This is so fukcing stupid i cant handle it. Fuck. Cathedrals are still beautiful and awe-inspiring hundreds of years after they were built. This orb is going to look like absolute shit the second it loses power or some of its screens break or something, so, like, 50 years from now it’ll be giant e-waste sitting in a dead city. I hate techbros i hate techbros i hate techbros

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23 points

can a cathedral turn into a giant fucking eyeball? No? Then I don’t care about it

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22 points
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L take. every sinofuturism video features the big skyscrapers acting as screens. as has been pointed out here before if this thing were built in China we’d all be praising the shit out of it.

edit: vegas in general is shit though. although the desert & surrounding mountains have a nice austere natural beauty to them.

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No. I wouldn’t be. I think those giant skyscraper screens are cringe as shit. Simply make prettier buildings that don’t cause massive light pollution. I think a neat old stone church is extremely a lot cooler than any fancy skyscraper covered in screens

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8 points

Simply make prettier buildings

Modern engineering and building safety standard make this prohibitively expensive if not borderline impossible.

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16 points

I think skyscrapers are overrated, but at least they have functional interiors. What is inside of the orb?

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22 points

, 50 years from now

I admire your optimism that it’ll last that long

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15 points

Give it like 5 years and you’ll start seeing multiple led panels needing replaced but they can’t afford to do that because they still havent made a profit.

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16 points

This guy is definitely getting sacrificed to the orb

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My life for the orb!

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15 points

I would not be surprised if the orb caved in at basically any moment

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11 points

Tear down the stupid papist rock piles

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15 points

Rehabilitate them into gay clubs. Will make for dope décor.

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Can you imagine what they would do with the confessional booth? I get all tingly just thinking about it

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Turn the Vatican into a mosque

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8 points

Turn the Vatican into a smoking crater

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42 points

Better than trains

Always saying this while I’m neck deep in traffic just outside the Anime-Faced God Orb.

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I’m inclined to agree, but I think they missed a trick by making it stationary. It should be a massive unrooted sphere that rolls across the country and crushes everything in its path. And they should let me drive it.

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Uncritical support for comrade sphere

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knew before clicking

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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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5 points

Rock of Ages IRL.

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36 points

this giant vanity project is better than mass transit

until america gets a functional rail network (forever).

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The light pollution sphere

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