Detroit!

http://www.marevueweb.com/photographies ... -en-ruine/

Amazing photographs of some abandoned areas in Detroit.
Article is in french, sowwy.

Yeah that's what happens when general motors leaves your city to die. They have a fascinating AD campaign on right now about how chevy is "driving the D" and how we should buy more GM products to celebrate the heritage of a company that cut and run for cheap steel in foreign lands.

You should try walking through it, it's sad and far from photogenic.

[British voice] Fifty thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town. [/British voice]

All that for a company leaving your country? Boy, you should've seen my country in 2001.

provost wrote:http://www.marevueweb.com/photographies ... -en-ruine/

Amazing photographs of some abandoned areas in Detroit.
Article is in french, sowwy.

Yep, funny you mentioned that with today's big article on Yahoo which some of you may have seen http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_ ... g_counties

The American empire is not only dying from within but externally as our former allies in the east begin to crumble (Egypt, Bahrain and our financial ally Libya might be next). It's sad but shit happens, empires die, ect ect.

China and India will probably be the two most powerful global superpowers by 2060-2080 (India probably a bit later), but Eastern and Western countries of the world exchanging spots as global superpowers has been happening since the beginning of civilizations. One day China will become lazy and effiminant, spoiled with luxury, wealth, become abnoxiously arrogant and give it up to somebody else like we did.

Holy shit. Reminds me of Pripyat.

s0iz wrote:[British voice] Fifty thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town. [/British voice]

All that for a company leaving your country? Boy, you should've seen my country in 2001.

Not just a company, general motors.

EDIT: I'll say it this way, Detroit is called the "Motor City", general motors removed the motor and left.

straight outta hl2

i guess even the theives left. i see a lot of salvage that fuckers here in st louis would strip bare.

http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today ... -pictures/

Almost the same type of pics from Chernobyl. Pretty nice.

Ghost Dog_TSGK wrote: You should try walking through it, it's sad and far from photogenic.

I was thinking about this, and just because it's depressing doesn't necessarily mean it's not photogenic, I cite the intro to Beverly Hills Cop as evidence.

Not one of those photos would be out of place in a hl2dm map. Would probably make for somewhat interesting urban adventuring.

On a somewhat related note, we should have let gm die. Giving welfare to retard grade corporations that are obviously never going to improve is nothing but a massive waste of resources.

Detroit, a Democrat/Union Mafia Triumph.

Good Job Marxism!

Ko-Tao wrote:Not one of those photos would be out of place in a hl2dm map. Would probably make for somewhat interesting urban adventuring.

On a somewhat related note, we should have let gm die. Giving welfare to retard grade corporations that are obviously never going to improve is nothing but a massive waste of resources.

Yeah I'm wrong saying it's not photogenic, just not as inspiring when it's your capitol city, and yes GM should have been left for dead, they haven't learned a thing since the bail out all I see is commercials telling us how dumb we are for not buying their bloated products.

Now a bare bones cargo work truck costs 30k.

CellarDweller wrote:i guess even the theives left. i see a lot of salvage that fuckers here in st louis would strip bare.

Michigan was one of the first to charge heavily for scrap raids, they actually watch for it at the yard.

EDIT: I even learned that if you bring in aluminum cans from another state the machine will trigger a hit on it, jail time. we are the only state with a 10c deposit though, I have lived here for 20 years and never seen a can on the side of the road.

lot of similarities between detroit and st louis. they seem to trade places as the "the most dangerous city" every other year. but st louis is on a much smaller scale than detroit.

i suppose a lot of scrap metal is just too damn bulky to haul away. the big thing here lately is stealing bricks. the lazy ones torch a building, then let the fire fighters high pressure water do most of their work for them.

http://www.builtstlouis.net/bricks.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/20brick.html

now, just some more urban decay... for the mappers out there.

http://www.builtstlouis.net/industrial/ ... tcoke.html

http://www.builtstlouis.net/industrial/ ... plant.html

http://www.builtstlouis.net/industrial/ ... retor.html

http://www.builtstlouis.net/industrial/ ... plant.html

if you feel like exploring, here is the main site.

http://www.builtstlouis.net/arch.html

Shoobie wrote:http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today ... -pictures/

Almost the same type of pics from Chernobyl. Pretty nice.

Many of those pictures looked like they could have been taken right out of any of the Silent Hill games. Thanks for sharing!

Here's another good site for Chernobyl:
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

I have to admit looking at pictures of Detroit/St Louis/the many dying coal cities/dying steel cities it should be depressing but its almost artful in an eery way.

Does Chernobyl still have that odd pink coating of anti rad material?

That was creepy.