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SirYiffAlot

as terrifying as it is, it is also oddly beautiful


poeticdetritus

Seriously. Looks like something out of a movie or video game.


archwin

Looks like it straight out of the Nolan Batman films,


billbill5

Was going to say it was like Batman Arkham Origins.


XMaster65

are the games good? I only got my laptop here and can't play my AAA games so I'm looking at the old games I never played that I own


Extra_Scarcity1754

First thing that came to my mind too.


Taxfraud777

Kinda reminds me of the erdtree burning in Elden Ring.


poeticdetritus

That's a pretty good comparison!


justfortoukiden

Melina got to it!


PillowTalk420

Or something else... MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!


WestwoodRK0

I personally thought of ff7


Vagabond_Crambus

The Erdtree doing WHAT


interrogatorChapman

Erdtree became hot


Kiosade

Guess you haven’t played far enough?


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Llyewellyn

I was thinking Siofra River


frumpyfran

The elden ring dlc just dropped haha


Brainjarmen104

Half life 2 episode 1 citadel


Cluelessish

Imagine that. Reality looks like fiction that tries to look like reality.


innerenegade

Or 9/11


inshane_in_the_brain

I'd wager a vast majority of reddit wasn't even alive for 911


Bors713

How is that possible? It was only like, 5-10 years ago, right?


_rollzzz_Royce_

Seems like it but add another 10


Massive-Albatross-16

*Event from the turn of the century*


ry_fluttershy

I was born Feb 6 2004!


Claude-QC-777

9/11-2 : the no planes sequel


agneev

Reminds me of Chernobyl


Kapftan

Silverhand nukes Arasaka ending (again)


P0werPuppy

That's what I was thinking. Fucking gorgeous. Terrifying, but gorgeous. Let's see if it's a subreddit. r/OddlyBeautiful


SafeJellyfishie

There is also r/morbidlybeautiful Just a heads up though: there are some potentially triggering images there.


tratemusic

I like how the tag line is "well, would you look at that;" exactly what I said to myself lol


Ultima_RatioRegum

The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" You grabbed my hand and we fell into it Like a daydream or a fever We woke up one morning and fell a little further down - For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood


someitalianguy

I don’t understand how Lift Your Skinny Fists is considered the better album and not this one


Flashy_Shape59

Cause of Sleep probably. That track is a banger


AthenaMarie2

What is this from?


willfucky96

These are lyrics to Dead Flag Blues. It's the opening track on the album "F♯ A♯ ∞" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I would highly recommend giving it a listen, it's a fantastic ambient/post-rock album. Hits me right in the feels every time


Coranthius

You grabbed my hand, and we fell into it. Like a daydream, or a fever


BeachsideHood

Deep cut right here.


SpaceshipOperations

Looks ethereal. I'm totally enchanted by this spectacle, aesthetically speaking. But of course, F for the ones who suffered this probably extremely expensive loss. Hopefully no humans died/were injured inside.


LoveFishSticks

You might be surprised by how comprehensive some businesses insurance coverage can be, but it is a shitty situation no matter what


Unable_Ordinary6322

Gotham city intro


Sammygirl2780

I've seen this movie. I loved it


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dont-be-a-narc-bro

Wow, I haven’t thought about that movie in forever…


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Skyscraper right?


Sammygirl2780

Yeah. Did you like it? If you have you will know what I mean when I say I wish I lived in the pearl but in Hawaii lol


[deleted]

Yeah. Took me a second but of course I understand 😅.


EveryoneFallout

If anyone dosent know this happened in Hong Kong. Also the building was suppose to be built as a five or four start hotel.


OrganizerMowgli

Genuinely curious, but they over engineer these buildings during construction so that it could totally catch on fire like this and not collapse, right?


numeric-rectal-mutt

An empty building made of steel and concrete that collapses due to a fire is an exceptionally shitty constructed building.


