The world thought Japan was the next superpower in the 80s. Then their economy completely collapsed in the nineties. It only fully recovered in the last few years. Frickin zoomer.
>It did recover to where it fell in the early 90’s
There was no economic collapse in Japan in the 90s, you are parroting some myth.
The economy is just the sum of all economic activities in a country, of all the production and services made in a country. You can think about it as the sum of all income, the sum of all net salaries (after tax), net profits (after tax) and taxes. You add it up and thats GDP and it has never collapsed in Japan except in WW2.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDJPN
Woulda happened anyway even without the Plaza Accords, since japan’s birth rate was cuck’d from feminism and their working class was and still is shrinking
Yes, it's true. But it's not like liberal western feminism, it is the radical man-hating type of feminism.
Japan has one of the highest rates of female virginity. Japanese women simply despise japanese men and would rather worship anime husbandos and buy Hello Kitty themed cat houses for their dozens of cats.
>Plaza accords >Plaza accords >muh plaza accords
Do you idiots know anything about the japanese econony besidea repeating "90s collapse"? Do you even know what the plaza accords are?
The japanese economy did not collapase in the 90s.
Slow economic growth is not collapse.
A drop in real estate prices is not economic collapse, land prices=!the economy
>Then their economy completely collapsed in the nineties
The japanese economy has never collapsed. Their GDO has basically had constant growth and no one can seriously call some 1% contractions as collapses.
The closest thing to a collapse in Japan was in WW2 when their economy shrank by 50%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDJPN
Oh i know you mean real estate prices collapsed? Well, some index of real estate prices isnt "the economy". Selling some pod in tokyo for a million dollars instead of 3 million dollars isnt a collapse of the japanese economy
Australia but not Israel and surely not south africa.
You can interpret western as a culture as an economy or as a geopolitical set, in both senses Israel belongs to the middle east and South africa to sub saharan africa. Japan is its own thing though it is closer to western nation than the other two it's still not a western nation.
>You can interpret western as a culture as an economy or as a geopolitical set
You're also moronic. No one thinks turkroaches are "western" just because they're in NATO. You're Western if you're Western European.
Western = Western European >SA
The coalest blackest blacks in Africa. >Australia
Western because they're ethnically Anglo. >israel
Arab so they're not Western Europeans.
Tranime freaks are moronic as always.
It's always bullshit, isn't it? Projections based on short-term statistics assuming that growth is going to continue at the same, or even an accelerated pace for years and years and years.
"Next superpower", population statistics, global warming, they're all used for fearmongering like this.
>The world thought Japan was the next superpower in the 80s. Then their economy completely collapsed in the nineties. It only fully recovered in the last few years. Frickin zoomer.
the next superpower is clearly the european federation
>The world thought Japan was the next superpower in the 80s
reminder that amerimutts made sure that was never going to happen just look at all the IP infringements, bans, coaxing and making every single large nip company go multinational and then getting their CEOs replaced by x/y mutt
genuine competent good people have no place in this world
i didnt make any claim, you said that. in your mind, america is so powerful, it can just tank any growing economy that's about to supplant it but also so weak that it loses to hick farmers. you're a mindbroken cuck that is utterly consumed by his schizophrenia about america that you literally cannot think about anything else, despite going on about how much you hate it.
>get invaded by americans because you're a buffer state next to an important thirdie country >fight a desperate guerilla war for a decade where your entire country is destroyed and you lose hundreds of thousands of men women and children >america leaves and suffers no consequences >you are still a thridie shithole who's only purpose is to act as a frontier for the empire >heh american chuds think they own the world and can do whatever they want, well we sure showed them!
its the future of every country since eventually you've developed your economy to a point where the return on most investments are trivial compared to things like building a highway network, electrifying the country, making sure everyone has decent plumbing and so on. America would've ended up in the same position ages ago had the dollars not been the reserve currency.
