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serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

Jose posted:

Can someone post more cyberpunk looking photos of china tia

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Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES










Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES






a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"

A Jupiter posted:

Also as I learned from Sleeping Dogs, apparently running a private bus service that steals passengers from other bus companies?

I think that's a money laundering thing.

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES












duckfarts
Jul 2, 2010

~ shameful ~





Soiled Meat

Accretionist posted:

Hong Kong and Taiwan mixed in (because gently caress da' police):



I love these so much and try to take a pic whenever I see one

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

When I was living in Zhong Jie (older downtown neighborhood) in Shenyang they were doing a shitload of demolitions and construction before the Olympics came to town. There were buildings like this all over the place where they were just working down a row of apartments and shops and every other day they would take the next one in line down. I guess they forgot to do their check when starting on an apartment and brought the place down on top of some homeless guy who was passed out drunk and didn't wake up in time. The next day they had the place taped off and police were crawling all over the ruins. Apparently one of the poured exterior concrete walls fell in and landed flat on the guy. The description I heard was it was like knocking over a very heavy book on top of an uncooked egg.

Another demolition I saw (same city) on the way to one of the high schools I taught at had the last wall of a 4 floor building teetering on the brink of falling down. I guess the crane that had the wrecking ball was out of commission, so this one guy would go to the base of the wall, (in what was the inside of the building) hit the wall a few times, remove a foot of brick, then run out when he thought it was going to come down. This went on for ten minutes, with him running out and stumbling over rubble every time he thought it was going to come down. Luckily for him they got the wrecking machine up and running again, but it was legit the most suspenseful thing I have ever witnessed in my life.

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

Blistex posted:

When I was living in Zhong Jie (older downtown neighborhood) in Shenyang they were doing a shitload of demolitions and construction before the Olympics came to town.

How did you like living in Shenyang? I have the impression that it is analogous to Pittsburgh (i.e. a post-industrial city trying to reinvent itself). Any reason why you chose to live there rather than a more livable city like Dalian?

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


a pipe smoking dog posted:

I think that's a money laundering thing.

Actually a protection money thing.

They don't steal passengers either

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

DetroitVectorSmooth posted:

How did you like living in Shenyang? I have the impression that it is analogous to Pittsburgh (i.e. a post-industrial city trying to reinvent itself). Any reason why you chose to live there rather than a more livable city like Dalian?

I've never been to Pittsburgh, but I think the comparison is somewhat close. . . assuming Pittsburgh had another 6 million people living in it.

I was living and teaching there because my wife (at the time girlfriend) was finishing up her masters degree at Shenyang Normal University (Normal is what they call Teacher's Colleges). I didn't mind it, but would have preferred to live in Dalien (seafood and navy yard), Jilin (not full of coal dust), or even Changchun (better road layout) but that's just how things happened. If it wasn't for the massive amounts of coal dust everywhere and the abysmal city planning when it came to roads, I would not have had a complaint. Best part about being in Shenyang were the fireworks during Spring Festival. Apparently due to the density in the one area, it's even more impressive than Beijing (random people setting off fireworks, not city sponsored ones). The constant light and explosions made the Shock and Awe campaign in Baghdad look tame. Another great thing about Shenyang is that it has a really diverse selection of restaurants that are representative of the whole country, and even rivals Beijing. This also includes foreign food, as there were lots of Japanese, Korean, and western style restaurants, due to the large number of people working from all over China and the world due to the factories there.

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
China is the future of the 1980's

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


What is not normal about these? Have I been here too long?



Accretionist posted:






Horatius Bonar
Sep 8, 2011

simplefish posted:

What is not normal about these? Have I been here too long?

I was thinking the same thing, but also including the fake construction worker arm waver guy.

duckfarts
Jul 2, 2010

~ shameful ~





Soiled Meat

saw a similar thing in Shenzhen where they had built the sidewalk up so high that it went around and over a fire hydrant that was rendered useless as a result

5er
Jun 1, 2000

Qapla' to a true warrior! :patriot:


To be fair, it does look like you can pull those rails away without too much effort to get into the case.

To digress, I think by this point in my life I've seen about twenty different productions / interpretations of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' And, as I understand it, people think Liu Bei was a 'balla rear end nigga' courtesy of the very positive portrayal from the Luo Guanzhong treatment in the historical novels, but actual history points him at being a petulant, shady little con-man that used a threadbare familial connection to Han royalty and a pair of loyal but barely containable brutes to manipulate himself into wealth and power.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

5er posted:

To be fair, it does look like you can pull those rails away without too much effort to get into the case.

To digress, I think by this point in my life I've seen about twenty different productions / interpretations of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' And, as I understand it, people think Liu Bei was a 'balla rear end nigga' courtesy of the very positive portrayal from the Luo Guanzhong treatment in the historical novels, but actual history points him at being a petulant, shady little con-man that used a threadbare familial connection to Han royalty and a pair of loyal but barely containable brutes to manipulate himself into wealth and power.

Shows what kind of morals the Chinese want in their heroes I guess.

Except Guan Yu. Guan Yu is clearly a badass and not an alteration of history.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
any news on whats being done about the Blade Runner like pollution in china?

ddiddles
Oct 21, 2008

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic and so am I
Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these:

Butt Frosted Cake
Dec 27, 2010

5er posted:

To be fair, it does look like you can pull those rails away without too much effort to get into the case.

