#area-17 redux

[mochipicchu776]

The post-Azure Moon epilogue I needed

[oraclebell17]

i still think it's absolutely bonkers that 3H was able to get dubstep music into a medieval fantasy genre game and have it actually make sense

i mean, make sense in the way that evil, highly advanced mole people make sense

agarthans are fascinating

[usaigi]

11 and 12!

11. favorite song?

Shambhala (Area 17 Redux) (Rain)

I never thought I'd hear techno in a fire emblem game, I was so surprised :o It was so cool. Farewell is good too

12. favorite activity (tea, fishing)?

Tea time :3 Here's me irl as maid!Byleth drinking tea while Edelgard and Dimitri fight

[shadowflash]

pictures from the “secret” chapter’s environments under the cut and some talk about them

The Zahras Nightmare-Shit-Whatever-Space-Between-Dreams-And-Reality-Dimension has a black hole and/or giant whirlpool in the background! I’m inclined to believe it’s a whirlpool given the deliberately placed water stuff we see:

Arval’s earliest recollections including the sound of water and bubbles.

Epimenides’ responding to Arval “I was worried all was lost to the waters.”

Bubbles around Epimenides during the “Final Farewell“ cutscene. 

But it could be both at once, given this list and what we can fathom from ‘Romance of the World’s Perdition’ accessible through the Shadow Library - Abyss DLC in Three Houses:

In the land of Thinis, where the old gods are said to live, the False God has awakened. Its looming, heteromorphic vessel was resurrected to sink the world to the depths of the ocean. It will bring extinction to all children of men, and salvation to all beasts of the land, sky, and sea. For the children of men who spilled too much of the blood of life, it promises only cruel retribution.

The False God must be defeated before the world sinks into a watery grave. To this end, the children of men have erected pillars of light upon the land. Thinis, Malum, Septen, and Llium were utterly destroyed. Those lands have vanished from this world. Yet even still, the False God stands. And soon, a flood aptly named Despair will drown this world.

The children of men fled to the depths of the earth, beyond the sight of the False God, beyond the embrace of the sacred sun, and beyond the reach of the waters of Despair. They swore a fervent oath of revenge against the surface world, ruled by beasts, and against their tormentor, the False God.

And I can’t help but wonder why chunks of Shambhala, specifically a building that looks suspiciously similar to the ‘chapel’ we see during CH21 stage of Verdant Wind, are floating around this place to begin with. And this mysterious building does not just appear broken while glowing red.. but it’s ‘doors’ appear busted open as well..

Plus where Epimenides spawns, you can see that they brought back the ‘GO’ symbol with the Cyrillic script text for “secret / closed city” from Three Houses.

Is this supposed to represent some busted open gate to Shambhala..? The area's themes are "The Void", "Shambhala Area 17 Redux" and "Holy Ground". What’s the significance of this place to Epimenides? Is it specifically tied to him or is this ‘piece’ of Shambala its own thing? How did it get here? Ummm.

Another question: How does Shez manage to appear in and out of Zahras during their dream conversations with Arval?

Maybe Shez’s mind literally drifts to Zahras when they speak with one another during those sequences! If Shez’s existence was teetering between life and death when Arval showed up to hold it together and grant them strength, then I can see it being a matter of being attuned to that place through their connection. Cool!

[brightgnosis]

Seed Wishlist Redux

Red Noodle (Pole) Bean

Jade Snap (Bush) Bean

Sugar Magnolia Pea

Umpqua Broccoli

Aspabroc Broccolini

Snow Crown Cauliflower

Tiara Mini Cabbage

Mini-Me Cucumber / Excelsior Cucumber

Millionaire Eggplant

Finale Fennel

Rainbow CM Bell Pepper

Rainbow Fiesta Okra

Hillbilly Potato Leaf Tomato

Pink Brandywine Tomato

Beam's Yellow Pear Tomato / Standard Yellow Pear

A couple of these are vanity wishes that I've wanted for a bit. But a lot of them are early harvest and mini varieties that are adapted for areas with shorter growing windows, despite the fact Oklahoma has quite a long growing window actually. But I tried finding things that I could hopefully get something decent out of before the heat murders everything if the summer's too insane next year (or my health tanks and my Husband has to take over and probably kills everything). And if it's cold and rainy for longer, it won't exactly hurt anything too much comparative to the usual varieties.

