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

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  • čas přidán 28. 03. 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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Komentáře • 716

  • @DPadGamer
    @DPadGamer Před rokem +4184

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

  • @gorevoid691
    @gorevoid691 Před rokem +800

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

    • @funnythings4u
      @funnythings4u Před rokem +1

      🤣🤣 Hahahaha

    • @crazycuckoohead9908
      @crazycuckoohead9908 Před rokem +30

      Have I ever told you, the definition of insanity?

    • @thewizard1
      @thewizard1 Před rokem +9

      Florida

    • @Herr_Mannelig
      @Herr_Mannelig Před 11 měsíci +18

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

    • @TheWinjin
      @TheWinjin Před 11 měsíci +12

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

  • @dreamerofthorns
    @dreamerofthorns Před rokem +656

    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 Před rokem +27

      watching his videos is oddly surreal idk how to explain it

    • @johnypeperwinkle6207
      @johnypeperwinkle6207 Před rokem +31

      @@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

  • @TheCryptid
    @TheCryptid Před rokem +2627

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

    • @beriukay
      @beriukay Před rokem +271

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

    • @gregh378
      @gregh378 Před rokem +32

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

    • @turbo8628
      @turbo8628 Před rokem +17

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

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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.

  • @Bomber13009
    @Bomber13009 Před rokem +880

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

    • @TheRenofox
      @TheRenofox Před rokem +74

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

    • @Mister_Clean
      @Mister_Clean Před rokem +67

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

    • @SullySadface
      @SullySadface Před 9 měsíci

      toot

    • @pandagaming2739
      @pandagaming2739 Před 7 měsíci

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  • @concretel10n
    @concretel10n Před rokem +335

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

    • @ObamaTheHedgehog
      @ObamaTheHedgehog Před rokem

      How about a poonami while being killed on your taxes?

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 Před rokem +14

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

    • @eucherenkov
      @eucherenkov Před rokem +30

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

    • @concretel10n
      @concretel10n Před rokem

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

    • @concretel10n
      @concretel10n Před rokem

      @@eucherenkovtop 1 way to die.

  • @Xhalph
    @Xhalph Před rokem +375

    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 Před rokem +28

      You could call it a... *Conspirasea*

    • @mindsplosion7198
      @mindsplosion7198 Před rokem +15

      I imagine the ice cube factory got plenty of supply too

  • @ibeakeri0648
    @ibeakeri0648 Před rokem +60

    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👀

  • @bobbacon1398
    @bobbacon1398 Před rokem +1856

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

    • @caitlin4598
      @caitlin4598 Před rokem +45

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

    • @TheRenofox
      @TheRenofox Před rokem +9

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

    • @easley421
      @easley421 Před rokem +16

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

    • @scottishduck88
      @scottishduck88 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +5

      just not true

  • @thatonewolfguy
    @thatonewolfguy Před rokem +69

    "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*

  • @Squeesher
    @Squeesher Před rokem +436

    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  Před rokem +186

      Yogs

    • @flier666666
      @flier666666 Před rokem +24

      Yoggy bois.

    • @worsedoughnut
      @worsedoughnut Před rokem +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 Před rokem +12

      I KNEW I RECOGNISED IT

    • @joshuameadus7861
      @joshuameadus7861 Před rokem +8

      ​@@ambiguousamphibian Chad Yog enjoyer

  • @CasuallyShadow
    @CasuallyShadow Před rokem +185

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

  • @StatusPia
    @StatusPia Před rokem +86

    Congrats, you managed to simulate the Netherlands!

  • @sesto194
    @sesto194 Před rokem +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...

  • @Xe4ro
    @Xe4ro Před rokem +15

    The cruise ship going crazy 9:24 😂

  • @BifronsCandle
    @BifronsCandle Před rokem +31

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

  • @eudaimaniacs8611
    @eudaimaniacs8611 Před rokem +170

    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 Před rokem +24

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

    • @eudaimaniacs8611
      @eudaimaniacs8611 Před rokem +7

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

    • @engineer_focus1889
      @engineer_focus1889 Před rokem +2

      🤓

  • @immortan-valkyrie90
    @immortan-valkyrie90 Před rokem +443

    So, this is just a Miami 100 yr simulation?

