Comments by "Game Hero" (@Game_Hero) on "The Aesthetic City" channel.

  1. A bit disappointed there aren't any efforts to present these results to the public of Utrecht, local newspapers or to local deputies.
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  2. Don't forget the human, there is space for everyone.
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  3. We shouldn't generalize, brutalism can work, this very channel has shown exemples of it. It's how it's designed and thought out.
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  4. if they are to be ashamed of something, be of history, not of present german culture and identity, you might even help prevent these dark chapters of history from happening again by doing popular decisions like this making people love their democracy and not alienating people desire for belonging, connection to their surroundings and reassurance by continuity, otherwise it would help lead them right into the arms of autocracy simps again.
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  5. Love your videos as a subscriber because they are considerate and don't dehumanize those you're criticizing, showing your views are not some reactionnary dogmatism but a well-thought inclusive philosophy. Would really love one on when modern architecture or building materials DO work and especially why, since you mention it sometimes but I'd really like you going deeper into it.
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  6.  @Zaabi  no? Simply a rich culture staying true to itself and cherish its history while evolving with the times rather than cutting its roots for snob rich people.
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  7. @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva you all with the big conspiracies. There is no conspiracy or kahoot, they simply don't think anyone cares.
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  8.  @Zaabi  I thought we were talking about Oman? What is so emirati about mega western malls for expats and tourists? Umm Al Quwain is authentic emirati culture. The political dissidents of the peninsula know a thing or two about things and people left behind in the oil boom for the rich and powerful vanity projects appropriating the trajectory of culture for themselves.
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  9. Have the profoundly different Québécois architecture here instead, its our rich distinct national architectural history, our rich distinct culture that should be represented here in its whole. The one of British North America/Upper Canada is yours to keep and cherish.
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  10. also need less quarries as he stated since you don't need iron or extra limestone.
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  11. Half as interesting is getting a PTSD reaction from this comment
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  12.  @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva  Can you read again my comment? Not sure you understod what I was trying to say. Dogmatism as in "new=bad and old=good, destroy everything modern", that's dogmatism and this sort of tribalistic mentality for everything really pollutes the internet, which is why I praise the video for not doing it and having nuances. It makes it more convincing.
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  13. If they aren't gated off to outsiders, to a playground that is often a glorified lawn in a miserable place. Have seen it, can attest.
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  14. it can work, just not with residential buildings
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  15.  @david_walker_esq  I get it, but this is really limiting having only one era represented (with not that much of an architectural baggage to be frank it seems compared to other eras in québécois architectural history) compared to all we have to offer as a nation. It'll be like if english architecture was victorian and nothing else. It might have been your golden age of architecture and good enough on its own for you guys, but the same can't really be said for us. Also there wasn't a "respectively" so I assumed it was both for both, my bad.
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  16. @gary Here comes the start of what these ways of thinking you mention start from with that "lunatics" bit : dehumanization. They have good reasons to feel ashamed those things went on to happen (there's only two centuries to chose from here, not that hyperbole "tons of them") by those who's descendants founded your country, it still happened on your land and pretending there is nothing shameful about it, denying it ever happened or lessening it is unamerican utter disrespect for the human victims of these moments and not taking responsability to honour their memory since its your turn in 2024 to do so, both of these things seems against all the values that your nation say they care about and is thus a negation of them. Not to forget it can still teach things today about when people chose to turn their right of others to humanity and functional empathy button "off", even in spite of their claimed ideals, calling today to be consistent in them. Pride is not a salad bar where you can chose what you want and ignore what you don't, you have the accept the whole baggage of what you chose to be proud of, and if it's blindly an entire country from A-Z, it's the whole of it and that's not something I'm sure you'd be comfortable with for good reasons (unless you're proud of the bad things of the past too, which seems not like you to do). And here's the thing, just blaming a government for things civilians can do as well is nothing short of cowardice and not taking act of responsability for what happened in respect of the human victims, which happened also after the founding of your country. Who elected these governments, these officials? "Normal" people. Who constituted that army? "Normal" people. Who chose back then to do nothing about, even being opportunistic about it, even if they knew it happened? "Normal" people. No ones gets and should get a pass, like you yourself said, even if I'm not sure you realize that you didn't apply it all the way with your gov pointing fingers thingie. If some similar evil happened today, but which didn't have any symbol, no mustached guy at the top, no armbands and 1930s military uniforms, no parades, a different kind of vibe and way of wording things, would you still recognize it for its actions and call them out, oppose them, even if it targeted those you don't like? "Lunatics", perhaps? Youtube, stop censoring my comments.
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  17. What would a Bengali version look like?
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  18. a good environnement is good for humanity and its wellbeing.
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  19. since when rebelliousness was a vice in a democratic society? I think it has purpose.
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  20.  @josephpiskac2781  The city of Dubai will not survive, the rest of the UAE surely.
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  21. 0:11 The one on the top right actually kind of look good, has a "aurora borealis" or seawave feel to it.
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  22. Isn't it an abandonned settlement of stone houses somewhere? Or is that where it takes its name from?
