I remember having lunch in the food court in the basement of that hotel about 13 years ago. Around 30 prostitutes walked around the perimeter in laps hoping to catch some of the diners’ eye. Macau is a strange mix of China, Portugal and Vegas.
Yeah. You have to climb it, parkour style, casually fighting footsoldiers on your way up. The boss is at the top, wearing a suit with huge cufflinks and smoking a cigar
Pretty sad tbh. Bangkok is notorious for this. You'll have tall skyscraping apartments and in between the apartments are poor alleyways of broken-down buildings and broken apartments. Pretty much shanty towns
It took me less than a few minutes to find this street on Google Earth. You can't street view it, but there is a photo with a polluted sky blocking the hotel from view.
I’ve been and it’s actually a wild island. Really beautiful place. Almost entirely man made land and they are still expanding it. But yes, there’s literally a line in the sand practically where you turn a corner and suddenly your in the slums. Macau is essentially the Las Vegas of China.
Macau is weird. One street looks like a 3rd world slum, the next street is super polished and clean. One part old and historic, around the corner it's ultra-modern.
Similar to full moon photos, I think there are some telephoto lens shenanigans going on here (which cause the distant object to appear much larger than it would appear to the naked eye). Regardless, the result is really cool.
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More of a loom than a lurk
Yeah, that thing is ominous as hell.
This is what I imagined Ready Player One should’ve looked like.
You are correct....
Like Inception when everything rolls
Standing there all menacingly.
Indeed very loominous
Anyone remember
You could have told me this was a cybepunk 2077 screenshot and I would have accetpted that.
All the lurkers are quietly thanking you for making this comment.
I immediately think of Inception.
If my
I think of Doctor Strange
I was thinking
I think of Final Fantasy 7, looking out from the slums
Or Blade Runner, if it was dark and the streets were lite up with neon signs. There are tons of comparison films.
Yup. This thread sorely needs
Me too.
My brain goes to Blade Runner
I immediately thought of District 9. Haha
Yessss!!!!
I thought of Final Fantasy 7
Also, Alita: Battle Angel
Beat me too it
I immediately think of how many times this has been posted. That's kinda like Inception, seeing it over and over again throughout time.
I genuinely thought it was from Inception at first glance. That building look like other buildings bending sideways
Christopher nolan?
Man. I came to say this.
The
I was wondering why it looked like it was leaning!
Looks a lot cooler when you can’t see the whole thing.
unexpectedperfume
Jesus that’s ugly. It’s like Donald Trump made a butt plug.
wow it looks waaay bigger in op's pic
Oh wow! It's actually really cool and unique and beautiful! From OP's post I expected something out of
I think there’s quite a horrendous looking building. Not attractive or appealing at all. Maybe it’s just the angle?
how much a night?
Notice none of the beginning google photos show the disparity between poor/rich
While the outside is stunning, the casino inside is a dump compared to others in Macau...
looking like a damn buttplug
It sort of resembles a pineapple. Or maybe an onion.
Weird how dated it looks. Reminds me of old Vegas.
Looks way smaller in those pictures than it does here.
This is straight up Final Fantasy.
This. I keep thinking the slums in FF7.
I remember having lunch in the food court in the basement of that hotel about 13 years ago. Around 30 prostitutes walked around the perimeter in laps hoping to catch some of the diners’ eye. Macau is a strange mix of China, Portugal and Vegas.
I get the China and the Vegas parallels but why Portugal?
Same experience about 14 years ago. They kept coming up to my white friend. We were just looking for a place to eat.
Looks like Half-life Alyx
Yesss found the comment. Exactly what I was thinking.
The City 17 Citadel
Was thinking that
Just finished half life 2 in anticipation of playing Alyx and that was my first thought, citadel/City 17 vibes
End boss at the top of that tower.
Yeah. You have to climb it, parkour style, casually fighting footsoldiers on your way up. The boss is at the top, wearing a suit with huge cufflinks and smoking a cigar
Tartarus
evilbuildings
Strong
Theres a Burmese restaurant a couple blocks down from where this photo was taken, they make the best Lo Mein I've ever had in my damn life
I really wanna visit this particular area. Screw the big hotel, you know those streets have some of the best places to eat and drink.
Only 1 week to go!!!!
we have a city to burn
Upon arrival they hire a bunch of porch pirates to steal peoples copies because it wasn’t actually ready
city 17 vibes
Came here to say this.
You deserve a lot more upvotes. I immediately thought about the combine.
For real, dystopian as fuck.
Class division in a photo.
Pretty sad tbh. Bangkok is notorious for this. You'll have tall skyscraping apartments and in between the apartments are poor alleyways of broken-down buildings and broken apartments. Pretty much shanty towns
Or, las Vegas in asia in a photo
Yes, but not quite in the way most people might think.
