I Banned Cars From Houston and Ruined Cities Skylines II

[@AdamSomething]

Come be part of the epic adventure of spending 3 hours trying to figure out which one of your 300 mods is breaking your save! play.citiesskylines.com/AdamSomething

[@ralphwarom2514]

I actually enjoy when games and simulation have some value like this. Good stuff.

[@martinsto8190]

Adam has been making us aware that city skylines has lore! We need to beat the game, to go against the heavy automobile lobbiests.

[@SuhbanIo]

I thought this came out 1 hour ago but the comment is older??

[@Thomas51300]

Have fun trying to download mods as it looks like Paradox wont have Steam workshop support forcing you to use their website.

[@Ilikefire2793]

You didn't consider cargo delivery transportation infrastructure, didn't you? Yeah, you kinda need to actually have proper car connections so at least trucks could move things around. The pedestrian paths just weren't gonna cut it lol. And that's unfortunately not exactly a bug or feature, it's just kinda how you need to move goods irl. Like 1 cargo truck can move of like 100 cargo bikes worth of goods in one go or a single cargo train car's worth. You ironically didn't break anything, you just were skiping out on sadly essential infrastructure, lol. So to recap -Train, good. -Car, bad. -Cargo transport truck/semi/lori, ok but in small quantities.

[@the_pinkerton]

I don't know what is more unlikely, snow in southern Texas or walkability there

[@InsufficientGravitas]

You say that, but it snowed far more recently that it was walkable.

[@Nukesnipe]

I distinctly remember living in Corpus Christi when I was a kid and it snowing something like 3 feet one year.

[@bendranski6882]

Walkability

[@eternalcanadiandevyt]

The most unlikely event is them voting Democrats who would actually make the walkability changes.

[@bendranski6882]

@@eternalcanadiandevyt so no chance. Eternal automobile cities.

[@Hasus16]

I love how he used sponsored material to just mostly complain about Hungary's government and railway

[@maciejszulc2684]

And when he wasn't doing that, he was dissing Hueston.

[@MonEyRuLess]

I'm glad he did! I sometimes use that line and was wondering why it suddenly terminated in Vienna instead.

[@sliftyy]

@royalminstrel those tweets were before elon bought it

[@Xeem_Pad]

@@sliftyy he probably meant 'Y'

[@killazaawl]

probably both sponsored, so why make two videos?

[@Joao-ki2wv]

I just wish public officials where I live remembered that when limiting car access you need to increase public transit availability

[@bramvanduijn8086]

Yeah, you can't motivate people to choose alternatives that don't exist. That's not how motivation works.

[@JanTuts]

​@@bramvanduijn8086"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

[@TohaBgood2]

@@JanTuts 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Shyt, I forgot this one and you actually got me laughing. Maybe it was the odd setting or whatever, but I actually got a solid laugh. Thanks!

[@TohaBgood2]

@@bramvanduijn8086 That's not entirely true. In most cases in the US there is at least some type of bare-bones transit. In most cases (i.e. not Phoenix) these are remnants from a much larger transit system that can be ramped back up pretty quickly. The real problem is that we have such insane highway and auto infrastructure that it's still pretty functional even with massive restrictions. So people see that glimmer of hope and still try to drive places. They think that they can "sneak through." Consequently, they never learn the transit system and simply cannot conceive of ever using it. It's a massive cultural problem. I'll give you an example. In the Bay Area the locals are very used to transit. The whole place was built on rail and there's a longstanding tradition of using transit. But the Bay Area is like an early tech career merry-go-round. New people constantly move here to start their tech career and then retire back to wherever they're from in their late 30s/early 40s. The locals are perfectly fine taking the train if driving stops being an option for whatever reason. But all the non-locals who moved here from Wisconsin and Florida howl like there's no tomorrow. Sometimes the incessant whining is actually enough to force the local DOTs to reverse the changes. Meanwhile, the transit alternatives absolutely do exist. And due to Covid and WFH those alternatives have massive capacity reserves. But the Bay Area newbies cannot even conceive of using that transit. They don't know where the stops are. They don't know where it goes and doesn't go. They've never seen a map of the lines. It's kind of a crazy situation. They're like children in terms of transit use. You have to literally close a bridge or a highway for construction for a month just so that they have the incentive to learn about the transit options!

[@F4URGranted]

​@@TohaBgood2what do you think of the little pods San Jose wants to use for their airport transit 😂😂

[@fatsplz]

the two-lane highway being named the minority evictor is a nice touch

[@justladueit2]

"Fist of R. Moses" goes hard too ngl

[@mishynaofficial]

A two-lane road is bad in real life, to be honest. We had to wait for two hours due to a car crash, as we could not go around. 4 lanes is ideal.

