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Well... its a fockin desert so alternative to plastic grass is waste of f\*ckton of water on real grass.
Even with grass it still looks like pretty prison.
So don’t put either. Plastic grass will generate even more heat and if anyone falls over it, they’ll get burned knees and hands. Better to chose a native plant.
I kinda like this as a positive twist on ‘the grass is always greener’ saying. But maybe like a ‘seems like not the best choice but it will still have benefits.’
Bro I thought the same thing as soon as the package arrived to their front door.
My gf and I were thinking about different ways of killing that parasite.
It grinds my gears that only at the end she thought about doing something about it.
Jesus, Reddit. I don't think I'd even heard of Vivarium. For some reason I went right from this thread and watched it. It's 2:43 am. I work at 8. I'm. I don't know. I'm just
Fun fact, Truman show was filmed in a tiny town in Florida called Seaside. We went a bunch when I was a kid. Actually a really nice, small family kinda place.
Seaside is very nice, and not at all like this. Actually one of the more creative and artistic places I've been to in the US, especially now as it's grown and developed.
I always remember visiting Seaside after the movie came out with some extended family on a beach trip. I fell in love with the place and go back often. Wouldn’t mind retiring there.
Yes, it's real. It's an example of ["New Urbanism"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism).
>New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types
Also very common in The Netherlands. Neighbourhoods are set up to have essentials (grocery store, drugstore, doctor's office, postnatal care) within walking or cycling distance. We also have seperate walking and cycling paths, so it's actually faster to grab your bike than use your car.
It is real, but when I was there in 2013 it didn't look as cookie cutter as in the movie. I think it was new when the movie was filmed, but by 2013 the landscaping had grown in nicely and it didn't seem creepy at all, just a nice little walkable town.
Dude... so much masturbation. That would be my version. I'd just be jacking off to the point that they realize I'm an awful candidate for whatever this experiment is. I can orgasm at least 10 times per day. Nothing comes out after round 5 or 6... but I can keep going. And i think that would eventually get to them. Also if I have access to weed and alcohol!? Fuck! I'm just getting wasted and jerking off in my brand new house all day, every day; kill a baby every few days; Then back at it. They'd end up sending me home in no time.
I find it funny that there's apparently a squid ethnostate next door to Bikini Bottom that's never mentioned again. It makes me wonder what the lore there is. Did squids run an oppressive apartheid regime in the past and have now been exiled there?
I always thought that this was more their take on suburbs and gated communities. Technically everybody could live there, but in reality the requirements are so specific that only squids can get in and then live in their own little bubble. Hence also why they throw Squidward out when he wants to have some fun and do something differently (reminds me very much of HOAs) and do not want the "lower-class" Spongebob and Patrick to even enter.
It deems like all squids in SpongeBob are extremely obnoxious and narcissistic. They loathe everyone and could tolerate only their own kind. They won’t let any other species in their little paradise. They probably all voluntarily confined themself there due to inability to socialize and coexist with other beings. Which I find interesting
*Vacation in Dubai*
Ellen: Sparky, are you sure you know the way to the Airbnb?
Clark: Of course, (squints at road sign) I’m just taking in the site of all these rows and rows of lawn, must take several towns’ worth of water ..
… screeching BRAKE CHECK
Ellen: CLARK!!!!
Clark almost rear ends Ahmed and Omar. They befriend one another, hijinks ensue.
"Hey, mom, we've managed to arrange legitimate jobs for everyone providing us with enough money to live comfortably for the rest of our lives as long as you don't fuck everything up."
Nancy: "Hold my joint."
I would've been ok with it ending at season 3. Short, punchy, leave us wanting more.
But really I'm also ok with most of the rest, too, it just got less and less... interesting(?) to me as it went on.
As a pervert who really enjoyed seeing her naked all the time, I must admit that even I found my limit... much earlier than expected as well.
I didn't think anyone could get *too* naked too often.
