The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I'll have you know the thirties are a man's best years!
Isn't past your bedtime? Git outta here, the grown ups are talking!
I will hit you with my walking stick you impudent little whippersnapper!
Sorry I still need to eat dinner. I missed the early bird special at Old Country Buffet.Isn't past your bedtime? Git outta here, the grown ups are talking!
GasBandit
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That's deranged.
I didn't realize this was becoming a series.
I can almost hear the "Simon's Cat" song during the opening bit.
--Patrick
Tsunami watch canceled for Hawaii per NWS.
Last night Supergirl used a shot of Houston to represent National City. Strange, normally the cut scene would be a city with several cgi buildings added in...
I had to stop and rewind because I am not used to seeing home on national TV.
I had to stop and rewind because I am not used to seeing home on national TV.
GasBandit
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I always fancied Williams (née TransCo) Tower to be an obvious supervillain hideout. It's a skyscraper. Not downtown, way out in the 'burbs where it's rare for another building to be over 4 stories tall.
GasBandit
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fade
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There is a Galleria Mall, sure, but Galleria is a whole borough with lots of buildings. I turned around and snapped this wider shot of Williams Tower out my office window just now:
[DOUBLEPOST=1516736547,1516736381][/DOUBLEPOST]Not saying it wouldn't make a great supervillain HQ, but I just wouldn't call that the suburbs. Just being nitpicky.
GasBandit
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That is significantly more built-up than I remember it being (it has been decades), but it still sticks out like a sore thumb.... or like a supervillain hideout. It just screams "I'm not going to be downtown with all the other skyscrapers, I'm gonna go be tall over here, where nobody else is tall, because then everybody will see I'm important-er!"[DOUBLEPOST=1516736725,1516736608][/DOUBLEPOST]
Meh, it's outside 610. It's technically burbs.[DOUBLEPOST=1516736844][/DOUBLEPOST]Also: TIL you can get Williams Tower from the workshop for Cities:Skylines
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709136207
GasBandit
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But the tower's outside.
I mean, technically, 610 runs right through the middle of the Galleria neighborhood.
fade
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Way back in the early 90s in college, my friend and I used to have this stupid fantasy that the top floor of this abandoned, shuttered art deco hotel in Charleston, SC (where we lived) would make a great superhero HQ. The windows would be all busted with flowy curtains and pigeons and crime labs, and the whole hotel had this haunted feel. The hotel was by far the tallest building around, and it looked like a piece of Manhattan had somehow teleported itself to SC.
Some developer bought it a few years later and renovated it. Fortunately they kept the deco, haunted feel, and it's a really nice building. It's called the Francis Marion. Here's some shots:
Some developer bought it a few years later and renovated it. Fortunately they kept the deco, haunted feel, and it's a really nice building. It's called the Francis Marion. Here's some shots:
I received my first 2000 like comment on reddit.
I used to work on the 52nd floor of the transco. I was in the elevator one day when a tornado touched down a few blocks away. Feeling the building sway was frightening enough, but the elevator banging back in forth in the shaft like the clapper of a bell was heart-stopping.
TIL where fade works. And now that I think about it, someone at your company might be business acquaintances with a family member. I'll have to ask the when I have a chance.
I think my cat is trying to frame my dog.
This morning I found one of my dog's toys [hedgehog] next to my bed. The dog is not allowed in the bedroom, and I did not see the toy when I went to bed. I don't think the dog put the toy in the room while locked into the kennel.... dun dun DUN!
Funny, this looks almost exactly like two buildings on Broad St. in Philly. If you hadn't mentioned SC, I would have sworn it was one of those.Way back in the early 90s in college, my friend and I used to have this stupid fantasy that the top floor of this abandoned, shuttered art deco hotel in Charleston, SC (where we lived) would make a great superhero HQ. The windows would be all busted with flowy curtains and pigeons and crime labs, and the whole hotel had this haunted feel. The hotel was by far the tallest building around, and it looked like a piece of Manhattan had somehow teleported itself to SC.
Some developer bought it a few years later and renovated it. Fortunately they kept the deco, haunted feel, and it's a really nice building. It's called the Francis Marion. Here's some shots:
I don't have 2000 total...
Dave
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What? No link?[DOUBLEPOST=1516755133,1516755006][/DOUBLEPOST]
I have 128,000 or so. But I've been there 8 years now.