriller such as Fatal Attraction or a musical drama such as Footloose might have reasonably been considered a blockbuster. Nowadays the blockbuster almost exclusively is still in the action, imagination, boys film or superhero genres.

The superhero film including with regard to towers large over the industry, as every studio tries to replicate the formula set by Marvel. Ever-more niche caped crusaders are being given their own films Batgirl, Aquaman, the Gotham City Sirens by seeking to discover a new Deadpool. Spider-Man and Batman have once again been rebooted by seeking to freshen up the respective dealerships. And, of course, everyone wants their own cinematic universe a vast galaxy of reputations that together can generate a apparently infinite number of spin-offs, sequels and prequels. At this very time, the creators of Call of Duty are actively seeking to turn their appalling shoot-em-ups into a series of interlocking films, while James Cameron a director whose preferred approach of cracking a seed is with a sledgehammer, you believe is creating a macrocosm around his smash-hit Avatar, rife with five sequels, graphic fictions, actual novels and, most bewilderingly, a Cirque du Soleil show.

These shared cosmoes actively court the kind of audiences who will turn up to every film, buy the action illustrations, don the cosplay outfits and feed the branded breakfast cereal in other words, teenage sons. The dominant ideology is fanboy culture, articulates Gaydos. It is adolescent. It is conflict resolution by savagery. It is wish-fulfillment, sight and recreation seem and frenzy, if we want to get Shakespearean.

Truly, the geeks have inherited the earth. But what about the rest of us? How many people have the time, vigour or inclination to sit through, add, all the movies in the forthcoming Universal Monsters shared universe, which begins this year with a reboot of The Mummy and has resuscitations of Wolf Man, Van Helsing and the Invisible Soldier in pre-production? Greenlighting this series of movies without knowing whether anyone is going to bother to watch even the first of them looks like a risky attempt, and the recent predicament of the Divergent YA film dealership, whose latest cinema is being released as a TV movie due to lack of interest, offers up a cautionary fib that studios should perhaps be paying attention to.

Cars 3. Photo: Allstar/ WALT DISNEY PICTURES

But whats impressing about all these blockbusters is how youth-skewed “they il be”, at a time when a one-third of cinemagoers in the US are over the age of 50. Older audiences can enjoy The Avengers as much as everybody else, of course, but sloping your marketplace primarily towards young people is a risky programme. Young beings tend to be the most fickle gathering, one whose attention is split in thousands and thousands of homes, answers Gaydos. Theyre also the audience least able to splash out on cinema tickets. And of course theyre an audience who are becoming increasingly accustomed to watching material on their telephones, laptops and smart TVs.

In other messages, theyre the ones likely to violence through the seismic change service industries is currently fussing over. If they lose interest in the modern blockbuster in accordance with the rules that younger audiences turned away from the countries of the western, musicals and historic epics in the 1960 s, the studios will have to find something lustrou and brand-new to motion in their faces and this time they wont have something akin to the New Hollywood to tribunal them with, as that sort of transgressive, jumpy, groundbreaking grub is increasingly diverting up on the small screen.

Perhaps the best happen the studios can do in the face of this new world is to demonstrate some imagination in how they develop and existing their blockbusters and there are signs that this is already happening. Producer Stephen Woolley, who has worked on movies such as The Crying Game and the forthcoming modification of On Chesil Beach, quotes Deadpool as a film that has subtly managed to shift the sensing of the superhero movie. Its taking a much more sophisticated panorama of that nature and humiliating it, while at the same reinforcing it. It was a inventive have-your-cake-and-eat-it from the ones who established it.

Meanwhile, Disneys successful live-action reimaginings of their enlivened duties most notably Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book suggests that its possible to play the sequels and remakings tournament without it feeling like a retread over old ground. Most singularly of all, the musical think this is making a comeback with the success of La La Land, that rare mid-budget movie to have intersected over into blockbuster status, grossing more than $400 m at a budget of $37 m.

Woolley is aware of the risks swirling all over the blockbuster, but feels that mass extinguishing is still some direction away, if it ever runs. The hazard you have is that gatherings are fickle, and they could abruptly turn off, he does. Something happens for them to say: Actually, we dont such as those movies any more. And theres always this inkling that it might happen. But every time it seems to happen on the blockbuster front, another movie comes out to prove you wrong.

Ultimately, though, what might keep the blockbuster safe for the time being is not the films themselves but all the stuff around them. The thing that the studios are manufacturing is something akin to a hypermovie or a supermovie, reads Gaydos. Its a whole interesting thing. Its a toy-delivery structure. A Cars movie will gross $500 m or $600 m but the Cars concoctions will sell$ 4bn. Ultimately the movie is designed to be a monstrou sell tool for stock and theme park that generate billions and billions.

As Hollywood agonises over its own future, it might be that the best mode for the blockbuster to survive is to subsume itself into bigger, most secure revenue streams: dolls, recreations, merchandise, live attractions. So if you want to keep the blockbuster around for a while longer, you should get your Superman costume on and move yourself a container of that labelled cereal.