u/fraghawk

So for those who don't know Cadillac Ranch is a roadside Attraction on route 66 in Amarillo Texas featuring 10 classic Cadillacs buried nose first into the ground at the same angle as the Great pyramid in Giza. It was created by a local art collective, the Ant Farm, and funded by controversial local rich man Stanley Marsh III. He also helped fund the Dynamite Museum, a massive public arts project featuring hundreds of parody road signs placed in the front yards of people's homes all across the City of Amarillo, as well as a massive fence around a mesa that makes it look like the top of the mesa is floating. My grandfather actually created the special paint used for the fence to make the floating effect possible! Marsh is a very controversial yet fascinating local figure. This also ties into the story of Brian Deneke, the punk guy that was killed in the late 1990s by football players and the subject of the movie Bomb City. He was one of the members of the Dynamite Museum and helped get those signs placed in people's yards.

I live in Amarillo and nobody has ever really talked about this quirky bit of Americana on YouTube.

Another weird bit of American history that has been a bit overlooked that would make for a great episode is the land scams of the 1950s that led to massive tracts of land in the San Luis Valley of Colorado being subdivided and plotted for residential subdivisions that never came about. If you load up Google maps and look around the area east of Alamosa, there's a ton of dirt roads laid out in what looks to be suburban developments complete with street names, but absolutely no houses. It's a surreal remnant of a forgotten chapter of 20th century land speculation.

I had an idea for a watch face that, along with a digital readout, includes a background animation that shows the current time in a visually interesting, sorta abstract way. For it to work, I need to be able to display a unique image for every min of the day. Is this possible in watch face studio? I tried making an animation with a collection of images I made but I can't get the animation to play slow enough. The max I can input on the "frames" field when I open the image sequence is 15, but I need more like 900 for each image to display for a min.

I then also realized quickly that moving across time zones and DST changeover will 100% screw this implementation up and make the animation out of sync with the real time, so I really need to do something more like split that animation's frames into individual images and program the watch to display a specific image based on what time it sees it is as long as it is awake.

Is this even possible, and if so, is it advisable? I know it will take 1440 images if I want to display a unique one for each min of the day, but considering I'm only updating it once every min, and that's only if the watch is awake, I don't imagine it would be a big drain on the battery.

Im using a Galaxy Watch 5 fwiw. Thanks!

The thread I started earlier where I speculated that David Lynch may be the voice on Music is Math got me inspired, so I made a fan edit combining the first four tracks of Geogaddi with clips from Twin Peaks.

Can't share it on youtube since the 3rd season is locked down copyright wise, so here is a google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ASa3MawF8LG-0KxUjFNVyLw_q21dhT8/view?usp=sharing

I may get around to doing the full album, but I would need to think on what clips to use where.

Specifically the person who says "The past inside the present". I know there was a lot of speculation years ago that it was Terence McKenna, but as far as I know nobody ever could find a clip of him saying that.

There is another theory I've seen a few people speculate on over the years, one that I've started considering myself. Perhaps that the voice in the sample belongs to none other than David Lynch, put through some filtering.

This makes sense to me for a few reasons.

1. Lynch had a rather nasal quality to his voice and often spoke with a relaxed yet deliberate cadence much like the Music is Math voice.

2. Lynch utilized a sort of dream logic in his films, where the flow of time often doesn't make much logical sense. "The past inside the present" sounds like the kind of indirect description he might give in an interview when talking about this dream logic. I've always felt that Geogaddi has a rather dream-like quality to it, not in a nightmarish or scary way but in how surreal it can often feel.

I don't know, maybe I'm reaching, but has anyone looked through interviews that David Lynch has given to see if he ever said "the past inside the present"?

I decided to pick this game up again a few days ago after starting it last year and getting distracted with everything else in life. I have to say, genuinely, what a great time to finish it. I don't know how to explain it, but this game has had a deep impact on me in ways no other game has.

I'm going through a... rough patch. Through a mixture of bad decisions on my part and a bit of bad luck, my amazing and beautiful girlfriend left me, most of my friends wont talk to me, and I am less financially stable than ever. Somehow I feel more accepting of everything that has happened to me, less focused on the bad that I cannot change and more focused on the good I can make for myself in the future, more sure that I can change my behavior and not only get a life back but make it less likely I'll repeat the same obsessive, hedonistic, self centered behaviors that landed me in this spot to begin with. It's crazy how the right work of art at the right time can get your brain working in a particular way.

Also I absolutely adore the setting. It's feels like, oddly enough, like the world of A Series of Unfortunate Events blended with Ace Combat's Strangereal and a touch of a fantasy element that feels completely unique to Elysium. You have the weirdly anachronistic tech and culture from 1890s-1990s in a dream world that is almost completely but not entirely unlike our own combined that weird blend of real life inspired cultures with nonsense place names that *sound* like they could be alternate names of real countries or kingdoms. I deeply wish to see the more developed/taken care of parts of the city, the other countries and their customs, the ancient history and religious beliefs of all the different people. It's engrossing in a way only Middle Earth has been for me.

Amazing game! I'm both upset with myself that it took me this long to play it, and glad I had the experience of finishing it for the first time while trying to climb out of dark period of my life.

Getting ready to start a marathon of Bond films, and a thought occured. Genesis were one of the biggest British artists during the 1980s, yet they didn't ever make a Bond theme. Seems like a weirdly obvious missed opportunity if there ever was one. Genesis were always very dramatic and theatrical, I bet they could have done something absolutely stupendous if given the assignment.

So I played a *ton* of SC4 back in the 2000s, when RHW still stood for Rural Highway Mod. Recently got back into the game and holy hell has NAM grown over the years! I feel utterly lost with all the different acronyms, puzzle pieces, networks, basically everything. I also seem to have forgotten a few things in the 17 years since I was heavily into the game. I watched a few videos from Tarkus and Haljackey (very cool to see he is still making SC4 videos, I used to watch his stuff a lot back in the day), yet I'm still very lost. Every video on NAM I find feels like waking into a lecture on differential equations without taking calculus.

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I spent hours trying and ultimately failing to both make a bridge over a river with the two tile wide 6 lane road NWM network, as well as building a Chicago-style elevated rail over road loop around the CBD, but couldn't figure out how to get it to connect to a station or subway transition. I have tried googling the specific things I've struggled with and have come up empty, or have found 10-15 year old forum posts that seem rather outdated, or I watch videos that don't go into the issues that I have encountered.

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Playing around with it doesn't really help either, there is little in game feedback on how anything works and results feel somewhat unpredictable with my current knowledge level.

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Overall I'm still very excited to see what is possible in SC4 nowadays, but I am looking for some pointers to start to understand how the difference parts of NAM work together.

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