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Frylock@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I swear I remember a location like this in one of the newer Deus Ex games, which take place in a cyberpunk ish dystopia
Comment on Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco
Frylock@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I swear I remember a location like this in one of the newer Deus Ex games, which take place in a cyberpunk ish dystopia
Furbag@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Adam Jensen, the game’s protagonist, searches for a computer hacker named Van Brugen and finds him hiding out in a place called Alice Pods in Hengsha, which is essentially a “hotel” composed of coffin-like closable pods with beds in them. Each guest rents a pod and can make use of the on-site facilities. It was communal living on a shoestring budget (or in Van Brugen’s case, hiding from the Pharmaceutical Megacorp trying to assassinate you).
The funny part is that the fictional Alice Pods actually had more amenities than this real-life pod hotel does. They had washers and dryer units, private shower stalls and toilets, and even late-night food trucks in the common area serving up food.
A cyberpunk dystopia actually wasn’t dystopian enough to match reality.