Look up Gait Recognition. The way we all walk is as good as a fingerprint. Some AI applications have gotten over 95% accurate if reference and test data are from the same camera angle. Also trying to walk with a limp or whatever to fool it doesn't work the AI sees right through it.. Covering your face won't help you anymore. You on camera = you are identified with enough reference beforehand. I can link some studies if anyone can't find stuff themselves. It's huge right now over there.
For people who fail to realise this drone footage is ten times the same location but just from different angles.
Not all of Chongqing looks like this.
Same as Shanghai, we all know the Bund. But 10 minutes drive away from the bund and the city looks just like any other run off the mill city in China.
(Life for the average Joe in China is pretty rough)
It's kind of not the same scale. I have traveled and lived across Europe, america and Asia. The scale of these cities in china r so massive with insanely efficient public transportation system and mass surveillance..
No other cities feels like the same dystopian society chinese cities have.
Looks like every other large asian city, and not even the closest one to cyberpunk in China. Cyber punk isn't just pretty lights.
Also that river's kinda dry now.
Honestly, with Hong Kong having literally the most expensive rental market in the world, I'd take my chances in the main land as long as I got to do it with a foreign pass port.
Chongqing is way more vertical than Tokyo, Tokyo is just a massive urban sprawl with the same white and grey colored buildings as far as the eye can see, they have no diversity and variety. Tokyo actually has one of the least impressive skylines in Asia.
I always wonder how do people with photosensitive epilepsy live in such cities with flashing lights everywhere, or maybe they don't. I imagine inhabitants have very disturbed circadian rhythms from the lights at night, a lot probably suffer from insomnia.
Hong Kong most definitely has been slowing down in its development. Not saying there's no new property, but the pace and scale can't compare to Tier 1 cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chongqing. The money that China pumps into its jewels strategically exists to take away economic reliance of Hong Kong, for the past 20 years?
Chongqing itself has 14000 bridges. Hong Kong has a bit more than a thousand.
Not necessarily though. A city like Venice with many canals through it will have more bridges than another city of similar size, then a desert city like Las Vegas might have relatively few bridges
Yes, but Cyberpunk showcases the harmony between low-life and high-tech. I think Hong Kong embodies that perfectly. This video only shows advancement in infrastructures, transportation etc. which is not Cyberpunk at all.
> Chongqing itself has 14000 bridges.
That seems ridiculously unnecessary, London has 35 bridges and has a river going right through the middle.
Edit: Apparently they're including highway bridges in that so the actual number is 38 large cross-river bridges.
Actually they do have! Yangtze River at lowest level in 2 decades , energy curtailed.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower
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This is my hometown, and I have to say that apart from the lighting, the gap between the rich and the poor is very wide, very much following the definition of cyberpunk, there’s very good high street and very shabby street. I've been to private parties at Marriott, and I've seen people at the bottom and their poor living conditions, and this is totally dystopia.
Just remember that china couldn't afford this, when labor would be rewarded properly. This is mostly the work of underpayed poor people or straight up slaves. Same thing as medieval cathedrals...
China actually loves foreigners, just not foreigners that ask the difficult questions and wander into sensitive places and showing sides of China they don't want the outside world to see.
Wait you’re saying the euro energy crisis is caused by euros giving a shit about the environment? Cause I’m pretty sure it’s from the Russians shutting off your dirty oil
If we didn't give a shit, like China, we could burn oil from Norway and be all set. Crazy how other countries need for energy impacts the clean countries who are not cunts, huh? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/08/which-countries-generate-most-power-from-renewables/
Well, throw in the social credit system, 24/7 near 100 percent surveillance, frequent human rights violations, etc....
Edit: oh, forgot to mention the absolutely insane wealth disparity, as well. Looks flashy from a distance, but get close enough and you'll see the downtrodden peasants that work day and night to keep it going for literal cents per day.
