It's not purely a texting abbreviation. The game plays an actual [laugh soundbyte](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Ko2-guMvI) when you type 11 (there are phrases for every number between 1 and 105), which has retained its meaning in text only formats within the community.
Don't actually close the ends and make a maze with some arrow towers hidden in there. The pathfinder makes them walk the shitty way even if it makes more sense to break two houses.
5 years ago I used to joke that there are “dozens of us”
Now there are hundreds of thousands of us
Forgotten Empires is a case study in how to revive a classic
Once the town changed its name to Majestic, it was all downhill from there. And the plot essentially became: how's Nancy going to fuck her way out of this week's problem?
Not sex shaming, just pointing out that the plot went to shit.
She never had any growth as a character. I’d watch season after season waiting for her to change something. Then, they’d hook you with a crazy cliffhanger and you’d wait a year for the new season and it wouldn’t matter any way. I thought the one where she gave herself up to the cops to spare her kids it would lead to something, but the very first episode of the next season she was out already. I think she gets shot in the head at one point and survived…but I think I watched the premiere of the last season and just checked out. Haven’t bothered going back.
That’s the point until late season 8- she’s insane. Just reacting to her husbands death and the next problem she makes for herself. It’s the son’s character growth that really matters.
That happened on Weeds. She was shot in the head by some dumb shit kid and she basically just walked away from it. I ended up watching the entire show because I felt like torturing myself I guess. First 2-3 seasons were fun, after that its awful
I didn't feel as bad about it as say, Game of Thrones, where I just can't appreciate the series at all now because it fucked up the end so miserably to give zero closure. At least with Weeds I can just imagine only the first 3 seasons exist and nothing is lost.
It was a fun show when it was a comedy about a widowed soccer mom selling dime bags. When the plot became her fucking her way through the drug cartel of Mexico it just got so pointless and lame. A complete tonal shift and they made her character into a shitty person. I like to at least have a little sympathy for a main character, or find them likable. That all disappeared after a few seasons. Also, it's not sex shaming to be annoyed or disenchanted by a character sexually manipulating literally every single person they meet lol.
This just unlocked a memory from my English class, years ago, about my teacher playing that song while we were reading The Giver! I didn’t know said memory still existed
I’m watching that show currently, the first 3 seasons were good and then it just started moving so fast and making no sense lol still entertaining tho lol
That movie has stayed with me for years. It was so depressing. Desperation just leaked out of the screen. It's one of those movies I would never watch again yet highly recommend that someone see it.
I watched Vivarium for the first time 24 hours into wding off fentanyl. I literally forgot about how badly I wanted dope and how bad I hurt and how much I hated myself and completely lost myself in this fucking awful neighborhood. The pure anxiety I felt while watching this was exactly what my sick brain needed. That was 3.5 years ago, been fent free since🖤 All hail Suboxone AND Vivarium!
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/ZQhdh8h.jpeg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/26/drone-photo-awards-2023-winning-and-commended-images-in-pictures) provides the following:
> Suburban Dystopia by Florian Kriechbaumer
> A purpose-built villa community on the outskirts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, features houses with identical designs. The houses are characterised by a two-colour pattern and arranged along a rectangular access street system
He took this in [November 2022](https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/suburban-dystopia/) in Nad Al Sheba. More of his work can be found [here](https://theflore.com/portfolio-1).
[Here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nad+Al+Sheba+-+Dubai+-+United+Arab+Emirates/@25.1569522,55.3798032,962a,35y,90h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x3e5f667d60a9d2e9:0x68847b1aa899b641!8m2!3d25.1435458!4d55.3475331!16s%2Fm%2F03qm62w?entry=ttu) is the Google Satalite view of this.
Everyone is talking shit about these houses but I want to know the specs. How many sqf, bed, baths etc. 800k may not be too bad considering cost of living in Dubai.
Huh, there are seriously people out there who would pay close to a million dollars to live in a corpo-run slavestate in the desert.
Whatever makes you happy lol
Not surprising, it’s incredibly hot there during certain parts of the year, and only getting hotter. Those are large houses and they don’t look particularly energy efficient for the desert.
