No.54401
What do you guys think are the most cyberpunk cities in America? LA is often listed as it has a lot of the high tech and low life, but the aesthetic is really lacking there. The streets are so wide and it feels so open and sunny, unless the smog is real bad. What do you guys think?
pic related is LA at night.
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No.54404
East coast in general. The cities and the mountains remind me of Transmetropolitan.
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No.54405
>>54404
the east coast is absolutely not cyberpunk. San Francisco is the ultimate dysfunctional high-tech low-life city.
LA is not high-tech at all but it is hyper stratified if vast wealth gaps everywhere is what you think cyberpunk is (it isn't otherwise Brazil would be cyber).
the most cyber cities I have ever seen is in china as LED lit buildings are fashionable everywhere, one cannot see the sun during the day, and no one uses brouzouf they use whatsapp.
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No.54406
>>54405
>San Francisco is the ultimate dysfunctional high-tech low-life city.
SF isn't "low-life" as in "bands of techno-anarchists fighting the man". It's "low-life" as in "hordes of mentally unstable homeless people harassing passerby and shitting in the streets." I've been there twice and I would never recommend it to anyone. The only thing it had going for it was Little Tokyo, but now that knowingly infecting others with AIDS is no longer a crime I have no desire to return to California.
It's not really "cyberpunk" so much as it is "degenerate hive of leftist nonsense."
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No.54411
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No.54412
>>55405
Don't be jealous anon. You are so worthless when you are jealous. You stupid little monkey. I really need to fuck something now.
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No.54422
>>54405
I Agree, I don’t think east coast is cyberpunk, although NYC might have the pollution, tall buildings and narrow streets. But it really isn’t that cyberpunk yet. LA strikes me as much more cyberpunk then San Francisco. I think LA was a bunch of neighborhoods that all came together as one which is why the traffic is so bad and the city is so dysfunctional. That kinda feels a little like cyberpunk to me with the real lack of planning.
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No.54423
>>54406
>bands of techno-anarchists fighting the man
Do not exist in ANY American cities, unless you count amoral, monetarily driven organised criminals engaged in sophisticated, hi-tech grinds like trafficking drugs /robbing banks/cyber attacks/etc. But there's still hardly anything specifically 'cyberpunk' about them.
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No.54424
Why do we care which city is the most cyberpunk? Based on what criteria? # of tech corps, overpopulation, pollution or is it something else?
Imho, cyberpunk is the personal style of an individual who chooses to carry over the attitudes and aesthetic of punk and degeneracy over into the coming decades; someone who would be considered a vagrant NEET and is able to bend circuits or code to do their bidding.
So the better question to ask is which city hosts the most hacker/tech spaces/collaboratives that are not major corporations??
>bands of techno anarchists
You'll never see or be aware of them. At least the competent variety. Hackers base their movements predominantly on deception; its more of a grift because its easier to convince a human for infos/access than breaking passwords. Keep in mind, in amerika the hacker caught in the act catches 25 years in federal.
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No.54426
>>54423
>>54406
>bands of techno-anarchists fighting the man
these actually exist in the bitcoin and hacker underground communities which are obviously a) tiny in number, b) don't advertise themselves in giant neon ads saying "please join us based out of towner, we set up this meeting right here just so can join in and enlighten us with your techno-utopic vision" and who more likely won't give a shit if you stop by or not or even drop dead. you want to find tor and blockchain hackers, at the same time, in the same place, its hackerspaces like Noisebridge or the El Rio bitcoin drinkup. yet they still have meetups and events on a weekly or monthly basis which is far, far, more often than anywhere else in the USA.
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No.54427
>>54422
yet again, endless sprawl a cyberpunk city does not make. here is one of literally thousands of chinese examples of aesthetic cities. however even these futuristic cities are not cyberpunk unless you can see the intersection of the lo-lifes and high-tek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-t3W1zLzg
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No.54437
>>54424
Cyberpunk is more then just a personal style. You by yourself can’t create cyberpunk, you need the tech, you need the low life, you need the income disparity and the smog and all the things that go along with the core of cyberpunk and it’s aesethic. You alone can’t make all that happen.
>>54427
I get that just urban sprawl isn’t cyberpunk, but why does that happen? Because growth happens too fast and they can’t control it. That in my opinion can and sometimes is an element of cyberpunk. Things happening and progressing too fast for the government to control. I like the core of cyberpunk but I also like the aesthetic of it also. I love the rainy streets with the neon signs, the smog, the massive buildings and the crammed apartments. I love it all. Chongqing is pretty cool though.
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No.54438
>>54437
>why does that happen? Because growth happens too fast and they can’t control it.
every single one of those buildings got permits, were built to code, and pay taxes.
>Things happening and progressing too fast for the government to control.
you're a neet aren't you?
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No.54442
>>54438
>every single one of those buildings got permits, were built to code, and pay taxes.
true that, thinking about it you can get a lot of shanty towns like south american favelas and barrios, but anything higher than three stories is probably going to literally fall on its own they way they're built.
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No.54449
>>54438
Lol no. Sure they get permitting, but the gov can’t control the zoning and the new density. I mean they technically could, but it was moving so fast and brouzouf speaks. I’m sure there were bribes taken to approve everything in LA.
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