Cities: Skylines, Starting with No Water.

Cities: Skylines, Starting with no water. Can you survive?
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0:00 Intro
0:28 Start
2:40 Dirty Water Town
4:33 Clean Water Town
6:40 Filling the River
9:00 Deus Ex Machina

[@bryan23361]

"No water = no water" truly one of the philosophies of all time

[@mostlyharmless7154]

It’s the anti-Thales , true wisdom

[@Liquefaction]

Truly one of the most philosophies

[@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579]

TURDgid

[@Volkswagen_Yeetle]

Cringe meme

[@ohboiyou]

@@Volkswagen_YeetlePrepare to get Throngled?

[@ZombieSazza]

“Repeating the cycle of disappointment and playing taxes” Pretty sure that’s just most cities tbh

[@Cybercerialdestroyer]

America

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

i have wandered eggless and afraid, my hunger gnawing as i become an emaciated shadow of my former self please send me your eggs so i may feast once more

[@maninagasmask]

@@pigmentpeddler5811 I have to many here have some eggs

[@JohnSmith-oo7ig]

@@Cybercerialdestroyer Right, because only America has cities and taxes and disappointment.

[@Cybercerialdestroyer]

@@JohnSmith-oo7ig bro why does this offend you you could say “France” or some other random country, but noooo you have to get offended.

[@Mazzelfassel]

For the end I expected a Tsunami instead of Meteors. In the spirit of "give them what they want".

[@TheSykoRC]

I thought the same. a flood would have been epic.

[@Logan-zp8bi]

Pretty sure Tsunamis in city skylines can only spawn if there is water or water sources.

[@franktothemax]

@@Logan-zp8bistill would have been hilarious to somehow get everyone’s hopes up, only to fk them even harder.

[@bplup6419]

It was an ice comet

[@NathanMcSwag]

Average Californian Town

[@Blueskiiiiii]

California exept everyone has to drink desani

[@Iffy350]

Earth 2050

[@GKinWor]

bakersfield

[@InspectorGadget923]

The video was released 15 minutes ago and you already beat me to the joke. Shut up and take my upvote.

[@Riftrender]

Well you have to protect a random fish nobody cares about.

[@BloodyMistGeneral]

Flint Michigan should hire this man. He couldn't do any worse than the government already has.

[@KaitouKaiju]

You mean the state of Michigan

[@Cybercerialdestroyer]

You mean the entirety of America

[@rushi5638]

He's already gainfully employed by the city of Jackson, Mississippi sadly.

[@pyrojack8230]

​@@KaitouKaijuAyo don't slander the rest of Michigan like that. Save those criticisms for Ohio. The Cleveland River literally caught fire at one point.

[@theorangeheadedfella]

how the hell does a river catch on fire??@@pyrojack8230

[@stuntvist]

If you built in a more mountainous terrain you could've fed the poop water to a dam before drinking it so you could get electricity from it as well. That would've been one of the first fully self sufficient cities on the planet, if you figured out your own food production as well.

[@milgos5269]

Actual perpetuum mobile.

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Land below the dam should be excellent for farming.

[@caffienatedtactician]

Rube Goldberg perpetual energy machine

[@Darkness-fe2tl]

and you're already processing the poop to squeeze out water, might as well take the rest and turn it into fertilizer@@themarlboromandalorian

[@AHSValor]

You could make fisheries at the bottom of the dam, which harvest the algae and fish that happen to spring up in your shit river lol

[@willmiddleton7932]

The sheer levels of dystopian hell Ambiguous manages reach in every cities skylines video amazes me

[@Dragonfire1321]

I'm honestly impressed he managed to reach a stable point instead of having mass die offs collapse the entire city.

[@RivLabs]

​@@Dragonfire1321hed be a better governor than a lot of america's current ones

[@christiangamingchannel6284]

@@RivLabs this just in, person playing a Paradox game runs his country/city better than people in real life, more at 11

[@Burred11]

In a city with no water, the creation of poop-water holds horrifying implications.

[@neonlightillusion]

In the valley of the dry, the shit-drinking man is king.

[@halfling49]

Poopwater is peopl--

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

A city is 70% water

[@LanceThumping]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3jDoes that mean the watertower holds as much weight as all the buildings in the town?

[@bobertastic6541]

Modern day dune

[@JRexRegis]

In this episode of Cities Skylines, AA constructs a city-sized stillsuit to harvest the moisture of its residents

[@Spoonishpls]

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the city

[@user-ic1ic5nb6p]

you took "no drinking until 21" to the next level

[@a5c0]

There's nothing quite like a content creator that can speak eloquently and in a serious tone while simultaneously playing fart noises. I love this channel.