While they don't explicitly call out that it's a post-nuclear war earth, Blade Runner's society is obviously in steep decline. Buildings are completely dilapidated, pollution is toxic and out of control, people with money are leaving the planet, and morally society is falling apart as well. I think it's pretty true to the setting of the book overall.
is white and asian
Have you been to a top 50 college campus? That is what it's like. Whites with retangular glasses, Indians in flip-flops, Chinese kids with the BMW who speaks no English. It feels like Vancouver.
Everything would've been perfect if we just switched sides at the end of WWII and used the nukes to completely obliterate China and Russia. I still don't get why we didn't actually purge Russia immediately. China we at least completely underestimated but it was obvious how it was going to go with Ivan. >J00SKK
Cool it with the antisemitism, captcha.
if you were in hollywood in the 80s, then yeah. West la and hollywood, where all the movies are made, has a bunch of whites and asians. And obviously the extremely japanese inspired sets and places in blade runner. There is a certain image that moviemakers want to project and it doesn't usually include shitty black and hispanic ghettos
>There is a certain image that moviemakers want to project and it doesn't usually include shitty black and hispanic ghettos
also the demography of LA was very different at the time this film was made. If you made Bladrunner today it would be like Elysium or cyber blood diamond
Would it be fair to say that this isn’t only limited to anime? I bet plenty of troops found sexual awakenings to become chicks in western animation and live action stuff too
Generally speaking they have their "awakening" as children watching or reading children's media. The superhero genre is very popular with them because there's an entire alter ego system build into the genre as a rule and dressing up to be "the real you" is an entire thing as well.
Dude I used to watch Love Live all the time back in the day and never trooned out. If you troon out to anime you always wanted to be a pretty pretty princess.
>Dude I used to watch Love Live all the time back in the day
Mossad couldn't interrogate this out of me if they tried. You admitting this with zero shame is wild. You gotta be a genshin impact playing freak irl, probably got a page on kiwifarms or something too.
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I actually liked the music then got into the show. And yes zero shame because I'm not some normalgay. Tthe current level of normie infestation on Cinemaphile right now is absolutely crazy when I remember how it used to be. You don't belong here but are too stupid to realize it. Reddit or Twitter may be more your speed, anon.
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>N-no this place should be a tranime obsessed hellhole for freaks.
Cope.
Walken seems coked off his fricking breasts so far. Cheeky bastard probably got to have nasty uncut bolivian marching powder slapfrick sex with Asia Argento. Really need to reevaluate my life right now and just go all in.
Cyberpunk settings always have this incoherence where you have these overpopulated mega cities, but everyone lives in conditions where they can't even begin to dream of having kids. Where do the people come from? >Asia
Yeah, but they're also depicted as living in the same impoverished mega cities.
Per square foot, real estate in the suburbs is always cheaper.
Even at the absolute height of the 1980s crack epidemic in NYC, when half the city looked like picrel, an apartment in Harlem cost more than a comparably-sized house on Long Island
Good point but isn't this what we are living through now? Where do all the people in Tokyo or New York come from when the living conditions are so unfavorable to stable demographics? Answer is cities drain people from more rural areas and poorer countries. So city can be big even if country is aging and even depopulating. Maybe this is the story in Blade Runner too. What is left of humanity cramming in population centers.
Good point. I had in mind the movies which depart quite a bit from the books. It's unstated but likely similar situation.
Although if I recall correctly in the book it's implied the colonies are overhyped and they are desperate to get people to emigrate to work on some off planet hellhole? Probably shit no matter where you are lol
I read the book first so my first impression is tainted but I thought the replicants were space slaves making like comfy for those in space and that’s why the replicants were all fleeing to earth. It’s shit but no one cares
You're right, they are. I think they also encouraged humans to emigrate. Maybe I assumed it was for labor. It doesn't really make sense that they have this race of slaves but everything is still shit. Maybe they are expensive and only used for certain tasks.
