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Wanna get drunk in a place that serves synth burgers and is bisexuality lit deeper-sadness

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[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago

Wanna get drunk in a place that serves synth burgers and is bisexuality lit

that sounds amazing, let's go now

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

My calves are cramping just thinking about that.

and not in a coumosexual way.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

You need to put your time in at the stair master comrade!

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

You get used to it

-fella in a 6-story walk-up

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

As confusing as this seems, I think it is very cool

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

i want to go to there

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Been to a couple cities a little like this in the west. Not this extreme though.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

This is what cities are like in my dreams

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I like how he passingly mentions the train going through the building as if it's something not at all remarkable.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago

An acquaintance I know in Texas was absolutely dumbfounded when I told him I walk to the grocery store. Lmao.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago

I literally want to live in a hive city, if well-designed for air and light it could be amazing

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

We uswd to call them archologies and they were a utopian goal

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

The only Hive cities we are getting under Capitalism will be like Necromunda.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

You loony leftoid, efficient city planning is not having enough homes for everyone and being forced to drive 20 minutes to get food.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Chongqing is a marvel of civil engineering and I will hear no ill of building a city on a vertical slope

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

Christ.

yeah we did end up getting cybercorporate memphis instead of cyberpunk huh?

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

We are getting Snow Crash instead of Japan Panic cyberpunk.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 20 points 2 months ago

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

[-] milk_thief@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hive cities are a thing in Warhammer, and frothingfash look at that series likeover-your-head "wow, cool fascism"

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

18 stories isn't even that tall for a city. American cities have plenty of apartments twice that height.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

This looks nice.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I have a paralyzing fear of heights. That walk is making me very uneasy.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Just become a lift truck operator, I had my fear of heights worked out of me in a month

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

There are several reasons for why that wouldn't be a good idea, one of which is that it would almost definitely not fix my issues with heights.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

After I nearly toppled a scissor lift I now have blood of iron soviet-chad

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Does that building normally look like that, or is it another case of the BBC dystopia camera filter?

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No synth burgers, just Neo-Kobe pizza (link CW - animal products)

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