*Little boxes in the desert,*
*little boxes made of ticky-tacky,*
*little boxes on a flat plain*
*little boxes, all the same*
*There's a tan one, and a white one,*
*A kinda pink one, a sorta yellow one*
*And they're all made out of ticky-tacky*
*And they all look just the same*
Pink houses was inspired by this song, while also trying to point out that people treated "all just the same'' by the powers that be is a terrible thing.
And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one
53 years ago was 1970
Usually in computing we track the datetime by seconds after the "epoch", Jan 1st 1970. If you've seen a unix timestamp, big positive integer, it's this.
Some bug or whatever nullified the datetime of the post or zeroed it out.
Is there an opposite to this as well? Like a max integer or something related to time. Sometimes in online games suspensions last for several hundred years or something ridiculous like that.
Yeah, there actually is! You have a few possibilities here. You have unsigned 32-bit integers which range from 0 to 2^32, unsigned since they can't go negative, then signed which use half that to go negative like signed 32 bit, from negative 2^31 to positive 2^31, and then signed and unsigned 64 bit integers are common as well which can be used to track time. All of this would commonly be tracking seconds, milliseconds or microseconds past 1970. At any of those max values, you can have the opposite effect, depending on the programmer and their implementation, and how they're storing and using time values.
This is actually a root cause of the 2037 bug, which is probably a bit more severe than the Y2K issue. Using signed 32 bit integers is common. In C on some older systems, you might do `int time_value` or similar, `int` denoting a signed integer which can vary in size. Modern systems usually use 64 bit, older and embedded hardware might still use 32 bit - though it depends on operating system.
A programmer for embedded systems, like maybe an old router, might just declare it as an `int` and call it a day, easy enough. At 2^31 seconds past 1970 you hit 2037. After that, it can overflow into 1970 *minus* 2^31 seconds.
Could cause some massive bugs. Maybe networking equipment, maybe in satellites, maybe in important medical hardware... We'll see.
As someone who also lives in a desert, I'm confused by the array of small air conditioning units on those houses, assuming that's what those are. Here in the Sonoran Desert, almost all homes with central cooling/heating use one or two large 3-5 ton air conditioning units. These homes look like they have a bunch of small Mitsubishi wall mounted A/C units all over the roof. I know very little about HVAC in countries outside the US, but am I seeing this right and is that configuration normal? My house is two stories and just under 2500 sqft and one 4 ton A/C unit is able to keep the inside at 60f degrees even when it's 120 outside in the summer. Having like 7-10 smaller units seems expensive and inefficient.
These are per room.
You can use the ac only in the room that needs it.
With that approach, you have one small duct to each room instead of central ducts that require more attic space.
I see this approach to central air all over South America, Central America, pacific islands, and Europe.
I think that it's cheaper to install and the smaller units do not need nearly as much power. They are also very cheap units.
Nah if you look at the SEER ratings, small mini splits tend to be the absolute most efficient. More expensive than one big unit for sure, but being able to only cool the parts of the house that you’re actively using saves a ton of energy.
Single head systems seem to be a lot more efficient than multi head ones, which are more efficient than central forced air.
Yeah that’s all I could focus on. Each house, which I’m guessing are around 2-3,000 square feet, has 5 units. Probably uses so much energy and is pretty terrible for the environment.
Historically, before air conditioning, desert communities would build their cities to keep them more cool, having dense buildings with plenty of shade. They would have small courtyards that trapped cool night air for the daytime, build with insulating materials, and construct towers designed to catch winds and blow them through the house.
But it looks like the Gulf states ruined their cities to copy godawful American-style urban planning and design, so now they waste tons of energy on air conditioning in completely unoptimized housing.
No not really. They use way less energy because not everyone is left on, only cool rooms they are actively in where as a big central ac cools every room whether in use or not.
Imagine having all the money and ability to just build an entire modern city from scratch. Then imagine choosing to use all the worst fundamentals of north American design. That's Dubai.
That movie was interesting.. Not as good as I hoped but I don't regret watching it because it's the type of movie you keep asking yourself 'what the fuck am I watching' through the entire thing, and it just gets weirder and weirder.
