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Herzog Wolfhammer
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Posted - 2017.06.12 17:41:12 -
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Doris Laur wrote:Lothros Andastar wrote:Mr Epeen wrote:Caldari Phantom wrote:Its gonna be funny in a few hundred years time, when humanity forgets what that monument was for. In a few hundred years Iceland will have become the new Atlantis. A rumor from the time before the icecaps melted. That monument will be the least of the things forgotten. Mr Epeen  Icecaps melting would actually increase the area of farmable and liveable space. Really? Maybe on Greenland and Antarctica. Icecaps melting will actually raise the ocean levels by quite a lot, reducing coastlines everywhere.
Ever have a glass of ice melt? What happened? It filled up with the same volume of water? Sort of. Ever freeze a bottle of water? Did the bottle expand a little?
All this "the sea levels are rising!!!! OMG TAX ALL THE THINGS" is BS. See even the "secular" types have an end time prophecy based on "punishments for sins" or something (the more things change....) except the more arcane types never asked to tax everything we do to stop it.
Meanwhile, in Middle America, we actually wish the sea levels would rise so the coastal cities would drown and we can be free of their votes.
As for the monument: It's perfectly representing the state of the game and the relationship between CCP and the player base at the moment. Everything is fine. (hurf blurf)
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Herzog Wolfhammer
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Posted - 2017.06.12 19:03:13 -
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mkint wrote:Cypherous wrote:mkint wrote:Surprise surprise. CCP manufactures a lot of hype around something and then fails to maintain it. That's never happened before, he said sarcastically. Well there isn't much you can do when you pick the wrong materials, that looks like rust, you can't really do much about that unless you started with something that doesn't rust I do some related work. And yeah, obviously you start with appropriate materials. But then you follow an appropriate maintenance schedule. The work I do has a 7 to 15 year maintenance cycle depending on materials in a semi-industrial setting much of it coastal. Even if they made a spectacular failure in choice of materials, they could still go out and hose the salt spray off it a couple times a year. I've seen thousand-year-old monuments in better condition. No, this monument was never about being an actual monument to players, it was an ego project for Hilmar exploited for marketing, while becoming a sad microcosm of the state of EVE.
If I recall correctly, from the reports regarding the vandalizing of the monument, those plates are made of aluminum. They don't rust. But what we gain from not rusting from getting wet once (like a project car with the paint stripped off will practically rust overnight if the weather is humid) we get in long term corrosion. Aluminum corrodes way worse than metal rusts. It "explodes". Ever seen aluminum corrode when inside a laminate because salt water got into one crack? It's ugly. I worked as a marine mechanic for a while and have seen some horrid examples of boats.
Would have been better to engrave the names in steel plates, and then let it rust for a "Minmatar look". This aluminum in that salty environment won't last.
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Herzog Wolfhammer
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Posted - 2017.06.13 06:00:41 -
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Elenahina wrote:
And middle America wants to teach creationism as science. Those of us on the coasts really don't give two fucks what you want - you've proven your inability to make a coherent decision. Repeatedly.
Hows that multiple gender thing they are teaching on the coast working out?
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Herzog Wolfhammer
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Posted - 2017.06.14 06:48:35 -
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mkint wrote:Othran wrote:I think the gradual deterioration of the "monument" is a good thing.
People come, people go so it seems appropriate.
Let it weather - it'll look more interesting. in 50 years not a single person alive will care about the monument or that EVE ever even existed. So the plates rot away into nothingness leaving a couple chunks of stone. No longer a monument, not sure it even counts as art. In 20 years anybody who still remembers will look back with embarrassment. "I played a video game" is not an accomplishment to be memorialized. It was ridiculous in both concept and execution. I agree, let it rot.
I'm even going to bet the land the monument is on is leased.
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Herzog Wolfhammer
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Posted - 2017.06.16 22:56:22 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Rain6637 wrote:It was made from something that oxidizes? lol cool It's kind of poetic, really. Rust in the wind. All we are is rust in the wind. (Sorry).
Maybe we should go there and write some bad poetry about it while drunk on stale Heineken and harkarl.
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