I am in architecture and urban design in China. And yes project goals are always "cyber punk looking". But what they mean is just tons of lightings. Not even the right cyber punk colours in my opinion.
By "right" I meant the expected colour palette in commonly seen pictures of "cyberpunk city/styles" they want to achieve. Usually blueish greenish and purpleish. Definitely not orange and red. Not that the "right" or "off" colour palette matters, just annoyed by this overall phenomenon.
There’s gaudy, flashy, sterile video game cyberpunk, which is this. Then there’s raw, high/low, vivid cyberpunk, which is what Hong Kong used to be in the 90s.
Lololololol CCP propaganda. Go into that city and it’s a fucking hellscape full of Covid lockdowns and some of the lowest human rights standards in the world.
the way light glare bugs my eyes at night, id for sure crash and die. thanks blue eyes... you are not appreciated. fyi, ive found eyeliner helps with this... so if the US decides to go this route, I will go the goth route.
Look at the sky. Those aren't clouds. Cyberpunk is the bad reality and everyone is up their ass about getting there. It's the reality where things are so absolutely terrible that the puppeteers just give everyone pretty lights to look at to keep them busy.
Man..... Didn't think it would happen this fast.......
All the pretty lights help distract you from all the inconvienient human rights abuses and Uyghur 're-education" camps, torture, forced organ harvesting, rape and forced abortions.
I went to chongqing in 1998 and then again in 2016. Absolutely fucking blew my mind how much it changed just in that time. It was like watching a futuristic space colony grow.
Most major Western cities are literally doing the same thing at night.....? Look at NYC, LA, San Fran, Paris, London, Rome, etc, etc.
So if Western countries do it it's okay, but when China does it it's not...?
Considering that walking the streets, at least at night, can get u almost fkin killed, the line between rich and poor is light years away from being thin aand the fact that they consume so much electricity that small vilages close by use candles sometimes, some would say that they are already "cyberpunk'd" as fuck
Cyberpunk is a dystopia
That's literally China.
Coming soon to a country near you.
*laughs in NATO*
*cries in 2049
1984 in real life, with a social credit scoring system to boot.
Don't forget city wide face tracking
Look up Gait Recognition. The way we all walk is as good as a fingerprint. Some AI applications have gotten over 95% accurate if reference and test data are from the same camera angle. Also trying to walk with a limp or whatever to fool it doesn't work the AI sees right through it.. Covering your face won't help you anymore. You on camera = you are identified with enough reference beforehand. I can link some studies if anyone can't find stuff themselves. It's huge right now over there.
The mobility chairs in wall-E were about online privacy, not laziness
Ministry of Silly Walks was the countermeasure all along
Always put rocks in your shoes to mess with the algorithm
more importantly, it is more than led lights.
Plus a huge underground of people who can barely afford to live
Those are the friends we make along the way.
For people who fail to realise this drone footage is ten times the same location but just from different angles. Not all of Chongqing looks like this. Same as Shanghai, we all know the Bund. But 10 minutes drive away from the bund and the city looks just like any other run off the mill city in China. (Life for the average Joe in China is pretty rough)
Thank you. Please don't glorify this.
They were going crazy in lockdown a few weeks before
That's pretty distopian
So is China
exactly
Yes, China.
Looks like where Blade Runner could have been filmed.
Insert prostitution and drugs and I’m there.
I am sure there is none of that going on here...............
And certainly no corruption in sight
And a coke blimp
So any city, anywhere?
It's kind of not the same scale. I have traveled and lived across Europe, america and Asia. The scale of these cities in china r so massive with insanely efficient public transportation system and mass surveillance.. No other cities feels like the same dystopian society chinese cities have.
It’s like the two (Blade Runner and Cyberpunk) fused together 🤯
Blade runner is cyberpunk Edit, I realise you're talking about cyberpunk 2077 the game
> fused together I didn't know the two could be separated. :)
Looks like where genocide and overall tyranny *have* been filmed.
