"Welcome! Welcome to Magnasanti! You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest urban centers. I thought so much of Magnasanti that I elected to establish my administration here, in the City so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I've been proud to call Magnasanti my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown - welcome to Magnasanti. It's safer here. "
I can only imagine what city hall must look like in this place. Probably a room full of completely pale hairless old men in black hooded robes sitting around an obsidian table each in his own H.R.Giger throne with cables and wires connected all over their bodies, all in wordless brain link communication with the mayor, whose body is composed of 95% machine fueled by human souls, suspended in a dark void.
I imagine in the 10 block by 10 block Library megaplex, there are endless shelves and shelves of books all filled with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" repeating endlessly, but somewhere in the hundreds and hundreds of millions of text, there are random, scattered words and sentences that deviate, revealing to those lucky enough to find them, evidence of a time or place "outside" Magnisanti
"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." -- from an interview with the creator, this shit is terrifying :D
"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."
Just looked at what this website was asking him and they asked was there anything wrong with this city that we dont know about? Or along those lines and this was in his (the guy who made this city,Magnasanti) answer 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.
if anyone's wondering about the music, the one in the intro is E.S. Posthumus' "Menouthis" and the one at 2:30 is "Apocalypse" from the Hitman: Blood Money soundtrack, composed by Jesper Kyd.
Thank you well, I couldnt recall the name for the song but I figured someone would know it in "the video about the mad genius building a dystopian city micromanaged to maximum efficiency at the cost of his populations life span in sim city" I heard it in.
@@catyoinnoriakitty1994 I've been looking for this song for months. It doesn't even register on song identifying services like shazam and soundhound. Hopefully we'll uncover it someday, I kind of love it.
When it was mentioned by the interviewer that Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi must have been an inspiration: "It very much was--I first watched it in 2006. The film presented the world in a way I never really looked at before and that captivated me. Moments like these compel me to physically express progressions in my thought, I have just happened to do that through the form of creating these cities in SimCity 3000. I could probably have done something similar--depicting the awesome regimentation and brutality of our society--with a series of paintings on a canvas, or through hideous architectural models. But it wouldn't be the same as doing it in the game, because I wanted to magnify the unbelievably sick ambitions of egotistical political dictators, ruling elites and downright insane architects, urban planners, and social engineers." and yet he himself is an architecture student. I like this guy.
This is still in my top ten favorite TH-cam videos. Everything about it is so creepy and well thought out. A plus presentation of a fantastic achievement.
as a former engineering major (currently a math major), this both intrigues me and scares me on so many levels. 5:29 makes the walled city of Kowloon look like a barren wasteland. i'm sorry but this is making me have some weird epiphany...the amount of cold calculation you would need, and the amount of lives you would have to sacrifice just to get the job done, while also having to pay attention to ethics and competition, scared the frick out of me tbh
Why does everyone in Magnasanti die before they reach the age of 60? Why is there no one alive in Magnasanti who remembers the time before the Overlord?
=====Rule change notice===== Dear citizen of Magnasanti, To ensure a higher effiency of the society, folowing rules will be instated: A) All recreational external comunications are banned. B) Surburban buildings must follow strict build codes. B1) No diviations from given blueprints are allowed. B2) All buildings that are diviating from current build codes will be demolished. B3) Usuage of resources while under construction that are 0,2 times alowed limit is punishable by law (see section 14.3 "Water and electicity budget") B4) For more information, see section 3 "State allowed construction" C) Folowing medical rules will be implemented. C1) Induviduals who are 65 years old or above will not recive medical treatment(s) or other support. C2) In order to pervent mass psycogenic ilness, drugs that induce amnesia will be adminsitered to all citizens without exeption. C3) For more information se section 5 "medical rules" Sumarised rules (page 1/13) "A bright and efficient future awaits us" -Vincent Ocasla , Leader of Magnasanti
+The Piano Maker We are as mere insects compared to the overLord, who through sheer will and detemmienation has built our world brick by brick for countless generations. It is the least we can do to work our best while we can and expire when we are no longer needed.
When asked about the age 60 thing "Health of the sims was not a priority, relative to the main objective. I could have enacted several health ordinances which would have increased the life expectancy, but I decided not to for practical reasons. It shows that by only focusing on one objective, one may end up neglecting, or resorting to sacrificing, other important elements. Similarly, [in the real world] if we make maximizing profits as the absolute objective, we fail to take into consideration the social and environmental consequences."