[@thegrowl2210]

@@mishynaofficial 4 is the limit, 3 is the standard.

[@pepeokatze]

​@@mishynaofficial actually should be 6 lanes, what if theres 2 crashes, we cant go around if both lanes got blocked

[@KindredBrujah]

@@mishynaofficial Do you mean per side or in total? Two per side is fine (four total). Any more than that is really just induced demand, unless it's for easier on/off with extended sliproads.

[@Realkeepa-et9vo]

You know your countrys railway is bad when Deutsche Bahn is the positive example

[@tedferkin]

UK's Network Rail: Hold my slightly warm tea

[@Alias_Anybody]

​@@tedferkin 18C is only warm by British standards.

[@shinyaltaria1388]

​@@tedferkinI mean, at least it's functional - just about.

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

You think that's bad? Vox had a video on US transit saying it should aspire to be like the TTC in Toronto, Ontario, in Canada.

[@DevynCairns]

Germans complain about DB and it's fair - when an organization doesn't meet your needs, the relative comparisons don't really matter. It is however true at the same time that a lot of countries around the world would kill for the level of service DB provides 😅

[@arcrimeaball]

20% game review 60% rant about the Hungarian railway 15% "f*ck cars, make cities walkable again" 5% making fun of the far-right twitter degens 100% perfection we need more let's plays like this!

[@kkkkoouciLolol]

ah yes, good`ol rantaroni

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

It's like the best of 'Let's Game it Out' meets the best of 'Not Just Bikes'

[@JakeKilka]

@@Sorcerers_Apprentice Watching both channels so I really like this comment

[@Wampa842]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

[@octothorpian_nightmare]

Bug DoNotEat to finish the Franklin series!

[@ramiqcom]

You could also make Dubai with a sewage system

[@verttikoo2052]

Sewage system? Who needs sewage system? Just dump everything on the waterways like the UK does 🎉

[@TheJonesdude]

@@verttikoo2052 That's what happens when you privatise utilities. Ahh the UK, we do all of the shit decisions so you don't have to

[@verttikoo2052]

@@TheJonesdude We are so grateful 🥹 We come back time to time to check what we should avoid doing 👍

[@TheJonesdude]

@@verttikoo2052 I could go all day about what other nations should avoid doing

[@verttikoo2052]

@@TheJonesdude You have to changes the voting system 👍 Copy it from the European Parliament 👍

[@Pokanika]

Kinda want a Cities Skylines 2 series of just you building an efficient city and explaining why you chose particular choices. Probably not your kind of content, but I would genuinely love to see one.

[@TheCowai]

Just add a Hungarian railway rant segment in each episode, and all is good.

[@GTAVictor9128]

It would also be cool for him to continue the city review series. I've recently visited Barcelona and was super impressed by its compactness and walkability - with an efficient metro system, tree cover on almost every street, and many streets being either fully or semi pedestrianised (as in: cars are allowed, but at low speeds where it's the driver's responsibility to look out for pedestrians, not the other way). Compared to your average Irish city, the experience was unbelievable.

[@Cibershadow2]

One youtuber who does this is donoteat01, he even did an entire series covering a fake american city from its Native American Village beginnings to modern day called Franklin

[@thegrowl2210]

@@Cibershadow2 Bigmoodenergy also made a series in cities skylines where she explained North American planning through the medium of the game.

[@Exarvi]

I didn't know i wanted to see that until i read this

[@wile123456]

Game doesn't have bicycles which is quite insane as its a basic feature.

[@drdewott9154]

Yeah ngl that seems like a big oversight. Especially considering how 1: cycling is much more common now than 8 years ago when CS:1 was released, and 2: the fact that cycling was included in After Dark! The very first DLC for CS:1.

[@wile123456]

@@drdewott9154 it better be a free update, but the devs have been completely silent on it, and the first update is focused on water stuff, so they may not come until 2 years from now which is quite sad.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

From what I've seen so far this game doesn't look finished

[@MMR_LM]

Guarantee it'll be paid DLC.

[@tristanridley1601]

Paradox policy is to keep a game unfinished and try to outdo EA at milking their fans via DLC.

[@Soguwe]

Renaming the twitter pastiche Y is hilarious, they should totally do that

[@matman730]

Y as in "why?"

[@fz1576]

⁠​⁠@@matman730yes, Y as in "yes"

[@unexpected2475]

Actually it's "Y" as in "You've destroyed the reputation of your company".

[@monad_tcp]

I find it funny its names X, as in : its a variable and we don't know what its value is. Solve for X. X equates to 0.