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

most modern cities do this to some extent. waste water gets recycled and cleaned and reused practically everywhere cuz it's a lot better than just dumping it and having to get new water. now, they dont tend to go entirely recycled water only, since water will be wasted in some ways so you'd just slowly run out it's not nearly as "dystopian" or gross as people say/the video implies. It's pretty normal actually

[@Foundlilly11]

New water does not exist.

[@CandleWisp]

​@@Foundlilly11Not new water literally

[@Foundlilly11]

@@CandleWisp Sopsy_hallow is right, in a way, all water probably has been gross once

[@PraxesArdenn]

Not really, direct wastewater to drinking water treatment does not exist in the US, except for California currently building one such plant iirc. In a broad sense, all water cycles around eventually, and has many times, but nowhere in the US is there a drinking water plant intentionally sucking in the discharge of a wastewater plant. A few examples might have intakes closer to discharges than people are really comfortable with, but your statement is essentially false.

[@elliotlea5457]

@@PraxesArdenn Yeah pretty much. They don't do it in the US because... people thought it was gross. But the Taiwanese do it, and it works fine.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

When you forget that the magical water tower in this game creates water out of thin air

[@RikaRoleplay]

Technically, it pumps water from the aquifer (Water table) below the ground, which is often near sea level. Generally, the higher the altitude, the more expensive it is to pump water from such, though I don't think it is represented this way in City Skylines

[@DeliriantPsychosis1442]

@@RikaRoleplayno one cares, nerd

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@RikaRoleplay "Technically" no it doesn't, because no such ground water feature exists in the game (unlike in the sequel). Never mind that it's not even the function of a tower irl- and worse even in the sequel it will work the same way even with the more in depth system.

[@Crackheadcentral2188]

That’s against the spirit

[@askkutay]

Moisture farming confirmed in CS?

[@basherboo]

This is a certified Ambiguousamphibian classic

[@bionicdragon5]

AA: "No water means... no water." Me: "Dear God..." AA: "There's more." Me: "No..."

[@professionalyeeter]

It contains the dying wish of ever man here

[@wildfirefox1]

I understood that reference 😂

[@Zaketh_]

This is an accurate representation of what life on Dune is like

[@officerdonut7066]

India?

[@beniboy245]

The authentic Arrakis experience

[@DrZaius3141]

AA built a city-sized stillsuit.

[@PraxesArdenn]

I was looking for this comment. A city of fremen!

[@mikecronis]

Not too many KZbin Channels equate a design created as a "Sisyphian Cycle". You get my nod of approval. Well done.

[@soldier3079]

one must imagine sisyphus happy

[@RivLabs]

​@@soldier3079or at least, tolerating this horrifying abomination of a city.

[@slurker3788]

2:28 "The children were thirsty, and dumb." Truer words were never spoken

[@kartoone4120]

As a wise amphibian once said 'A thirst for knowledge requires no water'...

[@stiltheseal1176]

one must imagine sisyphus as a city planner with no water

[@inyrmind]

This reminds me of that one town filled with rich people who didn't want to pay their taxes only to have their water cut off because it turns out they were leeching off of a nearby town's water infrastructure, so their answer to that was to buy barrels of water and drive it back to their properties

[@jackleitner4303]

This man really set himself a goal and not even thermodynamics stopped him

[@KhanaHatake]

"The children were thirsty. And dumb." had me cackling!

[@PaperworkNinja]

So you built the Cities version of a Stillsuit. Arrakis approves!

[@miraclewhipped5068]

I see Los Angeles is doing well

[@Matt10670]

When your city runs out of water they should add special assets to buildings with rain barrels and bottled water trash.

[@LK041]

Well done, you've done a fair job at building Dune.

[@Gadzinisko]

I like how his way to get rid of unhappy people/businesses in every city is to buldoze their homes and it works every time 😂

[@turbo8628]

Can't have an unhappy homelife if you have no home. It's a problem that practically solves itself.

[@naxmorvigatore4168]

I always love these videos where AA figures out how to get something from nothing, always entertaining to see him exploiting the game not to make anything easy but instead to make it hard, like a reverse Spiffing Brit

[@wildtrickster4135]

2:30 LMAO this man edits rain filter to express sadness, meanwhile the whole sad is because no water, the IRAINY

[@keepinggamers7425]

Amphibian actually sounds human in this video

[@sirflimflam]

This has to be one of the most dystopian challenges. This must have been what the world was like before Soylent Green became necessity.

[@Nyitemare]

Aint that the truth

[@someguy4252]

one of... you should see spiffs aproch to profitability... then again challenges like these are nice. i wonder if he could do something like this with mass pollution?

