• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    21 days ago

    man, that is wack. I guess the sea level dropped dramatically? cause "old New York" being up on that island ridge in the back with the old bridges connecting it across is wild.

    • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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      21 days ago

      There was supposed to be more lore around sea levels dropping and the flying car that justified the vertical New York presented in the beginning.

    • stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days ago

      I think I read somewhere the earth had exported a lot of its water, possibly to Phloston Paradise? Hence the lower levels

    • ItsPequod [he/him]
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      21 days ago

      See that makes more sense than what I thought, which is that weird sci-fi trope of stacking skyscrapers such that they form whole undercities, which never seemed like an especially good use of real estate to me, dystopic conditions notwithstanding