  • @Mister_Clean
    @Mister_Clean Před rokem +38

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

  • @joeshittheragman6252
    @joeshittheragman6252 Před rokem +14

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

  • @marteawqakuq7455
    @marteawqakuq7455 Před rokem +12

    your discreet commentaries about class struggle are genius

  • @ProductiveStudios
    @ProductiveStudios Před rokem +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 Před rokem +3

    >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

  • @carrotslat8100
    @carrotslat8100 Před rokem +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

  • @josephharskamp5576
    @josephharskamp5576 Před rokem +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.

  • @Rainbow-Dash
    @Rainbow-Dash Před rokem +7

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

  • @djpower7525
    @djpower7525 Před rokem +9

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

  • @billrobert3226
    @billrobert3226 Před rokem +12

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

  • @VoltaicNebulae
    @VoltaicNebulae Před rokem +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.

  • @fatalisticnarrator4172
    @fatalisticnarrator4172 Před rokem +5

    Gotta love seeing the AA notification pop up.

  • @rustkitty
    @rustkitty Před rokem +4

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

  • @Escalationbird
    @Escalationbird Před rokem +9

    As a Dutch person this is literally my culture

  • @yungween8296
    @yungween8296 Před rokem +12

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

  • @3089io
    @3089io Před rokem +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.

  • @KF-hf4nt
    @KF-hf4nt Před 4 měsíci +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

  • @ChuggleDBuglGames
    @ChuggleDBuglGames Před rokem +7

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

  • @ProfRosemarysLab
    @ProfRosemarysLab Před rokem +2

    Alternate title: Recreating Sootopolis City in Cities: Skylines

  • @unclesam1756
    @unclesam1756 Před rokem +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.

  • @JessWLStuart
    @JessWLStuart Před rokem +13

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

  • @robertnewman4854
    @robertnewman4854 Před rokem +4

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

  • @EpicCat5548
    @EpicCat5548 Před rokem +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!

  • @jaycrawley1107
    @jaycrawley1107 Před rokem +2

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

  • @bobsquaresongepants7691
    @bobsquaresongepants7691 Před rokem +3

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

  • @jakeking974
    @jakeking974 Před rokem +2

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

  • @nervouspotato
    @nervouspotato Před rokem +2

    I love how the cruise made some sick skate moves

  • @minaashido518
    @minaashido518 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @Marklennon
    @Marklennon Před rokem +8

    Operation: Anti-Atlantis

  • @XzMondayNightzX
    @XzMondayNightzX Před rokem +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.

  • @Krucek_v2
    @Krucek_v2 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem +1

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

    • @Jirbinator
      @Jirbinator Před rokem +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.

  • @LanceJ1992
    @LanceJ1992 Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @joeking9760
    @joeking9760 Před rokem +6

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

  • @alanvukanovich1
    @alanvukanovich1 Před rokem +8

    Keep up the good work mr.amphibian

  • @chrishamilton7516
    @chrishamilton7516 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @tedl8090
    @tedl8090 Před rokem +2

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

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada Před rokem +2

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

  • @Thiago-co7oo
    @Thiago-co7oo Před rokem +1

    Really fun video, thanks for the effort in it👍

  • @Taigaworkz
    @Taigaworkz Před rokem

    Hilarious concept! Great video! 🤘

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @VerdaTal
    @VerdaTal Před 7 měsíci

    I loved all of the ships just casually glitching out.

  • @coryman125
    @coryman125 Před rokem

    These videos are nothing short of an art form

  • @craigsimpson9561
    @craigsimpson9561 Před rokem +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...
    ;-)

  • @nickjohnson9640
    @nickjohnson9640 Před rokem

    Thanks for the vid AA! Love the Channel!