Unfortunately it does look like that'll mean paying a higher upfront fee for seeds (a lot of these aren't cheap; they're more expensive than the common and full-sized varieties). But with any luck that'll balance out with staggered sewing, combined with the shorter than typical harvest times.

These, combined with what I'm keeping out of my current Food Seed stock (rather than giving away to the Facebook Racoon Lady as soon as I'm well enough to ship them out to her) should hopefully be a decently rounded but still slim selection of things we'll actually eat. And if my Husband has to take over, it's hopefully not too much that it'll overwhelm him; a lot of these pretty much have the same requirements in regards to soil temp and acidity- save the Eggplants.

The Rainbow Fiesta Okra and Standard Yellow Pear are both out of stock, and the Mini-Me Cucumbers aren't really worth the price for only 10 seeds. But I managed to whittle everything down to just 2 companies in order to save some money on shipping.

Corrected all of the links above in order to reflect the changes for when I go to buy them. That way I'm not having to re-track everything back down all over again when it's time.

Total, without shipping costs calculated (which'll likely be roughly another $15 - $17 a piece; seed shipping is usually ridiculously priced), that comes out to $72.37 - or, likely $105 to $120, with guesstimated shipping based on experience.

Not bad at all.

«Oklahoma - Region 2» ⬩ «Grow Zone 7a» ⬩ «Heat Zone 8»

[xtruss]

A bulldozer works to maintain Chicago's underground. More frequent and intense storms pose danger to aging infrastructure like these tunnels. Photograph By Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic Image Collection

Here’s What Worries Engineers The Most About U.S. Infrastructure

Water and sewer systems built in the mid-19th century weren't meant to handle the demands of modern cities, and many bridges and levees have aged well past their intended lifespan.

— By Alissa Greenberg | July 17, 2023

Christine Kirchhoff’s family were preparing to move into a new house when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in 2017. Then the massive storm dumped 50 inches of rain on the area in just a few days, leaving two nearby reservoirs so full that their operators were forced to open the floodgates. Kirchhoff’s family had to be evacuated by boat. Both their original and new houses were inundated.

As an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Pennsylvania State University, Kirchhoff spent a lot of time thinking about water even before it swallowed her family’s livelihood. She is part of the legion of professionals behind the complex, often invisible systems that support American life: dams, roads, the electric grid, and much more.

For the last 25 years, the American Society of Civil Engineers has been sounding the alarm on the state of that infrastructure across the country. In their most recent assessment, for example, transit scored a D- and hazardous waste a D+. It’s an expensive problem to ignore. The ASCE estimates current infrastructure conditions cost the average family $3,300 a year. “Everyone is paying whether they know it or not,” Kirchhoff says.

Train derailments, highway and bridge collapses, and dam failures have become increasingly common. But which areas are civil engineers most concerned could cause imminent catastrophe, and what can we do about it? Kirchhoff and other infrastructure experts weigh in.

Water Contamination Crises are Already Here

The engineers we talked to agreed: our water systems are in trouble. Both those that protect us from water as a hazard (stormwater, dams, levees, bridges) and those that help us manage water as a resource (drinking water, wastewater, inland waterways) are in grim shape.

Streets were flooded after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in 2017. Photograph By Ilana Pancih-Linsmam, The New York Times/Redux

The United States’ 2.2-million-mile drinking water and 800,000-mile sewer system was developed in part in response to the widespread waterborne diseases of the mid nineteenth century, Kirchhoff says. Maintenance has lagged woefully behind since then; some older areas, including some cities in the northeast, still use century-old wooden pipes. And many more of our pipes nationwide are still made of lead.