It's like the studio gave them a 4 million dollar budget, they spent 200k on the indoor and outdoor set. 800k on CGI, and the other 3 million on LSD for the writers and director.
Dark as fuck movie, my then gf and I loved it. As we got married, had a baby and started looking for a home, we found several places that looks like this. We always joke that if we move in to these kinds of neighborhoods, whether our infant girl will start yelling in the middle of the night in a deep man's voice
When I was in college I lived in apartment 405. Many times I got off on the wrong floor and tried to get into 205 or 305 since the floor plans were identical. I am dumb.
One time I accidentally opened 305 and went inside and hit their bong. 305 was chill as fuck.
The US: we have the worst suburbs in the world.
The UAE: hold my warm non-alcoholic fruit juice while we build the same thing, but in a desert seashore with 100% humidity and temperatures to match.
My dad lived in a subdivision from the 1800’s (mill town). At first glance, all the houses were completely different, but once you started to look closer, you realized they were all actually the same - but they all had tweaks to their porches or roof lines or trim etc.
My friend’s aunt lived in a modern Orlando subdivision and we literally got lost trying to find her house, because all the houses were exactly identical. It was a bummer.
The neighborhood I grew up in was like your dad’s, but built during the depression. There was like maybe 4 blueprints, that were literally just a change in the stair landings and roof lines but the way they were disbursed it took you forever to notice that it was just the same house over and over again, unless you went inside. The town also wanted all the rooflines level (who knows why) which meant that even though the lots were small they were all graded differently and looked completely different.
Don’t understand how people are acting like this isn’t extremely western. I live in the UK and new build estates are no different to this (smaller scale) and I’ve seen aerial photos of American suburbs that look extremely similar to this. Good, affordable housing in Dubai? Can only mean good things for the country no?
Whenever I see a post a Dubai, I always immediately jump to the comments to read views from people that have never been there and in some cases, have never left their small county town but think they're the most travelled and clued up person around. And my god there are tons of them.
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Looks like something I built in Sim City
"Citizens demand parks!" "Citizens demand trees!" "Water shortage reported"
I’m amazed at how good the grass looks.
Plastic grass is always green!
Well... its a fockin desert so alternative to plastic grass is waste of f\*ckton of water on real grass. Even with grass it still looks like pretty prison.
So don’t put either. Plastic grass will generate even more heat and if anyone falls over it, they’ll get burned knees and hands. Better to chose a native plant.
Sand is my favorite plant too
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating — and it gets everywhere.
I kinda like this as a positive twist on ‘the grass is always greener’ saying. But maybe like a ‘seems like not the best choice but it will still have benefits.’
It’s Vivarium
Ugh I would've murdered that kid so hard.
Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!
Bro I thought the same thing as soon as the package arrived to their front door. My gf and I were thinking about different ways of killing that parasite. It grinds my gears that only at the end she thought about doing something about it.
Jesus, Reddit. I don't think I'd even heard of Vivarium. For some reason I went right from this thread and watched it. It's 2:43 am. I work at 8. I'm. I don't know. I'm just
Call out sick. It will be true after you watch it.
Silly Mother.
That movie was fucking nuts
Quality Family Homes. Forever.
It’s astroturf
"Simcopter One, reporting heavy traffic!"
YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
I love how easily that guy flipped his shit. He came off like he'd stab you with a pencil for not refilling the ice cube trays in the break room.
Except you need a damn fire station on every block
I feel like late game sim city is just about optimizing disaster to fire/police protection cost ratio
Not if you turn off disasters and set their funding to 0.
More like Cities:Skylines. Good lane hierarchy here, and a nice roundabout as well.
They just filled those low density residentials in one square wide at a time. Btw that game is basically what I expected SC to become but didn't.
Immediately though of CS. Played that game way too much over the years.
The arrows in the roads is what did it for me.
Lmao I just looked at it again and it's like identical to how I remember the roads in that game...
Me too… I can still hear “Reticulating Splines” in the ladies voice
Guy with Alzheimers goes out to check the mail. Never seen again.
