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Bioshock 2

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ShimSham wrote: »
    DeathPrawn wrote: »
    - What's up with the butterfly?
    I'm thinking that's a sign this game could take place on the surface.

    I was noticing that (the butterfly) my second watchthrough as well.

    Forar on
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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Idx86 wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Daemonion wrote: »
    That little sister was lookin pretty hot, am i rite? :winky:


    Anyone know where I can find a set-list for Bioshock's soundtrack, if there is one?

    [edit] All that awesome vintage stuff, I mean. Not the original pieces.

    20th Century Blues - Noel Coward
    Academy Award - Stanley Black
    Avalon - Django Reinhardt
    Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means you’re grand) - The Andrews Sisters
    Best Things in Life Are Free - The Inkspots
    Brother Can You spare a Dime - Bing Crosby
    Danny Boy - Mario Lanza
    God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
    How Much is that Doggie - Pattie Page
    If I didn't care - The Ink Spots
    It Had to Be You - Django Reinhardt
    It's Bad For Me - Rosemary Clooney
    Jitterbug Waltz - Django Reinhardt
    Just One Of Those Things - Lee Morgan
    Just Walkin' in the Rain - Johnny Ray
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea ) - Bobby Darin
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea) - Django Reinhardt
    Let's Fly Away - Lee Wiley
    Liza - Django Reinhardt
    Night and Day - Billie Holiday
    Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
    Please Be Kind - Django Reinhardt
    The Party's Over Now - Noel Coward
    The Waltz of the Flowers - Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky
    This Is A Changing World - Noel Coward
    Wild Ride - Faux Frenchmen
    World Weary - Noel Coward
    Wrap your troubles in dreams - Bing Crosby
    You're Getting To Be A Habit - Harry Edison Bing Crosby
    You're the Top - Cole Porter


    I was just thinking about how the music in BioShock was awesome and how cool that time period in America was. I think I'll be downloading some of that music tonight.

    You mean purchase.

    Or put on a Pandora channel.

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  • Panda4YouPanda4You Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Will Big Daddy still go AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?
    Oh, but didn't you hear the sound at the end of the trailer? :D
    Xtarath wrote: »
    I also think you should have more choice of melee weapons.
    I actually started playing through the game again on hard a couple of days ago, and was planning on a ninja/melee run but I just have too much ammo all the time, and the wrench is too dinky!

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  • Idx86Idx86 Long days and pleasant nights.Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Daemonion wrote: »
    That little sister was lookin pretty hot, am i rite? :winky:


    Anyone know where I can find a set-list for Bioshock's soundtrack, if there is one?

    [edit] All that awesome vintage stuff, I mean. Not the original pieces.

    20th Century Blues - Noel Coward
    Academy Award - Stanley Black
    Avalon - Django Reinhardt
    Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means you’re grand) - The Andrews Sisters
    Best Things in Life Are Free - The Inkspots
    Brother Can You spare a Dime - Bing Crosby
    Danny Boy - Mario Lanza
    God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
    How Much is that Doggie - Pattie Page
    If I didn't care - The Ink Spots
    It Had to Be You - Django Reinhardt
    It's Bad For Me - Rosemary Clooney
    Jitterbug Waltz - Django Reinhardt
    Just One Of Those Things - Lee Morgan
    Just Walkin' in the Rain - Johnny Ray
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea ) - Bobby Darin
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea) - Django Reinhardt
    Let's Fly Away - Lee Wiley
    Liza - Django Reinhardt
    Night and Day - Billie Holiday
    Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
    Please Be Kind - Django Reinhardt
    The Party's Over Now - Noel Coward
    The Waltz of the Flowers - Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky
    This Is A Changing World - Noel Coward
    Wild Ride - Faux Frenchmen
    World Weary - Noel Coward
    Wrap your troubles in dreams - Bing Crosby
    You're Getting To Be A Habit - Harry Edison Bing Crosby
    You're the Top - Cole Porter


    I was just thinking about how the music in BioShock was awesome and how cool that time period in America was. I think I'll be downloading some of that music tonight.

    You mean purchase.

    Or put on a Pandora channel.

    Sorry, yes purchase and receive by means of downloading my legally issued digital media.

    I forgot about Pandora! I'm gonna plug that in right now.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Idx86 wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    You mean purchase.

    Or put on a Pandora channel.

    Sorry, yes purchase and receive by means of downloading my legally issued digital media.

    I forgot about Pandora! I'm gonna plug that in right now.

