Messy Photopost

[olivermoss]

Some good pics. Some that aren't keepers, just reference pics or 'what is this?' Also, one picture... is a storefront on a main street but not SFW







Alternate take:



The angle I want... involves standing in the street and I don't do that while shooting. I am probably going to take a few more wacks at this.





IDk why but this lamp intrigues me:



Not a keeper, another pic taken for reference:



Quick grab of someone's window. I've seen this a lot recently? Old houses where the interior is outlined in red LEDs, always red. IDK? Is this really a trend?

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

I like that flower in the first pic!

And the flareon pixel sprite.

The lamp is truly amazing.

I wonder why it's red LEDs? I don't know of anything in particular that red light is considered good for, beyond allegedly not wrecking your night vision too badly, so I can't think of a real reason other than trendiness for that to be the color everyone picks.
I'd rather have blue or purple, if I were going for that, personally.

[olivermoss]

Thanks!

Oh, is that a flareon? (goes to fix tag on tumblr post)

I've seen a few houses that did exactly that to their interior. Not a ton, but that is such a specific thing to do... I know lightbars are big in like small bachelor pad design, but these are not small and red is an odd choice

[mistressofmuses]

It is a flareon! I'm good at IDing my gen 1 and 2 pokemanz, but my knowledge is spotty after that, lol.

Red seems like such a weird choice! I want to know *why*, lol.

[olivermoss]

I don't know Pokemanz, which is a problem as some of the art I shoot is probably them?

[mistressofmuses]

Lol. I know... some pokemon! Others I recognize but couldn't name if my life depended on it. Some I probably don't recognize at all, ha. They do seem to be frequent street art subjects, though.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I don't get pokemanz, but they are a huge art / street art / nerd thing.

It's like Disney, I just look at it's massive cultural impact and wonder if my content would be more #relatable if I was into it

[mistressofmuses]

There are definitely a few of those cultural touchstones that are helpful to know at least *something* about. There are a lot of franchises that I don't know much about, and I realize I likely miss out on a lot of references and context because of it.

[olivermoss]

I've tried watching pokemon to get 'with it'? I just, no, is not me.

I do like knowing cultural touchstones and I think spent a lot of time in my 20s watching films that informed the films I liked. But I will never get pokemanz or fortnights or minescraft

[mistressofmuses]

Minus some childhood nostalgia for the early movies, the pokemon show/movies don't have much of a hold on me. I DO find many of the mainline games to be fun, though (though I haven't played most of them). And I had quite the extensive card collection as a kid, haha.

There is value in knowing something about certain cultural touchstones - there are a lot that I know I only know by osmosis, and don't actually have an understanding of the source material. But there's also a fair amount that I'm willing to just Never Get. Minecraft and Fortnight included, haha

[olivermoss]

I do try to dip my toes into big things. I try to watch the Pokemon anime and just couldn't do it. I have played Minecraft and am not into it. Haven't tried Fortnite, but I am okay with skipping that one.

[mistressofmuses]

When it comes to Pokemon, I think the games are a lot more enjoyable than the anime, but the entries into the franchise that I consider the best are also harder to find - so many handheld games go out of production quickly, or were only made for systems that are now several incarnations out of date.

I didn't really *get* the appeal of Minecraft so much, and never had any interest in Fortnite. Also never tried to get Among Us to any degree greater than understanding the memes and references it spawned. Some of the things The Youth are into are just not for me, and that's okay, lol.

[olivermoss]

I think Minecraft is one of those games that's good at sopping up excess childhood/teenage energy and boredom so people get deep into it and come back to it. It's not just that, people get into as adults, but the boom was from people getting into it young. I've played it a bit, but everyone else was sooo deep into the mechanics they couldn't even explain the game to me.

As for Among Us, I cannot with social deduction games. Werewolf, Mafia, The Resistance... any game where you have to figure out who secretly does not belong using social clues and not game mechanics... no, just no, no, no, no, so much no. People picking out who secretly does not belong, is not one of us... nooooo I'll be over here playing Phasmophobia instead.

I've been called 'sus' based on my gender presentation. ha ha funny because memes. It's not a 'problem with social cues' thing it's a 'lets kill the person we think is not like us' thing.

I hate the words 'hey guys I brought a fun card gamed called The Resistance for us to play' so much. It was hugely popular before Among Us. Also, Werewolf and Mafia are folk games with the same mechanics dating back a loooong time and basically people turned it from something that requires nothing into a card game, then board games and then video games.

Sorry that was long but I've noped out so many times over Mafia, Werewolf, Resistance, Among Us, etc. I know they've since added a lot of game mechanics to Among Us to keep is fresh, but still nope

[mistressofmuses]

Yeah, I can understand the appeal of Minecraft, but not for me, despite it being such a cultural phenomenon in a lot of ways.

Oof, yeah. The Werewolf/Mafia variation we mostly played when I was a kid or teen was "Murder in the Dark", though we played a more usual version of Werewolf a few times. It could be fun, but... yeah, there's a lot of baggage around the "I can just TELL that you Aren't One Of Us" mechanic. When you're a closeted teen in a group of people you're afraid will Figure It Out, that's a WHOLE dimension to it.

It's interesting, in its way, that you can trace those older folk games through all the regional "sleepover game" type variants, like Murder in the Dark or Ghost in the Graveyard (though that one is more of a blend with hide and seek) or Witchhunt, through card games, through board games, through video games. In a way it's an "adapting to the times" thing, and in a way it's just selling something that doesn't need a saleable component.

[olivermoss]

Game mechanics can't be copywritten, fortunately, but there has been drama over 'You can't say this con is playing Werewolf unless it's Werewolf™, don't rip off devs like this!'

Whoever went 'maybe people will pay me for free game' made some serious moolah offa that.

[mistressofmuses]

Man, I need to figure out how to monetize and popularize a reskin of something that didn't need monetizing. :P I'll be rich!

But yeah, people get weird about things like that. Depressingly even when it's something that doesn't belong to any particular writer/developer/etc. Sometimes it's like people can't imagine an idea existing if someone doesn't "own" the rights to it.