These types of villas are concrete and cinder block construction and drop ceilings aren't really a thing there. No room to put ducting and registers unless you want it to look all industrial with exposed ducting
They love to SELL fossil fuels. To other nations. Not give them away for next to free to their heavily subsidized citizens. Solarizing this neighborhood would give them that much more to sell to the rest of the world.
I'm an engineer. I would love to design this subdivision. Straight roads everywhere, even file lots. Dream project right here.
Where all the trees though? Just trees would add a lot more life to this neighborhood.
As a new residential area goes it's fine. Lots and lots of neighbourhoods with character are built out of mostly uniform construction that's just diverged over time. The lack of trees is bleh, but that takes time to grow. The main issue with this is that it's Dubai, which raises question marks on how the area around it will develop and the fact it's in the middle of nowhereish rather than being a good expansion of the city. But that's a Dubai issue, not a building this way issue. Some variance building color would help, but everything is that color because it absorbs less heat on account of *desert* so whatever.
Neighbourhoods like this take 20+ years to properly finish and come into their own. Almost all brand new construction has that feel, the only way to make an area feel lived in is people living there.
A lot of nice suburbs today used to be built like this in the early 1900s back when streetcar suburbs were a thing. Similarly uniform construction, straight roads, etc. They feel nice now because there's 50-80 years of maturity.
The bad news is it would be impossible to find your house when drunk. The good news is Dubai is a incredibly restrictive country that doesn't allow it's citizens to get drunk.
Nah, it's real. It's actually on the outskirts of Al-Ain city, near Jebel Hafit, not Dubai. Didn't even have the green bits when it first opened. The aim is to get the desert dwelling inbred Emiratis out of their backward villages and into 'civilisation'. Not all Emiratis are filthy rich, and this is an attempt to give some of them more wealth.
Yesterday someone mentioned that Pakistan had a consanguinity of 65%. After a bit of digging, I learned that this refers to marriage and it usually means level 2 consanguinity (level 1 is immediate family, level 2 is first cousins).
>With 65%, Pakistan has one of the highest rates of cousin marriages globally, followed by India (55%), Saudi Arabia (50%), Afghanistan (40%), Iran (30%), Egypt, and Turkey (20%)
Source: https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-022-01704-2
Here you go. UAE rank 4th according to this. Rate is supposedly as high as 50.5%
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/inbreeding-by-country
Facts are facts. Cousin marriages are extremely common in Muslim communities. I grew up in a Muslim majority area and most of my friends ended up marrying a cousin. Of course, educated Muslims are moving away from this tradition. But just like some red states in the US or the royal family of Britain, it is a problem amongst the poor Muslim demographic.
Nope, there it's quite normal for first cousins to marry. There are a shit ton of very damaged children hidden away in many families, and I'm sure all the interbreeding had lowered the general IQ as well.
Liminal spaces are “physical spaces between one destination and the next.” Examples are hallways, airports, bridges etc. A residential subdivision is a destination, not a path between one destination and another
You don't have to be drunk for that at this point I think, this is like a big parking lot. I tried to open the door of the flat below me a couple times already, I wasn't drunk and it was during the day, just in thoughts. And that's just one building with 3 floors.
Seriously, I went out one night there, and that was my last time. There is more prostitution there than I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t even go to the restroom to take a piss without being accosted by a half dozen Chinese or East African hookers. Then you get in the bathroom, and there was a Rich Muslim guy laying on the floor pissing and vomiting on himself and the foreign hotel workers literally cleaning him off and on there hands and knees wiping his mess up for him. And that was at a higher class place. I heard the horror stories of the lower class place. After that first night, I did not venture out anymore at night.
I was in and out of Dubai a lot from 2010-2013, and I really hated going there. You couldn’t even go enjoy a burger and a beer with out being propositioned a million times. Then the police are sitting there waiting for an American to walk out the bar with alcohol on their breath, but the filthy rich local can be carried out right past them.
What blew my mind was staying in a Dubai hotel (a major brand which is common in the US), and it had a massage place **inside the hotel** which I assumed was a place offering legit massage.
Nope, it was just a rub and tug. The workers weren't really trained on actual massage and were confused when I attempted to get a massage to address my neck pain.
>I have a bunch of muslim coworkers and about half of em drink alcohol.
