Is Lagos the ultimate cyberpunk city, /int/? >ultra corrupt

>>73530839
I'm sorry but I'm not really aware of the current situation in Lagos.

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>>73531018
It's pure city planning guro.

>>73530839
Add some neon and yes

>>73530839
Kinda missing the cyber aspect, so maybe more of a dystopia movie setting

>>73531254
At least half of that should be nuked. Especially the mosque.

And I'm not even a stormfag. I just know all those churches, temples, mosques, and derelict buildings make Nigeria worse, not better.

>>73530839
Hmm weird how this came to mind before pacific rim cities.

Seems cozy minus the collapsing buildings.

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>>73531254
>>73530839
it just looks like India, Mumbai could be cyberpunk too if it wasn't so shit looking.

>>73530839
Needs more pollution

Cyberpunk means: High Tech, Low Life.

Where is the high tech here?

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>>73530839
>Nigeria
>hypercapitalist
Why do you spread lies?

>>73531482
Everywhere? Even the shittiest countries today are high tech by 80's-90's standards.

It trickles down from the more developed countries, obviously.

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>>73531533
It means you can buy whatever you want, if you have the money - land, drugs, organs, slaves, sex, etc. "Regulations" are just words on paper that don't mean anything in real life.

"Law enforcement" is for sale, along with "government officials" - ultracapitalism.

>>73531645
wow the place in your pic.. imagine the stench

>>73531585
But the whole point of cyberpunk is the negation to the question whether technology either migitates (or reinforces) humanity's problems.

For example, instead of technology giving people more freedom it resulted in dependency. Instead of getting clean energy we got more pollution. Instead of creating an inclusive and equal society, the elite used technology to strengthen their status. Instead of better participation we got multinationals abusing the technological dependancy of the state (for surveillance, defense and security) to influence politics and shut out democratic representation.

Where is this central aspect reflected here?

>>73531368
>At least half of that should be nuked
Pretty sure that's the reason it looks the way it does.

Wow fuck, now I want to go there.
Got any more pics?

>>73530839
>>73531254
looks like shit lol

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>>73531736
Remember that the average daily high temperature in Lagos is 30.8C... and the average LOW is 23.

>>73532144
Sounds like Australia during the summer.
Fuck that.

>>73532252
Looks like my country in less than 10 years

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>>73532040
Most photos of downtown Lagos have an "africa stronk" bias, which means that they only cherrypick clean and nice places.

These rustic and gritty pics are pretty hard to find.

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>>73532337
Even though this scene is about as low-tech as it gets, it still has a vertical complexity (balconies full of people, signs, clothlines) which you see pretty often in dystopian cyberpunk settings.

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>>73532337
Υeah, what a bummer. Here, found some myself, open wide:

>>73532323
At least it will have mosques.〈 :^)

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If you want dytopian cyberpunk look no further than Mumbai or Tokyo. In these cities people live in 6x6 tiny "apartments". Extremely poor people living right next to ultra rich who deal with millions or even billions of $. Kinda fucked up.

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>>73532751

>>73532841
>>73532751
Yeah that does look pretty Mirror's Edge before filters applied tier

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>>73532841

>>73532751
>>73532841
Mumbai looks cool.

Tokyo won't do. The standard of living is too high, and crime is too low.

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>>73532868
>>73532863
Faggot photographers ruin pictures with the filters.

>>73532751
>>73532841
>>73532868
please to be buildings skyscraper is the needful for prosperous developing

this cargo cult mentality third world countries have is ridiculous

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Mumbai is shit tier city desu. Any city where it takes you 2 hours to get to work by metro is a shit city.

To be honest I think the most cyberpunk place on Earth has to be somewhere in Asia. Aside from the obvious Chinese megapolises like Shanghai or Shenzhen, there's also shit like Kuala Lumpur, Karachi, Bangkok etc.

Another suggestion: São Paulo.

>>73533021
You know that Hong Kong/Kowloon Walled City was literally the model cyberpunk city, right?

>>73533073
>was

Also don't conflate these two. Hong Kong is way too safe and scum-free

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>>73532959
Skyscrappers are built because there is no land in Mumbai. Also skyscrappers are mostly restricted by government, and these buildings are not ultra tall.

>>73533141
What about Moscow ?

It's missing the cyber aspect. Would make a decent scenery for the next Fallout game though.

>>73531368
>churche's
Jesus and His Church was the only leg up on anyone your civilization ever had. When you stopped going to church because you got distracted by money and one up(down)smanship as as a replacement for morality your society became worthless overnight. People like you destroyed the West.

