Japan is not futuristic
Japan is a fossil stuck in 1990
99% of Westerners still don't get this
Futuristic Asia is China, Korea, Vietnam, etc
No Asian rates Japan for modernity at all
On August 31, I started playing Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix (Mega 39s)
The ISS, a Soyuz-like rocket, and the EVA pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey can be seen in the music video for Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! (the Nyan Cat song)
Hatsunia represents an optimistic counterpart to the trope of “Japan as a dystopian Cyberpunk superpower” and tech doomerism in general.
So it is inspired by aesthetics like Cyberprep and Frutiger Aero, which emphasize "the positives of technological advancement."
"Hell Valley" by RvBOMally
A map inspired by Back to the Future Part II's dystopian alternate timeline and cyberpunk tropes.
On October 21, 2015, President Biff Tannen leads the US in an alliance with Japan, both being corrupt corporatocracies.
https://t.co/xBodPLsBrG
October 21, 2015 in Back to the Future Part II (1989) was intended to be a subversion of dark and gritty cyberpunk media like Blade Runner.
But it was still based on the 1980s idea that Japan would become an economic superpower (the fear of which being known as “Japan-bashing”).
"Hell Valley" by RvBOMally
A map inspired by Back to the Future Part II's dystopian alternate timeline and cyberpunk tropes.
On October 21, 2015, President Biff Tannen leads the US in an alliance with Japan, both being corrupt corporatocracies.
https://t.co/xBodPLsBrG
Small scale government space activity: “justified scientific research”
Large-scale commercial space activity: “evil waste of money that should go to fixing Earth”
The “spaceflight fan” crowd that praises astronauts and the Artemis moon missions but say we shouldn’t go to Mars because we have Earth are so funny
Fake spaceflight fans everywhere
Mirrorshades, an alternate history map by RvBOMally inspired by 1980s retrofuturism and cyberpunk.
"Japan is the most advanced state in the world, the pioneer of just about every new piece of tech out there."
https://t.co/ZbD0OlWywn
An alternate history in which India was never partitioned, if it could be kept stable with decentralized regional autonomy and protections for religious minorities, could have mitigated the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and prevented 9/11.
Congratulations on the launch of JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft!
It aims to be the first spacecraft to return samples from Mars’s moon Phobos.
What deradicalized me was seeing the unreasonable extremes on both the left and the right. Both feed off each other in a vicious cycle, as I saw back in 2020.