I want cool cyberpunk bars
I want cool cyberpunk bars
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
An acquaintance I know in Texas was absolutely dumbfounded when I told him I walk to the grocery store. Lmao.
As confusing as this seems, I think it is very cool
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)
i want to go to there
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.
Chongqing is a marvel of civil engineering and I will hear no ill of building a city on a vertical slope
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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Even in the WH40k Lore the bluecheck is referencing hive cities were a cool thing and built specifically for large numbers of people to comfortably live together without damaging the region's ecology. They only became a nightmare during the Age of Strife and with the fascist rule of the Empire
At least get the damn lore right if you're going to be a nerd
The only Hive cities we are getting under Capitalism will be like Necromunda.
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?
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.
it's so unfair that I live in a world where cities aren't walkable in three dimensions.
literally just give me glued-on bridges and scaffolds and stairs anywhere like the 45th floor and a slide that goes to a rooftop park next to my apartment that is parasitically attached halfway up a cluster of slowly merging skyscrapers with like secret little hidey places everywhere and extremely sketchy walkways that make a deeply croaking metallic sounds
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"
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?
Does that building normally look like that, or is it another case of the BBC dystopia camera filter?
18 stories isn't even that tall for a city. American cities have plenty of apartments twice that height.
This looks nice.
I have a paralyzing fear of heights. That walk is making me very uneasy.
No synth burgers, just Neo-Kobe pizza (link CW - animal products)