I really enjoyed the book. A lot of it is "outdated" aesthetically for sci-fi and a little weird. For the movie they clearly minded it for a few themes and ideas and made their own really cool aesthetic on top of it. But the original book is good in its own right. I hope someone does a more literal adaption.
>where do the people come from
shitskins are happy breeding in even the most hellish of conditions, this of course loops back to op's problem. in blade runner's case, who knows, maybe 30% of every faceless person we see on the street is a replicant. maybe they have breeding programs now.
>what do they eat
literally slop and bugs, see: BR 2049
I'm still mad there wasn't a single half Asian actor in either movies (Batista doesn't count, he's 3/8 Asian).
Somehow the sequel has LESS Asians.
Even the Matrix had more hapa futurism than Blade Runner
>oh that country? >yeah they don't have a central bank printing money 24/7 and each woman isn't pumping out 20 kids per generation >they're basically collapsing and need aid from the USA ASAP and more immigrants from india
The world thought Japan was the next superpower in the 80s. Then their economy completely collapsed in the nineties. It only fully recovered in the last few years. Frickin zoomer.
>It only fully recovered in the last few years.
It did recover to where it fell in the early 90’s that is an accurate description. But now it’s still decades behind where everyone else is.
By everyone else you mean the US and China right? Since Japan is still ranked third.
Yes but others are gaining at speeds much faster then the japs. They won’t be third for much longer unfortunately.
>It did recover to where it fell in the early 90’s
There was no economic collapse in Japan in the 90s, you are parroting some myth.
The economy is just the sum of all economic activities in a country, of all the production and services made in a country. You can think about it as the sum of all income, the sum of all net salaries (after tax), net profits (after tax) and taxes. You add it up and thats GDP and it has never collapsed in Japan except in WW2.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDJPN
I mean it could have been if ((American)) didn’t cuck them with plaza accords and devaluation of the US dollar
Woulda happened anyway even without the Plaza Accords, since japan’s birth rate was cuck’d from feminism and their working class was and still is shrinking
>Japan
>feminism
L M A O, you can't be fricking serious
Yes, it's true. But it's not like liberal western feminism, it is the radical man-hating type of feminism.
Japan has one of the highest rates of female virginity. Japanese women simply despise japanese men and would rather worship anime husbandos and buy Hello Kitty themed cat houses for their dozens of cats.
>Plaza accords
>Plaza accords
>muh plaza accords
Do you idiots know anything about the japanese econony besidea repeating "90s collapse"? Do you even know what the plaza accords are?
The japanese economy did not collapase in the 90s.
Slow economic growth is not collapse.
A drop in real estate prices is not economic collapse, land prices=!the economy
>Then their economy completely collapsed in the nineties
The japanese economy has never collapsed. Their GDO has basically had constant growth and no one can seriously call some 1% contractions as collapses.
The closest thing to a collapse in Japan was in WW2 when their economy shrank by 50%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDJPN
Oh i know you mean real estate prices collapsed? Well, some index of real estate prices isnt "the economy". Selling some pod in tokyo for a million dollars instead of 3 million dollars isnt a collapse of the japanese economy
Japan is a western nation, we also looked like we were going to keep booming in the 80s
US and Japanese GDP total and per capita are higher than ever and they have never collapsed at any point in the last 40 years.
>Japan is a western nation
Yes, like Finland or Korea.
Japan is so far east that it wrapped around and became part of the west.
it's part of the american empire, like western europe or australia
>Japan is a western nation
No wonder tranime freaks like you become trannies so easily. You're just moronic and delusional right off the bat.
South Africa, Australia and Israel are also western nations
Australia but not Israel and surely not south africa.
You can interpret western as a culture as an economy or as a geopolitical set, in both senses Israel belongs to the middle east and South africa to sub saharan africa. Japan is its own thing though it is closer to western nation than the other two it's still not a western nation.