The Piano Maker "Ah, interesting questions. I remember another young citizen who asked the exact same two questions many years ago. He kept asking me & the others... and one day he disappeared. If you wonder if this is a subtle warning, I am confident a person of your intellect can make the conclusion."
Make all the jokes you want, but the concept of a dystopian megacity like Magnasanti could perfectly fit in a science fiction novel. Someone takes the challenge?
Coruscant from Star Wars Prequels and EU. It's not the maximum possible urban density, but the entire fucking planet is covered in skyscrapers, thousands of layers of them, housing 1 trillion inhabitants.
I know this guy. His name on the forum is Omnika. He is a pretty cool dude who always answered my SC3000 questions with enthusiasm. I learned a lot from him. Thanks, Omnika. Mike
One of the best pieces of art, machinery, engineering and management ever demonstrated. I downloaded this precious video and hope the city will be remembered for thousands of years.
This is one of those videos that sticks with you. In a fragmented form as some distant memory. Then it calls you back at random, ten years later. Here in 2023
But what if he makes the last humanity survive in that land? But then, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the titans, and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.
this came from a Totalitarian Buddhist. read it on VICE www.vice.com/read/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city? is he trying to scare the shit out of humanity?
Don't you mean that humanity would be saved? His capacity for optimizing how many people a place of land can sustain is exactly what is needed in areas of overpopulation.
@@scaredstiff7176 there’s definitely use cases for the absurd efficiency of this cutting. All you have to do is remember what a human is while implementing the methods and you should be able to avoid creating a dystopia
Every so often I come back to this video (and the tour, and that one interview) and man. There is really something special about Magnasanti. Both on a commentary level and the sheer amount of planning, time, and effort that's gone into it.
I bet in this city, the leaders think that everyone is a criminal and until recently, had to have them connected to a central computer 24/7. Oh wait, I was thinking of Sim City 5.
Because being real means being humorless? XD P.S. It's impossible to compensate for the misunderstanding of the determinedly ignorant, better to not even try.
I love that he had a city of perfect health, perfect employment... and went, NO. _I can fit more people in there_. And yes, this is utilitarianism. Just for an inhuman value function.
I love how deeply unnerving this is in multiple ways at once. It's interesting that creating the eutopian paradoxically creates the dystopian. And also for some reason it's incredibly disturbing that he spent years of his life making this for no reason. Maybe it's giving me an existential crisis because something so perfect doesn't belong in this world. True perfection isn't ethereal, instead it's creepy and uncanny.
It wasn't disturbing, Vincent Ocasla was an architecture student when he made this. It only took him 2 years to finish the Magnasanti. He had a good amount of background in urban planning because of his college course. He stated in an interview with Vice that he didn't work with the city 24 hours a day and playing SC was just his hobby, he was just that good in exploiting the game mechanics and with some help of urban planning knowledge.
It's been 9 years since this video was uploaded to youtube, 5 years since I was first shown this video, and it is as magnificent and terrifying when I saw it the first time. Thanks for the nightmares. Long live Magnasanti.
This was purposeful and is explained by the creator of this video in his interview with Vice: www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w4kg3/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city
this has to be the absolute masterpiece of every city builder to ever exist in gaming history. an outstanding achievement. and one of the best youtube videos posted, ever.
The actual fascist leaders (IE, Hitler, Mussolini, Pavelic, Quisling, Pétain, and Franco) were craven, murderous opportunists who created regimes full of nepotism and corruption. They didn't have the vision or drive to make anything worthwhile, much less a massive project like Magnasanti. I'd add Pinochet to that list too, as he was also an authoritarian right-wing scumbag who abused his citizens and embezzled huge sums of money for his own personal gain. Yet far-right jack offs worship him like he was some kind of great, heroic leader while overlooking the numerous ways he cheated his citizens and his country
Magnasanti. 9 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the Precincts.
This is madness no sane human would do this only a human who has sold their soul. A human who thrives on lifelessness and despair for others no this is a straight up villain created nonsense and he needs his “work” stepped on and demolished before any living thing can be victim to his sadistic wrath
Actually, yes: "Art (noun) 1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."
@@MrSponge56 This guy clearly studied a lot of evil plans like Brave New World and Satanic Freemason plans and control mechanisms, and implemented them here in his little fantasy.
I think the second song, starting at 0:18, is heavily processed and may even be slowed down. With that in mind, an interview with the designer indicates he was influenced by Philip Glass who composed music for a movie called Koyaanisqatsi. Slowing that soundtrack down sounds similar to the middle track here. #2 "Vessels" seems the closest. The instrumentation was probably changed from organ to a guitar effect.
