{"id":4452,"date":"2024-10-07T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:59:41","slug":"lego-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"Lego Relics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the advice\/recommendation of a friend, I went to see this, not really knowing what to expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d been jabbed with a number of needles that day, with both a blood draw for testing, because my GP rather liked the idea, and a couple of vaccinations, because Hepatitis & Rabies really do suck and are worth avoiding.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a bit more “art exhibition” than I was expecting from a museum, I’ll admit, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, I did do the scavenger hunt, but I did it backwards after walking through the gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a Big Red Couch episode with the prompt “Ruins Of The Ancients”, I pitched an exploration game where the descendants of folks miniaturised in a too-late attempt to avoid environmental collapse are exploring a world that’s new to them but familiar to us as the oversized wreckage of our own. ( Yes, I’ve seen Downsizing )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn’t what I’d imagined, but it’s in the same ballpark. This is maybe what the children or grandchildren of the folks I was imagining might have built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can’t really see the details, but the VW folk here have been extracting oil\/fuel to run their (somewhat Mad Max 2 inspired) society, it’s running out, and they’ve got a revolution on their plastic hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, there’s someone with an off-grid solar setup doing quite nicely down by that tyre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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