  • @BackwardsKnees
    @BackwardsKnees Před rokem +3

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

  • @samvoves9377
    @samvoves9377 Před rokem

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

  • @susferrous9735
    @susferrous9735 Před rokem

    This is officially one of my fav AA vids

  • @Aeliuz
    @Aeliuz Před rokem +2

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

  • @JoshSweetvale
    @JoshSweetvale Před rokem +2

    As a Dutchman, this is a provocative question!

  • @boltx1831
    @boltx1831 Před rokem +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

  • @SpryGuy289
    @SpryGuy289 Před rokem

    I really like this style of video you put out.

  • @Dradeeus
    @Dradeeus Před rokem

    I love how your save files tell a story.

  • @Xesh
    @Xesh Před rokem

    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

  • @kadewiedeman3127
    @kadewiedeman3127 Před rokem +2

    Damn, New Orleans simulator 2023 is looking pretty fun.

  • @AlainSTO
    @AlainSTO Před rokem

    I always catch myself smiling by the end of your videos

  • @christophermoore6110
    @christophermoore6110 Před rokem

    This is like a dystopian novel/ movie. Incredible.

  • @cheesydanishgaming3333
    @cheesydanishgaming3333 Před rokem +1

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

  • @jeeneeraykreenaldeen7979

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

  • @dailencaudron2051
    @dailencaudron2051 Před rokem +1

    I actually really enjoyed this challenge :D

  • @stevengull6703
    @stevengull6703 Před rokem +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.

  • @dnsvls
    @dnsvls Před rokem

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

  • @CubeAtlantic
    @CubeAtlantic Před rokem

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

  • @XavierCat
    @XavierCat Před rokem +1

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

  • @Onlywyze
    @Onlywyze Před rokem

    I kept hearing Poonani instead of poo-nami and it made for a great video hahaha "A disastrous flood of Poonani"

  • @Raziaar
    @Raziaar Před rokem

    How are you so good at games? Faced with most of these challenges 99.999% of people would just give up in defeat.
    But you do it with style and humor.

  • @logosrule
    @logosrule Před rokem +3

    Let's get amphibious

  • @chickenlittle4344
    @chickenlittle4344 Před rokem

    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 Před rokem

      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.

  • @TheInternetHelpdeskPlays

    Amazing. The Spiffing Brit would be proud

  • @emetanti
    @emetanti Před 10 měsíci

    "I figured a fire department was pointless in a town with yearly tsunamis."
    Thats some Ankh-Morporkh logic right there.

  • @abdoalrahmansabeha977
    @abdoalrahmansabeha977 Před 10 měsíci

    Honestly seems like a really great sci fi premise

  • @citizenkane2349
    @citizenkane2349 Před rokem +4

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

  • @brodywallich
    @brodywallich Před rokem

    finally, a new cities skyline video

  • @Ahrimane
    @Ahrimane Před 8 měsíci

    The "Poonami" 😂

  • @systemchris
    @systemchris Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @lPsychoMax
    @lPsychoMax Před rokem

    "the rich people lived at the top of the hill and the poor people below"
    The Oblongs series in a nutshell ^^

  • @StapleCactus
    @StapleCactus Před rokem

    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 Před rokem

    this is an incredible documentary about Florida

  • @Nebula_ET
    @Nebula_ET Před rokem +1

    a national treasure sir

  • @Helmotz.
    @Helmotz. Před rokem

    You basically made Attack on Titan but with poop water...
    Brilliant !

  • @EmilyE96
    @EmilyE96 Před rokem

    "The first city I would intentionally sacrifice to a tsunami in order to collect tax revenue"
    A different take on Noah and the Great Flood, 9/10 no rainbow

  • @markusbiewer9153
    @markusbiewer9153 Před rokem +1

    Is this where Kenobi learned the High Ground technique?

  • @aurorabora7557
    @aurorabora7557 Před rokem

    Sips would be proud of all that dirt