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Today I Learned@lemmy.worldbyReiRose@lemmy.world
8 months

Kowloon Walled City

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Edit to add wiki, sorry folks! working link

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    • wakest@piefed.socialEnglish
      8 months

      Would love to see a 3d recreation of as much as possible. Would be cool to go thru all the videos and documentation of it and build a real 3d world from that

        • wakest likes your bugs ⁂@social.wake.st
          8 months

          @wakest wow I just found this https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kowloon-walled-city-3d-map-3d-v02-9836e4da24574a1f8b976c228a5acf9b

        • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8 months

          How are you posting on TIL without at least giving us a Wikipedia article? For shame OP! Today only you, and nobody else learns!

          Jokes aside, on the topic of this amazing walled city, apart from it being an admittedly filthy anarchic crime-ridden shithole, it genuinely is an intensely interesting place straight out of a cyberpunk setting, it genuinely was a wonder of the world

            • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              8 months

              an intensely interesting place straight out of a cyberpunk setting

              It is, in fact, the actual setting of Shadowrun: Hong Kong. So the SR writers at the very least must agree with you.

              • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
                8 months

                This. Not as a joke.

              • vatlark@lemmy.worldEnglish
                8 months

                It was demolished in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

                  • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
                    8 months

                    Part of it while filming a Jackie Chan movie.

                    Also a killer movie set in it came out last year. Featuring Samo kam-bo hung.

                      • vatlark@lemmy.worldEnglish
                        8 months

                        I’m so confused. What movie takes over 30 years to produce?

                          • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
                            8 months

                            Neither. Crime story came out in 93. Featuring actual footage of a destruction of a block. Twilight of the warriors came out last year set in a recreated Kowloon. With pretty decent realism disregarding the martial arts fantasy.

                            • Krelis_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                              8 months

                              Different films. I guess this is the Jackie chan movie:

                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Story_(1993_film)?wprov=sfla1

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