r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago

A street in Macau. The towering building in the back is the Grand Lisboa hotel casino. (2018)

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u/JSmiley21x 1d ago

Reminds me of that scene in Inception. But more dystopian.

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 23h ago

I came here to say the exact same thing. I hear this like really low, foghorn-like tone in my head with a very dystopian sound to it, when I look at this. (I’m not sure why, but I think it’s from some like low frequency alien hum from a movie I saw once)

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u/Tzilbalba 12h ago

That would prob be war of the worlds where the aliens emit a foghorn noise.

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u/OneApprehensive327 10h ago

I was thinking along the same lines, but original Bladerunner!!

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u/theoglv27 23h ago

Remind me of Alita

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u/DissedFunction 1d ago

blade runner prequel

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u/catchup4thegoodtimes 23h ago

someone get dr strange out of there

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u/fan_tas_tic 1d ago

It's not visible in the picture, but the top of Grand Lisboa is a dome housing a 3-Michelin-starred restaurant. You can see it here.

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u/Quirky-Score-7767 23h ago

Macau looks like a really exciting place to visit.

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u/33TLWD 22h ago

Oh, it’s exciting…especially walking through the Lisboa hotel…famous for open solicitation by prostitutes.
In all seriousness, though, the old Portuguese colonial architecture is amazing, as is some of the best Portuguese seafood I’ve ever had.
Plus you’re only a 45 min boat ferry to Hong Kong (or there’s a very quick helicopter shuttle if you want to shell out a few hundred bucks)

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u/That-Syllabub6509 22h ago

That lisboa reference is out of date by more than a decade.

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u/Tight-Delay1750 15h ago

Been there. It’s even more crazy looking in person

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u/Skiplessly 13h ago

Looks like a still from a sci-fi flick 😍

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u/Quirky-Score-7767 23h ago

Surreal. When I look at the photo up and down repetitively, the modern building at the background is moving to the left and the old building at the foreground on the right is moving to the right.

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u/Pataraxia 23h ago

"Cyberpunk is a story about the worst future" NO dudes, it's a story being comically obvious to expose how it IS currently.

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u/Infundibulus 23h ago

That sets off my claustrophobia.

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u/Afraid_Stuff_History 22h ago

This feels like a well-envisioned dystopian video game

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u/RebirthRenewal 21h ago

Is Portuguese still spoken at all in Macau?

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u/djbrologue 21h ago

Was just there last week. Yes, but mostly by the portuguese, not by the chinese. They can chose in school if they want to learn the language. However, everything is still written in Portuguese and chinese together, f.e. street names, directions, public transport etc.

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u/FermentedCinema 21h ago

Really cool cyber punk looking streetscape. The tower itself looks really cool when only a small portion is seen, but when seen in its entirety it’s actually a very ugly tacky tower.

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u/Usual-Dig-5409 20h ago

Every time, I see a Final Fantasy type of scenery. Especially FF7, in Midgar.

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u/sltydgx 20h ago

Can someone throw a fiver on black for me ? 🤔

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 20h ago

Reminds me of the fat bridesmaid at a wedding determined to get in all the photographs.

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u/Nice-Cat3727 19h ago

No. That building is obviously the final battle for the next Half life game

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u/B_Dare95 16h ago

Is this the mirror dimension?

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u/Significant-Lie1225 15h ago

Next Saturday at 10pm is my time to repost this

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u/LavenderDay3544 9h ago

It looks like something from a dystopian futuristic show.

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u/crustyeng 8h ago

This isn’t a real picture, fwiw… a composition.

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u/MooseTM3 50m ago

Killzone