Can I Survive 100 Years of Tsunamis in Cities: Skylines?

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  • Опубліковано 28 бер 2023
  • I tried to survive by building a city that could withstand one tsunami every year for 100 years in Cities: Skylines. Start out in a pit below sea level and move upward...
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  • @DPadGamer
    @DPadGamer Рік тому +4251

    This should be an easy challenge, simply spread a few bags of rice on the ground after each tsunami.

  • @gorevoid691
    @gorevoid691 Рік тому +869

    People coming back to underwater town every year: “this time will be different”

    • @funnythings4u
      @funnythings4u Рік тому +1

      🤣🤣 Hahahaha

    • @crazycuckoohead9908
      @crazycuckoohead9908 Рік тому +30

      Have I ever told you, the definition of insanity?

    • @thewizard1
      @thewizard1 Рік тому +11

      Florida

    • @Herr_Mannelig
      @Herr_Mannelig Рік тому +18

      That's what people all around the world do after Hurricanes. And I don't get it.

    • @TheWinjin
      @TheWinjin Рік тому +12

      Maybe it's the Frostpunk situation of "Other places are even worse"?

  • @TheCryptid
    @TheCryptid Рік тому +2649

    Curiously enough the Richter scale equivalent for measuring a tsunami is called the Soloviev-Imamura tsunami intensity scale

    • @beriukay
      @beriukay Рік тому +276

      SITIS is indeed a curious way to spell cities, but it is also a nice little palindrome

    • @gregh378
      @gregh378 Рік тому +33

      I like the way that name makes the noise of Tsunami hitting.

    • @turbo8628
      @turbo8628 Рік тому +17

      Shit, it's the incoming sea/shit... fitting

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 Рік тому +16

      That is interesting. Since almost all of them are caused by earthquakes, I wonder if there is a relation between the two scales?
      I know there are a ton of factors that go into how bad a tsunami is in any given location, but there must be a relation on can derive between the earthquake that causes the wave and the maximum possible intensity of said tsunami.

    • @Zappygunshot
      @Zappygunshot Рік тому +16

      @@Nevir202 If an earthquake is the cause of a tsunami, then obviously, yes there is a direct relation between their intensities. It forms the initial input of kinetic energy into the water. However, how intense a tsunami is going to be when it hits the shore, and even where it hits the shore, is influenced so much more by things like travel time, topography, water temperature, salinity etc. that just the Richter number of the initial earthquake is simply not that useful for predicting how much damage a given wave might cause. On top of that, tsunamis can be caused by a bunch of other things so that Richter number doesn't even always exist.

  • @dreamerofthorns
    @dreamerofthorns Рік тому +680

    From here on out I'm going to believe that AA has no memory retention and entirely ad-libs his scripts based only on the cliffnotes known as save names

    • @dtendy4153
      @dtendy4153 Рік тому +30

      watching his videos is oddly surreal idk how to explain it

    • @johnypeperwinkle6207
      @johnypeperwinkle6207 Рік тому +34

      @@dtendy4153 He does such a good job at time lapsing while telling all the relevant information so that it doesn’t even feel like a time lapse

    • @GeneralLiuofBoston1911
      @GeneralLiuofBoston1911 14 днів тому

      ​@@johnypeperwinkle6207 And the info is entertaining and a great storybuilding design.

  • @Bomber13009
    @Bomber13009 Рік тому +891

    I love the occasional boat getting stuck on/in the wall

    • @TheRenofox
      @TheRenofox Рік тому +76

      And how Ambiguousamphibian never even mentioned them. Just business as usual.

    • @Mister_Clean
      @Mister_Clean Рік тому +68

      The cruise ship that permanently implanted itself into the 90 degree wall is now a famous landmark

    • @SullySadface
      @SullySadface 10 місяців тому

      toot

    • @pandagaming2739
      @pandagaming2739 9 місяців тому

      ​@@TheRenofox😮😮🎉😂😮🎉🎉😮😮🎉😮🎉🎉😮😢😊😢😊😢😊😢😊😢😊😢😊😅😂😂😅😅😂😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😂😂😅3😅😂😂😅😂😮🎉😮😮🎉😅🎉😮🎉😮🎉😮😮🎉🎉

  • @concretel10n
    @concretel10n Рік тому +352

    A poonami has to be in the top 3 worst ways to die

    • @ObamaTheHedgehog
      @ObamaTheHedgehog Рік тому

      How about a poonami while being killed on your taxes?

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 Рік тому +14

      Hmm slow slicing (death by 1,000 cuts) bamboo torture, crucifixion, I can think of several more.

