#the collapse of civilization

[funbearer]

#fall #autumn #the collapse of civilization

[odinsblog]

Nothing to see here, just fire + floods + climate change

#politics #climate change #climate crisis #global warming #nyc #nyc flooding #nyc floods #climate collapse #civil engineering

[doomsayersunited]

#doomsday #human extinction #apocalypse #civilization collapse

[unrestedjade]

ART, visibly on the edge of a meltdown because SecUnit replied to a message from Holism with "k": i'm going to puke stop talking to Holism i swear to god. baby you're everything to me please please don't fuck Holism

#murderbot #system collapse spoilers #murderhelion #i've not yet begun to be obnoxious about this btw #i'm making a mountain out of this molehill #of course it's trying to seduce SecUnit; it's talking about civil engineering! #the relief ART must feel when SecUnit foists Three onto Holism instead #suck it Holism SecUnit's a jock it cares not for your intellectual temptations #go design an irrigation system or a bridge or something and die about it

[carionto]

Accurate Reenactments Based On Facts

Most cultures across the Galaxy do their utmost to preserve and remember their history, both the great achievements, and the terrible mistakes. Humans go a few dozen steps further.

They introduced us to a concept called "Historical reenactments" - accurate recreations of the situations and conditions of ancient events, usually battles, played out with prop equipment by real people. They also said they sometimes do these just for fun and don't care about being 100% accurate.

This particular reenactment was of a battle called Thermopylae. Using numerous historical records, they recreated the location, printed slightly lighter versions of the armor (well, helmets only for some) they wore, and dull weapons with embedded stun shockers that would create a kinetic "bump" upon contact to prevent actual injury by pushing the person back instead.

Once everyone was geared up the atmosphere changed, both visually as the holographic projectors did their thing, and from the Humans themselves - their demeanor became that of... wilderness. Ferocity. Deadly focus. It was quite fear inducing even from afar.

Then the defenders in red, the "Spartans", created a sort of spiky dome with their shields and spears. Then the attackers in blue, the "Persians" unleashed a terrifying volley of arrows, the sky hologram went darker, then a bright beam of light shone upon the defenders as they swept off arrows stuck to their shields in dramatic fashion before proceeding to charge towards their assaulting foes.

We noticed the "Spartans" were all much larger than the "Persians", and actually were equipped with subtle and very modern exoskeletons. Perplexed by this we asked if these Spartans had a very particular technological advantage for their time:

"Well, not as far as we can tell, but based on the materials we have, Spartans were, like, really buff and super strong compared to the average person of the time. Plus, according to the feats of strength they supposedly displayed, we suspect they became an extinct branch of Humanity at some point, so the exoskeletons are there to mimic what we think they were like. Anyway, look, this is the coolest part."

As they spoke, the artificial gravity was lowered slightly and there was a spike in the power output from the exoskeleton equipped Spartans. Now they were flinging the approaching Persians dozens of feet into the air, a single bare-chested man kicked three of them at once backwards at a whole group, knocking the wind out of them.

This sort of extreme violence continued for several minutes.

Suddenly, an incredibly large Persian man on a throne was carried to what was effectively the center stage. Him and a heavily bearded Spartan exchanged a dramatic dialogue, the Spartan threw his spear at the Persian, who dodged it with a single turn of his head, then proceeded to summon a massive horde of small Persians who quickly began to overrun the Spartans.

There were bodies and shields and spears and pieces of armor flying everywhere, but gradually all the red became engulfed by the blue, and only one remaining Spartan managed to wriggle his way out of the carnage and make a run for it back to their city in the distance.

Seemingly satisfied after plucking out the bearded Spartan from the pile, the giant Persian roared in triumph and this is when the reenactment ended and everyone gathered for a feast.

So this is how ancient Human Battles went, huh.

"Well, not all of them. Usually it's between more equal forces in large open fields, or prolonged sieges, which can be a bit boring to recreate.

You should come back next month, we'll be doing an old naval battle between the British Empire and Independent Pirates Lords. It ends with a really sweet whirlpool showdown. Man, what are the odds of that happening, eh?"

#humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #humans are deathworlders #humanity fuck yeah #story #carionto #300 #reenactment #pirates of the caribbean #humans like movies #movies are historically accurate if you've gone through several civilization collapses

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #painting #rome #fall of rome #civilization #collapse of civilization #architecture #pietro paltronieri #ll mirandolese

[wingheadshellhead]

the selective amnesia of marvel writers when it comes to major comic events makes me so insane. not only has tony been on a team with miles (all-new, all-different avengers, 2015), and has been a mentor figure to him since he crossed over from the ultimates universe (ultimate end, 2015), they somehow conveniently forgot that tony stark died in civil war II to protect miles. MILES. the kid he’s calling “newbie” and is somehow not one of his top favorite spider-people.

why is tony treating miles like they’ve never met when he went to war against carol and was punched into a coma to protect miles from being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit???? like mama let’s research before we start writing these comics

anyway yeah miles is one of tony stark’s favourite spider-people in the multiverse HE WAS WILLING TO DIE TO PROTECT HIM

#tony stark #miles morales #miles morales: spider man #saw this after lurking around on your twitter lara #and ppl were posting other great panels but i was like hold on #where's miles holding tony's collapsed body in the la pieta pose #i am literally a broken record about cwII because i refuse to let it go #ive become that person who always brings up cw(II) at every given opportunity #but i also think that if marvel chooses to hoist these stupid fucking events on us without thinking #about the long-term ramifications and storytelling effects #then i should be able to harp on this whenever i want #@ #type: text #type: comics #universe: 616 #comic event: civil war II #comic: civil war II #ft: miles morales #character: tony stark #dynamic: tony & miles #also ziglar pulled top 5 completely out of his ass #can you even NAME those top 5 people ??? i'll wait !