[@TommyTom21]

Someone with coding knowledge needs to make that a mod asap

[@Vakowski]

Houston city planners when not told to build 10 lane highways and parking lots: 😯

[@Pantsinabucket]

*26 lane highways. Yes, Houston has a 26 lane highway.

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

@@Pantsinabucket I genuinely thought you were taking the piss but I googled it and wow... But I'm glad they solved traffic by adding that last lane!

[@johnroach9026]

@@Pantsinabucket Just one more lane bro, just one more lane, one more, I swear just one more lane will fix things

[@guybrushthreepwood362]

Bold of you to assume Houston has city planning

[@bramvanduijn8086]

@@guybrushthreepwood362 Oh they definitely do, there are some kinds of mess you need large teams of experts to create.

[@guardianofthehill]

Adam just absolutely not holding back and naming the two main highway sections "The Minority Evictor" and "Fist of R. Moses" already makes this video legendary

[@metatechnocrat]

The man knows history. Gotta admire that.

[@MrMediator24]

Ambassador part really surprised me, always thought they would have quite a strong connection and understanding of a country they work in

[@andymod]

It's just Americans being Americans...

[@JamesDBlanc]

You clearly don't know Americans or bureaucrats. As stated, it's obvious that she spent her time in her sheltered enclave or rich people and other bureaucrats.

[@FeathorFerengi]

There's multiple tiers of US ambassador. Tier one are the professionals, the career diplomats, they're sent where you need someone who can deal with a delicate, difficult or hostile environment and is good at politics. US Ambassador to China, Russia, Vietnam, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the likes. Tier two are ambassadors who get a cushy end-of-career posting. Think basically the Caribbean, the South Sea, Canada and other areas of low importance and/or low chance of the ambassador needing to do anything that can't be taken care of by other people. Tier three ambassadors are appointees to important allied nations. France, Britain, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Turkey, Greece and increasingly Poland. Those can be career diplomats or a reward posting for a campaign contributor and you have a decidedly mixed quality of appointees there. Tier four are reward ambassadorships, they go to campaign contributors and cronies and generally put them in an ambassadorship in a country that isn't too important but is still looking good to have been ambassador there. Which is basically small Western European nations who get saddled with such people as ambassadors. Tier five ambassadors are basically sent to places like Madagascar, the CAR and other such places, it's basically a posting no one is too enthusiastic about. Spending four years as the ambassador to Madagascar or Malawi isn't going to open you many doors. It's basically a posting for younger careerists or for those who have a deep interest in the place they're being sent to.

[@buschacha]

From her (former ambassador Sands) Wikipedia page: “A former chiropractor, socialite, and actress,[4] Sands married business executive Fred Sands in 1999. Following his death in 2015, she succeeded him as chair and CEO of Vintage Capital Group. During Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, she was an economic advisor to Trump[5] and a major donor to his campaign and inaugural committee.” Explains a lot. Usually our ambassadors are A) actually qualified and B) actually interested in forming good relationships with their host countries. E.g. the guy before her (Rufus Gifford): “In his capacity as the Ambassador, he helped modernize the transatlantic relationship through youth engagement and institution-building, among other bilateral and global issues. He outlined a diplomatic strategy that prioritized non-traditional audiences and people-to-people relationships. As part of a never-before-seen public diplomacy strategy,[9] he was the subject of the documentary series I am the Ambassador. The documentary TV series about his life as an ambassador ran for two seasons,[10] winning the Big Character award at the 2015 TV-Prisen award-show. As Ambassador, he traveled to Greenland for bilateral meetings on climate change, promoted counter-extremism initiatives and Danish-American trade, and worked to maintain Danish military support in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2016, he accompanied U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, several American mayors (including current U.S. Secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg), as well as Danish Transport Minister Hans Christian Schmidt on a bike ride around Copenhagen to showcase its success as a "cyclist-friendly city." And “On January 16, 2017, Gifford was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for his "meritorious service to the Kingdom of Denmark."[17]

[@lordsleepyhead]

Countries usually only send competent ambassadors to countries they have a vested interest in. The rest get sent bumbling sycophants who are owed a favour from the ruling party.