    • @eucherenkov
      @eucherenkov Рік тому +30

      a poon-nami, on the other hand...

    • @concretel10n
      @concretel10n Рік тому

      @@mandowarrior123 so you'd prefer to drown in a wall of everyone's rancid feces. Noted.

    • @concretel10n
      @concretel10n Рік тому

      @@eucherenkovtop 1 way to die.

  • @Xhalph
    @Xhalph Рік тому +383

    Cities Skylines has always been a flooding simulator first and a city builder second.
    The fish stick factory surviving the first tsunami really tickles me. I'm imagining a Simpsons-esque scene where the struggling business sees its neighbours swept one by one. But then when the wave hits them, the factory not only survives, but is filled with free fish. "YAAAAYYYYY!"

    • @ibeakeri0648
      @ibeakeri0648 Рік тому +28

      You could call it a... *Conspirasea*

    • @mindsplosion7198
      @mindsplosion7198 Рік тому +16

      I imagine the ice cube factory got plenty of supply too

  • @bobbacon1398
    @bobbacon1398 Рік тому +1864

    I’m not gonna lie watching ambiguous is like going on a really calm and thought provoking LSD trip

    • @caitlin4598
      @caitlin4598 Рік тому +45

      I cannot think of a more perfect way to describe his content

    • @TheRenofox
      @TheRenofox Рік тому +9

      Well said. It's like poetry of poop and existence itself.

    • @easley421
      @easley421 Рік тому +16

      I can't stop fucking laughing at the poop-nami and subsequent lake with poo front property

    • @scottishduck88
      @scottishduck88 Рік тому +9

      totally agree. one of my favorite youtube videos of all time is his playthrough of that one cartel game where he was growing and exporting co- candy.

    • @roalif
      @roalif Рік тому +5

      just not true

  • @ibeakeri0648
    @ibeakeri0648 Рік тому +66

    The fact that both the FISH stick factory and the ICE cube factory survived the second tsunami has me thinking that theres some kind of conspirasea going on👀

  • @Squeesher
    @Squeesher Рік тому +438

    Hearing the background music at the start, not in a Yogscast video, was a bit strange. But I love your content AA, keep being awesome!

    • @ambiguousamphibian
      @ambiguousamphibian  Рік тому +186

      Yogs

    • @flier666666
      @flier666666 Рік тому +24

      Yoggy bois.

    • @worsedoughnut
      @worsedoughnut Рік тому +47

      Part of me always knew their intro music had to just be royalty free stuff, but this has to be the first time i've actually heard it anywhere else. definitely threw me for a loop.

    • @Alizudo
      @Alizudo Рік тому +12

      I KNEW I RECOGNISED IT

    • @joshuameadus7861
      @joshuameadus7861 Рік тому +8

      ​@@ambiguousamphibian Chad Yog enjoyer

  • @CasuallyShadow
    @CasuallyShadow Рік тому +187

    Gotta love how the save names are a little extra joke in of themselves

    • @pigmentpeddler5811
      @pigmentpeddler5811 10 місяців тому

      share with me your abundance of the nutritious eggs

  • @thatonewolfguy
    @thatonewolfguy Рік тому +72

    "Where rich people would live at the top of the hill and be spared from the deadly waters, flooding their neighbors below"
    *Ah, the Central Coast*

  • @StatusPia
    @StatusPia Рік тому +87

    Congrats, you managed to simulate the Netherlands!

  • @Xe4ro
    @Xe4ro Рік тому +16

    The cruise ship going crazy 9:24 😂

  • @eudaimaniacs8611
    @eudaimaniacs8611 Рік тому +171

    Just a random comment out here, what does it for me is the way you vocalize your videos. The way you narrate them so to say. You use immensely complex references, some you probably got from the same books I read because I do get some of them, and you use such a rich vocabulary. I just love it.

    • @AngelBolt
      @AngelBolt Рік тому +24

      The articulation gets me. The Kermit avatar sells it too.

    • @eudaimaniacs8611
      @eudaimaniacs8611 Рік тому +7

      @@smeggiamagarwine I mean, I'm not sure. But since he references Ulysses I guess some things might escape me?

    • @engineer_focus1889
      @engineer_focus1889 Рік тому +2

      🤓

  • @sesto194
    @sesto194 Рік тому +29

    When i saw that huge flood wall, all i could think of was:
    When the taxes were lowered, people returned to the city and the water evaporated, the humans thought they were safe. But on the 1st of january humanity would receive a grim reminder...

