From the Sub-lime to the Ridiculous
May. 11th, 2006 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindWell. Conspicuous consumption occasionally results in pure cool: The Phoenix 1000 65-meter Personal Luxury Submarine.
I'm simultaneously disgusted and fascinated. This thing is pure excess. It's bigger than any house I've lived in. It's $78 million dollars. It's not well-suited to either the tourist trade or scientific research. It's got one purpose, and one purpose only: to show off How Bloody Rich You Are.*
Of course, this is exactly the sort of thing that a good RPG requires.
Download the brochure -- there's enough information and deckplans and diagrams to use for any number of nefarious purposes. And unlike the vessel itself, it's gratis!
You don't have to be a billionaire to enjoy their toys.
*Well, not you, personally. If someone reading this journal actually can afford such a thing, please tap into the loose change in your couch cushions and pay off my student loans in return for the sparkling wit I parcel out to you on an irregular basis.
I'm simultaneously disgusted and fascinated. This thing is pure excess. It's bigger than any house I've lived in. It's $78 million dollars. It's not well-suited to either the tourist trade or scientific research. It's got one purpose, and one purpose only: to show off How Bloody Rich You Are.*
Of course, this is exactly the sort of thing that a good RPG requires.
Download the brochure -- there's enough information and deckplans and diagrams to use for any number of nefarious purposes. And unlike the vessel itself, it's gratis!
- That mastermind in the espionage game needs a travelling headquarters.
- The PCs in that aquatic superhero game need a base of operations.
- Keep the same deckplans, but change the sleek 21st-century outer hull, and there's a vessel for the Captain Nemo clone in that Gaslamp Fantasy.
- Strip the outer hull off entirely, and, look, starship!
You don't have to be a billionaire to enjoy their toys.
*Well, not you, personally. If someone reading this journal actually can afford such a thing, please tap into the loose change in your couch cushions and pay off my student loans in return for the sparkling wit I parcel out to you on an irregular basis.
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Date: 2006-05-11 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 10:28 pm (UTC)Okay, admittedly this is coming from the same person who bounces when they find out the Trieste II was refitted locally, and who crawled all over a retired Alvin class sub as a kid.
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Date: 2006-05-11 10:57 pm (UTC)Plus, you could use that excuse as a cover and no one could monitor your minions activities as they cone and go in their minisubs. OOH WHAT A GIVE-AWAY!
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Date: 2006-05-12 01:23 am (UTC)::B::
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Date: 2006-05-12 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 07:05 am (UTC)