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Why play with roller-coasters when you can play with transit infrastructure?

There's an USset addon with Boston & Maine and MBTA equipment.
 
Watching "Batman Begins" for first time (and drunk, of course). Have never seen the trilogy.

Has anyone in the world ever done an analysis of the architecture? "Gotham" is obv. based on NYC (Manhattan) but stands on its own. There's an awesome monorail and "Wayne Industries" is a '40's stone edifice - what else?
 
Gotham is an amalgamation of a lot of cities. But Dark Knight is Chicago. And Dark Knight Rises is NYC and Pittsburgh.
 
The Gotham of the first Dark Knight movie was based on Chicago, but was more fantasy than reality, heavily augmented with fictitious elements. The extensive monorail system is a one example of those elements. For the second movie they decided to take a new gritty, reality-based approach to Gotham, firmly rooting the city in unmistakable contemporary Chicago. In the third movie Gotham inexplicably becomes contemporary NYC.

In the DC Comic's Universe I always thought Gotham was their version of Chicago and Metropolis, Superman's home, was obviously NYC.
 
Look at this douchebag, showing up in New Bedford with a fucking bowtie and pocket square like he's a Harvard boy. He's one crested blazer short of a Halloween costume.

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Well, 2 down, 1 to go. Didn't like Dark Knight any better than Batman Begins.

It wasn't the reason, but the lack of any style to the design and architecture was disappointing. The Tim Burton movies were at least imaginative in making Gotham look the way it did.
 
In the original comic, Gotham City Hall was based on Union Terminal in Cincinnati. They use it as a museum today, but here's an old pic from prior to renovation:

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I've only been on Rt 2 once, maybe twice in my life. Maybe not even once coming 'inbound'. But today I took the 84 bus roundtrip to kill some time. Man... there is something really cool about the way it rolls up on those hills. And the view from Park Ave (I think it was?)? Damn...
 
I used to live 3 blocks from Route 2 in Arlington, always a fun ride and great view.
 
Boston at 7.5 foot flood depths, what a "storm of the century" will look like by 2050:

(In other words, it's a retreat to Boston's colonial geography)

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czsz said:
Boston at 7.5 foot flood depths, what a "storm of the century" will look like by 2050:

(In other words, it's a retreat to Boston's colonial geography)

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If you build a barrier system then it shouldn't be that bad , and how would the Charles River flood that bad its dammed...
 
Hutchison said:
Lucky's for brunch in Tremont if you haven't done it yet. It's hard to see any stabilization when all the neighborhoods are so isolated from each other. I like w. 6th and e. 4th but thought they were filled with dbags. Same with coventry.
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Thanks for the suggestion. As it turns out my guys went there a few days back and they say it's damn good. I skipped out in order to sleep in, but considering I'm one of those types that will eat breakfast food any time of day I'm sure I'll end up there soon enough.

And yeah, W 6th and E 4th are overrun with douches, although I'd say E 4th is a bit less so.
 
PLEASE GOD stop making movies about Boston gangster. There are gangsters. In Boston. They're Irish. OKAY, WE GOT IT.
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LOL. It's like what happened to our sports teams in the eyes of the nation some 5 years ago. STAHP IT!
 
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