Pic 144: The Warehouse Floor

This week I am featuring images from the warehouse which was just introduced into the Dating in a World on Firegame this past week.  There are only 3 pics in the game, the high resolution PNGs.  Above is a new experimental picture I will be posting on https://arianeb.com this weekend to lead an essay.

I've been studying some philosophy about what happens now that we are exiting the post-modern era.  We can go one of two directions as a society: 1. become increasingly cynical and nihilist, which is the dominant direction for the last decade or so (and we are already bored of it), or 2. embrace the two grand narratives still left behind by post-modernism: Art and Science, based on two misunderstood human natures creativity and curiosity.

That immediately got me thinking about adding this concept to Dating in a World on Fire.  Right now art in life is dominated by "pop culture" aka the "Culture Industry" where all the movies and tv shows have similar plots and all the music sounds the same.

The fix is to embrace "folk culture" or independent art creation, and that's what an essay I am writing is about, but I want to show what that is like in Dating in a World on Fire, by showing how the characters regularly engage in creating their own art.  The problem is I have to create all this new creative art work that the characters make, without using AI if I can, and this is the first example.

Above shows a mural that the workers at the warehouse painted on the wall.  Alex, who has yet to appear in the game, is shown on the left looking at it.  The character is from Bangladesh and is responsible for the writing.

Speaking of Alex...

This week on the https://arianeb.com site I am featuring this updated version of a picture first posted here on Patreon two months ago (See "Pic: 136"). This version, I changed their hair to a faux mohawk style.  But I decided to try a more conventional hair style below just to see if it looks better:

What do you all think?