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I love artistic depictions of impossibly vast, all-encompassing architecture and am requesting you share any you may have (hexbear.net)
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Nothing quite like the simultaneous awe and dread of looking at a construction so gargantuan that you feel like an ant on the floor of a cathedral

Pic is by Étienne-Louis Boullée. Also if you're into this kind of stuff, check out the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Also have a look at the short film The Centrifuge Brain Project.

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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was going to recommend that too, it's a good (if unforgiving) game and definitely strikes the feeling BeamBrain is looking for.

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