• ...m...@ttrpg.network
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      14 days ago

      …yeah, urban hellscapes are pretty bleak but it’s obvious someone tried here to make the best they could of what they had to work with…dense as it is in hong kong, the other nice thing is that you don’t have to travel too far to experience open parklands…

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        14 days ago

        It takes about two acres of agricultural land to feed a human. Every single person in every single one of those apartments is using two acres somewhere else.

        Instead of living comfortably in small settlements somewhere in the vicinity of those two acres, they have decided to move hundreds of miles away, and stack themselves in disgusting concrete blocks. The ground supports about 320 people per square mile; they’ve decided to miserably cram 50,000 of themselves into that same square, pushing out everything alive but the rats, cockroaches, and other vermin thriving on their detritus.

        There should be more trees than windows through which to see them. When that ratio inverts, it’s time to call a demolitionist not an architect.

      • deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Oh come on… Hellscape is pretty dramatic don’t you think? I don’t wanna hear that from anyone who hasn’t been to America…

        I know it’s played out at this point but the building I’m working in is 10x worse than this and they keep letting one company build them and block the view of the river !!! We could use some more trees and tennis courts here!!!

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      The photo may have been taken at 5 in the morning or some equally unsociable hour for playing sports.

      I assume the photographer wanted the courts and streets as empty as possible to create the right mood for the shot

      • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        You could also just take a couple of pictures and if people are moving, do an image stack and it removes the people from the images. Pretty classic technique to get rid of people from busy photos. These days you could also just use AI to remove people from pictures as well.

      • makefile@programming.dev
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        14 days ago

        I assumed it was roughly 5am as well but my friends and I used to play tennis that early, and so do many tennis players. With how many apartments shown here, I’d figured there’d be more people.

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          14 days ago

          It’s credited to nat geo - this isn’t a snapshot by a tourist, if that photographer wants an empty street photo of times square at noon they will get it.

          This could be multiple photos stacked to average out anything that moves.

      • VinegarChunks@lemmus.orgEnglish
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        14 days ago

        There must be several thousand people living in those surrounding buildings. Not two of them get up early for a game of tennis before work?

        Maybe they are not all allowed to use the courts.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Not two of them get up early for a game of tennis before work?

          Not if the courts are closed off so the photographer can get a clean shot.

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Yesterday I tried to watch a How Ridiculous video (I have mixed feelings about them but they’ve metaphorically grown on me). In this particular one they’re experimenting with the Magnus effect by throwing things off of a cliff.

      They’ve done similar things before, mostly off of what they say is the highest dam in the world. However … That has at least a guardrail. This was just a cliff and they had to stand right at the edge of it with no PPE.

      I tried to endure but when they opened an umbrella over the drop I had to turn it off. It was surprising to me; they’re usually at least half decent about safety. At the beginning of this video, one of them even commented on his “jelly legs.”

      • teslekova@sh.itjust.works
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        14 days ago

        I was having the same fear. Good news! I watched to the end, and spotted the safety ropes they all had on them. They were safe the whole time. Even Scott.

        I wish they’d pointed it out clearly, because they are an example to lots of kids. However, it seems they were not in fact totally stupid.

        • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
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          14 days ago

          I am watching it again now with my wife here to comfort me. I am glad to observe that you are correct.

          I also wish they’d made it more obvious, both for people like us and for kids.

    • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      14 days ago

      thats not a main road, its usually reserved for bikes and usually some cars that are driving out or driving in. Its reserved for the people living there

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      Looks more like the inner driveway. Usually for people whose car is parked outside. If it’s like in China, it’s not for driving per se.

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      That’s what the picture is meant to do, but in practice it’s not quite as bad, depending on what kind of high-rise city you’re used to. I feel a lot more claustrophobic in Paris or some other French cities, no contest.

  • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    14 days ago

    this may look liminal but I get a weird sense of community there

    it looks one of the areas where everyone knows and trusts eachother

    • VAK@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      It’s impossible to know everyone coz a 1000+ people will be too many for that, unless you’re very extroverted. But in common spaces like that sports area you’ll run into several familiar faces repeatedly.