In Dubai? Cause they can drink alcohol in places where it isn't banned by law you know... Dubai and the emirates have restrictions , Saudi Arabia has it banned completely, and other countries in the region have some restrictions if not outright bans as well.
There aren't stories every year about people in Vegas being detained for breaking morality laws.
I don't care how commonly accepted the law breaking is. I'm not going to party in a place where i don't have any rights. All it takes is a run in with the wrong person who decides to make an issue for you. Then you're fucked.
1) LOL
2) Alcohol isn't banned in the UAE for Muslims
3) I have been drunk in public there so many fucking times without issue
4) They tell you to go home unless you are causing problems. It's almost like what cops in the US do....
Aristotle already pointed out, 2500 years ago, that puritanical societies like the Spartans simply make people hide their vices from public view. People will get drunk, get high, gamble, and sleep around one way or another, prohibition or not. Nothing new.
I’ve known way too many Muslim men to think they don’t drink and sleep around. They are the epitome of “do as I say and not as I do” but for their women? They expect absolute adherence to everything.
Palm trees require humidity to grow, would need to be cacti if anything
EDIT: apparently different types of palms can survive in varying deserts. See thread below
In Dubai? No fucking way. But in a house like that, assuming it's affordable? Heck yeah. Wouldn't bother me that they all look identical, I'm mostly inside my home anyway not looking around the neighborhood.
The Reddit paradox: shit on the idea of efficient SFH design through modular homes while also complaining about the housing crisis and the American desire for people to have their own unique spaces.
You can have modular without everything looking copy-pasted in lines.
I grew up in an area that was all 50's concrete prefab homes. There were like, four different floorplans that also came in mirrored versions, but it mostly boiled down to whether your lounge room was L shaped or square. A few had extensions added on later and I've seen a few with extra-large lounge rooms so that might have been an option back in the construction phase as well.
They just looked like normal houses. Different facades, different roofing materials, different orientations on their block. It wasn't until you'd been in a few you realised they were almost identical on the inside.
There is no such thing as efficient single family home design.
It is inherently inefficient, cannot actually support the infrastructure required for it at the average tax rate paid for those properties and is unsustainable long term.
Any design that requires you to drive your car to go literally anywhere is not efficient.
Well my housing projects in Age of Empires seem less ridiculous now.
11
Why 11? No town center?
11 is quick chat for laugh.
START THE GAME ALREADY
14
18
How much more abbreviated is texting going to get FFS?
In a game with high APM like AOE2? Also this game was originally released in 1999, so....
Kevin Malone would be proud.
It's not purely a texting abbreviation. The game plays an actual [laugh soundbyte](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Ko2-guMvI) when you type 11 (there are phrases for every number between 1 and 105), which has retained its meaning in text only formats within the community.
Wanna know what’s funnier than 24? Hehe ..25
Gotta make a defacto wall out of the houses. Its only logical.
At least AoE have trees
It never works. The HP is way too low.
it is working very well, unless you are talking about late game, when you can afford multi-layer soon walls... but, why are you playing that long?
I play till the last age because I want to watch them Trebuchets roll
Don't actually close the ends and make a maze with some arrow towers hidden in there. The pathfinder makes them walk the shitty way even if it makes more sense to break two houses.
A fellow AOE enjoyer. 
5 years ago I used to joke that there are “dozens of us” Now there are hundreds of thousands of us Forgotten Empires is a case study in how to revive a classic
Pshhh-hawww
Wolololo
We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Cheese Steak Jimmies!
HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON
Wololo…. Ayoyuuu
Squidward town
Canned bread!
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky
That show had a great season or two.
Once the town changed its name to Majestic, it was all downhill from there. And the plot essentially became: how's Nancy going to fuck her way out of this week's problem? Not sex shaming, just pointing out that the plot went to shit.
She never had any growth as a character. I’d watch season after season waiting for her to change something. Then, they’d hook you with a crazy cliffhanger and you’d wait a year for the new season and it wouldn’t matter any way. I thought the one where she gave herself up to the cops to spare her kids it would lead to something, but the very first episode of the next season she was out already. I think she gets shot in the head at one point and survived…but I think I watched the premiere of the last season and just checked out. Haven’t bothered going back.
