Cyberpunk: Pacific Rim Deep Dive (Japan, China, Korea, Australia and Others)

[@LazerDuck-uj2cc]

"sydney is overcrowded, polluted, and decaying" oh so no change then?

[@sorrenblitz805]

On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.

[@khanch.6807]

​@@sorrenblitz805 Why use juice when solar exist.

[@1Invinc]

The best thing about Singapore in the Cyberpunk universe... is that it's pretty much exactly how Singapore is today. The only thing that Singapore in real life would never do, is turn over security to a foreign entity. However, one way Arasaka could have weaseled it's way into that super lucrative deal of providing security for the ridiculously rich island nation, is to allow Arasaka's Singapore division to be run independently with strict government oversight. Effectively, Arasaka Singapore's CEO would end up being an agent of the Singaporean government within Arasaka.

[@llcdrdndgrbd]

This is an alternate history timeline so perhaps this universe’s Singapore didn’t have such a strong economy?

[@Tonius126]

Or arasaka took over by force and funded Malaysia for a invasion. Weakening singapore.

[@toheekang174]

I think it is rather concerning that Singapore is already dystopian enough in real life that there is no need to change it much further

[@wolfgangBuonarotti]

same with the Japanese justice system, from what i hear.

[@DogeickBateman]

@@toheekang174 Dystopian?

[@BrandonJXN2]

Firstly, your voice is perfect for this type of content. Secondly, the long form style is perfect for a series as detailed as Cyberpunk. Thirdly, as someone who fell down the Cyberpunk rabbit hole of lore, I thank you tremendously for painting a picture of a completely bleak world so throughly. I look forward to your Cyberpunk uploads and I re-watch your Night City Deep Dive video a few times a week. Keep up the great work.

[@jakejutras5420]

​@@vailinator OK? Wtf

[@vailinator]

@@jakejutras5420 my bad bro i think someone was on my pc lol

[@grilledleeks6514]

@@vailinator I need to know what you said lol

[@HunterSentinel]

Agreed! I think his inflections and tone also lend well to his story telling style.

[@HunterSentinel]

I also watch his videos a couple times too. Great for doing something tedious to cause it pulls all my attention away from my boring task, making the experience 100x better!

[@XiangYu94]

Lol as a Chinese person, the cyberpunk civil war is very accurate to how Chinese civil wars usually go. Super dramatic twists & turns, millions of people dying, underdog faction has a huge comeback 😂

[@NeostormXLMAX]

it doesn't make sense how china didn't help north korea when they got invaded by the south, also the north apparently didn't use nukes? but middle east did have random casual nuke fights?

[@dgurevich1]

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[@ShahjahanMasood]

​@NeostormXLMAX It is very weird yeah. The middle east part of the cyberpunk lore is so fucking bad. I hate it. Considering I am from the middle east doesn't help.

[@Carnefice]

​@ShahjahanMasood it would be wonderful if that happened in real life

[@ShahjahanMasood]

@@Carnefice Radiation will only make us stronger lmao

[@andychap6283]

Really appreciate this content other lore KZbinrs never touch. Really interesting. Your videos are always a daily highlight.

[@LolingStaz]

Lol as a Korean this is spot on! In fact it closely resembles Korea's actual history of constant military coups and their love of using animosity towards Japan for political causes. Also it's amazingly ironic that in 52:58, the conservative "Tanson" group is from Gwangju, where in irl known for being the most "progrssive" of the nation hahaha

[@jacktomas1596]

Even in that timeline....... You don't fuck with the mouse.

[@MCMasterBro]

What's really funny, is that Bartmoss in his Guide to the Net says that their Net Security is tight.

[@Odyssey_Seeker]

This is a nova video. You are by far and away the best deep dive channel for anything Cyberpunk TTRPG on the NET choom. Don't shy away from long form vids, you excel at it! EDIT: I also really appreciate how you source the materials AND the music used. Absolutely preem!

[@alucard_0177]

nice pfp

[@timumbra2476]

@@alucard_0177thank you, you too :)

[@mamacoffeecat5542]

I'm really glad that the Australia of our timeline has nothing to do with this. Currently South East Queensland is only dealing with a massive cost of living crisis and housing availability crisis because so many people are moving in from the country because there's nothing else to do and nowhere else to go and all of the rich people are moving out of Sydney suburbs up to Queensland. The homestead are available often have a decade old mattress and at least one type of a mould problem if not several that leave the unit on fit for human habitation. I really wish cyberpunk would stop being so prophetic.

