NEE Cola! Taste The Love!

[Schrobes]

How bad do you think Night City smells?

I am thinking Landfill levels of stench.

[Beldar]

Have you ever been to the heart of a large city in real life? They reek in every way you can imagine. I have the most experience with St. Louis and it's not even huge as far as major cities go. Downtown and North St. Louis smell like urine, car exhaust, feces, and body odor. Human beings are disgusting.

Night City is probably even worse than that. You have people with rotting cybernetic impants gone wrong, people urinating and defecating in the street, various types of corporate chemical waste products, rampant "scents of love" from the prolific prostitution business, car smog, etc. Also, don't forget the stench of death as V seems to kill dozens of gangers every day and just leaves the bodies in the street.

Taste the love? More like breathe through your nose or your tongue will be coated it filth and floating lubricant particles.

[⎝⧹Za Furan⧸⎠]

Johnny mention at least two times that Night City stinks. There are even some zones you can imagine how bad smells, the parts of the city in which you see piles of garbage bags and specially Dogtown. Also the Skavs lairs should smell horribly due the blood and eviscerated bodies.

[The Minted Lady]

There is such a thing as nose blindness, which I assume most Night Citizens would develop over time. It just means they're so used to the smell that their brain doesn't even register it anymore, unless they're lucky enough to get to different areas with different smells. I imagine City Center and the more manicured business areas probably don't smell as bad.

I did see nose filters in a list during one Gig, though. I bet those are popular implants.

[FkYoSht]

I imagine it smells like DC or New York (bad btw lol).

[LordChaos]

Dont worry, with these new nose implants costing you around 20k eddies (and thats just the cheapest model!) you wont need to smell in those terrible smells!

[Beldar]

Originally posted by The Minted Lady:

There is such a thing as nose blindness, which I assume most Night Citizens would develop over time. It just means they're so used to the smell that their brain doesn't even register it anymore, unless they're lucky enough to get to different areas with different smells. I imagine City Center and the more manicured business areas probably don't smell as bad.

I did see nose filters in a list during one Gig, though. I bet those are popular implants.

Nose blindness is definitely real. My wife is from the city, not even downtown. When she moved out into the country with me she thought it smelled funny. After living with me for a couple years, now she thinks the city reeks when she goes up there and she can't wait to get back home. Human beings are weird creatures.

[The Minted Lady]

Defense mechanisms, yo. The body is an incredible engine of survival and we don't give it enough credit for keeping us going.

[damion.ord]

This is why streetkid V starts the game with a broken nose, to destroy her sense of smell.

[envirovore]

Originally posted by Schrobes:

How bad do you think Night City smells?

I am thinking Landfill levels of stench.

Probably like the dogfood processing plant we have here.
Sickly sweet rot.

[envirovore]

Originally posted by Beldar:

people urinating and defecating in the street, various types of corporate chemical waste products, rampant "scents of love" from the prolific prostitution business, car smog, etc. Also, don't forget the stench of death

So it smells like San Francisco.

[Inari]

Originally posted by Beldar:

Originally posted by The Minted Lady:

There is such a thing as nose blindness, which I assume most Night Citizens would develop over time. It just means they're so used to the smell that their brain doesn't even register it anymore, unless they're lucky enough to get to different areas with different smells. I imagine City Center and the more manicured business areas probably don't smell as bad.

I did see nose filters in a list during one Gig, though. I bet those are popular implants.

Nose blindness is definitely real. My wife is from the city, not even downtown. When she moved out into the country with me she thought it smelled funny. After living with me for a couple years, now she thinks the city reeks when she goes up there and she can't wait to get back home. Human beings are weird creatures.

Really just a "getting used to things" deal. Makes perfect sense, not really weird. Your brain filters out stuff you feel all the time (like you don't notice your clothes 24/7)

[moiraesfate]

Probably disgusting. I've been hoping a mod will be created to clean up the mess. I can't imagine how anyone can live in Night City for any reason. It seems like a sewer. And not just in garbage but even in the people that live there.

[Schrobes]

Originally posted by moiraesfate:

Probably disgusting. I've been hoping a mod will be created to clean up the mess. I can't imagine how anyone can live in Night City for any reason. It seems like a sewer. And not just in garbage but even in the people that live there.

But Night City is just the advanced representation of today's city life. This will undoubtably be what major cities across the globe look like in the future.

[Schrobes]

I was thinking the advancement in storage capabilities at least contained the stench of all those garbage bags. Maybe they are made from organic matter that consume the contents.

[Beldar]

Originally posted by Schrobes:

Originally posted by moiraesfate:

Probably disgusting. I've been hoping a mod will be created to clean up the mess. I can't imagine how anyone can live in Night City for any reason. It seems like a sewer. And not just in garbage but even in the people that live there.

But Night City is just the advanced representation of today's city life. This will undoubtably be what major cities across the globe look like in the future.

Yeah, it's frighteningly not far from how real major cities look. People just get used to it all. I think that Night City probably has a pretty ridiculous murder rate per capita. There are plenty of violent and gang infested real world cities, but in NC it seems that dozens die nightly. Other than that, it's not so far from reality.