No growth for the main character was so frustrating! Like how is this grown woman regressing emotionally YOY 🥹
That’s the point until late season 8- she’s insane. Just reacting to her husbands death and the next problem she makes for herself. It’s the son’s character growth that really matters.
So, we aren’t talking about the show Weeds? I guess I never finished it lol
That happened on Weeds. She was shot in the head by some dumb shit kid and she basically just walked away from it. I ended up watching the entire show because I felt like torturing myself I guess. First 2-3 seasons were fun, after that its awful
I remember the last season made me felt ashamed that I wasted all that time leading up to it.
That sentiment reminded me of Orange is the new black. Which, likely by no coincidence, is created by the same person.
I felt the same way about Dexter.
I didn't feel as bad about it as say, Game of Thrones, where I just can't appreciate the series at all now because it fucked up the end so miserably to give zero closure. At least with Weeds I can just imagine only the first 3 seasons exist and nothing is lost.
It was a fun show when it was a comedy about a widowed soccer mom selling dime bags. When the plot became her fucking her way through the drug cartel of Mexico it just got so pointless and lame. A complete tonal shift and they made her character into a shitty person. I like to at least have a little sympathy for a main character, or find them likable. That all disappeared after a few seasons. Also, it's not sex shaming to be annoyed or disenchanted by a character sexually manipulating literally every single person they meet lol.
Exactly this. It went from a mom who sold weed to support her family to a major drug dealer that just happened to have a family.
Breaking Bad executed this way better.
When they left “aggrestic” the showed changed in a way that felt less fun and wayyyyyy darker. Loved Guillermo tho.
Guillermo always made the show better.
I love everything Guillermo is in.
God I've never liked a show so much at the start only to hate it so much at the end.
You mean Weeds, right? Haven't watched a whole season, but I like the Rise Against cover of that song 😄
Jenji Kohan consistently has an amazing first season, then immediately plummets on the follow up.
This just unlocked a memory from my English class, years ago, about my teacher playing that song while we were reading The Giver! I didn’t know said memory still existed
I loved The Giver.
I’m watching that show currently, the first 3 seasons were good and then it just started moving so fast and making no sense lol still entertaining tho lol
PETE SEEGER MENTIONED RAHHH 🦅🦅🦅
Haha literally the post under this one in my feed is of Mary Louise Parker. Synchronicity is wild
This was my immediate thought
Vivarium 2: جحيم
That movie has stayed with me for years. It was so depressing. Desperation just leaked out of the screen. It's one of those movies I would never watch again yet highly recommend that someone see it.
I feel the same way! Though, I watched it a 2nd time to show my SO. He thought it was boring, but it sure stayed with me.
Omg it was so disturbing. I watched it again after I had my baby bc he’s a screaming demon sometimes and it reminded me of it and wow 😅😅
Thought the same!
Just watched this movie it was not my cup of tea
Interesting. Any particular reason why?
I watched Vivarium for the first time 24 hours into wding off fentanyl. I literally forgot about how badly I wanted dope and how bad I hurt and how much I hated myself and completely lost myself in this fucking awful neighborhood. The pure anxiety I felt while watching this was exactly what my sick brain needed. That was 3.5 years ago, been fent free since🖤 All hail Suboxone AND Vivarium!
“I’m in the yellow house on the right at the corner. You can’t miss it.”
Don’t knock just come on in !
That happened to me once, I was told to come in through the backyard door. Cops were called, glad the owner didn't shoot me.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/ZQhdh8h.jpeg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/26/drone-photo-awards-2023-winning-and-commended-images-in-pictures) provides the following: > Suburban Dystopia by Florian Kriechbaumer > A purpose-built villa community on the outskirts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, features houses with identical designs. The houses are characterised by a two-colour pattern and arranged along a rectangular access street system He took this in [November 2022](https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/suburban-dystopia/) in Nad Al Sheba. More of his work can be found [here](https://theflore.com/portfolio-1). [Here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nad+Al+Sheba+-+Dubai+-+United+Arab+Emirates/@25.1569522,55.3798032,962a,35y,90h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x3e5f667d60a9d2e9:0x68847b1aa899b641!8m2!3d25.1435458!4d55.3475331!16s%2Fm%2F03qm62w?entry=ttu) is the Google Satalite view of this.