It's Macau. Those apartments cost more than the ones we live in, guaranteed.
And wealth disparity.
Knowing Macau those people living in these apartments are richer than those staying in the hotel
Reminds me of Kill la Kill
Ugh, fine. I guess you're my little pogchamp
Just say Cyberpunk 2077
Looks like ready player one
Seconded - The Stacks - came here to say this if it hadn't been said; Surprised I had to go this far down!
My immediate thought as well. Surprised I had to scroll this far
Came here to say this, had to check the comments first. Thanks for not disappointing me.
I had to Google the hotel to wrap my head around the photo
Me too. It's still massive when you do that though!
It’s like from JAK II in the Jak n Daxter series where you’re in the slums and can see the palace in the distance
Other pics
Good god...the excesses of a few vs the needs of most
Interestingly, more money is gambled in Macau than anywhere else in the world (including Vegas).
I would play that Assassin's Creed.
This is... unsettling.
I thought the yellow square was supposed to show something. facepalm for myself
I was just at the toilet!
It looks like it’s leaning over to try and get in the photo
It took me less than a few minutes to find this street on Google Earth. You can't street view it, but there is a photo with a polluted sky blocking the hotel from view.
M E G A L O F O B I A
Reminds me of Deus Ex
This reminds me of Doctor Strange
Omg, it’s my hometown!! My high school is right next this street so I use to see this view literally everyday.
repostsleuthbot
This gets posted every other day.
Looks like the place from Alita Battle angel
Let It Die
I’ve been and it’s actually a wild island. Really beautiful place. Almost entirely man made land and they are still expanding it. But yes, there’s literally a line in the sand practically where you turn a corner and suddenly your in the slums. Macau is essentially the Las Vegas of China.
holy shit I thought this was CG until I googled it
I love pictures like this where something in the background is made to look absolutely gigantic. Like this one:
Is there a sub for this?
Ghost in the Shell and Alita Battle Angel vibes
Looks like something from ready player one
Macau is weird. One street looks like a 3rd world slum, the next street is super polished and clean. One part old and historic, around the corner it's ultra-modern.
polish or polished?
Rip New Mombasa
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Reminds me of Bererk, Griffith looking for his kingdom as a child.
Some doctor strange shit right here
Superhero:It will be hard to find the villains lair it will be well hidden Villains lair: this image
It looks like something from a nightmare, to me.
urbanhell
Looks like Tokyo during the daytime in Akira
This HAS to be photoshopped. My mind can not comprehend it being anything else.
It is, well... sort of. The hotel is not actually that big so there is either some serious perspective shifting or Adobe has been at it again.
Waaaaaaam-buuummmmm.... (Inception sounds in the background)
Photoshoped
City-17
Feels like a scene from Ghost in The Shell
Tell me again how there’s no class inequality in China.
This picture of it makes this image make a little more sense?
Ummm..that's terrifying. Why is it leaning???
BQWWWOOOOMMMMMM
Makes more sense in this picture.
Jeez!! How big is that place??
Similar to full moon photos, I think there are some telephoto lens shenanigans going on here (which cause the distant object to appear much larger than it would appear to the naked eye). Regardless, the result is really cool.
865ft tall
It reminds me of several different scenes from Bulletstorm
Reminds me of Ysai on Gammu.
SO much anxiety! I'd be lying on the pavement trying to hang on, since the world is obviously tipping over.
This looks like an old XBox 1 commercial
Inception
Why does this make me feel so cozy?
Reminds me of half life 2
Why does the hotel look like it has not been rendered correctly lol
I feel like this is the kind of structures that inspired Half Life 2's buildings.
Half life alyx vibes
Immediately reminded me of Doctor Strange
POV : you are Doctor strange fighting in the mirror dimension
Wall-E?
macauception
What kind of saucery is this?
If this was a video game I'd love to play it
Ready Player One flashbacks
I'm getting some inception vibes
The Inception music immediately started playing in my head while staring at this picture.
Looks like a city that would be in a fallout game
I'm so confused here
Looks like ready player one
Cyberpunk 2020
I don't believe this photo hasn't been retouched
*Harvester deployed. Initializing resource extracting*
So this is real?
Half life 2 shit
Looks like the building is falling
As if you want us to believe that.
Its not a hotel, its just Godzilla walking away
Underrated comment!
Is it just me or is this picture disorienting?
Someone should sort that subsidence out.
breathtaking
automatically thought of inception
vibeo gane
This is just Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing turned off
how
I'm not ready to accept that this is real
holy what, that doesnt even look real
This makes me dizzy
I had to Google the building to understand this!
Looks like cyberpunk without the lights
Lense effect, like 500mm. It's not that dramatic IRL.
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