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The trip to New Mexico was all set up by my wife (no Steam account), and my adult children were excited to come along, but '''''Her''''' plan was to hit all the National Parks (you know, with the coal mines), not the cities. So we looped around the outskirts of ''TF2'' Badlands, rather than go through Well or [[Teufort (city)|Teufort]]. | The trip to New Mexico was all set up by my wife (no Steam account), and my adult children were excited to come along, but '''''Her''''' plan was to hit all the National Parks (you know, with the coal mines), not the cities. So we looped around the outskirts of ''TF2'' Badlands, rather than go through Well or [[Teufort (city)|Teufort]]. | ||
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| + | File:User Mikado282 Laughter, New Mexico 01.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Laughter, New Mexico 01.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see Laughter from my hotel room!]] | ||
| + | File:User Mikado282 Red Mountain coach 01.jpg|{{code|pl_D&SNGRR}}<br/>[[:File:User Mikado282 Red Mountain coach 01.jpg#Summary|By shear chance our tickets were for this cart!]] | ||
| + | File:User Mikado282 Guess who's pullin' the cart!.jpg|{{code|pl_D&SNGRR}}<br/>[[:File:User Mikado282 Guess who's pullin' the cart!.jpg#Summary|Guess who's pullin' the cart!<br/>A Mikado282!]] | ||
| + | File:Use Mikado282 Teufort, Texas 01.jpg|[[:File:Use Mikado282 Teufort, Texas 01.jpg#Summary|I don't know; it made me think of a mini-2Fort.]] | ||
| + | File:User Mikado282 Texas skybox 01.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Texas skybox 01.jpg#Summary|Kansas is nowhere near this flat!]] | ||
| + | File:User Mikado282 Hey! Miss Pauling's car!.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Hey! Miss Pauling's car!.jpg#Summary|Hey! I see Miss Pauling's car!]] | ||
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=== Stalking Valve (2021) === | === Stalking Valve (2021) === | ||
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File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Granary from here!.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Granary from here!.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see Granary from here!]]<br/>([[w:Space Needle|Space Needle]]) | File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Granary from here!.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Granary from here!.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see Granary from here!]]<br/>([[w:Space Needle|Space Needle]]) | ||
File:User Mikado282 IGP Layout 02.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 IGP Layout 02.jpg|Hey! I remembered I could see Granary from Kansas State University, too!]] | File:User Mikado282 IGP Layout 02.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 IGP Layout 02.jpg|Hey! I remembered I could see Granary from Kansas State University, too!]] | ||
| − | + | File:User Mikado282 Pier, Seattle.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Pier, Seattle.jpg#Summary|Pier, Seattle.]] | |
File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Thunder Mountain from up here!.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Thunder Mountain from up here!.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see Thunder Mountain from up here!]] | File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Thunder Mountain from up here!.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Hey! I can see Thunder Mountain from up here!.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see Thunder Mountain from up here!]] | ||
| − | + | File:User Mikado282 Thunder Mountain Trestle seen from Valve's Headquarters.png|[[:File:User Mikado282 Thunder Mountain Trestle seen from hotel room window.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see my base from here!]]<br/>(Valve Offices) | |
| − | File:User Mikado282 Thunder Mountain Trestle seen from Valve's Headquarters.png|[[:File:User Mikado282 Thunder Mountain Trestle seen from hotel room window.jpg#Summary|Hey! I can see | ||
File:User Mikado282 Thunder Mountain Trestle seen from hotel room window.jpg|Thunder Mountain trestle ([[w:Wilburton Trestle|Wilburton Trestle]]) from hotel room window. | File:User Mikado282 Thunder Mountain Trestle seen from hotel room window.jpg|Thunder Mountain trestle ([[w:Wilburton Trestle|Wilburton Trestle]]) from hotel room window. | ||