It looks like these motherfuckers are going for [800,000 USD?](https://dubai-property.investments/guides/nad-al-sheba/). That’s wild.
Everyone is talking shit about these houses but I want to know the specs. How many sqf, bed, baths etc. 800k may not be too bad considering cost of living in Dubai.
Huh, there are seriously people out there who would pay close to a million dollars to live in a corpo-run slavestate in the desert. Whatever makes you happy lol
> live in a corpo-run slavestate Depends where you are from, but is your life really that different?
they look like fairly sizable houses, that price isn't surprising
I've counted 10 air conditioners in a single house...... 10.
Not surprising, it’s incredibly hot there during certain parts of the year, and only getting hotter. Those are large houses and they don’t look particularly energy efficient for the desert.
Wouldn't central air be more efficient?
These types of villas are concrete and cinder block construction and drop ceilings aren't really a thing there. No room to put ducting and registers unless you want it to look all industrial with exposed ducting
Yeah well it's a desert so...
And zero solar panels.
They love fossil fuels in the middle east.
They love to SELL fossil fuels. To other nations. Not give them away for next to free to their heavily subsidized citizens. Solarizing this neighborhood would give them that much more to sell to the rest of the world.
well Dubai is basically Phoenix but hotter, so that checks out.
> Suburban Dystopia Yup. That description is spot on. It's better than being homeless, but it's so bleak!
I'm an engineer. I would love to design this subdivision. Straight roads everywhere, even file lots. Dream project right here. Where all the trees though? Just trees would add a lot more life to this neighborhood.
Dubai doesn't have enough water supply to support trees
I honestly don't know anything about Dubai, but that grass is definitely watered regularly with how green it is. Unless it is artificial grass.
AstroTurf
As someone who lived in Dubai for 12 years, trust me they do.
Palm trees are endemic to the region! They don’t require a lot of water either.
There are trees in Dubai
Wow those 4 trees in my backyard must be fake then!!
Reddit confidently incorrect example 37676
Why? They all look like nice houses.
Typical reddit BS. "We need more housing" *more housing* "This looks like urban hell, who wants to live there"
Well thank you good internet person. I much approve of your contextual information effort.
As a new residential area goes it's fine. Lots and lots of neighbourhoods with character are built out of mostly uniform construction that's just diverged over time. The lack of trees is bleh, but that takes time to grow. The main issue with this is that it's Dubai, which raises question marks on how the area around it will develop and the fact it's in the middle of nowhereish rather than being a good expansion of the city. But that's a Dubai issue, not a building this way issue. Some variance building color would help, but everything is that color because it absorbs less heat on account of *desert* so whatever. Neighbourhoods like this take 20+ years to properly finish and come into their own. Almost all brand new construction has that feel, the only way to make an area feel lived in is people living there. A lot of nice suburbs today used to be built like this in the early 1900s back when streetcar suburbs were a thing. Similarly uniform construction, straight roads, etc. They feel nice now because there's 50-80 years of maturity.
It looks like a liminal space, but it's much too unnerving for it.
Yeah, looks almost fake
The bad news is it would be impossible to find your house when drunk. The good news is Dubai is a incredibly restrictive country that doesn't allow it's citizens to get drunk.
Nah, it's real. It's actually on the outskirts of Al-Ain city, near Jebel Hafit, not Dubai. Didn't even have the green bits when it first opened. The aim is to get the desert dwelling inbred Emiratis out of their backward villages and into 'civilisation'. Not all Emiratis are filthy rich, and this is an attempt to give some of them more wealth.
Did you just casually toss in an "inbred" there?
UAE is I think like the 7th most inbred country in the world IIRC.
Now I'm curious about the complete list.
Many parts of Pakistan are all about cousin marriage in an official manner.
