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You're a Canadian in CAL? Well south park is just great, gotta love it!
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You're a Canadian in CAL? Well south park is just great, gotta love it!
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I was living in Maine, I just got tired of the cold and the cost of heating oil. Where I live now on the very bottom, left hand corner of the continental US I can get by comfortably without heat or air conditioning. Of course the ground shakes once in a while.
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Of course the ground shakes once in a while.
That's just the stampede of overweight citizens running to the next Walmart because there's a special offer on lard.
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I was living in Maine, I just got tired of the cold and the cost of heating oil. Where I live now on the very bottom, left hand corner of the continental US I can get by comfortably without heat or air conditioning. Of course the ground shakes once in a while.
And the cause of the rumbling isn't us over here in Sin City
. And Bjoern I loved the Wal-MArt Comment lol. You made my day.
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A bit off topic, but our Wisconsin Governor Walker (not satisfied with a wall to keep out our Mexican neighbors), decided we need a wall between the US and Canada... a theme exploited by the South Park gang. But he misspoke. We need a fence. A snow fence. It can have gates in it.
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No, we need a wall along the entire Canadian border, a very high wall, to keep all that #$#
;# cold air out! 
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All right, can we now get back to subject now and praise my ability to put vector lines from a third party source into FSX, have the autogen system place 3D objects (using third party textures) on it and use ModelConverterX and its "place and compile as BGL" to put some third-party objects into the landscape?
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Oh yes, Bjoern.
You did a good job of putting vector lines from a third party source into FSX, having the autogen system place 3D objects (using third party textures) on it and using ModelConverterX and its "place and compile as BGL" to put some third-party objects into the landscape.
Kidding aside, recreating the wall is an interesting idea. I wonder how much the landscape is still changed by the wall? And does it still affect people's lives?
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You did a good job of putting vector lines from a third party source into FSX, having the autogen system place 3D objects (using third party textures) on it and using ModelConverterX and its "place and compile as BGL" to put some third-party objects into the landscape.
Kidding aside, recreating the wall is an interesting idea. I wonder how much the landscape is still changed by the wall? And does it still affect people's lives?
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That's what I wanna hear!
The strips were de-mined and left to nature or were turned into bicycle paths. In the more urban area of Berlin, the border was mostly simply built over, but it's still clearly visible if you know where to look. Some parts were left roughly as they were and now serve as memorials, especially to the one hundred sixty something people who were killed while trying to cross into the West.
One of the more interesting aspects is that the Wall also ran underground. Sewer pipes were blocked with lattices and underground rail lines that had to cross East Berlin were passing through sealed stations manned with guard posts. Stopping was not allowed, except in case of emergency.
It's only been 26 years, so there still is a bit of a mental division. Mostly tongue-in-cheek though.
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Well if I remember correctly you did open this can of worms. Personally I will respect your wishes and stay on topic in this thread when I have something relevant to add.
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I was in Berlin last month. I can say this...For me learning about East and West Germany in school, and then seeing the wall come down as a young adult, then having a chance to live in Germany, and see first hand what I had been learning in school was a eye opener! Last month was the first time in Berlin (I have been in Germany for 15 years now). One thing that really stuck with me was the closer I got to where the wall was I could see the distinct difference between East and West Germany. Imagine this....You are standing where the wall was and you look left......the architecture is that of a typical German city...Rustic/Medieval/German....You look right, and it looks like you are looking thru a portal into the USSR. Literally! The buildings are very sovietish. Same with the colors of the buildings. Very interesting!
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The only thing I have to compare to this is a short visit to Nogales, Mexico. 1/5 of the city exists in Arizona. There is a chain link fence that cuts through the city along the boarder. When you walk down the street and cross the line the road turns from paved to packed dirt. When looking around you immediately come to the somewhat startling conclusion that you have stepped into an entirely new world.
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This was aimed at the "...,brotha" thing.
Berlin's main architectural style isn't medieval. It's a relatively young city and most development took place from the 17th century onward, so the main style can be categorized as baroque and everything beyond. This style is common throughout the city, with the main difference that West Berlin used the prevalent architectural style of the West to rebuild the city while East Berlin stuck to what was the current trend in the East. Renovating old buildings was also more popular in the west than in the east.
The Tränenpalast was just an annex to the current Friedrichstrasse train station.
But if this was the most interesting place you've seen, you should claim your money back from your tourist guide.
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I was just trying to describe the difference in the architecture between East and West Germany. Heretic, I have lived in Germany for the past 15 years, and live near Bamberg. I am used to the Baroque style, but it was interesting to see the difference. As far as the Tränenpalast, being from America and just reading in the text books what was happening, I found it very interesting. My tour guide was a politician so we spent the most time at the Bundestag and such. (I was there with a group of 12 Feuerwehr people.