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*This comic was about France in 2021, but this style seems much more widespread.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

the artist is worried about current architectural stylings being samey, yes? and contrasting it with older styles, yes? and those older styles are not only from different areas, but different eras, yes? and people have been complaining about this since the tudor era, yes? stop me if i'm missing a step.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Stop!! The step you're missing is that the point isn't about when those different styles first emerged, but the fact that there were regional differences in style, as you correctly identified but missed the point of. It is irrelevant whether the differing styles emerged simultaneously or not: what matters is that they differed by region. The current style does not differ by region. This is the point the artist is upset about. Its nothing to do with the trend being different visually, its about the trend being homogenous across all regions, which is different than before, yes?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

but it's not. the "alsacian" style is what basically every house in every hanseatic german city looked like at the time, all around the baltic sea. the black roof shingles and blue paint of bretagne were both imported from england and scotland at a time when scotland exported shingles to all of western europe.

take it from someone who lives in a place where houses are traditionally painted red based on the popularity of building with brick at a point in history, these are all anchored in time rather than place. it's clout-chasing and keeping up appearances all the way down.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Your heroic & unwavering commitment to missing the point is admirable, even inspiring. Never change.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 8 hours ago

i addressed the thing in the reply, did i not? what's left after that, other than the "things are worse now"/"RETVRN" shit?