[@cereskerrigan]

Ooh, something to watch on the way to work. Thanks choom!

[@charlesgarber5911]

Keep kickin' it with this content choom! Loving how you flesh out the sourcebooks and help fill in the narrative gaps that may exist, as there's always a lot that goes unsaid within TTRPG sourcebooks. Keep up the good work! ;)

[@nyft3352]

the US being China's biggest ally in Cyberpunk doesn't susrprise me at all, China is already the major trading partner of the US in the real world, it's been for decades even. If anything, whoever wrote the lore can see the future or made the sociopolitical guess of their life.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

actually, china WAS the usa's ally in the cold war, people often forget the sino soviet split happened when the soviets invaded chinese land, and the chinese were furious and severed ties, the whole destalinization of later soviet presidents is bullshit, the real reason has always been land. after nixon's visit china became a us ally temporarily

[@aSipOfHemlocktea]

Oh yes it takes a lot of foresight to see two of the top 10 powers of the world working together

[@nyft3352]

@@aSipOfHemlocktea its still kinda ironic considering the US government and media won't shut up about their "concerns about China" and that bs.

[@cernunnos_lives]

China's economy is tied to the US. It's what was planned during Nixon's Era down through the 90s. All 3 nations wanted to build beyond the damages done during WW2. Technology and development is the only way to do this.

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@nyft3352 concerns about china? Wrote the future?Mate you sure as hell don’t know jack shit about China-US relations if you think these concerns are nothing burgers china isn’t even interested in allying with the US. For trade purposes its fine but an actual partnership? No country is an actual partner to china they are only convenience partners.

[@purplepioneer5644]

I absolutely love these deep dives, and you make the best cyberpunk lore content I have seen on KZbin.

[@travelsizedlions]

Your cadence is ***exactly*** like Mr. Hands. I love it.

[@beige_projection]

I'm from the Philippines, and when I saw the New Philippines in the section titles, I imagined something like Neo-Manila, but it turns out that the country has become more f'ed up lol. The businesses in Night City like Kabayan and Matapang Coffee, I imagine are from Filipino migrants who misses their country but can't return due to how f'ed up it is there. Thanks for the video. I'm almost finished with it. It's really well researched and well thought out. I wish R. Talsorian Games and CDPR would expand the lore to cover more info about how the rest of the world are during the 2040s-2070s era

[@thelordofcringe]

It wouldn't be cyberpunk if everything wasn't worse!

[@Warheart11]

Small note for the video too, but Kerry didn't just vacation there, he was actually born in the Philippines and that's probably partially why he loves his real coffee so much!

[@fightronin3753]

I'm part Filipino as well and the corruption there is so blatant and the crime rate is top 50 to 80 in the world. Paraphrasing my Filipino History teacher, the best you could do is get the fuck out. Lol. But I've met some down to earth Filipinos that are decent people. That's a plus.

[@bk83082]

Great job! I love Cyberpunk lore videos and appreciate what other creators are doing on their channels, but often times it feels like listening to a high schooler read the wiki page over gameplay footage. This video is an excellent example of a good presentation. It's a treat to hear all this information presented alongside context and insight with narration that sounds like it was actually proofread! Small details matter, thanks for showing effort. Subscribed.

[@devgaikwad3813]

First i thought after looking at the title that you were talking about cyberpunk and Pacific rim crossover 🤣

[@Yoshi_702]

Ha me too, wouldn't that be kinda cool though

[@thecybersmily4794]

Great job. One thing to note that you mentioned in the beginning, the writers of the regional source books were from those regions. R Talsorian Games would be flooded back in the day from fans who would provide their view of what happen to their regions in 2020. I interviewed Derek Quintanar, thee editor of the CP2020 books, about where the ideas for the books came from. We talked about the various writers from around the world that he would have submitted to him.

[@eazibreezilemonpeezi]

Thank you so much for making these videos. Your Deep Dive into Night City is really well done, i rewatched that so many times lol. I hope you're doing the other areas too!

