Columbia Asylum

* See also Columbia_State_Sanitorium (a REDO of Infinite BS)
* See also INFINITE-BS_REDO
* See also Infinite_Stupidity
* See also Infinite-All_A_Dream
* See also PsychoDrama ( IF you want to graduate past Fifth Grade level 'Story' )
* See also Columbia_Cannibalism
* See also Tran-Orbital_Lobotomies
"Tears" warping minds, use of ADAM-based products, a Delusional Illogical Society, The Air was a bit too thin ...
Would it have been a More Interesting Game if 'Crazy' was the underlying theme ? They coulda had alot more fun with it, and not needed any excuse for BOTCHING how they ( the designers/writers ) could have that bizarre Columbian society. It was a warped American derived society, and that would explain it.
Ex - Comstock as more of a Charles Manson type ( Or closer to 'The Joker' ? )
Oops, too many extra animations required for less repetitive and more active and interesting inhabitants ... My Bad. ( There was only $100 mil spent on Production of this game after all ... AND possibly another $100 mil (estimate) on Marketing it ).
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"There's always a Latte, a Puppy and a Bridge ..." - Robert Lutece 
SO Apparently the Luteces discovered LSD ...
Though hundreds of huge expensive bridges would be natural in what we were shown in Floating Fantasy Columbia ( Maybe the Quantum Gnomes were used to build them all ??? )
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CalomelCalomel : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calomel#Medicine - Medicine with Mercury in it in Columbia ?? Comstock suffering from "Mad Hatter" Disease ... 
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Goin Outa Their Heads :
Real Statistic : Out of the US population, 1/248 of the population was in a State Mental Institution (in US) ~1945
So for ~40000(1958) peeps in Rapture = ~161 mental patients ( if meeting the typical ratio )
This of course was not including the ADAM-related cases.
Private asylums were very common ( go look at Picture Websites about 'Ruined Places' and see how many were mental hospitals ) and Rapture probably had a few. When the ADAM instabilities started happening in the mid 1950s, then it is possible that the Persephone facility when built had a large section dedicated to that purpose, as well as being a consolidated Jail and Prison and Exile Place.
Consider it might have been a much better/understandable game if Columbia was ONE BIG INSANE ASYLUM.
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== Alternate Reality - YES the Game WAS "All A Dream" ==
A far more interesting story (and Twist) would be Columbia being one big Mental Asylum. The Player being an inmate. No need for Faux-Science, and it serves as a valid explanation also for ALL the Faux-History and Faux-Religion that contaminated Infinite BS.
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==REDO==
Lets Do It Better ( Hardly an achievement, in retrospect ) - Columbia REDO :
* Steam Powered Wings ( Player freedom it is apparent that Levine&Co couldn't handle )
* Tesla Coil powered other things all over ( explains lack of wires everywhere )
* Lets maybe make Columbia a HUGE BOATOops, someone copied my idea already - See "Close To The Sun" game ( Ditch the QUANTUMSHIT(tm) as much as possible -- Oops, no 'Just go through a Tear' plot crutch possible any more ). "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" ( Hey, great name to toss in Namedropping was so much of the 'history' Infinite BS's writers used) ... He launched a 700 foot ship "The Great Eastern" in 1858 ( 35 years before 1893, and its size was not surpassed until 1901 - It would be available on the market cheap by 1892 ). 
A 'Big Boat' could be 'floating' on Lake Michigan for the 1893 Exposition. It Can still later use the 'Show the Flag Across the World' plot element of places adjacent to the Oceans at least ). IT Could, in later years, have become a floating Lunatic Asylum ( has to make money somehow to pay for itself ) -- Criminally Insane people are OK to shoot at in games, aren't they ???
 'The Lunatics Running the Asylumhttps://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+lunatics+are+running+the+asylum' would explain so much of the craziness they showed in Columbia ( as being allegedly 'normal' 1900 America ).
Peking, being 100 miles inland, could probably STILL be bombarded by some 'supergun' type thing, or by deploying 'Roving Packs of Lunatics'(tm). 
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The Persephone Sanitorium Of Columbia : 
Our Laboratory is equipped for the study of Secretions and Excretions :
"Kromayer Lamps"https://www.bing.com/search?q=kromayer%20lamp, Hmmm ... ( some of those quack devices were VERY creepy )
Shock Treatments ( Electro Convulsive Therapy ) On Request. All the LATEST enhanced psycho-adjustment methods available for that Problematical Child or Wife.
 'WE DO Lobotomy_FunLOBOTOMIES]]' - Modern Instruments provided by Franque & Stine Mental Adjustments Ltd of Hamburg
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INSANITY - Arranging Their Own Deathtrap - The "Condensed Schedule To/From Columbia" :
( An alleged regular route schedule map of Columbia shown traversing the USA )
Those Listed Destinations :
* Flagstaff AZ - on Trans Continental Railroad ( large-caliber railway cannon accessible, and that 7000+ feet altitude to weather )
* Washington DC, Nations Capitol - with lots of Forts with big artillery and other aggressive Military threats
* New York City Large Harbor - defensive guns ( ie- Fort Hancock at Sandy Hook ) and Fleet activity ( with railway hub radiating out all directions for potential use of Railway guns to fire at Columbia )
* Savannah/Portland - had defensive forts with 12 inch guns/mortars ( more than enough 'to Blow Columbia Out of the Sky' )
* St Louis MO/Chicago IL/Rochester NY/Raleigh NC all with major railway access ...