  • @BifronsCandle
    @BifronsCandle Рік тому +32

    “Underwater: Literally and Financially”
    Oh shit, the economy!

  • @immortan-valkyrie90
    @immortan-valkyrie90 Рік тому +443

    So, this is just a Miami 100 yr simulation?

  • @Mister_Clean
    @Mister_Clean Рік тому +38

    I'll never forget the category 10 Poonami of '39. So many lives lost.

  • @ProductiveStudios
    @ProductiveStudios Рік тому +44

    Thank you sir for your philosophical and poetic commentary for all that you have made. Starting with Gerald Williams to the present. Looking forward to the next major update for Project Zomboid to see you at where it all began for me once again.

  • @blondiemom99
    @blondiemom99 Рік тому +4

    >looking for a new city to live in
    >ask the city planner if their city is creepy or wet
    >he doesnt understand
    >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is creepy and what is wet
    >he laughs and says “it’s a good city sir”
    >move in
    >its wet

  • @marteawqakuq7455
    @marteawqakuq7455 Рік тому +13

    your discreet commentaries about class struggle are genius

  • @josephharskamp5576
    @josephharskamp5576 Рік тому +65

    love these videos, but I miss you doing multi-video series in games. Not sure why you don't do them anymore, I really liked them.

  • @joeshittheragman6252
    @joeshittheragman6252 Рік тому +14

    "To create this video, some of you may drown but it's a sacrifice that I am willing to make."

  • @carrotslat8100
    @carrotslat8100 Рік тому +15

    Very happy games are made so open ended like these days so someone like you can make something noone else would do in a million years

  • @VoltaicNebulae
    @VoltaicNebulae Рік тому +2

    I'm quite glad you clarified in the beginning about it being 100 in-game years. I had my hand halfway to the nearest golf club for some xp before that.

  • @billrobert3226
    @billrobert3226 Рік тому +12

    I love the part when your videos have a storyline. thanks for posting

  • @Rainbow-Dash
    @Rainbow-Dash Рік тому +7

    This is what foreigners expect when you tell them the Netherlands is below sealevel

  • @djpower7525
    @djpower7525 Рік тому +9

    This is essentially the real-life story of a particularly flood-prone area of Australia in northern NSW

  • @fatalisticnarrator4172
    @fatalisticnarrator4172 Рік тому +5

    Gotta love seeing the AA notification pop up.

  • @Xesh
    @Xesh Рік тому +1

    the image of the boat colliding into the dirt wall like a dog rushing to a food bowl and the phrase "long term systemic health risks" has destroyed me- this entire video has destroyed me

  • @yungween8296
    @yungween8296 Рік тому +12

    If you have trouble with this challenge just ask New Orleans city planners how they do it

  • @rustkitty
    @rustkitty Рік тому +4

    Normal players: Zoning? You mean like residential or commercial?
    This challenge: Aquatic Ruin Zone [Sonic drowning music intensifies]

  • @Escalationbird
    @Escalationbird Рік тому +9

    As a Dutch person this is literally my culture

  • @ProfRosemarysLab
    @ProfRosemarysLab Рік тому +2

    Alternate title: Recreating Sootopolis City in Cities: Skylines

  • @3089io
    @3089io Рік тому +3

    One of your best yet. Sometimes I tell people about the saga of Torsolo and they do not like me talking about that. I can't imagine what it's like to have to follow something like that up. This is pretty good. I like it. I think what you do is really cool.

  • @ChuggleDBuglGames
    @ChuggleDBuglGames Рік тому +7

    The town is wet, but thanks to this video I am extremely dry.

  • @EpicCat5548
    @EpicCat5548 Рік тому +7

    I love your content man. Probably some of the most entertaining videos to watch. I bestow upon you my highest reward: watching your video during lunch. Keep up the good work man!

  • @KF-hf4nt
    @KF-hf4nt 5 місяців тому +1

    When he said ‘SEAattle’ I had a flashback of Homer banging his fist on the desk laughing at funny place names at Krusy’s clown college

  • @JessWLStuart
    @JessWLStuart Рік тому +13

    Victory followed by ennui followed by multiple attempts at total destruction! Yep, @ambiguousamphibian at his finest! :D

  • @Marklennon
    @Marklennon Рік тому +8

    Operation: Anti-Atlantis

  • @chrishamilton7516
    @chrishamilton7516 Рік тому +1

    The cruise ships and cargo ship steam into the walls are great.