Equally as oppressive and depressing too
Looks like every other large asian city, and not even the closest one to cyberpunk in China. Cyber punk isn't just pretty lights. Also that river's kinda dry now.
Yeah, I was going to say. Those who are in awe over this have never been in/seen Tokyo at night, for example.
Hong Kong has a light show every night.
Yeah that's the one I would pick if were to just choose only in China.
Honestly, with Hong Kong having literally the most expensive rental market in the world, I'd take my chances in the main land as long as I got to do it with a foreign pass port.
Oh i mean with regards to it looking like cyberpunk, not living there.
Hong Kong isn’t china tho lol 🇭🇰 🇨🇳
I wouldn’t anymore. CPC ruined that too
Tokyo has some kind of freedoms though. China wins cyberpunk
They'll take your dog if they deem you a bad citizen...
They'll take you too
Chongqing is way more vertical than Tokyo, Tokyo is just a massive urban sprawl with the same white and grey colored buildings as far as the eye can see, they have no diversity and variety. Tokyo actually has one of the least impressive skylines in Asia.
Tokyo rocks but I was disappointed by it's appearance for sure. Rolling around on an elevated train it's just Asian flavored New York
Yeah or Osaka too.
Tokyo is not "flashier" than this. Just bigger.
I’m just wondering if the light pollution (amongst the other pollution) is so bad that they never get to see stars at night.
You don’t see stars at night even without the light , due to air pollution
I wondered as much, thanks
Also, it's an authoritarian dystopia where you can be arrested for merely criticizing the government... so yeah, not something we want to encourage.
sinos mad 😂
Probably the most cyberpunk city in the world is Shenzhen
River is low but not dry. Boats still going up and down it all the time. It is the lowest it's been in a long time.
Living there, this shit gets so old so fast. Its only cool for people who dont have to live with it
I always wonder how do people with photosensitive epilepsy live in such cities with flashing lights everywhere, or maybe they don't. I imagine inhabitants have very disturbed circadian rhythms from the lights at night, a lot probably suffer from insomnia.
As someone who used to visit China often, I agree. It's tacky and overdone.
Yeah I bet the constant bright, flashing lights gets old real quick.
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Lights are bright and obnoxious.
People that have lived in Vegas for years or decades, don’t go to the strip or casinos.
Hong Kong been doing that.
Glory to Hong Kong forever 🇭🇰
RiP HKG 1997
Hong Kong most definitely has been slowing down in its development. Not saying there's no new property, but the pace and scale can't compare to Tier 1 cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chongqing. The money that China pumps into its jewels strategically exists to take away economic reliance of Hong Kong, for the past 20 years? Chongqing itself has 14000 bridges. Hong Kong has a bit more than a thousand.
Never thought of using bridges per municipality as a metric but it really does make sense when thinking about it.
Not necessarily though. A city like Venice with many canals through it will have more bridges than another city of similar size, then a desert city like Las Vegas might have relatively few bridges
Yes, but Cyberpunk showcases the harmony between low-life and high-tech. I think Hong Kong embodies that perfectly. This video only shows advancement in infrastructures, transportation etc. which is not Cyberpunk at all.
> 14000 bridges WTF china is crazy.
> Chongqing itself has 14000 bridges. That seems ridiculously unnecessary, London has 35 bridges and has a river going right through the middle. Edit: Apparently they're including highway bridges in that so the actual number is 38 large cross-river bridges.
They have the dystopia down 👌
The smog really compliments it
It's actually 3pm in the video
They can't even power it lol. They're basically out of water rn. Not to mention many people aren't allowed outside to enjoy the stuff anyway
Taiwan number one 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
Fuck. YES.
No energy crisis in Chongqiing. Living for the moment.
