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I'd love to hear about people's hyperfixations here.
I got really into the Titanic when the submersible was in the news. My favourite facts were:
A big issue was that staff were used to putting lifeboats in the sea and people in the boats. These you put people in the lifeboats, then dropped the lifeboats 70 feet in the pitch black into water so cold you'd die in minutes. This slowed things down a lot, not all boats were used and the final one went out upside down.
The survivors were all put through a testimony days after going through this horrendously traumatic event. Not only is that traumatic and awful, but its horribly damaging to their memory and testimony.
Many survivors said how horrible it was seeing the greenish water gradually creeping up the deck. It was this sense of impending doom, and a really profound memory for them.
I have more but those were my favourites
Oh wow I had no idea survivors were forced to give testimonies that quickly. That's awful.
I know
What are yours?
Right now I'm fixated on the histories of certain music genres, particularly industrial music and doom metal.
"Industrial" as a name came from the record label (Industrial Records) that Throbbing Gristle, an art collective/band from the late 70's, created. They're widely understood to be the first industrial band, but the roots for it go way back to the 40's with musique concrète, a style of music that made use of recorded sounds and noises as part of musical compositions. The album Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed in 1975 also had an influence on the genre: the entire album is composed of looped and edited sounds rather than traditionally-recorded instrumentation. It's one of the first major albums to treat the recording studio as another instrument, rather than just a means of getting a band's sound recorded.
Sounds interesting
I got back into Gunpla after a little while. I built a few kits from The Witch From Mercury, now I'm fully invested in GQuuuuuuX. I've increased my backlog of kits by a bit. Working on the MGSD Strike Freedom now, MG Sazabi Ver Ka is next.
And new new Beyblade X products from Takara Tomy just shipped.
God, my hobby is collecting more hobbies, and I'm so frustrated with myself for it.
Join us at !gundam@ani.social if you haven't already. There might be a dozen of us!
Cool! I know nothing about these kits but building them sounds rewarding. How long do you spend on a kit, normally?
Depends on the complexity of the kit. I like to take my time and enjoy the building process but not get bogged down with doing full paint jobs. So, anywhere from 2-20 hours. The PG Unleashed RX-78-2 was amazing, took me over a week to finally finish it, but I haven't done any decals yet. Someday.