    Django Reinhardt is probably the best artist seed for that

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Speaking of music in the game.

    The piano piece, "Cohen's Masterpiece" is great.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlu2z2gkhhI&feature=related

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  • Idx86Idx86 Long days and pleasant nights.Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    You mean purchase.

    Or put on a Pandora channel.

    Sorry, yes purchase and receive by means of downloading my legally issued digital media.

    I forgot about Pandora! I'm gonna plug that in right now.

    Django Reinhardt is probably the best artist seed for that

    Yep, exactly the sound I was looking for. I love it.

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  • DaemonionDaemonion Mountain Man USARegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Daemonion wrote: »
    That little sister was lookin pretty hot, am i rite? :winky:


    Anyone know where I can find a set-list for Bioshock's soundtrack, if there is one?

    [edit] All that awesome vintage stuff, I mean. Not the original pieces.

    20th Century Blues - Noel Coward
    Academy Award - Stanley Black
    Avalon - Django Reinhardt
    Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means you’re grand) - The Andrews Sisters
    Best Things in Life Are Free - The Inkspots
    Brother Can You spare a Dime - Bing Crosby
    Danny Boy - Mario Lanza
    God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
    How Much is that Doggie - Pattie Page
    If I didn't care - The Ink Spots
    It Had to Be You - Django Reinhardt
    It's Bad For Me - Rosemary Clooney
    Jitterbug Waltz - Django Reinhardt
    Just One Of Those Things - Lee Morgan
    Just Walkin' in the Rain - Johnny Ray
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea ) - Bobby Darin
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea) - Django Reinhardt
    Let's Fly Away - Lee Wiley
    Liza - Django Reinhardt
    Night and Day - Billie Holiday
    Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
    Please Be Kind - Django Reinhardt
    The Party's Over Now - Noel Coward
    The Waltz of the Flowers - Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky
    This Is A Changing World - Noel Coward
    Wild Ride - Faux Frenchmen
    World Weary - Noel Coward
    Wrap your troubles in dreams - Bing Crosby
    You're Getting To Be A Habit - Harry Edison Bing Crosby
    You're the Top - Cole Porter


    I want to marry you.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Daemonion wrote: »
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Daemonion wrote: »
    That little sister was lookin pretty hot, am i rite? :winky:


    Anyone know where I can find a set-list for Bioshock's soundtrack, if there is one?

    [edit] All that awesome vintage stuff, I mean. Not the original pieces.

    20th Century Blues - Noel Coward
    Academy Award - Stanley Black
    Avalon - Django Reinhardt
    Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means you’re grand) - The Andrews Sisters
    Best Things in Life Are Free - The Inkspots
    Brother Can You spare a Dime - Bing Crosby
    Danny Boy - Mario Lanza
    God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
    How Much is that Doggie - Pattie Page
    If I didn't care - The Ink Spots
    It Had to Be You - Django Reinhardt
    It's Bad For Me - Rosemary Clooney
    Jitterbug Waltz - Django Reinhardt
    Just One Of Those Things - Lee Morgan
    Just Walkin' in the Rain - Johnny Ray
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea ) - Bobby Darin
    La Mer (Beyond the Sea) - Django Reinhardt
    Let's Fly Away - Lee Wiley
    Liza - Django Reinhardt
    Night and Day - Billie Holiday
    Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
    Please Be Kind - Django Reinhardt
    The Party's Over Now - Noel Coward
    The Waltz of the Flowers - Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky
    This Is A Changing World - Noel Coward
    Wild Ride - Faux Frenchmen
    World Weary - Noel Coward
    Wrap your troubles in dreams - Bing Crosby
    You're Getting To Be A Habit - Harry Edison Bing Crosby
    You're the Top - Cole Porter


    I want to marry you.

    I knew you'd want to.

    You see, I'm clairvoyant, and looked these songs up within the last month to add them to my Pandora seeds. Luckily, Major Nelson is more precognitive than I and posted them last November.

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  • CohsaeCohsae Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Django's version of Beyond the Sea is fantastic. That's the one that's playing in the lighthouse right?

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  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Well, let's explore the butterfly for a minute. Assuming that it's foreshadowing the BIOSHOCK 2 story, is the idea then that something beautiful is emerging from Rapture's underwater coccoon ?

    Ryan's claim that Rapture was rebuilding itself is true, that the city itself has become a self-perpetuating organism so that it somehow repairs its own leaks and is heading towards the surface as something "beautiful" ? Who knows what form the survivors have taken by now, after decades trapped in the doomed city ? Some sort of ADAM-ravaged, half-human half-aquatic mutant ?

