Let's start a town/country/colony.
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I want to live in a Combine Citadel-esque building minus the malevolence and can fold into the shape of a 12-meter tall cubist pop-bottle for security. And it has adaptive camouflage on the exterior so it can be any colour. I want to be neighbours with Khell and Mobuis, and Stompy & PurpleRain live across the street.
And there will be free donuts and coffee/tea/hot chocolate for all at Afternoon snack time, which goes without saying that they were scientifically built to not get fat.
And there will be free donuts and coffee/tea/hot chocolate for all at Afternoon snack time, which goes without saying that they were scientifically built to not get fat.
"Keep it down ya bloody kids!" (Shakes fist)Anarchemitis said:
My ultimate city would be a run down destroyed necropolis where the last human survivors have to fight for their lives against giant rats, mutants and zombies.
(Wow, I've been playing way to much Fallout)
Me and my friends actually planned one out once. It would be a floating "island" starting off small. Just enough for two or three little huts. Then, it would just grow as time went on. It would be built out of empty soda bottles and bamboo to connect them. Dirt would be put on top, and smallish trees and plants would be grown. It was inspired by some guy who made a floating island for himself out of some absurdly large amount of soda bottles (I think somewhere in the area of 2 million or something. Could be way off.).
Also, something like Rapture was a thought I had, only instead of failing miserably, make sure it doesn't. That's the tricky part I think. Plus, whereas Rapture was just the buildings surrounded by ocean and connected by tubes, put all the buildings beneath a dome which is just a bunch of TV screens that display whatever the sky looks like via a camera somewhere facing up. Include some grassy areas to sit and work or talk, some little rivers that run in circles, I think it would be nice. It could be powered by currents under the water, and food could be grown there. It would be completely self-contained and once you were there, you couldn't just leave. Have regular submarines (or whatever could survive the depths) go up to the surface and swap people who no longer want to live down there, or who want a little vacation to see people.
Also, something like Rapture was a thought I had, only instead of failing miserably, make sure it doesn't. That's the tricky part I think. Plus, whereas Rapture was just the buildings surrounded by ocean and connected by tubes, put all the buildings beneath a dome which is just a bunch of TV screens that display whatever the sky looks like via a camera somewhere facing up. Include some grassy areas to sit and work or talk, some little rivers that run in circles, I think it would be nice. It could be powered by currents under the water, and food could be grown there. It would be completely self-contained and once you were there, you couldn't just leave. Have regular submarines (or whatever could survive the depths) go up to the surface and swap people who no longer want to live down there, or who want a little vacation to see people.
As a car guy first and gamer/computer nerd/audiophile second through fourth in... some order (not that I care, I know what's first, that's what counts) I say whatever city anyone wants to design, throw in this street design: no street signal lights, no stop signs, and no roundabouts. Insanity, you say? No, just not fully explain yet. In my area, we have far to many railroad tracks. Some genius a while back decided that while rebuilding the roads, make the road an underpass and the railroad track an overpass. I say this should be done at every major intersection in this Utopian paradise we're looking to design (with gentle flowing curves to get from one road to another should you wish to turn). As for the further insanity of no lights or stop signs, I call for the underused "yield sign". No one's coming your way when you go to turn? Just keep going. That's bound to boost fuel efficiency, or, if we go all electric ([a href=http://www.teslamotors.com/]Tesla![/a] Woo!), extend your battery range because you're not slowing/stopping/accelerating back to speed over and over and over...
Okay, that might not work with the barge-based country proposed by meatloaf231 (and, some time back, Dogbert), but so long as I can get where I'm going with a minimum of delay, I'll be a happy camper.
Okay, that might not work with the barge-based country proposed by meatloaf231 (and, some time back, Dogbert), but so long as I can get where I'm going with a minimum of delay, I'll be a happy camper.
I'n the centre of the city around where all the important peoples houses there will be
a Pac-Man Shaped lake. Stompy, Purple Rain, Darth Mobius, Khell, Anarchemitis, Larenxis and Jalil can all live in the mouth. While on the Eyeland there is my house and all the friendly gaming critters like Spyro, Kirby and Sonic live and there is a free Seadoo port for people on the island and near the aforementioned houses
how's about that?
=)
Edit: Whoops can't forget Ultrajoe
a Pac-Man Shaped lake. Stompy, Purple Rain, Darth Mobius, Khell, Anarchemitis, Larenxis and Jalil can all live in the mouth. While on the Eyeland there is my house and all the friendly gaming critters like Spyro, Kirby and Sonic live and there is a free Seadoo port for people on the island and near the aforementioned houses
how's about that?
=)
Edit: Whoops can't forget Ultrajoe
Plus i can Blow my Conch Shell all day long on my Island and it will serve as city wide announcements that another great game has been released
I just gotta blow the dust off my MGS4 conch someday
I just gotta blow the dust off my MGS4 conch someday
Construction layout plans? Look up "Amsterdam", then go on a nice trip though Nelson, BC. That's right, a nice little high-density oldy-type city on a hill with lots of hippies trees.
No bad Jenkins Bad, theys endandered critters, your shooting range can only have one penguin a breeding season
well, anyone who is proposing a large scale 'utopia' (if thats what we're all getting at), should realise that it is impossible. people don't EVER want to be locked into a structured civilisation where they cannot do what they want. as good as the intentions behind such a society might be, it couldn't work because people need to be able to do what they want. if they can't because of the society they live in, they'll break the laws of that society.
so maybe utopias don't work because of the basic 'free' nature of people. in any case, it would become less of a utopia and more of a ph41ltopia pretty quickly.
so maybe utopias don't work because of the basic 'free' nature of people. in any case, it would become less of a utopia and more of a ph41ltopia pretty quickly.