I've strangely hit the replaying button. but I'm not enough perfect to look at these city. Amadasanti Parasanti Magnasanti. models of perfection, where everyone is equal. where everyone died at the same age. have the same education. have the same building, the same room. The time become so meaningless. even the date cannot change. 50,000 Years. This is the perfection.
I saw this video like 4-5 years ago and got obsessed. Now I'm a law student, seriously thinking about making a research about how law aspects, juridical systems could work in Magnasanti...
this is considered a "successful" city by the game. this game has had influence on elections for political offices, both at home (NYC one time) and abroad (croatia iirc, definitely one of the balkans). let that sink in.
But the game doesn’t ignore all the problems that exist. The poor education, the police state, the lack of hospitals and fun things for the Sims to do.
This is truly one of the best creations in the world, its not only about a man beating one of the most complex Citybuilders but dedication, truly world wonder
That was totally awesome. I am in awe. I like the cultural implications too, which seemed somewhat serendipitous if not downright ominous. Nice to see a fellow Filipino doing something like that.
It's terrifying because it's an inhuman, uniform, brutalist city that perfectly encapsulates the values of 20th century totalitarianism. It's amazing as a technical accomplishment but goddamn it would be a terrible place to live. It's like a fascist dream city and should be rendered in a tileset of slab-sided concrete box buildings. Also that population graph at 6:40 ELDERLY CITIZENS ARE UNPRODUCTIVE. ALL CITIZENS MUST REPORT FOR TERMINATION AND RECYCLING AT AGE 55. THE STATE HAS PROVIDED ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES FOR YOUR COMFORT AS YOU AWAIT PROCESSING.
This is one of those 'oh there is something Wrong with you' pieces of art and I mean that as a sincere compliment. There's something about a slightly deranged work that rewires your brain and it's great.
I'm just happy the creator of Magnasanti focused his effort on Sim City and not real world regime change to topple world democracies and install totalitarian dictators who's only goal is peak efficiency and population density by any means necessary.
Dude oh my fucking god. I have never played one of these games but that seems really impressive. All the the planning, the interweaving components of the city for maximum effectiveness, and you actually based the designs off of historical and mathematical symbols. This is art at the apex of technicality.
Sublime, truely. I wanted to say Magnasanti inspired me to make something of similar scale, and reinforced that it was a worthwhile artistic endeavor. Thank you very much.
The fact there are several of these cities he made, and the meaning of their names, makes it seem like they exist in the same world, probably as part of some unimaginably efficient totalitarian empire, that spans both the entire globe and the entire future after its establishment.
Someone built the dead city of Rlyah in SimCity 3000? Good for them. Though I doubt they could do that with SimCity 2013, as that uses the awesome power of Glassbox. You know, the game whose AI is so advanced and demanding that the game needed to be always-online! Oh wait, nevermind.
When watching this video all I can picture is thousands of Magnasanti soldiers goosestepping. Every single individual forced to chant the great eternal rulers name while epic orchestral music is playing in the background.
I'm imagining the soldiers marching down the streets from their central barracks every morning and evening to ensure that all citizens sing the anthem for the leader (of course, under the pain of death)
That was so very interesting to watch and I know nearly nothing about Simcity...the planning and total understanding of the metrics of the game is impressive...it was also cool that you included the sketches and math...the music selection and city names were perfect in my opinion...very well done...years of time and knowledge condensed into 7 minutes on the dot which is also nice... I appreciate this a bunch...thank you
my favorite thing about this video is the weirdly satanic overtones
@@CHURCHTUARY er no ..
"Doing far cry videos"....savage how true.
He wasn´t a satanist but a Buddhist with totalitarian Dreams ;)
It's Apocalypse from the Hitman Blood Money soundtrack!
Is this Hell? Or is it Satan's Heaven. Think about it.
"Welcome! Welcome to Magnasanti! You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest urban centers. I thought so much of Magnasanti that I elected to establish my administration here, in the City so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I've been proud to call Magnasanti my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown - welcome to Magnasanti. It's safer here.
"
ah i see you are a man of culture as well
Half-Life 2 reference.
I'd rather be taken over by the combine than this guy
Nice
safe until you reach 60
I can only imagine what city hall must look like in this place.
Probably a room full of completely pale hairless old men in black hooded robes sitting around an obsidian table each in his own H.R.Giger throne with cables and wires connected all over their bodies, all in wordless brain link communication with the mayor, whose body is composed of 95% machine fueled by human souls, suspended in a dark void.
Is this a reference to something?