  • @robertnewman4854
    @robertnewman4854 Рік тому +4

    Damn, bro really just made an entire history of 21st century New Orleans

  • @jakeking974
    @jakeking974 Рік тому +2

    I mean, of course there's demand, literally 100% of the city has potential water-front property values

  • @jaycrawley1107
    @jaycrawley1107 Рік тому +2

    This episode reminded me of the obscure but brilliant show "The Oblongs", when you moved all the rich people up to the hill.

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 5 місяців тому

    4:02 I like the dystopian overtones. Hills are sacred in the hole, so only the chosen few may survive the deluge

  • @nervouspotato
    @nervouspotato Рік тому +2

    I love how the cruise made some sick skate moves

  • @unclesam1756
    @unclesam1756 Рік тому +2

    Citizens: help! My house is on fire!
    AA: it's fine. It'll sort itself out on the first day of next year. Don't question it.

  • @Thiago-co7oo
    @Thiago-co7oo Рік тому +1

    Really fun video, thanks for the effort in it👍

  • @joeking9760
    @joeking9760 Рік тому +6

    Another satisfying presentation of entertaining insanity.
    Thank you, sir!

  • @BackwardsKnees
    @BackwardsKnees Рік тому +3

    this seems ridiculous until you realize what happens to florida and new orleans every year or so when there's a big storm

    • @tales9476
      @tales9476 Рік тому

      I was gonna say Vienna.

  • @minaashido518
    @minaashido518 11 місяців тому

    The tsunami not harming the fish and ice factories makes sense
    All the materials for their work makes up for the flooding honestly

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada Рік тому +2

    This was a dumb but legitimately interesting challenge. :) Thanks for thinking of it and going through with it.

  • @bobsquaresongepants7691
    @bobsquaresongepants7691 Рік тому +3

    ambiguousamphibian: "Today I'm going to build Amsterdam"

  • @alanvukanovich1
    @alanvukanovich1 Рік тому +8

    Keep up the good work mr.amphibian

  • @tedl8090
    @tedl8090 Рік тому +2

    I’m happy my city name idea made it into the video, SEAttle!

  • @Krucek_v2
    @Krucek_v2 Рік тому +10

    Love the video as always!
    I was wondering though, how come you never tried FrostPunk? Feel like it would be right up your aisle.

    • @alchemysaga3745
      @alchemysaga3745 Рік тому

      Iirc, the game had some pretty shit bugs that voukd just randomly dead-end you and the devs never fixed them?

    • @Krucek_v2
      @Krucek_v2 Рік тому +1

      @@alchemysaga3745 I don't know, never encountered any of those bugs, though I only have 20 hours in it.

    • @Jirbinator
      @Jirbinator Рік тому +3

      My best guess is because Frostpunk isn’t as open ended as these games. AA likes to create his own stories using the games, whereas frostpunk is much more rigid with its story and goals.

  • @coryman125
    @coryman125 Рік тому

    These videos are nothing short of an art form

  • @christophermoore6110
    @christophermoore6110 Рік тому

    This is like a dystopian novel/ movie. Incredible.

  • @SpryGuy289
    @SpryGuy289 Рік тому

    I really like this style of video you put out.

  • @nickjohnson9640
    @nickjohnson9640 Рік тому

    Thanks for the vid AA! Love the Channel!

  • @kadewiedeman3127
    @kadewiedeman3127 Рік тому +2

    Damn, New Orleans simulator 2023 is looking pretty fun.

  • @XzMondayNightzX
    @XzMondayNightzX Рік тому +3

    I like to also call this one 100 years in a modded GTA game but you're the mayor and possibly an amphibian... but nobody else can swim.

  • @Taigaworkz
    @Taigaworkz Рік тому

    Hilarious concept! Great video! 🤘

  • @susferrous9735
    @susferrous9735 Рік тому

    This is officially one of my fav AA vids

  • @JoshSweetvale
    @JoshSweetvale Рік тому +2

    As a Dutchman, this is a provocative question!

  • @samvoves9377
    @samvoves9377 Рік тому

    9:37
    “Long term systemic health risks”
    >Shows a reenactment of the Costa Concordia

  • @LanceJ1992
    @LanceJ1992 10 місяців тому

    "100 Years of Tsunamis" is definitely an indie band I'd listen to

  • @AlainSTO
    @AlainSTO Рік тому

    I always catch myself smiling by the end of your videos

  • @XavierCat
    @XavierCat Рік тому +1

    The funniest thing about this is that IRL, Seattle is ABOVE sea level...

  • @skulltrumpetx
    @skulltrumpetx Рік тому +6

    any of y'all excited for city skylines 2?