[@johnbosch1839]

Reminds me of my hometown in northern michigan. Septic plant was built right next to one of the reservoir lakes, would ocassionally overflow poo into the lake, good times for all

[@KismetLizard]

Regulations are for people without dysentery

[@HarrIock]

This video really brings to mind the Simpsons quote "If it's brown drink it down" You should have named your town Sietch Tabr, if there was no water.

[@Doylt]

It was an RTGame special for a bit there. But AA, a philanthropist, removes the doodoo from his sewage ocean. What a guy.

[@Marnie_C]

instead of water, they drank chunky milkshakes

[@xxantosixx91]

I don't know if i am the only one but every time i watch these series i like to think that there is government that is making those experiments (according to the challenge in the videos) and all those cities are exisisting in the same timeline as the year in a game. And there are also citizens just trying to choose the one that is less dangerous to them. Bascly im just making lore in my head for Ambiguous and his empire.

[@youmukonpaku3168]

it's obviously an offshoot of the Department of Special Corrections, which also imprisons Civvie and is probably run by Ross Scott (since it's originally a joke on his "prison sentence game" rant about old, shoddy adventure games)

[@VinceBlas]

Ambiguous cinematic universe

[@dragonking322]

Should of used dams on either side of the river facility. then you could of made a reservoir of drinking (poo) water that also provided power as well as mitigated some of the evaporation problems

[@Mcguyer13]

You sir just basically made a Mars settlement on Earth; recycling (bio)waste and water into more usable resources. Great vid as always!

[@shawnconway9957]

I do love that what you built was a body fluid harvesting town.

[@lesbianaconda2971]

“With no water, and with poop everywhere, what roadblocks would stand in my way, of creating a perfect utopia?” Well I can think of two already,

[@bg3929Z]

What an interesting exploration of this game's water mechanics. Very cool, aa.

[@nazaryn]

Amazing challenge and idea, bravo! P.S: Missed opportunity with using the poopwater to create clean energy via hydro for the city

[@suemccashland]

"this is a dry county." "so theres no alcohol?" "no, theres no water!"

[@RikaRoleplay]

Making an artificial river with the best eco water treatment buildings at the top, with garbage collectors' in the middle, and finally water pumps at the end should work very well, with a fresh water outlet eventually refilling the ocean (if the ocean has a land border to hold all the water, might need anarchy mods for that tho).

[@DrZaius3141]

You essentially created a city-sized Stillsuit from Dune!

[@saaaaaaaaalt838]

He successfully made a closed loop life support system that functions for a wholr city. Now he's ready to occupy the stars.

[@diegolikescode]

"PEOPLE LOVE WHEN THERE'S NO POOP IN THEIR WATER"

[@haelww1]

You made Shai Hulud proud ! May his passage cleanse the earth.

[@IzzetNilson]

I really do enjoy the nonchalant use of meteors at the end of every one of these videos as a punch line. An impact line maybe?

[@s_nunyabiznez]

THIS is the AA content I show up for: existential questions, grand planning, water puns, and above all, POOP

[@marksmeta]

this video was amazing! i’ve been subbed for about 2 years. would love to see more CS and PZ videos!

[@ItsJabo]

One ticket to poop ville please

[@xoyv]

laugh while you can, but little does AA know that he just invented the "self sustaining city of the future"

[@gabem3593]

This was fantastic. Such a unique way to play the game, really explore the mechanics.

[@j1n3]

that was sick in every meaning possible. good job!

[@Dequavious_the_3RD]

It’s a reverse Netherlands

[@kingofthend]

Ah the dubai experience. Get the poop trucks.

[@blakeswanson4382]

Missed opportunity to build a poop dam

[@tommeakin1732]

"...Everyone would have to drink the wastewater - it certainly was better than nothing." No, sir, I'm afraid I don't think it is.

[@dayaksrae7390]

This is one of my favorite videos of Cities: Skylines It is silly but still has some sort of serious to it Keep it up!

[@imperialfish454]

I am downright appalled that you did not wipe out dry city with a tsunami and instead chose meteors. It would have been just so poetic

[@BenjamminFranklin.]

This is kind of like the plot of the book dune. The “water discipline” of this city would impress the fremen.

[@BlameCo]

New aa video, mood instantly improved.

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

Meanwhile in Nordic countries, known for their clean drinking water: "Sewage and grey water is cleaned and then released into lakes where we pump in new water that is cleaned and then go straight out of our taps"

[@jesseweber5318]

I don't think people understand a significant portion of their drinking water etc in most first world countries is indeed recycled from grey water and waste water. YES you are technically drinking water someone peed in!

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

except the water isn't as clean as people think, from like 50 litres of tap water you can get 1-2 grams of rocks...

