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600 feet down, 20 Atmospheres (280 lb/sq in) of Water Pressure will crush the air spaces (including the lungs) out of this Gimp-Suited character INSTANTLY. SPLOOSH !!! That is the problem with Tears -- and why in an infinite number of 'quantum' multi-universes, Rosalind Lutece was killed so often by what was on the other side of the first (or any subsequent) "Tear". ( Ditto for Comstock, Fink or Suchong, Robert Lutece and/or all the universes where the 'Tear' inventor was instead named Tom, Dick or Harry ... )
BTW - Bubbles don't come out of its mouth - They too (being gas) are crushed to 1/20th of their previous volume out in that deep water. ( See Real_Physics ) Uncaringly Phony may be a good term for this. It is not 'Artistic License' it is "DONT CARE, I GET MY $$$, HAHA" AND average DLC ...
Consider that god-powered Elizabeth could have saved Songbird, or sent him somewhere safe. But no, the writers have Elizabeth dispose of him like an unwanted toy.
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Updated Map of Medical Pavilion Multi-Player level. It's layout has been added to my MMORPG Medical Pavilion level map as a lower floor Hospital in Aesthetic Ideals. Possibly its was operational first during the City's construction.
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Fontaine Futuristics - Art Deco Radio ( It is a PC computer 'mod' crafted by a Hobbyist ). Something which would have been made in Rapture no doubt -- as Who would make that "Fontaine Futuristics" label on the Surface ?? NOTE - Radio in Rapture would have been more like 'cable', as radio waves go thru water really really badly. Radio technology was mature by Rapture's time ( Transistors were soon already on the scene and the mass manufacturing of inexpensive tubes ), bringing the consumer expenses down, and making more specialized Radio Stations possible ( but also diluting out Raptures limited commercial sponsors ). Still a cheaper alternative to TV.
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The First BS1 hack. The machinery stuff in the background framing was amusing ( *Idea* for the MMORPG to have visible working machinery of all kinds - Particularly for the game's Fabrication, and repair activities and with detailed mechanisms operating ). Good non-critical animation projects ( Contests, etc ... ).
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Cleaned up a bit. Of course there would have been far more such people in Rapture, but showing people that weren't in the game plots wouldn't make much sense.
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Another "Fink Mfg" product apparently. I like those big pipes that regulated the 'BS Gas' or 'Unicorn Tears' Vapor, Quantum Manifolds, or whatever this machine regulated, and those cute little controls. Columbia was originally an EXPOSITION Exhibit "Potemkin Village" caricature "Show City" ( made of chicken wire, lathing and plaster, and full of actors ). Such things are not conducive to a working self-sufficient city, or to illustrating the so-called " evils " of the age.
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Demo McClendon Home Computer. Exactly how many "homes" in Rapture could fit (or afford) something like this ? Computers may have been more like Hobbyist Radios from the 10s/20s ( or something the 'rich' owned to show off, but never figured out how to use themselves ). The Minerva's Den DLC writers were a bit stuck in a mental timewarp, as desktop sized computers were existing by the early 1950s, and advancement in Rapture probably kept pace. "YOUR BUSINESS COULD SAVE MONEY USING THIS" would have been a more knowledgeable advertising theme.
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No its NOT a 'Boy of Silence' for Rapture. It is some crafter's nifty thing. ( Web Search images for 'Steam Punk', 'Diesel Punk', etc ... )
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"Ashtray" - The usual mistakes to be seen in some games ( Competent Game Testing is expensive and hard to achieve, and MUST be seen as a priority by management to get properly done. And THIS after all IS just a game. )
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That Scale Marks are approximately 6 feet (height of a typical door). Ceiling is 66 feet (and more) - A bit overdone compared to old (pre-DLC) Rapture. Huge waste of space that someone had to pay for, and it wasn't going to be Ryan. Maybe, if there were additional levels of stores like in a Mall around this big open space, it might have made ALOT more sense. Cohen's artsy-fartsy Club would hardly pay for this ( it first had to pay for its own huge interior ) -- Seriously how many customers would that place have ( who continuously went to it ), and with what outrageous membership fees ? Rapture wasn't that big a place - had a town-sized small population -- This isn't New York City with a population 500+ Times as big which could actually support a huge entertainment venue like this.
The Burial at Sea DLC was made by the same people as Infinite BS who thought that 'BIG' somehow could substituted for More and More Interesting detail.
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Guts of the old type TV cameras (note the tubes). These were expensive machines. Miniaturization - Transistors would help, and Bio-Electronics even more for Rapture's equivalents.
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The equivalent of this was supposed to be miniaturized to fit onto the Alpha Suit ( for the way that the game's Bosses talk to the Player, and know what's going on remotely with the Player ).
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Awful lot of equipment for a TV camera system ( supposedly miniaturized to fit in Deltas suit ... ) Doesn't even include (all) the radio systems required for 'remote' sending.
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Similar to style seen in Little-Sister-Vision(tm) ( Note - the 1 to 9 ratio 'Heroic'/'Olympian' scaling - 'Head to Body' ratio used in art ).
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Tiny Vacuum Tube (note the metal case) used for Proximity Fuses during WW2 ( in artillery shells able to survive HIGH G-force ).
Such semi-conductor components were used for quite a while when Transistors were still terribly expensive.