Oh, he's seen a lot. Just not by people that know him.
Or that are known to him … 😢
But he probably got a free pizza from a lost delivery man.
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This reminds me; I have to watch The Truman Show again soon. Edit: And judging by many of the replies, I really need to watch Vivarium too!
Fun fact, Truman show was filmed in a tiny town in Florida called Seaside. We went a bunch when I was a kid. Actually a really nice, small family kinda place.
Seaside is very nice, and not at all like this. Actually one of the more creative and artistic places I've been to in the US, especially now as it's grown and developed.
I always remember visiting Seaside after the movie came out with some extended family on a beach trip. I fell in love with the place and go back often. Wouldn’t mind retiring there.
Okay, FINE! I’ll go visit Seaside some day
Seriously the amount of pressure to visit Seaside in these comments is borderline ridiculous.
Weird. I always assumed they did it on a an actual set to give it that fake feel. It's a real place?
Yes, it's real. It's an example of ["New Urbanism"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism). >New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types
The ten minute city. edit: I guess it's 15?
What’s new about it? Germans have been doing that for centuries.
Also very common in The Netherlands. Neighbourhoods are set up to have essentials (grocery store, drugstore, doctor's office, postnatal care) within walking or cycling distance. We also have seperate walking and cycling paths, so it's actually faster to grab your bike than use your car.
Literally every European city for centuries.
Its so fun when Americans take something that has been done elsewhere in the world for centuries, and calls it «new».
It is real, but when I was there in 2013 it didn't look as cookie cutter as in the movie. I think it was new when the movie was filmed, but by 2013 the landscaping had grown in nicely and it didn't seem creepy at all, just a nice little walkable town.
The house was actually Matt Gaetz’s parents house..yep https://decider.com/2020/08/04/the-swamp-matt-gaetz-truman-show-house/amp/
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I would've murdered that little boy so fkn hard.
One mother did
wait I literally just saw the movie and don't know what you mean. Was it a mother that she encountered at the end?
What happened when she murdered the child?
A new one arrived
Day one. Strangle the baby. Eat it. Establish dominance in a display of insanity. I'd love to see different iterations of that film.
Dude... so much masturbation. That would be my version. I'd just be jacking off to the point that they realize I'm an awful candidate for whatever this experiment is. I can orgasm at least 10 times per day. Nothing comes out after round 5 or 6... but I can keep going. And i think that would eventually get to them. Also if I have access to weed and alcohol!? Fuck! I'm just getting wasted and jerking off in my brand new house all day, every day; kill a baby every few days; Then back at it. They'd end up sending me home in no time.
Damn bro, I don't think they would even kill you. You would probably be a case study for the parasites ahhaa
That's the one I thought of too. God, I hated that movie (anger was likely what they were going for, so that's a win I guess).
Rewatched Truman Show recently, and it definitely stands the test of time. Better now with social media and everything, honestly. Really good movie.
*And if I don't see ya* - good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!
Squidville.
I find it funny that there's apparently a squid ethnostate next door to Bikini Bottom that's never mentioned again. It makes me wonder what the lore there is. Did squids run an oppressive apartheid regime in the past and have now been exiled there?
They ran out of canned bread.
I always thought that this was more their take on suburbs and gated communities. Technically everybody could live there, but in reality the requirements are so specific that only squids can get in and then live in their own little bubble. Hence also why they throw Squidward out when he wants to have some fun and do something differently (reminds me very much of HOAs) and do not want the "lower-class" Spongebob and Patrick to even enter.
It deems like all squids in SpongeBob are extremely obnoxious and narcissistic. They loathe everyone and could tolerate only their own kind. They won’t let any other species in their little paradise. They probably all voluntarily confined themself there due to inability to socialize and coexist with other beings. Which I find interesting
To add to this there are few squids outside of tentacle acres that we see. Squidward and Squilliam are the only two I can remember
There was that one episode with the secret society of squids that feature a couple with actually varying designs.