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  23.  @daelra  so continuing cultural architectural traditions and by doing so, caring about your culture, is wrong?
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  24. The UAE, sure, but Dubai? Less so.
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  25. liberty to make life worst for everyone else. I'm sure people didn't have any liberty before the car and couldn't go where they wanted (spoilers, they could).
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  26. Haven't BetterHelp been denounced as a scam or am I confusing it with another sponsor?
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  27. you already have it, it's even mentionned in the video. Some of your rural towns still are like this even.
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  28. what's the problem with that but allowing more diverse music? I mean I like "classical" (not sure if the term includes romantic era compositions) as much as the next guy but I couldn't live without my synthwave, city pop, Beatles and jazz. Tastes change, the tastes behind Mozart were already changed from the polytonal chorals of the 12th century and that wasn't a bad thing wasn't it?
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  29. What would be the traditional architecture and architectural cultural heritage to take from in Brazil?
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  30.  @simonestreeter1518  I'd gladly tell you, but my comments keep being censored by YouTube, sorry. Edit : Because a small group of students in a relatively marginal movement all things considered with an image of b a c k w a r d n e s s and anti-intellectualism doing some visions for fun on a neighbourhood of one city without real consequence on future plans doesn't sell. Don't forget the human, there is no conspiracy, we're just not all on the same page of what we deem important. Plus, like another commenter said, there is a method to catch their attention and sell their pitch that just visibly wasn't taken, so it's quite normal it didn't work.
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  31.  @simonestreeter1518  Again, censorship makes me need to do some gymnastics Edit : To mimic the Polar Express : "Selling" can mean multiple things, such as "Convincing", "Persuade", "Wowing", making people on board. Are social connections "heart" enough for you? You don't know me, so I'll demand you please stop with the assumptions about what values being taught to me. Just saying, being the one concerned, you are wrong about me. My comment might have not reflected it as much as I'd like, might have failed to "sell" (see above) you on who I am. Moving on. The romanticists were all intellectuals, as do the philosophers, philanthropists, artists and scientists that made Europe great, including architects like those of the Art Nouveau, Neogothic and Art Deco trends, even those from the Renaissance, prime exemple of an intellectual period, that people come from the world over to see. You shouldn't end (as this is where it leads it when one tries to forcibly reduce it) intellectualism on the altar of obscurantism with real human costs for mere vibes, least we repeat history's darkest chapters.
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  32.  @Wouter10123  Was talking about the US playgrounds. In that context, yeah, stranger danger runs strong over there, less so in the Netherlands where, as you said, these little playgrounds are everywhere.
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  33.  @dschmid8845  From my degree and own efforts. I know all part of that, didn't know East Germany, the 18th century conquest and assimilations efforts against Poland or the venturings in Africa were in the 1930s, you're teaching me something new. What you're not teaching me is how germany culture and identity is old and has many great things (hence my original comment would make no sense if you thought about it a little longer), because that is exactly what my comment was going for. When I say, be ashamed of history, it's to be ashamed in what there is to be ashamed in it, duh (if you don't blindly love everything about it like another dude here). History reffers to actions, not culture, it evolves along with it but is a separate concept for a reason.
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  34.  @resireg  Defending the nazis, what a hill to rest upon. Especially since the rest of the world didn't need that (so they didn't either) to recover out of poverty.
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  35.  @resireg  The rest of the world had other treaties and problems and yet all managed still to get out of it without being fasceests and without falling for imaginary takeovers from marginal groups. Autocracy is autocracy, don't fall for it, you're better than this.
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  36.  @cartercasias6318  I mean, are these actions good or not? If not, let them be called that, else it's relativism and you don't actually oppose them. If those actions made people back then live horrible lifes as a consequence of it, it's no different from now, same homo sapiens, same horrible consequences for the victims, then or now. It's sort of basically refusing to be brave enough as a nation to take responsability for it, like all brave enough nations can do. Unlike a certain country you mentionned in your last comment (that I can't mention else I'll be fed to the wolfes) which is the definition of cowardice on that point for not only denying it ever happened, but making it a point of national pride to deny it, betraying any sort of dignity and humanity as a result in what is actually an anti-patriotic act, soiling the honour of the nation, betraying any possible values it has for it wouldn't want that to happen to their own people. Being brave enough to say the past is bad is not "attacking" anyone, but a demonstration of the greatest form of national courage to be able to say the hardest thing and being rightfully applauded for that courage : "We were wrong, we're sorry, we're going to make up for what we've done and take responsibility for it without pointing fingers elsewhere for our own acts". Functionning empathy toward others is supposed to have been a thing since we became homo sapiens, not something "recent".
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  37. why? It's just an one-off for a few seconds for a hypothetical alternate Dubai. The dude even did the effort of visiting in person to have his own footage.
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  38.  @ehjo4904  not all and there's a more niche movement to do the same, slow fashion, that wants to the same thing but with fashion
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  39.  @ekszentrik  or the third camp, people who did use it, had fun for personal purposes only, but still get the point why people criticize the use for commercial use versus human beings.