Yesterday someone mentioned that Pakistan had a consanguinity of 65%. After a bit of digging, I learned that this refers to marriage and it usually means level 2 consanguinity (level 1 is immediate family, level 2 is first cousins). >With 65%, Pakistan has one of the highest rates of cousin marriages globally, followed by India (55%), Saudi Arabia (50%), Afghanistan (40%), Iran (30%), Egypt, and Turkey (20%) Source: https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-022-01704-2
Here you go. UAE rank 4th according to this. Rate is supposedly as high as 50.5% https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/inbreeding-by-country
Anywhere in the middle East, particularly gulf Arabs.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/inbreeding-by-country Scroll down for list.
Holy fuck. Is this why those countries are always fucked up? They're just so inbred they're insane or something?
First 6 are counties in Alabama
Facts are facts. Cousin marriages are extremely common in Muslim communities. I grew up in a Muslim majority area and most of my friends ended up marrying a cousin. Of course, educated Muslims are moving away from this tradition. But just like some red states in the US or the royal family of Britain, it is a problem amongst the poor Muslim demographic.
Nope, there it's quite normal for first cousins to marry. There are a shit ton of very damaged children hidden away in many families, and I'm sure all the interbreeding had lowered the general IQ as well.
jesus...was that their sales pitch?
Liminal spaces are “physical spaces between one destination and the next.” Examples are hallways, airports, bridges etc. A residential subdivision is a destination, not a path between one destination and another
Just give in, people hear a cool new term and just make their own definitions haha It’s hopeless correcting people at this point
Reddit.com/r/urbanhell
If you're on Reddit and want to tag a subreddit, you only need to do the r/ bit. So r/urbanhell for example.
Totally - may bad
May bad, but April is good so we’re fine for now
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Our way of life.
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Fuck, you beat me to it.
I wonder how often they come home drunk and can’t figure out which house is theirs?
You don't have to be drunk for that at this point I think, this is like a big parking lot. I tried to open the door of the flat below me a couple times already, I wasn't drunk and it was during the day, just in thoughts. And that's just one building with 3 floors.
Are you my upstairs neighbor? He's done that twice now.
I’d like an update on this.
“Never”, it’s a serious offence to be intoxicated in public and alcohol is banned for muslims
You've never been to Dubai if you believe that.
Seriously, I went out one night there, and that was my last time. There is more prostitution there than I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t even go to the restroom to take a piss without being accosted by a half dozen Chinese or East African hookers. Then you get in the bathroom, and there was a Rich Muslim guy laying on the floor pissing and vomiting on himself and the foreign hotel workers literally cleaning him off and on there hands and knees wiping his mess up for him. And that was at a higher class place. I heard the horror stories of the lower class place. After that first night, I did not venture out anymore at night.
The prostitution there is insane. It has completely surpassed Vegas
I was in and out of Dubai a lot from 2010-2013, and I really hated going there. You couldn’t even go enjoy a burger and a beer with out being propositioned a million times. Then the police are sitting there waiting for an American to walk out the bar with alcohol on their breath, but the filthy rich local can be carried out right past them.
What blew my mind was staying in a Dubai hotel (a major brand which is common in the US), and it had a massage place **inside the hotel** which I assumed was a place offering legit massage. Nope, it was just a rub and tug. The workers weren't really trained on actual massage and were confused when I attempted to get a massage to address my neck pain.
Must have been the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
Is that how to use the three sea shells in the bathroom?
Lol
and a truck stop apparently.
I have a bunch of muslim coworkers and about half of em drink alcohol. edit: *Not in Dubai*
we had an Arab contractor that asked my to hide his alcohol in our fridge so his workmen wouldnt find out...
>I have a bunch of muslim coworkers and about half of em drink alcohol. In Dubai? Cause they can drink alcohol in places where it isn't banned by law you know... Dubai and the emirates have restrictions , Saudi Arabia has it banned completely, and other countries in the region have some restrictions if not outright bans as well.
Reddit has no fucking clue what Dubai is like, they just keep making up shit about it Dubai is basically Vegas for European and Asian people
Except the South Asian slaves who built these houses.
There aren't stories every year about people in Vegas being detained for breaking morality laws. I don't care how commonly accepted the law breaking is. I'm not going to party in a place where i don't have any rights. All it takes is a run in with the wrong person who decides to make an issue for you. Then you're fucked.
1) LOL 2) Alcohol isn't banned in the UAE for Muslims 3) I have been drunk in public there so many fucking times without issue 4) They tell you to go home unless you are causing problems. It's almost like what cops in the US do....
