Totalitarian Buddhist Beats Simcity 3000

[quidmonkey]

Witness Magnasanti (http://www.viceland.com/blogs/uk-games/2010/05/10/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city/):

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6 million population.
0 crime.
0 pollution.
0 unemployment.
No one lives past 55.
Design is based on the Bhavacakra.
Took 3-years to build.

Crazy.

[LongStepMantis]

I want to be impressed. Unfortunately, I have no fucking clue what was going on in any of that. Based on his notes pages, I imagine the creator looks something like this:

http://mono.whatevz.net/images/John_Carpenter-sam_Neill_In_The_Mouth_Of_Madness_Ws3XV0.jpg

[TheEpicOfTyler]

As a fan of Sim City, this video is like porn.

[jpublic]

I'm impressed with the math work done on this.

[Urizen]

I'd vote for him as my totalitarian dictator.

[Dukefrukem]

Sim City 2000 imports was considered cheating?? lame

[Scaryfaced]

I haven't even touched a Sim game in years and I'm blown away. I've voting him for world dictator in 2012.

[Deadend]

There was an interview with the creator.

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/uk-games/2010/05/10/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city/

I’ve a quote from one of your Facebook status updates here: “The economic slave never realizes he is kept in a cage going round and round basically nowhere with millions of others.” Do you not feel that sums up the lives of the citizens of Magnasanti? (And you might want to set your Facebook to private by the way.)
Precisely that. Technically, no one is leaving or coming into the city. Population growth is stagnant. Sims don’t need to travel long distances, because their workplace is just within walking distance. In fact they do not even need to leave their own block. Wherever they go it’s like going to the same place.
Heavy.
There are a lot of other problems in the city hidden under the illusion of order and greatness: Suffocating air pollution, high unemployment, no fire stations, schools, or hospitals, a regimented lifestyle - this is the price that these sims pay for living in the city with the highest population. It’s a sick and twisted goal to strive towards. The ironic thing about it is the sims in Magnasanti tolerate it. They don’t rebel, or cause revolutions and social chaos. No one considers challenging the system by physical means since a hyper-efficient police state keeps them in line. They have all been successfully dumbed down, sickened with poor health, enslaved and mind-controlled just enough to keep this system going for thousands of years. 50,000 years to be exact. They are all imprisoned in space and time.

[LongStepMantis]

I get it a bit better now.

He needs to play Dwarf Fortress. :D

[CappinCanuck]

Wow, that guy needs to win some sort of prize.

[Vandabo]

It sounds like Yang from Alpha Centauri (Leader of the Hive) started playing Sim City.

[AntonThaGreat]

Wow... now just imagine if this guy did something actually fucking useful.

[Dragonwell]

Epic.

The music in the first part of the video creeps me out. Regardless, amazing achievement.

Edit: The shape of the Magnasanti reminds me of Foucault's Panopticon. Oddly enough I guess you could see the Magnasanti as the ultimate incarnation of the Panopticon.