A water system designed for yesterday’s climate and to filter yesterday’s contaminants is especially problematic in a world of increasing demand, fiercer and more frequent storms, and “forever” chemicals. The result: boil orders, water main breaks, and sewer overflow, plus 15 percent of our water treatment plants working at or over capacity. These issues, combined with the toxicity of lead pipes, lead to water crises like the one that continues to plague Flint, Michigan.

Amlan Mukherjee, the director of sustainability focusing on infrastructure at WAP Sustainability Consulting, recommends focusing on these pipes—swapping lead for PVC or other materials and fixing the leaks that spill some 6 billion gallons of treated water a day—as one high priority fix.

Our coastline is also dotted with facilities storing hazardous oil and other chemical waste cocooned in donut-shaped earthen structures, adds Bilal Ayyub, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park—structures that, he notes, could be made of concrete. Because of soil’s vulnerabilities, he worries that dramatic rainfall or a storm surge could destroy these structures, resulting in a release of toxic chemicals “bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill by orders of magnitude.”

His worst-case scenario has already happened at least once, when floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey ate through the earthen container at the San Jacinto River Waste Pits, releasing noxious waste into a nearby river.

Physical Collapse is Happening Now

Meanwhile, the number of high-hazard-potential dams in the United States now tops 15,000. Many were built during or before the WWII era and have been widely neglected since then. And when it comes to bridges, “there are cautionary tales all over,” says Maria Lehman, president of ASCE and vice chair of the Biden Administration’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council. “Every county in the country has a list of bridges that, if they had money, they would replace tomorrow.”

Our 617,000 bridges include not just those spanning mighty rivers but also every highway overpass and minor link across a stream—and close to one tenth of them are significantly compromised. “If you have to think in terms of catastrophe, we’re already there,” Mukherjee says. In 2007, the collapse of an I-35W bridge in Minnesota killed 13 people and injured 145. More recently, a six-lane bridge over the Mississippi was closed for three months in 2021, disrupting interstate travel and shipping because an inspector missed a significant crack. Americans drive 178 million trips on structurally deficient bridges each day.

Every day, millions of Americans travel across bridges and overpasses, like the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee, that may be structurally deficient. Photograph By Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic Image Collection

Yet the US spends only 1.5-2.5 percent of its GDP on infrastructure, proportionately less than half of what the European Union spends, Lehman says. This long-term lack of funding has run out the clock on many solutions. Many of our bridges were built to last 30-50 years, but nearly half are at least half a century old. The average age of our levees is also 50; our dams average 57.

Now, extreme weather is intensifying just as structures fail. We’ve already seen consequences in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, for example, when collapsing levees inundated 80 percent of New Orleans, killing hundreds, or in the failure of an under-inspected dam in Edenville, Michigan, which flooded the region and destroyed thousands of homes in 2020. The trend is set to continue: after Superstorm Sandy engulfed New York City transit, Ayyub helped study similar risks in Washington, D.C and Shanghai. His models showed widespread flooding that could swamp D.C. metro stations and in severe cases even reach “the backyard of the White House.”

The Future of U.S. Infrastructure

Mukherjee is optimistic about the use of new technology to solve some of these issues, though adoption has been slow. Drones can provide human inspectors with up-close views of areas they can’t reach themselves and reduce chance of human error; a drone on an unrelated project captured footage of the Mississippi bridge crack two years before its discovery.

Ayyub has also worked with North American freight railroads to find weak links using computer modeling, combing through thousands of stations to “identify exactly which point if it fails will have the biggest impact,” he says. Why not do the same with our power grid and waterways?

One piece of good news: in 2021, Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which provides $1.2 trillion over five years for the ailing systems that help American society run, the largest federal investment in US history. It was a major victory. “Every president for the last eight presidents said we should spend a lot of money—like a trillion dollars—on infrastructure, and none of them delivered,” Lehman says.

Unless it is renewed regularly, though, this funding will barely stop the bleeding. And meanwhile, across the country, families like Kirchhoff’s (who after a difficult year were able to rebuild both the destroyed houses) struggle to recover from a relentless march of disasters, many of them preventable. It’s time for the US to learn the lessons drawn from of a century of neglect, Lehman argues, and begin maintaining the systems that makes so much of American life possible while they’re still in working condition.