[@Bohr2um]

Im danish, and i can confirm that we are primative cavemen that hunt our food with sticks

[@Daneelro]

Ah, Denmark! This summer, I passed through on a train trip to Norway, and experienced it as the eldorado for the carless, but also had some funny adventures when things broke down. On my way there, my train from Hamburg had to stop at the border due to a catenary rupture near Vojens, but DSB's replacement diesel train was already waiting for us, and quickly eliminated the delay - until the driver forgot to stop at Nyborg and had to reverse (earning widespread laughter in the train). This delay left me with just half an hour for sight-seeing in Kopenhagen, which I used by riding the metro to and from Nyhavn with my big bag. I even had time for the detour from the station to the subway platforms via the street next to the central station (not finding the direct passageway), and could witness the insane amounts of parked bikes there - and attempted to imagine the space the equivalent amount of cars would have needed. On my way back, I was less lucky, as a train cancellation in Sweden snowballed into a four-hour delay by the time I arrived in Berlin, and over half of that came in Denmark. See arriving an hour late, the next connection to Hamburg wasn't direct but one with a change of trains in Fredericia with a 7-minute window. The ticket officer reassured me that there is absolutely no traffic problem on the network that day, and she was right, but DSB didn't calculate with the dozen members of a three-generation Danish family going on a bike holiday who took 6 minutes to disembark in Slagelse. Waiting for an on-time train from the other direction at a construction-related single-track section added 8 minutes, and the connecting train wouldn't wait for us in Fredericia. This time DSB organised a much slower replacement bus.

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

I thought you were all Vikings?

[@TheHeavyshadow]

Can confirm. I'm currently writing from my IStone 6.

[@theusername000000000]

And here I thought y'all just lived off soy.

[@bugsygoo]

I am Australian and I lived in Copenhagen for three years. I can confirm that after driving everywhere in Australia, including down to the local shops, I was forced to ride a bike everywhere while in Denmark. It was terrible. I got excercise from just normal activity, I had to find something else to spend the thousands of kroner I would normally spend on transport and I had to wear a jacket to keep dry when it rained! I am still traumatised by the experience, so much so that I still ride my bike everywhere even though I no longer live in Denmark. Think I need therapy.

[@eternalcanadiandevyt]

Not Just Bikes would be proud.

[@babotond]

what else then?

[@chip-lol]

More like Nachos bikes

[@dyn9726]

​@@babotond i am also proud 😢

[@namantherockstar]

Adam inspires me.. My parents said if i get 60K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging...

[@superultrathanksmom3845]

@@chip-lol YUM

[@kitbradley2689]

They didn't say, but the US Embassy to Denmark is about a hundred meters from Østerport, one of the key stations in downtown Copenhagen. It is a station for the S-trains, metro, and regional trains, as well as the train to Sweden. Many buses also stop there. If the US ambassador's driver was riding for an hour in the snow rather than taking the train, that was a choice. As a real-life example, I live a bit outside of kbh. and it would take me about 45 minutes to get to the US embassy by bus and train. During most of it, I would be sitting in a climate controlled train watching a show or reading a book. If I chose to ride to the embassy, Google predicts it would take an hour and a half, so we can conclude the the driver lives closer to the embassy than I do, so the commute by public transportation would take less time. But, yeah, one of the issues is also that Americans view doing anything that isn't climate controlled as a nightmare. We've worked ourselves into a tizzy about getting hit with a single drop of rain or the tinest bit of sweat. Many Americans are baffled that my family don't have a car. They'll say things like, "How do you get your groceries?" And I'll say, "I have a bike trailer." Then they ask about the snow, and I say that bike lanes in Denmark are given priority to be de-iced, the same priority as the motorways, so it's like asking how do you drive when it snows. Then they ask what happens when I'm sick or whatever, and I tell them that I can also get groceries delivered, and that the bike trailer also fits on my wife's bike. It is clear that many of them don't want to believe that it is possible to live without a car in a modern, industrialized city.

[@ZachBobBob]

I'd 100% watch you do a full lets play series of you turning a city into the most car free utopia possible (that he game would allow you to make)...obviously will political and social rants peppered throughout.

[@FairyRat]

I'm appalled it's not a thing on this channel already!

[@vulpix0r]

Yes please, Adam please stream on twitch or something, let us listen to you not being held back by silly KZbin algorithms while you play City Skylines.

[@rodlavery509]

I am legit waiting for a reviewer or streamer to do this before I buy the game, it's all I want but I'm so doubtful the game will properly support it.

[@ImWriiight]

This is the most politicized game review I’ve ever seen, and I am glad to be here for it.

[@Mathee]

2:07 As a person who has lived in Denmark her whole life, I like that I don't have waste money on a car and license to get where I need to. Surprise, but it's actually really nice to have all necessities within a short, walkable distance, and being able to get everywhere else with public transportation and/or bike

[@porcus123]

A drivers license is useful even if you don't have a car. Say what you want but vacations without cars leave you stuck next to rails or roads.

