User:Mikado282/Sandbox

Heavy is not he previously jolly self.

Train

Train's paint scheme matches the "Bloody Nose" standard that Southern Pacific used from 1958 on -- except that the characteristic SP nose wings are not the standard Sunset Red but the rare "Halloween" orange that SP experimented with early on.

Descriptions

This is the closest most players will come to hiking around old farm shacks,

User Boxes

This user is a fan of Atomicpunk.

This user is a fan of Spacepunk.

This user is a fan of Planet of the Apes references.

This user is a fan of Halloween mode

This user would like you to kindly consider clicking on this link to his replay.

Yes, this user is aware there are other modes than Halloween.

This user wants to be a REAL engineer.

Click for cheap replay.

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References

Many item names and achievement titles embody puns and double or even triple entendras; part of the fun of the game is figuring those out. Spoiler alert: Answers or guesses at answers to the riddles in some of those titles are provided herein.

Achievements

The title also refers to Optical Diffusion, the scattering of light, which is an important game technology, such as in the Source Phong shader on the Valve Developer Community. Furthermore, the purposeful misspelling suggests that by defeating Demoman’s Optical organ the player is defusing an explosive situation.

Also, an w:array:array is a standard programing term for a set of things of the same type, like an array of missions.

Companies

others are simply references to actual or archetypical companies, products, and corporate art to support the game's general reference to the 1960s.

References Archer Daniels Midland’s green leaf and molecule logo (missing one atom here), which in 1958 symbolized making industrial chemicals from plants instead of from oil or (ironically) coal.

From 1958, the "Double Circle CO-OP" was an trademark owned by Farmland Industries, displayed by member CO-OPs.^[1]

Several unrelated retail businesses had and have the name Farmers Feed & Seed. Master Mix was a product and trademark of McMillen Feed Mills.

"Make hay while the sun shines." On the farm, we could play games inside, but only on rainy days. A wonderful rule. This gamer learned to read the clouds.

References the counterpart "Gilded Gold" References the counterpart "Shiny's Bullion A gilded thing looks shiny but is not gold. "All that shines is not gold."

Foundry

Red Iron may refer to a characteristic color associated with iron and steel or to forms of iron and steel that are associated with that color:Iron Red will refer more to the color, not to iron or steel Ironically, Grey Iron referes to specific alloys of cast iron, due to their charatertic mat finish or fracture. Related to the characteristic blue color of the ... oxide of iron, ... may refer to One of the four main opposing properties on Foundry. One of the two main opposing properties on Granary. Counterpart to the Red Iron, Blue Steel Property on Foundry. Like Red Iron, Blue Steel is a reference to the color of one of the two common oxides of iron. are both references to the natural colors of Blue is a color associated with steel. A Blast Complex implies Blast furnace operation, wherein iron is refined into steel w:iron alloys. Counterpoint to Red Iron on Foundry. Red is a color associated with iron.

=Goldstream Nuggets

References biological function. Counterpart to Reference to a mamalian biologial process. Counterpoint to Brown Nugget on Foundry. Counterpoint to Blue Steel on Foundry. Reference to a mamalian biologial process. Counterpoint to Goldstream on Foundry.

Historical Context

The content of TF2 is based on historical and cultural elements of the late 1960's. The setting of most of the first maps released for the game is 1968, generally in the sourthwestern deserts of the United States. Several later release maps are set a few years later the purpose here is to list historical events or movements that influenced TF2, but also to mention very important events and movements that are not omitted from the game. If we are to justify games as ecudcational, then we should make efforts to that purpose. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trillogy was released in the United States in 1967, as tributed in TF2 by references in Engineer items and achievements (Face full of Festive The Goo badn and . The scores for these movies established Enione Moricone's influence in Western movie music, as tributed in TF2 by "The Calm". (signatures whips, whistling, jew's harp, bells, trumpets, reverbing electic guitar Historical Context of TF2 In someways, the historical presentation in TF2 is resonably accurate, if nostalsic. The art captures the Atomic Punk and Space Punk movements of the time, yet also shows many iconic references to bygone Americana (rustic farmsteads, delaptidate mines). The Cold War, the Space Race, Hippies, and World War II (the latter still culturally relevantin the late 1960's) are notablty, if steriotypically, evident in maps, items, character back grounds, or responces. However, other serious contemporary issues are not generally referenced; in particular, global civil unrest, War Protests, and Racial tensions.

