Wanna get drunk in a place that serves synth burgers and is bisexuality lit 
Wanna get drunk in a place that serves synth burgers and is bisexuality lit
that sounds amazing, let’s go now
the White Elephant building is cool as hell. because chongqing has no level surfaces, the ground floor on one side of the building is like seven stories up from the ground floor on the river side. you climb up and down school building-style stairwells that twirl around each other like a very low-poly double helix. each floor has apartments converted to coffee shops and majiang dens (in CQ and sichuan they play with giant majiang tiles the size of cigarette packs for some reason. pretty cool).
it’s got a rustic 80s concrete-and-tile charm like many old buildings in china, just bigger and weirder. like a less dystopian version of mirador mansion/chongqing mansions in hong kong.
My calves are cramping just thinking about that.
and not in a coumosexual way.
You need to put your time in at the stair master comrade!
You get used to it
-fella in a 6-story walk-up
I literally want to live in a hive city, if well-designed for air and light it could be amazing
We uswd to call them archologies and they were a utopian goal
Cyberpunkerino-aesthetic enjoying chuds might even like walkable cities if they could be packaged and sold as corpo fiefdom arcologies… be nice to remove the corpo fiefdom part though.
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The only Hive cities we are getting under Capitalism will be like Necromunda.
As confusing as this seems, I think it is very cool
i want to go to there
As a LED enjoyer and transit enthusiast, Chongqing is a definite bucket list for me (if i ever actually get to travel to east asia)
Been to a couple cities a little like this in the west. Not this extreme though.
This is what cities are like in my dreams
I like how he passingly mentions the train going through the building as if it’s something not at all remarkable.
An acquaintance I know in Texas was absolutely dumbfounded when I told him I walk to the grocery store. Lmao.
Chongqing is a marvel of civil engineering and I will hear no ill of building a city on a vertical slope
You loony leftoid, efficient city planning is not having enough homes for everyone and being forced to drive 20 minutes to get food.
Christ.
yeah we did end up getting cybercorporate memphis instead of cyberpunk huh?
We are getting Snow Crash instead of Japan Panic cyberpunk.
We are getting Snow Crash
That might please a lot of blue curtain enjoying readers of that book… and judging by his previously bad and then worsening political views, the author too.
there’s no conceivable way to regularly hang out with your “friend” Jeff Bezos and still have good opinions
The corpos made the cyberpunkerinos come true in the worst Torment Nexus ways possible, with the clumsiest and most solipsistic “I am the main character and a cool rebel against the system” manchild shit, like billionaires using JC Denton avatars on Twitter.
Meanwhile, JC Denton literally beating
Bill GatesBob Page to death with a shock club while fending off murder parrots and spiderbots to wrest the Universal Printer away from the hands of billionaires.I dearly love Deus Ex. It was such a perfect blending of conspiracy theory nonsense with actual, serious problems, done in a way where thinking about the conspiracies lead me to a better understanding of how politics and power work.
I’m grumpy about how much less thoughtful and less politically intersectional the sequels became. As Ross Scott put it: DE1 was (list of concepts here) while DE2 was vague crayon scribblings of the same simplified for consoles just like the game maps, and DE3 onward was, quote, CYBORGS CYBORGS CYBORGS.
I think that’s part of why I bounced off the re-boots. Without the absurd layers of weird conspiracy shit and esoteric philosphy the substance of the game that so fascinated me wasn’t there.
It wasn’t just absent; it was kind of inverted, from though provocation to cognitohazard.
“What if racism of the future was against people with cybernetic implants?” is some Reddit-tier thought experiment. It could have gone somewhere with augmented people in relation to class struggle (like how Human Revolution briefly brought up sex workers being coerced into “upgrades” to remain employable, and then being dependent upon Neuropozyne to maintain those “upgrades”) but it was both clumsy and lazy (where the protagonist doesn’t even experience that same discrimination in practical gameplay).
See I never got that far but I thought the plot was that working class people were being forced to get cybernetics to gain employment, and then the capitalists were using control over the anti-rejection drug to discipline labor. And then the protagonist reprised JC’s role as savior, or I guess being Adam the first man, by having some goofy biological trait that allowed him to accept cybernetics without needing the anti-rejection drug and somehow giving this ability to the people to free them.
See I never got that far but I thought the plot was that working class people were being forced to get cybernetics to gain employment, and then the capitalists were using control over the anti-rejection drug to discipline labor.
It could have picked up that story hook and went with it, but it sort of set it aside in favor of “those poor superbeings with superpowers, they’re resented by the unaugmented that are both too strong and too weak” Bioshock Infinite tier pretentious-and-pretending-to-be-smart writing.
and DE3 onward was, quote, CYBORGS CYBORGS CYBORGS.
Batman voice: I didn’t ask for this
The cyberpunkerinos are about driving a monstrously janky status-seeking EV shitbox 15 minutes to get to a treat dispensary and otherwise living in a Black Hole Sun music video come to life.
Why won’t it come and dry up all the rain?
Le epic wonkhammer reference billions must hitler saltue I love humanity (humanity fuck yeah) and I am very normal about my fascism parody DAE (19th century racism) le fellow epic gamers (I hate minorities, doing laundry and shower products)
Hive cities are a thing in Warhammer, and
look at that series like
“wow, cool fascism”
This looks nice.
18 stories isn’t even that tall for a city. American cities have plenty of apartments twice that height.
I have a paralyzing fear of heights. That walk is making me very uneasy.
Just become a lift truck operator, I had my fear of heights worked out of me in a month
There are several reasons for why that wouldn’t be a good idea, one of which is that it would almost definitely not fix my issues with heights.
After I nearly toppled a scissor lift I now have blood of iron
Does that building normally look like that, or is it another case of the BBC dystopia camera filter?
No synth burgers, just Neo-Kobe pizza (link CW - animal products)
