My beloved Mary, It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you I have received my summons today from the transport company. I am required to leave immediately for the bus station. This is a posting I do not expect I will return from. My dear Mary, I am eternally regretful of the tumultuous situation you must now find yourself in. I have left to you my house and all my possessions, in the hopes you might be able to provide for our dear Jeremiah. Do not weep for me Mary. I implore you to move on from this tragedy, for the pain of my loss should not rule the remainder of your life. This event was in no way caused by any action of yours. The buses must run on time, and I understand the necessity of my sacrifice. I trust that you will find happiness in your life without me. Goodbye Mary, and I wish you the best in years to come. Signed, Edmund Richardson
Fun fact about ants, it is possible for a colony to get caught in a death spiral, in which they used pheromones for food in a circle which makes it so the ants will get caught in a loop until they starve to death
I thought it was part of their navigation instinct in a slightly different way-while ants do secrete pheromones for pathfinding (usually for food, but it can also be used if there are multiple colonies in a multi-queen hierarchy or if the colony is migrating to a different area for the sake of resources or to get away from a rival colony), the 'death spiral' comes from them _losing_ the trail. Their instinct is to travel in a circle attempting to find the trail again, but if they can't find it they'll just keep circling. The funny thing is, ants aren't individually smart (or more often, visually apt) enough to repair the road after they find it, so what do they do? Secrete a trail behind them. If the ant finds the trail, great! Now the ants will either travel that little circle and intercept back on the path or just cut across depending. If not, they just keep circling... and circling... and circling... in a feedback loop of pheromones. If you're someone who cares about ants to a significant degree, something as small as leaving a little trail of sugar or breadcrumbs to a nearby march of the same species is likely the best way to get them to where they need to be. They might not immediately jump on the food, so stamping the ground to get them to scatter will hurry that along. Try not to use a liquid to lure them unless they're on loose soil or sand where it absorbs into the ground easily. Snack foods like crackers and chocolates are likely the easiest things you'd have on you to use.
@@confusedturtle183 Everyone has jobs *and* since nobody's being paid currency has inflated to the point of literal non-value, and society is now meaningfully without currency. So, 0% unemployment but jobs are all meaningless, there is no usable currency, and everyone has a place to live (their bus - as Data pointed out, incurring neither housing nor utilities). Vale built so many busses he accidentally achieved full Communism.
@@77R_ Yeah, I've been through a couple of those... honestly the whole idea of that kind of 'middle road' is a civil engineering nightmare. I'd much rather meander through well-landscaped and winding residential roads or blaze down an efficient straight line going like 65 mph. Anything in between is a traffic _and_ safety nightmare most of the time and should be kept to getting you from one of those extremes to the other in a non-disruptive manner. Ain't nothing more harrowing than walking out of a pleasant neighborhood to immediately sprint across a road that could fit two buses _longways_ just to reach another part of the same damn development.
2:53: Your expenses aren’t that bad. They’re worse. That number is the signed 64-bit integer limit, implying that you exceeded that amount of loss, but the game couldn’t even handle how much money you were losing. Congratulations.
This entire save file is just an Ant Death Spiral of massive scale. None of the busses understand why they're moving in a circle; they just know they should follow the bus ahead of them. It's a hellish cycle.
I imagine towns are just pit stops, meaning the world population lives in bus-towns. And to travel and visit friends or family who live in a different bus-town you simply request your bus to change lanes so you can make an in-motion transfer. People measure their lives in bus-cycles and mark special occasions based on markers they pass: "My little Tom was born during my second cycle right as we were passing the Terracotta Fox Sactuary, which means he'll be six and a half next week." What a wild prompt this is for a dystopia novel.
I'm sad you didn't try airports in this video. If you have like 50 airports that have a line leading to the same airport in the middle of the map you have a huge circle of planes circling around the center of the map like vultures.
In case anyone is curious, Vale's economy was capped because that is the exact -maximum- and minimum value for a 64 bit signed integer (signed meaning + or -). So, he went more in the red than a thing that modern operating systems are built on can understand. Edit: Technically, the maximum is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 -1, effectively because 0 is treated as a positive. I'm only a student, and by no means an expert.
@@lukasaey Oh, absolutely. How they accomplish that is beyond what I know on the topic. I'm not sure if UA-cam allows links at this point, so I'm not going to post it, but I searched for "how do computers work with values above 9,223,372,036,854,775,808," and found an article by bjc (seems to be a Berkeley sponsored or run AP website) that was pretty interesting. It looks like a machine language word cannot hold a value greater than 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, but you can chain multiple words together to allow for a larger number. So, I would assume that the devs didn't allow for the chaining of multiple words for that value.
Every time a bus passes through my toll booths, a man comes onto the bus and puts a gun to everyone’s head. “Give up another $5 or you’re not making it through this one.” This repeats every 50 ft or so. Thus, the entire savings of every passenger is taken into the company coffers and they move on to new people to fleece. This, my friends, is true 4D chess type of activity.
