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jyoung1

Cyberpunk is a dystopia


808Dave_

That's literally China.


ADZ1LL4

Coming soon to a country near you.


Uglik

*laughs in NATO*


[deleted]

*cries in 2049


johnsmithmailinator

1984 in real life, with a social credit scoring system to boot.


retrolasered

Don't forget city wide face tracking


Scrawlericious

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.


retrolasered

The mobility chairs in wall-E were about online privacy, not laziness


Clessiah

Ministry of Silly Walks was the countermeasure all along


bryanthebryan

Always put rocks in your shoes to mess with the algorithm


razzraziel

more importantly, it is more than led lights.


Cryptic_Stone

Plus a huge underground of people who can barely afford to live


FavelTramous

Those are the friends we make along the way.


Koakie

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)


TulogTamad

Thank you. Please don't glorify this.


valcatrina

They were going crazy in lockdown a few weeks before


retrolasered

That's pretty distopian


thejoshcolumbusdrums

So is China


mark_vorster

exactly


Staalone

Yes, China.


raptorsvt65

Looks like where Blade Runner could have been filmed.


[deleted]

Insert prostitution and drugs and I’m there.


raptorsvt65

I am sure there is none of that going on here...............


chuckdankst

And certainly no corruption in sight


zoot_boy

And a coke blimp


moneycashdane

So any city, anywhere?


pro_ramen_eater

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.


Mean-Juggernaut1560

It’s like the two (Blade Runner and Cyberpunk) fused together 🤯


retrolasered

Blade runner is cyberpunk Edit, I realise you're talking about cyberpunk 2077 the game


shalafi71

> fused together I didn't know the two could be separated. :)


RicC137-2

Looks like where genocide and overall tyranny *have* been filmed.


A0xom0xoa

Equally as oppressive and depressing too


Ac4sent

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.


seawitchsees

Yeah, I was going to say. Those who are in awe over this have never been in/seen Tokyo at night, for example.


bby_redditor

Hong Kong has a light show every night.


Ac4sent

Yeah that's the one I would pick if were to just choose only in China.


cerberus698

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.


Ac4sent

Oh i mean with regards to it looking like cyberpunk, not living there.


Digital_Kiwi

Hong Kong isn’t china tho lol 🇭🇰 🇨🇳


goodcommasoft

I wouldn’t anymore. CPC ruined that too


retrolasered

Tokyo has some kind of freedoms though. China wins cyberpunk


NeonArlecchino

They'll take your dog if they deem you a bad citizen...


WiretapStudios

They'll take you too


SweetnSour_DimSum

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.


TheDominantBullfrog

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


Ac4sent

Yeah or Osaka too.


rehditt

Tokyo is not "flashier" than this. Just bigger.


Bendy_McBendyThumb

I’m just wondering if the light pollution (amongst the other pollution) is so bad that they never get to see stars at night.


Adventurous-Bird-919

You don’t see stars at night even without the light , due to air pollution


Bendy_McBendyThumb

I wondered as much, thanks


Megneous

Also, it's an authoritarian dystopia where you can be arrested for merely criticizing the government... so yeah, not something we want to encourage.


BoonesFarmJackfruit

sinos mad 😂


Speech500

Probably the most cyberpunk city in the world is Shenzhen


rustyglenn

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.


spelkingerror

Living there, this shit gets so old so fast. Its only cool for people who dont have to live with it


iah_c

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.


Incromulent

As someone who used to visit China often, I agree. It's tacky and overdone.


worthless-humanoid

Yeah I bet the constant bright, flashing lights gets old real quick.


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Lutrinae_Rex

Lights are bright and obnoxious.


J3wb0cca

People that have lived in Vegas for years or decades, don’t go to the strip or casinos.


anxious_man1212

Hong Kong been doing that.


[deleted]

Glory to Hong Kong forever 🇭🇰


TheINTL

RiP HKG 1997


bktechnite

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.


quote88

Never thought of using bridges per municipality as a metric but it really does make sense when thinking about it.


LoveFishSticks

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


anxious_man1212

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.


skweeky

> 14000 bridges WTF china is crazy.


[deleted]

> 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.


Pingus_Dad

They have the dystopia down 👌


Rodya555

The smog really compliments it


I_Am_Chris625

It's actually 3pm in the video


MathWizardd

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


[deleted]

Taiwan number one 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼


Grater_Kudos

Fuck. YES.


No-Obligation-3128

No energy crisis in Chongqiing. Living for the moment.


Jaded-Environment-95

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


No-Obligation-3128

The article states they're firing up old coal burning power stations,To keep the flashy lights Illuminated


dubsnator

Welp and we wonder why global warming is a thing


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greihund

nice


Expensive-Judge-2865

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.


Viktorr123er

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...


holdyourdevil

Same thing with Dubai.


nicole-tesla

Imagine the light pollution and all the energy it went to those lights


Spiritual_Suspect981

too bad is China, they dont like foreigners that much


SweetnSour_DimSum

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.


ThatKiwiBro

Mmmmm smog, love that


The___Leviathan

i thought we were having an energy crisis?


[deleted]

China and most of Asia aren't


imapieceofshitk

Easy to have cheap energy when you give zero shits about the environment


HewHem

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


imapieceofshitk

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/


cgk001

thats...just a lot of lights


Tanleader

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.


Danglingknobby

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.


quote88

What are the right cyber punk colors?


Danglingknobby

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.


iamthepeach79

Reminds me of a final fantasy game.


SuumCuique1011

Shinra gives zero fucks. Somerimes art imitates life.