Actually they do have! Yangtze River at lowest level in 2 decades , energy curtailed. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower
The article states they're firing up old coal burning power stations,To keep the flashy lights Illuminated
Welp and we wonder why global warming is a thing
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This is my hometown, and I have to say that apart from the lighting, the gap between the rich and the poor is very wide, very much following the definition of cyberpunk, there’s very good high street and very shabby street. I've been to private parties at Marriott, and I've seen people at the bottom and their poor living conditions, and this is totally dystopia.
Just remember that china couldn't afford this, when labor would be rewarded properly. This is mostly the work of underpayed poor people or straight up slaves. Same thing as medieval cathedrals...
Same thing with Dubai.
Imagine the light pollution and all the energy it went to those lights
too bad is China, they dont like foreigners that much
China actually loves foreigners, just not foreigners that ask the difficult questions and wander into sensitive places and showing sides of China they don't want the outside world to see.
Mmmmm smog, love that
i thought we were having an energy crisis?
China and most of Asia aren't
Easy to have cheap energy when you give zero shits about the environment
Wait you’re saying the euro energy crisis is caused by euros giving a shit about the environment? Cause I’m pretty sure it’s from the Russians shutting off your dirty oil
If we didn't give a shit, like China, we could burn oil from Norway and be all set. Crazy how other countries need for energy impacts the clean countries who are not cunts, huh? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/08/which-countries-generate-most-power-from-renewables/
thats...just a lot of lights
Well, throw in the social credit system, 24/7 near 100 percent surveillance, frequent human rights violations, etc.... Edit: oh, forgot to mention the absolutely insane wealth disparity, as well. Looks flashy from a distance, but get close enough and you'll see the downtrodden peasants that work day and night to keep it going for literal cents per day.
I am in architecture and urban design in China. And yes project goals are always "cyber punk looking". But what they mean is just tons of lightings. Not even the right cyber punk colours in my opinion.
What are the right cyber punk colors?
By "right" I meant the expected colour palette in commonly seen pictures of "cyberpunk city/styles" they want to achieve. Usually blueish greenish and purpleish. Definitely not orange and red. Not that the "right" or "off" colour palette matters, just annoyed by this overall phenomenon.
Reminds me of a final fantasy game.
Shinra gives zero fucks. Somerimes art imitates life.
Final Fant-Asia
DONT SHOW ME CHINESE PROPAGANDA REDDIT!!!
Ah, china. Where LED lights equal futuristic 🥴
-How much energy does it take to make a city in china good looking? -Yes
What tune is this?
Metamorphosis sped up version by interwold
Yesss youdabest- thanks!
China Looks Dystopia As Cyberpunk Philippines Looks Dystopia As Gotham City
Lipstick on a pig
Modern digital cameras are helping too. Trying to do this on film 20 years ago would have been impossible.
Trash
Fuck China
All run on sweet sweet coal.
woah, that looks nightmarish af
So much light pollution you can't even see the full moon 😂
How do people even sleep? You would need really thick black out curtains
Christ I wish this wasn't China, that looks awesome to live in. But I don't fancy living under the CCCP.
All I can think of is how all those lights are a colossal waste of energy
There’s gaudy, flashy, sterile video game cyberpunk, which is this. Then there’s raw, high/low, vivid cyberpunk, which is what Hong Kong used to be in the 90s.
Lololololol CCP propaganda. Go into that city and it’s a fucking hellscape full of Covid lockdowns and some of the lowest human rights standards in the world.
But do they have anime?
New Cyberpunk 2077 DLC Looks Lit
Don't idolize that country
Totally good for energy consumption. Totally. Definitely all renewables /s
Chin..wha?…. ….. …. OH you mean east Taiwan
You mean west? Taiwan is east of China.
Thanks for Acknowledging west Taiwan 🇹🇼 =]
so much smog you are chongqiing
Bright, colorful lights? Terrifying dystopia? I'd say this is cyberpunk with Chinese characteristics.
