did I ever post the boulder room
the idea is, it's a room where you go to appreciate the boulder
@Alexis I love how there's grass around that boulder. It's almost like the boulder needs to be planted in dirt, and have deep roots and stuff.
The Boulder Is Alive
@zatnosk It felt important to me that the boulder not simply be removed from whatever its previous location was, but that it would be implanted in a small, reasonable recreation of where it's from.
Like a zoo animal, but It's A Boulder.
@Alexis My headcanon is that the room, and the entire building, was built around the boulder, and the boulder have been in that exact spot since the last ice age(*).
(* my arctic-adjacent climate bias is showing)
@Alexis I had the exact same reading of this this time as the first, with the boulder in question being The Boulder from Avatar
@Alexis *the Boulder voice* Are you here to appreciate The Boulder?
@InspectorCaracal ...Wait, is that character a goof on The Rock.
@Alexis courtesy of my spouse:
"Ten years later..."
@Alexis @InspectorCaracal As I understand it, they wanted The Rock to voice The Boulder but he was unavailable so Mick Foley did it instead.
@Alexis this idea rocks
@Alexis
I am very much enjoying The Boulder Room
@Alexis finally, boulder is getting the respect it deserves
@Alexis c-can i sit on the boulder...
@root Sitting on the boulder is lightly discouraged by the presence of the chair, I think -- but if sitting on it is what you feel is the appropriate way to appreciate the boulder, yes, absolutely.
@root Basically I think anything that a park employee would not tell you off for doing to a boulder in a park is fine, as long as it's in the spirit of "appreciate the boulder."
@Alexis i see! yes, i would love and care for the boulder. not disrespect the boulder.
@Alexis artist tested, lizard approved.
@Alexis
What if it isn't that the light has been arranged to fall on the boulder, but that somehow the light makes the ground swell up into a boulder.
Perhaps the sign 'boulder room' doesn't refer to the room you sit in, but the one through the window: the room with the light that makes the boulders.
@Alexis aaah, yes. The boulder room. I could use a visit yo the boulder room about now..
@zatnosk Everyone deserves to have a boulder room in their life.
@Alexis this looks like a room I would design in Animal Crossing
@Alexis I was sure I had seen something like this and responded that it looked like an Animal Crossing room, and sure enough here's my reply.
I would also say it'd probably make a good Minecraft room.
@The_T Yeah, I have a boulder room in my Animal Crossing house.
Only seemed like the natural thing to do.
@Alexis just like a real house, I'm too poor to own an Animal Crossing house
@Alexis
Seems like the original concept for the meditation room at the UN headquarters.
I want my own boulder to contemplate now though...
@gamayun Ooh, I'd not seen that before, I don't think, but it's very much exactly what I was going for!
@Alexis I feel like I've been there
on the west side of Harathi Hinterlands or something
Boulder, you are valid.
@Alexis Consider the boulder. Contemplate the boulder.
room with 2 boulders
@Alexis the Bolder room
room with more boulders
@The_T A very thin room with a bunch of boulders in it: A folder of boulders.
this is the presentation the boulder room is from
google sheets link, because the original .key is half a gig huge: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xQB5CQia9WU3-WtDCbVFu-1nIRDkX-V7kEFVAdRCpPE/edit?usp=sharing
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