Month: January 2019

Wow, rough day for St. George.

– St George is put in Prison
– St George is Tortured on a Table
– St George is Tortured in a Cauldron
– St George is Tortured Tied to a Cross
– St George Survives Poison
– St George is Tortured Between Two Wheels
– St George is Tied between Two Posts and Sawn in Half
– St George is Dragged by Horses
– St George is Beheaded

Damn. Gotta work hard to be a megalo-martyr.

(I think the beheading is kind of redundant after the sawing in half thing, but hats off to the Romans for thoroughness.)

 

(This is from the altarpiece of St George at the V&A Museum in London.)

There’s a nice mini-exhibition on some social housing projects in the UK at the V&A Museum at the moment.

This fact is pretty amazing: “In the mid-1970s nearly half the population of England and Wales lived in council houses”

But as we know… “with the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 the housing sector underwent rapid privitisation. Local authority architects’ departments were disbanded, public land was sold off, and millions of council homes were bought[…]”.

This also looks nice.

“Walden, a game is an exploratory narrative and open world simulation of the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau during his experiment in self-reliant living at Walden Pond. […] players are surrounded by the beauty of the woods and the Pond, which hold a promise of a sublime life beyond these basic needs.”

https://www.waldengame.com/

When I was a kid my Mum got me and my brother a game for the Amstrad called “Osprey!”

“The object of the game is to allocate wardens to help the ospreys successfully nest, rear young and survive the hazards that threaten them.”

Very sad to say that to my like 5 year old self it just wasn’t as fun as Harrier Attack, based on the Falklands War, but I love her for trying.

mobygames.com/game/osprey