ARR Grass Support Thread

[Zozor]

There's been a lot of hilarious noise about the grass in the ARR (2.0) shots.

I want to address this right now, because I love the grass.

This is exactly the kind of grass that I want in an MMO. It hugs the ground and looks around in all different directions. I perceive the grass from every angle.

I believe Carl Sandburg said it best in the following poem:

Grass

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

--
That's the end of the poem. I just want you all to let the grass be the grass. Let it be what it is.

The ARR grass is the grass grown from the corpses of a thousand NPCs. It's grown from the rotten flesh of the old realm, and we are reborn in its gentle difference.

It's not the same as grass that you'll find on the Wii, because it's not the grass of children but the grass of the fallen.

Contemplate the grass as you lounge in the beautiful new world in ARR. Tread upon it as you explore the realm reborn.

If you don't understand what I'm saying... then you hate kittens.

[Starlord]

I'm about to shove grass in someones behind is what I am about to do! @.@.

[Zozor]

Stop hating kittens.

[AsterBarnivere]

Please shut up.

[Zozor]

No one has a sense of beauty and grandeur any longer... such a shame.

People can complain all day but no one seems to be able to look at this stuff from a different perspective.

The grass is great, and I'm supporting it.

[Kiote]

I loves the "Grass" even though it is actually a nice blend of various types of vegetation...

[Kiote]

Enough with this grass this, grass that. the grass is the flat green stuff on the ground, and most of that isn't even grass, it's moss and fallen leaves if you would actually look closely at the texture. Forests in general simply do. not. have. grass. Grass as we know it requires quite a bit of light, which is why it's generally found on plains. NOT forests.

Those things that are sticking up out of the ground? yeah, that's not grass. a closer inspection shows a veritable plethora of plant life, however. I see daylilies, ferns, snapdragons, mallow plants, calla lilies, what might possibly be saint john's wort, generic bushes that are probably hawthorns not in bloom, some heavenly bamboo (not an actual bamboo but a barberry), mexican feather grass (not something you find in your lawn, it's a large clumping grass with feathery tufts), some morning glory vines, and some grape hyacinths. That's just the stuff i can see clearly enough and remember from my job at a garden center several years ago.

Nowhere, NOWHERE in that foilage is there what you would call "grass" in the sense of the stuff you would find in a lawn. No fescues, no st. augustine grass, nothing. In a forest there is fierce competition for light and nutrients, and grass simply requires too much water and sunlight for it to thrive in a forest. That is why you find them in plains. And gridiania, last i checked, is not a plain.

The clumping of the foilage is very natural, with the majority of it clustered in sunnier areas, and the ones clustered near trees tend to all be on the same side, (the side that isn't constantly in the trees shadow.)

Seriously, some of you people need to go on a nature hike and see what a real forest looks like. Let's just end this thread now, and stop picking on the poor flowers and bushes, please? They don't like being called grass.

I LOVE this post.

[Masamune1004]

I'm afraid you're a bit late bud, the grass fad is over.

[Zozor]

I'm afraid you're a bit late bud, the grass fad is over.

That may be so but it shouldn't prevent me from expressing my opinion about the grass.

Also I think that poem about grass is ace. No one reads poetry any longer.

And hey Kiote I love that post too ^^;

[yoshikwalla]

Arr, grass!



/support