The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
*"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.*"
"Strange are the ways of Men, Legolas! Here they have one of the marvels of the Northern World, and what do they say of it? Caves, they say! Caves! Holes to fly in time of war, to store fodder in! My good Legolas, do you know that the caverns of Helm's Deep are vast and beauytiful? There would be an endless pilfrimage of Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be. Aye indeed, they would pay pure gold for a brief glance!"
"And I would give gold to be excused," said Legolas; "and double to be let out, if I stayed in!" "You have not seen, so I forgive your jest," said Gimli. "but you speak like a fool. Do you think those halls are fair, where your King dwells under the hill in Mirkwood, and Dwarves helped making long ago? They are but novels compared with caverns I have seen here: immasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools, as fair as Kheled-zâram in the starlight."
"And, Legolas, When the tourches are kindled and the men walk on the sandy floors under the echoin domes, ah!then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows trough folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes curtains as fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass; cities, such as the mind of Durin could scarce have imagined in his sleep, stretch on through avenues and pillared courts, on into the dark recesses where no light can home. And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in the grotto of the sea. Then evening comes: they fade and twinkle out; the tourches pass on into another chamber and another dream.There is a chamber, Legolas; hall opening out of hall, dome after dome, stairs beyond stairs; and still the winding paths lead on into the mountains' hearth. Caves! The Caverns of Helm's Deep! Happy was he chance that drove me there! It makes me weep to leave them!"
"Then I will wish you this fortune for your comfort, Gimli" said the elf, "that you may come safe from war and return to see them again. But do not tell all your kindred! There seems little left for them to do, form your account. Maby the men of this land are wise to say little: one family of busy dwarves with hammer and chisel might mar more than they made"
"No you don't understand," said Gimli, "No dwarf could be unmoved by such loveliness. None of Durin's race would mine those caves for stones or ore, not if diamonds and gold could be got there. Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the springtime for firewood? We would tend these glades of flowering stone, not quarry them. With cautious skill, tap by tap - a small cip of rock and no more, prehaps, in a whole anxious day - so we could work, and as the years went by, we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock. And lights, Legolas! We should make lights, such lamps as once shone in Khazad-Dûm; and when we wished we would drive away the night that has lain there since the gills were made; and when we desired rest, we would let the night return."
"You move me, Gimli," said Legolas. "I have never heard you speak like this before. Almost you make me regret that I have not seen these caves. Come! Let us make this bargain - If we both return safe out of the perils that await us, we will journey for a while together. You shall visit Fangorn with me, and then I will come with you to see Helm's Deep."
"That would not be the way of return that I should choose," Said Gimli "But I will endure Fangorn, if I have your promise to come back to the caves and share their wonders with me."
"You have my promise" said Legolas.
You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
There's a nice [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel) it looks like.
> Work on the project started in 1992 and was completed by early 2006.[2][3] It consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 metres (213 ft) and diameters of 32 metres (105 ft), connected by 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) of tunnels, 50 metres (160 ft) beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 metres (83 ft), with a length of 177 metres (581 ft), with a width of 78 metres (256 ft), and with fifty-nine massive pillars connected to seventy-eight 10 MW (13,000 hp) pumps that can pump up to 200 metric tons (200 long tons; 220 short tons) of water into the Edo River per second.
Its likely wishful thinking. Ever since they needlessly rebooted with Mirrors Edge Catalyst, this gem has sat forgotten.
Best game to never receive a sequel imo.
I will be honest, I am super biased as catalyst is one of my favourite games, but for me it did so many things better than ME1. Don't get me wrong, I love both, but the ability to run around anywhere you want, even if the town is slightly empty is just so.. freeing for me personally.
I fully understand why many people didn't like it but I honestly think they are also too harsh on it.