Catalistic Just kind of a general dystopian far future type clique, really.
LMAO. Great comment.
Well, they can't be really old since life expectancy is only 50 years.
Catalistic Warhammer 40k. The Emperor of Humanity is the guy fueled by human souls. Psichys´souls actually.
Magnasanti.....this name is truly inspiring. someone should write a book like Brave New World in this town.
No response after 7 years...................
@@projectember728 All because those who live in Magnasanti... cannot properly respond or even dare communicate
Or at least a song…something..
Barely any comments after 9 whole years o_o
@@OperatorMax1993 things were different 9 years ago...including the reply system.
Simcity managed to hold another serial killer off the market for 3 years, but couldn't keep him off forever.
Lock your doors people.
We should introduce him to Civilisation quick to keep him distracted
But that might just train him even more :(
basura HOW ABOUT DWARF FORTRESS!!!??
My laughter is nervous.... Click (door) click (rifle)
He's playing Hearts of Iron (Modern mod). Preparing
adamwan922, there’s one more option, colonization of all colonize able PLANETS in ELITE.(btw ELITE’s map is a 1 to 1 scale of the Milky Way galaxy.)
I imagine in the 10 block by 10 block Library megaplex, there are endless shelves and shelves of books all filled with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" repeating endlessly, but somewhere in the hundreds and hundreds of millions of text, there are random, scattered words and sentences that deviate, revealing to those lucky enough to find them, evidence of a time or place "outside" Magnisanti
"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." -- from an interview with the creator, this shit is terrifying :D
"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."
Endrikh Darkvine CXVI That is some grade A supervillain shit. I got chills just reading it.
yeah :D
antiutopia
buldjad
Shit got real when they used mathematics paper for planning.
+The1AndOnlyDannyBro They? This was all done by a single person
xxBlackpspxx Mother of god.
+The1AndOnlyDannyBro Yup. A Buddhist monk! LOL
+The1AndOnlyDannyBro he did the math, HE DID THE MOTHERFUCKING MATH TO GET IT DONE!!!
I proper LOL'd at that comment!
Just looked at what this website was asking him and they asked was there anything wrong with this city that we dont know about? Or along those lines and this was in his (the guy who made this city,Magnasanti) answer
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.
This is what all true SMT lawfags strive for.
And this is different from reality how? It isn't.. :)
FartMaster69 chill out, what the fuck is your problem?
And HE is big brother man, all hail big brother man dsfd
It`s all as intended by the illuminati lizard people from the underworld, WAKE UP SHEEPLE
if anyone's wondering about the music, the one in the intro is E.S. Posthumus' "Menouthis" and the one at 2:30 is "Apocalypse" from the Hitman: Blood Money soundtrack, composed by Jesper Kyd.
Thank you well, I couldnt recall the name for the song but I figured someone would know it in "the video about the mad genius building a dystopian city micromanaged to maximum efficiency at the cost of his populations life span in sim city" I heard it in.
Jessica Curry played Apocalypse on Radio 3's Sounds of Gaming recently, and I was immediately reminded of this video. 😜
what was the terrifying song in between the two
@@catyoinnoriakitty1994 I've been looking for this song for months. It doesn't even register on song identifying services like shazam and soundhound. Hopefully we'll uncover it someday, I kind of love it.
@@Smell-O-Vision-Citrus please find it
This is the type of human that will conquer all and have no mercy
Human? that aint no man
@Internet Entity appears the prophesy has come true haha
@Internet Entity think diablo 4 trailer but for this guy
Good thing he'll be too busy playing sim city...
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Magnasanti...
Warhammer 40k fan?
arent we all?@@Cocojonut-fp8ek
When it was mentioned by the interviewer that Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi must have been an inspiration:
"It very much was--I first watched it in 2006. The film presented the world in a way I never really looked at before and that captivated me. Moments like these compel me to physically express progressions in my thought, I have just happened to do that through the form of creating these cities in SimCity 3000. I could probably have done something similar--depicting the awesome regimentation and brutality of our society--with a series of paintings on a canvas, or through hideous architectural models. But it wouldn't be the same as doing it in the game, because I wanted to magnify the unbelievably sick ambitions of egotistical political dictators, ruling elites and downright insane architects, urban planners, and social engineers."
and yet he himself is an architecture student. I like this guy.
oh this is good actually. was worried about him for a minute there.
"Oops sorry bro I accidentally deleted your game"
That guy would mysteriously disappear if someone did that to me.