    I think the guess that we as the player will be an adult Little Sister is correct.

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  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Or, as grown Little Sisters, we are the "children" of Rapture. But there were male and female splicers, what if they re-produce, what sort of offspring would they create ? Perhaps those "bad children" have repaired Rapture and are raising it towards the surface to exact a horrible revenge, and as the "good child" we must stop them ?

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    May want to update your sig, Fairchild. Civil War was like, a whiiile ago.


    Also: HOLY SHIT! I didn't actually expect them to be working on a sequel so shortly after the PS3 port. Damn, well then again with all the delays from the first Bioshock, it will probably be quite the while before seeing another one. :3

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    So will this one actually be fun to play or no?

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ShimSham wrote: »
    Speaking of music in the game.

    The piano piece, "Cohen's Masterpiece" is great.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlu2z2gkhhI&feature=related

    Seriously, where can I download that and upload to my zune?

    EDIT: Oh nvm, the official soundtrack.

    Lucky Cynic on
  • Stevo 22Stevo 22 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    So will this one actually be fun to play or no?

    I feel like the gameplay was decent to an extent but it just felt a little shallow - as if it was a repackaged version of something I had already tasted before. The setting, while nice, isn't exactly the first time we've seen people try to create their own world based on human experimentation and development. Bonus points for maritime atmosphere but were we supposed to pretend plasmids weren't just knockoff biomods?

    That said, I thought they already announced the newest Deus Ex, but this works too I suppose.

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  • bakatrinhbakatrinh Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I can't believe you guys didn't know Bioshock 2 is getting released on the 28th of October. They just renamed it to Fallout 3.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Stevo 22 wrote: »
    So will this one actually be fun to play or no?

    I feel like the gameplay was decent to an extent but it just felt a little shallow - as if it was a repackaged version of something I had already tasted before. The setting, while nice, isn't exactly the first time we've seen people try to create their own world based on human experimentation and development. Bonus points for maritime atmosphere but were we supposed to pretend plasmids weren't just knockoff biomods?

    That said, I thought they already announced the newest Deus Ex, but this works too I suppose.

    I don't know, I found the entire game being very supportive of experimenting on your own with the plasmids. Every couple levels I was getting new active plasmids to test out and it kept my original run through quite fun.

    Lucky Cynic on
  • Stevo 22Stevo 22 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Stevo 22 wrote: »
    So will this one actually be fun to play or no?

    I feel like the gameplay was decent to an extent but it just felt a little shallow - as if it was a repackaged version of something I had already tasted before. The setting, while nice, isn't exactly the first time we've seen people try to create their own world based on human experimentation and development. Bonus points for maritime atmosphere but were we supposed to pretend plasmids weren't just knockoff biomods?

    That said, I thought they already announced the newest Deus Ex, but this works too I suppose.

    I don't know, I found the entire game being very supportive of experimenting on your own with the plasmids. Every couple levels I was getting new active plasmids to test out and it kept my original run through quite fun.

    I guess a major issue I had was that the plasmids themselves - while fun and diverse - didn't lend to entirely unique instances when applied in variation. With something like Deus Ex, there were a lot of situations where I knew after completing a task that the options they gave me would lead to a ridiculous amount of 'replayability.' I'm not saying every game needs to have 'replayability' to be 'art' but for $60 I'd like some effort in this category.

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Panda4You wrote: »
    Will Big Daddy still go AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?
    Oh, but didn't you hear the sound at the end of the trailer? :D
    Xtarath wrote: »
    I also think you should have more choice of melee weapons.
    I actually started playing through the game again on hard a couple of days ago, and was planning on a ninja/melee run but I just have too much ammo all the time, and the wrench is too dinky!

    wait one moment

    if you put on most of the wrench tonics the wrench literally becomes more powerful than a tommy gun

    Nuzak on
  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ShimSham wrote: »
    Speaking of music in the game.

    The piano piece, "Cohen's Masterpiece" is great.

    Meh, it's a little noisy for me. While I understand and very much appreciate complexity when it's someting I actually want to listen to I much prefer well done simplicity. But then I'm kinda weird like that. :P

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Cohsae wrote: »
    Django's version of Beyond the Sea is fantastic. That's the one that's playing in the lighthouse right?

    Yes. Bought'd so hard.

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  • MongerMonger I got the ham stink. Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ShimSham wrote: »
    Speaking of music in the game.

