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Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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#172If you like brutalism, you might also enjoy the Quake Brutalist Map Jam 3, which released last month: https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/quake-brutalist... My favorite map is ‘One Need Not Be a House’ by Robert Yang, which was inspired by Louis Kahn's "brick brutalism" masterpieces in Bangladesh and India, as well as contemporary level design like The Silent Cartographer. The artist writes about their proce…
Neat! I was big into Quake years ago. This looks like something I could waste a weekend on.
Are these all single-player maps? Are there any that are designed for (or would at least be suitable for) 1-4 player deathmatch?
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#173This is quite tasteless… a betrayal of brutalist honesty. And the dildo thing is plainly disgusting. Let’s all be gentlemen and keep that sort of thing off the Net.
First day on the Internet huh?
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#174And yet that laptop stand is not even the slightest bit slanted, one of the crucial details. I could simply take a book and put the laptop on top of that, to get the same ergonomic features. I am aware that ergonomic use is not the main point, but it would certainly not have hurt to consider that angle at least a little bit.
That would have destroyed the brutalist cred.
Use a random cement brick instead of a book, then.
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#175I don't like it, from a pure brutalistic view point this obviously doesn't make any sense, it isn't practical and it doesn't make any effort to create a shape that is esthetically pleasing. The urban decay is even more outrageous, the whole appeal of urban decay is that it is "real", it's the thinking about all of people that went through the same structure throughout the years. Of cause it doesn't mean you can't mak…
Something that would be useful in my case is a monitor stand stand. Does anyone know why almost no current monitor can be raised so that the upper edge is at eye level? Is it due to incompetence among the current breed of designers? Quite a few of my colleges have a stack of books beneath the monitor stand.
I bought this Hyper HyperStand some years ago:
https://techaeris.com/2020/11/01/hyperstand-review-solid-por...
It's perfect: nice looking, highly functional, beautifully designed, and collapsible.
$29.99.
Alas, discontinued.
Perhaps eBay?
Edit: I just found a tricked-out version on eBay here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/226769239456?_skw=Hyper+HyperStand+...
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#177I read every comment. What HN can be at its best.
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#178Summarily ruined yet again by massive British sockets requiring removing 25% of the volume.
Brits build their homes around the sockets, not the other way around.
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#179This is beautiful. Definitely beats the minimalist "cardboard box" stand. Bravo. I wouldn't want to move it though.
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#180I'm not an art theorist but I think the decay makes it something other than brutalist IMO