On: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th ...

[bulbosaur123]

Made by a Russian who grew up in the USSR?

Reasoning:

https://floor796.com/data/misc/kvass.jpg

https://floor796.com/data/misc/kin-dza-dza.mp4

Too obscure.

[thrway_blue123 → bulbosaur123]

I noticed several references to Russian pop culture in there, post-Soviet included. A fun project for sure.

1990s cartoon: https://i.imgur.com/wR4vISL.png

Several references to the same comedy show from the 90s: https://i.imgur.com/a0ACpoo.png https://i.imgur.com/tyE5l2d.png https://i.imgur.com/LLatEnI.png

The Caucasian bride (1960s comedy) https://i.imgur.com/RA3DBKX.png

Russian adaptation of Pinocchio: https://i.imgur.com/XJHwhhO.png

Tom & Jerry clone from the Soviet era (with a wolf and a rabbit): https://i.imgur.com/l9STeSD.png

There were a couple I wasn't aware of, but it was obvious from the imagery they were Russian. Like this one (lol):

https://i.imgur.com/VnLyLOq.png

This one also seems Russian, but not sure what it's for (maybe the "cyber Russia" shorts on Youtube): https://i.imgur.com/yRXrAj5.png

There is also one from Belarus (?) with Gordon Ramsay I never saw before, that one is really obscure: https://i.imgur.com/dvAVeuu.png

......and that's how you waste your first hour at work >_<

[js8 → thrway_blue123]

I think they should add Alice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Third_Pla...

[justsomehnguy → js8]

https://floor796.com/#t2r2,85,709

[illiarian → bulbosaur123]

Click "about" :) It is by a Russian guy with a link to how he makes it, in Russian

[bulbosaur123 → illiarian]

Nice, my intuition was correct :)

[madaxe_again → bulbosaur123]

I mean, in this case, yes, but I am neither Russian nor a child of the USSR, and I know both Kvass and Kin-dza-dza (which I introduced to my wife, who was born in a post-soviet state). Not all that obscure!

[throwaway675309 → madaxe_again]

Yeah I mean you can buy Kvass from any vending machine in Moscow, it's very common.

[bulbosaur123 → madaxe_again]

Interesting. You must be from a CIS (ex-USSR) country then.

[tomjakubowski → bulbosaur123]

Anywhere there are immigrants from Eastern Europe in the US, you can find Kvass. It's everywhere!

GP commenter may have had a friend from Belarus, or seen it on a store shelf and been curious

[madaxe_again → bulbosaur123]

Nope. Born in the U.K. to British parents. Got around a bit over the years, but never lived in an eastern bloc state.

[marginalia_nu → bulbosaur123]

> https://floor796.com/data/misc/kin-dza-dza.mp4

My headcanon is that this is from that time David Lynch defected to the Soviet Union with a briefcase full of film rolls from his ongoing Frank Herbert project. Дун was quite popular in theaters.

[tikhonj → marginalia_nu]

The whole movie is free on the Mosfilm YouTube channel with English subtitles, in case anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtZOl_QxvY

I'd definitely recommend it :)

[ChoGGi → bulbosaur123]

I've never been to Russia, and I love kin dza dza. It's up there with hausu.