“If you have a leak in your roof, you go up there, find it, replace the shingles, put on a little tar” she says. “If you let it go, it’s not going to be a little fix: it’s going to be a replacement.”

[yusuke-of-valla]

I want to try to learn how to mod P5R (and also 3D model and stuff)- If I can I want to make an Officer's Academy costume set that also replaces the battle themes with Three Houses ones because modding can do amazing things now (whether or not this bears fruit is another thing entirely) Here's the tracklist I'm considering

Last Surprise -> Fodlan Winds

Take Over -> Tempest of Seasons

Results -> Beneath the Banner

Will Power -> Tearing Through Heaven

Keeper of Lust -> The Shackled Wolves

Life Will Change -> Paths That Will Never Cross

Blooming Villain -> Chasing Daybreak

Prison Labor -> Shambhala (Area 17 Redux)

Rivers in the Desert -> Between Heaven and Earth

Jaldaboath -> God-Shattering Star

Our Beginning -> Main Theme - FE3H (Smash Remix)

I Believe -> Edge of Dawn

Keep Your Faith/Throw Away Your Mask -> Apex of the World

Ambushed By Enemy (Which apparently is a distinct battle type and thus can have it's theme edited?) -> The Verge of Death

Oh that sounds so dopeee

Modding is beyond me but I believe in you!

[notebooknebula]

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5:52 - How Chris achieved his success quickly.

8:22 - Chris’ early struggles in real estate and how he overcame them.

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12:50 - What would you do differently in your real estate business?

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[ask-frederick]

“Looking back on this last year has made me reflect on the last seven. In the time I have been answering questions from the community at large, I have noticed myself... opening up more easily.”

“I was never really a secretive fellow to begin with, but I have always had apprehensions about letting people in. I suppose that much hasn’t changed, and I shall ever remain the wary voice of reason milord needs me to be, but I suppose... well, I suppose it feels good to openly divest myself of the thoughts and feelings that swirl about my head.”

“So before this year ends, I should like to air out the last of my grievances with you all. *sigh* Where to start?”

“If I have to read another ask about one more of your realm’s disgusting dishes, I may well become a vegetarian. You people consume an ungodly amount of insects in those ‘hotdogs’ of yours, you guzzle down carbonated syrup-water as if it won’t scour your insides like bleach in a septic system, you eat far too much dairy, and the process by which your realm produces food is downright stomach-turning.”

“Furthermore, the sheer volume of questions I get regarding ‘Pokemon’ is frankly baffling! I have encountered by proxy maybe seventy of those creatures from the Smash Tournament alone, but I understand that there are now over one-thousand different species of them. Good strangers: because Pokemon do not live in Ylisse (thank Naga for that) I do not much care for them.”

“And would someone please talk to Lord Claude about that horrid music of his?! Most of the songs from Fódlan are actually quite pleasant, but the particular song I’m referring to sounds like the unholy death cries of a screaming monster being fed into the gears of a clock tower.”

“All of this I say to you with the utmost reverence. It has been over half a decade since I answered my very first question on this platform, and you -- my good readers -- are singularly appreciated.”

“So, I’d encourage you all to reflect on the year behind you as you move onto the next with head held high and your goals well in sight. I wish every one of you a very Happy New Year... and please try to cut down on the junk food, if you would.”

[official-loba-andrade]

If someone told me there would be dubstep and screamo in two fire emblem games a year ago, I wouldn't have believed them

[galeeming-and-dharkoning-souls]

“So you’re the new smash fighter? I heard about you. Pretty tough, aren’t you?” -Ciana

“....” -Byleth

“.....You don’t talk much either, huh?”

[starfellwish]

i’m totally in love with chapter 21’s map for golden deer. it’s so beautiful and completely unexpected. there is a stark difference between the characters and the background. if fire emblem ever decided to go down this kind of route for a game or two in the future i’d be totally up for it. it looks amazing. AND THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD! i love it.