* Crossing the Rockies ( ie- near Colorado Springs ... ) with mountain peaks of 14000 ft and much of the Continental Divide being at 10000+ feet altitude ( with resulting asphyxiation/frostbite of the flying inhabitants ... ) There were Nice Railroads there to Ambush Columbia with 14-inch Railway Guns - firing deadly 1200 lb shells of High-Explosive.
Plenty of other Artillery Forts existed on US Coast approaches for many of these listed locations.
Oh, it is from before when Columbia wasn't seceded yet ( Why when it is supposed to be 'Showing the Flag' around the World ??? ) Then the map next to this schedule don't work because it shows Arizona and New Mexico which only became States in 1912.
What's the point of this selection of destinations anyway ? Ignorantly making believe that Columbia was untouchable ??? ( Seriously it Wasn't True. ) You would think such a bunch of Traitors would try to avoid being anywhere they could be accessed/fired-upon by the era's US Government forces ( Teddy Roosevelt would want to fire the guns himself ). 'Flying Battleship' was more a Comstock Propaganda line of BS (( or just 'good sounding' gamewriter ignorance )).
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Mentally Deficient Columbia 'Story Setting/Terrain' - Which Made Little Sense :
Shantytown lookin' like it was built that way - That's Unimaginative, Lazy and Ignorant ( SO was it initially supposed to be BUILT like a slum/tenement intentionally ? Why do that ? AND It would have to be built after 1902 when Comstock took over ( Why would the USA's Government build a Slum to show off to The World in its American Exceptionalism "SHOW CITY" ???? ). 
SO Nope it is a dumb writer machination for their 'Evil America' psychosis/delusion/agenda.
So was it added post-secession as a American Serf worker barracks ?? No need for worker housing before that ( when there were only the few 'Show City Actors' in the traveling exhibition ). Or had it been a worn-out/10-years-old run-down 'White People' neighborhood ( It doesn't really look like that, though ). It does make VERY LITTLE SENSE to have existed in a 'Show City', something which is supposed to show off "American Exceptionalism" to the World.
In the Columbia Police State, such a place (a work camp) should also be rather clean/antiseptic - and designed to be easy to supervise/guard - with clear avenues of fire, and having few places to hide ( NOT some Slum warren, where trouble brews/festers 'out of sight' ).
(( Yes, it WAS all pretty DIM for the writers to TRY to force THEIR "Shantytown" into the game to contrive THEIR warped 'Societal Unfairness' setting ))
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That stupid gorilla 'experiment' - Fink got the idea for it from a tune he heard in a Tear - 'Shock the Monkey'. A stranger sight ( Rumored and more apropos for some 'racist' America ) would have been a black man with that traffic light fastened INTO his head ( ALSO sitting in a puddle of his own urine ).
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Why 'have them' when you have Untermenschen Serfs to pull small carts ( or a Handyman carry stuff ) ?
Who could afford one of those mecha-horse monstrosities, but not an automobile/truck ??? ( Done if the Story's 'looking into future' thing was done properly -- or at least Steal some 'Model Ts' ) ??
There was the Chronic Discontinuity in the Columbia city transportation infrastructure : The city's air-gaps/stairs/delays/kludgey-paths makes these rolling horse contraptions generally useless.
Real cities/towns/villages have a common/cohesive/regular street system ( Columbia doesn't - when it REALLY REALLY should ).
"Artists can't be counted on to do Engineering" - Bill McDonagh
"No Artist I ever met even understood a Leaky Pipe" - Bill McDonagh
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Oops ... 70 % more UltraViolet at 14,000 feet up :
Did we see Sunglasses, Parasols or Sunburns ( even Awnings for windows ) ? Prophesy this Comstock : Alot of blind people in Columbia after almost 20 years ( I suppose a 'Home for the Blind' is similar enough to an asylum ... )No doubt some Fanboi will argue that they have some magical technology ( quantumz or otherwise ) to prevent this, and have perfect weather control in Columbia. Same with magical weapons that would make the 1986 cleansing attack on the 'World Below' possible without having been utterly destroyed by 1960's tech Nuclear Air-to-Air missiles long previously developed in the ordinary World. 
For every 1000 feet of atmospheric the Temp drops 2 degrees Centigrade ( = 3.75 Farenheit )
Lets see : 14,000 ft is then also 52 degrees Fahrenheit lower ?? Brrrrrrrr !!!!
Oops, So Sun-burnt AND Frostbite is in the cards for those poor Colombites Fer dey's Derpy Gearz, they's shoulda had some magical Sock Warmers, Yup ...