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j minerals arent what make water dirty, true pure water without any mineral tastes weird and noone likes it, all water you drink has minerals in it to some degree so "1-2 grams of rocks" is not an issue aslong as it doesnt have harmful bacteria, viruses or dangerous chemicals it should be fine

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j Mineral Water is litteraly what we call extra good water mate

[@coltwindstorm2549]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j Perfectly pure, de-ionized water is actually not safe to drink. Water needs a certain level of dissolved minerals to be potable.

[@MarcosCodas]

Fourth day of my anxiety episode. New AA video is sweet nectar of the anti-anxiety gods. A balm for the soul. Peace for 10min.

[@TheRestedOne]

2:30 Imagine being the only person in town who knew 9+10

[@cheese_priest]

You rebuilt Phoenix, AZ. Well done!

[@sophia_petrillo]

The sound design in this video is off the charts great

[@spencerwarren8302]

Singapore actually recycles and reuses wastewater like this on an industrial scale.

[@liliya_aseeva]

Yes, but they also buy some freshwater from Malaya and desalinitize some seawater.

[@awfulroffle]

Take a shot every time AA says "ran out of water"! ...Oh wait, there's no water to do shots with.

[@catabakies69]

My Cities: Skylines cities usually don't dump sewage to existing bodies of water. Instead, I make giant evaporation pan or just exploit the water source game mechanics. I usually make my own maps too, so I sometimes dedicate a large empty lakebed just to be filled with sewage.

[@justgames9516]

Why couldn’t you use a water tower

[@CasuallyShadow]

Ironically I think this is the healthiest and most educated city AA has made so far

[@DudeMcGuybro]

Naming it dry city, not naming it shitty city, or even Cleveland has me incredibly disappointed. Our river did catch on fire because it was so full of poop, and Lake Erie is basically a giant terraformed poop bowl...

[@eclipseeffigy]

Excellent editing 👍 loving the developments!!

[@WaterworksStudio]

were water towers not allowed?

[@Irvinedhino]

my first thought

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

I feel like even if towers or wells were brought in, that would have defeated the purpose of the challenge.

[@grey0nine]

You should watch some tutorial videos on this game. You gotta get better at city designing and traffic flow

[@croftoc]

Road hierarchy would’ve fixed this

[@spitfire7482]

8:41 HEY YO

[@Vok250]

This is the kind of pyramid scheme of agony that my local provincial government aspires to.

[@palyername]

i think the premise of this video was learning the word "turgid" and wanting to say it a lot and i respect that. 10/10 would watch flint simulator again

[@shivanmeijs9510]

Watching this at 1:45am while shitting fireballs. Never saw more relatable content.

[@approachingapoapsis]

Dry City: "We're like Vegas and a spaceship, with all the perks of neither"

[@jayro6397]

Always good music choices for your videos.

[@GROOV3ST3R]

A fervently fabulous feat of feaces filtration and frugality, flipping farce into freedom with fragrant flow.

[@rogerreger9631]

Customer: sir I like to order a drink. Bar tender: sorry son this is a dry county we dont serve drinks here. Customer: ???? thats weird for a bar, no my good sure I like some water. Bar tender: son this is a dry county, we aint got no liquids.

[@velzanna2281]

"Yesterday's coffee becomes today's coffee!" - Andrew Morgan, astronaut.

[@smallcat848]

fun fact Las Vegas & Singapore do actually recycle their wastewater into drinking water Singapore even gets it clean enough to use for semi-conductor manufacturing

[@bearVshark100]

Oh boy, an episode centered around my favorite word for Ambiguous to say.

[@ramsey2155]

Watching this after the tsunami challange video is truly fascinating

[@Tomasrrb]

Cities Skylines: Regular Venezuelan let’s play. For real, here in Caracas we almost never have municipal water but we do have a poop river that runs right through the middle of the city. The resemblance is uncanny, felt right at home.

[@jryalls]

This is Modest Pelican’s worst nightmare

[@RisingSunMorningWood]

At 6:38, if you look close enough, you can witness someome be isekaid. I wonder where truck-kun took that poor wayward soul.

[@notsusanna7485]

Reminds me of how Bossier City, La gets its tap/drinking water from the notoriously brain-eating amoeba filled river right next to the city.

[@Infernal_Elf]

Great video :D note to self citizen in cities skylines dont have any kind of evaporation in their bodies. Also really reminds me of the waterworld movie.

[@coryman125]

Best simulation of Vegas I've seen in ages

[@milliondollarmistake]

I'm disappointed that the town didn't get hit by a tsunami. The ultimate irony.

[@corolla94]

Zone residential on the slope of the reservoir. As the reservoir fills up, the houses flood and the residents move out. As the reservoir depletes, new residents move in and bring more poop.

[@Euryptus]

No water ? Recycling bodily fluids ? Arrakis sends its regards !

[@MrSequeezey]

Can’t wait for the vod on the other channel!