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40s-era electronic tech (tubes/sockets/modules) - This is what would have been used in Rapture from its earliest times ( and continued to be used til Rapture's end WHILE they still worked ). This is a standardized power amplifier ( something critical for remotely controlled machinery ).
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Definitely need a Dan Aykroyd sound-alike to read the "Happy Fun Ball" warning about Big Daddies.
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So is this a Ryan-patented Plasma Cutting head ???
Really this is some Steam Punk jewelry ( might have made a nice FlashDrive thingee ).
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That's alot of fluid to get through such a small needle.
BTW- the gloweyness is a marketing gimmick ( Bioluminescence would have been used in lots of products - A byproduct of the Sea Slugs and other deep water organism research ).
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Hydraulic Control Valves - manual ( something there would be many many of in Rapture ).
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Newspaper from just before the Kashmir Massacre ( seen in BaS ). Did a Splicer get loose in one of the 'Little Sister Academies', and tried obtaining ADAM (this was much too early for Little Sisters to be doing ANY Gathering/Collecting from 'Angels' ( There weren't any piles of corpses left laying in the streets quite yet. ) Were break-ins at stores, or medical facilities, or muggings to obtain ADAM frequent yet ( one account was mentioned in BS2 ) -- apparently not so much by the way this Newspaper is worded.
The Fink Mfg Servitor ( which was due to replace all the problematic human menials in Columbia ) required a sophisticated robotic controller. Needing a little more sophistication than the Motorized Patriots ( which ONLY had to roll around and destroy things ), an amazing amount of widgetry had to be included within this unit. By 1912 Fink still was having problems with it. ( I could see Scotty saying : "Think of ALL THE Gears Man, Think of the GEARS!!! )
This pix was someones computer 'mod', though apparently the real thing is about 6 feet tall ( and this is like 1/3rd of it ).
Mechanical adding machine used through (and past) the 1950s
Fink might have grabbed one of these through a Tear ( It would have been a good story idea to explain this more ).
Whats called a "Grand Junction" arrangement for a Trolley system intersection. Its where 2 route sets of 2 tracks crossed and allowed switching to all other directions. Note - each pair of tracks coming in usually employed opposite traffic directions running on each side ( ie- right-hand laned directional traffic ) - Which is why the switches only lead to three tracks on their corresponding track. A few main system intersections in Rapture's Trolley system would have a junction like this.
Atlas was hardly the spokesman ( the stuff you were force-fed by the writers via Radio Msgs ) you would want for what had gone on in Rapture. Later you find out that just about everything he told you was a lie.
SO, if Ryan allegedly didn't believe in "Due Process" within his Philosophy ( or for the way he ran his City ), then WHY all these signs indicating a proper investigation had been carried out to nab Fontaine ? Too late, the damage was done, and Ryan is painted as the 'bad guy' (who BTW you were forced to murder -- No "Choice" there ...), all just to enable that rather weak story 'twist' in their game plot.
Fink ( the Universal Genius as the writers would have you believe ) supposedly got ahold of the idea of ADAM and genetic manipulation (in the BaSx story), and somehow managed to get some of the right Sea Slugs, and then seemingly instantly produced Plasmids (sortof) equivalent to those in Rapture. ( If Columbia had had ADAM stuff for very long, shouldn't the place have been crawling with "Splicers" by the time Booker and Lizzy got there ??? I though all that magic stuff was supposed to be Quantumz-powered ??? )
An artist's much more plausible Real look for an airship. Instead of the game's Hummelhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hummel+figurines miniature-like representation, which looked more designed to be easily turned into some cheap china-made game-merchandise.
An Alphabetic "Nixie Tube" - utilizes a 'neon effect' on electrified filaments ( Lotsa pins required on each tube to select from a full alphabet - fewer if its for the more common number digit-type display ). Could have been made ( using early pre-WW2 tech ) using one long line of these (ie- 40) for a simple computer terminal's display.
Reminds me of things I drew at age 7.
Basic structure of the nerve cell 'neuron' ( there are other types also ). Nerve cells were fundamental to the work done on Bio-Electronics in Rapture.
One hopes that Ryan didn't go "Howard Hughes", and start using Plasmid bottles to collect his Urine"Rapture is the Future ... Rapture is the Future ... Rapture is the Future ... Future ... Future ... ... Rapture the Future" - OCD that Howard Huse had. .
With Quantumz anything is possible. Maybe an early Lutece experiment ???
This looks a bit more 50's military technology ( except it has those buttons and things like 'redial', so its a 'mod' for a modern phone ).
Pretty, but something 'Gumby'https://www.bing.com/search?q=gumbie would ride around in, and not something that looks like it was even marginally real world 1912. ( ??? Maybe if the game was set in 1863 in Oz ??? NO, NOT EVEN THEN. ) "Fantasy is not conducive to trying to illustrate social ills." - Dickens 
((I would need a whole page to tell you all the things that are wrong with this thing.))
See Zeppelin_on_the_Brain
More realistic alternate history - the Rest of the World saw Columbia while it was being made, and industrialists/governments obtained its technology ( and could develop and improve that technology much further -- using 1000 X the resources ). And so, as soon as Comstock made trouble, this REAL aerial battleship would soon deal with "The Pirate City". ( Anyway THAT'S a bit more logical when using all the assumptions from what's given by the fantasy game's story details ).
Tommy gun (Thompson Sub-Machine gun) with drum magazine (40 rounds) - known as the 'Annihilator'
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