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Whatever Golf Facilities Rapture had ( Ryan is shown putting ... ), these probably would be there.
I wonder if any of the Infinite BS game writers ( the Perps who wrote BaSx ? ) actually played the previous BioShock games, or read the Rapture Novel.
Turning Fontaine/Atlas from a 1950s small time hood/conman somehow into John Wayne Gacy really doesn't make it seem like this was OUR Universe's Rapture.
( These game developers sure do seem to have been obsessed with this Lobotomy thing ... )
 
Seriously, just about anything would seem better than those 'Boys of Silence', who look more like demented Car Hood Ornaments than anything else.
Large Flamethrower used by Germans in WW1. Imagine THAT shooting out of the rear end of this Rejected Heavy Hitter !!!! A little TOO effective maybe. Most games don't bother to have a "Run Like Hell" type opponent that you have to be clever to avoid.
 
Another reason there's 'No Fricken Way' the US Government ( and the taxpayers ) would be paying for "Columbia", as the gamewriters somehow think -- ESPECIALLY IF 'backed'/organized by some religious Charlatan. )
Fink used it to try to straighten some Jeans. And then someone found a pamphlet from the Future that explained Genes and he STILL tried to use it for that ... Magic Potions and Holly Wands and Flying Monsters work just fine in Fantasy. It is too bad they went the way of ridiculous faux-technology for their plot. There is nothing that Magic Beans can't do that Quantumz allegedly can, and with far more cohesive logic working for the story ...
( Can You Guess WHat This Actually Is ?? )
 
13 Stories. Rather short because LA had an ordinance limiting buildings to that height at that time. See all those Steel girders meant just to hold up the buildings own weight ? And THEN imagine what the structure would have to be to hold out many-many times that weight in water pressure on all sides.
Actually a more plausible mechanism ( If we can ever use 'plausible' in a game universe based on inconsistent faux-science quantum physics ). But then, firing guns and doing bloody 'death from above' maneuvers would be gone ( unless it was changed to some kind of 'pod racer' type gameplay. )
EVEN BETTER -- point it upwards a bit more, and instead of that stupid Lighthouse WhatevertheHellitwas thing, THIS is now the Hallelujah Gun, by which Columbia's inhabitants 'ascended' to The New Ark/Eden.
We probably coulda seen more in-game use of patterns like this. Textures are pretty cheap Assets, compared to animations and Object '3D' skins ( RAM Memory space is the chief issue if there are lots of unique ones in the same level/scene ).
 
SO the 'First Lady' was originally hydrogen ( And had to work the same is this real Zeppelin ?? ) 'Docked' where ??? and protected from any wind that would have it impaled on some part of Columbia, within days ??? Ken & Co had Zeppelin On The Brain. A Giant Flying Angel - There, in ten seconds (literally) I came up with something which would have been TRUE awesomeness, story/theme Appropriateness, instead of that feeble infatuation with some Scene from the early Steampunk-ish Trailers ...
Passenger Cabin from the Graf Zeppelin. Note how small it all is ( Yes, those are hammocks in the 2 person 'staterooms' ). The REST of the Zeppelin was 776 feet long and 100 feet in diameter. THAT'S the reality of those lighter-than-air ships - HUGENESS, with limited capacity.
 
All kinds of bits-n-pieces you can have in the MMORPG.
 