>You can interpret western as a culture as an economy or as a geopolitical set
You're also moronic. No one thinks turkroaches are "western" just because they're in NATO. You're Western if you're Western European.
Western = Western European
>SA
The coalest blackest blacks in Africa.
>Australia
Western because they're ethnically Anglo.
>israel
Arab so they're not Western Europeans.
Tranime freaks are moronic as always.
Is Poortugal a western country?
They are responsible for the unholy creation of br*zil so no.
>Arab
Uhhh.....
Semites are genetically identical, regardless of religion.
they're eastern european weirdoes. They're racially more similar to Ukrainians and Poles than Arabs
Yeah, not the mizrahim in israel.
It's funny that even though kids have access to all the information in the world they really know frick all
It's always bullshit, isn't it? Projections based on short-term statistics assuming that growth is going to continue at the same, or even an accelerated pace for years and years and years.
"Next superpower", population statistics, global warming, they're all used for fearmongering like this.
They used to think NYC was going to be overrun with horse shit lmao
>It only fully recovered in the last few years
The Japanese yen is peso-tier
>The world thought Japan was the next superpower in the 80s. Then their economy completely collapsed in the nineties. It only fully recovered in the last few years. Frickin zoomer.
the next superpower is clearly the european federation
>The world thought Japan was the next superpower in the 80s
reminder that amerimutts made sure that was never going to happen just look at all the IP infringements, bans, coaxing and making every single large nip company go multinational and then getting their CEOs replaced by x/y mutt
genuine competent good people have no place in this world
>jealous thirdie admits that hes inferior to americans since they can just overrun his country whenever they want
Vietnam and Afghanistan beg to differ, muttlord.
i didnt make any claim, you said that. in your mind, america is so powerful, it can just tank any growing economy that's about to supplant it but also so weak that it loses to hick farmers. you're a mindbroken cuck that is utterly consumed by his schizophrenia about america that you literally cannot think about anything else, despite going on about how much you hate it.
I like thinking about history. America is history so I like thinking about what it used to be.
>get invaded by americans because you're a buffer state next to an important thirdie country
>fight a desperate guerilla war for a decade where your entire country is destroyed and you lose hundreds of thousands of men women and children
>america leaves and suffers no consequences
>you are still a thridie shithole who's only purpose is to act as a frontier for the empire
>heh american chuds think they own the world and can do whatever they want, well we sure showed them!
>It only fully recovered in the last few years.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure
this is chinas future
two more weeks
>two more weeks
its going to happened at some point
people just arent having enough kids
its the future of every country since eventually you've developed your economy to a point where the return on most investments are trivial compared to things like building a highway network, electrifying the country, making sure everyone has decent plumbing and so on. America would've ended up in the same position ages ago had the dollars not been the reserve currency.
feel so ahead of my time being a quapa mutt. don't worry I identify as white as far as is within reason.
>quapa mutt
Kate Beckinsale is that you?
>post-nuclear war dying Earth story
>let's make it flashy cyberpunk garbage
What a masterpiece
Well that's how it is in the book so....
That's what I'm saying. The book is about a dying post-nuclear war Earth. That's what the movie should've been
While they don't explicitly call out that it's a post-nuclear war earth, Blade Runner's society is obviously in steep decline. Buildings are completely dilapidated, pollution is toxic and out of control, people with money are leaving the planet, and morally society is falling apart as well. I think it's pretty true to the setting of the book overall.
the Black folks all went into space
going to re-read these kinos after finishing cyberpunk again
Check out Hardwired if you haven't already. Pondsmith liked it so much he added something about it to the Cyberpunk RPG.
thanks anons
Should check out pic related too, trust me.
Also wish someone who isn't post TDS Gibson would do a book focusing mostly on the space rastas because they were awesome.
this two-cream-and-sugar Black person's got the bag oranges come in wrapping his hair up... the frick....