  • @jeeneeraykreenaldeen7979
    @jeeneeraykreenaldeen7979 Рік тому +1

    This is going to be referred to years from now and you'll be seen as the next Nostradamus

  • @Aeliuz
    @Aeliuz Рік тому +2

    You certainly are the best and most ambiguous of all the amphibians.

  • @boltx1831
    @boltx1831 Рік тому +5

    My favorite part of this video was when it clicked on my head and I realized "OH, this is just a Galveston Texas simulator" showcasing why is really stupid to build your entire city in a bowl below sea level

  • @markusbiewer9153
    @markusbiewer9153 Рік тому +1

    Is this where Kenobi learned the High Ground technique?

  • @Dradeeus
    @Dradeeus Рік тому

    I love how your save files tell a story.

  • @abdoalrahmansabeha977
    @abdoalrahmansabeha977 11 місяців тому

    Honestly seems like a really great sci fi premise

  • @logosrule
    @logosrule Рік тому +3

    Let's get amphibious

  • @cheesydanishgaming3333
    @cheesydanishgaming3333 Рік тому +1

    When 2013 immediately turned to 2020
    I felt that
    2014-2018 were such good years tho

  • @dailencaudron2051
    @dailencaudron2051 Рік тому +1

    I actually really enjoyed this challenge :D

  • @chickenlittle4344
    @chickenlittle4344 Рік тому

    imagine if ambigousamphibian plays kenshi or a similar game again. that shit is nostalgia . much love ambigiousamphibian keep making content. love you bro

    • @chickenlittle4344
      @chickenlittle4344 Рік тому

      Ok after watching the video I noticed that your great story telling continues on in spite of the video games changing. Although I would like a more sandbox approach, your videos are still none the less outstanding. Keep doing what you're doing.

  • @bamboozled_d
    @bamboozled_d Рік тому +3

    Congratulations on your marriage Jordan

  • @citizenkane2349
    @citizenkane2349 Рік тому +4

    Damn, 13 seconds since upload and I just started playing Cities Skylines. Noice.

  • @CubeAtlantic
    @CubeAtlantic Рік тому

    you're absolutely relaxed for being in that Tsiumai for like 12 something hrs :D

  • @ds8249
    @ds8249 Рік тому

    Super awesome video idea homie

  • @stevengull6703
    @stevengull6703 Рік тому +2

    I'll have you know as one of those not on your patreon and so left in the poor part of your city I frequently swam in creeks with connecting storm drains and so am no stranger of swimming in raw sewage. So I say bring on the pootsunami.

  • @craigsimpson9561
    @craigsimpson9561 Рік тому +1

    Me: Are you flooding this town in order to make it more hospitable for... amphibians, perhaps?
    BigPhib: ... ... DON'T QUESTION IT!!!
    Me: Let's be philosophical about it, and not give it another thought...
    ;-)

  • @dnsvls
    @dnsvls Рік тому

    Was about to hit the bed, then remembered that this dropped today! Sleep will wait. AA comes first! 😅

  • @frosty8724
    @frosty8724 Рік тому

    Really amazing, your mastery of the English language is impressive.

  • @SirMatthew
    @SirMatthew Рік тому +1

    The Ice Cube Factory was actually strengthened by the tsunami

  • @systemchris
    @systemchris 11 місяців тому

    Frank's fish stick factory got more mystery meat inventory every year

  • @anon_y_mousse
    @anon_y_mousse Рік тому +3

    Someone needs to make a city like this a reality, for the cool factor.

  • @VerdaTal
    @VerdaTal 9 місяців тому

    I loved all of the ships just casually glitching out.

  • @Articstics
    @Articstics Рік тому

    Man this is one wild game of Frostpunk

  • @Facepalm9
    @Facepalm9 Рік тому +1

    Pre-Poonami Tax Hike is my drag name.

  • @Rrodfer
    @Rrodfer Рік тому

    Dude I love your videos so much

  • @StapleCactus
    @StapleCactus Рік тому

    Just listening to the intro, all I can think about is how you're simulating New Orleans. They, too, are below sea level and constantly flood.

  • @zackhumayun4220
    @zackhumayun4220 Рік тому

    this is an incredible documentary about Florida

  • @bangaroo44
    @bangaroo44 Рік тому +1

    You should play with the mod that makes disasters 100x stronger

  • @chriselliottart
    @chriselliottart Рік тому

    Buildings in Skylines collapse when the water level is higher than the roof of the building. If you build high rise residential instead of low rise, more buildings survive simply because they're taller.