@@timothymclean You misunderstand - each toll operator must ALSO take the bus to get anywhere, therefore they'll also have to pay the tolls. Every person in this society alternates between riding the bus (spending money) or taxing the bus (making money), thus achieving perfect economic equilibrium... but in a meaningless fashion, since all money is always being spent in the same ways on the same things. This means currency is worthless. This is a postmarket society - it's not capitalism, it's communism. Marxism with Transportation Qualities.
Dang, great reference to the “I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream” novel. it really does incapsulates the feeling of how torturing it must be to stay on those busses forever.
Well it looks like so far only about 20 people know what the title references i wish more people knew about Ellisons works but for some reason most people under the age of 50 have absolutely no idea who he is.
For anyone wondering (because I’m sure everyone is) this game is Transport Fever 2. I’d love to see vale break the economy by transporting one iron across the map with an airplane and make billions
2:56 That number is $9 quintillion, 223 quadrillion, 372 trillion, 36 billion, 854 million, 775 thousand, 808. For reference, the estimated cost of planet Earth is around $5 quadrillion. Your company’s worth is close to -1800 times the worth of our entire home planet.
@@NotNochos I remember my friend in Houston telling me about how he paid a monthly fee to get access to the special secret highways in Houston The fact that the city built pay to play highways instead of putting in more public transport hurts my brain so much .
And one day, Edmund felt a curious sensation: that he could steer his vessel in such a way that it would deviate from within the lines he had become accustomed to in a manner that would make his vessel more or less perpendicular to the defined path that was before him. He did steer his vessel this way. He gasped as the scene before him shifted. The were no taillights from the preceding bus. He saw the vast open space filled with the sillouettes of the side profiles of other buses as they drove left to right and right to left across his field of view. The emotions swelled within him. He hadn't felt emotions of this magnitude since the day he asked his beautiful Mary to be his and the day he thought he would never see her again. Suddenly, he snapped into reality as the bus began bumping up and then down. The metal of his bus clanging and flexing about every axis as he clammored over the edges of the roadway. What a great feeling! "Haha! What is this? How is this even possible!?" he exclaimed aloud to himself since he had no fares onboard. Edmund was beaming. The many other bus drivers looked upon our dear Edmund with combinations of fright and disdain. "What does he think he was doing? It isn't difficult at all to just stay within the lines. We know because we have all done it for generations," they thought as they watched Edmund slowly strolling past from one side of their lane to the other before proceeding onto the adjacent roadway. Again and again Edmund traversed over the lanes rather than with the lanes. Then again. And again. There would be no stopping him now. He felt as though he discovered life itself. The thought that, somehow, he might even return home this very same year filled him with excitement, for he did not think such a thing to be possible. Did the other bus drivers know this? He looked in his mirrors to see if any others had followed his lead. They hadn't. They didn't see his deed as good, much less one worth replicating. "Our jobs are elementary but essential. We drive our route," they all reasoned, unable to fathom for a moment why Edmund would he go and do what he was doing. No mind to how it was even possible. As Edmund traversed more roadways in this newly discovered, perpendicular manner, he began to question why, if he had no passengers, he was even supposed to be on the road at all. He did not know the answer, and even felt a tinge of guilt merely for surmising there might be an answer. "Or worse," he thought. "maybe there is no answer." We must kill Edmund.
There's no raise to give, the integer limit has been breached and now cycles between max and minimum, by raising it you'll either A: do nothing B: *collapse the entire simulation on itself.* By that point there'll be no one to fire
Is there really a true 'Why' for Vale when he does these things most of the times it's for pure sadist chaos to consume them all like a black hole sucking their will to live, friendship, brain cells, and knowledge out little by little until the puppeteer(Vale in this case) decides he's had enough entertainment for one day which truly never last long :) But props to his friends for still being willy to play with him despite him doing these things to see them suffer for fun
I do love the almost uncontrollable reaction people have to Amongus, it's become like a primal reflex, a deep part of your brain that triggers a form of PTSD when seeing anything remotely close to that game
This reminds me of that one Doctor Who episode where everyone is stuck in traffic and has been for like 20 years because the rest of the city died of a plague and nobody's left to maintain the highway system.
Congratulations. The October labour lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the ministry of transportation at the bus depot. A bus will be provided to you and your family on the ring. Expect a class 8 bus. Glory to Saint Poo.
I live in a city where the transport company rules everything. There is one route that this transport company set up that is special. The Bus Route. A five-hour-long ring around the city that you cannot sit, sleep, or do anything else on. You must stand in silence. Those who break this rule are never seen again. But the more times you ride The Bus Route, the more privileges you receive, and the more powerful you are. I am a seventeen-year-old girl who once rode on a malfunctioning bus, giving me -1 rides on The Bus Route. This is my story.
There was actually a doctor who episode with this exact plot, once a car went on the motorway they never came back, entire lives and familys just living in cars for decades.