[@AzathothLives]

You know it is bad when I forget he is reading the 'real life' prologue and think that the history brief is fictional dystopia. A lot of these places got done dirty in the last two hundred years.

[@psyedk]

Choom this is insane! Preem coverage of the timeline, absolutely nova detail. Keep on waking night city up, you do good work

[@starpaladinnelaj]

Been waiting for more CK content from you. Can't wait to watch this when I get off work!

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@starpaladinnelaj]

@WatchmanGamingLore I certainly did choom! When it comes to long form CK content, yours is second-to-none! As for upcoming content, I'd LOVE to see a NUSA/Land Of The Free Deep Dive. For shorter content, a breakdown of the new PL trailer would be great!

[@Midtierman]

Learning about the highly dangerous weebs that populate the cyberpunk Japan was a riot.

[@ladooshka]

Thanks for the video!!! I was waiting for something from you. Going to watch now and then comment more 😊👍

[@jamesjay11]

Good stuff, I bet it's time-consuming to make, but I appreciate it, my man.

[@Direrain72]

This was very enjoyable. I really do enjoy the longer form content, especially on subjects like Cyberpunk. I think your idea of doing profiles on named Edgerunners is a good one. Perhaps along with that profiling some of the more notable corps that have come and gone or stay around. Either way, well done!

[@mkvector9539]

I live in the suburb of Rockdale in Sydney, New South Wales. Right next to Botany Bay.

[@hybrid00legit]

I thought this vid was like 26 minutes at first but then I saw the time and stuck to the end and now I feel like I got a better context of the world in general for cyberpunk, pretty neat vid

[@DustInTheLight]

I just started a Pacific Rim Red campaign this weekend, and have been picking through source books. I can't believe this came out this week🎉

[@stevendiaz9034]

Where do you get your sourcebooks? Do you get them online? I want to get into the tabletop but im unsure where to start

[@timothybeaulieu5103]

@stevendiaz9034 Amazon and Noble Knight Games are where I always found my stuff. Noble Knight in particular specializes in this kind of vintage materials.

[@TheDirtyPineapple]

The main gang in the Philippines being called the "I Don't Care Club" is strange. After this book was made, there was a woman who was killed by a dirty cop after singing "I don't care " to taunt him during a power trip. If they ever do an update, I hope that becomes the event that forms the gang.

[@Tuhoeterra]

As a kiwi the NZ scenario is actually pretty reasonable.

[@hamish-k]

Great work I think for next long video you do the rest of the USA with cyberpunk phantom liberty dealing with more of The USA it would hopefully get interested from viewers and from your videos we already know about the USA so it would be good to get that done and then move on to the of parts of the world after I'm sure it's going to be interesting whatever cyberpunk book you do

[@tonymahomie1500]

Love these long lore videos to help me fall asleep ! Good stuff, great narration

[@imperiumgrim4717]

Preem hour vid Choom 👌🏾 make more of those please.

[@halloweye4613]

My choomba! Hell yes I can not wait to dive into this tonight! Another quality vid! Of that I have no doubt!

[@xingwang9246]

TD;LR: Every country is f*cked up...

[@Bean_Can_]

If melbourne is in ruins then the cyberpunk version of australia is doing much better

[@fightronin3753]

Impressive and well made video!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!

[@ubxtch]

Cyberpunk Orion NEEDS to be set in Japan!!! Or that red planet you hear ads about in cp2077

[@_essence_07]

You have the best cyberpunk videos on KZbin

[@arthurmiranda8896]

I can only thank you for the amount of effort gone into this video.

[@brucepalmer8846]

I have listened to both of your long cyberpunk videos. Excellent. Simply Excellent. I have listened to over 5 hours of your cyberpunk bio's. Please make more. The edge runner bio would be fantastic to hear.

[@bwackbeedows3629]

What do you call a heist in Japan? *A Pacific Rim Job! 🥁🎶*

[@unknowngod8221]

rimworld player: oh you mean "rimjob"? 😏

[@Undeadwilly13]

Another great one. Thank you for all your work man!

[@icemelt981]

Nothing quite lovely like sleeping to a lore video about the trifles of megacorps ❤

[@ilesalmo7724]

I wonder if the 2016 Biopod Tank Rampage was one of the first Cyberpsycho-incidents

[@fearsomewarengine8228]

thank you for this. i dont have the opportunity to get those books and i love the world of cyberpunk so much. great video. would love to see the others too.

