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Anyone have some high res (or just cool) pictures of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the surrounding area? Pic pretty related
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Yes! very much seconded. Pity mine are all rather low res. :(
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>> Anonymous
You've been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Have'nt you?

It's AWESOME!! :D
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Few HDR ones
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AWESOME! Keep em coming guys!!
>> Anonymous
Yeah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is amazing
>> Anonymous
There was a site I went to a while back about some chick who biked her way through Chernobyl. Some of the stories just kinda creeped the fuck outta me. Especially just one shot from the bridge close to the plant showing "The Sarcofagas" or however that's spelt. Anyway, there was a small caption about how people stood there and looked at the crack in the plant and got blasted with radiation unknowingly due to curiosity.

As much as that would creep me the fuck out, I'd love to see a shot of that sort of thing. Just these people staring at a nuclear plant less than a mile away with this huge gaping crack in the side of its shell, glowing like the pits of hell...

Shit, I've scared myself.
>> Some nigger
>>131439

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

It's also complete bullshit, just so you know.
>> Anonymous
>>131445

Hey, I'd heard of this site. It's about the only kid allowed in the zone around Chernobyl.

Cheers for the link!
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Wow, oddly, I was just doing some reading about this tonight. Gave me chills, just like these pictures. I've always had some strange obsession with old, abandoned and/or secluded places. Most of which happen to involve pyramids and early Celtic cultures.

What I find so fascinating about Chernobyl is the catastrophe actually wasn't too long ago, it's just surreal to imagine one day, everything's fine and dandy and the next, you have 20 seconds to leave your house or you're going to be exposed to radiation poisoning.

Out of morbid curiosity, I wish I could see inside some of these buildings/houses. Everyone just had to move their ass and leave, so most places are still completely furnished and whatnot, but have just been sitting for years. And then there are the refrigerators...what I wouldn't do to take a look inside them...

>>131351
More morbid curiosity, anyone know what that says on the building? I'm fairly confident the first word is "Hotel," (or some close variant) but no clue on the last one.

Thanks for all these pictures, btw.
>> Some Nigger
>>131458I've always had some strange obsession with old, abandoned and/or secluded places.

Then this should tickle your fancy. Read up on the history of it, it's quite amazing,

http://archibase.net/archinews/14101.html
>> Anonymous
>>131458
i can see what you mean. there's something fascinating about walking through a place that once had people and held some purpose, but unfortunately no longer hold any purpose anymore.
>> Anonymous
>>131346
Ok, first time i saw it i thought it was 3d, but is it just an HDR photo?
>> Anonymous
>>131462
yeah its an hdr photo

awesome thread btw
>> Anonymous
STALKER is quite possibly the worst shooter i've played in years
the entire thing screams of being half-assed
AI thats decent in one area but dumb as a post in most of it
Gameplay thats fun for half but sucks balls the rest of the time
graphics that are good in some areas but show its age in the rest
and RPG-ish system with money and reputation and factions which means fuckall because merchants only sell crap and nobody helps you anyway unless they're scripted to

Every aspect of that game is sub-par, it feels like a 5 year old game with nice lighting and big levels. The only people that enjoy it are those that waited so long they refuse to admit its so bad.

and thats my uncalled for mini-review of yet another disappointing game
>> Anonymous
>>131519
this isn't gameFAQs
>> Nightlands !GR1R.oFZ5w
I can see the beauty in decay. More pictures please.
>> Anonymous
Just like Half-Life 2.
>> Anonymous
wheres the proof that kidofspeed is fake??
>> Nightlands !GR1R.oFZ5w
>>131583
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidofspeed
>> Anonymous
Great pics!
>> tornesaurio
>>131583
What do you mean by fake?
>> Anonymous
>>131591
Just read that wikipedia article that was posted.
Basically, the pictures she took were real, but everything she said about being there alone, and on her bike, and having a permit was bullshit, and all the information that she gave about the disaster, was just what she was told as she went around with the tour group.
>> tornesaurio
>>131593
Shit! I cried reading the bullshit from that webpage!!1!
>> Anonymous
>>131519
I wasn't waiting for it, I actually forgot about it untill it was released. It has it's flaws sure, but when you turn all the graphics on max and wander around, it's quite an immersive enviroment. They DID do a great job with the layout and architechture (based on the actual pictures of chernobyl iv'e seen).
>> Anonymous
>>131519I don't like it, therefore it must be bad!

I wasn't waiting for it. Hell, I hadn't even heard of it until my buddy send me a torrent link.

I can't stop playing it. I'm a R6:Vegas addict and I haven't played in a week.

It has it's fair share of bugs, to be sure, but I also find it a joy to play, enough so that I can over look the bugs.
>> Anonymous
Just a lil info....
there is a nuke plant outside Vilnius Lithuania built from the same blueprints as Chernobyl...
It was still runnin strong when i was there
so if u want unexploded Chernoybl there is some
>> Anonymous
They only fully deactivated the power plant a couple of years ago. All the other reactors were still producing power until then. There's lots of unexploded Chernobyl.
>> Anonymous
>>131458
It means Hotel Russia, but is spelled strange. Probably in Ukrainian... I don't even know if they have a language of their own, but thats not pure Russian.
>> Anonymous
>>131459
Wow, thanks, consider my fancy tickled. I loved the one pic of the staircases, they almost seem to eerily go on forever. Fuck mountain climbing, I'd rather take my chances on those stairs. Are there any high res pictures of Gukanjima that you know of?

And not that I'm complaining, but good job to the photographer shooting an abandoned mining town in the middle of nowhere on an island in fucking black & white. Now I have to clean up all the bricks I shat.