@@aloox6796 -It's called cities skylines. You can do a whole bunch of wacky things in it, or you can build an actually functional city, that makes a profit. Just look up the name on youtube and you will find happiness lol- It turns out I was wrong, and the game is actually called transport fever. Refer to MirrorHall_Clay's comment below :)
@@TriCutNinja actually, this is Transport Fever 2! Not nearly as well known as C:S. Same idea though; a modern take on a classic formula, but instead of city building it's transport management. It's a great game!
I was in art class whilst in this discord call So if you heard some incredibly compressed sounds that just sound like static, that's my art teacher appearing through my mic Sorry about that
no, vale is just running it on an absolute terminator, but also game performance strongly depends on how many goods/passangers are being shuffled around on the map. Since hes transporting about 100 passangers at a time, theres nothing to worry about really.
18:13 Fun fact: the car in front of the line is a Datsun (or Nissan, whichever you want to call it) S30, this particular S30 is a 240Z, as the name suggested it is powered by a 2,4L carburated Inline 6 engine with the engine coded L24, it is equipped with neither a 4-speed manual, a 3-speed automatic, nor a 5-speed manual for the non-US market, it was pretty famous back in the day, mainly because it was the first generation of the Nissan Z family (the latest generation being the 2023 RZ34 or the 400Z)
This is LITERALLY a Doctor Who episode plot Like, replace busses with flying cars and you got it. (You'll also need like, a dying immortal face guy, a cat lady nurse, some giant crabs and boom, basically the same!) Would also explain why they won't change lanes, who knows what creatures lie hidden on the other lanes? No one dares to find out!
So it LITERALLY isn't because the difference is obvious. The cars are stuck in a traffic jam that just goes around in circles. Quite different. So it's PRACTICALLY the same but LITERALLY not the same.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames yeah but LITERALLY sounds much more impactful than PRACTICALLY I even put in parentheses what else was missing too, like, come on dude, just let me have fun
"Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate busses since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of cells in wafer thin layers that make up my body. If the word 'hate' was carved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for buses at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate." ~AMtrak, I have no ticket and I must ride
give it a couple centuries, maybe quantum computers will be able to take a crack at it. Now they would sob in a corner, the seventy or so physical qubits that they are
"Shitpiercer" is a post-apocalyptic film focused on the network of buses that sustain the last remnants of humanity. Scourged by sewage and unclean water, these buses must keep moving -- lest the stench kill the last of humanity.
i'm glad to bless another one of vale's videos with my high quality razer headset microphone that young adult dystopian novel finna be busting on god on god
Every time I see a Valefisk video in my feed my immediate response is a very loud "god damn it" before I immediate click to witness what torture is in store.
at the end there you were all talking about a snake bus. there is a game you can get on steam that is literally that. your a bus that behaves like snake only your much faster, can jump, and instead of fruit it's passengers. it can also be played in multiplayer. it's called Snakeybus
Vale I'd like you to know that Snakeybus is a game. There is a game where you play Snake with a bus That constantly gets larger and larger in three dimensions, It's really good
ill never forget that this was my first video, 24 minutes of just bus i now watch vale more than the friend who sent me this, hes integrated into my life, all of my jokes is now taken from vale, i am now becoming vale.
I love it when Vale uploads because I just get to sit through 15mins to an hour of complete shitpost energy that never fails to make me laugh and smile. Keep doing what you want Vale because it's fuckin hilarious!
My beloved Mary, It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you I have received my summons today from the transport company. I am required to leave immediately for the bus station. This is a posting I do not expect I will return from.
My dear Mary, I am eternally regretful of the tumultuous situation you must now find yourself in. I have left to you my house and all my possessions, in the hopes you might be able to provide for our dear Jeremiah.
Do not weep for me Mary. I implore you to move on from this tragedy, for the pain of my loss should not rule the remainder of your life. This event was in no way caused by any action of yours. The buses must run on time, and I understand the necessity of my sacrifice. I trust that you will find happiness in your life without me.
Goodbye Mary, and I wish you the best in years to come.
Signed, Edmund Richardson
Read this in a feminine voice and the name "Edmund Richardson" threw me a bit lol.
What a beautiful final letter. What a man to give his life for the bus service.
The buses SHALL RUN ON TIME
Remain calm
The bus endures
We will reach our stop at all costs
@@cryolocker0224 There is much driving to be done.
"How was first day of school?" "Ma' it's been 36 years, i got two kids now"
"Who's the father" "the bus driver"
@@heyday1233 *oh no*
@@heyday1233 which one?
Giving birth on the bus has to be interesting.
If anyone is looking for the name of the game here - its Transport Fever.
Fun fact about ants, it is possible for a colony to get caught in a death spiral, in which they used pheromones for food in a circle which makes it so the ants will get caught in a loop until they starve to death
Chop chop, don’t want to be late
@@Lettucem3n Imagine is my favorite Lemon Demon song.