[rubia-peregrinart]

decided to make more navi refs and naturally, the Gender Icons are first 🙏

#megaman battle network #serenade.exe #slur.exe #gijinka #exejinka verse #rubiart #serenade guards the balance between cyber and real world #but leaving the secret area would cause the former to collapse because they're that powerful #no one knows how long they've been around #and there are rumors that they don't remember their own civil name or age #slur's the last remaining asteroid navi (aka the theoretical exe counterparts of stardroids) #they can only be on earth through its cyberworld #they've lost most of their memory since duo destroyed their common home planet #and act as its herald without much question #learning 'earth' is another name for 'terra' might change things though :)c

[slotumn]

When it comes to Almyra, I headcanon that their political landscape/attitude is all about having a lot of room (and balls) to fuck around, as opposed to Fódlan being neurotic and inward-facing and closed off.

It's not that Almyra is necessarily morally "better" or whatever, but I like to think there's a certain confidence that comes from being a large superpower. Domestic unrest, infighting, turmoil— all of those are problems, of course, but they're also confident that at the end of all that, Almyra will still be standing, one way or another. In contrast to Fódlani nations thinking that if they lose control, if they don't get to have it their way specifically, everything will come tumbling down and it's basically going to be the end of the world.

And both of those attitudes get synthesized in an interesting way in Claude, who's like ok if this doesn't work out then it's not the end of the world as long as I'm alive. But also, if I fuck up then Leicester will tear itself apart and my career in Fódlan will be so fucking over, come on I ran away from home and changed my identity to do this please

Tl;dr gotta love a dude who is laid back and neurotic at the same time.

#claude von riegan #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #almyra #fe3h meta #slotalks #hc that almyran history is like #'there was a 40 year civil unrest following a dynastic collapse' #'when the dust cleared and the new regime settled in the country still had the same territory and administrative districts' #'sometimes a king got experimental and did some crazy shit but lol'

[bonefall]

if the cats had phones, heather and breeze would probably have eachother saved as "my love" or sm and harestar as just "the tunnelbun guy"

I think Heather would mark them by nicknames or have them set in a super utilitarian way like

Husband Breep

Husband Harst

So they sort alphabetically in her contact list, she's practical like that, but also playful enough that she likes petnames

Harestar capitalizes both parts of the name, and also he changed the font on his phone so the text is cursive by default

BreezePelt HeatherTail

And Breezepelt changes their names constantly based on inside jokes

Yoog (typo in the groupchat Harestar has to live with now)

DO NOT FEED (took his tunnelbun this morning before going to work)

#Fennelposting #Anthro au lmao #I think if I did this it'd be a post apoc like the new zelda game #It would be super cool for Holly to be responsible for the collapse of like. Civilization #Top 10 girls who caused the bronze age collapse

[oncillaphoenix]

man. reading wolves of the beyond at a young age probably gave me a nonstandard view of what children are able to handle

#wolves of the beyond #featuring such hits as: cult where you dance to death. execution via the infinite rabies guy. the collapse of civilization #guardians of ga'hoole also had a lot of wild stuff but not really anything that wasn't also in warrior cats and the underland chronicles #('cept maybe st. aggie's) #but warrior cats did not have an infinite rabies guy

[ask-why-i-dont-care]

1977-2024 Francis Scott Keys bridge

#Baltimore #bridge #bridge collapse #keys bridge #ship #Dali #engine failure #structure #civil engineering

[ivovynckier]

The second amendment: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,..."

#second amendment #gun control #gun control now #january 6 #january 6th #insurrection #prigozhin #yevgeny prigozhin #wagner #wagner group #russian #russians #russia #russian coup #russian civil war #russia is collapsing #vladimir putin #putin #vladimir

[lost-carcosa]

#fall #the fall #collapse of civilization

[doccywhomst]

fun fact! all rainwater, everywhere on earth, is now unsafe to drink due to toxic chemicals called PFAS, which are poisoning our water supplies! these chemicals can increase the risk of cancer, infertility, negatively impact cardiovascular health, and make vaccines less effective!

the good news: the American production of PFAS (associated with microplastics) has been declining since 2005, and so have the blood concentrations of some PFAS (PFOS and PFOA specifically). however, they're called "forever chemicals" for a reason, and many similar chemicals are still widespread.

all Americans have PFAS in their blood.

#it was lead and arsenic then asbestos and now it's microplastics YEEHAAAWWWWWWWWW #civilization collapse speedrun

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Il-22 Coot-B airborne command and communication aircraft of the Russian Air Force shot down by Wagner PMC forces in the Voronezh Region, Russia, June 2023. Source:  OSINTdefender 

P.S. All ten crewmembers onboard were killed in the crash... It is very expensive loss for Russian orc army...    

#russian world #russian invasion #civil war #Il-22 Coot-B #airborne command and communication aircraft #wagner #aviation history #russian defeat #collapse of russian empire #russian losses #kremlin #mutiny #aircraft