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[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

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

Simply make prettier buildings

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

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

what about engineering and safety could possibly demand new buildings be flashy glass skyscrapers?

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really don't get how U2 got so famous. They sound like such bland dogshit

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I think you've answered your own question

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

, 50 years from now

I admire your optimism that it'll last that long

[-] captcha@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

This guy is definitely getting sacrificed to the orb

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[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Tear down the stupid papist rock piles

[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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

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

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Better than trains

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

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

this giant vanity project is better than mass transit

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

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Children's screams replaced with the Baby Shark song

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

The light pollution sphere

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] mustGo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago
[-] vertexarray@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Heaven isn't real, but hell is"

-medieval mason upon seeing the society that produced the orb

[-] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

what's orb mommy's take on this

[-] NoEyed@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 year ago

I gotta admit though the concerts inside look dope af

But yeah what a fucking waste

[-] captcha@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

LEDs on the inside is cool. Putting them on the outside is being a public menace.

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year 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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[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I need a Fallout New Vegas remake.

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

All hail the future Wigsphere!

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Sir this is the scariest day of my life

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

No God would allow that orb

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

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