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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by throwanem on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:59PM (#26256629)
Nitpick because I used to live there: the Memphis Pyramid, aside from being a miserable goddamned eyesore, is actually an arena. I think if anything that would make it more legible to a lot of ancient cultures, which also took sport seriously and invested heavily in their own venues for it. Bass Pro Shops just pays upkeep to put their logo on it, just like with every other stadium in the country - Camden Yards here in Baltimore has gone through probably five or six such sponsors in the two decades I've lived here.

(It's not even a miserable goddamned eyesore on account of being monumental! If they'd faced it in basalt or nitrided steel, it could be an amazing excrescence of the Blade Runner aesthetic into reality, and I'd love it. But, in a literally blinding display of architectural tastelessness, they had to go and make it reflective...)

Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by 015a on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:32PM (#26257054)
I believe the Memphis Pyramid used to be a basketball arena, but that was shut down a few years back, and now it just serves as a Bass Pro Shop storefront.
Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by throwanem on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:40PM (#26257141)
Oh wow, OK. Wikipedia:

> In 2015, the Pyramid re-opened as a Bass Pro Shops "megastore", which includes shopping, a hotel, restaurants, a bowling alley, and an archery range, with an outdoor observation deck adjacent to its apex.

I was going to make a Laser Moon joke [1], but then I read further down in the same article and saw that the Pyramid does in fact now also have laser tag, and I just don't know how to top that.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9dUG3_KNA