>>131715
Ah, thank you. "Russia"? Wow, can't believe I didn't get that. And yeah, the Ukrainians have a language. But from what I understand, it isn't too different from Russian. Thanks for the translation anyhow.
>> Anonymous
For some reason I get the urge to travel to Chernobyl and somehow enter the Sarcophagus...
>> Anonymous
>>131721
Enjoy your leukemia, assuming you live that long.
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>>131720
>>131715
Spoilers; people from Ukraine are called Ukrainians and *shock-fucking-horror* they speak Ukrainian.

Prypiat (the town build to home the workers of Chernobyl) is in Ukraine.
>> Anonymous
>>131814
I don't think I can convey this feeling with text.
It's just this massive, unrestrained urge to grab your head and pound it on the pavement until you die. It's like just when you're close to coming - that's how bad I want to hurt you. I want to murder your unborn children. I want to rape your daughter. I want to eat your wife and spit on your grave.
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>>131816
Soz 'ard
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>>131816
Feeling better yet?
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>> Anonymous
>>131820
>Soz 'ard
are you a scouser?
>> Anonymous !HOtmk3LOLI
>>131830
No
>> Nightlands !GR1R.oFZ5w
>>131816
Crappy copypasta is crap.

More pictures of decay!
>> Anonymous
ZOMG HOLY SHIT SOMEONE BUILT THE STALKER MAP
>> Anonymous
Anyone have any pics that were taken just after the meltdown and there's the fog in the images caused by the radiation?
>> Anonymous
>>131870
ROFL
>> Anonymous
>>131346

Here's the source for those HDR pics:

http://stuckincustoms.com/2007/02/02/nuclear-winter-in-chernobyl/

http://stuckincustoms.com/2007/03/25/my-chernobyl-adventure-part-2-the-dirty-bomb-details/
>> Anonymous
>>131346
NOD?
>> Anonymous
>>131821
Awesome.
>> Anonymous
omfg

these pictures are absoultely captivating, beautiful, and scary all at once

it's like real life silent hill-completely deserted and shit

i gotta play stalker
>> Anonymous
>>132090
>i gotta play stalker
Seconded, I have never wanted to play a game so much as I do now.
>> Anonymous
>>131458Out of morbid curiosity, I wish I could see inside some of these buildings/houses. Everyone just had to move their ass and leave, so most places are still completely furnished and whatnot, but have just been sitting for years. And then there are the refrigerators...what I wouldn't do to take a look inside them...

You can!
http://www.tourkiev.com/chernobyl.php
>> Anonymous
>>132119
>Important !
However we undertake that the tour is 100% safe. There is a minimal exposing to the radiation but in total you won't get more then during a transatlantic flight. The doze you'll get is less then any X-ray and is completely harmless to your health.

Why do I have difficulty believing that?
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Found in google
>> Anonymous
>>132125
Good lord, that's creepy.
>> Nightlands !GR1R.oFZ5w
>>132096
Make sure you install the latest patch before playing. VERY buggy at the moment.
>> Anonymous
Well, it's good to see I'm not the only one interested in modern ruins and ultra-abandoned places like Chernobyl.

I too would love to somehow enter the Sarcophagus. In a suit or something of course. A whole building sealed completely shut with lead and cement, and left to stew in its radiation. The start of a bad horror movie if I've ever heard one.

I need to get STALKER, dammit.

Also, this might interest those who like abandoned areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_Disaster

Bhopal's probably one weird place now.
>> Anonymous
>>132157
STALKER was a major let-down for me
>> Anonymous
>>132170

Yeah, I hear a lot of people say so. But personally I'm going to guess it's because of the hype. Otherwise, it sounds like a fine game. I mean, other than the graphics (which I don't care much for) and bugs (patches. Annoying, but tolerable), what real criticisms are there?
>> Anonymous
>>132171
I honestly had no problems with the game. I am the kind of gamer who likes to take his time though, and my imagination probably makes games more intense then they are :)

And the more pictures I look at of Chernobyl, the more I appreciate the in game graphics. They really must have done thier homework.

I also run the game with graphic settings at max, so I can't see why people would complain about them. The sections of map loaded are fairly huge. Lots of small details on the terain/ abandoned buildings. Enemys are ok, but not amazing looking. And the sky and night/day change + lighting is gorgeous. (at night when lightning strikes from different positions in the sky, it scatters the shadow of the tree in different positions on the pavement). Check out this time-lapse video and tell me it doesnt look great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJBOTGYRow
>> Anonymous
are there just a bunch of 13 year olds in this thread that don't know nuclear power plants CANNOT blow up...they are not designed that way.
>> Anonymous
>>132188
Regardless of age, I'm sure most people don't look into nuclear powerplants designs / propertys that much. I'm not going to pretend I know a lot about them. I'm still interested in this thread though.
>> Anonymous
>>132188

Yes they can, smarty pants. Not in a nuclear-fission explosion of course, but in a steam explosion like what happened in Chernobyl. Steam under thousands upon thousands of PSI of pressure tends to do that when released.

"The fuel rods began to melt and the steam pressure rapidly increased, causing a large steam explosion. Generated steam traveled vertically along the rod channels in the reactor, displacing and destroying the reactor lid, rupturing the coolant tubes and then blowing a hole in the roof.[7] After part of the roof blew off, the inrush of oxygen, combined with the extremely high temperature of the reactor fuel and graphite moderator, sparked a graphite fire. This fire greatly contributed to the spread of radioactive material and the contamination of outlying areas."

From Wikipedia.
>> Anonymous
>>132195
facts...the plant did not blow up...its still there
steam can do alot of things, your point?
>> Nightlands !GR1R.oFZ5w
>>132171
It isn't the game they promised...
>> Anonymous
>>132202
I for one don't know what they promised, so I like it :)