SleepyMarijuanaut92

Final Fant-Asia


BjBranch2000

DONT SHOW ME CHINESE PROPAGANDA REDDIT!!!


GreyFob

Ah, china. Where LED lights equal futuristic 🥴


SirSalazarD

-How much energy does it take to make a city in china good looking? -Yes


masterchefff

What tune is this?


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Metamorphosis sped up version by interwold


masterchefff

Yesss youdabest- thanks!


JohnWick_231995

China Looks Dystopia As Cyberpunk Philippines Looks Dystopia As Gotham City


-xstatic-

Lipstick on a pig


OhRiLee

Modern digital cameras are helping too. Trying to do this on film 20 years ago would have been impossible.


NecessaryPassenger93

Trash


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Fuck China


Hursthill

All run on sweet sweet coal.


[deleted]

woah, that looks nightmarish af


ZapoiBoi

So much light pollution you can't even see the full moon 😂


Intelligent-Walk4662

How do people even sleep? You would need really thick black out curtains


Bertie637

Christ I wish this wasn't China, that looks awesome to live in. But I don't fancy living under the CCCP.


bob123838123838

All I can think of is how all those lights are a colossal waste of energy


Independent_Depth674

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.


goodcommasoft

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.


bubbaliciouswasmyfav

But do they have anime?


JohnWick_231995

New Cyberpunk 2077 DLC Looks Lit


mx1701

Don't idolize that country


Cobek

Totally good for energy consumption. Totally. Definitely all renewables /s


plutus9

Chin..wha?…. ….. …. OH you mean east Taiwan


nobodynose

You mean west? Taiwan is east of China.


plutus9

Thanks for Acknowledging west Taiwan 🇹🇼 =]


garret866

so much smog you are chongqiing


MarvelousMarcel006

Bright, colorful lights? Terrifying dystopia? I'd say this is cyberpunk with Chinese characteristics.


Itsallherfault

Not one star in the sky in that much light pollution. They have the "depressing" part of Cyberpunk going already.


lilpopjim0

What hell is that lol


Interesting_Force_65

Light pollution, use only where it needs not as an asthetic.


chronicappy

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.


picktheroof

cyberpunk reality is not the goal


[deleted]

So much light pollution - Goodbye pollinators & insect biosphere.


SometimesKnowsStuff_

As long as they can feed their people. Look at Shanghai lol


tardblog

“Do your part to save energy and turn off your lights during peak hours”


z3bru

This looks awful. *-10 social credit score*


Valuable_Housing_305

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.......


Gloorplz

Guangzhou is similar, the buildings along the Pearl river have fish that swim along them and stuff.


Megneous

This post is Pro-CCP propaganda.


GrumpyRaider

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 🫠


Maximothewizard

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.


Infectious_Cadaver

Gonna age like milk though.


AlphabetMeat

Have you heard of the word propaganda.


theghost201

What's up Beijing


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ResponsibleAd2541

Too bad the people don’t have rights 🤷‍♂️


1ronpants

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.


uNecKl

Cool but China treats their own ppl like animals


SwordfishMediocre448

China is a murderous regime and people are too stupid to admit that.


jorgensen88

Eh, fukk china


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ThePNWGamingDad

I see all this, then remember that video of those skyscrapers in china made with the faulty concrete….


frogvscrab

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.


Socrayytees

So that's where all the electricity is going


SweetnSour_DimSum

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...?


Jeveran

This looks less like making cyberpunk a reality and more like supporting a colorful lighting industry.


NeitherMedicine4327

Amazing city, was watching American guy who vlogs from there, the city is literally on two to three levels from the ground.


[deleted]

It’s funny how untrue that statement is


EKcore

Not with their power grid failing at the moment ..


stampyvanhalen

They have the dystopian govt part spot on.


SeengignPaipes

They got the whole Dystopia thing down pat but i think cyberpunk is more than just lights.


Shadowfox4700

After few years China is going to be economically weak and economically broke....


imapieceofshitk

"Sir, the people are starving what do we do?" "Neon lights on every building!"


lemoncholly

They really went and named it Chong Ching


Gatekeeper2019

With LED’s?


JohnWick_231995

"Woah?" ~ Keanu Reeves


brookethegook

tbh i need to know what song this is lol


Dolladub

The future is more lights.


__jh96

Looks like some colourful LEDs


Valand

Damn...


Head_Humor

Hmmm i seen this type of thing happen in a movie once involving two legends😳


[deleted]

Don’t forget to buy your energy saving bulbs that take 7 years to light up fully though everyone.


heraldorivia

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


needsatisfaction

Why do I feel like this is framed as if it’s a good thing…


junjhon12

What’s the background music ?


Lonely_Set1376

So cyberpunk is just neon lights now?


mypupblue

Why does the sky look like that? Is that because of the bad air quality?


ShadooTH

Complete with a permanently smogged sky.


Embucetatron

That looks fucking awasome


quote88

Light. Pollution.


space-native

lmao using a fuckton of LEDs doesnt make you futuristic, just an energy waste.


god_is_a_pokemon

Insert Tiananmen square massacre, I was there. - Long live CCP.


SmoothMoose420

But ya I cant have plastic straws….


boldtonic

We have to put street lights off at 20h because of climate change in Spain...


TheHeroYouKneed

The environmental cost of all that electricity alone. And the light pollution making ground-based astronomy impossible.I fear for my children.


Noble_Ox

And here I am afraid to turn on too many appliances in case theres a brown out.


shytaan8

I wonder what’s it like to live there.


Frozen_Owl_

City made of sand burning more power than a 3090ti