>>73533193
Yeah, it's pretty cyberpunk, but can't hold a candle to São Paulo.

Regards, never been to São Paulo and haven't been to Moscow in like 4 years.

>>73530839
must feel like home

>>73533261
Yeah, but Moscow has the whole hacker and cyberwar thing going on, right?

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>>73533021
Kuala Lumpur is pretty low since its inhabitants is only 1.5million and full of small buildings outside the concentrated office areas. You can ride the train with plenty of space compared to Tokyo which is like a sardine can.
Even Singapore alone has about 3x its population and cities like Jakarta or Bangkok goes up to 10million.

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>>73530839
>Is Lagos the ultimate cyberpunk city, /int/?
nah

>>73533370
What is the English proficiency like?

>>73533446
woah dude, nice photo. which city is closest to cyberpunk ?

>>73533504
>which city is closest to cyberpunk ?
mogadishu :^)

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>>73533370
this, our capital actually got an award for being one of the worst city in the world.
living in jakarta is like living this anime IRL, true dystopian experience.

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>>73530839
>ctrl+F
>no Chongqing

>>73533564
Not too far off actually. In the absence of a state authority they developed a pretty modern telecommunications sector. It's pretty ridiculous actually.
>Somalia now offers some of the most technologically advanced and competitively priced telecommunications and internet services in the world

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_Somalia

>>73533564
>mogadishu
serious answer plz.

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Tokyo has a cyberpunk aesthetic, though not a hellhole dystopia esque one

In my opinion, Dubai and all of the UAE is pretty cyberpunk, too. A rich, authoritarian and explotative state.

Immigrant workers in slave-like conditions contructing the most modern and cutting edge skyscrapers in the world. That's the epitome of high tech low life.

>>73533674
>Funded by Somali entrepreneurs and backed by expertise from China, Korea and Europe,
ah yes

>>73533750
Read my post. It actually is a good candidate.

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>>73533462
Its high due to high presence of foreigners, you can go shopping at Suria KLCC at the twin towers and its overrun by whites/koreans/japanese.
But for daily conversation KL folks use an unholy abomination called Manglish which is english corrupted by tamil,malay and cantonese terms, grammar and structure.

>>73533837
Looks like shit, lah.

>>73533785
Tokyo is more like postcyberpunk now but it used to be more cyberpunk back in the 1980s and actually inspired some of the early cyberpunk novel. The high tech decadence of the '80s disappeared with the Lost Decade and the city has gotten cleaner and more sterile since. Kawaii is a whole 'nother nightmare.

>>73533648
chung-king is a shithole. was there for 2 days and it felt like 2 weeks. nuke it from space.

>>73533827
yeah after lookin for a while i understand now

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Pham... London's got this

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>>73533648
a cyberpunk shithole

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>>73534083
was for
>>73534042

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>>73533574
At least it has plenty of stuff to do and places to explore, living in a 150k town surrounded by ricefields in 35-50Km radius is boring as hell.
>>73533879
Excellent manglish, with practice you can perfect it.

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>>73534155
cont. Chongqing already looks like got nuked before imo

>>73531254
this isn't cyberpunk this just look like shit

>>73534415
>tram line through building

That's cyberpunk.

>>73530839
Yes, extremely high-tech.
Bet you can find lots of world-class programmers and hackers there and rapid technological development.
Honestly just kill yourself.

>>73534438
The row of buildings in the foreground are asian brand modernism, very similar to the architecture in cyberpunk settings.

They are very similar to early postwar neighbourhoods in Japan, but poorer and dirtier.

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>>73534480
a terrible place to live desu

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>>73532144
>OMG SO HIGH-TECH
>IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF TIME BEFORE THESE PEOPLE INVENT AI AND BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES!!111!!!!
>>73531585
Pic rel. OP.

>>73534590
comfy

>>73531414
Could remove some of the shitting streets.

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>>73530839
>>73531254
>>73532144
>>73532337
>>73532431
>JUST SÅ
>THE POGRAMMERS AND CEO'S OF THE FUTURE
>SO FUCKING CYBERPUNK

>>73533258
fuck off proxy faggot

>>73532751
>>73532841
>>73532868
>>73532906
>>73532971
>>73533150

SUPERPOWER

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>>73535421
Have to learn how to use a toilet first.

>>73534590
CKG's not so bad, don't be a bully! They might be corrupt and criminal but they're trying they're best.

>>73535637
t. zhang qiao

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>>73535148
Does this icecream look proxy to you? Of all people a Russian should know that western culture turns to shit when you remove Jesus from the equation.

