This is clearly Enlil-zaqar's long-lost apprentice Lugal-ibila, polymorphed into a pathetic familiar after his regrettable service in a ritual to Ningal
@cmkosemen@TheNotoriosLARJ classically it would have been some kind of translucent metal but realistically you would be using screens. Also the entire thing is best built inside a mining cavity within an asteroid for protection from solar radiation and debris, so any view of space is piped-in anyway.
@giantgio I think it's a sum of parts phenomenon. Local tropical destination for reference, improvements in water tech, new millennium optimism, and then appeal becoming a memetic trend. Dev teams would take work vacations around the world for reference material back then
In Nepal, by India. What did he whisper in your ear? Like a brocken spectre, I saw your rainbow body disappear on a mountain path. Where did you go? Now I'm dead and gone but you're not forgotten. So I came back to wonder: where did you go?
@Crypt0_Facts@nosilverv For exceedingly challenging existential problems, the likelihood that a modern solution will meaningfully improve on a past solution is very low.
@Crypt0_Facts@nosilverv Having followed them for a while I'm taking the charitable interpretation, but if it was just a basic appeal to mysticism I would certainly agree with you.
@Crypt0_Facts@nosilverv If I remember correctly it's called "recognition that we're roughly biologically the same as the ancients and that a meaningful solution in the past will retain its value in the present but may be occluded by cultural lensing"