Pure awesome. The real meets the fake... now I just have to figure out which is which.

Excellent photo, love the idea!

I was just thinking "the setting of this picture looks surprisingly finnish" while looking at this... Then I gazed at your nationality flag purely by accident... Quess it really shows.

I love it. Well done! More!!

Let's spot the differences!

1) Where is the white coat?

2) Why is the machine gray and not green? (also the buttons/switches are different)

3) Why does the guy have headphones covering his ears?

4) Why does he hold a boardgame instead of a clipboard?





All joking aside this picture is awesome. Well done!

Give the man some respect...

Yet another chest-focused picture is a hit at bgg, surprise, surprise.

I find this picture very electrifying!

it certainly is powerful

Nice

Awesome! Next time, have him looking at the PG rules while adjusting the actual PG.

Also, the hand position on the nob is slightly different. Though he holds the game exactly as on dude on the box holds the clipboard.

I've always wondered why the chap on the box is wearing a white coat?

Surely this is not normal attire for electrical engineers.

Awesome photo

Now we just need a picture of someone holding this picture and recreating the pose again.

Good job, Teppolainen

Fight the power!

I'd like to ask him how cheaply he can get his hands on some quality uranium.



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There should be a whole geeklist of photos like this.

But... I've got the power

Seeing a photo mirroring the illustration highlights what makes me slightly double take about the Power Grid box cover.

Not that it's carved in stone, but a right handed guy would usually be holding a clipboard in his left hand. (So presumably the technician on the box is left handed?)

When this photo breaks 500 thumbs I will reveal the secrets behind it.

504... now spit it out! ;-)

(Sorry, I forgot about this for a while, but here comes)

REAL: There's a power grid and it's from roughly the same era as the picture on the box - late '50s

FAKE: Said PG is rather small - 2 x 51 kilowatts - and rather limited - inside a tugboat.


REAL: The generators are running and that's why I'm wearing earmuffs.

FAKE: The generators are not actually producing power at the moment - lights and the rest are coming from shore power through a cable.


(INCORRECTLY REGARDED AS FAKE: The red "Running off board" light for Gen1 isn't burning, but that's just because the bulb has gone.)

DEFINITELY FAKE: The generators are DC and therefore "synchronisation" isn't strictly the correct term to use - "paralleling" would be the right one. Also, since neither generator is "on the board" yet, there's no paralleling to do - the knob that I'm holding is actually the emergency power source selector switch.

REGRETTABLY FAKE: There's no-one to play Power Grid with because I was just clocking in a few evening hours alone by doing a bit of maintenance and a few checks on the gennies

Ah, it isn't anymore, but in the time that the box cover supposedly refers to, it was. You see the chap on the box very probably holds a managerial position - he spends 99% of his day in an office or a nice, clean control room. The picture on the box probably shows the one time per day that he actually goes inside the plant proper to take his readings and enter them on the various logs.

If any screws need to be screwed, a valve turned etc., it will be the small blue smurfs that actually go there and get stuck in. At most he will go stand behind their backs and give orders. Somewhere in the world where manpower is cheap it could still be so.