one of the oldest and arguably the most important museum in Brazil is burning to the ground as we speak. home to the portuguese royal family from 1808 to 1821, the Museu Nacional stored fossils, meteorites, pre-historic human skeletons and a variety of artefacts related to natural history. it holds two centuries of latin & brazilian history and now it’s all gone.
some of the things that are now lost forever: the largest collection of egyptian artefacts in latin america; the skeleton of the largest flying reptile ever found in Brazil; the oldest human fossil ever found in the country, named “Luzia” (over 11.000 y.o) and other 20 million extremely important relics and researches just burned to the ground. never to be seen again.
thanks to our government, of course, who didn’t want to pay the museum the necessary funds to make the essencial maintenances since 2014 (which by the way, costed less than a supreme federal court judge’s sallary: R$520 in a year).
another sad instance where the state’s indifference towards culture and history becomes painfully obvious. this is a massive blow to our cultural legacy.
all that in our independe week. happy independe for us, brazilians, who just lost our history and culture in a fire caused by ignorance and indifference.
in case you’re wondering, this is what the museum used to look like:
this is what it looks like now:
thousands of years of culture lost. happy independence week.
“Authorities say the fire lasted for six hours, causing irreparable damage. To put it bluntly: it’s all gone. A meteorite, that can sustain incredibly high temperatures, was found intact. But other than that, there are apparently no other pieces left. It would not be an understatement to call the Museu Nacional the Brazilian equivalent of the Louvre or the British Museum.”
here is some of the international news saying on this, because most articles and videos are all in portuguese, u can check some of the news in english: (here *new york times*) (here *bbc news*) (here *le monde* for french speaking readers) (here *shorouk news* for people who speak arabian) (here *azteca news* for spanish) (here *corriere della sera* for italian).
it was a natural science and historic museum, there were all sorts of important researches and relics. all burned. this was our culture. our history. the first human fossil found in brazil (mentioned above, Luzia) was so important for science, since it proved that way before indigenous tribes existed in Brazil, there were black people.
this is the place where our first constitution was made and the declaration of independence was signed. our independe day is this friday. heartbroken.
Did you think Minecraft didn’t look enough like dick already? THEN LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HELLACRAFT.
Hellacraft is a Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff themed texture pack for Minecraft. It’s a total conversion - the big man hass not left any rock unturned in my quest to douse everything in jpeg artifacts, unnecessary application of the sharpen tool and blatant copypasting from google images. There are some things in this pack that honestly, I can’t even tell you what you’re looking at. That was kind of my metric for making this. I also can’t tell you whether this is a 16x or 32x pack, because frankly, I don’t know. Some textures are one, some are the other, and an unmodded copy of Minecraft seems to accept the whole thing without crashing, so I’m good. There seem to be a few texture glitches as a result (such as the nether being made entirely out of running water and your diamond armour being studded with clocks and compasses), but considering the theme of the pack, I’m going to roll with it.
For best results, restart Minecraft after loading the pack (just to see the Mojang logo) play through the game on Survival mode. If your eyes don’t just go on strike there and then, you can make fun games out of trying to figure out why one side of the pumpkin is made of lava, scouring deep mines for Geromy’s face, guessing what colour wool your dye will produce, and trying to find all ten items that make the Subway logo in your inventory! Wield DEUDLY FIREARMS and your trusty SORD… against monsters that you’re really not sure where their face went! For bonus points, turn brightness and FOV all the way up!
Installation guide for Windows and apparently Mac now I think:
1. Start > Your user thing > Appdata > Roaming > .minecraft > texture packs 2. Paste Hellacraft 2.0 - BLAPCK EDITOM into this folder 3. HOWAY
Installation guide for Linux:
1. Boot Windows partition 2. See Windows instructions
This may or may not change your framerate, I don’t fucking know.
Just in case anyone had forgotten this monstrosity I made 6 (6!) years ago here it is. The download link works but I don’t know if the texture pack still works so have fun kids!
Also @ anon who just asked to update it I demand you include the feature where a bunch of item’s icons are parts of the Subway logo when you line them up right but goddamn I cannot tell you what those items were supposed to be
hey uh just an anon here i just recently stumbled across your old as shit hellacraft texture pack, was wondering would it be okay if i . if i uh used some of the old shit to make an updated version for the most recent version of minecraft? i figured itd be polite to ask before actually making and releasing any shit lmao. sorry for this lengthy and weird ask
Anonymous
go for it good citizen, I sure as shit don’t have the time to update Hellacraft from version what was it, 1.8? There’s probably all kinds of mad shit they’ve added since then. I had pursued a policy of not updating it because the missing textures only made everything shittier and as a result made it even better but it probably just broke completely at some point.
whatever you do just make sure the pack results in an experience that’s only just barely playable
civilisation is counting on you
AYYYYYYYYY
shout out to @derpyhoof-blog for being follower #1000 on this uninterrupted stream of garbage that is my mod blog
technology related sensory memories from my childhood
sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper
rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo
The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint
Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked
The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass
The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover
The sound effects in kidpix
Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands
…God, it is so weird these things aren’t around any more. Cause it’s true, the sensations are so distinct. It’s bizarre to think about missing these tiny relics.
uh i really want a shirt so should i wait till you move the shop or just buy it.
Anonymous
i’ll let you know when i’ve moved the shop, the current one is still there for now
Anonymous
