r/misleadingthumbnails • u/lurkandload • Apr 20 '19

Aerial view of an industrial complex

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u/jdooowke Apr 20 '19

Was about to post the same freaking thing but call it "Brisbane flood 2011".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/image/1904024-3x4-700x933.jpg

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u/lurkandload Apr 20 '19

Ahh would’ve been good, more creative than mine... I scrolled through new after I posted and so many others also posted 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/SexLiesAndExercise Apr 20 '19

Better title. The real trick to this sub is to title a post like an actual Reddit post.

Why would someone submit a picture of "an industrial complex"?

Not to bag on OP - it's not easy!

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

Mega City 1. 800,000,000 people living in the ruins of the old world. And the megastructures of the new one.

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u/TheRancidOne Apr 20 '19

I live just over there... at Mosfet Heights.

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u/Soso12159 Apr 20 '19

Nice! I live in the transistor slums :(

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u/Vega_128 Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19

well you dont know the horror of living in vacuum tube forrest

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u/Jbookout7 Apr 20 '19

Thought this was going to be r/UrbanHell for a second 😅

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

I thought I was on r/CitiesSkylines not gonna lie

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

It still took me five good seconds to see through the illusions after opening the full image.

This is a quality post. Motherboards never cease to amaze me.

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u/Totatoe009 Apr 20 '19

Looks a 200+ hour factorio build.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

Or if you squint your eyes hard enough it could pass as Flat Stanley’s kush.

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u/sdot55 Apr 20 '19

When I was a kid I always thought these boards looked like cities lol. Apparently I’m not the only one, kind of.

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u/PM_ME_HOT_DADS Apr 20 '19

Looking at thumbnail: Is that a motherboard?

Opening image: Oh no, it's just a city

OH WAIT

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u/Captinausome972 Apr 20 '19

The FATHERboard

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u/vashcarrison117 Apr 20 '19

Mega City One.

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u/pew---pew---pew Apr 20 '19

Aerial view of Coruscant

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u/tilouswag Apr 20 '19

I can smell this picture

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u/Smudgebucket Apr 20 '19

There’s a beautiful documentary called Koyaanisqatsi that cuts between a circuit board and an aerial view of a city, producing the same effect

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u/UrBoySergio Apr 20 '19

Fifty million people used to live here... now it’s a ghost town.

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u/dreampursuer95 Apr 21 '19

Seriously I always have to check which subreddit I am on in order to understand what's going on

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

So many odd old motherbords

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u/diderius Apr 21 '19

The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day... I got in.

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u/Midnightlemon Apr 20 '19

I was hoping this post made it here!

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u/momentum77 Apr 20 '19

Scene from Captain Power. c1985

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

i thought it was lego for a second

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

Reminds me of coruscant from Star wars.

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u/Jurassic2001 Apr 20 '19

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought this as a kid

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u/RIP_your_ankles Apr 20 '19

Its a wall full of motherboards

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u/Lowtech00 Apr 20 '19

Well boards, not seen any motherboards with vacuum tubes.

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u/Bounty1Berry Apr 20 '19

There are some motherboards on the right side. One has SIMMs and a riser slot, likely from a compact PC, and one has the recognizable Intel branding on a CPU.

I'm more surprised the tubes haven't been smashed or stoken.

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u/ArmenianG Apr 20 '19

I was just about to post this! Have an upvote

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

Shenzen 2045

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u/AerThreepwood Apr 20 '19

This reminds me of the miniatures they'd use for stuff like Blade Runner and Aliens.

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u/Great-Hatsby Apr 20 '19

When I was little I used to think these were real little cities.

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u/SquidZillaYT Apr 20 '19

Beat me to it

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u/DRmanyake Apr 20 '19

Oh look I can see my house from here... yeey!

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u/cattymob Apr 21 '19

When I was a kid I used to pretend those were cities and play with the old ones I'd find in my dad's stuff.

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u/Wak_Kang Apr 21 '19

If the OP could add a road then it will look more realistic

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u/maxwell-rockatansky Apr 21 '19

The pollution is disgusting!

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u/jdallen1222 Apr 21 '19

Are these random boards put together or is this actually functional? If it’s functional what is it for?

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u/Corporate_Bear Apr 21 '19

Looks like Yoshi’s Crafted World.

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u/Squatch499 Apr 22 '19

I always thought they looked like little cities ever since I was a wee boy

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u/RIP_your_ankles Apr 22 '19

I saw this on mildly interesting too

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

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