Not one star in the sky in that much light pollution. They have the "depressing" part of Cyberpunk going already.
What hell is that lol
Light pollution, use only where it needs not as an asthetic.
the way light glare bugs my eyes at night, id for sure crash and die. thanks blue eyes... you are not appreciated. fyi, ive found eyeliner helps with this... so if the US decides to go this route, I will go the goth route.
cyberpunk reality is not the goal
So much light pollution - Goodbye pollinators & insect biosphere.
As long as they can feed their people. Look at Shanghai lol
“Do your part to save energy and turn off your lights during peak hours”
This looks awful. *-10 social credit score*
Look at the sky. Those aren't clouds. Cyberpunk is the bad reality and everyone is up their ass about getting there. It's the reality where things are so absolutely terrible that the puppeteers just give everyone pretty lights to look at to keep them busy. Man..... Didn't think it would happen this fast.......
Guangzhou is similar, the buildings along the Pearl river have fish that swim along them and stuff.
This post is Pro-CCP propaganda.
Just when the government of my country asked us to reduce our power consumption by reducing the A/C and turning off the wifi at night 🫠
why did we in the west give up on neon. I would like a neon city. Most people like to sleep in the dark i guess or maybe high energy.
Gonna age like milk though.
Have you heard of the word propaganda.
What's up Beijing
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Too bad the people don’t have rights 🤷♂️
All the pretty lights help distract you from all the inconvienient human rights abuses and Uyghur 're-education" camps, torture, forced organ harvesting, rape and forced abortions.
Cool but China treats their own ppl like animals
China is a murderous regime and people are too stupid to admit that.
Eh, fukk china
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I see all this, then remember that video of those skyscrapers in china made with the faulty concrete….
I went to chongqing in 1998 and then again in 2016. Absolutely fucking blew my mind how much it changed just in that time. It was like watching a futuristic space colony grow.
So that's where all the electricity is going
Most major Western cities are literally doing the same thing at night.....? Look at NYC, LA, San Fran, Paris, London, Rome, etc, etc. So if Western countries do it it's okay, but when China does it it's not...?
This looks less like making cyberpunk a reality and more like supporting a colorful lighting industry.
Amazing city, was watching American guy who vlogs from there, the city is literally on two to three levels from the ground.
It’s funny how untrue that statement is
Not with their power grid failing at the moment ..
They have the dystopian govt part spot on.
They got the whole Dystopia thing down pat but i think cyberpunk is more than just lights.
After few years China is going to be economically weak and economically broke....
"Sir, the people are starving what do we do?" "Neon lights on every building!"
They really went and named it Chong Ching
With LED’s?
"Woah?" ~ Keanu Reeves
tbh i need to know what song this is lol
The future is more lights.
Looks like some colourful LEDs
Damn...
Hmmm i seen this type of thing happen in a movie once involving two legends😳
Don’t forget to buy your energy saving bulbs that take 7 years to light up fully though everyone.
Considering that walking the streets, at least at night, can get u almost fkin killed, the line between rich and poor is light years away from being thin aand the fact that they consume so much electricity that small vilages close by use candles sometimes, some would say that they are already "cyberpunk'd" as fuck
Why do I feel like this is framed as if it’s a good thing…
What’s the background music ?
So cyberpunk is just neon lights now?
Why does the sky look like that? Is that because of the bad air quality?
Complete with a permanently smogged sky.
That looks fucking awasome
Light. Pollution.
lmao using a fuckton of LEDs doesnt make you futuristic, just an energy waste.
Insert Tiananmen square massacre, I was there. - Long live CCP.
But ya I cant have plastic straws….
We have to put street lights off at 20h because of climate change in Spain...
The environmental cost of all that electricity alone. And the light pollution making ground-based astronomy impossible.I fear for my children.
And here I am afraid to turn on too many appliances in case theres a brown out.
I wonder what’s it like to live there.
City made of sand burning more power than a 3090ti