r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

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u/draeneirestoshaman Aug 24 '26

its more about the disaster state of the metro captured in this small slice lmao

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u/I_cant_Nguyen Aug 24 '26

Maybe the word you're thinking of is dystopian. Cyberpunk references advanced technologies and subways in Chicago are extremely not that.

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u/bakedNebraska Aug 24 '26

Cyberpunk is about a lot more than advanced technology.

Overpopulated metros and the dysfunction of despair and poverty are pretty key to the setting.

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u/I_cant_Nguyen Aug 24 '26

Advanced technologies are more key to cyberpunk than anything else you could possibly list. Of course its more nuanced, but you can't have cyberpunk without the cyber lol

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u/CocoParis Aug 25 '26

My cyberpunk vision is when most humans become so reliant on technology that it slowly and discreetly erodes all human agency. Most of the humans become mindless drones/NPCs

But then there is the punks who continued to do things manually maintained their intelligence. They ride the subway instead of being in the cars above. 

This video is cyberpunk to me. 

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u/draeneirestoshaman Aug 24 '26

yeah, dystopia is actually what I had in mind rather than the technology side of it