Set It and Forget Us — Eternal Beach City
Added 2025-09-30 00:13:06 +0000 UTCDid you know the first automatic doors were actually invented in ancient Greece? I guess some guy named Heron rigged up a thing where you light a fire that would heat up the air in a thing with water in it. The pressure would then force the water into another thing that was attached to a pulley system for the door. Pretty neat!
Though I dunno how “automatic” I’d call that door. I feel like the time and energy it takes to start a fire has a much higher threshold than what it takes to open the vast majority of doors “unassisted”. Now, I’m sure whatever door they used this on was really big and impressive. But they could have just put a regular door there instead. And I bet there was also a regular door around the back. I find it hard to believe that the custodial staff was pulling out flint and steel every time they had to change a mop head. They had mops. Right? This didn’t make automatic doors before mops! Right?!
Of course, all this complaining about Heron’s inefficiency is coming from someone who built a miniature walk-in freezer for the background of a single comic instead of simply drawing it just because it “would look cool”. So, I guess we’re not so different after all, Heron. And yeah, your overly complicated door is pretty cool.
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Haha, “They Live” crossed my mind for sure. Man, what a great movie. And yeah! I can’t attach images to comments unfortunately, but I can link them here: https://imgur.com/a/18bLRzs for the technical aspects, it’s mostly stuff I printed out on cardstock paper, cut and folded up, used a decorative Christmas snow spay for the frost and hot glue for the icicles. Cut down some clear plastic that was used in the packaging for the glass door, and the little shelves and food on them I just bought on Amazon.
Ty Halley
2025-09-30 22:55:52 +0000 UTCThank you! It’s nice to have such meticulous obsession appreciated!
Ty Halley
2025-09-30 22:49:16 +0000 UTCWould love to see a behind the scenes of the freezer! The signs remind me of the secret billboards and messages from They Live. CONSUME! OBEY! SUBSCRIBE TO MY ONLYFANS!
Drakloryn (Andricus)
2025-09-30 21:59:57 +0000 UTCI personally love it. Your efforts are not lost on me, and that is an excellent story brought up, all tying together to make a satisfactory description
nowhere13
2025-09-30 19:02:54 +0000 UTC