>>73531889
No, you retarded liberal arts faggot. If you backwards religious monkeys even dare think of obscuring the truth, to destroy the Cyber Dream, it is war.

>>73534590
This pic makes me feel uncomfortable for some reason.

>>73535748
...it's like how Eastern culture would be without Confucius or Buddah...in other words: China

>>73535885
Fear of heights? It definitely is not a beach, if you catch my drift.

>>73536015
It's entirely thanks to Confucianism that China is in the state it currently is.

Confucianism is a pure slave ideology, which legitimises oppression (e.g. the state oppression in China) and class divides (see: China and Japan).

Everything that's wrong with east Asia, as well as the Asian mentality, started with Confucius.

>>73536121
Ragnar i am impress

t. philosophy major dropout

>>73536121
The Chicoms did their best to exterminate Confucianism. China is the way it is because of Marxism. Marx wasn't a Confucian. He was a Marxist, which is just a Pharisee minus belief in God. If Confucius was responsible for China than all of Asia would be China. If the Chinese had held to the old ways I doubt they would have been cutting their parents to death in the town square.

>>73536504
China is about as communist as Trump is.

>>73536504
>a Marxist is just a Pharisee without belief in God

You are DEFINITELY not a real Japanese person mate. Only a white Stormfag would say something like this

>>73536552
Indeed. Communism has never been tried. The Sino-Soviet split demonstrated that China is a counter revolutionary state and thus Maoism is not true Socialism. This isn't Cold War Russian propaganda being regurgitated my useful idiots.

>>73536595
How racist!

>>73536689
>China, the communist state known for its one-party political system; aggressive promotion of its national interests in foreign policy and efforts to homogenize as much of the country as possibly by assimilating non-Han Chinese cultures; and a for its powerhouse economy with such famous symbols associated with it as the Shanghai Stock Exchange, HQs of several megacorporations and main factories of many Western companies taking advantage of cheap Chinese labor

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>>73535543
Not really. Moscow is wanna be europen city

>>73536903
Yes. Communism doesn't exist. It's a fantasy dreamed up by a sociopath. Expecting it to present a consistent moral standard of policy only demonstrates your naïveté. Material Dialecticism holds that literally any action can be taken to advance the Communist movement. If you blew up a factory full of proletarians it doesn't mean you aren't a genuine Communist...if your Party ordered you to do it to build public sympathy for the working class. "History will exhonerate me." The Dialectic will synthesize all things unto itself. Expecting Communists to behave in anything but a hypocritical, counterintuitive way only demonstrates that you don't understand what Communism even is. Selling a few trinkets to useful idiots to raise money for the Party's tax coffers isn't Communism? Fuck out of here.

>>73537237
Why are you a paranoid schizo who posts from a proxy? You do not matter. No one cares about you. So why are you posting from a proxy?

>>73536017
That was weak

>>73537638
>american interrupting intelligent argument of two persons with his personal insults
Why is it always like that?

>>73537638
>understanding basic Marxist theory but disagreeing with it now means you have paranoid schizophrenia
They did the same thing in the USSR lol, throwing all dissidents in loony bins. Fuck off. I've read a good chunk of the Marxist canon. I wouldn't even use it to wipe my ass.

I live in Japan. The only reason I'd get a proxy would be if I every got sick of hearing jellyfags like you whining. Stay jelly.

>>73531368
>And I'm not even a stormfag
we know

you're clearly a redditor

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>>73530839
Nigerian Batman movie when?

>>73537898
Should it be Blackman then? Half black-half human

>>73537796
You are poor. Eat my shit gopnik.
>>73537808
Japan is fucking shitty. I would only live there a couple weeks at most in Tokyo. China is a superior Far Eastern country.

And, please be honest with the readers, you are schizo.

You are pulling your hair out over a dead ideology. Quit masquerading as an intellect, English teacher.

>>73537743
Like your Country and History?

>>73537898
Ghana already made a Spiderman movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxk_A4Y-9hI

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>>73531533
>economic '''''freedom''''''

Johannesburg

>>73538491
Communism has been defeatedalready. Its remnants are just clinging to life in shitty backwaters like China and American universities. I'm not worried about it. I just understand it for the evil that it is, however impotent.

>>73538491
>basement dweller tells me I'm poor

>>73538989
I am Living in a four story house. Now spread your ass for daddy.

>>73538918
>China
>Communist

Nah, you are a retard.

>>73539143
Yeah, and you still have to brag about it to random Slavs on a Bhutanese gourmet eating bulletin board to feel better about yourself. Really makes you think don't it?