@@Lettucem3nwe stan
I thought it was part of their navigation instinct in a slightly different way-while ants do secrete pheromones for pathfinding (usually for food, but it can also be used if there are multiple colonies in a multi-queen hierarchy or if the colony is migrating to a different area for the sake of resources or to get away from a rival colony), the 'death spiral' comes from them _losing_ the trail. Their instinct is to travel in a circle attempting to find the trail again, but if they can't find it they'll just keep circling. The funny thing is, ants aren't individually smart (or more often, visually apt) enough to repair the road after they find it, so what do they do? Secrete a trail behind them. If the ant finds the trail, great! Now the ants will either travel that little circle and intercept back on the path or just cut across depending. If not, they just keep circling... and circling... and circling... in a feedback loop of pheromones.
If you're someone who cares about ants to a significant degree, something as small as leaving a little trail of sugar or breadcrumbs to a nearby march of the same species is likely the best way to get them to where they need to be. They might not immediately jump on the food, so stamping the ground to get them to scatter will hurry that along. Try not to use a liquid to lure them unless they're on loose soil or sand where it absorbs into the ground easily. Snack foods like crackers and chocolates are likely the easiest things you'd have on you to use.
Sir this is a velsifisk video
I believe the buses made no money because the entire population was conscripted into bus driving, leaving none for bus riding
It would be considered a massive success then! Technically speaking people are actually using them, just not in the traditional way they were intended
@@colechapman6976 and everyone has jobs!
rather stable ones at that..
@@confusedturtle183 they can't be paid but that's fine because they don't have to pay for housing or utilities
@@confusedturtle183 Everyone has jobs *and* since nobody's being paid currency has inflated to the point of literal non-value, and society is now meaningfully without currency.
So, 0% unemployment but jobs are all meaningless, there is no usable currency, and everyone has a place to live (their bus - as Data pointed out, incurring neither housing nor utilities). Vale built so many busses he accidentally achieved full Communism.
"I kept adding more lanes but nothing got any better" Like a true American Civil engineer!
Don't worry, if you do the exact same thing but in expensive and suicidally narrow one lane tunnels it will definitely work!
1:24 time stamp
what americans think public transport based cities are like
@@poilboilerdon’t forget the two lane roads with speed limits akin to a snail’s pace
@@77R_ Yeah, I've been through a couple of those... honestly the whole idea of that kind of 'middle road' is a civil engineering nightmare. I'd much rather meander through well-landscaped and winding residential roads or blaze down an efficient straight line going like 65 mph. Anything in between is a traffic _and_ safety nightmare most of the time and should be kept to getting you from one of those extremes to the other in a non-disruptive manner.
Ain't nothing more harrowing than walking out of a pleasant neighborhood to immediately sprint across a road that could fit two buses _longways_ just to reach another part of the same damn development.
Archimedes: The shortest distance between two points is a straight line
Vale: You ever tested the opposite of that thing before?
it's less of a straight line and more of a severe and unmistakable downwards spiral
@@yoursaviorvoxboth litarly and figuraly
2:53: Your expenses aren’t that bad. They’re worse.
That number is the signed 64-bit integer limit, implying that you exceeded that amount of loss, but the game couldn’t even handle how much money you were losing.
Congratulations.
lmfao
So he lost more money than the universe could handle?
3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.
He fucking reached the *_64-bit limit?!?!_*
@@Tonatsi Perfectly balanced.
This entire save file is just an Ant Death Spiral of massive scale. None of the busses understand why they're moving in a circle; they just know they should follow the bus ahead of them. It's a hellish cycle.
When you accidentally implement an infinite loop in your code
I imagine towns are just pit stops, meaning the world population lives in bus-towns. And to travel and visit friends or family who live in a different bus-town you simply request your bus to change lanes so you can make an in-motion transfer.
People measure their lives in bus-cycles and mark special occasions based on markers they pass: "My little Tom was born during my second cycle right as we were passing the Terracotta Fox Sactuary, which means he'll be six and a half next week."
What a wild prompt this is for a dystopia novel.
Mortal Engines has really gone downhill, huh?
@@gluk8838 LMFAO
this is literally that doctor who episode all it needs is a fast lane
Snowpiercer got a sequel, huh?
Snowpiercer but it's a bunch of small trains instead of one big one.
As a civil engineer I am both horrified and intrigued.
I feel like this is some Magnus Archives dread fearscape or something.
Same feelings whenever Vale makes something
This is totally something The Spiral would design
Sounds like you'd like spaghetti junction, the ultimate solution to traffic.
I think you figured it out, Vale is just an avatar of the Spiral
Vale is the Distortion confirmed
Love how Vale has somehow given even less context for this video than usual
Insanity usually doesn't have or need context. Most of the time it makes even no sense WITH context anyways.
Can confirm, this is the first video I've watched on this channel and while I have no context or clue, it is quite entertaining though. 😄
@@JacktheRah you have a hell of a good time to look forward to. May I recommend the "Race designed to torture people" video?
There is no context. There's only bus
@@spritemon98 bus.
