The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)

99 pointsposted 9 months ago
by Tomte
(vice.com)

26 Comments

dang

9 months ago

Discussed at the time:

The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864 - May 2010 (43 comments)

freeamz

9 months ago

Thanks for the point dang. Is it just me find it disturbing that the original article's referencing page is gone, and now we had to go to wayback machine to get a copy.

A bit off topic are there any BitTorrent/ipfs effort to archive archive.org ?

dang

9 months ago

archive.org is definitely not preferred when there are other places to access an old article. It's ok when there isn't.

Simply googling the title is usually enough to find an article's new home, when there is one.

jimkleiber

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

One of the yt comments led you back to OP's submitted article?

jimkleiber

9 months ago

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 :-/

echelon_musk

9 months ago

> Are you a practicing Buddhist?

> Former Buddhist.

kgwxd

9 months ago

No, I'm not a practicing Buddhist. I've perfected it.

asimovfan

9 months ago

Former buddhist = didn't get it

satisfice

9 months ago

Buddha is a former Buddhist.

asimovfan

9 months ago

A false statement by every measure. Moreover the guy calls himself a "freethinker" now apparently.

neuroelectron

9 months ago

It's been a long time since I've last seen the youtube video this references. It had a huge impact on me but in a way I never tried to quantify. It really is a temple in the classical sense of the term.

hnpolicestate

9 months ago

The 5 minute city.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF

9 months ago

Why with a few more lanes for cars we could eradicate cities entirely and drive all day every day

rightbyte

9 months ago

It also would solve the parking problem.

There is something beautiful and dystopic over this.

I wonder when self driving mobile homes will be banned in NY ...

deeThrow94

9 months ago

[flagged]

tomhow

9 months ago

This kind of comment breaks the HN guidelines, particularly these ones...

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Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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deeThrow94

9 months ago

If you can't learn from a shallow dismissal, that's your problem.

tomhow

9 months ago

This site is for people who want to engage in curious conversation. It’s not for venting or sneering. The guidelines have served the site well for many years. You don’t need to comment if you don’t want to keep your comments within the guidelines.