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73. Pretty much. The city, Rapture, was founded in the late 50s.
Since the game takes place in the 60s, the city is mostly retro design with future elements (like the genetic modifications, plasmids, etc.)
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  - Faux Philosophy  ProfessorGAC   Feb-26-10 05:28 AM   #2 
     - It's been a long downhill run.  Enthusiast   Feb-26-10 06:25 AM   #7 
     - You do a disservice by calling it a philosophy  MattBaggins   Feb-27-10 01:27 PM   #87 
  - But...but...  timtom   Feb-26-10 06:07 AM   #3 
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  - Set up of straw man.  GoneOffShore   Feb-26-10 07:38 PM   #53 
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  - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-27-10 02:02 PM   #96 
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  - I fully endorse this act of gun violence. nt  onehandle   Feb-26-10 07:28 PM   #51 
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  - I knew she was crazy, but damn. . .  Bosso 63   Feb-26-10 07:21 AM   #10 
  - Yuck, I need to take a shower after reading that.  Odin2005   Feb-26-10 08:02 AM   #11 
  - K&R #18, so that visiting wingnuts will see themselves!1 n/t  UTUSN   Feb-26-10 08:51 AM   #12 
  - Personally, I think all average citizens should "go Galt"  devilgrrl   Feb-26-10 09:25 AM   #13 
  - I never get tired of this one...  The_Commonist   Feb-26-10 04:52 PM   #31 
  - Understandably so. ;^)  eppur_se_muova   Feb-26-10 07:05 PM   #47 
  - Best BTAF ever. n/t  daleo   Feb-27-10 12:22 AM   #74 
  - Ha ha ha. That's awesome.  Frank Cannon   Feb-27-10 01:00 AM   #75 
  - Most of the people threatening to "go Galt" *are* grocery baggers, garbagemen et al  nxylas   Feb-26-10 05:16 PM   #37 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-27-10 02:09 PM   #99 
     - "Its sort of like socialism..." Cute quote.  devilgrrl   Feb-27-10 02:20 PM   #101 
        - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-27-10 02:23 PM   #102 
           - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-27-10 02:24 PM   #105 
           - hmmm, can't seem to locate it on google. Could you have been paraphrasing?  devilgrrl   Feb-27-10 02:26 PM   #106 
     - People running business empires would tend to notice the collective nature of production...  JackRiddler   Feb-28-10 12:00 PM   #140 
  - K&R  Z_I_Peevey   Feb-26-10 09:30 AM   #14 
  - I knew she was bad, but I didn't know she was that twisted.  suede1   Feb-26-10 09:32 AM   #15 
  - K&R  redqueen   Feb-26-10 09:37 AM   #16 
  - That sort of disdain is a basic tenet for repukes.  BrklynLiberal   Feb-26-10 11:00 PM   #67 
     - That would explain a lot about their world view, yes.  redqueen   Feb-27-10 09:44 AM   #80 
  - Ughhhhhhhh. Ought to be a warning on that article... it's the stuff of nightmares.  hunter   Feb-26-10 10:31 AM   #17 
  - The "me" generation...  maryf   Feb-26-10 03:07 PM   #18 
  - The me generation is a media creation  wolfgangmo   Feb-26-10 05:20 PM   #38 
     - There is some reason for the names...  maryf   Feb-27-10 12:56 PM   #82 
  - Fortunately...  Last_Stand   Feb-26-10 03:14 PM   #19 
  - I say go Galt! The Randians leaving will reduce unemployment...  Umbral   Feb-26-10 03:29 PM   #20 
  - K&R to highlight right wing pathology. //nt  Overseas   Feb-26-10 03:31 PM   #21 
  - Another insight: Alan Greenspan - associating with Rand humanized me  REP   Feb-26-10 03:37 PM   #22 
  - Geez... he must be waaaaaay the hell out there.  redqueen   Feb-26-10 03:40 PM   #23 
  - That's it there.  ocd liberal   Feb-27-10 09:49 PM   #122 
  - That explains a lot about her #1 fan; Terry Goodkind.  Hong Kong Cavalier   Feb-26-10 03:40 PM   #24 
  - Not to mention his morbid fascination with rape  MattBaggins   Feb-27-10 01:31 PM   #88 
     - Oh yes. How could I forget that.  Hong Kong Cavalier   Feb-27-10 11:10 PM   #124 
  - Thank you so much for posting this  LisaM   Feb-26-10 03:41 PM   #25 
  - K&R.  onestepforward   Feb-26-10 03:44 PM   #26 
  - I've read 'The Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged' ...  Flatulo   Feb-26-10 03:45 PM   #27 
  - "...pays their fair share back to the society..."  Umbral   Feb-26-10 04:50 PM   #30 
  - .... except that none of the "heroes" in Rand's novels are really that succesful  liberation   Feb-26-10 05:51 PM   #43 
  - Respectfully disagree with your first point...  Flatulo   Feb-26-10 08:38 PM   #57 
     - And there is were I disagree, I don't tend to equate "frustrated" with "sucessful"  liberation   Feb-26-10 11:44 PM   #72 
     - great point...that potential doesn't equal genius or success...  nashville_brook   Feb-27-10 01:52 PM   #93 
        - I don't understand this comment...  Flatulo   Feb-27-10 06:20 PM   #112 
           - I am getting the impression, you are being obfuscated on purpose in order to protect your narrative.  liberation   Feb-27-10 09:41 PM   #119 
              - "a remarkably mediocre person trying to write authoritatively regarding genius and achievement" --  nashville_brook   Feb-28-10 10:27 AM   #133 
     - As I recall....  verges   Feb-27-10 06:37 PM   #114 
        - If you think that Roarke's failure was his unwillingness to conform, then  Flatulo   Feb-27-10 07:34 PM   #115 
           - His failure wasn't his unwillingness to conform.  verges   Feb-27-10 08:46 PM   #117 
              - Yeah, Patricia Neal was pretty hot with those riding crops! nt  Flatulo   Feb-27-10 08:52 PM   #118 
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  - Steve Jobs?????  hunter   Feb-26-10 07:06 PM   #48 
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  - It may well be that every libertarian is not a sociopath  zeemike   Feb-26-10 07:33 PM   #52 
  - what about left libertarians?  krabigirl   Feb-26-10 08:46 PM   #60 
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     - You mean anarchists? nt  anonymous171   Feb-27-10 09:48 PM   #121 
  - I won't flame at you...  femrap   Feb-26-10 07:40 PM   #54 
  - She just loved to be like him thats all  nightgaunt   Feb-26-10 08:22 PM   #55 
  - Have you read her books? nt  Flatulo   Feb-26-10 08:45 PM   #59 
  - I can't speak to her sanity, but at the time I read her works, her writings certainly  Flatulo   Feb-26-10 08:44 PM   #58 
     - It's funny how everyone takes such  femrap   Feb-27-10 12:58 PM   #83 
     - To your points...  Flatulo   Feb-27-10 06:10 PM   #111 
        - To Flatulo  brownp51   Feb-28-10 08:44 AM   #131 
        - Pete Townsend was a pedophile, yet the Who produced some of the  Flatulo   Feb-28-10 06:28 PM   #146 
        - There is the other side of the coin as well, however.  Threedifferentones   Feb-28-10 02:25 PM   #141 
           - Thanks for the comment - I think most reasonable people  Flatulo   Feb-28-10 06:25 PM   #145 
     - That's nice and all  MattBaggins   Feb-27-10 01:49 PM   #92 
     - You're right about this...  Flatulo   Feb-27-10 07:49 PM   #116 
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        - OK, let's further differentiate between 'ability' and 'temperment'.  Flatulo   Mar-01-10 01:47 PM   #150 
  - Hmm---idolizing a child murderer is romantic?  lolly   Feb-27-10 01:05 PM   #85 
  - Flame away?  MattBaggins   Feb-27-10 01:35 PM   #91 
  - I'd like to see the citation for that so that I can examine the context.  Flatulo   Feb-27-10 06:27 PM   #113 
  - Weber calls it the zweckrational  heliarc   Feb-27-10 02:01 PM   #94 
  - yikes  fascisthunter   Feb-28-10 04:19 PM   #144 
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  - Someone posted a "how to be a hero in an Ayn Rand novel" flowchart...  redqueen   Feb-26-10 04:06 PM   #29 
  - Is this it?  onestepforward   Feb-26-10 04:58 PM   #32 
  - Cracked FTW!  semillama   Feb-26-10 05:05 PM   #34 
  - Yes that's it... thanks!  redqueen   Feb-26-10 05:35 PM   #40 
  - Glad I could find it!  onestepforward   Feb-26-10 06:12 PM   #44 
  - Perfect  XemaSab   Feb-26-10 11:43 PM   #71 
  - here it is  704wipes   Feb-26-10 05:07 PM   #35 
     - I did Google... I remembered it as "hero" and not "character"  redqueen   Feb-26-10 05:34 PM   #39 
  - Ayn Rand's Greenspan's hero. Andrea Mitchell is married to him  upi402   Feb-26-10 04:58 PM   #33 
  - ATLAS SHRUGGED: THE ABRIDGED VERSION (with spoilers)  BillyBob99   Feb-26-10 05:10 PM   #36 
  - LOL  redqueen   Feb-26-10 05:39 PM   #41 
  - Brilliant  wolfgangmo   Feb-26-10 05:41 PM   #42 
  - That's great! You should post this as an orginal.  20score   Feb-26-10 08:52 PM   #61 
  - Damn! You got tombstoned for this? It's ART!!!!! n/t  VOX   Feb-27-10 11:57 PM   #127 