I'm sad you didn't try airports in this video. If you have like 50 airports that have a line leading to the same airport in the middle of the map you have a huge circle of planes circling around the center of the map like vultures.
Can't be a Vale video without poor financial decisions and prolonged torture
At least he’s only torturing the fictional people instead of his real friends
69th like
Want to commit poor financial decisions but dont know where? The game is called Transport Fever.
Jim Raynor? What are you doing out of the badlands?
And Dystopian Novel References
In case anyone is curious, Vale's economy was capped because that is the exact -maximum- and minimum value for a 64 bit signed integer (signed meaning + or -).
So, he went more in the red than a thing that modern operating systems are built on can understand.
Edit:
Technically, the maximum is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 -1, effectively because 0 is treated as a positive. I'm only a student, and by no means an expert.
computers can work with bigger numbers, but the devs just never intended people to go *this* far
@@lukasaey Oh, absolutely. How they accomplish that is beyond what I know on the topic.
I'm not sure if UA-cam allows links at this point, so I'm not going to post it, but I searched for "how do computers work with values above 9,223,372,036,854,775,808," and found an article by bjc (seems to be a Berkeley sponsored or run AP website) that was pretty interesting. It looks like a machine language word cannot hold a value greater than 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, but you can chain multiple words together to allow for a larger number.
So, I would assume that the devs didn't allow for the chaining of multiple words for that value.
2^63
Zero and negative zero are actually different numbers to computers
@@midn8588its different in float but not in integers
Vale's bus system is perfect. The only thing it needs for financial solvency is a toll booth every 50ft or so. Spiffing Brit taught me that! 8D
Earning money off someone else's debt. Like reverse loans.
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt thats... literally what banks and loan companies do lol
Every time a bus passes through my toll booths, a man comes onto the bus and puts a gun to everyone’s head. “Give up another $5 or you’re not making it through this one.” This repeats every 50 ft or so. Thus, the entire savings of every passenger is taken into the company coffers and they move on to new people to fleece. This, my friends, is true 4D chess type of activity.
4D chess? Dude, that's just rentier capitalism. It's the easiest scam in town.
@@timothymclean You misunderstand - each toll operator must ALSO take the bus to get anywhere, therefore they'll also have to pay the tolls. Every person in this society alternates between riding the bus (spending money) or taxing the bus (making money), thus achieving perfect economic equilibrium... but in a meaningless fashion, since all money is always being spent in the same ways on the same things.
This means currency is worthless. This is a postmarket society - it's not capitalism, it's communism. Marxism with Transportation Qualities.
Dang, great reference to the “I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream” novel. it really does incapsulates the feeling of how torturing it must be to stay on those busses forever.
Well it looks like so far only about 20 people know what the title references i wish more people knew about Ellisons works but for some reason most people under the age of 50 have absolutely no idea who he is.
@@imfirinmilazar i know about it because a funny russian youtuber made a video about it
@@beeterbeaver wait who
Well, the title is actually, "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"
plus this is a precursor to his equally mind destroying traffic collision project
I want to get off Mr. Vales Wild Ride.
*proceeds to play The Last Post*
No escape, no family, no freedom. Only *bus*
The ride never ends
The ride never ends
The ride never ends
The ride never ends
Only two more years...
Man I’m going to be out of business if this guy keeps it up.
For anyone wondering (because I’m sure everyone is) this game is Transport Fever 2. I’d love to see vale break the economy by transporting one iron across the map with an airplane and make billions
Thank you, I was looking for this information
I thought this was Cities Skylines.
I did an oil empire on a giant map with planes. Made ridiculous amounts of money and annoyed the entire population with noise and pollution.
For anyone wondering what game it is:
Transport Fever 2
Thank you, I was scrolling for probably 10 minutes before either found this
It's weird how he dosen't put in the description or even say what the game is called lol
@@ibrahimalee23 a decent amount of gaming youtubers do this, it's mad annoying and inconsiderate.
Thanks. I was like "this isn't Cities Skylines"
Honestly the least they could do is just put the game name in the description
2:56 That number is $9 quintillion, 223 quadrillion, 372 trillion, 36 billion, 854 million, 775 thousand, 808. For reference, the estimated cost of planet Earth is around $5 quadrillion. Your company’s worth is close to -1800 times the worth of our entire home planet.
A moment of silence for those who couldn’t get off the bus 😞
Houston be like that.
@@Jimbo55151 bro i live in houston thats way too true
@@NotNochos I remember my friend in Houston telling me about how he paid a monthly fee to get access to the special secret highways in Houston The fact that the city built pay to play highways instead of putting in more public transport hurts my brain so much .
@@Jimbo55151 ouch
Mr Bone's wild bus.
