153 - Cities: Skylines (feat. Justin Roczniak)
Added 2024-08-28 06:00:06 +0000 UTCJustin Roczniak (Well There’s Your Problem) joins the lads from some good, old-fashioned city planning as they cover Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive’s 2015 city building simulator: Cities: Skylines. Topics include the origins of city building sims, the many pleasures of Ulm, and the horrors of fully-rendered teeth in a game where you just want to optimize traffic flow.
Justin Roczniak: Twitter // Youtube
Well There’s Your Problem is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Cities: Skylines. Colossal Order. 2015.
Cities: Skylines 2. Colossal Order. 2023.
Urban Dynamics. Jay W. Forrester. 1969.
Playing Cities Skylines 2 While Getting Dangled From a Crane
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “Andy Phillips Presenting to the Doodleburg Town Council On the Eve of the Great ‘Fill The Hole’ Construction Project, July 15th, 2044 ” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Starring A.J. Ditty as “Councilman Mancouncil” and David Armstrong as “Andy Phillips” and “Charles Foster Chungus”.
Comments
So the horse meat scandal was a case of insufficient supply chain quality control. IKEA meatballs are store branding for a large domestic grocery distributor, but neither party knew they were selling horse meat. The distributor eventually repeated the tests and confirmed they'd detected horse meat as well, but no concrete explanation of how it happened ever got released. So most likely wholesaler slacked on looking into the people they bought their beef from and got one or more faulty batches that ended up in the final food before it was noticed. Eventually their supplier was tracked down and claimed they'd been tricked in turn by their butcher, who claimed to also have been tricked by someone else. A veritable matryoshka of "ain't my responsibility". No charges ended up being filed against any party, though. Well there's your horse corner
Elaine Åhlfeldt
2024-09-16 22:19:42 +0000 UTCEuropa Universailis also had a DLC that broke records for negative reviews on steam. It broke the game in a literal sense for a while. So great track record on Paradox's part there. EU5 is in development and hopefully it won't kill all of our computers on launch. I do want to see what happens if AJ tries to play EU4 though. I think it may just break him so it is probably wise to avoid.
Joshua G
2024-09-04 03:15:41 +0000 UTCreminds me of a spooky little fiction pod called “well there’s nour vroblem” …the spookiness is mostly OSHA violations
Lars Arney
2024-08-31 06:36:57 +0000 UTCYa'll might find this edifying in a ridiculous sort of way but as a long time Paradox Map Game Enjoyer I fully believe the reason Ulm was a DLC for CO's earlier game is because there's a meme about Ulm being the most gloriously powerful empire of all time in what is arguably Paradox's "main" game, Europa Universalis.
Donald
2024-08-31 02:17:44 +0000 UTCwelcome to yight pale
BrianAlflordIsGoodActually
2024-08-30 07:54:13 +0000 UTCi like how it was widely considered a complete mystery where the hum in sw detroit was coming from until they finally shut down zug island for covid. who'd a thunk it
BrianAlflordIsGoodActually
2024-08-30 07:45:33 +0000 UTCHoly Schmitt! I live in Ulm. I'm writing this a few hundred meters from the Münster. What are the chances? I feel so seen right now.
Wilko
2024-08-30 06:44:24 +0000 UTCThe one in my grandma's home town had a drink named the DWI. It had everclear in it lmao
Jon
2024-08-30 01:11:14 +0000 UTCAs an exhange student in Louisiana once my host family friends went to a drive-through Frozen Margarita place and I was like "I just don't understand how this is legal? Is it not inviting people to drink and drive?" And they were like "No, no. Seem They put a little piece of tape over the straw-hole."
Ronin Fredricson
2024-08-29 21:28:20 +0000 UTCdonoteat01? Oh hell yeah, makes great videos
Dergon
2024-08-29 15:50:25 +0000 UTCInstead of writing “Ulm mentioned”, I will give you this classic german tongue twister: “In Ulm und um Ulm und um Ulm herum, wachsen Ulmen.” I also recommend the classic song “In Ulm und um Ulm und um Ulm herum” by Gus Backus. The song is about finding love in Ulm and also finding out the girl from Ulm, that you are dating, already has a “Supermann”-Boyfriend.
David Vetten
2024-08-29 11:52:36 +0000 UTCMaxis was going to make a Mars colonization/city builder game called Sim Mars back in the late 90s, but it got cancelled because The Sims was a runaway success and they put all of their focus on making expansion content for it. 😞
Bungerklaus
2024-08-29 11:11:28 +0000 UTCthey mention Caesar and Pharaoh but not the apotheosis of the series, Emperor. A game so good and well balanced I still play it from time to time to relax and once used it to get into the pants of an anthropology grad student. who has been borrowing my copy of it for the last 15 years
John Leavitt
2024-08-29 04:35:17 +0000 UTCUlm's Hat DLC just announced for Cities in Motion!
Gorbant
2024-08-28 22:07:50 +0000 UTCNow Brian just needs to go on WTYP – someone needs to make them finally do a Church Rock episode
Lars Arney
2024-08-28 21:16:31 +0000 UTCI don’t think I have the right kind of neurodivergence for this game
Marty Shambles
2024-08-28 19:21:14 +0000 UTCThe post about the stream here on Patreon now links to the VOD. If I stop being lazy, I'll try to slap a highlights reel together
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-08-28 17:04:10 +0000 UTCRevelation today: Roz is a fan of Classic Who
John Her
2024-08-28 16:47:25 +0000 UTCIs Brian’s CS stream upload anywhere? I wasn’t able to watch but would love to see Odyssey be built/destroyed
Soup Dealer
2024-08-28 15:13:23 +0000 UTCI use so many mods and DLCs for Cities: Skylines I forget how bland the base game actually is. What would I do without 5-10 district styles from the Steam workshop?
Nemo
2024-08-28 14:58:23 +0000 UTCIt's an entirely different kind of city simulator.
Elah
2024-08-28 14:32:20 +0000 UTCI went to a Methodist preschool (no one in my family is Methodist, I think they just had an opening) and they didn't expell the kid who bit me.
BarFly
2024-08-28 10:57:03 +0000 UTCRocz on TWoAPW is my Deadpool vs. Wolverine. I think the Liam episode should be about Eras Tour
Elah
2024-08-28 10:50:13 +0000 UTCFYI The UFO was lifted wholesale from the Doctor Who Serial "City of Death" (arguably the best classic Who serial), not "The Prison Planet" (which does not exist}.
vercingix
2024-08-28 10:48:52 +0000 UTCYou should have him back to talk about that other game, Workers and Resources ( if he's heard of it )
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-08-28 10:44:06 +0000 UTCIt's a podcast collab, without slides!
Josep C.
2024-08-28 06:44:48 +0000 UTCAt last, a podcast without slides!
S-lappin
2024-08-28 06:03:56 +0000 UTC
