The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)
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·May 2, 2025dang
Discussed at the time:
The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864 - May 2010 (43 comments)
jimkleiber
One of the YouTube comments led me to the VICE interview with the creator, Vincent Ocasla: https://www.vice.com/en/article/q-a-vincent-ocasla-the-22-ye...
> 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.
CGMthrowaway
One of the yt comments led you back to OP's submitted article?
jimkleiber
Lol, wow, just goes to show that I tend to read the comments more than the article. Caught red-handed and face-palmed.
On the bright side, I included the paragraph that I found most enlightening (or endarkening?)
Thank you for letting me know :-/
MrGinkgo
filmmaker John Wilson (host of the HBO Show how to with John Wilson) made a documentary inspired by Magnasanti: https://vimeo.com/238073511
echelon_musk
> Are you a practicing Buddhist?
> Former Buddhist.
kgwxd
No, I'm not a practicing Buddhist. I've perfected it.
asimovfan
Former buddhist = didn't get it
hnpolicestate
The 5 minute city.
In case the youtube embedding doesn't work, here's the original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU