MAGNASATI - amazing achievement

[NemesisLeon44]

"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."

http://www.vice.com/read/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city?utm_source=vicefbus

Discuss!

[DidNotFinish]

Complicated mathematical theory aside, the way this guy explains it, he does sound pretty self-aggrandizing. You can't "beat" a sandbox game. You can use its components as efficiently as possible, but that doesn't mean you beat it, it means that you've reached maximum efficiency.

[NemesisLeon44]

Originally posted by DidNotFinish:

Complicated mathematical theory aside, the way this guy explains it, he does sound pretty self-aggrandizing. You can't "beat" a sandbox game. You can use its components as efficiently as possible, but that doesn't mean you beat it, it means that you've reached maximum efficiency.

I'm pretty sure it's just playful wording. I'm sure the article-writer knows one cannot "beat" a sandbox game.

[DidNotFinish]

Granted. The part I'm referring to is as follows:

"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.'

Not ironic considering rebellion, social chaos, or any of that was programmed. The interviewee seems to take it all a little too seriously, but maybe that's just humor lost in the text.

[NemesisLeon44]

Originally posted by DidNotFinish:

Granted. The part I'm referring to is as follows:

"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.'

Not ironic considering rebellion, social chaos, or any of that was programmed. The interviewee seems to take it all a little too seriously, but maybe that's just humor lost in the text.

The interviewee just seems like a casual nerd to me. He doesn't even care how he comes across, he's just stating things factually and straightforward. He is an architect, after all. I know this since I do this myself... people keep assuming I feel a certain way about things I say, but they're just placing assumptions on dictionary-definition and grammatically-correct sentences that are not meant to imply any kind of extra feeling. Then I have to sort through their freakouts and assumptions and it's so annoying...

[DidNotFinish]

Originally posted by NemesisLeon:

Originally posted by DidNotFinish:

Granted. The part I'm referring to is as follows:

"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.'

Not ironic considering rebellion, social chaos, or any of that was programmed. The interviewee seems to take it all a little too seriously, but maybe that's just humor lost in the text.

The interviewee just seems like a casual nerd to me. He doesn't even care how he comes across, he's just stating things factually and straightforward. He is an architect, after all. I know this since I do this myself... people keep assuming I feel a certain way about things I say, but they're just placing assumptions on dictionary-definition and grammatically-correct sentences that are not meant to imply any kind of extra feeling. Then I have to sort through their freakouts and assumptions and it's so annoying...

Well, I'd argue that...wait a minute, are you the interviewee? :) Lol

[NemesisLeon44]

Originally posted by DidNotFinish:

Originally posted by NemesisLeon:

The interviewee just seems like a casual nerd to me. He doesn't even care how he comes across, he's just stating things factually and straightforward. He is an architect, after all. I know this since I do this myself... people keep assuming I feel a certain way about things I say, but they're just placing assumptions on dictionary-definition and grammatically-correct sentences that are not meant to imply any kind of extra feeling. Then I have to sort through their freakouts and assumptions and it's so annoying...

Well, I'd argue that...wait a minute, are you the interviewee? :) Lol

I wish I had that kind of talent I idolize ambitious planners like him. Another guy is Eskil Steenberg who created LOVE by himself. (see www.quelsolaar.com for that)

The personality type these two and I share can be described in 4 letters. INTP.