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  40. idk, republicanists may have a point. As do people not wanting a monarch oceans away. But I'll agree with him on urbanism.
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  41.  @daveweiss5647  That's a very american-centric experience that does not reflect necessarily elsewhere. I mean it was a mayor, a municipal government, behind nearly all the exemples of this channel (like that french and icelandic one). One must also understand this push for beautiful architecture is fairly recent compared to the previous century of its opposite, so it doesn't have to do much with government as to what the people elect them for and more "there wasn't much time to change course". Doomerism won't help anyone, especially not the right to criticize the government who often makes these decisions to follow the modernist trend so it can change course like it has and did happen. Also, all the money saved by having a president instead can go to finance beautiful architecture and other stuff like education instead. I'm not sure North Koreans agrees that their reality is being on the same level of "being listened too" as in Switzerland. It's positive optimism for change and making governments more democratic by popular checking and correcting that'll make these changes happen and having at least the actual choice to put them out if they don't that'll make the world better.
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  42. Pour les avoir, il faut voter pour eux
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  43. It reminds me of a west african architect I forgot the name of who do architecture just like this. He was tasked by a country in West Africa (probably Ghana or Senegal, but I don't remember) to make a new school for a small village in the countryside and he fully rejected not only modernist designs for local designs, but made it his duty to have the community participate in the construction of the school itself as he rightfully stated not only was this the way buildings were made in village of this kind (and it was mud bricks, so nothing too technologically complicated for the locals to do), but helped the community become attached and find connection to it through their contribution, making it a true beloved center of the village with crowds on its ground even outside school hours (and indirectly through that, attachment and value giving to education in general). One of his anecdotes throughout his projects in Africa was how he constantly had to explain to officials that doing the modernist way in such climates would require tons more of ventilators and air conditionning to make it comfortable to people in it, putting extra strain on the not top-of-the-game electrical grid of countries in developpment. Valuing local culture and the diversity that comes through that, sustainability (even in poorer countries), ecology and community building, that seems all the goals claimed to be valued by architecture schools, don't you think?
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  44. I love Pierre's voice!
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  45. what is that comment supposed to mean?
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  46. ​ @garyjackson3531  Here comes the start of what these ways of thinking you mention start from with that "lunatics" bit : dehumanization. They have good reasons to feel ashamed those things went on to happen (there's only two centuries to chose from here, not that hyperbole "tons of them") by those who's descendants founded your country, it still happened on your land and pretending there is nothing shameful about it, denying it ever happened or lessening it is unamerican utter disrespect for the human victims of these moments and not taking responsability to honour their memory since its your turn in 2024 to do so, both of these things seems against all the values that your nation say they care about and is thus a betrayal of them. Not to forget it can still teach things today about when people chose to turn their right of others to humanity and functional empathy button "off", even in spite of their claimed ideals, calling today to be consistent in them. Pride is not a salad bar where you can chose what you want and ignore what you don't, you have the accept the whole baggage of what you chose to be proud of, and if it's blindly an entire country from A-Z, it's the whole of it and that's not something I'm sure you'd be comfortable with for good reasons (unless you're proud of the bad things of the past too, which seems not like you to do). And here's the thing, just blaming a government for things civilians can do as well is nothing short of cowardice and not taking act of responsability for what happened in respect of the human victims, which happened also after the founding of your country. Who elected these governments, these officials? "Normal" people. Who constituted that army? "Normal" people. Who chose back then to do nothing about, even being opportunistic about it, even if they knew it happened? "Normal" people. No ones gets and should get a pass, like you yourself said, even if I'm not sure you realize that you didn't apply it all the way with your gov pointing fingers thingie. If some similar evil happened today, but which didn't have any svastikas or sickles, no mustached guy at the top, no armbands and 1930s military uniforms, no parades, a different kind of vibe and way of wording things, would you still recognize it for its actions and call them out, oppose them, even if it targeted those you don't like? "Lunatics", perhaps?
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  47.  @cartercasias6318  the descendants of these things do rightfully call for shame, for they still deny with an unprecedented level of zeal and aggressivity (like, people calling them out not being alive anymore levels of it, building monuments to denying it levels of it) they ever happened or lessened them, calling their ancestors liars or responsible somehow for other people doing the choice of destroying them when they could have not done that, centered exactly on that "harming their existence" nonsense argument. There is no political game in having the simple demand of stopping to teach a fairy tale version of what happened and take responsability and maturity for what happened, like brave people do. There is no conspiracy, only trauma asking to be healed by recognition and amends.
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  48.  @resireg  And so did every democratic system prevented communist takeover, without the ultimate form of infantilization to their people as stripping away their political rights and agency which you are enjoying right now.
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  49.  @IcelanderUSer  It is unbelievable, yet we must lead by exemple, show them that, unlike what they say, they are not dehumanized, or risk lowering ourselves to what we criticize in others.
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  50.  @LETMino85  And you rightfully should be proud in how you talk about it, you're a model country and is on point about others thinking liking their culture means blindly liking all the history behind it even if the actions depicted go against the current values of your nation (if this very comment section isn't an exemple of it, I don't know what is)
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