    The piano piece, "Cohen's Masterpiece" is great.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlu2z2gkhhI&feature=related

    Seriously, where can I download that and upload to my zune?

    EDIT: Oh nvm, the official soundtrack.
    Holy fuck!

    I've never heard the entirety of that. You just made my day, sir.

    Monger on
  • Panda4YouPanda4You Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Nuzak wrote: »
    if you put on most of the wrench tonics the wrench literally becomes more powerful than a tommy gun
    Maybe I'll have to test it out again; gotten a few more melee tonics since last I tried the wrench. The splicers got sooo much tougher in Hephaestus though.

    I hope we'll see some swimming in the water-gameplay in BS2. Dunno how it would mesh with the console controls but I certainly wouldn't mind some "outdoors" moments from this old gem.
    Oh, and please limit the number of ranged weapons you can carry! Or at least have that option on Hard or something.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    HerrCron wrote: »
    Xtarath wrote: »
    W2 wrote: »
    HerrCron wrote: »
    I grew to hate bioshock. Ohh the game was fine, but being the only irish person in the entire office having to spend my days being asked to say "splicers" "adam" or "would you kindly" made me rage.



    They better have some english guy dragging you by the nose from A to B for the first 60% of the sequel, i need some revenge.

    Jaysus, tere's sploicers everywhere! Would ye koindly grab a crowbeaaar or somethin'?

    This made me laugh much more than it should have.

    Welcome to my life.
    Seriously, every fucking day for a month. Then for about a week everytime someone else gets around to buying the damn game.

    Fuck you bioshock, FUCK YOU.

    BRB, suddenly need to call my friend Davy O'Martin

    (yes that is a real friend of mine and that is his real name)

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  • BakerIsBoredBakerIsBored Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I have yet to play the first Bioshock. I've debated with myself whether or not I should pick this up via Steam for a while now, but always decided I already have tons of games I need to play/finish. (like GTA4, DMC4 and MGS4.. but now I've beaten all but DMC4)

    Well now Bioshock is coming to the PS3... with a new mode, eventually DLC, and trophy support (got to collect em' all!) I've also read that the PS3 version has been updated with higher-res textures (to help fill up more of the BR disc) ... There's no way around this game, I have to play it, but would you guys recommend the PC version if you had a 7800GT and a single core CPU or to go with the PS3 version (I don't own an X360) I've read that all the bugs in the X360/PC version still got ported / not fixed in the PS3 version... What’s more important.. Mouse&keyboard support or trophies? haha

    (I couldn't find a Bioshock 1 thread, so I'm posting here o_O )

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Did none of you see Contact?

    "Why build one for the price of one, when you can build two for the price of two?"

    Because it costs twice as much?

    I seriously hate that quote.

    Undead Scottsman on
  • RocketlexRocketlex Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Fairchild wrote: »
    Well, let's explore the butterfly for a minute. Assuming that it's foreshadowing the BIOSHOCK 2 story, is the idea then that something beautiful is emerging from Rapture's underwater coccoon ?

    Ryan's claim that Rapture was rebuilding itself is true, that the city itself has become a self-perpetuating organism so that it somehow repairs its own leaks and is heading towards the surface as something "beautiful" ? Who knows what form the survivors have taken by now, after decades trapped in the doomed city ? Some sort of ADAM-ravaged, half-human half-aquatic mutant ?

    I think the guess that we as the player will be an adult Little Sister is correct.

    This gave me the awesome/stupid idea of the second game having Rapture become a sort of organism in itself, and rise from the sea as a city-sized steampunk-mecha-cyborg monster thing.

    Actually, I don't care how stupid it is, I want to see this.

    Rocketlex on
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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Did none of you see Contact?

    "Why build one for the price of one, when you can build two for the price of two?"

    Because it costs twice as much?

    I seriously hate that quote.
    You're already spending a shitload of money, so why not spend some more?

    Seriously, it's like if you're spending infinity bucks then you can easily justify spending more bucks.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    You get that it's a mockery of government spending and a joke right?

    I also just looked through a few online scripts of Contact and it doesn't seem to be in the script.

    That's odd :|

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Did none of you see Contact?

    "Why build one for the price of one, when you can build two for the price of two?"

    Because it costs twice as much?

    I seriously hate that quote.
    You're already spending a shitload of money, so why not spend some more?