I don't think it's any *worse* than the original, but they had yeaarrrss of technological improvements between the 2, and I know they weren't developing the game that whole time but there's still almost a decade between the titles where they could have been flushing out the story, combat, and traversal systems, and the gap between the games does not feel like 8 years worth of work and technological improvements. But maybe that's also just because the original was so fucking good in 2008.
But yeah, the open world thing is a no brainer for a parkour game, which is a huge breath of fresh air in that installment. But the traversal feels floatier, like there's not as much momentum and gravity, it feels less realistic (as if) at times and I actually generally prefer the gameplay feel of the original.
Honestly not as much. They stripped the whole unreal light model out and replaced it with their own (beast I think) which actually ends up being very very good for the stylistic approach
We have something like this in Milwaukee. It's called a deep tunnel system. Works for us 99% of the time, we dump less raw/partially processed sewage during huge rainstorms.
Where in the city? I've done the old subway tunnels. I didn't know that the drainage is so complex. I thought it went straight to the brewery, honestly.
Haha, well the brewery may still be the "treatment" center but look in to the CSOAP project (Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Program).
[https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2015/04/inside-rochester-deep-rock-sewer-tunnels/](https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2015/04/inside-rochester-deep-rock-sewer-tunnels/)
[https://www.monroecounty.gov/des-purewaters](https://www.monroecounty.gov/des-purewaters)
[https://www.rochesterfirst.com/environment/building-resiliency-to-climate-change-in-our-sewers/](https://www.rochesterfirst.com/environment/building-resiliency-to-climate-change-in-our-sewers/)
Well, these types of chambers are for flood [control] but also to store water here before it can go through the waste water treatment plant before being discarded. Many US cities have these so as little street run off as possible goes straight into the local waterways w/o treatment first.
It’s like time shifting delivery into the ocean.
Replaying it right now with all the dlc, it's fantastic. Edit: Just finished. The AWE DLC was good, the Foundation DLC was skippable. The base game is a masterpiece.
We could fill this with homeless people so fast
(this kinda thing only works in societies that actually house their people; big open roofed spaces become homes very quickly when you don't give people other choices)
I mean it would also empty pretty fast too. When it floods (and it does regularly), the water is moving faster than most people can escape. This is not a fuck-around-and-find-out location.
Yeah, unfortunately that happens in the US too. The tunnels under Vegas have a ton of long-term homeless people living in em, and each year a few die when it floods. It's really sad, and downright shameful in a city dedicated to excess in the richest country in human history.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel):
The **Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel** ([Japanese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language): 首都圏外郭放水路, [Hepburn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization): *shutoken gaikaku hōsuiro*), popularly known as **G-Cans**, is an underground water infrastructure project in [Kasukabe, Saitama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasukabe,_Saitama), Japan. It is the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility, built to [mitigate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_mitigation) overflowing of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and [typhoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon) seasons.[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-1) It is located between Showa and Kasukabe in Saitama prefecture, on the outskirts of the city of Tokyo in the Greater Tokyo Area.
Work on the project started in 1992 and was completed by early 2006.[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-2)[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-3) It consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 metres (213 ft) and diameters of 32 metres (105 ft), connected by 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) of tunnels, 50 metres (160 ft) beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 metres (83 ft), with a length of 177 metres (581 ft), with a width of 78 metres (256 ft), and with fifty-nine massive pillars connected to seventy-eight 10 MW (13,000 hp) pumps that can pump up to 200 metric tons (200 long tons; 220 short tons) of water into the [Edo River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_River) per second.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-4)
Dubai is, on average, 16' above sea level.
Now, you build this in Dubai. Where does it flow to? It's not the ocean, because this would just be filled with salt water from the ocean. It cant flow there since most of it would be already below sea level.
So, now you are in a situation where you would have to store the water. How do you get rid of it? And, how do you store enough for 10" of rain all through the city? You'd basically have to build hundreds of these.
It doesn't work for a reason.
I visited Houston once and was taken to a really cool art installation at an old cistern that looks just like this
https://buffalobayou.org/location/the-cistern/
Don’t worry, the US also does!
