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    The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation

    Video Games Are The Forefront Of Futuristic City Design
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    Image of protohiro protohiro
    05/12/09

    In reply to The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation
    Oh god. Did you describe me as a mega nerd? Io9 described me as a mega nerd? This is a very bad sign.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    05/12/09

    @protohiro: I meant it as a complement. Should I change it? I aspire to be a meganerd!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    05/12/09

    In reply to The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation
    One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just ain't the same.
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    Image of ProgHead777 ProgHead777
    05/12/09

    In reply to The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation
    Am I seeing this wrong or are those buildings in the Trek pic ludicrously gi-normous? The Burj Dubai would look like a tiny toothpick in that skyline.


    [geek]They must put structural integrity field generators in their buildings.[/geek]

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    05/12/09

    @ProgHead777: Nano-tubes or something. Always with the nano-tubes.
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    Image of ComradeLenin ComradeLenin
    05/12/09

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    Dear lord you used Frisco! I fear the wrath that San Franciscans may/may not bring down!
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    05/12/09

    @ComradeLenin: FRISCO!?!
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    05/12/09

    You forgot to mention Golden Gate scene in the "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus" trailer

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    As well as the San Francisco/ Golden Gate scene in "Monsters vs. Aliens!"

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    Heck, any movie that destroys Golden Gate is aces in my book. Perhaps that should be a future io9 blog -- movies that blow up Golden Gate....

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    Image of SybaRat SybaRat
    05/12/09

    In reply to The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation
    Those bastards just WON'T STOP putting mega-towers up in South of Market. And then the Federation painted them all blue-gray! At least Skynet had the common decency to burn them down.
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    Image of OlavRokne OlavRokne
    05/12/09

    @SybaRat:


    In Star Trek, San Francisco is the capital of an interstellar government. It needs those towers to hold embasies from various worlds.

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    Image of SybaRat SybaRat
    05/12/09

    @OlavRokne: Oh, please. Like we wouldn't cheerfully stick the Gorn delegation in East Oakland and make them carpool in over the Bay Bridge. At rush hour.


    I just got a flash of the Klingon ambassador heading into the Mission every lunch for brain tacos.

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    Image of EBone EBone
    05/12/09

    @OlavRokne: Starfleet Headquarters is in SF. The Federation President's office is in Paris.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    05/12/09

    @EBone: Depends on which version. In TOS its in San Fran most likely as it is in San Fran for Enterprise. Trek VI isnt very clear on the issue either, as it seems as if its also at Starfleet Headquarters but in alternate versions it actually states Presidential residence Paris.


    It doesnt seem to really move to Paris though till DS9.

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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    05/12/09

    @Jim Topoleski:Um, I may be missing something, but wasn't there no such thing as a Federation President's office during Enterprise?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    05/12/09

    @ParryLost: There was no Federation yet in ST: Enterprise.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/12/09

    @SybaRat: We would TOTALLY stick all those races over in Oakland. And not let them on BART. We'd make the Andorians live in a crappy ghetto.


    The Klingon ambassadors would eat GAGH tacos. Squirming out of the tortillas.

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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    04/28/09

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    Shit! I still need to play the original... someone should port it to the Half-Life engine... I hear it has not aged well at all.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    04/28/09

    @Log1c: [www.offtopicproductions.dreamhosters.com]
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    Image of strideo strideo
    04/28/09

    In reply to Video Games Are The Forefront Of Futuristic City Design
    I really like that double decker look on that first city but I bet the people who live or work on the lower level would want a little more sunlight. :P


    Still, very neat.

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    Image of vinylrake vinylrake
    04/28/09

    @strideo: surely you know it won't matter what people on the lower level want?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/28/09

    @vinylrake: Yeah. Screw those stupid underdwellers, what are they going to do, revolt? Hah!
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    Image of dave the wet sprocket dave the wet sprocket
    04/28/09

    @Grey_Area: revolutions against the mighty shinra will not be tolerated. the slums of midgar will be crushed by the "accidental" collapse of an upper deck if they're not careful...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/28/09

    @dave the wet sprocket: Honestly, what are they complaining about. We provide them with all the soma and soylent green they want they should just shut up and watch rollerball and like it.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    04/28/09

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    Oooh... my lazy ass has been waiting for more screens/concept art for Deus Ex 3.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    04/28/09

    In reply to Video Games Are The Forefront Of Futuristic City Design
    Is future Detroit in, say, Mississippi?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    04/28/09

    @Rasselas: And future New York will be in Montana!
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    04/28/09

    @crashedpc: Future Los Angeles: the Moon!
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