User:Mikado282/TF2 ImyRL
- 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) specifically reminded of the post-war concrete architecture of this Farmer's CO-OP General Office and Feed Mill. 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.
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)
(In two months, we will be going to Badlands. It is the wife's idea, and my adult children are excited, but Her plan is to hit National Parks (you know, with the coal mines), not the cities. So we will loop around the outskirts of TF2 Badlands, rather than go through Well or Teufort.
Stalking Valve (2021)
My hotel is in walking distance of Valve, sooooo...
Touring Greater Bellevue, Washington (2021)
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
Manko, Kansas
Look very close ...
Team Fortress 2, Kansas.
One of our engineers at the office really looks 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
I met the new Geology professor. 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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