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.
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.
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
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.
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 Gates Bob 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)
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.