[@Mathee]

@@porcus123 Not in my case; my anxiety would never let me be okay behind the wheel of a car. Besides, why would I ever want to vacation somewhere where cars would be my only source of transportation? That sounds like it would just be horrible in general

[@porcus123]

@Mathee understandable, but I wouldn't expect continuously buses or traind doing the trip to a nice isolated spot or something of the kind

[@Mathee]

@@porcus123 Why would I take a vacation to an isolated spot like that? There would be nothing to do or see. If you're talking about a place where you live generally instead of a vacation spot, you can just bike around for short distances, and bike to the nearest station/bus stop

[@porcus123]

@Mathee what do you expect people in rural zones will use for transport?

[@Daneelro]

I'm from Hungary, and I have experienced the chaos on the Budapest-Vienna line due to this ad-hoc total renewal, and it's even worse than Adam says. Of course, they didn't consider people who reserved seats in advance. I reserved a seat on a train to Vienna about three weeks before it started, but had to re-schedule all my connecting trains. (And I was smart enough to expect an arrival an hour late.) They actually set up a plan for the express trains to arrive in Vienna on time (with early departures), but they could not keep that schedule, at all. It seems party because there were constant mishaps on the works (like accidentally cutting high-voltage lines), and partly because there was an entirely to be expected "traffic jam" for freight trains. I observed the way they did the job from the train during the first week. They started all the various work at the same time but in different locations. So at one location, they started with ballast replacement under the old track, at another, they changed the rails & sleepers on top of the old ballast, elsewhere they first went for the signals, yet again elsewhere they started with cutting back the shrubbery. Domestic trains are replaced with buses on the affected section. During the first week, some buses got lost and drivers had to ask passengers for directions. No wonder because they had to find some 200 drivers (& buses) all across the country, when there are manpower shortages due to bad pay.

[@EternalShadow1667]

Trust Adam Something to turn a fun sponsored City Skylines project into a scathing critique of Hungarian and Serbian corruption and the dangers of Chinese loans. Literally stunned rn.

[@moosesandmeese969]

Did the snow make your power grid fail? If it did props to Paradox for making Houston realistic

[@tbestig4164]

The absolute madman snuck some Hungary updates into a cities skylines video I feel like a dog who’s been fed a piece of cheese with a pill in it

[@AyubuKK]

We need to make small shops and local market places popular again.

[@Armando_Hasanbelliu]

And possibly tax the shit out of big company like Amazon, Ebay ecc.

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

the only problem with small shops and farmers markets is that I always spend too much money because omg the nice old lady is selling curd balls? (btw ... really? curd balls? thats the english word xD that makes it sound disgusting)

[@tedferkin]

Also small shops waste more food, they don't have the JIT capability and the turnover of fresh produce to make sure we can get unrotten food. I remember the days when my mum used to shop at the local shops. The food was far worse than the produce I can pick up today. so much of it used to end up being chucked out at the end of the day, i think they used to give it to farmers to feed to pigs. The way we used to do things wasn't always better than today. But I do understand your aversion to big corporations and the control they exert over everyday life. But then again I couldn't order almost anything I want and have it in my hands the next day. Delivery times of 2 weeks to months would be the order of the day or even go and collect after they ordered it a few months ago and left it unforgotten in the storage room for a few weeks/months

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

@@tedferkin Citation needed. You have no examples or evidence for any of your assertions.

[@mrg0th1er83]

That’s the only places I buy stuff at. Saves money in the end too.

[@exp2745]

I was genuinely expecting to see meteors thrown at each and every parking space in the beginning. Then I remembered this is Adam, not RT...

[@victoralexandervinkenes9193]

Lol

[@SharkyMcSnarkface]

Almost heaven

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

Who could have predicted that autocratic cronyism would have disastrous consequences for Hungary's public infrastructure financing?

[@TakisEnjoyer]

I'm really shocked the publisher was okay with this ad, but damn I'm all for it.

[@RaedwaldBretwalda]

He breaks the game. But made me much more likely to buy the game, because there's clearly been some effort to cater for city designs that are not car centric.

[@zh84]

979 years to repay an investment? Well, at least they're not guilty of short-term thinking...

[@alanpennie]

Chou En - lai's ghost nods.

[@nightwolfMKT]

This kind of shows the one issue I have with Cities Skylines, the game's great but it's heavily focused on creating US-style cities (though with less car parking required) and it's difficult to make a more compact European or East Asian-style one.

[@nielsvanheteren]

Yeah game is out now and its more like a suburb builder, there’s literally only demand for low density homes. I’m trying to up land value but you cant even do that by providing good city services or transportation connenctions, no it mostly gets raised by commercial zones. Which yeah are nice but i’d rather drive a bit further for new clothes than drive an hour to elementary school. This focus is also so weird considering this is a European game developer. Bikes aren’t even included which would render cars even less essential.

