This used to be an actual place

This used to be an actual place.

It's called Kowloon Walled City. It was a largely ungoverned settlement lying within Hong Kong. 33,000 people lived there until it was demolished in 1993.

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literally an ant hill

Why the fuck do so many people live in Honk Kong. Like fuck off how are they not fucking full.

So what happened?
Did they hit the behavioural sink?

I find it amazing that they could build that high under those conditions without anything collapsing.

No, the government demolished it once they finally felt like it went far enough. The place was a dangerous hellhole.

it was famous enough to get own vidya gaem
Shadowrun Hong Kong

It wasn't ungoverned, it was controlled by organized crime for the most part.

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Why is it so comfy?

Would you rather live in wealthy, developed and relatively free Hong Kong or the mainland China?

Would have had a better chance at working out if they didn't build it so everything was the size of a portapotty.

Hong Kong is one of the great success stories of laissez-faire.

Because we made it livable.

Trust me, it wasnt comfy. You had multipple floodings in different parts of the "city" at the same time. Roden, roach, all kind of pest problems. Electrical issues. You would had to share living space with hobos and drug addicts.

Playing necromunda irl, huh

Hated those QTE plank walking sections of Shenmue here desu

I want an anarcho capitalist RPG game set in Kowloon city. I want to be able to start at the bottom of the city and work my way up as it gets more expensive and prestigious as you ascend. Someone make this game now.

Nice and cozy

were any movies filmed there?

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

>It's called Kowloon Walled City

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City#Depictions_and_legacy

That was my favorite level in Black Ops

There is no such concepts as prestige in the city and if you desire such things, you don't belong.

Can there be nanotech weapons and defenses involved?

there's also a level of Call of Duty: Black Ops that takes place there

Why's that missing so many? Is that normal for wiki - like is it just meant as a sampling of examples? Or is it just shit?

Jesus christ, and how are they considered human again? First the webms of their autistic behaviour like driving over children slowly while pretending to not notice, and now thisssss.

Fitting, considering the chinese are ant people.

I saw some clips from a documentary on yt, it looked depressing as fuck but the Chinese are a hardly lot, they will endure almost anything.

Because it's RL cyberpunk

This is an interesting topic, but it is a slide thread. Saw this last week. Same exact wording.

>Wake up in dumpster at the bottom of the city
>Almost not money
>Stumble around until you find quests or resources to use
>Complete quests
>Find occupation and specialize
>Doctor, gun for hire, gang member, gang leader, trader, manufacturer, chemist, drug dealer, thief, craftsman
>Open up a shop or travel looking for work
>Hustle your way up the levels of kowloon city
>Factions and gangs
>Basically fallout NV but inside kowloon city
>Maybe cyber punk it up a little to make it extra /comfy/

God I fucking hate commies.

Mate, try to be poor in Hong Kong. Yuu end up in the gutter or in a similar "city".

You make it, or pay people to make it.

How could it not be burned down? One grease fire should have spread all over it

Surely they demolished it with the people still in it or they would just move somewhere else and continue the degeneracy.

That's actually free market capitalism in action, porky.

Hong Kong is ancap paradise.

By prestige I mean the real hustlers are at the top, they have the most space and resources.

Of course
read this

Commies demolished it.

Libertarian paradise, I cried a bit after seeing the cabling as a Elektrotechnikermeister

Hong Kong is the very opposite of anarchy tho.

I totally will. I have 16000 dollars to put into this and I can already make this stuff myself.

someone should make a cool neo noir movie about this place.

That place appears in Van Damme's Bloodsport.

Best movie ever.

It is an iconic staple in the cyberpunk genre already with many variants and offshoots based on the actual KWC or Hong Kong in general.

youtu.be/V_2KgQOqzBc

it looks like the vertical version of Snowpiercer

This

>Hong Kong is not Hong Kong anymore
>nostalgia

Hopefuly we have cities rising to replace Hong Kong. Idea will live!

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>Boat ride or rat hole isn't favorite level

Because until recently we owned it. Would you rather live in "escalators try and eat you" China or one of our territories?

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What do Brits think about the Opium War?

my boy here knows

>Brits
>Livable

Exactly, ''livable'' doesn't mean you actually want to live there

>If I, Pencil, were the only item that could offer testimony on what men and women can accomplish when free to try, then those with little faith would have a fair case. However, there is testimony galore; it's all about us and on every hand.

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Fuckin bantz innit.
"Oi give me your lunch money"
"No"
"Okay now half your population is opium addicts"
"O"
Just another example of quality British Chad-ism.

All your colonies were poverty-stricken shitholes.
Everything we touched turned to gold.

Really makes you think

>literally a hive city
Warhammer 2k when?

1997>1993

I think they used to make a lot of beautiful old beaded sweaters and such. My wife used to own a vintage shop and I swear a lot of the hand-knit and beaded knits from the 40s and 50s were from Kowloon. Pity it's gone, they had some incredibly skilled people there.

It's just the bottom levels though.
Filled with mutants, gooks, Genestealers and mutant Genestealer gooks.

It's a pretty nice park now

The real question is how the fuck did a fire not rip that place apart? It was ripe for a nasty fire being so dense. Amazing it never happened. You couldn't get any resources to put out a fire raging through that place.

I guess they probably had fires from time to time

Well, they got us addicted to Tea so there is that.
>Drinking a Cup of tea now.

That's the most fun part. The only good thing to ever come out of the higher levels would be corpse starch.
The place was probably so soaked from all the disgusting shit they produced that that any fires would die out on heir own.
What I would have liked to see is a power outage there instead.

triads used to run a fire department iirc

hong kong is actually nice and i prefer the western expats who go to HK over what western people are now back in their home countries

also its very easy to get a well paid job in hong kong

>Addicted to some foreign herbal drink
>Shit is expensive
>Let's gas them high and rob them
>Here have some shitty drug pls no fight

Are Brits the original druggies in politics?

>well paid job in HK
tell me because its the coolest fucking city ive ever been to

software developer here and pretty sure it aint easy and I know its damn expensive to live a western lifestyle there

what's your political point?

drinks and such are expensive yes, along with housing but if you have a degree and maybe a little experience (though not mandatory) you could work here and easily expect 30k hkd a month (3 thousand pound, idk american conversion)

if you are working and have money coming in whilst living in hong kong, its a fucking blast and doesnt get boring

What are the laws there regarding home-produced beverages?

What is the housing market like?

Is the rent a major chunk of income like London, for example?

how much is housing because im making roughly that now after tax

whats ur profession?

And they used bamboo scaffolding to put out all up. Mind boggling.

It's much better then holland and no Turks everywhere

>trust me, I wasn't there

please shut the fuck up

Why did they make a monument of it

Born to late to fight in the kumite
Why live?
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it's nice that they did something like that