{"id":917,"date":"2022-04-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:31:25","slug":"how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/features\/how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"How games imagine the past and future of solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy_62681e5d9e075.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy_62681e5d9e075.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy_62681e5d9e075-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn the north tower of Castle Wewelsburg in Germany&#8217;s Alme Valley there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamestwining.com\/learn-more\/the-black-sun\/the-black-sun\/\">a pillared chamber with a sinister design on the floor<\/a> &#8211; a mottled, marble circle with two outer bands linked by 12 zig-zagging runic rays. This is the Black Sun, laid down in the 1930s at the orders of Nazi Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler. The Black Sun was part of Himmler&#8217;s efforts to, essentially, devise a grand RPG backstory for the Third Reich: it links Nazidom to the sun heraldry of the Merovingian and Frankish empires, presenting Hitler&#8217;s reign as the completion of a mythological narrative centuries in the dawning. It&#8217;s also an occult symbol that is still in vogue among alchemists &#8211; and far-right activists &#8211; today. Quite how much credit Himmler gave the occult is debated &#8211; according to some, he fancied himself the reincarnation of the 10th century Saxon King Heinrich I &#8211; but he certainly understood the sun&#8217;s power to dictate reality, treating its Nazified emblem as the gravitational centre of a new Aryan society and history.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/how-games-imagine-the-past-and-future-of-solar-energy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How games imagine the past and future of solar\u00a0energy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}