Answer/spoiler
It’s the base of a cooling tower of the abandoned, unfinished Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant in Tennessee
A reply…
2590 A.D archaeologists:
This was clearly a sacred place for sacrifices to the Sun God.
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My eye went right to the image and I was about to skip the tweet because I assumed it was some screengrab from a video game and I’m not a gamer. But I ended up reading the tweet anyway. And now I wish that was frp, a video game because it could be a game that might intrigue me enough to play it.
it looks like it could fit right into a cool text based adventure game about some mysterious lost alien race doing weird underground science or something
I don’t know why I’m not a gamer but something like this “some mysterious lost alien race doing weird underground science or something” could get me gaming.
actually the premise is pretty unoriginal and cliched by now, it’s generally used by people who just want to get into showing off / practicing their sci-fi creative writing skills or just to getting to gameplay as fast as possible with minimal set up needed because basically everyone understands “oh right aliens” the moment they see the basic elements even if they don’t read, watch, or play sci-fi stuff.
So there’s more than enough stuff about that if you find that sort of thing particularly gripping
text based adventure games are basically just testing grounds for sci-fi geeks who don’t have the confidence to commit to writing a full sci-fi book so they’re pretty cool
I wouldn’t really call it Gaming™ exactly though because its not really what anyone thinks of when someone says they’re a gamer