"What are you doing stepbrother... "
And that person mistery disappeared from the face of the earth that day
that would result in murder
Don't worry, I know the exact mathematical formulas to rebuild it precisely as it was.
This is still in my top ten favorite TH-cam videos. Everything about it is so creepy and well thought out. A plus presentation of a fantastic achievement.
The ultimate dystopia
Please share another 9 with me!
as a former engineering major (currently a math major), this both intrigues me and scares me on so many levels. 5:29 makes the walled city of Kowloon look like a barren wasteland. i'm sorry but this is making me have some weird epiphany...the amount of cold calculation you would need, and the amount of lives you would have to sacrifice just to get the job done, while also having to pay attention to ethics and competition, scared the frick out of me tbh
@@wonderingtraveler42Icarly all deaths
Why does everyone in Magnasanti die before they reach the age of 60?
Why is there no one alive in Magnasanti who remembers the time before the Overlord?
=====Rule change notice=====
Dear citizen of Magnasanti,
To ensure a higher effiency of the society, folowing rules will be instated:
A) All recreational external comunications are banned.
B) Surburban buildings must follow strict build codes.
B1) No diviations from given blueprints are allowed.
B2) All buildings that are diviating from current build codes will be demolished.
B3) Usuage of resources while under construction that are 0,2 times alowed limit is punishable by law
(see section 14.3 "Water and electicity budget")
B4) For more information, see section 3 "State allowed construction"
C) Folowing medical rules will be implemented.
C1) Induviduals who are 65 years old or above will not recive medical treatment(s) or other support.
C2) In order to pervent mass psycogenic ilness, drugs that induce amnesia will be adminsitered to all citizens
without exeption.
C3) For more information se section 5 "medical rules"
Sumarised rules (page 1/13)
"A bright and efficient future awaits us"
-Vincent Ocasla , Leader of Magnasanti
+The Piano Maker We are as mere insects compared to the overLord, who through sheer will and detemmienation has built our world brick by brick for countless generations.
It is the least we can do to work our best while we can and expire when we are no longer needed.
When asked about the age 60 thing
"Health of the sims was not a priority, relative to the main objective. I could have enacted several health ordinances which would have increased the life expectancy, but I decided not to for practical reasons. It shows that by only focusing on one objective, one may end up neglecting, or resorting to sacrificing, other important elements. Similarly, [in the real world] if we make maximizing profits as the absolute objective, we fail to take into consideration the social and environmental consequences."
Vincent is such a fucking brilliant guy.
The Piano Maker "Ah, interesting questions. I remember another young citizen who asked the exact same two questions many years ago. He kept asking me & the others... and one day he disappeared. If you wonder if this is a subtle warning, I am confident a person of your intellect can make the conclusion."
Make all the jokes you want, but the concept of a dystopian megacity like Magnasanti could perfectly fit in a science fiction novel. Someone takes the challenge?
+koshikii I was thinking more of Harrison Bergeron, but 1984 fits even better.
Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
Reminds me of the Sprawl in Neuromancer.
Coruscant from Star Wars Prequels and EU. It's not the maximum possible urban density, but the entire fucking planet is covered in skyscrapers, thousands of layers of them, housing 1 trillion inhabitants.
My mathematics is not good enough.
I know this guy. His name on the forum is Omnika. He is a pretty cool dude who always answered my SC3000 questions with enthusiasm. I learned a lot from him.
Thanks, Omnika.
Mike
i remember a comment here a long time ago where someone said "WHERE THE FUCK DO I WALK MY DOG??"
Citizen! You are not allowed to have dog.
Also pick up that can.
One of the best pieces of art, machinery, engineering and management ever demonstrated. I downloaded this precious video and hope the city will be remembered for thousands of years.
This is one of those videos that sticks with you. In a fragmented form as some distant memory. Then it calls you back at random, ten years later. Here in 2023
at least once a year, ad infinitum
this guy is ready for human instrumentality
TUMBLING DOWN TUMBLING DOWN
Haha
It's 2020 and I still come back to this video. It calls to me.
God help me I'm back again.
You can never leave.
Once you learn the truth, you cannot unlearn it
It looks more and more like reality
Just like it drew Julius Caesar back to Alexander's statues in Greece.
We are the 21st century's Caesars.
Magnasanti, a city built on a giant alchemist transmutation circle.
Imagine the philosopher's stone you could make!
it would be massive. 9M is alot of stone. going to need a few suits of armor
"It is the 51st millennium and I cannot wake up from this nightmare! I CANNOT WAKE UP!"
these cities resemble microprocessors viewed through a microscope - many identical components packed to reach maximum efficiency
If this guy has any real power in the future humanity is doomed.