Hypoxia "Hypoxia" is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. mentioned elsewhere ( at 14,000 ft there is about half the Oxygen as at Sea Level )
(( I have serious issues with dim gamemakers who push 'social issues' ( Supposedly relevant to Our World" Hurr, Hurr. It is Historic !!!! " .... DERRRRRRPPPPPPPP !!!!!! ... Derpistan) within a badly contrived Fantasy World. Even moreso, when that stupidity costs the Players having a better game ( via wasted production effort ) ))
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A Different kind of Gianticism : 
Since when does a 'town' have such a enormously gigantically over-sized thing Touting Itself ? Mainstreet Columbia might have its banks and possibly some investment offices, but exactly how large was Columbia supposed to be ?? The place couldn't be anything reasonable labeled a 'District'. Particularly when this Floatyshit(tm) city IS mostly empty space ( Making your typical small town, which is mostly made up of streets of single family residences, far DENSER than this floaty make-believe place is shown to be ). Oh look !!! It extends far into the distance ... Yeah but that's mostly open air. 
Dense gloomy darkness of buildings clustered so close they block out the Sun - THAT'S A REAL CITY. (( The SJW-oriented props/story all seems poorly served by what these 'artists' turned Columbia into -- It is like the designers were schitzophrenic, and got moreso as the rewrites glombed-on further ideas into the game. )) 
BTW Levine, 'Mammon', and its Usury were generally anathema to hardcore Christian-type 'spiritual' people. A small town Bank might be tolerable as a service, but NOT some huge Temple to money like this. The writers didn't seem to understand such things, did they ? Scatalogical (shitty) game writing apparently done just for Mammon ... Almost as bad as their 'whinging' Presentist mantras against Capitalism and Awful America ... And you Levine are the circus-master of this Freaky Tiresome Sideshow.
Oh, that's a 'Gateway' down there ? I thought it was a half fence ( a yard fence sized ) rather than part of that humongus oversized archway delusion - which some hack art-designer thought it should be. Sorry Levine & Co, this place is not an enormous Exposition Hall that millions of people are going to visit to warrant such size ( that's assuming 'building it so huge' was even remotely possible, even with maniacal ambitions of the insane cultists ). It would NOT have fit for the Original Flying 'Columbia' Show City Concept either. Please do better next time.
SOOOO, Unwarranted monstrous institutions for a wholly insufficient population - It is mere writer/designer ignorance creating cardboard props for a Shooter Game. Very little thought seems to have been 'put into it' for a Game Studio who 'touts' the "Story" element of THEIR games. 
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USS COLUMBIA ( OR is it "CCS" -- Crazy Cultist Ship ?? Crazy Comstock Ship ) :
Oh yes, a "Flying Battleship" ... Read about the trouble trying to put large caliber cannon ( like 75 mm ) in airplanes ( for real in WW1 ). It is apparently the case that anything much larger than that, when firing, would shake Columbia apart in no time ( and the building sections bobbing up and down plays havoc with any aiming ... ). 
BTW - The story about attacking Peking (China) may be more exaggeration - with the Columbia REALLY just dropping chunks of plaster and releasing sewage over the "Boxers" below ( and probably missing ).
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A Poem : Columbia :
:"Columbia is old town, lost town; shabby town, bad town.
:Once, very long ago, it was a wonder of a city, and there are still 
:standing a few of the jigsaw Gothic building with wide porches and 
:walls covered with round-end shingles and full corner bay windows 
:and spindle turrets. 
:They are all asylum houses now, their parquetry floors are scratched 
:and vomit stained, and the wide sweeping staircases are dark with time 
:and cheap varnish laid on over generations of filth. 
:In the tall rooms, haggard denizens bicker with shifty ghosts. 
:On the wide front porches, living corpses reach their cracked shoes into the 
:sun, staring at nothing. 
:Thus sit the old men with faces like lost battle."
(( Columbia the Flying Backwater, was left behind Forgotten by The World - Who also now had the "Quantumz" ))
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Soylenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green Red-White-Blue - Mini-Game :
A Cannibalism element makes a Creepy Game all the more Juicy.
Fink's Automatons have taken over Production with far less fuss and problems (as expected). The 'Cattle' ( as Fink called them ) now are no longer needed, and are now merely contaminating the 'Flying Eden'. Fink was never one to let anything 'go to waste'. He was fully capable of thinking up ( He's a 'super genius', you see ... ) ways to keep them unsuspecting as they were 'put to good use'. Opportunity for some derisive 'off' comments by Fink about 'dark' and 'white' meat ...
Tie-ins with the Industrial Revolution type Flash interface Mini-Games of the machinery used to make Fink's Soylent Google "Soylent Green" products, and even a Pipe Fitting (hacking) type game now with flowing red blood.
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THOUGHT : Does It Seem a Twilight Zone Episode Should Have Featured The Game's Columbia ?
The disturbed minds of writers who come up with such things - The Twist would be : It is a Movie/Play/Puppet-show being made, and everyone involved ARE THEMSELVES actually IN an Insane Asylum.
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Instead of that bright and shiny place that looked like it was made as a bad ceramic (collectible) figurine ...
So many Abandoned mental asylums out there - The internet has loads of pictures of them ( google : "abandoned places" ).
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Another One of Levines Obsessions ??? --- Loony Bins ??? :
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