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Can't stop sniggering at a girl
named "Julie Farkas" |
They've nixed the geography a bit to place it inside Freeside's North Gate (the wrong side of the freeway) but it's the right building: the Followers'
Old Mormon Fort puts the abandoned encampment back into use as a hospital and community gathering-place.
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Were the Followers based
on Mormons? I.e nice folk but
a bit weird? Oh wait, that's gamers |
These photographs in particular showcase just how deeply the game's forced perspective affects the user experience. The foreshortening of depth and the wider field of vision make taking like-for-like snapshots difficult (at least with a standard camera; I don't know anything about fisheye lenses or whatever, or if they'd have made it simpler to capture an authentically gamerish view.)
No Las Vegan I met knew anything about this place - it's about a mile north of Fremont Street in a rough part of town - but the walk up is fascinating; it takes you past the Neon Boneyard, a "museum" of retired signs that was probably the inspiration for
Michael Angelo's Workshop.
Time to walk south to
Freeside's North Gate.