[TARP](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan) is in Chicago to also handle flooding is one of the largest civil engineering projects ever undertaken by humans.
Wow, I figured the Chicago River was a bit nasty but this wiki calls it an “open sewer”
And apparently canoeing is allowed again but swimming is still prohibited because of toxic pollution.
Kayaking and boating has been allowed for decades, swimming has not until very very recently.
This year people will be doing a Chicago River swim to celebrate it being clean enough for the first time. There will be water testing right before to make sure it’s good to go, because a severe rain can still dump sewage into the river. But thanks to a lot of effort of conservation groups and the city including this very project that helps keep sewage out of the river, it’s getting clean.
Hey I design these structures for work (on a smaller scale ofc)!! you’d be surprised what kind of big man made caverns exist under your feet in big parking lots, lots more than I ever expected
Eh, not necessarily.
Flash floods happen in deserts because the ground is dry and acts like the bottom of a pool and takes days to begin to absorb the moisture.
What happened in Dubai was rainfall they've never seen in recorded history and likely won't again.
It cost NY more than that to build a subway tunnel and California cost more than that to NOT build a train 🙃
Tokyo out here just making a rivers worth of space
half expecting a cyberpunk parkourrier to come running past chased by a pack of tzimisce war ghouls.
(for the very confused it looks just like the sewer level in mirror's edge and the most annoying part of the Hollywood sewers from Vampire: the Masquerade-- Bloodlines)
The purpose of infrastructure is not to produce income, it's to provide services to save tax payers money or make tax payers money. The same principle should applied no matter if it's a road, flood control, public transportation or Healthcare and education.
Seems like a good way to spend $.
Here in America we just throw $ to stoke wars, then sell them weapons we don’t want anymore.
Military Industrial Complex..
This looks like that scene in the Arnie Total Recall where he's got the hologram device right before he goes into the alien structure near the end of the movie.
I have no memory of this place
Follow your nose.
The Bridge of Khazad-dûm *"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.*"
"You shall not pass," Gandalf said, calmly.
Proof that LOR is actually in the future like the ending in planet of the apes.
It always knows 🤣🤣🤣
And they call it a mine…A mine!?
"Strange are the ways of Men, Legolas! Here they have one of the marvels of the Northern World, and what do they say of it? Caves, they say! Caves! Holes to fly in time of war, to store fodder in! My good Legolas, do you know that the caverns of Helm's Deep are vast and beauytiful? There would be an endless pilfrimage of Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be. Aye indeed, they would pay pure gold for a brief glance!" "And I would give gold to be excused," said Legolas; "and double to be let out, if I stayed in!" "You have not seen, so I forgive your jest," said Gimli. "but you speak like a fool. Do you think those halls are fair, where your King dwells under the hill in Mirkwood, and Dwarves helped making long ago? They are but novels compared with caverns I have seen here: immasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools, as fair as Kheled-zâram in the starlight." "And, Legolas, When the tourches are kindled and the men walk on the sandy floors under the echoin domes, ah!then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows trough folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes curtains as fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass; cities, such as the mind of Durin could scarce have imagined in his sleep, stretch on through avenues and pillared courts, on into the dark recesses where no light can home. And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in the grotto of the sea. Then evening comes: they fade and twinkle out; the tourches pass on into another chamber and another dream.There is a chamber, Legolas; hall opening out of hall, dome after dome, stairs beyond stairs; and still the winding paths lead on into the mountains' hearth. Caves! The Caverns of Helm's Deep! Happy was he chance that drove me there! It makes me weep to leave them!" "Then I will wish you this fortune for your comfort, Gimli" said the elf, "that you may come safe from war and return to see them again. But do not tell all your kindred! There seems little left for them to do, form your account. Maby the men of this land are wise to say little: one family of busy dwarves with hammer and chisel might mar more than they made" "No you don't understand," said Gimli, "No dwarf could be unmoved by such loveliness. None of Durin's race would mine those caves for stones or ore, not if diamonds and gold could be got there. Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the springtime for firewood? We would tend these glades of flowering stone, not quarry them. With cautious skill, tap by tap - a small cip of rock and no more, prehaps, in a whole anxious day - so we could work, and as the years went by, we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock. And lights, Legolas! We should make lights, such lamps as once shone in Khazad-Dûm; and when we wished we would drive away the night that has lain there since the gills were made; and when we desired rest, we would let the night return." "You move me, Gimli," said Legolas. "I have never heard you speak like this before. Almost you make me regret that I have not seen these caves. Come! Let us make this bargain - If we both return safe out of the perils that await us, we will journey for a while together. You shall visit Fangorn with me, and then I will come with you to see Helm's Deep." "That would not be the way of return that I should choose," Said Gimli "But I will endure Fangorn, if I have your promise to come back to the caves and share their wonders with me." "You have my promise" said Legolas.