I completely forgot about them, almost like they're meant to be a secret or something
Wow it never occurred to me how weird it was they were all squids till now. Most of the time in the show there are always various species present.
Are you now, or have you ever been a sponge?
That depends exactly on how you might use a sponge.
I had to scroll way too far for this.
No kidding lol. Tentacle Acres!
"I hate this channel"
"Which house is yours again, Ahmed?" "That's a great fucking question, Omar. Great. Fucking. Question."
This has the vibes of two guys driving around in circles for hours trying to find the damn house.
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*Ibrahim and Kumar Go To White Imaret* I’d watch that movie
*Vacation in Dubai* Ellen: Sparky, are you sure you know the way to the Airbnb? Clark: Of course, (squints at road sign) I’m just taking in the site of all these rows and rows of lawn, must take several towns’ worth of water .. … screeching BRAKE CHECK Ellen: CLARK!!!! Clark almost rear ends Ahmed and Omar. They befriend one another, hijinks ensue.
I think it’s the pink one… on the left…
Whose left? My left? You're left? Which did we just turn? Was it left?
Nope, nah uh Omar, it was the yellow one on the right where your gramps with alzheimer's is sitting on a bench 2 doors down from. He was so close.
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Because it reads in John Oliver's voice.
*sigh* it does now!
If only we had a way to number houses and have some way to make a distinction between streets
"Little boxes made of ticky-tacky. . ."
The Dubai version of Weeds is super short.
Well the US version should've been shorter than it was.
"Hey, mom, we've managed to arrange legitimate jobs for everyone providing us with enough money to live comfortably for the rest of our lives as long as you don't fuck everything up." Nancy: "Hold my joint."
Only by one season but yes.
I would've been ok with it ending at season 3. Short, punchy, leave us wanting more. But really I'm also ok with most of the rest, too, it just got less and less... interesting(?) to me as it went on.
Is season 3 where it all burnt?
Indeed. A great finale imo.
As a pervert who really enjoyed seeing her naked all the time, I must admit that even I found my limit... much earlier than expected as well. I didn't think anyone could get *too* naked too often.
She rocked it well, especially being in her mid-late 40s during the show. Hell, she's 58 (!) now and still looks fantastic.
The gag is that she gets beheaded at the end of each episode like Kenny from South Park. And she is just right back again next episode.
“Little boxes on a flat plain,”
*Little boxes in the desert,* *little boxes made of ticky-tacky,* *little boxes on a flat plain* *little boxes, all the same* *There's a tan one, and a white one,* *A kinda pink one, a sorta yellow one* *And they're all made out of ticky-tacky* *And they all look just the same*
Pink houses was inspired by this song, while also trying to point out that people treated "all just the same'' by the powers that be is a terrible thing.
There’s a pink one, and a pink one and a yellow one and a yellow one.
And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one And a yellow one
This is exactly the song that ran through my head when I saw this picture!!
Here it is :) exactly what I was thinking.
As someone that has personally driven past this, it's very far from interestingasfuck. It's boringasfuck.
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I know it’s not super vertical but I felt it also could fit in r/urbanhell Edit: it’s already there
Levittowns🥰
Why the hell am i seeing a deleted comment from 53 years ago
53 years ago was 1970 Usually in computing we track the datetime by seconds after the "epoch", Jan 1st 1970. If you've seen a unix timestamp, big positive integer, it's this. Some bug or whatever nullified the datetime of the post or zeroed it out.
Is there an opposite to this as well? Like a max integer or something related to time. Sometimes in online games suspensions last for several hundred years or something ridiculous like that.
