No, you don't understand. Night City is a dystopia, so they use wrong manhole covers to show how corrupt this city is.
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Finally, someone on Lemmy that's media literate
Night City is a dystopia, so they use wrong manhole covers to show how corrupt this city is.
They use the cheapest they could get on hand. That's why it's the one rated for pedestrians rather than vehicles on the roads, obviously.
Wtf, I like cyberpunk now??
You didn't like it before? It's epic.
Here is a deeper rabbit hole:
Wintermute (the author of that tweet) was the name of the admin of the original german lemmy instance "feddit.de". At some point Wintermute said they would go on vacation, I think to somewhere in asia. After that they were never heard from again and the instance decayed and we all had to move to feddit.org eventuall.
Now... what if Wintermute fell down a manhole cover??
The joke is he got into trouble in North Korea. My head canon goes he started some shit with the authorities in Pyongyang because of the manholes.
Holy shit
I imagine he’s in a Burmese prison with J. Peterman
it's myanmar
Myanmar is the name picked by the junta. It's Burma.
I'm comfortable with saying it fits as deliberate in-setting.
The manholes used are thinner and weaker, but cheaper to make. Night City would be the kind of place that would try to save cash on manhole covers, then if someone caves one in by driving over it, they charge the poor gonk for the replacement with a fine on top.
the TÜV is tenacious enough to crush even the biggest megacorps!
Night City would not stand a chance
I work in municipal development, and this is the kind of shit I notice all the time.
My job is to nitpick details.
Instead of fixing the spec, they should make a "randomly falls through manhole cover" mechanic.
I believe it was there on release
And people failed to understand why their heavy vehicles were getting stuck in roads.
Guys... it actual was a feature.
I am too lazy to check, but did they by chance fix it? That would be even more hilarious.
Can't play the game until they are fixed.
Literally unplayable
I only know about “DIN” specification standards because of the recent New Mind video about washers 😭
This is one of the things that I love most about the internet.
Someone with a highly specialized field of knowledge is playing a game and sees something only a few people would know.
They use the internet to share that knowledge.
Why have realistic graphics if you're going to ignore minor details like these ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Vibe coded and vibe manholed the whole game smh.
In Cyberpunk 2077, I'm fairly certain most cars float. Correct me if I'm wrong because I haven't played in years.
If that's the case, that manhole cover is just fine.
Even if it is floating, it is still pressing on the ground with the same, if not more, force. The antigravity field has to be pushing against something.
i was writing a response about aerodynamics and lift and then had flashbacks to my aerodynamics class and had a panic attack, so i'm not going to do that.