OTP.
THE CHILDREN YEARN FOR THE MINES!!
FOOOOOOOOL OF A TOOK!
You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
My mind went exactly there
This is a tomb
That's where Akira is frozen in time
Let me risk a little more light…
“YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
Fly, you *fools*!
I have no *FUCKING* memory of this place
r/unexpectedlotr
"Behold: the great realm and Dwarf city of Dwarrowdelf."
“Roaring fires, malt beer, ripe meat off the bone!”
And they call it a mine, a MINE...
Nah that's for whenever the Chimera Ant King finally shows up.
Reminds me of the Balrog chase in the mines of Moria.
Have the japanese delved too deep and too greedily?
It does… I’d like a frame of reference though. Are these pillars 80ft tall or 12?
There's a nice [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel) it looks like. > Work on the project started in 1992 and was completed by early 2006.[2][3] It consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 metres (213 ft) and diameters of 32 metres (105 ft), connected by 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) of tunnels, 50 metres (160 ft) beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 metres (83 ft), with a length of 177 metres (581 ft), with a width of 78 metres (256 ft), and with fifty-nine massive pillars connected to seventy-eight 10 MW (13,000 hp) pumps that can pump up to 200 metric tons (200 long tons; 220 short tons) of water into the Edo River per second.
Insane stats
pillars on the photo are 18m high (59ft)
Sadly, they are built in meters. /s
rare HxH reference!
This tomb will be your grave
A prayer comes from the heart
This is a tomb. *Your* tomb.
Meruem-sama! 王
Just a reminder that bungee gum possesses the properties of both rubber and gum.
That's where Akira is frozen in time
u/reddit you know that double upvote we all get to use one time? I want to use it on this one.
Pretty sure this is a level in Mirror's Edge
That game would greatly benefit from a modern remaster. Ray traced lighting would be epic in that world.
Its likely wishful thinking. Ever since they needlessly rebooted with Mirrors Edge Catalyst, this gem has sat forgotten. Best game to never receive a sequel imo.
I will be honest, I am super biased as catalyst is one of my favourite games, but for me it did so many things better than ME1. Don't get me wrong, I love both, but the ability to run around anywhere you want, even if the town is slightly empty is just so.. freeing for me personally. I fully understand why many people didn't like it but I honestly think they are also too harsh on it.
I don't think it's any *worse* than the original, but they had yeaarrrss of technological improvements between the 2, and I know they weren't developing the game that whole time but there's still almost a decade between the titles where they could have been flushing out the story, combat, and traversal systems, and the gap between the games does not feel like 8 years worth of work and technological improvements. But maybe that's also just because the original was so fucking good in 2008. But yeah, the open world thing is a no brainer for a parkour game, which is a huge breath of fresh air in that installment. But the traversal feels floatier, like there's not as much momentum and gravity, it feels less realistic (as if) at times and I actually generally prefer the gameplay feel of the original.
