The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)

I'm English, but when I was twelve I lived in North Carolina and went to an inner-city school a bit like that one in The Wire. I only have two memories of that time. One, of police arresting one of my classmates in the middle of Social Studies, (I never saw him again), and two, of technology lessons that consisted of us sitting two to a computer, playing the original Sim City; presumably to stop us fighting each other for one hour a day. Advertisement That was the first time I played Sim City. Later, I got my first computer with Sim City 2000. I dicked around with it for about a week before realizing I'd rather gun down Nazis in Spear of Destiny, than thanklessly lay down four square miles of sewage piping for silent citizens. Not Vincent Ocasla though. Vince spent four years wallowing in equations and graph paper building a totalitarian Sim City hellscape called Magnasanti, racking up a population of six million and claiming to beat an otherwise unbeatable game. Watch this and get ... Read full article.