So just into Just Cause 4 and there’s a settlement created out of shipping containers stuffed into a huge crevasse-spanning bridge

which reminded me of William Gibson’s Bridge trilogy (and the Johnny Mnemonic movie, even though the short story was set in the Sprawl trilogy)

and at first I was wondering “wait, is there a real place these were both based off of? I thought Gibson based the bridge on Kowloon Walled City”

And then I realized that Virtual Light predated the game by 25 goddamn years and is old and famous enough to inspire other artworks in its own right

BONUS: the “setting” paragraph from Virtual Light’s wikipedia page:

The setting is California in 2006,[4] part of a dystopian world where the middle class has essentially evaporated leaving only multinational corporations and their exorbitantly rich elite and the poor who are mostly security officers, couriers, or otherwise work in minor service positions. Many of the poor live illegally and entirely outside the normal economy in places like The Bridge engaged in dubious enterprises such as theft, drugs, weapons, gambling, prostitution, and operation of unlicensed restaurants and doctor’s offices. Others pursue livelihood in innocuous yet unregulated commerce such as by running antique shops and barbershops.