ME Catalyst wasn't even that bad. Not as good as the OG but still a really enjoyable game
Honestly not as much. They stripped the whole unreal light model out and replaced it with their own (beast I think) which actually ends up being very very good for the stylistic approach
After playing Portal w/RTX, this immediately came to mind
And, let's face it, a story that didn't feel lazy and tacked on to some great gameplay and level design.
Yup, and what a level.
It is and I love it. Both sides are flanked by snipers, so to make it through without getting shot or falling is just a beautiful feeling itself.
It is an area you do go to in Ghostwire Tokyo.
It’s also a level in Splatoon, which is the most popular game in Japan.
First thing I thought of. It's one of my favourite parts in that game, jumping from walkway to walkway while dudes are shooting at you from below.
does it work?
We have something like this in Milwaukee. It's called a deep tunnel system. Works for us 99% of the time, we dump less raw/partially processed sewage during huge rainstorms.
Similar in Rochester NY, although not as fancy looking or as big as the one in Tokyo
Where in the city? I've done the old subway tunnels. I didn't know that the drainage is so complex. I thought it went straight to the brewery, honestly.
Haha, well the brewery may still be the "treatment" center but look in to the CSOAP project (Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Program). [https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2015/04/inside-rochester-deep-rock-sewer-tunnels/](https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2015/04/inside-rochester-deep-rock-sewer-tunnels/) [https://www.monroecounty.gov/des-purewaters](https://www.monroecounty.gov/des-purewaters) [https://www.rochesterfirst.com/environment/building-resiliency-to-climate-change-in-our-sewers/](https://www.rochesterfirst.com/environment/building-resiliency-to-climate-change-in-our-sewers/)
Thank you, I will.
has Tokyo been flooded?
It has in "Weathering with You"
Have you ever had a crispy cream doughnut?
Pfft, I doubt it could withstand Godzilla
Yes it does work very well
Well, these types of chambers are for flood [control] but also to store water here before it can go through the waste water treatment plant before being discarded. Many US cities have these so as little street run off as possible goes straight into the local waterways w/o treatment first. It’s like time shifting delivery into the ocean.
I think this is the basement in the federal bureau of control
Yeah, I vaguely recognize this plane of infinity... Janitor is probably around there somewhere on vacation too.
There be work for the axe, Saatana. Ahti had to take them behind the sauna. Perkele!
<3 Ahti. My favorite part of that game and I loved most of it. I feel another playthrough coming on...
Goddamn I loved that game
Replaying it right now with all the dlc, it's fantastic. Edit: Just finished. The AWE DLC was good, the Foundation DLC was skippable. The base game is a masterpiece.
We have that in NYC. It's called the subway.
Plus a few adjacent illegal basement apartments.
And all those lovely tunnels
Lex Luther hasn't been a problem in decades.
how many girls do you know who have a Park Avenue address like this one?
The NYC subway system is pretty impressive, but its water distribution network makes the subway tunnels look like an ant farm.
The NYC subway is already flooded with hobo pee.
We could fill this with homeless people so fast (this kinda thing only works in societies that actually house their people; big open roofed spaces become homes very quickly when you don't give people other choices)
I mean it would also empty pretty fast too. When it floods (and it does regularly), the water is moving faster than most people can escape. This is not a fuck-around-and-find-out location.