[@GOWvMatchstick]

The Bosozoku wasn’t just motorcycles, they drove and modified cars too, the modifications are usually extremely flamboyant and loud.

[@crozraven]

30:57 Hold down a sec... Is that DOOM slayer before DOOM 2016 & DOOM Eternal existed??!

[@gwoody4003]

I wrote a paper in art school about how Dystopian SciFi, specifically Bladerunner, influenced art, music, anime and videogames as well as modern design of vehicles, fashion, architecture and practical technology. Probably the most enjoyable homework I ever had. I saw so much of Bladerunner in Cowboy BeBop, Akira, Perfect Dark, Half-Life 2, RoboCop, Fifth Element, Total Recall etc. I was the only person I knew that thought Johnny Mnemonic was a great a movie 😂

[@FoxLenar]

Ty for this video, making my worktime so much better

[@MekoUnknown]

I love these deep dives. Keep it up man!

[@HuckleberryMcRib]

Please do Eurosource Plus next, Im running Eurotour and would love something digestible for my players. Keep up the good work though dude this shit slaps

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

Yes. Please

[@tomalexander4327]

I'd happily watch a Cyberpunk Japan movie.

[@fightronin3753]

Check out the Psycho Pass series! Start with Season 1 then move to the movies!

[@edwinvillalobos7159]

I’m not even mad at this tidbit I just find it hilarious that you inadvertently stuck to the one China policy, purely for the flow of the video, but it’s still funny

[@Direrain72]

Ohhh this is goin on the work playist, Imma listen to this tonight!

[@IIARROWS]

Finally it's over. I've been watching this multi-hours documentaries in chunks, downloading and mostly playing while walking. I would personally prefer shorter videos, easier to manage and less intensive on my phone storage.

[@CRYOKnox]

Great Video sadly I realized to late that it contains spoilers for LD last season, but well now I'm.lookonh forward to finally watch it.

[@abesolutzero]

>Japanese Maxtac immediately busts out ACPAs and heavy weapons to settle things quickly We Patlabor up in this

[@liamoliver5848]

As a Western Australian. It's insane how believable all that was, wouldn't be surprised if that's where we're headed.

[@TheEldritchGoth]

I really like the idea of doing profiles for individual legendary characters

[@mathewweeks9069]

Your awesome dude and awesome video big fan of cyberpunk

[@mathiasgreber8899]

Id really love a Cyberpunk game set in Tokyo

[@NeostormXLMAX]

read neuromancer, the thing this is based on, the original night city was in chiba

[@GabrielSantos-rg5rl]

Each one of these books just show how rich is this world

[@MatthewJohnson-e1q]

That's such a realistic Melbourne thing to do. Protest over something not happening here.

[@peekay120]

Its quite remarkable how well the writers of the source book predicted what would happen to Papua New Guinea

[@tsuneki9199]

We actually have an actual corporate city in Japan. It’s called Toyota city in Aichi prefecture. Oh and they are building a new one called Woven city.

[@spazma_]

Love your content Then you are at it can you do a video about Europe in the cyberpunk age, i think there are sourcebooks that cover Europe.

[@dalegribble7939]

One thing that I would change about the Korean section of this is changing the name from zaibatsu which is Japanese to chaebol . Which roughly translates to Rich family they are the owners of massive mega corporations within South Korea and received support from the government in order to expedite development. This led to them controlling massive amounts of South Korea's economy and its government Ps. If I got the pronunciation on that one wrong please forgive me my Korean is rather bad

[@Karznax]

I mean I'm pretty sure they both use the same sino word 財閥 derived from chinese characters, hence the similarity in pronunciation.

[@Reichtangle]

Amazingly good Video. Very enjoyable

[@shironitheguardsman3998]

The scary part is that this is not so out there as one will think

[@h.r.hufnstuf4171]

My port town, entire state is Arasaka turf... Im a gorpo gonk.

[@chrismcguinness5405]

Crazy informative choom! Thank you. Euro could be cool.

[@loC2ol]

Love this! More! India not included in this region breakdown?

[@npdady]

I love lore videos like this. Make more!