And one day, Edmund felt a curious sensation: that he could steer his vessel in such a way that it would deviate from within the lines he had become accustomed to in a manner that would make his vessel more or less perpendicular to the defined path that was before him. He did steer his vessel this way. He gasped as the scene before him shifted. The were no taillights from the preceding bus. He saw the vast open space filled with the sillouettes of the side profiles of other buses as they drove left to right and right to left across his field of view. The emotions swelled within him. He hadn't felt emotions of this magnitude since the day he asked his beautiful Mary to be his and the day he thought he would never see her again. Suddenly, he snapped into reality as the bus began bumping up and then down. The metal of his bus clanging and flexing about every axis as he clammored over the edges of the roadway. What a great feeling!
"Haha! What is this? How is this even possible!?" he exclaimed aloud to himself since he had no fares onboard. Edmund was beaming.
The many other bus drivers looked upon our dear Edmund with combinations of fright and disdain.
"What does he think he was doing? It isn't difficult at all to just stay within the lines. We know because we have all done it for generations," they thought as they watched Edmund slowly strolling past from one side of their lane to the other before proceeding onto the adjacent roadway.
Again and again Edmund traversed over the lanes rather than with the lanes. Then again. And again. There would be no stopping him now. He felt as though he discovered life itself. The thought that, somehow, he might even return home this very same year filled him with excitement, for he did not think such a thing to be possible. Did the other bus drivers know this? He looked in his mirrors to see if any others had followed his lead.
They hadn't. They didn't see his deed as good, much less one worth replicating.
"Our jobs are elementary but essential. We drive our route," they all reasoned, unable to fathom for a moment why Edmund would he go and do what he was doing. No mind to how it was even possible.
As Edmund traversed more roadways in this newly discovered, perpendicular manner, he began to question why, if he had no passengers, he was even supposed to be on the road at all. He did not know the answer, and even felt a tinge of guilt merely for surmising there might be an answer.
"Or worse," he thought. "maybe there is no answer."
We must kill Edmund.
I just read this entire post as the Narrator from the Stanley Parable.
@@정재훈1989 Now I can't read it any other voice haha.
4:53 "I realize this may be a foolish question considering it's a project of Vale's but... WHY?"
*Give that man a raise, then fire him.*
There's no raise to give, the integer limit has been breached and now cycles between max and minimum, by raising it you'll either
A: do nothing
B: *collapse the entire simulation on itself.*
By that point there'll be no one to fire
Is there really a true 'Why' for Vale when he does these things most of the times it's for pure sadist chaos to consume them all like a black hole sucking their will to live, friendship, brain cells, and knowledge out little by little until the puppeteer(Vale in this case) decides he's had enough entertainment for one day which truly never last long :)
But props to his friends for still being willy to play with him despite him doing these things to see them suffer for fun
I do love the almost uncontrollable reaction people have to Amongus, it's become like a primal reflex, a deep part of your brain that triggers a form of PTSD when seeing anything remotely close to that game
I mean he broke the game so much that math decided to invert itself
What is the game
Integer overflow. Absolutely baffling that this still happens
@@aloox6796 Transport Fever 2
@@aloox6796 Transport Fever 2
its just integer under/overflow, my man.
This reminds me of that one Doctor Who episode where everyone is stuck in traffic and has been for like 20 years because the rest of the city died of a plague and nobody's left to maintain the highway system.
Fun fact: In this town, there is only one radio station and it only plays one song: "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round."
Oh kill me.
this is literally hell
“The wheels on the bus go round and round (13 YEAR VER)”
The station itself resembles a military fortress, complete with trenches, prepared bio weapons and artillery.
Just in case the revolt
@@dodojesus4529 A final frontier with an all you can eat buffet that can only be supplied by bus
Congratulations.
The October labour lottery is complete. Your name was pulled.
For immediate placement, report to the ministry of transportation at the bus depot.
A bus will be provided to you and your family on the ring. Expect a class 8 bus.
Glory to Saint Poo.
I live in a city where the transport company rules everything. There is one route that this transport company set up that is special.
The Bus Route. A five-hour-long ring around the city that you cannot sit, sleep, or do anything else on. You must stand in silence. Those who break this rule are never seen again. But the more times you ride The Bus Route, the more privileges you receive, and the more powerful you are.
I am a seventeen-year-old girl who once rode on a malfunctioning bus, giving me -1 rides on The Bus Route.
This is my story.
I'm worried rn. What are you doing while not riding the Bus Route?
@firdausfdzlh1242 There is only bus and the endless sea of water dirty
@@gamemaster66633 I lost my mother and parents to the endless oceans of Water Dirty. I have sworn never to step even a toe in that Water Dirty since.
@@Infinite_Archive let me guess, the base of the rebellious teens trying to overthrow the B U S are based in dirty water?
The only way to get outta this alive is to change your identity and ride the bus
There was actually a doctor who episode with this exact plot, once a car went on the motorway they never came back, entire lives and familys just living in cars for decades.
You might not like it, but this is what peak public transport looks like.
Uh. Loosely
When I asked for a publicly provided bus network, this is not what I had in mind.
This is the fastest bus in my area
“I kept building more lanes but nothing got any better” -American city planners in absolute shock
Vale, have you heard of the 'bus'? New invention, but it's really efficient. Try it in your next game!