    Because you may not have enough money for two if the first already cost a zillion bucks; nor would you necessarily need a second.
    You get that it's a mockery of government spending and a joke right?
    Yes, and it works as a joke, but I see it used a lot as reasoning for story speculation, where it bugs the hell out of me. It's a simplistic answer that ignores a lot of common sense. Like I said, it's a great joke but it's not terribly realistic.

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    But enough of that I guess. I just have a stick up my ass.

    Undead Scottsman on
  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    You get that it's a mockery of government spending and a joke right?
    Yes, and it works as a joke, but I see it used a lot as reasoning for story speculation, where it bugs the hell out of me. It's a simplistic answer that ignores a lot of common sense. Like I said, it's a great joke but it's not terribly realistic.

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    But enough of that I guess. I just have a stick up my ass.

    Oh, well, yeah if someone is using it in a serious sense then yeah that's kind of annoyingly stupid.

    HappylilElf on
  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Did none of you see Contact?

    "Why build one for the price of one, when you can build two for the price of two?"

    Because it costs twice as much?

    I seriously hate that quote.
    You're already spending a shitload of money, so why not spend some more?

    Because you may not have enough money for two if the first already cost a zillion bucks; nor would you necessarily need a second.
    You get that it's a mockery of government spending and a joke right?
    Yes, and it works as a joke, but I see it used a lot as reasoning for story speculation, where it bugs the hell out of me. It's a simplistic answer that ignores a lot of common sense. Like I said, it's a great joke but it's not terribly realistic.

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    But enough of that I guess. I just have a stick up my ass.

    Because if we had multiple Pentagons we could tesselate them?

    Crimson King on
  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Did none of you see Contact?

    "Why build one for the price of one, when you can build two for the price of two?"

    Because it costs twice as much?

    I seriously hate that quote.
    You're already spending a shitload of money, so why not spend some more?

    Because you may not have enough money for two if the first already cost a zillion bucks; nor would you necessarily need a second.
    You get that it's a mockery of government spending and a joke right?
    Yes, and it works as a joke, but I see it used a lot as reasoning for story speculation, where it bugs the hell out of me. It's a simplistic answer that ignores a lot of common sense. Like I said, it's a great joke but it's not terribly realistic.

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    But enough of that I guess. I just have a stick up my ass.

    Because if we had multiple Pentagons we could tesselate them?

    turn washington into the geometric city of my mathematical dreams

    square in the square hole, baby

    Nuzak on
  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The quote from Contact was
    First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

    If anyone here had even seen the movie they would realize that he was referring to the two machines that were built.

    In the movie, his own company is the leading contractor for constructing the machine, which is how he is able to have full control over who takes the passenger seat in the 2nd machine instead of a public vote like in the first one. He chooses Jodie Foster's character.

    The point being, shit happens. Big companies and governments know that shit happens. Almost predictably in fact. The first machine gets blown up by a terrorist. Oh shit, now what do we do? Oh well it looks like Hadden Industries built a second machine for the same cost. Disaster averted.

    If Ryan built Rapture he needed to have contingencies. You spend money developing the technologies and planning shit so you want to utilise that expenditure as much as possible. That's why you build two cities, or three or fuck knows how many. Because you spent so long figuring out how to build it that you spend much less time actually on the construction.

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  • wabbitehwabbiteh Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    So Ryan is basically one of those men who has a second family his first family doesn't know about.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    The quote from Contact was
    First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

    In the movie, his own company is the leading contractor for constructing the machine, which is how he is able to have full control over who takes the passenger seat in the 2nd machine instead of a public vote like in the first one. He chooses Jodie Foster's character.

    The point being, shit happens. Big companies and governments know that shit happens. Almost predictably in fact. The first machine gets blown up by a terrorist. Oh shit, now what do we do? Oh well it looks like Hadden Industries built a second machine for the same cost. Disaster averted.

    I thought it was a big "fuck you" to the US, because he chose her. Being fucking smarter than the other candidates might have had something to do with it.

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited October 2008

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure there is a sister statue of the Statue of Liberty in Paris.

    Also, Bioshock 2, fuck yeah.

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  • SceptreSceptre Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    JamesDM wrote: »

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure there is a sister statue of the Statue of Liberty in Paris.

    There is.

    There is also one that was built in Vegas.

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  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Sceptre wrote: »
    JamesDM wrote: »

    I mean, why not build a second Pentagon or Statue of Liberty?

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure there is a sister statue of the Statue of Liberty in Paris.

    There is.

    There is also one that was built in Vegas.

    I could say "there's also one in my pants."

    But I'm not gonna.

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