Aesthetica

“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”

H. L. Mencken

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Metal Skin Panic Madox-01 Shinji Aramaki - 1987 #mecha #80s AETATESOLIS

📸 Red Sprite Captured in France Pilots reported seeing them for decades but scientists didn’t capture the first photographic evidence until 1989. AETATESOLIS

The Art of Batman Beyond 1999-2000 #Batman with cyberpunk aesthetics. It had big shoes to fill following the critical acclaim of its predecessor, Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995). Batman Beyond offers visuals just as breathtaking, carrying forward much of the artistic direction we grew to love in Batman: TAS. It uses the 60:30:10 color rule. AETATESOLIS

The Art of Batman Beyond 1999-2000 #Batman with cyberpunk aesthetics. It had big shoes to fill following the critical acclaim of its predecessor, Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995), Batman Beyond offers visuals just as breathtaking, carrying forward much of the artistic direction we grew to love in the previous series. It used the 60:30:10 color rule. AETATESOLIS

Today's cars are designed around our culture's obsession with social media and screens. Take your eyes off the road and check your phone! They're simply building vehicles that accommodate this bevaviour.

Over-sized monitors with constant warnings, Hands-free driving, Ultrasonic sensors, Radar, Lane assist, Blind-spot monitoring, Voice commands, Maybe showing Ads in the future ... .

Behind the wheel of older cars you had to fully pay attention and operate everthing manually. Now, driving one without fancy electronics is like disconnecting and taking a break from social media and non-stop whispering in your ear all the time. You can escape cosumerist trends and collect your thoughts. #petrolhead #car AETATESOLIS

🦑 The Call of Cthulhu In his 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft used the word cuttlefish to explicitly describe the head of the idol/sculpture representing the cosmic entity Cthulhu:

The crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal, was preserved in the Museum at Hyde Park...

But, Lovecraft did not derive the name Cthulhu from the word cuttlefish; he invented it to sound alien and non-human, noting it might loosely echo the Greek word chthonic ("of the earth" or "underworld"). #lovecraft AETATESOLIS

Idiocracy I watched this movie and laughed so hard that my entire upper body hurt. Unlike many films that depict the distant future as hyper-advanced with super-intelligent humans, flying cars and towering skyscrapers here it is actually the opposite. I'm sure fags and the woke crowd have given it a low rating cause even they can't stand the sight of a horrible dystopia that they're capable of creating. #cinema #film AETATESOLIS

Here We Are In 1992, #Batman: The Animated Series was already talking about artificial intelligence as the bridge between the speed of computers and the intuition of the human mind. At the time, machines that could think, reason and make creative leaps still belonged largely to science fiction. AETATESOLIS

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...The harder thing to do, and the right thing to do, are usually the same thing.

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Smart Games Make Stupid People It isn’t just Cinema and Music that are drowning in their own corruption and stupidity; the gaming industry is, too. The spirit of the times is rotten. As a millennial with fond memories of the era of fun, challenging arcade games, I view the state of the modern industry as a disaster. My rig is old. couldn't even run the AAA games of a decade ago, but then again, I never needed it to. Only a handful of capable companies and a few passionate independent developers remain who can actually pull it off.

Bloated open worlds, Repetitive tasks, Cinematic immersion, QTE, Cringe unnecessary narratives, Excessive hand holding, Visual cues, Loss of agility, Auto health regen, Forgiving check points, Social and political ideologies.

Instead of:

Tight design, High gameplay density and interaction, Challenging and skill-based, Mechanical mastery, Irreversible consequences, Arcade-style depth and design principles, High mobility, Limited toolset, Active engagement.

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The Light of the World William Holman Hunt For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Luke 14:11 NIV

Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.

Luke 9:58 NIV

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