HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

Thanks for cleaning those posts up, Kentona.

@Cap: I originally was going to shoot for a shorter time, but the track I wanted to use sort of necessitated it. I noticed that a lot of other trailers for games and movies were clocking in around two minutes, though, so I figured I didn't totally overstep my bounds.

@Sarge: Thanks, man, that's a hell of a compliment!

@StayAwakeGames: Right on.

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EDIT: Also I read somewhere that a lot of the statues are actually mass produced garbage. So it's probably okay to destroy most of those.

EDIT2: https://twitter.com/taber/status/897292040790323201 is where I read it. Quite interesting.

Man, I was having a conversation with my roommate about this and posited this possibility. I knew that confederate statues came up after the confederates lost (because who makes statues during the middle of a war), so I said something along the lines of, "I bet these statues were mass produced and sold to racist city councils by a huckster." So, I thought I would look this stuff up after seeing this post, Shinan, and thought I'd share a few points:

1) The statue that got knocked down was actually in Durham, NC. The Lee statue in Charleston is actually not mass-produced and will probably be preserved.

2) The statue that got knocked down is indeed mass produced. Here's some info on it: http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/118/

3) LockeZ, if you're interested in preserving art, you can find an identical statue here, here, or here, for example.

4) These statues, and many others, were commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early twentieth century. This group pushed that old "the civil war was for states rights" mantra that all the brainwashed dipshits back in my hometown still say.

So, yeah, I agree that statues shouldn't be torn down like that (if anything, it's bad PR to see a bunch of people looking like anarchists, and that would distract from the terrible PR the other side is getting now). I'd prefer that we actually discuss the gross history of these statues as a country and preserve a couple of them, melt down the rest and convert that into art of another form--like the freed slave statue Roden (good to see you back, by the way) suggested. But, like, this statue wasn't a big loss.

Wow, I had no idea! I'm feeling oddly patriotic now.

Yeah, bringing the harp down a bit will work as well; the important thing is the difference between the dynamics. Like I said, though, I'd just tinker with that one, as the mixing is pretty close to where it should be.