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It took over 5 years but the founder of Zynga finally got approval to gut his historic mansion and add an addition and underground bunker The story so far https://socketsite.com/archives/tag/2950-pacific-avenue Old listing ($18 million) https://www.sfproperties.com/properties/2950-pacific-avenue RIP   Current listing (($29.5 million) https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2950-Pacific-Ave-San-Francisco-CA-94115/15080894_zpid/ From what I can tell they haven't done anything yet but claim it is "shovel-ready", so feast your eyes on these renderings  
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Youth Decay posted:It took over 5 years but the founder of Zynga finally got approval to gut his historic mansion and add an addition and underground bunker this is a crime against humanity
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Oct 6, 2021 01:25
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Luneshot posted:this is a crime against humanity
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Oct 6, 2021 02:21
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Stolen from the scooter fruity threadBurning_Monk posted:"I'm just going to put this right here."
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Oct 6, 2021 02:45
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that stack weighs like 2,500 lbs, holy poo poo
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Oct 6, 2021 04:21
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`Nemesis posted:that stack weighs like 2,500 lbs, holy poo poo yeah a Deck isn't built to hold a houses worth of shingles on like of the boards. That deck may see close to 2000lbs if you have a bunch of ppl over but they're not going to all be standing on one joist. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 13:56
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Youth Decay posted:It took over 5 years but the founder of Zynga finally got approval to gut his historic mansion and add an addition and underground bunker I can't imagine having the money required to do this and building such an incredibly boring, drab outcome. If you're going to put a bunker under your house at least go all out, put in a command center, an ossuary, do the thing from Blast from the Past where there's a fake tiny house with an artificial 'outside' yard. What a waste.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:06
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CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 
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Oct 6, 2021 14:24
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I pick the hot vicegrips! edit: I also noticed the bonus resting on metal side of dryer! Def the winning fighter.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:40
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OP said that they found two more splices just like the one on the left, and now they’re rewiring everything. This was the fourth splice
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Oct 6, 2021 14:52
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As someone who's reviewing the NASA documents about proper wire splicing at work today all I can say is lmao.
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Oct 6, 2021 15:21
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YOLO I had one of those in my house but it came with a bonus. the way the circuit was powered.... a 2 prong make a plug plugged in 20 ft away. when I opened the electrical tape (at least it was taped), it was worse than I assumed. I did not submit my rewire to code as I was like hey this poo poo's safer than what was here.. (is not code compliant due to no conduit within 8 ft) tater_salad fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 15:22
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It's like that game where you lead the metal rod through the electrified wire maze except with way higher stakes.
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Oct 6, 2021 15:32
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Source4Leko posted:As someone who's reviewing the NASA documents about proper wire splicing at work today all I can say is lmao. I think it was in this thread, but there was someone who bought a house not far from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and it turned out it was owned by an engineer that worked there. For whatever God forsaken reason, that person rewired his house using NASA spec wire splices. Probably one of the only cases I can think of where an amateur home electrician does a better job than you're likely to find working to code.
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Oct 6, 2021 16:15
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That sounds cool until your house fails to deploy its braking chutes due to a conversion error and craters into the surface of Mars
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Oct 6, 2021 16:27
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I like solder. I don’t use it on mains wiring because code forbids it and it’s a pain to rework, but if for whatever contrived reason I absolutely had to make a splice in a location that will become inaccessible, no way around it, yeah, I’d use solder. It’s already violating code and impossible to rework by nature of its inaccessibility. What’s there to lose?
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Oct 6, 2021 16:27
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If it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid  
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Oct 6, 2021 16:39
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Ashcans posted:I can't imagine having the money required to do this and building such an incredibly boring, drab outcome. If you're going to put a bunker under your house at least go all out, put in a command center, an ossuary, do the thing from Blast from the Past where there's a fake tiny house with an artificial 'outside' yard. What a waste. What gets me is why does someone buy some historic mansion just to gut it and make it into something completely different? If it were a little bungalo, sure, that's in the range where it can be economical to buy in a style you hate but a neighborhood you love and and just redo it. But if you're spending mansion bucks, why buy a fixer upper? It's like putting body kits on a lambo to make it look like a ferrari. And I don't even particularly like the original! Sure the woodwork is cool, but the whole thing is oppressively brown.
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Oct 6, 2021 16:49
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Dillbag posted:Stolen from the scooter fruity thread Nice, they get a new deck included in the cost of their new roof.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:What gets me is why does someone buy some historic mansion just to gut it and make it into something completely different? If it were a little bungalo, sure, that's in the range where it can be economical to buy in a style you hate but a neighborhood you love and and just redo it. But if you're spending mansion bucks, why buy a fixer upper? It's like putting body kits on a lambo to make it look like a ferrari. Because it's a large house in a part of town that you want to live in, in a very desirable city, with a great view etc. It's not like there's going to be another mansion sized building that ticks all those boxes and a modern interior down the block. In your analogy you live in Cuba and that lambo is one of three on the island that somehow got in and if you want a performance car that's what you're getting, so time to slap on a Ferrari badge. FWIW I love the original interior and despise the new one.
