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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months 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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Simply make prettier buildings

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I think you've answered your own question

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

, 50 years from now

I admire your optimism that it'll last that long

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This guy is definitely getting sacrificed to the orb

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tear down the stupid papist rock piles

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Turn the Vatican into a mosque

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Turn the Vatican into a smoking crater

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Turn the vatican into a gulag gulag

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

Better than trains

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Uncritical support for comrade sphere

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

this giant vanity project is better than mass transit

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

The light pollution sphere

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Children's screams replaced with the Baby Shark song

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Heaven isn't real, but hell is"

-medieval mason upon seeing the society that produced the orb

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

what's orb mommy's take on this

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I gotta admit though the concerts inside look dope af

But yeah what a fucking waste

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months 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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I need a Fallout New Vegas remake.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

All hail the future Wigsphere!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Sir this is the scariest day of my life

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

No God would allow that orb

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

red year for america

sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

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

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