To digress, I think by this point in my life I've seen about twenty different productions / interpretations of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' And, as I understand it, people think Liu Bei was a 'balla rear end nigga' courtesy of the very positive portrayal from the Luo Guanzhong treatment in the historical novels, but actual history points him at being a petulant, shady little con-man that used a threadbare familial connection to Han royalty and a pair of loyal but barely containable brutes to manipulate himself into wealth and power.

ive only read the book/played the games how do they handle the scene where he throws his newborn son headfirst on to the ground to prove to his adviser that he can get a new son but not a new adviser

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Butt Frosted Cake posted:

ive only read the book/played the games how do they handle the scene where he throws his newborn son headfirst on to the ground to prove to his adviser that he can get a new son but not a new adviser

How about the scene where a peasant has no meat and cooks his wife and serves her to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei and Cao Cao put aside their differences to both high five the peasant for putting service to his lord first.

And yeah, even in Rot3K its easy to read between the lines and see that Liu Bei was probably a poo poo.

7 RING SHRIMP
Oct 3, 2012

Is hong kong gross like these other places? Or nah

5er
Jun 1, 2000

Qapla' to a true warrior! :patriot:

Butt Frosted Cake posted:

ive only read the book/played the games how do they handle the scene where he throws his newborn son headfirst on to the ground to prove to his adviser that he can get a new son but not a new adviser

Just about always it's a creepy, powerful manlove between him and Zhao Yun. That the bonds of sacrifice and loyalty that they have between each other trump even the father / son relationship. There's just about always tears, and two burly, virtuous men coming to their knees with deep gazes into each other's eyes in an embrace.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


ddiddles posted:

Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these:



Too much trouble, why bother.

I also bet you most of the construction workers literally have not ever seen one of those.

Edit: To be fair to the lazy rear end construction workers buildings aren't maintained in any way and are built as cheaply as possible, so they're all basically collapsing within a couple years of being built. So doing a good job is kind of a waste of time because the building is going to be gone in an absurdly short timeframe anyway. I think I read things here are built with an expectation of 20 years max before they'll be demolished?

Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 16, 2015

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000


That is surprisingly neat. Need some pics of HK island or Mongkok electrical wiring, it is amazingly hosed up at times. Google search only finds the tidy ones, the real masterpieces are elaborate 3-dimensional works of art that are difficult to photograph well.

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 16, 2015

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

EATIN SHRIMP posted:

Is hong kong gross like these other places? Or nah

From what I gather, the niceness goes [ Taiwan > Hong Kong > Mainland ] and Hong Kong's not bad.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011


lol, typical scrub lawmaker mistake. next time explicitly state in the law that the fire hydrant has to be accessible and operational in case of fire. it also should NOT emit Zyklon B, Zyklon A or gasoline at any time.

but you'll get the hang of it eventually, don't worry.

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

ddiddles posted:

Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these:



They use Linux, OP.

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug

ddiddles posted:

Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these:


I was at a newish hotel in Guilin earlier this year which had been modeled after some Renaissance hotel. The rooms were nice looking on the surface but like everything in China, just a little bit broken. There was a lovely glass-walled bathroom separated into a toilet area and a stall area with a raised slate center and drainage rim around it. The rim and toilet area was slightly sloped so that the runoff water would feed into a drain set between the sink and the toilet.

Unfortunately, the drain in my room was clogged and I couldn't turn the water on more than a third without the water backing up and overflowing out into the room.

In my friend's room the layout was exactly the same but the drain was in the far corner instead of between the stall and the toilet. The sloping was the same so there was basically no drainage at all - he had to wedge a towel in so that it wouldn't overflow into the room.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Accretionist posted:

From what I gather, the niceness goes [ Taiwan > Hong Kong > Mainland ] and Hong Kong's not bad.

Taiwan > Hong Kong > Most of the Capital Cities in South America > Shanghai > Beijing > A Goblin Camp in Lord of the Rings > Actual Mainland China

If you hate nature and love money and don't care about art then you might put HK over Taiwan.

Mister Mind
Mar 20, 2009

I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm

ddiddles posted:

Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these:



Can they grind it up to make their penis bigger? If not, why bother?

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

what exactly is going on here

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

what exactly is going on here

He's hacking the Gibson.

Lemon
May 22, 2003

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

what exactly is going on here

yer mam's booking service

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Lemon posted:

yer mam's booking service

very rude, reported for mom sass

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

Mister Mind posted:

Can they grind it up to make their penis bigger? If not, why bother?

where do you think they all went

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer

Gaunab posted:

where do you think they all went

Goddammit it's not straightening out!

I've been had!

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Bhodi posted:

I was at a newish hotel in Guilin earlier this year which had been modeled after some Renaissance hotel. The rooms were nice looking on the surface but like everything in China, just a little bit broken. There was a lovely glass-walled bathroom separated into a toilet area and a stall area with a raised slate center and drainage rim around it. The rim and toilet area was slightly sloped so that the runoff water would feed into a drain set between the sink and the toilet.

Unfortunately, the drain in my room was clogged and I couldn't turn the water on more than a third without the water backing up and overflowing out into the room.

In my friend's room the layout was exactly the same but the drain was in the far corner instead of between the stall and the toilet. The sloping was the same so there was basically no drainage at all - he had to wedge a towel in so that it wouldn't overflow into the room.

this is basically china.txt

all those skyscrapers might look great all lit up at night and poo poo but that disguises the fact that most of them are made of paper

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MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000


Almost all HK taxi drivers run their own private service, the Android phone with the orange circle is one of the new apps like Uber and shows the taxi is unavailable.

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