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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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 2 years ago (1 child)

    Simply make prettier buildings

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Tear down the stupid papist rock piles

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Better than trains

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

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    this giant vanity project is better than mass transit

    gulag until america gets a functional rail network (forever).

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    The light pollution sphere

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That picture quality looks like the kind of footage the pentagon releases when they smartbomb a wedding or a hospital or the Chinese embassy, but they put an emoji face on the explosion.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago*

    "Heaven isn't real, but hell is"

    -medieval mason upon seeing the society that produced the orb

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago*

    be sure to ask which god when we're in giant eyeball mode

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    They should make it look like a mushroom cloud to see how many people it freaks out

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    what's orb mommy's take on this

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Not impressed by this particular orb but if they build an even bigger one I'll consider worshipping it.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    That guy doesn't actually think the orb is better than trains. He's lying to drive up engagement.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I gotta admit though the concerts inside look dope af

    But yeah what a fucking waste

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    the orb will be decommissioned following the TOOL gig (also known as the final performance) held within - after which human consciousness will "spiral out", the ability to perceive current reality and the planet earth will cease, and we will ascend to a higher plane that is chemically-composed only of cannabinoids

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    All hail the future Wigsphere!

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is there a Fallout New Vegas mod to add the orb? Maybe with Mr. House yelling at you and then replaced by Yes Man.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Sir this is the scariest day of my life

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    God damn it, you don't need to swing to extremes to feel the presence of anything meaningful, forget God

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    No God would allow that orb

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Move the orb above the White House like the rock at Vivec

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Well Vegas is getting a high speed train too, but (un)fortunately you won't be able to see the sphere from it. It also has a 'cathedral'. Before the sphere opened they were planning on building one in London too (and maybe Singapore? I forget) so there will probably be more.

    But they still refuse to build a subway on or pedestrianize Las Vegas Boulevard, supposedly they're building a whole giant Boring^TM^ tunnel network but somehow I doubt it'll happen.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    One day it will become known at the goatse orb. For obvious reasons.

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