[virtualpeople]

I posted 49 times in 2021

47 posts created (96%)

2 posts reblogged (4%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.0 posts.

I added 174 tags in 2021

#sims - 45 posts

#ts2 - 44 posts

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#the sims 2 - 17 posts

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Longest Tag: 140 characters

#getting deafened by a persistent tapping noise broadcast over some intensely strong radio waves is one of the area's top tourist attractions

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

SOLAR REDUX - AN EYESET IN 72 COLOURS

A long time ago (but not particularly far, far away) I made a bunch of eyes (Solar Sailer and their recolours) and proceeded to use them for the next nine years or so. They didn’t animate as well as I’d like, so I decided to re-sclera them, then proceeded to get a bit carried away and ended up with a full re-make and a few extra colours on the side. A Solar Sailer redux. Solar Redux, if you will, and that’s what I’m sharing with you all today.

What you’re getting here is 72 eyes, 66 standard and 6 alien on an as-of-yet unnamed new edit I did of Pooklet’s old sclera that’s essentially this one but poked about in Photoshop some more.

Here’s a group shot of all the colours:

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#4

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#3

Went and shared some stuff over at the GoS daisy chain 2021 thread

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#2

a trip to the shopping centre

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[lyteupthelyfe]

ok but like one of the things i LOVE about three houses is how it uses music to ENHANCE and CONTRIBUTE to the story

I'm not just talking about how The Apex of the Worlds, an expansion upon, remaster of, and remix of Edelgard's Story in Seasons of Warfare/The Edge of Dawn (or Daughter of Hresvelg, as it's known in Japanese), is used when the story has either recontextualised (AM) or fulfilled (CF) Edelgard's journey, or how A Funeral of Flowers, being an orchestration of Guardian of Starlight, is dramatic on top but mournful piano in the cold hard reality to remind us as players that despite everything, Rhea is still there. The Immaculate One is no monster, only (and this is highlighted by the plot point of her succumbing to her overstressed Crest from her actions at Shambhala) a victim of circumstance--and that she always has been, more or less.

And its not even in how God-Shattering Star, in part being a remaster of Paths that Will Never Cross, proves that Byleth will not, or even, at this point in the game, cannot become another Nemesis, tearing the land apart. (Quite the opposite, VW is the one route that unites Fodlan, deals with TWSITD, and has the Church reevaluate its place in Fodlan society)

I guess I'm more talking about how in the Revenge cutscene (the invasion of Garreg Mach movie), there's a section while Rhea's burning soldiers alive and destroying buildings that note-for-note echoes "faint lights pass, through coloured glass, in this beloved place"--a place once beloved, now going up in flames, destroyed in war, marking the game's clear transition (well, as if it couldn't be any clearer) into its second half

OH and for one more final-battle analysis, At What Cost? is a sped-up orchestral version of Legend of the Chalice, bringing to light just how twisted and monstrous the reality of what happened (or, well, the reality of that failure to resurrect Sothis), is.

There are more sprinklings of leitmotifs across all the tracks, but the main ones throughout the game are obv The Edge of Dawn (which from an analytical perspective i understand to represent both the naivete/excitement/newness of the officer's academy and edelgard's own tragedy), Guardian of Starlight (for Rhea and her tragedy), The Spirit Dais (for Sothis; its "final battle" version obv. being Awakening, since that cutscene is more or less the finish to most of Sothis' character arc) and Those Who Slither in Darkness (for TWSITD, and the Javelins, culminating in Shambhala - Area 17 Redux (and no, the one thing i can't tell you is why the track is named that)

anyway i just really really love this game and its music *holds gently*

[fellhellion]

i fucking love the comments on the shambhala area 17 redux track fsdjkhfjksd

[emblemxeno]

Agarthans dumb anon here, i meant *El just isn’t working with them. oops. and i gotta agree with not liking Area 17 Redux... it’s a reason why i don’t like them lmao, Agarthans have bad taste in music.

Yeah it just grates on my ears after a while, I don't like it.