>Name is literally Male Cum
you can't make this shit up. Its like that Bix Nood jedi
sounds ideal
Edward James Olson is Asian right?
a high t asian, yes
like Bolo Yeung
Truly a dystopian take on the future
>from the deranged mind of jordan peele
Literally every time I’m in LAX, it seems like I exclusively see Asians.
>no shit, used needles, unhoused people either
Seriously 10/10 art direction never to be outdone. 2049 looks like ballsack wrinkles compared to this.
The future isn't here yet. Let's wait and see.
is white and asian
Have you been to a top 50 college campus? That is what it's like. Whites with retangular glasses, Indians in flip-flops, Chinese kids with the BMW who speaks no English. It feels like Vancouver.
UC schools don't count
>go to college at decently prestegious school
>70% white 30% asian
>blacks and latinos nowhere to be seen
Where are they?? Why is campus so light-skinned?
Those schools tend to hand out admissions like candy but seem to not understand that not getting admitted wasn't what was blocking their success.
My neighborhood in north Surrey just had an african migrant dump. It's jarring.
Elysium is the future of California and the border states.
Everything would've been perfect if we just switched sides at the end of WWII and used the nukes to completely obliterate China and Russia. I still don't get why we didn't actually purge Russia immediately. China we at least completely underestimated but it was obvious how it was going to go with Ivan.
>J00SKK
Cool it with the antisemitism, captcha.
This was basically Patton's suggestion and he was assassinated for it.
>You Brade Runner? You Dickhard?
HE SAY YOU BRADE RUNNAH
I like to think everyone else is in the even shittier underground levels
>Set in the future
>There are still whites
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
if you were in hollywood in the 80s, then yeah. West la and hollywood, where all the movies are made, has a bunch of whites and asians. And obviously the extremely japanese inspired sets and places in blade runner. There is a certain image that moviemakers want to project and it doesn't usually include shitty black and hispanic ghettos
>There is a certain image that moviemakers want to project and it doesn't usually include shitty black and hispanic ghettos
also the demography of LA was very different at the time this film was made. If you made Bladrunner today it would be like Elysium or cyber blood diamond
>Tranime
What fricking anime are you guys watching that makes you want to turn into a fricking girl?
Odd thing to bring up unprompted anon.
Nah, lets fricking settle it here, what fricking anime are you fricks watching that makes you wanna cut your dick off
My Hero Academia and shit like that
No one goes troony watching shit like Yu Yu Hakusho or DBZ, they just roid
Its a pipeline. The idea is you go from anime to identifying as some anime character, then you go to conventions and dress up, it spirals
Would it be fair to say that this isn’t only limited to anime? I bet plenty of troops found sexual awakenings to become chicks in western animation and live action stuff too
Generally speaking they have their "awakening" as children watching or reading children's media. The superhero genre is very popular with them because there's an entire alter ego system build into the genre as a rule and dressing up to be "the real you" is an entire thing as well.
If you watch cartoons for little girls, you start wishing you were a little girl. It's not that complicated.
Dude I used to watch Love Live all the time back in the day and never trooned out. If you troon out to anime you always wanted to be a pretty pretty princess.
>Dude I used to watch Love Live all the time back in the day
Mossad couldn't interrogate this out of me if they tried. You admitting this with zero shame is wild. You gotta be a genshin impact playing freak irl, probably got a page on kiwifarms or something too.
I actually liked the music then got into the show. And yes zero shame because I'm not some normalgay. Tthe current level of normie infestation on Cinemaphile right now is absolutely crazy when I remember how it used to be. You don't belong here but are too stupid to realize it. Reddit or Twitter may be more your speed, anon.
>N-no this place should be a tranime obsessed hellhole for freaks.
Cope.
since we're doing this
I didn't even know this was a thing until 20 years later and I read the short story.
tfw no film adaptation of The Belonging Kind
It would make such a great episode of an anthology series.
Neither did I until it popped up on Prime Video.