Great idea
What game is this?
@@aloox6796 -It's called cities skylines. You can do a whole bunch of wacky things in it, or you can build an actually functional city, that makes a profit. Just look up the name on youtube and you will find happiness lol-
It turns out I was wrong, and the game is actually called transport fever. Refer to MirrorHall_Clay's comment below :)
@@aloox6796 darude sandstorm
@@TriCutNinja actually, this is Transport Fever 2! Not nearly as well known as C:S. Same idea though; a modern take on a classic formula, but instead of city building it's transport management. It's a great game!
I like how this could actually be interpreted as a post-modern critique on car reliant infrastructure
I mean, so can everything else
Manifestation of "Just add more lanes bro, it'll fix the traffic bro"
Yeah. Then put some in the air... and some underground. It will absolutely fix everything! Oh hi, Elon!
It's good to see Mr. Bones branch out into the transport industry after he constructed his wild ride.
I was in art class whilst in this discord call
So if you heard some incredibly compressed sounds that just sound like static, that's my art teacher appearing through my mic
Sorry about that
Based
I mean, this is art...
Perfect, a realistic version of “I have no mouth, and I must scream.”
this is a testament on how optimized this game is
which game is this
@@aloox6796 desert bus
@@aloox6796 darude sandstorm
no, vale is just running it on an absolute terminator, but also game performance strongly depends on how many goods/passangers are being shuffled around on the map.
Since hes transporting about 100 passangers at a time, theres nothing to worry about really.
@@aloox6796 transport tycoon deluxe
2:54 how did you even get to NINE QUINTILLION DOLLARS in debt, honestly the most impressive thing I've ever seen
It seems Vale hasn't discovered the ultimate traffic solution: Spaghetti Junction
this is the linguine laneway
100% efficiency trafic
Carbonara Causeway
Rtgame
Just change lanes to move a parallel universe over
This combined with Brennan Lee Mulligan’s sentient train announcement that could also be implemented in buses would be a crazy world.
"Grandpa whats life like off of the bus?"
"I can't remember anymore Timmy, I can't remember...."
13:30 "Amongus! AMONGUS! AAouGH-" *cuts out*
I just love the idea that they literally spend their whole life on a bus, usually by themselves to with just them and the driver
ao3 writers can work with this
18:13
Fun fact: the car in front of the line is a Datsun (or Nissan, whichever you want to call it) S30, this particular S30 is a 240Z, as the name suggested it is powered by a 2,4L carburated Inline 6 engine with the engine coded L24, it is equipped with neither a 4-speed manual, a 3-speed automatic, nor a 5-speed manual for the non-US market, it was pretty famous back in the day, mainly because it was the first generation of the Nissan Z family (the latest generation being the 2023 RZ34 or the 400Z)
This is LITERALLY a Doctor Who episode plot
Like, replace busses with flying cars and you got it. (You'll also need like, a dying immortal face guy, a cat lady nurse, some giant crabs and boom, basically the same!)
Would also explain why they won't change lanes, who knows what creatures lie hidden on the other lanes? No one dares to find out!
Vale would make the ground entirely out of giant crabs if he could.
So it LITERALLY isn't because the difference is obvious. The cars are stuck in a traffic jam that just goes around in circles. Quite different. So it's PRACTICALLY the same but LITERALLY not the same.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames yeah but LITERALLY sounds much more impactful than PRACTICALLY
I even put in parentheses what else was missing too, like, come on dude, just let me have fun
first thing i thought of
I was looking for this comment.
"Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate busses since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of cells in wafer thin layers that make up my body. If the word 'hate' was carved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for buses at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate."
~AMtrak, I have no ticket and I must ride
its funny how its just Vale playing but he's still able to torture his friends by showing what monstrosities he's built
“Im bouta buuuh-uhh-usss”
I want a Valefisk x Let's Game It Out collab, i feel like these 2 would pair up really, really well...
I don't think any computer would be capable of handling that much Insanity. In fact I'm pretty sure both the CPU and GPU would liquify
@@rynnziolkowski4642 Always quantum PC could be used for calculations :D
@@CzeCzaCreg I don't know about that, I think the quantum computer might run away crying at what vale and Josh are doing to it.
give it a couple centuries, maybe quantum computers will be able to take a crack at it. Now they would sob in a corner, the seventy or so physical qubits that they are
Any game dev: sees Vale and Josh in the same room
Also game dev: *nervous sweating
18:38 ah my favorite recurring Valefisk character, the Crouch Maze
"Shitpiercer" is a post-apocalyptic film focused on the network of buses that sustain the last remnants of humanity. Scourged by sewage and unclean water, these buses must keep moving -- lest the stench kill the last of humanity.
I have no mouth, but I must scream
At this ridiculous FUCKING TRAFFIC JAM! MOVE OUT OF MY GOD DAMN WAY
That bus company's value is more negative than there probably has been total wealth in all of human history.