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Oct 6, 2021 17:04
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Platystemon posted:OP said that they found two more splices just like the one on the left, and now they’re rewiring everything. I like it, it's whimsical.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Because it's a large house in a part of town that you want to live in, in a very desirable city, with a great view etc. It's not like there's going to be another mansion sized building that ticks all those boxes and a modern interior down the block. Fair enough. I tend to think of mansions as being on big tracts of land away from anything else, floating in the abstract void that rich people tend to occupy for me, but now that I actually engage my brain being an hour outside of a major city is different from being an hour outside Eufala, Alabama. Edit: Eufala, by the way, has a main street lined with incredibly charming antebellum houses and, iirc, the local high school had their first racially integrated prom in 2005. It's situated along a road that runs from Atlanta westward into Alabama, through a wasteland of trailer neighborhoods placed around billboards advertising barn kits, windowless prefab churches, and periodic signs that say poo poo like "Welcome to the home of Hugging Molly." My faimily used to drive that route periodically when we went to visit my dad's folks. When they died, the whole region basically fell into the sea as far as I'm concerned. I hadn't realized it but somewhere along the line I'd started thinking about it like a Southern Gothic version of Lordran. quote:FWIW I love the original interior and despise the new one. There's a lot I like about the old one, it's just too much brown. Replace the flooring (or just get really big area rugs) and it'd be fine. The new version is a soulless void, and I say that as someone who actually likes a lot of the designs that people in this thread and the other one describe as soulless voids. Facebook Aunt posted:I like it, it's whimsical. Most of the time when I curse the previous owner I can't see them cursing back. It's art. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 18:11
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Fair enough. I tend to think of mansions as being on big tracts of land away from anything else, floating in the abstract void that rich people tend to occupy for me, but now that I actually engage my brain being an hour outside of a major city is different from being an hour outside Eufala, Alabama. This is not "an hour outside of a major city". It's literally in SF, and overlooks The Presidio. That is the Golden Gate Bridge you can see out the windows. E: it's also on what would be two lots of average size for the area. The land is worth far, far, far more than the structure on it. Motronic fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 18:20
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Fair enough. I tend to think of mansions as being on big tracts of land away from anything else, floating in the abstract void that rich people tend to occupy for me, but now that I actually engage my brain being an hour outside of a major city is different from being an hour outside Eufala, Alabama. That's just it, though: It's not an hour outside a major city.  It's smack dab in the middle of SF, literally about a 2 minute walk from the edge of The Presidio / Golden Gate Park. Also about 45 minute walk from downtown if you can't stand to be in your car for 10 minutes. It's the sort of place a billionaire buys so they can walk to work in the morning. You'd be challenged to find more expensive real estate anywhere in the US. If it was a tin shack sitting on a superfund site it would still get bought and have a multi-million dollar mansion built on it.
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Oct 6, 2021 18:25
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I am not a clever man.
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Platystemon posted:OP said that they found two more splices just like the one on the left, and now they’re rewiring everything. Someone who overheard an electrician wiring something in delta configuration.
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Oct 6, 2021 19:22
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My goon, that is clearly a Wye configuration.
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Oct 6, 2021 22:09
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I feel like it's more of buying a classic Corvette/jag e type/ or something similar and trying to make it look like a Tesla or some ultra modern looking thing.
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Oct 6, 2021 22:28
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Youth Decay posted:It took over 5 years but the founder of Zynga finally got approval to gut his historic mansion and add an addition and underground bunker I dig the underground stuff, but why would you not leave the cool vintage stuff vintage and cool? And yeah, go full on underground lair with that part. edit: wesleywillis posted:I feel like it's more of buying a classic Corvette/jag e type/ or something similar and trying to make it look like a Tesla or some ultra modern looking thing.
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MRC48B posted:My goon, that is clearly a Wye configuration. Ya wye on earth did they do it am I right.
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From the listings that house already looks anachronistic. It's hardly some rare instance of un-bespoiled "Dutch Colonial Revival". So the nouveau-riche tore out the ugly of-its-time wood of replaced it with ugly of-its-time Modern White & Grey. I won't be shedding any tears.
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is the old wood style in that mansion supposed to be "boatpunk" or something. it's very unique but i can't tell from those two pictures whether i like it at all
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Oct 8, 2021 17:59
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The little nautical lamps are kinda whatever but I do love everything about the actual architecture, particularly the mushroom-shaped inglenook.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:mushroom-shaped inglenook. 
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~Coxy posted:From the listings that house already looks anachronistic. It's hardly some rare instance of un-bespoiled "Dutch Colonial Revival". It's not that they're supposedly destroying something historical, it's that they've taken something interesting (or at least different) and turned it into the same bland characterless garbage as they could get anywhere else. Rich people are loving boring
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Vim Fuego posted:If it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid Yes, but if it works until it goes catastrophically wrong, then it's stupid.
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If it's stupid but it works, it's still pretty drat stupid.
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Oct 10, 2021 05:56
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Darth Brooks posted:Yes, but if it works until it goes catastrophically wrong, then it's stupid. it's only stupid if you're still around when it goes wrong
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Oct 10, 2021 19:36
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's smack dab in the middle of SF, literally about a 2 minute walk from the edge of The Presidio / Golden Gate Park. Also about 45 minute walk from downtown if you can't stand to be in your car for 10 minutes. It's the sort of place a billionaire buys so they can walk to work in the morning. At first I was like "Zynga's not downtown, he's a 90 minute walk from the Zynga building" (since I work right next to it) but apparently he's now just doing VC poo poo so it doesn't matter where you live then I guess. I would have picked something with an easier commute to SFO if all I do is fly around to meet my VC bros, but that's just me.
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luminalflux posted:At first I was like "Zynga's not downtown, he's a 90 minute walk from the Zynga building" (since I work right next to it) but apparently he's now just doing VC poo poo so it doesn't matter where you live then I guess. I would have picked something with an easier commute to SFO if all I do is fly around to meet my VC bros, but that's just me. Just lol if you think he's driving or getting driven to SFO. Anybody like that is leaving on a chopper from Half Moon Bay or China Basin and probably headed to general aviation at OAK to get on their NetJet.
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