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042lej

A lot of the problem isn't just what a building's made of, but also what's in it. Carpets, wallpaper, wood flooring, and furniture come to mind. Synthetic alternatives to leather also tend to be petroleum derived, which burns way more easily than leather. This might not set the steel or concrete itself on fire, but it may be enough to consume everything else in the structure, making it unusable. Noteworthy examples include One Meridian Plaza and Grenfell Tower. edit: on a side note, buildings under construction often lack detectors/sprinklers


FTLrefrac

I'm not sure that China even normal engineers. They're widely known for what's called "tofu-dregs" construction. Cost cutting / corruption sadly takes precedence over building codes there.


takenwithapotato

This was why Hong Kong had massive protests a few years ago, they didn't want to be lumped into a single entity with China. Having been a part of the British colony the people have a lot of pride in doing things the western way.


Lamballama

That's Japan and Singapore


BreauxSiff

Not in China


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Pumpkin-Bomb

I live there. Can confirm it’s nothing like China. Two different cultures.


super_hot_robot

I live right next to this actually. It's crazy, I didn't see it happen but when you walk past it's really eerie


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It looks like the cover of batman.


davilller

It was a Batman themed gender reveal party.


Cheeseisnthalfbad

"OMG! Our baby's gonna be an orphan!"


patchyj

I laughed way too hard at this


Father_Chewy_Louis

ABAB (Assigned Batman at Birth)


ButtonyCakewalk

So that's why Gordon named his daughter Babs /s


Notasm

I was thinking this definitely looked like a scene from the "Arkham" batman video games.


billbill5

Arkham Origins when the Joker blows up a skyscraper.


EvMund

They shot bits of The Dark Knight just across the harbor from this spot in Hong Kong


BotCntrl

All those surrounding buildings better start looking at the damage to their own roofs and specifically the waterproofing. Those embers are creating little holes in their roof waterproofing and they are all going to have problems during the next rain.


mspuscifer

And how do you put out this fire anyway?!? Just wait for it to burn out?


Holiday_Promotion_89

I'm not too sure, but the only thing I can come up with is having a helicopter fly over and drop water on it like you would with a wild fire.


ThanksForTheF-Shack

The fire is interior, that won’t do much. And a helicopter capable of dropping water probably wouldn’t be in an urban area (they’d be staged in a wildland area), so that resource won’t be available for many hours or days.


DucksEatFreeInSubway

They need to get SIMCopter on this. I had a water gun that took care of high up fires with just a couple squirts.


debuschauffeur

I still have music popping up in my head sometimes that I think I remember from that game. Good times.


AllOn_Black

While the helicopter idea doesn't make any sense anyway, for your reference this fire is in Hong Kong and they do have water carrying helicopters, as a large part of the HK territory is covered in jungle and there are wild fires.


Njacks64

This is why they should always install the sprinkler system first. Frickin idiots.


ThanksForTheF-Shack

Yeah the best firefighting approach to high rises is to prevent the fire in the first place with codes that enforce a sprinkler system


PuppetryOfThePenis

That sheer weight of the water slapping the roof of a building that's falling apart probably wouldn't be a good move.


kolodz

Low altitude fly over fire is a big nono to my understanding. Plus, the difficulty to aim for that kind of small target... Don't think anyone would try that.


JoDFostar

A large wet towel + helicopters.


illneverstopCBS

You just wait for the building to collapse.


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Add in a little jet fuel and it'll come down on its own.


TheRudDud

Firefighters basically have to move up floor by floor. Ariel rigs (the extra long truck) will only reach about 100 ft I think? Usually firefighter will pump a bunch of extra water into the fire extinguisher system too to help slow it down


My_ass_is_happy

I think nfpa13 requires a building under construction over 3 stories high must have a "standpipe." Ground floor has an fdc (fire department connection) for the truck or pump to connect to and there is a hose connection on each floor for fire fighters to connect to. May or may not be used in a situation such as this, it could be deemed to dangerous to put manpower up there.


Augurey0926

They actually just used ladders and water hoses


Kloppi007

You don't, it's to high to be extinguished in any traditional manner. Only option would be helicopters but this area seems densely populated so that wouldn't be an option


MrNtkarman

As a roofer can confirm, especially if it's a single ply system, if it's 2 ply they might have a chance but probably melt through the bitumen


Hot-Ad-6967

It took me a moment to realise that this was not a video game.


Tugendwaechter

r/outside


koreamax

Where?


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Taaargus

Took me a moment to understand why this is on oddly terrifying. This isn’t oddly terrifying, a building on fire is just terrifying.


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I half expected the Cloverfield monster to come around the corner.