But what if he makes the last humanity survive in that land?
But then, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the titans, and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.
this came from a Totalitarian Buddhist. read it on VICE www.vice.com/read/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city?
is he trying to scare the shit out of humanity?
Don't you mean that humanity would be saved? His capacity for optimizing how many people a place of land can sustain is exactly what is needed in areas of overpopulation.
DusteDs Stuff if u like it to don't make it over your 50ies, go ahead
horst12345 uhm, 3 questions: If i like 1.what? to don't make 2.what? over my 50ies, go ahead and do 3.what?
As professional city planner this is both invigorating and terrifying...
As an actual mayor this is both exciting yet apocalyptic
I hope you aren't invigorated to implement this irl.
@@scaredstiff7176 there’s definitely use cases for the absurd efficiency of this cutting. All you have to do is remember what a human is while implementing the methods and you should be able to avoid creating a dystopia
@@Happy-to3tf True. It's ridiculous, but a lot of city planners forget that humans are supposed to exist in their designs.
15 minutes cities will probably look like this
Every so often I come back to this video (and the tour, and that one interview) and man. There is really something special about Magnasanti. Both on a commentary level and the sheer amount of planning, time, and effort that's gone into it.
I bet in this city, the leaders think that everyone is a criminal and until recently, had to have them connected to a central computer 24/7.
Oh wait, I was thinking of Sim City 5.
WHY ISN'T THIS A TOP COMMENT?
I forgot, half the commentators most probably are not simcity players.
A citizen is just a criminal in disguise
This is perfect utilitarianism. I'm impressed.
Noooooo you misunderstand the term XD Dystopia is the opposite of utilitarianism X)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
Brandon Sergent See when you include two smiley faces in your post, it sounds like you're being sarcastic or incredibly fake. Don't do that.
Utilitarianism leads to dystopia.
Because being real means being humorless? XD
P.S. It's impossible to compensate for the misunderstanding of the determinedly ignorant, better to not even try.
I love that he had a city of perfect health, perfect employment... and went, NO. _I can fit more people in there_.
And yes, this is utilitarianism. Just for an inhuman value function.
For 6 minutes 59 seconds I lived on the edge of complete madness.
I love how deeply unnerving this is in multiple ways at once. It's interesting that creating the eutopian paradoxically creates the dystopian. And also for some reason it's incredibly disturbing that he spent years of his life making this for no reason. Maybe it's giving me an existential crisis because something so perfect doesn't belong in this world. True perfection isn't ethereal, instead it's creepy and uncanny.
Дело в том, что в процессе создани он не замечал этого, и когда он закончил, он осознал что он сделал, и поэтому он решил сделать виде мрачным
Exactly, Utopia = Dystopia
It wasn't disturbing, Vincent Ocasla was an architecture student when he made this. It only took him 2 years to finish the Magnasanti. He had a good amount of background in urban planning because of his college course. He stated in an interview with Vice that he didn't work with the city 24 hours a day and playing SC was just his hobby, he was just that good in exploiting the game mechanics and with some help of urban planning knowledge.
this is honestly one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. its mezmerizing and impressive
When you want to summon Satan by playing SimCity.
Im here
@@Van-Bel-Kum XD
@@Van-Bel-Kum hahaa
@@Van-Bel-Kum Dude, sorry, four years late to the summoning. Hope you're still around.
The music makes it seems like it was this massive plan to optimize the last city on earth because the universe is ending or something.
It's been 9 years since this video was uploaded to youtube, 5 years since I was first shown this video, and it is as magnificent and terrifying when I saw it the first time. Thanks for the nightmares. Long live Magnasanti.
You're insane
I love it
The superior 12x12 grid employed in Magnasanti can not be beaten!
>:]
we can make a religion around this
>:]
And they all lived happily ever after, *FOREVER...*
......In 50 year increments.
I don't get it..
...and ever...and ever...
This is terrifying.
This was purposeful and is explained by the creator of this video in his interview with Vice: www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w4kg3/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city
Monkey suit by mf doom...now you can either be really scared or happy it'll end
Who's here because of Gameranx?
Reporting in.
same here 🤣🤣
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is this a letsplay by satan himself?
Cuerex More like God.
Underrated. I was going to make this exact comment.
this has to be the absolute masterpiece of every city builder to ever exist in gaming history. an outstanding achievement. and one of the best youtube videos posted, ever.
