When I was a kid I wanted to live in a pod so fucking bad, but that's because the pod I was promised as a kid was a cool looking frutiger aero/solarpunk/Zoboomafoo open second floor inspired high tech living space for a single adult man, not a family trailer.But since they made living in a pod so fucking lame and essentially sleeping in a cement cube, now even if you have in your mind a very cool pod to sleep it, they automatically think it's lame.How cool would a pod have to be in order for you to consider living in one?I have other childhood dreams come true the wrong way:Self-driving cars, smartwatches and smartglasses, delivery apps, AI agents, streaming services.What about you?I'm afraid we friendless nerds won and got the world we wanted but it is twisted.
>>84663506This would be a good start.
I want to live in a hillside. Like 15+ft of earth all around and at least 8ft of earth on top. Kitchen is completely seperated from the living space, seperate air supply and venting. Spa is completely seperated from the living space, seperate air supply and venting.Monkeystyle is fun too. Like have a bar or rope to climb up into the sleeping hole about 8' above the living space as the only access. Something like tatami all over the floor with comfy pillows and stuff, no uncomfy furniture, just walls lined with shelves and maybe a low table. Set up for anime from the comfort of floor level or hidey hole level.Sleep hidey hole approximate dimensions of 10' wide, 12' depth, maybe 6'6 ceiling height from the sleeping surface.Living room beneath hidey hole, maybe 15x30, 12x24, something like that.Kitchen needs to be able to function as a kitchen, 17x20 is probably big enough.Spa is a center vestibule. Off one side is a room for the toilet and a sink, 5x8 is probably sufficient. Off to the other is a shower, bathtub, and maybe a sauna or steam shower 8x12 is probably enough. The center vestibule itself is whatever, just a place for the vanity, clothes, washer/dryer, linens closet 8x12.The cost difference by going bigger is very little because materials and labor are the easy part. It's the finish that is murder on wallets. This is of course assuming you don't want to live in a $20,000 cardboard box that costs $500,000. Design and building have to be done by yourself to keep things reasonable.This should be doable for $80,000~1,200sqft, most of the budget being appliances and stuff like fancy stone. The kitchen is sneaky, restaurant quality is good enough for most people and costs about a fourth of what shitty builder grade kitchens do. Even high end kitchens are lower quality than restaurant grade though, so it's a good way to save a lot. Save premium materials for the spa and living room.
>>84663506I liked the idea of living in a pod too. It was an autism thing for me. Being alone in a small space just felt comfortable. Meanwhile if I was alone in a big empty house, I'd constantly get paranoid that someone else was in some distant part of the house I wasn't in. Growing up as a kid, much of your life is already confined to a small room in your parents' house. By living in a pod you'd never have to grow up and accept more material responsibility than what you could fit in your pod. As a teenager this idea felt good to me. Seeing how shit the world has become at this point, I find it hard to expect to rely on society to meet my needs that I wouldn't be able to meet myself in a pod. If I expect to have a quality lifestyle I need to take more responsibility for what I consume, and that would require more living space to store the materials required to do that. I also really need to find good like minded people with different skill sets who I can rely on and who can rely on me. Complete self sufficiency is impossible I realize. The guys who go the complete other direction with the full self sufficiency larp are just as cringe as podfags. You should rely on other (good) people who you trust. You shouldn't just do everything yourself. The ideal would be a small self-sufficient community where each member plays a different role.
>>84663966Self sufficiency larpers are just being realistic. That's how it's been done for most of history, it's still the ideal system. It is less work than waging to buy food, energy, water, and shelter. And if all you want is food, energy, water, and shelter + internet it makes no sense to work more hours, work harder, and receive inferior quality on top of the extra time work
>>84664527>That's how it's been done for most of historyNot really. Even in hunter gatherer times people have always had communities and traveled in groups. Each person would have their own niche they would focus on and they would rely on each other to get by. Trying to do everything yourself isn't sustainable. It's bound to fail. Even if you can get by doing it your progeny won't. I think the ideal would be to have a small self sufficient community of about 50 people max who all have different jobs within that community. Therefore nobody takes on the entire burden and you can live a much higher quality life while still being independent from globohomo society. Something like the Amish is about as barebones as you can get and still have a functioning independent living situation.
>>84663506There's something about sci fi pods, megacities, and robots that is super comfyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9b59jM4Kb0
>>84663506Call me spiritually raped but I wouldn't mind living in a megabuilding minus the crime.
>>84665498>minus the crime.I feel like 99.98% of shit places in the world could be fixed with this simple trick
Boat podsGet a twin keel boat and dry dock the boat with low tide and get out for hunting and fishing.You can also get solar panels for them and desalination for fresh water from sea water at a rate of 15 gallons an hour with 10 watt power draw.Combined with starlink you could fish and drink water indefinitely at sea using solar and servicing the outside of the boat is easy along coasts.I've been drawing up my own boat designs but the idea is that you can get Arduinos or raspberry pis to power servo-motor winches and have a boat trim itself with autopilot. Also getting a diesel outboard that can run on coconut oil.
