The Heisterbach monks of today live a little bit more outdoorsy life, compared to their predecessors.

Classic pops is always good to see in modern HC.

Non-paywall:
https://archive.is/xXAer

Just saw a couple of these last summer for the 1st time ever. Midwest city.

Excellent. I remember trying to make that once, and instead creating a lovely, robust mold experiment.

Got that once today, then it disappeared. Probably working out some kinks in whatever they’re trying to achieve, there.

So broadly-speaking, the original fort was a garrison-type castle, later repurposed, and not to be confused with a medieval siege-type castle, what with the tendency towards more rings and inner fortifications.

Incidentally (skimming WP), this particular castle sounds like quite a well-known one, in a key position next to a river, and even appearing in a Shakespeare play(s).

…between rubbing shoulders with everyone inside and the non-intuitive layout, I imagine soldierly tempers would be very short!

I have a very incomplete understanding of what life was really like inside medieval castles, but from what I’ve read so far, it sounds like it could be a pretty damp, cold, lightless experience… sometimes downright miserable, I suppose.

Huh, I’ve never quite seen a castle like that, before. Communally-oriented, it seems, with a wide, rectangular base.

I suppose the barracks nature of the earlier version ensured survival, while a lesser amount of threats in the later version worked for them.

IMO It’s an absolutely brilliant concept and amazing achievement, but on the whole, the parts didn’t sum up to something all that interesting for me. Maybe it’s because we already have years of personal experiences in terms of growing up and seeing people, things and situations change all around us, I don’t know. And we already have documentaries tracking peoples lives & careers, making “Boyhood” oddly gimmicky for me. *shrug*

Meanwhile, his earlier films Slacker & Dazed and Confused are some classics, and I happened to love his rotoscoped film experiments Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.

Here’s my favorite (Lebowski-esque) scene from the latter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seP2DPqd0o8

Your wardrobe, eh? Something like this, maybe?
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/nordkisa-open-wardrobe-with-sliding-door-bamboo-00439468/

Anyway, GPT5.2 had some interesting things to say, with citations:
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6984f12432ac81919662025a7302e0d6

it is a huge difference between losing the longevity by a 1% and 30%.

Even if it’s only a couple percentage pts, it doesn’t seem hard to imagine how that could quickly add up over a few washes. You’re asking for research, but I’m curious what the actual situation is that you’re dealing with. Is it a case for example of having very little convenient area in which to hang clothes to dry?

Btw, there are no-heat spin dryers, hand-cranked wringers, and other alternative devices to help dry clothes as quickly as possible, without heat…

Are we getting some Disney - Star Wars vibes…?

Hence my 1st sentence, 2nd para. Anyway, I did try to directly explain the mechanisms, but of course that’s just one person’s POV. Cheers.

I think the movie doesn’t so much depict a generational progression, but an overall progression between ‘prosperity’ and revolution, in which any wealthy individuals at the time might be overthrown / killed off, with new ones arising in their place. They’re all just symbols, really, not identities.

Of course, all this is somewhat complicated by the situation shifting towards a global model, not national / regional, which is moreso what the movie portrays.

From what I understand, he’s been like this the vast bulk of his life. For example, back at Wharton he was evidently a dreadful student, but Fred’s money was enough to prop up his degree, anyway. In that situation I think most people would otherwise have been somewhat or very much humiliated by crashing out like that, but for him, it was one in a long series of situations, feeling empowered by exceptionalism, considering himself ‘special’ for being able to break the common rules with impunity, and do whatever he wanted. Just look at the beauty pageant shenanigans and countless other examples to see situations where embarrassment just doesn’t seem to register with him. All part of the elitist mindset of ‘rules and norms are for other people; they don’t apply to me.’

For decent people, I’m sure it makes perfect sense to otherwise interpret much of that as an embarrassment kink, but (again) I think it’s more a case of it largely not registering with people like that. Also kind of goes hand in hand with being a professional bullshit artist-- as in, they can do the worst things right in front of you, with the confidence of being able to persuade you that you didn’t actually see what you just witnessed. And its not just being a good BS artist at that point; it’s also a case of being backed by real wealth, power, influence, and underlying threats, persuading loads of people to keep showing him the knee even years ago. And that gets normalized over time…

Maybe, but I tend to think it more typical of pathological narcissists to be only vaguely aware of such things. There is no shame; there is no self-examination, but there might be a more practical sense of ‘this might possibly hurt my position or self-interests.’

I set out to find some counter-examples, but couldn’t really find any. So here’s my Q…

Why is OP’s assertion true? What is it about having ‘void eyes’ that routinely triggers other peoples’ ‘cool flag?’

Wow, that’s great. oO

Yeah, checking just now, 19k seems highly unlikely for that date. I think it was probably 9600 bps, instead. Memory sure does get garbled, easily…

One of my favorite short animations (10min) is about a brutally frank look at the rich…

Dinner for Few
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDdIO74BuA

Fun story and commentary on gaming addiction!

I don’t recall playing MUD’s in particular, but in the early aughts (the 2000’s), I got seriously addicted to “Armagetron” (3D version of the grid-cycle game from the original TRON movie), and then “Gunbound,” which was like a super-deluxe version of the old “Scorched Earth” artillery game. I’m kind of a late-bloomer in life, and those were sort of like a beer-filled, addictive multiplayer game that I otherwise would have been playing in college, more or less. So, good to get those out of my system, I guess.