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Life in the Vault, is about to Begin...

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:21 am
by Redeye

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:27 am
by Jesus Christ
The big blotch on the bottom right is city hall. Across the +15 to the SW is the arts center, including the Jack Singer Concert Hall, with 1,800 seats, is the largest venue in the building. It is said to be a synthesis of some of the world's finest concert halls (the Musikverein, Vienna, the Symphony Hall, Boston, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam). Suspended above the stage is a 185,000-pound laminated spruce-wood acoustical canopy, which can be raised or lowered to tune the hall according to the specific needs of each performer. Named for Jack Singer, the Concert Hall is the permanent home of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, which employs 64 full-time musicians, and the 6,040-pipe Carthy Organ.

Across the +15 to the West of that is the Mariot Hotel and the Glenbow Museum, one of Western Canada's largest museum, with over 93,000 square feet (8,600 m²) of exhibition space in more than 20 galleries, showcasing a selection of the Glenbow's collection of over a million objects including: a cultural history collection, ethnology, military, mineralogy, a substantial Asian collection on semi-permanent loan, an art collection comprising 28,000 works, mainly dating from the 19th century to the present, and a library containing 100,000 books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, and pamphlets with relevance to Western Canada. also the Glenbow archives are one of Canada's largest non-governmental repositories and a major research centre.

Across the +15 to the South of the Glenbow is the Calgary Tower, a 191 meter (627 foot) free standing observation tower. The column of the tower was built from a continual pour of concrete. Pouring began May 15, 1967 and was completed 24 days later. In 1988, a natural gas-fired cauldron at the top was constructed. The flame in it burned throughout the 1988 Winter Olympics, and since then, it has been lit for special events. The flame consumes 850 cubic meters of natural gas every hour.



I love you Wikipedia. :hug:

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:15 am
by Manoil
Legitimacy approved.

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:27 pm
by PiP
potent premise
file is + 4GB and hard to get so is it done well_

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:35 pm
by Redeye
I will put it on my Netflix queue for next week, so it should arrive on Tuesday.
Wednesday at the latest.


I wonder if there are any Counterstrike levels of Plus 15.
Came free with HL2, so what the hell.

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:55 am
by Jesus Christ
I expect an update by 1600hrs on Wednesday.

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:19 am
by Redeye
It sucks.

Very little wandering of the indoor network where it is supposedly possible to live from birth to death.

It is an office drama with neuroses and sex and some stoned white early twenties guy ruminating about things and hallucinating about superheroes.

Canada is so fucking white.

It is actually somewhat amusing.

But, no.

It provides no foreshadowing of a Vault Future.

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:59 am
by PiP
thanks for doing the dirty work, Red. :salute:
I was afraid it could be like this.

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:11 am
by Jesus Christ
Good review!

Way to take one for the team!

:salute:

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:26 am
by Manoil
Yeah... at least there wasn't enough time to get my hopes up. Still, appreciate the heads-up