tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post8647217978262927064..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: Does destruction require a past?Klepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-81978696849095592752013-04-28T18:05:50.213-05:002013-04-28T18:05:50.213-05:00Interesting contrast. The comment at the end was ...Interesting contrast. The comment at the end was pretty damn stupid though.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-64712528754743424262013-04-28T12:23:06.197-05:002013-04-28T12:23:06.197-05:00Speaking of Detroit, I found this fascinating:
ht...Speaking of Detroit, I found this fascinating:<br /><br />http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349112/postsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-45482555420594816792013-04-26T16:24:52.536-05:002013-04-26T16:24:52.536-05:00A significant part of Detroit is already ruins. I...A significant part of Detroit is already ruins. It makes for some awesome photos, but yeah, it's a very sad story and an excellent case study. I guess we could add Battleship Island (Hashima) to the list of abandoned places that make for good study as well. Or the abandoned pseudo-Disneyland in China. It's interesting to see why places get abandoned sometimes. Plenty of story hooks, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-28612399224090588592013-04-26T12:33:52.105-05:002013-04-26T12:33:52.105-05:00Pripyat is such a sad story. A modern city, caref...Pripyat is such a sad story. A modern city, carefully designed, barely used, because of that other modern design (that failed).<br /><br />Have you ever looked at pictures of Detroit? The similarities are remarkable, though I sometimes notice a difference. Detroit has abandoned property, so people remain to loot and squat. Pripyat is all abandoned, so there's less looting and more nature.<br /><br />I wish they'd taught this in history class. Whenever I'd see long-lost ruins of Roman cities or Mayan temples I'd wonder how people managed to forget about them. It never occurred to me that sometimes we just abandon perfectly usable places for external reasons. Will we one day discover the ruins of Detroit?Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-52879252613177642582013-04-26T11:20:06.879-05:002013-04-26T11:20:06.879-05:00Might be worth noting that there *is* evidence of ...Might be worth noting that there *is* evidence of what Thousand Needles once was, it's just mostly hidden underwater. I rather like that, in that it's a bit like archaeology, but less digging through dirt. There's data to be found, stories to infer, but you have to go looking for them.<br /><br />I like that approach to suggesting the past; you're right, it's not necessary to have before and after pictures to spell everything out. You can see from what's there that *something* went awry.<br /><br />Pripyat is a good real world example. If you don't know anything about the reactor incident, you can still look at pictures of the place and tell that there's history there, and it's not all good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com