     - i was wondering the same thing...might not be b/c of the post, since it wasn't deleted.  nashville_brook   Feb-28-10 10:51 AM   #138 
     - OFF TOPIC: Love your cat, dude.. Can I steal him?  Prof Lester   Mar-01-10 08:48 AM   #148 
  - Good old Mark Ames.  JVS   Feb-26-10 07:07 PM   #49 
  - Ayn Rand sucks.  onehandle   Feb-26-10 07:27 PM   #50 
  - They made a video game based on Ayn Rand's brainchild.  Arkana   Feb-26-10 08:27 PM   #56 
  - I think I played that.  arcadian   Feb-26-10 09:51 PM   #64 
  - Pretty much. The city, Rapture, was founded in the late 50s.  Arkana   Feb-27-10 12:19 AM   #73 
  - "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?  Occulus   Feb-27-10 01:34 PM   #90 
     - Would you kindly go get stomped by a Big Daddy?  Arkana   Feb-27-10 02:17 PM   #100 
        - It was such a nice moment, wasn't it?  Occulus   Feb-27-10 02:24 PM   #104 
           - "A MAN CHOOSES...A SLAVE OBEYS!"  Arkana   Feb-27-10 02:30 PM   #108 
              - I'm still working through it. I'm in Siren's Alley right now...  Occulus   Feb-27-10 03:07 PM   #109 
                 - Oh God...if you think the people in charge are saner, wait. Just wait.  Arkana   Feb-27-10 03:30 PM   #110 
                    - What is this "rescue" of which you speak?  Occulus   Feb-27-10 11:23 PM   #126 
                       - You MONSTER.  Arkana   Feb-28-10 10:12 AM   #132 
  - Can this be independently verified?  johnaries   Feb-26-10 09:39 PM   #62 
  - it's in her notebooks, Rand biographer Anne Heller also wrote her infatuation with Hickman.  nashville_brook   Feb-28-10 10:47 AM   #137 
  - The responses to my initial little jape  timtom   Feb-26-10 09:41 PM   #63 
  - O.M.G. This explains so much about her twisted anti-human philosophy.  kestrel91316   Feb-26-10 10:18 PM   #65 
  - No surprise she is a sociopath. She wrote about life as if their was never anything  applegrove   Feb-26-10 10:39 PM   #66 
  - Ayn who?  bvar22   Feb-26-10 11:16 PM   #69 
  - heh heh heh  annabanana   Feb-27-10 05:53 AM   #78 
  - Ayn Rand and the Russian Revolution  bkohatlanta   Feb-26-10 11:22 PM   #70 
  - Rivers of fascism flowed through her like a fountainhead.  RedCloud   Feb-27-10 05:24 AM   #76 
  - I always knew that woman was crazy  rpannier   Feb-27-10 06:14 AM   #79 
  - She is so wrong about the concept of a Superman or Overman from Nietzsche.  gtar100   Feb-27-10 10:57 AM   #81 
  - +100000000000000 -- Nietzsche hated the meanness that came with "received morality"  nashville_brook   Feb-28-10 10:44 AM   #136 
  - Very true on that  nightgaunt   Feb-28-10 04:03 PM   #142 
  - Voting Machine Monopoly ES&S located at 11208 John Galt Blvd  WillYourVoteBCounted   Feb-27-10 01:33 PM   #89 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-27-10 02:01 PM   #95 
  - She would have gushed over Leopold and Loeb a few years before, but she didn't like Jews  mitchum   Feb-27-10 02:05 PM   #98 
  - Ayn Rand was Jewish (born Alisa Rosenabaum). So was her boyfriend Alan Greenspan.  invictus   Feb-27-10 02:23 PM   #103 
     - Yes she was, but look for Florence King's essay about Alice's issues with that fact  mitchum   Feb-27-10 02:28 PM   #107 
  - Sounds like Rand was a sociopath herself-one of many rethugs no doubt. nt  earth mom   Feb-27-10 10:32 PM   #123 
  - Clearly, some seriousy FUCKED UP shit occurred in her childhood.  Richard Steele   Feb-27-10 11:21 PM   #125 
  - I've read a couple of biographies, and there's nothing about that. she idolized her father  nashville_brook   Feb-28-10 10:33 AM   #134 
  - Sweet Jesus...  redqueen   Mar-01-10 01:52 PM   #151 
  - Where is her grave?  nikto   Feb-28-10 02:00 AM   #128 
  - Drink a lot of beer 1st  nikto   Feb-28-10 02:01 AM   #129 
  - Horrifying as all of this is, I have to say that the article itself is rather poorly written  Orrex   Feb-28-10 07:45 AM   #130 
  - Like Mitt Romney's sons; Rand had early on made the career decision to disengage...  bridgit   Feb-28-10 11:56 AM   #139 
  - yet, she's an idol to many well off Americans  fascisthunter   Feb-28-10 04:16 PM   #143 
  - She was a nut. n/t  99 Percent Sure   Feb-28-10 06:54 PM   #147 
  - Rand reminds me of Scientology  DirkGently   Mar-01-10 10:30 AM   #149 
 

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