Really excellent adaptation; it captured the atmosphere of Gibson's writing perfectly.
Walken seems coked off his fricking breasts so far. Cheeky bastard probably got to have nasty uncut bolivian marching powder slapfrick sex with Asia Argento. Really need to reevaluate my life right now and just go all in.
>Really need to reevaluate my life right now and just go all in.
that's the spirit
Never should've started watching this. Now all I want to do is start guzzling Brazilian dex and running down biz. I mean what do I have to lose?
it's retrofuturistic LA
Japan never popped in the 90s and they now rule the world instead of America
They shipped all the blacks and mexicans off world obviously.
In the future, all Latinos have their deepest secret wish granted (to become white)
Asia is what 3 billion people?
In the book all the darkies were wiped out after the LA riots
Cyberpunk settings always have this incoherence where you have these overpopulated mega cities, but everyone lives in conditions where they can't even begin to dream of having kids. Where do the people come from?
>Asia
Yeah, but they're also depicted as living in the same impoverished mega cities.
Also, what do they eat?
So-ylent green
This always bothered me with Gotham too, the conditions are absurdly bad to the point of breaking immersion. Literally just move to the suburbs.
Suburbs are too expensive
Per square foot, real estate in the suburbs is always cheaper.
Even at the absolute height of the 1980s crack epidemic in NYC, when half the city looked like picrel, an apartment in Harlem cost more than a comparably-sized house on Long Island
Asia has 60% of the human population and the majority of them lived in cramped huts and apartments for decades or longer
Good point but isn't this what we are living through now? Where do all the people in Tokyo or New York come from when the living conditions are so unfavorable to stable demographics? Answer is cities drain people from more rural areas and poorer countries. So city can be big even if country is aging and even depopulating. Maybe this is the story in Blade Runner too. What is left of humanity cramming in population centers.
In the book earth is a shit hole full of poors and white trash, everyone decent fled to the colonies
It was white flight on the solar level
Good point. I had in mind the movies which depart quite a bit from the books. It's unstated but likely similar situation.
Although if I recall correctly in the book it's implied the colonies are overhyped and they are desperate to get people to emigrate to work on some off planet hellhole? Probably shit no matter where you are lol
I read the book first so my first impression is tainted but I thought the replicants were space slaves making like comfy for those in space and that’s why the replicants were all fleeing to earth. It’s shit but no one cares
You're right, they are. I think they also encouraged humans to emigrate. Maybe I assumed it was for labor. It doesn't really make sense that they have this race of slaves but everything is still shit. Maybe they are expensive and only used for certain tasks.
I really enjoyed the book. A lot of it is "outdated" aesthetically for sci-fi and a little weird. For the movie they clearly minded it for a few themes and ideas and made their own really cool aesthetic on top of it. But the original book is good in its own right. I hope someone does a more literal adaption.
>where do the people come from
shitskins are happy breeding in even the most hellish of conditions, this of course loops back to op's problem. in blade runner's case, who knows, maybe 30% of every faceless person we see on the street is a replicant. maybe they have breeding programs now.
>what do they eat
literally slop and bugs, see: BR 2049
It's based on a PKD novel isn't it?
If it is, that means that all the blacks went extinct due to government chemical castration.
>WMAF paradise has been established after having completed TND and TSD
I'm still mad there wasn't a single half Asian actor in either movies (Batista doesn't count, he's 3/8 Asian).
Somehow the sequel has LESS Asians.
Even the Matrix had more hapa futurism than Blade Runner
LMAO cherry-picking yellowfever loser
Sakamoto mogs all those other b***hes also.
is white and asian
fantasy at its finest
>boomers shat their pants at the thought of america having noodle shops and asian girls
>oh that country?
>yeah they don't have a central bank printing money 24/7 and each woman isn't pumping out 20 kids per generation
>they're basically collapsing and need aid from the USA ASAP and more immigrants from india