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[LeoLeonardoIII]

Check this out. Has anybody brought this up yet and I'm just failing on my search-fu?

[sneakey pete]

the cnn article that the video is from has better info.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Well okay then, thanks for improving the thread! I'd put in in the lead post but you're close enough to the top that people will see it.

[darkflagrance]

More like the depiction of Moria in the LOTR movies in my opinion, with those empty chambers full of columns.

[Sensei]

While pretty awesome, I'm going to have to point out that Mordor is a fairly large geographical region and doesn't actually include any great artificial spaces underground, at least that we see in the Lord of the Rings. Indeed, perhaps you meant Moria?

[LeoLeonardoIII]

HAHAHA you know what you're right I made a stupid mistake but I'm leaving it because it's hilarious.

[Mageziya]

If I recall correctly, the game Mirror's Edge had a level in one of these things.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Looks like all my fortresses.

[Lectorog]

If I recall correctly, the game Mirror's Edge had a level in one of these things.

Yes. At the time I thought "This is a ridiculously large sewer. How unrealistic. Nobody would ever need a sewer this tall. What a silly game." Now I understand.

This is a pretty basic dwarven fortress design, if you include side passages for rooms and crap covering the ground. Access tunnels to the top included.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Access tunnels to the top included.

Magma access tunnels, specifically.

[Loud Whispers]

Yes. At the time I thought "This is a ridiculously large sewer. How unrealistic. Nobody would ever need a sewer this tall. What a silly game." Now I understand.

Humanity has a thing for making mother nature cry. We're getting exceedingly good at it.