Random Thoughts Thread

[Hobie-wan]

Our houses are made from wood because wood is cheap. If you purchase an older home it might have been built with brick, but these days you can put up a wood house pretty quickly and inexpensively.

Well it depends. "Brick" houses are still wood frame, just a layer of bricks outside wood and insulation. Where I was going to school in Florida, there were lots of houses made from cinder blocks.

[pepharytheworm]

Our houses are made from wood because wood is cheap. If you purchase an older home it might have been built with brick, but these days you can put up a wood house pretty quickly and inexpensively.

Well it depends. "Brick" houses are still wood frame, just a layer of bricks outside wood and insulation. Where I was going to school in Florida, there were lots of houses made from cinder blocks.

You can find tons of homes throughout the US made of cinder blocks. They usually are older though and in rundown neighborhoods.

[Hobie-wan]

You can find tons of homes throughout the US made of cinder blocks. They usually are older though and in rundown neighborhoods.

Ah. They aren't a thing here on the Texas coast and the west coast of Florida is the only other place I've spent enough time to pay much attention to house construction.

[Cronozilla]

The way a house is built in the united states has a lot to do with where it is and the regulations of the area. Not to mention what builder is doing the construction.

[Erik_Twice]

Again do Greeks not use wood in building? Usually only homes here have wooden stairs. Your houses only have concrete stairs?

Most stairs around here are made with a steel frame supporting bricks and concrete and then given a marble or slab finish. Wooden stairs are rare in modern buildings.

What shocks me about American houses is how energy-inefficient they are. You need these huge boilers just to keep the house warm and there are no double windows on sight meaning the heat leaks out of every room through them. Weird

[ZeroAX]

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You do realize mostly the public places were made to last, just like here. Again do Greeks not use wood in building? Usually only homes here have wooden stairs. Your houses only have concrete stairs?

Yes all Greek houses are made of bricks and cement (with a little marble in places for aesthetic reasons, mostly on the stairs and windows). I think the only house I've been to with wooden stairs has been my grandfather's and even he regrets not having built it out of cement.

Here houses are also built to last, and usually passed on to your children after you die. Even if they catch fire the house can still survive intact.

[ZeroAX]

Greek houses.

If I were a millionaire, I'd like to buy a lovely Greek villa. There's some beautiful houses there. Good weather too.

Now would be the best time to invest since prices has collapsed due to the crisis.

But you better look through some Greek websites to buy directly from the owners/builders to get a better price.

[SNESdrunk]

I really enjoyed Egoraptor's Zelda Sequelitis video and I'm so happy to see someone look at Ocarina of Time with some objectivity for once. But... he's missing a ginormous point about the original Zelda game and it's bothering me.

I hear a lot of people give the "Back then, they didn't over-explain stuff, they just threw you in and you had to figure it out yourself" talking point. That's REALLY over-romanticizing things. People actually read instruction books back then, and the one for Legend of Zelda was critically important, because the game was more or less incapable of explaining stuff adequately. Plus Nintendo Power had a gazillion subscriptions for a reason.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Yeah people who talking about how cryptic older games were have a point, but also tend to forget that they came packaged with fat ass instruction booklets, hint books, and even maps.

[AppleQueso]

retro gamers over-romanticizing gaming's past you say?