>game made in 2011>the setting? 2027Yeah I'm thinking we should put in an infrastructure project so overly-ambitious it would take 100 years to attempt even with super scifi tech
>>736424474imagine being poor and some rich fucks steal your sunlight
>>736424781I don't have to imagine
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>>736424937How is 41 years for normal construction comparable to 16 for insanely difficult construction?
>>736424937What is the secret to such progress and civilizational development in such a short time period? And don't say "no niggers".
>>736424474China could do this in 20 years.
>>736424937Like cancer growing
>>736426767Kill all billionaires and capitalism so money and resources get diverted to actual progress of civilization.
Of course, OPs pic related is in fact bad and awful. Deliberately so! Greenfield developments are possible (think of Egypt's New Administrative Capital, Dubai, or Shenzhen), and although the first two in particular are also rather dystopian, at least they haven't had the "bright" idea of monetizing sunlight.The city of the future looks like, well, a lot like city of the past, except that they are clean (rather than horse dung of the yesteryear, or ubiquitous smog and human urine and the like that characterized many places just a few decades ago), safe, green, and some gadgets use more modern tech (like modern low-floor trams instead of streetcars of late 1800s and early 1900s).
>>736426767Remove any sort of democratic checks and balances so that there's no red tape or enviromental concerns to stop your projects>>736427032Deng Xiaoping sends his regards, bitch
>>736426594Upper Hengsha wasn't developed from the civilizational level of mud huts. China's tech tree was already at the level needed to build modern cities like Lower Hengsha. The upper city wasn't built over some post-agricultural wasteland, it already had an existing city infrastructure in place.Nowhere does it say that upper Hengsha was built in 16 years. It's your assumption that DX:HR timeline started diverging in the year the game came out. You're also going by the release year instead of the initial conception of what the game was going to be about, including locations. This happened in 2007.
>>736426767Centralized governments get shit done fast.Problem is, they get anything done fast. So if they have a bad idea, they end up killing millions of people.But it's all worth it for the forward march of progress.
>>736424474There is no way that above-city id structurally sound. It needs at least, like... 100% more pillars. Maybe 200%.
>>736426767Be a completely broken failed communist state. Suddenly one day decide making money is okay, and open up to foreign trade. The magic of capitalism.
>>736426767Shenzhen's entire existence is to mog and cannibalize Hong Kong. Most industries and business connections get transfered after 97 and China did throw entire country worth of effort building it up. The left side swamp area of the bottom pic is Hong Kong. It's kind of like Tijuana.
>>736424474We would already be deep into the spaceage if it wasn't for niggers and jews.
Op, based on PKD works, we to have had this by 1982.
>>736431092>that and western corporations start placing their manufacturing there to make use of the CCP slave labor...i mean motivated workers.
>>736424474>it's been a year since Call of Duty Black Ops 2 took place>America still hasn't even commissioned the USS Barack Obama
>>736426767>What is the secret to such progress and civilizational development in such a short time period?The country isn't ran by barons and instead it's run by nationalists. If the USA for example wasn't run by barons and bankers, it would look like China does now or even better.
>>736426767Its because theyre full of shit.The buildings arent made with any effort and collapse within a year.Everything in china is fake. The flying cars are paid shills and drone footage.The waterfalls are water piped to the top of a mountain.Zoo animals are painted dogs.Everything is fake in china and no one calls them on their shit because the government will ruin their lives like lefties do in the west to anyone who isnt exactly like themselves.
>>736426818If you want it to collapse on itself immediately after its done trust china sure
>>736427032And here I thought anti Semitism was confined to pol
>>736435262Socialism with nationalism? Winnie the Pooh is openly going nat-soc (nazi)?
>>736424937Where did the hill go?