[@drdewott9154]

Man nice on you for bringing up the whole Carla Sands ratio, like man that was quite a moment! And like Benny was a good minister for transport. Not perfect, he was still a tad too car brained and highway happy (and rather wanting a branch line railway replaced with a busway instead of funding long overdue maintenance) but he was the most transit supportive minister we've had in a long time. Heck when the electric wires on the railway to Næstved got turned on he even drove the inaugural electric train. The 2 subsequent ministers after him have both been disasters. Also yeah Sands definitely wasn't very participating in Danish stuff nor tried at all to get acquainted with the country. She was basically the exact opposite of the former Ambassador Rufus Gifford. Rufus was well known and is still highly adored by many Danes. He was always engaging with the public and getting a feel for the local opinions and ways of doing things. He took his job as Ambassador and went a step above. It was even made more famous by the fact that Danish public TV network DR made a documentary series following Rufus's affairs called "I am the Ambassador" which can also be watched abroad via Netflix.

[@nuke___8876]

I can see how the tongue-in-cheek joke of: "the government of Poland is 5 years behind Hungary's and Hungary's is 10 years behind Russia's" came about with this pretty poignant rant. Luckily, it seems like Poland decided to roll the clock back for 4 years so we'll be 9 years behind Hungary and 19 years behind Russia :p

[@ericwright8592]

I rode the Vienna-Budapest line about 2 days before it closed. No warning lol, I had no clue it was closing until after we took the train. The ÖBB rail jet engine ditched us just across the Hungarian border and a MAV engine hopped on. Speed was cut in half but honestly it wasn't that bad, still ~90km/h. It's not like there were chickens and donkeys in the train cars with you. And there were still multiple tracks in operation so trains could pass each other easily, stations all seemed to have through tracks too. Amtrak is a really, really low bar to clear 🥲. If Hungary does actually finish the Vienna line in the time frame they claim it will be impressive, seeing as most of the tracks in the North East US are 120 years old and the bridges are held up by only a thick layer of rust. I will say, the MAV website was miserable. Czech Railways and ÖBB were much easier.

[@tay-lore]

As a former houstonian, i would pay any amount of money to get to witness the rage and confusion around the roadways being reduced to 20% while everyone struggles to figure out how a train works

[@Milleneum]

I feel like this video was playing at 1.25 speed, but it was on normal. Adam must take his caffeine intravenously.

[@alanpennie]

I had to rewind a couple of times.

[@allthe1]

Even on .75 he sounds very energetic

[@labrat_09]

Fun Fact: I think things like public transit is a good thing, yet again, the "car perfect, walking, biking, and public transit abhorrent" mentality is more of a conservative and maybe even a republican opinion, yes, I'm from the USA, but the need for a car is confusing at best at times for relatively short distances. This country needs to take a few pages out Europe's book. Btw, I can understand the want to have your own vehicle, but it isn't needed unless it is for very long distances that are hard to get to by train or flight.

[@DeclanMBrennan]

"Hello Houston. We have a problem." Time for an EVA to the local train station.

[@hmartinlb]

I thought this was a troll. No city center looks like this. Then I checked Google maps. This is real.

[@jonathanraithel1025]

Look up Houston's downtown in 1970. It apparently was even worse.

[@arlen_95]

As a lifelong Houstonian, I’m just happy to see someone mentioned Houston, lol.

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

It’s weird hearing Houston getting mentioned

[@the-letter_s]

@@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger i think that sentiment applies to people from most places i mean, whenever places like Finland or Brazil get mentioned on youtube, people from those countries just go wild

[@Kactus-55]

I'm always surprised how infrequently our city is mentioned. It's the fourth largest city in the US after all.

[@AntirisDark]

a few years ago a Not Just Bikes video made Houston infamous as an example of horrible walkability

[@Moscato_Moscato]

@@Kactus-55we’re the home of Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion FFS!!

[@balazsadamracz6577]

As a hungarian, it's so funny to listen back the news about the hungarian state railways on this channel! If my job was to install the signaling system onto a rail line, I would surely ask whether it's a maglev or a narrow gauge forest railway, regardless of what I have in my country...

[@AlexVSharp]

I'm actually laughing my ass off. In a random video about what is happening in Hungary, I have actually found out the actual costs of that railway project, which is kept hush-hush in my country of Serbia. Cheers, man.

[@alanpennie]

I hope this line gets finished. It should be useful.

[@grasak1594]

​​@@alanpennieKosta 2.7 mlrd €

[@daos3300]

ok, aside from the fact that this is basically just an extended advert for a game that apparently doesn't work unless you take the broken american cultural approach, the 30s section about hungarian corruption & cronyism was pretty interesting.