File:User Mikado282 Train IRL 01.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Train IRL 01.jpg|'''''TRAIN!''''' A lucky IRL catch of a rare antique ''TF2'' GP38-2!]] | File:User Mikado282 Train IRL 01.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Train IRL 01.jpg|'''''TRAIN!''''' A lucky IRL catch of a rare antique ''TF2'' GP38-2!]] | ||
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=== Miscellaneous === | === Miscellaneous === | ||
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<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:User Mikado282 Mercenary Park Gift Shop, Nebraska .jpg|No, really! [[:File:User Mikado282 Mercenary Park Gift Shop, Nebraska .jpg#Summary|Yeti Park Gift Shop, Nebraska.]] | File:User Mikado282 Mercenary Park Gift Shop, Nebraska .jpg|No, really! [[:File:User Mikado282 Mercenary Park Gift Shop, Nebraska .jpg#Summary|Yeti Park Gift Shop, Nebraska.]] | ||
| + | File:User Mikado282 1968 NPK.jpg|I'm the [[w:The Lorax|Lore-guy]]; I speak for the [[NPC]]s.<br/>''(See [[Storyline#1968|1968]])'' | ||
| + | File:User Mikado282 Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.jpg#Summary|The Visitor Center and Playground at Mercenary Park, Kansas,]] | ||
File:User Mikado282 Who's pushin' da freakin'' cart.jpg|{{code|[[Enclosure|pl_enclosure_neb]]}}<br>[[:File:User Mikado282 Who's pushin' da freakin'' cart.jpg#Summary|Who's pushin' da freakin' cart!?]] | File:User Mikado282 Who's pushin' da freakin'' cart.jpg|{{code|[[Enclosure|pl_enclosure_neb]]}}<br>[[:File:User Mikado282 Who's pushin' da freakin'' cart.jpg#Summary|Who's pushin' da freakin' cart!?]] | ||
| − | File:User Mikado282 Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.jpg| | + | File:User Mikado282 Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.jpg|Visitor Center and Playground, Mercenary Park, Kansas.]] |
File:User Mikado282 Sniper is Spy! 20170321 01.png|[[:File:User Mikado282 Sniper is Spy! 20170321 01.png#Summary|Sniper is a semi-aquatic, egg-laying BLU Spy of action!]] | File:User Mikado282 Sniper is Spy! 20170321 01.png|[[:File:User Mikado282 Sniper is Spy! 20170321 01.png#Summary|Sniper is a semi-aquatic, egg-laying BLU Spy of action!]] | ||
File:User Mikado282 Gawrsh, Sniper! 20170321 01.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Gawrsh, Sniper! 20170321 01.jpg#Summary|Gawrsh, Sniper!]] | File:User Mikado282 Gawrsh, Sniper! 20170321 01.jpg|[[:File:User Mikado282 Gawrsh, Sniper! 20170321 01.jpg#Summary|Gawrsh, Sniper!]] | ||
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=== Badlands geology === | === Badlands geology === | ||
| − | I met the new Geology professor. He grew up in the [[Badlands (region)|Badlands]]. I mentioned the Rio Grande Rift Valley and [[Map of Badlands|Valles Caldera]]. He replied, "[[:File:Catchup03.jpg|North Central New Mexico is the most beautiful place on Earth.]]" I told him, "You just made my profile!" | + | {{Quotation|[[Non-player_characters#Zepheniah_Mann|Zepheniah_Mann]]|... gravel as far as the eye can see.}} |
| + | I met the new Geology professor here. He grew up in the [[Badlands (region)|Badlands]]. I mentioned the Rio Grande Rift Valley and [[Map of Badlands|Valles Caldera]]. He replied, "[[:File:Catchup03.jpg|North Central New Mexico is the most beautiful place on Earth.]]" I told him, "You just made my profile!" | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:User Mikado282 Goldrush, That's twice!.png|[[:File:User Mikado282 Goldrush, That's twice!.png#Summary|That's twice in a week Gold Rush was the screen saver!]] | File:User Mikado282 Goldrush, That's twice!.png|[[:File:User Mikado282 Goldrush, That's twice!.png#Summary|That's twice in a week Gold Rush was the screen saver!]] | ||
Revision as of 03:47, 10 June 2021
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- See also User:Mikado282/Remembering 68.
A gallery for personal TF2 IRL images. Please, click the pictures and links for more explanations of how I experience TF2 everywhere.
Comments are welcome on the Talk page.
When I was 15 years old, I started driving 30 ton loads of grain to this and other Granaries. It was easy to convince East Coast city kids that the silos held nuclear missiles; which of course we all know is absolutely true.