The second picture IS actually the same picture with a little Photoshop work to remove the perspective.
This is a 'lab experiment', from which the game designers/writers got their faulty idea for the way Columbia/Barges/whatever floats ( Remember, the gamewriters claimed to have consulted with 'experts' ... ). BTW, There is no "fixed in space" in REAL Quantum Physics. Note the small disk of that superconducting material ( the shape is important ) floating only a tiny distance above that Powerful Magnet Base ( It really only works on the miniature scale ). A VERY strong magnet ( and the frost showing that its cooled way down near Zero degrees Kelvin( that's -459.67F ), allowing the superconductor quantum properties to work ).
Oh you say, they have maglev for trains ?!?!? Yes and they too 'float' mere inches above incredibly powerful magnets ( not some 12000 feet ).
The Point Being : The tiny spacing involved for use in the Real World, and REQUIRING huge magnets below - completely missing in Columbia's Bad Fantasy Float mechanism.
Remember, 'It is only a game' ... Actually, "It is only a FANTASY Shoot-Em-UP game (with lame-ish combat), and alot of Hype about their cockamamie story".
An Edison invention for a long continuous loop of 'film' for the moving picture sequence. This is how the film loop inside made the Kinetoscope able to repeat.
Sander Cohen had an obsession, if you hadn't noticed ...
Even tons of plaster couldn't wall out the nightmares that Sander Cohen had every night. Making others share his nightmares also apparently was no relief.
Pneumo Lines ...
This would have been more interesting and amusing. Later in the game every other thingee-bot ( TV with tiny T-Rex arms ) would be carrying a corpse.
Middle 1800s diving suit used to salvage shipwrecks. Now THAT might've been a more freaky-deekie "Boy of Silence" ( In that tincan, only YOU can Hear YOUR Screams !!! ) The air hose would glow eerily and disappear into a Tear thingee ( Why not ?? It was all Fantasy just done for visual effect - wasn't it ?? )
Charlie McCarthy came to Rapture, but Edgar Bergen was turned away as a Parasite. ( Charlie was the REAL Talent ... ) It was never mentioned, but Sofia Lamb had once been a Vaudeville Ventriloquist ... ( 'Frightened the Hell out of' her Japanese patients, who though it was their dead relatives back to haunt them ... )
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Funny might have been seeing a puppet like this carried by one of those weird Edwardian Dressed people standing around in in the "Little Sister Fun House" in BS2 ( Weirder if they ALL had them ... )
Another fun puppet use would be as "The Prophet" ( seen publicly in the big "Oz the Great" type projections ), and having the real Comstock look like Skelator ( really seriously deformed looking 'Tear' damage ). Soooo many opportunities lost in that game.
An Artist Concept ( Big Daddy clonezoid, apparently ). Wouldn't it have been odd having things like THIS instead of the Handymen ? Or worse, this is the Players Nemesis "Balloono" (in place of the already weird BD-like 'Songbird' pigeon in a gimp suit).
( What would you do to control it in the endgame - Beat on a big Kettle Drum ?? -- Hey a rhythm mini-game like the dancing in GTA !!! Too many ideas, too little talent ... )
== TUNNELZ ==
Lotsa Tunnels in subterranean parts Rapture. Extensive spaces down in Rapture's Foundations ( they needed access for sump-pumping the inevitable leakage ). Smugglers tunnels had to move lotsa stuff - a tramway would be logical.
So in the MMORPG, you get a mission from City Hall to go investigate some corner of "The Underground" where strange things have been reported. Note that these are lit far more than your flashlights would have it in the pitch darkness.
Signs seen when you first arrive in Rapture, where there supposedly was a protest, sometime in the past, of dissatisfied people. Interesting that they are Printed signs ( versus hand lettering ) making it look more like an orchestrated 'protest', and much like the Rent-a-mob events we see so much today. Thus probably another 'Atlas' type provocation using more of his cannon-fodder. ( Consider that the suitcases laying about had virtually nothing in them and remain unopened ) as if it was staged.
OMG OMG Anti-Semitism !!!!
This ( as actually used in-game in a (OMG) minorly defaced state ) is a rather token representative of that widespread prejudice in America -- The term is 'paying it Lip Service' ( and no, for you younguns, that is not a reference to something you saw in a 'Prince' Music Video ).
Actually why even would the 'White People' running Rapture build such a vending machine, when it expressed an identity they detested ?? "Fritz the Mechanical Tailor" might've been better and more appropriate ( Much of America had a high regard for Germany in the early part of the late 19th and early 20th century ).
This is just some intentionally lame attempt to hint at actual "social issues" without the balls to show what real anti-semitism was like in that period ( Like having a 'Beat the Jew' game at the Faire, and adding the subject to Comstock's rantings ).
A bit closer to a proper submarine shape. Not-Overly "Unconscious Art" ...
Another candidate for a 'submersible' in the Rapture market. Unfortunately they cost the equivalent of a private jet plane ( so few, that they all are handbuilt like Rolls Royces ), and require similarly expensive facilities and maintenance labor to operate ( any kind of automobile equivalent for some typical American city ).
Strange stuff can be found on the Internet. Maybe Reed Wahl took up painting vacuum tubes for a hobby ? Or are these Fink's ( who thought that spirits made the things actually work ).
Without Kittens, modern computing would be impossible.
The 'Quantum Orb' which was (maybe?) the basis of all of Columbia's advanced technology.
But without sufficient Unicorn Tears, the ultimate use of such technology was limited.
After the events seen in BaSx, Gil Alexander investigated the strange properties of one corpse found in the 'Fontaines' Department Store.
Typical mid-1950s to early-1960s mainframe console.
Ryan considered other logos for ADAM advertisement.
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