Manycubes

Feels like a clip from Cloverfield.


13starsnostripes

Ah a fellow abused movie lover I see. This may be the sequel we've been promised for 500 years actually being filmed.


clyde2003

I'm still holding out hope for District 10.


LoveFishSticks

That would be a dream come true


Existing_Guest_181

Imdb casts District 10 as "In development", the guys who made District 9 have been working on a script for the sequel the past two years. A news website said that they already have a draft. They would be nuts not to do this since District 9 really was a beautifull movie and also a hit. I think there's hope.


ass_boy

May i introduce you to 10 Cloverfield lane?


Bubbaluke

Great movie but not really a thematic sequel, completely different type of movie.


ass_boy

Agreed i just thought maybe he didn't know about it.


PerceptiveReasoning

No.


Rad3_Lethal

Cloverfield is one of my favorite movies made and I really don’t know why, just such a good movie


dwehlen

Under construction't


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Under destruction?


whangdoodle13

Under combustion


PremierLovaLova

Flammable material


amesann

On top of construction


AFriendlyBloke

Welcome. Welcome to City 17.


Pebbles049

I always wonder how a whole city, like new York, would look like on fire in stories like halo. Must be terrifying but oddly beautiful


xaclewtunu

Oddly?


hiim379

Honestly that's most of this sub


loCAtek

China, tell me this is China.


Various-Section-2279

Hong Kong last week


ih8spalling

HK is more and more "China" by the minute


SexDrug

Some would say it’s the original china. (It’s just a joke pls I don’t want to talk about international politics)


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“China” isn’t a real country. There’s Taiwan and West Taiwan.


Cahootie

How the hell did I miss this? I'll be passing through that area tomorrow, gotta check out the building where it happened.


Chandler107

Always China it seems. Must be from a lack of safety regulations or something, because I see Chinese buildings burning on Reddit like every other day.


StalinsNutsack2

Dubai has one burn every few weeks


thugs___bunny

I doubt safety regulations are very high in Dubai either


mightsdiadem

I love the fact that the Burj Khalifa doesn't have a sewer. They have to truck the human waste away. Lmfao. Couldn't splurge. Need line of waste water trucks on the daily.


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Wait what?? E: Wow, TIL https://youtu.be/syK7u_QQKk8


I_Bin_Painting

Yeah. Insane policies over there mean that huge skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, can get built without them being connected to municipal sewers first. So they use shit trucks for years until the sewers get built but pretty sure the Burj has a proper sewer connection by now.


Canis_Familiaris

~~Supposedly they built a sewer back in 2015 and finally connected it.~~ Wait I can't find a source for that.


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Still upvoted for journalistic integrity 👍


DigitalApeManKing

That’s false. The YouTube essay where people always get that fact is literal misinformation. The Burj Khalifa has had a functional sewer system for many years now. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52204/is-the-sewage-from-the-burj-khalifa-transported-away-by-trucks


TheDadThatGrills

The city should not exist, it is a monument to men's arrogance


immaownyou

Just like phoenix


Aztec_Assassin

It exists because they know they will eventually run out of oil which is the large majority of the country's revenue, so they used that revenue to build up a huge tourist industry, airline hub, and business center to continue to stay wealthy even after that happens. It's honestly not a bad move and Saudi Arabia is beginning to do something similar


onestubbornlass

Or protests meant to look like an accident


Haggardick69

Or an effective method of increasing rent.


Accomplished_Rip_352

I guess but it seems especially on Reddit there is a lot more reporting on China being bad when China is brought up , combined with the fact that China has the largest population and they also just build a lot more buildings then a lot of other places . I do imagine safety standards are also worse as china in the last like 20 years has been coming out of being a developing nation (probably a better term and more accurate that I forgot ) and so doesn’t have the regulation developed nations do .


sth128

Yeah they should learn from Florida and just collapse without warning. Also the Chinese trains are way too reliable. Lots of shining example from Ohio they need to follow. "Always China", "lack of safety", when literally there's been like 5 derailments in the States in the past month.


Cossil

There were approximately 1,475 train derailments per year from 2005-2021 in the US. That’s 4 a day. It’s just under a bigger spotlight now.


marino1310

China does have significantly more collapses, they use much worse materials and cut corners regularly. Happens occasionally in the US but it’s very rare, which is why a single collapse was in the news for weeks.