This man could be a professional fascist whenever he wants
+Sammy yea, someone should gift him a copy of Victoria 2 on Steam.
the last fascist leaders killed themselves and got hanged at a gasstation
+doge from russia Oh my
@@Vicowanger and communist leaders are being hanged forever in hell now
The actual fascist leaders (IE, Hitler, Mussolini, Pavelic, Quisling, Pétain, and Franco) were craven, murderous opportunists who created regimes full of nepotism and corruption. They didn't have the vision or drive to make anything worthwhile, much less a massive project like Magnasanti.
I'd add Pinochet to that list too, as he was also an authoritarian right-wing scumbag who abused his citizens and embezzled huge sums of money for his own personal gain. Yet far-right jack offs worship him like he was some kind of great, heroic leader while overlooking the numerous ways he cheated his citizens and his country
Magnasanti. 9 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the Precincts.
Every year. Like twice every year I come back to this absolute masterpiece. 2023 this time.
This is art.
This is madness no sane human would do this only a human who has sold their soul. A human who thrives on lifelessness and despair for others no this is a straight up villain created nonsense and he needs his “work” stepped on and demolished before any living thing can be victim to his sadistic wrath
Actually, yes: "Art (noun) 1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."
@@MrSponge56 This guy clearly studied a lot of evil plans like Brave New World and Satanic Freemason plans and control mechanisms, and implemented them here in his little fantasy.
well well well. Look at what's going in my D&D campaign. Thank you heaps, the video has lore, musical inspiration and even naming conventions. Cheers.
This guy is a fucking genius but this video is just fucking eerie.
I think the second song, starting at 0:18, is heavily processed and may even be slowed down. With that in mind, an interview with the designer indicates he was influenced by Philip Glass who composed music for a movie called Koyaanisqatsi. Slowing that soundtrack down sounds similar to the middle track here. #2 "Vessels" seems the closest. The instrumentation was probably changed from organ to a guitar effect.
this is 40K as fuck
+Killer.exe I imagine that this is how citys on Holly Terra looks like
Afargu Omrot
I think that pretty much all of the Hive Worlds are quite similar to this
+Killer.exe excent for the 0% crime rate
Afargu Omrot
true
replace the 0% pollution rates with 100% and you've got yourself a deal
I've strangely hit the replaying button.
but I'm not enough perfect to look at these city.
Amadasanti
Parasanti
Magnasanti.
models of perfection, where everyone is equal. where everyone died at the same age. have the same education. have the same building, the same room.
The time become so meaningless. even the date cannot change. 50,000 Years.
This is the perfection.
So this is what an insanity plea looks like in video form
This is one of my favourite works of modern art.
Reminds me of a short story by J.G Ballard called "The Concentration City".
This should me in MOMA. The man is a real Artist. One of the most powerful pieces I have ever seen.
This video makes me feel unwell
This is amazing. The calculation and time taken is astonishing and the final perfection is unbeatable. In other words....wow.
I saw this video like 4-5 years ago and got obsessed. Now I'm a law student, seriously thinking about making a research about how law aspects, juridical systems could work in Magnasanti...
Corporate Police State. The entire city is a prison.
this is considered a "successful" city by the game. this game has had influence on elections for political offices, both at home (NYC one time) and abroad (croatia iirc, definitely one of the balkans). let that sink in.
But the game doesn’t ignore all the problems that exist. The poor education, the police state, the lack of hospitals and fun things for the Sims to do.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART
*dinky carnival ferris wheels at the very epicenter*
Satan: absolute perfection my son
Glad I watched this in the day and not at night.
This seems like something out of 1984
thats what i thought....
@@Bakobos It's clear that this guy studies certain works like 1984, Brave New World, Satanism, and Freemasonry.
Music from part 2 for those who want it: Jesper Kyd - Apocalypse
Thank you Yuri.
5:34 this is where Mr. Bones' wild ride was built
This is an absolutely awesome piece of work, massive amounts of effort and dedication and an excellent video with the perfect music !
This is truly one of the best creations in the world, its not only about a man beating one of the most complex Citybuilders but dedication, truly world wonder
I'm not 100% sure what i just witnessed.
But i am 120% sure it's time to bow down to our new lord and master Tasrhgs02.
+Serithi Maybe thats a small simulation about our future, and maybe that's what they want us to do LOL (sorry about my english)
That was totally awesome. I am in awe. I like the cultural implications too, which seemed somewhat serendipitous if not downright ominous. Nice to see a fellow Filipino doing something like that.
And it seems that not many among our kind can do the same, considering what happens right now.