[@Lumposaurus]

I've lived in Houston Since 1979 and I would ABSOLUTELY love it if I could have working public transit. I travel quite a lot for work and for fun and I love ther public transit in most of the cities I have been to. Especially London and Paris. But, we don't have that here so I am stuck.

[@flammincabbages]

“Playing on a pre release build so don’t mind the performance issues” - oh how that ages poorly Sadge

[@dragontoothless4351]

One of the main reasons I moved away from Houston and moved to Dallas, was the carelessness of many Houston drivers (where stopping at red lights is considered by many as optional).

[@scruffopone3989]

I can't believe this video was in fact *not* about Cities Skylines 2, I loved it!

I LOVE that you spoke about the Serbia - Budapest train connection. A similar "game" regarding the Chinese constructor and who's put in charge with it is happening on our side.

[@grasak1594]

Mi cemo barem imati brzu prugu od Subotice do Nisa, nije isto ovde i kod Madjara

@@grasak1594 da, nisu ista pravila, pošto EU i non-EU, ali i dalje neće biti preko neke brzine. Ali, daj šta daš, jako nam fali unutrašnja železnica.

[@grasak1594]

@ I da je ovaj kredit za Madjare isao preko EU, svakako mislim da bi Madjari odabrali opciju da im voz ide 160km/h jer od Kelebije do Budimpeste nema vecih gradova, da kazem tom linijom nema nista. A da bi na njihovom delu vozovi isli 200km/h potrebno je da su pruge denivelisane, sto se njima realno i ne isplati jer mi barem spajamo prvi, drugi i peti grad po velicini

[@tlf7674]

I love the way you managed to get that rant decrying the corruption of Orban's regime in a sponsored video.Paradox looked at it and said 'yeah, it's true, he sucks' and green lit it.

[@InkubusGames]

5:00 Hi there, on the Serbian side, things are not better either. Belgrade has this pseudo-metro which as such served citizens to quickly traverse large distances. However, when this rail became a thing, they have decided to scrap one track of this metro, refurbish it into the this Chinese rail while pseudo-metro was now servicing citizens of Belgrade every 60 minutes in overcrowded wagons which are hard to have a breath in the summer as the AC unites were scrapped from the train. I don't have exact numbers here but the loan taken from China on the Serbian side is much worser than the loan offer from the EU.

[@TheJudoJoker]

Totally not far right people: I don't agree with all of Viktor Orban's policies, but he cares about his people! Viktor Orban totally caring about his people: taking a comically lopsided deal with China that will definitely work out in Hungary's interest.

[@ProtonCannon]

He clearly has long term thinking! So in the year of 3002 we can all look back and see what a forward thinking idea this was.

[@shughes57]

Fun fact, before Carla Sands was a bad ambassador, she was a bad actress. She starred the absolute cinematic masterpiece Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell.

[@alanpennie]

Shirley Temple's ghost looks disapprovingly at her epigone.

[@RedSntDK]

Talk about "draining the swamp", the opposite happened with her, she literally bought herself that position - using her dead husbands money.

[@mcmann7149]

The whole thing about the Hungarian infrastructure and bureaucracy corruption reminds me of what's going on in South Africa where the ANC is just funneling government money to private benefactors under state-owned contractors.

[@renegalvan4957]

God I wish California hurried up with better public transit being to Japan truly spoiled me as I love walking to places and not having to drive at all was a god send.

[@pyroman2918]

Funny that you mentioned the Budapest - Belgrade line. I work for a Czech railways signals company, and it looks like we will probably be delivering the ETCS to this railway. I didn't know that originally the Chinese were supposed to build the ETCS system there, and it seems absurd to me, since it takes years to develop it and get it certified, the regulations are very strict.

[@steemlenn8797]

So in Hungary the dream is not from dishwasher to millionaire, but from gas repairman to billionaire? A High Five to friends!

[@ProtonCannon]

Welcome to post communist oligarchies enjoy your stay!

main reason I don't like cities skylines (or, previously, the simcity series) is because of the car centrism and grid-only cities they allow. I'll start playing when I can replicate a city like Amsterdam or Prague.

[@babotond]

3:56 brand new matematikai fogalom just dropped: megújuló szakasz!

[@michaelimbesi2314]

Holy shit. Amtrak certainly has its problems, but at least it’s not Hungarian Railways. America’s most important rail route is the Northeast Corridor (NEC), and while it is also getting lots of work done on it, you can still rely on Amtrak for fast and efficient travel on it and expect to get to your destination either on time or less than 10 minutes late with only a few exceptions (specifically, long distance trains from outside the NEC tend to be delayed before they reach the NEC, and sometimes old swing bridges get stuck open. And Amtrak is working on replacing the old bridges and making freight companies give better priority to passenger trains)

[@52flyingbicycles]

That middle bit exposing corruption in the Hungarian government is like a System of a Down song

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

China didn't give money to corruption 😊

[@JovanNoviSad]

As a Serb living in Vienna (one of the many, as you would definitely know), I would very strongly argue against your claim that Belgrade-Budapest rail line only serves Chinese interests and is unnecessary.