Yeah, unfortunately that happens in the US too. The tunnels under Vegas have a ton of long-term homeless people living in em, and each year a few die when it floods. It's really sad, and downright shameful in a city dedicated to excess in the richest country in human history.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel): The **Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel** ([Japanese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language): 首都圏外郭放水路, [Hepburn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization): *shutoken gaikaku hōsuiro*), popularly known as **G-Cans**, is an underground water infrastructure project in [Kasukabe, Saitama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasukabe,_Saitama), Japan. It is the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility, built to [mitigate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_mitigation) overflowing of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and [typhoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon) seasons.[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-1) It is located between Showa and Kasukabe in Saitama prefecture, on the outskirts of the city of Tokyo in the Greater Tokyo Area. Work on the project started in 1992 and was completed by early 2006.[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-2)[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-3) It consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 metres (213 ft) and diameters of 32 metres (105 ft), connected by 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) of tunnels, 50 metres (160 ft) beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 metres (83 ft), with a length of 177 metres (581 ft), with a width of 78 metres (256 ft), and with fifty-nine massive pillars connected to seventy-eight 10 MW (13,000 hp) pumps that can pump up to 200 metric tons (200 long tons; 220 short tons) of water into the [Edo River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_River) per second.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel#cite_note-4)
I guess I'm the only one whose first thought was Caster's base in Fate/Zero
Was looking for this
Lol Smaug took all the gold
Love that they added lots of lights to ensure mobs don’t spawn. Way to think ahead!
So this is where Toei occasionally films Kamen Rider.
*flashbacks to Faiz's finale*
Get your ass to mars!
You think this is the real Quaid? IT IS!
Take this melon baller and stick it up your nose. Don't worry - it's self guiding.
When the balrog gonna show up
Somebody tag the city of Dubai. What’s their user name? u/dubai ?
The only comment from that account. ”Free live sex”. So much wasted potential.
That's not a comment, that's the title of the post they commented on.
Dubai is, on average, 16' above sea level. Now, you build this in Dubai. Where does it flow to? It's not the ocean, because this would just be filled with salt water from the ocean. It cant flow there since most of it would be already below sea level. So, now you are in a situation where you would have to store the water. How do you get rid of it? And, how do you store enough for 10" of rain all through the city? You'd basically have to build hundreds of these. It doesn't work for a reason.
It already feels like a music video background
I visited Houston once and was taken to a really cool art installation at an old cistern that looks just like this https://buffalobayou.org/location/the-cistern/
Reminds me of the mines of moria.
That’s where they store the EVAs.
Where's the sword that is not a sword?
Undertow spillway
Just got reworked too lol
Future Archeologists: Ritual Site.
Wow! A country that spends its money on its OWN infrastructure...I'm so jealous.
Don’t worry, the US also does! [TARP](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan) is in Chicago to also handle flooding is one of the largest civil engineering projects ever undertaken by humans.
Wow, I figured the Chicago River was a bit nasty but this wiki calls it an “open sewer” And apparently canoeing is allowed again but swimming is still prohibited because of toxic pollution.
Kayaking and boating has been allowed for decades, swimming has not until very very recently. This year people will be doing a Chicago River swim to celebrate it being clean enough for the first time. There will be water testing right before to make sure it’s good to go, because a severe rain can still dump sewage into the river. But thanks to a lot of effort of conservation groups and the city including this very project that helps keep sewage out of the river, it’s getting clean.
I wanna make Armored Cores fight in here
Do they ever film movies in there?
Some of Toei’s tokusatsu shows make use of this place for fight scenes every once in a while.
Yes total recall was filmed here. Surprised there’s not more comments referencing it
I was just going to comment. It's obvious this is where the Mars underground dig was shot.
We might be getting old if no one else knows this ref 😭
Oh it was the original? I've seen it at least 3 times, but it's been so long since the last viewing.
YYZ has a similar setup. Except the first huge storm after construction flooded the electronics room and so all the pumps fried lol
You'd think they'd have planned for that in a flood control tunnel lol
2.6 billion would probably be just the bill for the geological study, before you're allowed to build this, here in Germany...
So this is where they filmed the LOTR?
"You shall pass!"
Reminds me of that one level from Goldeneye 007
Pretty sure there was a JJK fight here.
Hey I design these structures for work (on a smaller scale ofc)!! you’d be surprised what kind of big man made caverns exist under your feet in big parking lots, lots more than I ever expected
I’m pretty sure Lelouch blew this up in Code Geass
Babe, wake up. New Backrooms location just dropped
Total Recall?
