(luger) trigger warning

[chronovore]

How about a Minecraft project replicating the Nazi Germany aesthetic? Call it Mein Krapft.

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[rick-day.livejournal.com]

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Is your icon the response, in this case?

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

LOL


yes

[jjgalahad.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna level with you, man - that is frankly Nazi best idea you've ever had.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Don't get yer panzers in a bunch.

[jjgalahad.livejournal.com]

I just think you should really stop and S.S. the nature of what you're saying.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

I guess there'd be a 'fast forward a thousand years' button so once you were done building things according to the ideas of ruin-value then you could hit that to check out what the beautiful ruins of your civilisation looked like.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

I don't get it...

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

Ruin value (German: Ruinenwert) is the concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all. The idea was pioneered by German architect Albert Speer while planning for the 1936 Summer Olympics and published as "The Theory of Ruin Value" (Die Ruinenwerttheorie), although he was not its original inventor. The intention did not stretch only to the eventual collapse of the buildings, but rather assumed such buildings were inherently better designed and more imposing during their period of use.
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The idea was supported by Adolf Hitler, who planned for such ruins to be a symbol of the greatness of the Third Reich, just as Ancient Greek and Roman ruins were symbolic of those civilisations.

One of my friends is totally in love with the idea of Ruin-value (which is the only reason I know about it) so I tend to forget it isn't more common knowledge. :-/

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's amazing! New to me, too!