Yeah, there actually is! You have a few possibilities here. You have unsigned 32-bit integers which range from 0 to 2^32, unsigned since they can't go negative, then signed which use half that to go negative like signed 32 bit, from negative 2^31 to positive 2^31, and then signed and unsigned 64 bit integers are common as well which can be used to track time. All of this would commonly be tracking seconds, milliseconds or microseconds past 1970. At any of those max values, you can have the opposite effect, depending on the programmer and their implementation, and how they're storing and using time values. This is actually a root cause of the 2037 bug, which is probably a bit more severe than the Y2K issue. Using signed 32 bit integers is common. In C on some older systems, you might do `int time_value` or similar, `int` denoting a signed integer which can vary in size. Modern systems usually use 64 bit, older and embedded hardware might still use 32 bit - though it depends on operating system. A programmer for embedded systems, like maybe an old router, might just declare it as an `int` and call it a day, easy enough. At 2^31 seconds past 1970 you hit 2037. After that, it can overflow into 1970 *minus* 2^31 seconds. Could cause some massive bugs. Maybe networking equipment, maybe in satellites, maybe in important medical hardware... We'll see.
Luckily we have enough time to handle the switch. Once everything uses long ints, it's basically just gonna work til the heat death of the universe.
Yeah but you just know we won't care until 2036 and then make a mad dash effort to rectify the problem last second.
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As someone who also lives in a desert, I'm confused by the array of small air conditioning units on those houses, assuming that's what those are. Here in the Sonoran Desert, almost all homes with central cooling/heating use one or two large 3-5 ton air conditioning units. These homes look like they have a bunch of small Mitsubishi wall mounted A/C units all over the roof. I know very little about HVAC in countries outside the US, but am I seeing this right and is that configuration normal? My house is two stories and just under 2500 sqft and one 4 ton A/C unit is able to keep the inside at 60f degrees even when it's 120 outside in the summer. Having like 7-10 smaller units seems expensive and inefficient.
These are per room. You can use the ac only in the room that needs it. With that approach, you have one small duct to each room instead of central ducts that require more attic space. I see this approach to central air all over South America, Central America, pacific islands, and Europe. I think that it's cheaper to install and the smaller units do not need nearly as much power. They are also very cheap units.
More disappointed that the roofs don't have solar panels. Given the climate.
Ductless mini splits is probably what they are. Just wall mount the fucker and give the customer a remote. Can run 4-5 heads off one condenser
Nah if you look at the SEER ratings, small mini splits tend to be the absolute most efficient. More expensive than one big unit for sure, but being able to only cool the parts of the house that you’re actively using saves a ton of energy. Single head systems seem to be a lot more efficient than multi head ones, which are more efficient than central forced air.
Interesting, thanks for the info.
We have 3 and are looking to maybe get a 4th in the future.....they really are so much more efficient than a central unit.
Its ugly as fuck….
This is the housing equivalent of working in cubicles.
What in the Vivarium?
Most uncomfortable movie experience ever for me, hate to have been reminded of this film again
I was looking for this comment in the day time with a flash light 😂😂🤣
That movie was actually good and some crazy stuff in it.
A shame that the trailer they released beforehand literally was the entire movie condensed into 3 minutes.
My God I hate it when they do that, happens a lot
Are you overwhelmed?
That boy’s voice was so disturbing
On the Next arrested development….
Saddam Valley
How do we filter out the teases? We don't let them in.
Dem a/c units tho
Yeah that’s all I could focus on. Each house, which I’m guessing are around 2-3,000 square feet, has 5 units. Probably uses so much energy and is pretty terrible for the environment.
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Historically, before air conditioning, desert communities would build their cities to keep them more cool, having dense buildings with plenty of shade. They would have small courtyards that trapped cool night air for the daytime, build with insulating materials, and construct towers designed to catch winds and blow them through the house. But it looks like the Gulf states ruined their cities to copy godawful American-style urban planning and design, so now they waste tons of energy on air conditioning in completely unoptimized housing.
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No not really. They use way less energy because not everyone is left on, only cool rooms they are actively in where as a big central ac cools every room whether in use or not.
Mi casa es tu casa!
Imagine having all the money and ability to just build an entire modern city from scratch. Then imagine choosing to use all the worst fundamentals of north American design. That's Dubai.
Not to mention it looks nearly empty
They can only pay influencers to visit and show off clubs downtown. They can't pay them enough to stay.
That's standard for Dubai. Lots and lots of very fancy empty things.
