r/pics • u/AlertThinker • 9h ago

[OC] The pillars holding up the Lincoln Memorial

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 6h ago

If you all want to see a fairly accurate rendition of most of Washington DC, play “The Division 2”. This room is included.

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u/blackdenton 5h ago

When you take a photo in game the photo is actually geotagged to the same spot in DC, I thought that was a neat little feature to add.

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u/ManWithASquareHead 4h ago

And if you want to see DC in a few years, Fallout 3 is a great picture.

Smoothskin.

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u/automated_bot 31m ago

"in a few years"

We've got an optimist here! Everyone, look at the optimist!

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u/elchupoopacabra 5h ago

I like to reminisce about the Newseum in it as well.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 4h ago

I went to the day one opening when it was in Roslyn. I loved that they had daily papers from all over the world.

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u/elchupoopacabra 4h ago

It was a very cool place in DC. I put it on par with Smithsonian exhibits. They had the unibombers cabin, a piece of the Berlin wall, a 9/11 exhibit...all very cool. I was super sad to hear it had closed.

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u/BlatheringNonsense 3h ago

I was young and took it for granted when it opened. The place I worked at was walking distance to the place so I thought it would happen one day when I got off work early. Well, I would get off work early and go to the Thai place and AMC with my now wife and she wasn't really into that stuff back then.

When you're young, you think you have all the time in the world.

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u/Nova17Delta 2h ago

Dude the Newseaum should've been turned into a Smithsonian. Went to its later location in 6th grade and it was by far my favorite museum in the district

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u/showmethebooty1 2h ago

I loved visiting DC during the height of my playtime in Division 2.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 1h ago

I bet. Being from the DMV I’ve gone to DC so many times. The game was astounding. It even had my friend’s old apartment.

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u/automated_bot 27m ago

In Division 1, I obediently wore my mask to fight the pandemic, years before COVID 1.

I can't wait for the release of COVID 2! /s

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u/LacidOnex 5h ago

This is also in fallout 3 if you follow the tedious quests of saving the androids from the institute (yes, fallout 3 has the institute)

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u/ManWithASquareHead 4h ago

Trying to annex Canada?

Fighting with China?

It's becoming a documentary

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u/counterfitster 3h ago

I like Midtown Madness 3's rendition

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u/dibship 7h ago

"today we are making the lincoln memorial great again by turning the underside into a ballroom. we will get rid of all those awful pillars then paint the entire thing gold. people have wanted to do this for 200 years but not until now has anyone been great enough to get it done. thanks for your attention to this matter"

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u/clover-the-clever 6h ago

I was wondering how Trump would ruin this too.

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u/jnangano 6h ago

by removing Lincoln and putting a statue of himself

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u/davekingofrock 4h ago

I'd prefer an actual balrog.

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u/Evadson 5h ago

Don't give him ideas

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u/CaptainOktoberfest 4h ago

I'm now at close to 50% odds he's going to do that with the Temple in Jerusalem.

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u/DC2SEA_ 6h ago

(I know we're just kidding, but the original plans for the Lincoln were like larger and crazier than the Capitol building)

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 5h ago

For a guy who died putting the "United" in "United States", I get it.

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u/CircumspectCapybara 5h ago

Moria...You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm...shadow and flame!

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u/Jrobmn 5h ago

This... doesn't seem like an area accessible to the general public - although you appear to be looking at it through glass. How did you get there?

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u/LostPilot517 5h ago

Google Lincoln Memorial Undercroft.

I wasn't aware of this until OPs post, but I will definitely try to check it out in the future.

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u/Jrobmn 5h ago

Dang, I was just there last April and didn’t know about this. Next time!

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u/AlertThinker 4h ago

It’s very small right now. They are still expanding. But it was a nice visit.

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u/Zestyclose-Coach-926 3h ago

I went yesterday. Outside of these pillars it was pretty dull. They played a pretty lackluster video as well. It just opened like a month ago so I'll cut it some slack though.

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u/EclipseEpidemic 5h ago

For many years it wasn't! The undercroft (this area) was very recently renovated and opened to the public as an exhibit space about the history of the monument.

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u/gmred91 3h ago

Is this where Lincoln's Gold is hidden?

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u/the_talented_liar 4h ago

Weird to see it open again, GW students used to play DnD down there in the 80s.

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u/davekingofrock 4h ago

And they call it a mine....a mine!

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u/ccaccus 3h ago

I keep seeing this as a mirrored floor across the middle, even though that doesn't make sense. Am I the only one?

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u/NotYourBuddyGuy5 4h ago

Look at those later lines. Have you tried drying the filament?