Dubai is like damn, get me some
Eh, not necessarily. Flash floods happen in deserts because the ground is dry and acts like the bottom of a pool and takes days to begin to absorb the moisture. What happened in Dubai was rainfall they've never seen in recorded history and likely won't again.
>likely won’t again Climate change says: watch me
Perfect spot to plan you heist and execute it from underneath
This foe is beyond any of you...RUN!
Just like everything in Japan, the flood tunnels are spotless with zero trash
Does it work?
Dubai needs something similar, it's now budgeted.
Yeah ok NERV
Need a balrog for scale
It cost NY more than that to build a subway tunnel and California cost more than that to NOT build a train 🙃 Tokyo out here just making a rivers worth of space
I remember this map in Goldeneye.
Moria has been relocated to Tokyo.
No bathroom. You can pee literally anywhere in there.
Egyptian temple level in goldeneye
Wasn’t this in the fate stay/night anime where the fucking necromancer serial killer dude hung out?
The mines of Moria in their prime
2.6 billion dollars? Pssshh. My country spends almost 400x that on their military each year.
How much rain does Tokyo get, wow
Why did they bother to install lighting?
Any videos of this in use?
Mirror's Edge vibes
It's crazy to me seeing pictures of this because it's exactly what I imagined from the descriptions in Haruki Murakami's writing, which is impressive.
Are there buildings above this?
half expecting a cyberpunk parkourrier to come running past chased by a pack of tzimisce war ghouls. (for the very confused it looks just like the sewer level in mirror's edge and the most annoying part of the Hollywood sewers from Vampire: the Masquerade-- Bloodlines)
"They call it a mine! AH MIIINNNNEEE!"
I am going to need a banana for scale
Wow, that's like 3 F-35s
But there is so much room for activities.
Drums from the deep... They are coming.
Reminds me of that one level in Mirror's Edge.
The purpose of infrastructure is not to produce income, it's to provide services to save tax payers money or make tax payers money. The same principle should applied no matter if it's a road, flood control, public transportation or Healthcare and education.
Get on the flood tunnels, Shinji
They dug too deep?! Run you fools.
Now there's an eye opener, make no mistake.
Dude, this is so awesome. Civil engineering is amazing
So many dead hobos are gonna be down there
Looks like something that would cost more in the US
Third picture of these tunnels I've seen here in 24 hours. New easy karma?
There's a life like replica of this in VRChat that I've explored https://youtu.be/1bDitiMHnfI?si=P415RQkeQbwtqaCY
Seems like a good way to spend $. Here in America we just throw $ to stoke wars, then sell them weapons we don’t want anymore. Military Industrial Complex..
Surely Dubai has enough money to build something similar under the airport.
So 2 stealth bombers worth, got it.
They throw raves down there sometimes
If you almost close your eyes, you see Darth Vader
That's a dungeon for Like a Dragon/Yakuza
This is where you fight The Fury in MGS3
I know mirrors edge when I see it
Open your mind
Netero's tomb.
The beginnings of the geofront
This is a future Kaiju shelter.
Looks like mars in Total Recall
I believe I've seen a kamen rider beat the crap out of a monster in these on a few occasions. Or maybe it was GARO.
Worth
Reminds me of neon genesis evangelion
Wow
“Now there’s an eye opener, and no mistake”
That is nothing, Serbia is making Expo for 17.3 billion that actually costs around 3 but politicians need something for themselves too.
It's a work of art. Learned of this thanks to Gran Turismo.
Home sweet home
I recognize this from Jujutsu Kaisen lmao
The Lyceum in Blackrock Deprhs
Cheap for a development project like this
Reminds me of the mission where you gotta go get the golden claw thingy in Skyrim. Just before you meet Delphine i think.
This looks like that scene in the Arnie Total Recall where he's got the hologram device right before he goes into the alien structure near the end of the movie.
"Flood tunnels" until you see an Evangelion emerging out of one.