Circa 1968

1968 is the time frame of the Gravel Wars 1968 is a culmination of a historically and culturally significant period in U.S. and World history

While most TF2 maps contain hidden missile bases, US farm kids really did tell visiting big-city kids that the big white grain silos were really missile silos.

Referenced in Game

Cold War

China was relatively impenetrable. What is the difference between a picture and art?

Space Race

The US was winning the Space Race and was on the verge of the Manned Moon Landing, making the Monkeynaut business a bit anachronistic.

Railroads

Trains appear immensely popular with Valve and Community Developers, appearing in some form in almost all maps. US Railroads were completely dieselized by 1968, but rail passenger service has generally failed by this date, prompting the formation of AMTRAK, which began operation in 1971.

Popular Music

Surf Rock had progressed to Girl Rock and Car Rock and grown to influence soundtracks for Space, Spy, Monster, and Western movies and TV series; these later four forms being a basis for much of the Team Fortress Soundtrack (cf. Tom Jones moved to the region to begin regular performances at Los Vegas lounges. His televison variety show abrubly ends with his death in 1971 at the hands of his roomate Merasmus.

Movies

Silver age of cinema

WWII

WWII was still a relatively recent and culturally pervasive event features in several moves produced at that time. (Soldier), references in several items but its significance was to begin to fade as Baby Boomers came to political influence.

World War II is still a vivid national memory, but its cultural influence is fading to that of the Vietnam War. Several achievements and Items, especially those of Soldier, reference WWII equipment, events, or movies. Market Gardener Guns of Naveowned In 1968, Veterans of WWiI are now in middle age and at their peak earnings stage, and they are confronting the Generation Gap -- their children the baby boomers are now passing through high school and college.

The minigun is one TF2 item that is actually associated specifically with the Vet Nam War

Some very Big Things were going on then and are referenced in the game, but some of the very Big Things happening then are not referenced at all.

Most Americans still live on farms

U.S. is in the midst of the Vet Nam War, Nixon campaigns on ending the war. Major, harmful changes in U.S. diet: food processing, replacement of animal fat with hydrogenated vegetable oils. replacement of grass-fed cattle with grain fed Concentrated Feeder Operations

Hippies

Long hair became a political statement (Hippies, hair cuts, Hippies)

Largely ignored in the TF2 meleu, the Viet Nam war had become a culturally divisive issue in the U.S.. The infamous Tet Offencsive occured in 1968 . -- then Republican Candidate for President Richard Nixon campaigned on a platform of ending the that was. The archetipical M134 (Minigun) was developed specifically for action in the Vet Nam war.

Soldier natural enemy of robots hippies.

Definitive events happened around 1968 Woodstock 1969 and wins the biggest U.S. Presidential landslide

Not Referenced in Game

The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominately characterised by popular rebeilions worldwide against militray, capitalist, and socialist elites alike.  The protests were brually quashed in 2nd and 3rd world Communist Block countries, but were appeased by progressis spending measures in Western 1st world countries.

Racial Tensions

Race was an extremely intense issue in the US at this time, withnessing the Long Hot Summer of 1967, the assaignation of Martin Luther King and attendant riots, and desegrigation of housing through the Fair Housing Acts of 1968. As recently as 1964 and 1965, Civil Rights Acts were passed addressing the voting disenfrachisement of blacks. The close friendship of Demoman and Soldier would have been relatively novel at that time. Personally, having been an impressionable (white) child in the 1960s, I have always felt a little uncomfortable with the stereotypical blaxploitation hats and miscellaneous items for Demoman; so, I hope their apparent acceptance in the TF2 community reflects that gamers are post-racial. "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) established the Modern Zombie genre (cf. Zombie Fortress) Nuclear Weapons dominated international relations (heavily referenced in TF2 Maps).

Game Wiki Editor's Prayer

As I sit to type, I utter this self-admonishing prayer: Very, very few edits to this wiki feed, clothe, or comfort anyone or anything except egos. I pray to minimize my self-absorption and sloth and that I not compound my sins with jealousy and or anger over such petty concerns as games. Loving games is easy, even thieves, murders, and haters love games. How much more glorious is it to love something that does not give such immediate, easy pleasure?