When I first started playing TF2, BLU's "modern" architecture (like Dustbowl 3rd stage) reminded me specifically of the post-war concrete architecture of this Farmer's CO-OP General Office and Feed Service Center. After I had managed to break addictions to Railroad Tycoon and Civilization, it was the nostalgia of Team Fortress 2 that sucked me back in.
Compare with File:Bluarchitechture.png.
To be fair, here is the RED elevator, rare now (because the ones that were still being used and taken care of were painted white or silver after WWII). Compare with File:Redarchitechture.png. The classic red paint was a frugal homemade mixture of skimmed milk, lime, and red iron oxide.
Contents
Loadouts
(Heading out to split wood one evening, I thought I should share my loadouts:)
My evening and weekend loadout: (clockwise from lower left) Back Scratcher (note the authentic antique stamped-metal tines), Wrench, Equalizer, Homewrecker, Axe, Shovel (entrenching tool), Hot Hand (20,000 Volt insulated gloves), and Market Gardener! I have had this equipment for years before Team Fortress 2 was released!
This is how we did Medieval Mode before the Internet. I made the chain mail hauberk myself, which is how people spent their time before Steam. The picture was taken on or about the day my Medieval Wikicap dropped.
The picture is after I wore out my Mantreads; I'll show them to you after I find the second one.
Badlands IRL (2021)
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The trip to New Mexico was all set up by my wife (no Steam account), and my adult children were excited to come along, but Her plan was to hit all the National Parks (you know, with the coal mines), not the cities. So we looped around the outskirts of TF2 Badlands, rather than go through Well or Teufort.
- Use Mikado282 Teufort, Texas 01.jpg
Stalking Valve (2021)
My hotel is in walking distance of Valve, and I don't have to go to work until 4AM, sooooo...
Valve is out there. (actually the tower on the far left)*
8PM, Saturday night, lights still on at Valve (14th floor).
Lincoln Square Lobby, 10400 NE 4th Street.
Wish I could say it's a Chihuly; there's one like it at the Garden.
I would apologize for the blur, but the painting might be that rough.
Locked down tight.
Yeah, pretty lame not calling in favors to get in the door, but, I was in town on a bigger job.
*(Hey! I actually could see Valve from my hotel lounge!)
Touring Greater Bellevue, Washington (2021)
I spent a week on a job in Seattle. I stayed in a hotel in Bellevue and took in the surrounding TF2 sights.
Poopy Joe Memorial IRL (Sad Yeti left behind.)
Hey! I can see my base from here!
(Valve Offices)
Thunder Mountain trestle (Wilburton Trestle) from hotel room window.
Hale Library
A few years back (2018), IRL Hale Library had a book fire (actually, a roof fire; the books were damaged by smoke and water). The library was widely remodeled; and to Saxton’s approval, hardly a book in sight -- it looks more like a retro café.
Actually, there are a few books. One caught my eye; 1968 is a satirical art book by Maurizio Cattelan, who only had a one-year head start on Mikado282 Remembering 1968.
BEHOLD ... the terror ... of READING!
Nice Sixties retro lounge décor!
See, no books! (Freshman Saxton posing for industrial posing class)
I am not alone in Remembering 1968!
My scout camp trip to Lakeside, South Dakota (2018)
I make reference to Lakeside not only because the camp was at a large lake, but coincidentally enough, the lake is lined with massive limestone bluffs, the same Coniacian age and quality of limestone as the Cretaceous limestone on the ancient Egyptian archaeological Giza Plateau.
Enclosure, Nebraska.
Achievement Idle Awesomebox, Nebraska.
Enclosure, Kansas.
Almost home!
Miscellaneous
In case you don't know, Payload is by far my favorite mode.
No, really! Yeti Park Gift Shop, Nebraska.
OneTwo of our engineers at the office really look just like this!
FEEL the terror ... of copyright infringement!
Purrasmus!
Purrasmus! IRL
Domino-micon! Feel the terror of purring!
Pipeline, Kansas
Gravel Pit, Kansas
Badlands geology
| “ | ... gravel as far as the eye can see.
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I met the new Geology professor here. He grew up in the Badlands. I mentioned the Rio Grande Rift Valley and Valles Caldera. He replied, "North Central New Mexico is the most beautiful place on Earth." I told him, "You just made my profile!"
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