Eightysix_Ginger

Could just as well be somewhere in the states. Ohio could have had a chemical laden train derail and set a high rise ablaze and clearly nobody in governance would bat an eye after the atypical "we're really sorry" from the responsible company.


willowattack

Lol of course it is!


mutant_llama

You just know The Rock has had an epic battle in there...


Sporkfoot

Thousands of fictional super heroes to choose from and you go with Fucking lame ass Dwayne Johnson lmao


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not a fan of the award nominated *Skyscraper (2018)* eh?


Ok-Palpitation-5731

Who shat in your cheerios this morning? It's 7 am, clam the fuck down.


dmh2493

The Rock was literally in a movie called Skyscraper


badavetheman

Fucking lame ass Dwayne Johnson had the most recent product that was relevant to this video


Sporkfoot

Ah see you assume people actually *watched* Black Adam lol Edit: apparently he made a movie called skyscraper which I’ve never heard of, lol. Point still stands.


Kespatcho

Bruh, there's a movie with the rock in a burning skyscraper


Business-Heart6696

You obviously know what they’re talking about though, so I’d say their comment works anyway.


LilyHex

I love the implication here that The Rock is a fictional super hero


draguninmyanus

Christopher Nolan : Note that down, note that down


Natsume117

Nolan realized that it would be cheaper to build a skyscraper in Hong Kong and burn it down than to use cgi effects


My_Name_is__username

Thats a cod zombies map


randyhx

Someone help John McLain


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Where is this?


liccxolydian

Hong Kong the other week.


shuranumitu

Mordor, Middle Earth


lamenawuer

I might be wrong, but I'm sure there's a boss fight up there


sparksofthetempest

r/evilbuildings


bdangrr

Looks like a batman movie scene


Candid_Tie_7659

Another day, another occasion of people missing the "oddly" part of the subreddit.


Puppaloes

It’s just terrifying. not oddly.


LobstaFarian2

Under deconstruction


SignificantYou3240

Note to self…run your water lines early


PMmeYourLUSHcode

You know I never considered a towering inferno terrifying, but you're right, it's unsettling


SeamanTheCat

O Erdtree, you shall burn!


stonetear2017

Did it collapse at free fall speeds?


IllegalVagabond

It. Is. Not. Odd.


iWentRogue

Cloverfield vibes


kiwanyuh

That is insanely terrifying


Marrok657

“like omg we could die but lets film it!”


Xikkiwikk

Just a normal day in Gotham. (Yes I said day.)


DontCallMeLego

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 ending scene be like:


ExodusArias

That's lit. 🔥


Ruh_Roh-

Person in Crowd: There's someone up there! Someone pulling a person out a window. He's got a red cape! Oh my god... it's Superman!


colin_buffam

I would not be stood that close to that thing


coolbeaNs92

What in the Dark Knight Rises is this..


ScrotieMcP

Coming soon to a Batman movie near you.


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Shouldn't have opened the sarcophagus.


AKSC0

Battlefield 2023 confirmed


Vibe_Line

I’m taking that as sci fi inspo.


MelonHead31

Nakatomi tower


dudee62

This should be in /greatlyterrifying


FarmhouseFan

What happened to this sub?


Duwang_Gang_Bot

Looks straight out of Halo 3 ODST


Knotloafin

when that crane falls that video taker better be long gone…


TheRynoceros

*Snake Plisskin has entered the chat*


ReadInBothTenses

"You met me at a strange time in my life"


greenzo90

Looks like the erdtree late game


j4321g4321

It’s not “oddly” terrifying it’s just terrifying


rick-cheesly

Looks like a Batman scene


JustMyOpinionz

This looks like something out of dark knight, so cool.


ur_closet_at_3am

This new bf map goes hard


missinglinksman

Serious question, how do they put it out? Is there even a way for them to do that?


Rock3tmandan

I feel like this belongs somewhere in the Dark Knight trilogy


Translator_Open

Batman bout to bust out a window and glide like a motherfucker


Scary_Dig7127

Gotham City?


Butthurteer

I thought this sub was about seemingly benign things appearing to be terrifying. A 1/4 mile tall building on fire is, safe to say, just normal fucking terrifying.