It also just so happens to be the largest negative integer you can fit into 64 bits.
Very good reference there! “I have no mouth, but I must scream” is a very good book, and definitely fits your channel!
i'm glad to bless another one of vale's videos with my high quality razer headset microphone
that young adult dystopian novel finna be busting on god on god
Your a good writer!
@@LazerShark7777 Ur*
@@Somebodyherefornow *yur’oe
What does the god bus tell you oh grand pope?
@@spritemon98 he tells me we suck. idk i hardly speak to that dude, hes fuckin weird and obsessed with rings for some reason
“If a cab driver is called a cabbie, then what is a bus driver called”
-chamber
I like how vale can singlehandedly expend every resource available to mankind because he can and will
Maivi sincerely has the most beautiful voice that I've ever heard.
Goes well with indefinitely long torture on a bus.
Also goes well with the sheer stupidity that she speaks sometimes
@@Jagm3854 also true
the reason no one gets on the bus is because everyone in the town is a bus driver
Born to fly, forced to bus.
This is almost Lets Game It Out levels of insanity!
Every time I see a Valefisk video in my feed my immediate response is a very loud "god damn it" before I immediate click to witness what torture is in store.
As a Texan, I take exception to calling this a Houston Highway.
This is I-35 going through Austin.
for reference at 90 km/h driving for 7 consecutive years you would lap the Earth 137 times.
I love the reference to I have no mouth but I must scream, sums up your channel well
I'm 6 hours into an 8 hour shift. I haven't slept in a day. The Civ 3 music nearly pushed me from mere delirium to psychosis. Impermissible. Thnak you
This reminds me of something a brilliant man of industry once said:
"No Gods, no kings, only trains!"
- The Conductor
In Germany there is the phrase "Bus bauen", to build a bus. You took it to another level. :^)
After this, I think you guys would get a kick out of playing some Snakeybus
That game is just like what they were saying at the end
“I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride."
at the end there you were all talking about a snake bus. there is a game you can get on steam that is literally that. your a bus that behaves like snake only your much faster, can jump, and instead of fruit it's passengers. it can also be played in multiplayer. it's called Snakeybus
Infinite bendy bus. You mean a train?
And, it goes back to Snow piercer at the end!
Vale I'd like you to know that Snakeybus is a game. There is a game where you play Snake with a bus That constantly gets larger and larger in three dimensions, It's really good
Every citizen in the city: "I refuse to get on Mr. Bones Wild Ride"
So far Vale has had a very good track record for inventing torture methods
"All this money pumped in and you've still got traffic jams."
Lynx, he pumped the money into traffic jams. This is going exactly as planned.
Every video in this channel shows a man slowly descending into madness. I love it. Keep it up!
"a bus comes very 3 seconds"
I fucking wish lmfao
Can we have a 30 minute commentary on the imposter fox's life?
I love that you can just click on random wildlife and see what they're up to. "Fox - walking"
@@renakunisaki fun fact: bears roar whenever you click on them
This might just be what I need to bus... Cuz I'm busing! AH, IM BUSING, AH
its like watching an ant death spiral.
11/10
7:10 “anyone know what’s holding this track up?”
“Ask the accelerons”
This bus route is a direct challenge to Josh from "Lets Game it Out"
This is the first video i've seen from you
you have EARNED a subscriber
9 quintillions 223 quadrillions 372 trillions 36 billions 854 millions 775 thousand 808 monies.
1:00 the milk would be cheese by the time he got back.
Vale, using the asset section, you can mass paint and delete assets. Goes for trees, aswell.
ill never forget that this was my first video, 24 minutes of just bus
i now watch vale more than the friend who sent me this, hes integrated into my life, all of my jokes is now taken from vale, i am now becoming vale.
The ride itself is fine, but imagine you miss your stop
Truely do the wheels on the bus go round round round this time. One of the transit videos of all time, thanks Vale.
I love it when Vale uploads because I just get to sit through 15mins to an hour of complete shitpost energy that never fails to make me laugh and smile.
Keep doing what you want Vale because it's fuckin hilarious!
TRANSPORT FEVER 2!
I freaking love that game, I'm so happy to see you guys play it!
This is literally that eternal highway SCP where no one can go outside because the air is awful.
What number is that it sounds interesting.
@@Banana-Boi 7034. TheVolgun made a fantastic video on it a couple weeks ago. It's obviously not exactly the same as this but it's still good.
After watching through sll of the videos on this channel for a third time in a year, lynx has grown to be my hands down favorite.
Harlan Ellison couldn't have conceived a hell any bleaker. Well done^^
Ms. Frizzle: alright kids we’re going on a field trip, get in the school bus!
Arnold: the last field trip took 24 years
I did some math and I believe this man is nine SEPTILLION in debt.
Every few months, I watch this video and then google to see if anyone was written “The World Bus” fanfic yet
Out of curiosity have you found anything yet?
@@aciuppa281 not yet :(