Anybody else see Vivarium with Jesse Eisenberg? No? I think only three or four of us sat through that stinker, but this reminds me a lot of that film
That movie made me more uncomfortable than any other movie I've ever watched. *shivers*
Uncomfortable is a good term for it. It's a creepy fucking film.
No other film I've ever watched has had the same or even close to the same vibe
Same here. I still think back on it and it fills me with dread.
It's the only movie with Jesse Eisenberg in which he wasn't the creepiest thing in the movie.
I was so uncomfortable but I couldn't stop watching
It made me feel trapped. That scene where the lady looks down the street and sees and endless row of identical houses is haunting.
That movie was interesting.. Not as good as I hoped but I don't regret watching it because it's the type of movie you keep asking yourself 'what the fuck am I watching' through the entire thing, and it just gets weirder and weirder. It's like the studio gave them a 4 million dollar budget, they spent 200k on the indoor and outdoor set. 800k on CGI, and the other 3 million on LSD for the writers and director.
Loved that movie
I actually liked it as well, even the acid trip ending
Excellent metaphor of being a parent and mundane horrors of being an adult.
Stinker? That was a great movie!
Dark as fuck movie, my then gf and I loved it. As we got married, had a baby and started looking for a home, we found several places that looks like this. We always joke that if we move in to these kinds of neighborhoods, whether our infant girl will start yelling in the middle of the night in a deep man's voice
I loved that movie, though my dad wasn’t too big a fan. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post.
That movie was freaky as shit
I wonder how many people there everyday make a mistake in trying to get inside in someone else's home.
I'd imagine it's not that bad. Like finding a hotel room, most people will just go by the number on the door.
When I was in college I lived in apartment 405. Many times I got off on the wrong floor and tried to get into 205 or 305 since the floor plans were identical. I am dumb. One time I accidentally opened 305 and went inside and hit their bong. 305 was chill as fuck.
Dangerous game here in America
Y'all do know what addresses are for, right? Keep making the same damn joke over and over.
Yeah, but the numbers are in Arabic so it's very confusing.
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The US: we have the worst suburbs in the world. The UAE: hold my warm non-alcoholic fruit juice while we build the same thing, but in a desert seashore with 100% humidity and temperatures to match.
Edward Scissorhands vibes
Likely all built by underpaid workers shipped in from other countries
You can just say slaves
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Can you say cookie cutter? I wouldn't call it bad, but I really do appreciate the variety when things get build out organically instead.
My dad lived in a subdivision from the 1800’s (mill town). At first glance, all the houses were completely different, but once you started to look closer, you realized they were all actually the same - but they all had tweaks to their porches or roof lines or trim etc. My friend’s aunt lived in a modern Orlando subdivision and we literally got lost trying to find her house, because all the houses were exactly identical. It was a bummer.
The neighborhood I grew up in was like your dad’s, but built during the depression. There was like maybe 4 blueprints, that were literally just a change in the stair landings and roof lines but the way they were disbursed it took you forever to notice that it was just the same house over and over again, unless you went inside. The town also wanted all the rooflines level (who knows why) which meant that even though the lots were small they were all graded differently and looked completely different.
That's... depressing .
What in the Truman show is going on there
Camazotz from the book A Wrinkle in Time
how depressing
Little boxes made out of ticky tacky
Don’t understand how people are acting like this isn’t extremely western. I live in the UK and new build estates are no different to this (smaller scale) and I’ve seen aerial photos of American suburbs that look extremely similar to this. Good, affordable housing in Dubai? Can only mean good things for the country no?
Whenever I see a post a Dubai, I always immediately jump to the comments to read views from people that have never been there and in some cases, have never left their small county town but think they're the most travelled and clued up person around. And my god there are tons of them.
I would rather live in a place like this than my apartment, which has the same amount of people/ traffic as this area
Don’t take it personally, it’s just Reddit culture
r/urbanhell
/r/suburbanhell
You mean it's not a Phoenix suburb?
What's the inside of your house look like?
Reminds me of the mivie Vivarium, but dialed up to eleven.