[cercatrova]

It's interesting, the Cyberpunk style worlds were made in the 80s when Japan was still dominant, so people thought Japan would continue dominating. But that didn't quite turn out how we expected. So it's funny to see Japan still so prominently depicted in future settings, kanji on buildings and people with katana running around, but it's nowhere near like that in the real world.

[kortex]

They are still the 3rd largest economy in the world. Katanas would still be weird. Unless it's a mall ninja.

[dylan604]

Does a mall ninja ride a Segway?

[RajT88]

Sure, as long as they have a bunch of knives and guns and swords and shit.

The original "Mall Ninja" story unironically talked about wheeling around in a golf cart. It's a short stone's throw to a segway from there.

https://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/

[dylan604]

Does the ninja need to be dressed in traditional ninja attire or can they cosplay as a mall cop?

[justinclift]

TLDR. Some of the Mall Ninja's comments seem to have been prophetic though:

> What good are the cops going to be if a shooter shows up at your > workplace??? How about your kid’s school, remember Columbine? I’ll > tell you what the cops will do, call the SWAT team and screw > around trying to locate the front door for 30 minutes, ...

;)

[wcerfgba]

This was hilarious, thanks for sharing!

[numpad0]

It’s not exactly like that but not nowhere near[1] ;)

1: Hatsune Miku on a Kabuki-cho billboard over news headline reporting US-Russia tensions over Ukraine(2014) https://twitter.com/kno2502/status/440101207596494850