>>736424781I know it's up for me
>>736436086Chinese nationalism is considerably lamer than Nazismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people
>>736436086yeah, they are nazis larping as commies
>>736433020We are 100% on that universe, delayedThe USS William Jefferson Clinton enters service in 2036The USS George W. Bush enters service in 2040The Ford-class Carrier of 2044 is currently unnamedBiden also went out of his way to name one after Bush in spite of Bush being his bitter political enemy to clear the path, he decided this seven days before he left office
>>736429057>Deng XiaopingMore people really need to be aware of himBefore him, China was a place where millions of people starved to death and murdered each other over ritual autism spiralsIn office, he changed everything while doing PR to act like he didn't>yes I am honoring Mao even though Mao put me in a gulag>the only way to truly fulfill Mao's dream is to overturn all of the retarded programs Mao created and imprison Mao's wife for attempting a coup>anyway we're an even better Communist country now because we have Communist billionaires trade Communist shares in Communist Corporations on the Communist stock exchange, this is the True Communism that Marx and Engels had dreamed of all along>...>economy grows 7,000%
>>736424474Human Revolution is a great game, but a fucking awful prequel.It should have been a spiritual successor, removing Manderley, Page and Savage wouldn't affect shit for the plot and it would have been better for it.
>>736424781like poor Chinese actually want to see the sun
>>736436741PS. the real reason Xi is an asshole is that Deng also implemented an unprecedented dictatorship term limit - he ruled absolutely for ten years, then anticipating that he might get frail and senile and fuck something up, he stepped away into a celebrity retirement and for the rest of his life just became the beloved old man who was always there at parades and groundbreakings (and let's face it, probably still collected a few million in kickbacks here and there)The guy after him did the same thing.The guy after him, too. It's a wonderful idea, actually. You get to be dictator, and you get to stop being dictator without anyone murdering you. Plus you can pick guys that aren't incompetent yes-men because they can have ambitions that they'll take over when your term ends without having to kill you for it. It's not exactly democracy but it's an outlet that benefits the system's competence, y'know?Then Xi came along and abolished Deng's term limit policy. Which, as absolute dictator, you could of course do - but three dictators in a row chose not to.He was caught on a hot mic a year or two ago saying he intends to use organ transplants to live to be 150.
>>736424781Imagine looking up and seeing the sky is a metal ceiling
>>736437184when they start dusting that thing and a bolt falls off
>>736426767What is 1+1? NO DON'T GIVE ME 2, GIVE ME A REAL ANSWER
>>736424474The Moon Landing was most likely fake.
>>736430786This. All the "checks and balances" do is, in theory, make no one person, party, or organization too powerful. Though it really just resulted in an Oligarchy so it didn't really check nor balance too much. So now we have all the frustration of complete and utter inefficiency without the guaranteed freedoms and autonomy a "checked and balanced" government would actually provide.
>>736437335lol
it's a reflection of how much more hopeful people were of society even just a decade ago
>>736437440The best evidence that no one has ever devised a perfect political system is that statistically no political system has ever survived.I suspect they're like people - they can get a lot done when they're young, no matter what their particular attributes are, then they decay into uselessness when they're old.Something else will come along and might even be awesome for a while and then it'll suck too
>>736437549And now it's mostly a bunch of spiteful idiots who think anything good is fake and seem to actively want everything to collapse.
>>736437549That game entered production 19 years ago, shortly before the 2008 crash. The concept art for it is older than current /v/ posters.
In Deus Ex: Invisible War, you start the game in 'upper' Seattle and have to take an inclinator (funicular elevator), down to Lower Seattle.There's a book you can read: "There are those that revere the Inclinator as a symbol of connectedness between Upper and Lower Seattle, but those living in the shadow of the platformed city know it is a myth. The Inclinator divides more than it connects. It ensures that only a select few can pass over the gap between the haves and have-nots. It guards against the 'wrong kind' of person travelling into the bright, clean streets of Upper Seattle."
>>736424937>China Says>>736426767Its actually nobody who isn't white, no feminists, no fifth columnists, no communists, nobody who wants to tear down or dramatically restructure society towards their own favor. Of any kind. You basically have to ban everybody except the one most useful singular in-group to concentrate positive incentives towards the people who are most likely to produce measurable results.
>>736437681I am getting really tired of "nothing has ever happened" schizosAnd to be frank I have a lot of patience for conspiratorial thinkingMy Overton window>the COVID vaccine is ineffective, potentially dangerous, and was used for a fascist power grabsure, maybe>the COVID vaccine is nanobots made from Nephilim bloodfuck you>9/11 was exploited by the military industrial complex and possibly even an arranged controlled demolition to justify their growthsure, maybe>9/11 didn't happen and the planes were CGIfuck you