[@siyacer]

arasaka is the new tokugawa

[@antonmasalev1244]

i can't believe i locked till the end of the video, but it was interesting

[@oldyeller1111]

Another great vid, thank you for making it. With the oldee source books out of print (afaik) these make for a nice overview of what they contain. Your content reminds me a lot of Bigred40tech over in Battletech, though with a bit more going on visually :)

[@foxdavion6865]

First thing I saw in Cyberpunk 2077 on the international news website in game "bushfires in Australia" Yeah... sounds about right... Australia goes through cycles, 2 years of high bushfire risk in Summer followed by two years of high flooding risk during summer followed by 4 years of meh weather. This cycle has been on repeat for centuries. So, most realistic fictional depiction of Aus in a Cyberpunk setting. We need to keep in mind that 2077 is set in the Twilight years of the setting. The world has stablized, the United States has been re-establish, with Night City being one of only two Free Cities left in the country, purely because the corporations have a stronger military, but I guarantee within a couple of decades Night City will be forced to join the USA again. But yeah, after 60+ years, stability has mostly returned. Travel 50km out from Night City, you're no longer in the wastes, you're in USA territory.

[@megaman1808]

Could you make a lore-video about the 1994 economic crash? It really sounds like a catalyst point for the divergent timeline 😂😂😂

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Kennettsville is named after Jeff Kennett, a real politician over here. He was... contentious to say the least.

[@The_Blyatman]

I'd love to see the UK one, but any cyberpunk lore would be awesome. I want MORE. anything.

[@llcdrdndgrbd]

My dude, you missed India! Apparently India is included in the lore which makes absolute sense, but the very unrealistic thing is according to the cyberpunk wiki India and China sign a treaty opening their borders to each other

[@NeostormXLMAX]

if the Naxalites won then china and india would have warmer relationships

[@KhoaLe-uc2ny]

the Vietnam part is almost spot on aside from the oil spil from the 2nd corpwar.

[@mygetawayart]

i imagine that if Cyberpunk Orion is not taking place in Night City, then Chiba-3 is probably the best location to set it in.

[@mercurialblonde]

Came for the lore. Stayed for the William Burroughs type voice

[@halkfurcrestfallen3328]

will you make more lore for other areas? I would love see the lore for deep downers[Underwater citys}, Spacers and drift Nations. i cant find much on these cultures.

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

I’d love to, unfortunately there’s not much to say yet. The Deep Down, Drift Nations, and the Highriders have maybe a paragraph of explanation each in the core rulebook. Until a new book comes out explaining them, there’s not much for me explore.

[@halkfurcrestfallen3328]

@@WatchmanGamingLore that's understandable,Im just super curious about them as I got into cyberpunk Red pretty heavily.

[@duncanbeale9535]

Lol. Australian Rules is a derivative of Gaelic Football, using an oblong rugby ball instead of a circular ball. It's much less violent than rugby, moreso now that "marks" are heavily restricted. (A mark is catching the ball with your feet off the ground. It used to be that the best way to do that was to jump up the back of any opponent also reaching for the ball. That's now banned for OHS reasons.)

[@maggintons]

Australia really became the cyberpunk world's punching bag.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

everyone coming there to settle their ethnic conflicts, canada is this in the real world

[@Count_Apostasy]

I swear your voice is that of young "Mr. Hands" in Cyberpunk 2077

[@nafeesr6377]

Good to listen to during work!

[@rasehorn]

No it's not different time line we are just couple of decades late

[@jackie2966]

Great video! Could you please do one about Europe?

[@davidschluter1911]

Thank you so much ❤❤❤

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Australia's ethnic gangs situation... yeah, that one came true

[@grilledleeks6514]

You sound so similar to The Salt Factory that I'm not 100% convinced you aren't the same person

[@uncomptepro]

Looking forward of a Europe video.

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

Dude if you taught real history in this exact format I'd learn a lot of history really quickly. I have trouble listening to stuff consistently but I don't think I've missed very much of this at all. That said, I dunno when KZbin will ever show me you've done history videos. I see this cos I game and so suggested content

[@pronoydutta614]

These lore videos are great. I'd say individual personalities aren't as interesting as topics involving socio-economic differences, culture, political histories, tech and sub culture.

[@ItsMeBoom-f5p]

Fucking shit dud VERY NICE WORK I SINCERELY SAID IT IS BEAUTIFUL