A share of our geniuses, as such with my man here, and Wesley So (chess grandmaster), to name 2, there will always be progressive minds
The editing on this must be appreciated.
Why is this video fucking terrifying?
Probably because of the satanic music, and because of how much time he spent on a Sims project. Seems like a sociopath.
It's terrifying because it's an inhuman, uniform, brutalist city that perfectly encapsulates the values of 20th century totalitarianism. It's amazing as a technical accomplishment but goddamn it would be a terrible place to live. It's like a fascist dream city and should be rendered in a tileset of slab-sided concrete box buildings.
Also that population graph at 6:40
ELDERLY CITIZENS ARE UNPRODUCTIVE. ALL CITIZENS MUST REPORT FOR TERMINATION AND RECYCLING AT AGE 55. THE STATE HAS PROVIDED ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES FOR YOUR COMFORT AS YOU AWAIT PROCESSING.
Ok well what the fuck was all that about?
Dickson Butts
Satanic music? oh please...
***** You know everybody gets tossed into a furnace at age 55 in Magnisanti, because they've grown beyond their most efficient working age, right?
This is one of those 'oh there is something Wrong with you' pieces of art and I mean that as a sincere compliment. There's something about a slightly deranged work that rewires your brain and it's great.
This is breathtaking yet horrifying.
Why this bring so much joy to us boys? Why?
We salute you Grandissimo Overlord.
Shall Magnasanti be mankind's gift to eternity.
I'm just happy the creator of Magnasanti focused his effort on Sim City and not real world regime change to topple world democracies and install totalitarian dictators who's only goal is peak efficiency and population density by any means necessary.
Wow, we're lucky this guy is playing SimCity. If he became a politician, he'd create a dystopia.
I just got recommended this after watching ambiguousamphibian's video on it. Not really what I was expecting, it's like a trailer for hell
Give this man Factorio and he'll stop eating
Anybody know the song that starts at 0:19? Most evil song I’ve ever heard in my life
This madlad was truly a visionary.
Dude oh my fucking god. I have never played one of these games but that seems really impressive. All the the planning, the interweaving components of the city for maximum effectiveness, and you actually based the designs off of historical and mathematical symbols. This is art at the apex of technicality.
brazen bull was art of engineering and genius too
It's 2019 and I keep on coming back to this video for some reason.
Yes
Because it is art. True art often transcends medium. This video will remain relevant for as long as there are humans to observe it.
Sublime, truely. I wanted to say Magnasanti inspired me to make something of similar scale, and reinforced that it was a worthwhile artistic endeavor. Thank you very much.
The fact there are several of these cities he made, and the meaning of their names, makes it seem like they exist in the same world, probably as part of some unimaginably efficient totalitarian empire, that spans both the entire globe and the entire future after its establishment.
Ah good, the nightmares have returned.
This is hellish. This man built hell. In Sim City!
what is the music that starts at 0:18
One of best video in Internet history.
thank you for preserving this, just saw a sim city 4 post and it reminded me of this
This very video surpassed the realm of internet lore and reached the wealth of common knowledge back in the day, it’s that deranged
Now do this on Cities: skylines!!!
Holy shit yes
+Michael Jesus Or even better; Simcity 4
Someone built the dead city of Rlyah in SimCity 3000? Good for them. Though I doubt they could do that with SimCity 2013, as that uses the awesome power of Glassbox. You know, the game whose AI is so advanced and demanding that the game needed to be always-online! Oh wait, nevermind.
When people ask what my favourite horror game is, I say Sim City 3000.
This is a human achievement
+very good Are we even sure ?...
Main song is "Apocalypse" by Jesper Kyd, not the song that tagged
Thank you. I had been looking for that sing since forever.
When watching this video all I can picture is thousands of Magnasanti soldiers goosestepping. Every single individual forced to chant the great eternal rulers name while epic orchestral music is playing in the background.
I'm imagining the soldiers marching down the streets from their central barracks every morning and evening to ensure that all citizens sing the anthem for the leader (of course, under the pain of death)
I...I came back to it again.
I feel like I've just got initiated into a satanic clan.
"oh fuck not again"
Poéme Électronique, maybe thats the song everyone is looking for, well atleast its simillar
That was so very interesting to watch and I know nearly nothing about Simcity...the planning and total understanding of the metrics of the game is impressive...it was also cool that you included the sketches and math...the music selection and city names were perfect in my opinion...very well done...years of time and knowledge condensed into 7 minutes on the dot which is also nice... I appreciate this a bunch...thank you