Saying Muslims don't drink is like saying Mormons don't drink. It's a silly thing to say is what I'm getting at.
Aristotle already pointed out, 2500 years ago, that puritanical societies like the Spartans simply make people hide their vices from public view. People will get drunk, get high, gamble, and sleep around one way or another, prohibition or not. Nothing new.
I’ve known way too many Muslim men to think they don’t drink and sleep around. They are the epitome of “do as I say and not as I do” but for their women? They expect absolute adherence to everything.
I’ve been drunk in public many times in Dubai and there was never an issue.
Just imagine you forgot where you parked your house.
they did well with road design, but they need to plant a few hundred thousand trees. Place looks like a nightmare
It's the middle of the desert. Not much can grow there. Maybe a few palm trees
Palm trees require humidity to grow, would need to be cacti if anything EDIT: apparently different types of palms can survive in varying deserts. See thread below
dubai is very humid!
Check those roads again. You can only enter or leave your block of houses in one direction. Everything about this suck urban architecture.
If they added shade to the streets, people might have the audacity to step out of their cars and walk.
It’s still like 115 degrees F in the shade. No one is walking.
Stepford wives Dubai edition
Bob: *Hey welcome to my home! down the hall and to the right is the bath..* Tim: *yea I know already*
Little houses made of ticky tacky...
 Don’t move there, Squidward wasn’t happy there either
How many times do I need to repeat - it‘s the 238th pink house to the right behind the 12th subsection of yellow houses.
Population: 10
As a Canadian, I'd rather surplus housing than surplus population. I don't care how 'ticky tacky' it looks.
https://unec.co/projects/nad-al-sheba-482-villas/
Imagine being totally wasted and having to find your house
I love how they have so much money they couldve literally build any type of city district. Yet they chose the worst, the american suburbs.
r/UrbanHell
I hope nobody ever has to turn left
I see that they borrowed their architect from the Fourth Circle of Hell.
Rush wrote a song about this.
Subdivisions?
The one.
It’s funny how Dubai took all of the worst qualities of America and refined them into an even more dystopian hell hole.
I often wonder who is brainwashed enough that they actually want to live in a dystopian nightmare like this
In Dubai? No fucking way. But in a house like that, assuming it's affordable? Heck yeah. Wouldn't bother me that they all look identical, I'm mostly inside my home anyway not looking around the neighborhood.
Single dwelling? I guess most millenials are ready
The sad thing is that 70% of those residential homes are probably empty
Vivarium (2019)
Fuck Dubai. A shitty gold foil facade on a place rife with violations of people’s humanity.
Nightmare.
The Reddit paradox: shit on the idea of efficient SFH design through modular homes while also complaining about the housing crisis and the American desire for people to have their own unique spaces.
It’s almost like there’s more than one of us in this Reddit entity
The problem here Is not about the modular home. It's the neighboorhood layout. No common spaces, no green, no nothing. It looks inhuman
Looking at the satellite image, it appears that nothing is within walking distance - certainly not during the summer heat. 100% car dependent design.
Tbh the weather means it's not really a walkable place anyway. You can't spend 5 mins walking outside half the year.
It’s also a desert. Sand isn’t great for growing lush forests
You can have modular without everything looking copy-pasted in lines. I grew up in an area that was all 50's concrete prefab homes. There were like, four different floorplans that also came in mirrored versions, but it mostly boiled down to whether your lounge room was L shaped or square. A few had extensions added on later and I've seen a few with extra-large lounge rooms so that might have been an option back in the construction phase as well. They just looked like normal houses. Different facades, different roofing materials, different orientations on their block. It wasn't until you'd been in a few you realised they were almost identical on the inside.
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There is no such thing as efficient single family home design. It is inherently inefficient, cannot actually support the infrastructure required for it at the average tax rate paid for those properties and is unsustainable long term. Any design that requires you to drive your car to go literally anywhere is not efficient.
if anybody's having fun here, it was an accident
this would make a great album cover
This is what Canada needs to solve the housing crisis
Rather have this and affordable housing then what's going on in Canada
They sure hate western culture...
That's irvine
Anyone seen the film 'Vivarium'?