[@fatcat22able]

Use this comment as a “we want more Adam Something Let’s Plays” button.

[@squeaksquawk4255]

I think he does on Adam Something Else?

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

I'd honestly watch a CS series of Adam building his ideal city

[@Moscato_Moscato]

As a Houstonian, I agree that our city and not as walkable as other cities outside of the US. Believe me, it’s so much more walkable and bikeable than all of the other cities outside of the metropolitan area. That big 26 lane highway isn’t in Houston but a part of the city of Katy

[@Hakugarawe]

Also in Denkmark, middle class people dont have to choose between debt and death when they get seriously ill.

[@williambrasky3891]

Do Nashville! We’re like Huston if it only started getting big 10 years ago, made a promising metro line proposal 5 years ago, rejected it (b/c Red state w/ Red suburbs), and is now suffering the consequences. Traffic has already made the city borderline unlivable, and it’s quickly becoming worse with no end in sight.

[@adamschmidt9084]

I love when you talk about hungarian politics! People outside of Hungary need to hear about the shithole our country is in.

[@Frenzy0212]

So that's why there was so much chaos around the Railjets coming from Budapest when I landed in Vienna on Oct 6th. Was just trying to get to Salzburg but the schedule in that direction was all messed up and inside the trains it didn't show seat reservations and station info.

[@justinmcgough3958]

I don't have a problem with public transit as an American. It's just the large amount of homeless people that get on without paying to escape the heat, and the crime on it that makes me not want to have anything to do with it.

[@yesec9]

"I wonder if Paradox will keep up with the times and turn 'Chirper' into 'Y'" Had me in stitches!! 😂🤣😆

[@CHappy778]

Thanks for sharing that bit from the clusterfck that is Hungary right now. Great video :)

[@whyteo3]

Így vissza hallani angolul az ország helyzetét eléggé durva reality checket tud adni nekem aki már megszokta, hogy még a poloskát is az ablakról lenyúlja a kormány 🙃

[@jamesnix9456]

Fun fact, Houston has no zoning laws. Yeah seriously no zoning. Build a house next to a church, a car dealership and across the street is a restaurant and a strip club. That deserves a video of its own.

[@randomtexanguy9563]

reminds me of that small greek orthodox church from the 1800's right next to the WTC before 9/11

[@SendBreadPics]

They've found the perfect youtuber to sponsor.

[@Bryzerse]

Cannot believe Paradox sponsored this but I'm glad they did.

[@Davesknd]

So THAT was the reason my trains in Graz were fucked up for two weeks! Thanks Orban-ma!

[@antonnurwald5700]

Not being a gamer myself i probably vastly underestimated the role of games in shaping the public's imagination about whatbis possible in cities.

[@ShawnBuilds]

0:37 don't worry about the performance issues... lol

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

2:23 Based embassy driver. Driving is his profession yet he computes to work by bike 👍

[@torifin755]

balance has once again returned to the world.. you have done a great service to Houston Adam.

[@soaringstars314]

Talk about how car dependent los Angeles is that the i10 freeway closure has caused a state of emergency and proves how car dependent they are since they seem incapable of functioning without a small section of a freeway

[@Thomas51300]

Mods would be nice but it seems that Paradox is not going to allow Steam workshop support and is going to force you to use their website to download mods. Not sure how well that’s going to go.

[@ThatOliveMrT]

Not very lol. Skipping

[@laurencefraser]

Wow. Pretty sure that would kill any interest I had in the game if Paradox's launcher nonsense and subsequent treatment of players of Cities Skylines 1 (not to mention other screw ups since) hadn't already convinced me not to buy anything they publish quite some time ago.

[@RedSntDK]

Not sure why people see this as a bad thing. It means that the base game can be enjoyed from other game stores/launchers like GOG and maybe Epic.

[@justinsanchez6626]

Finally, this is the first creator I've seen to make a fully pedestrianized city in early access cities skylines 2. Now I'm glad to know this game allows them.

[@ishansharma1920]

0:21 and still a lot of indians want to make their cities have a planning like Houston or LA. They don't know how bad it will be.

[@EvelynNdenial]

you would think completely overhauling the city of houston would involve bulldozing half the city, but dont worry! they already did, so theres plenty of room.

[@Tronnyverse]

I'm wouldn't mind seeing more Cities Skylines II videos of Adam making the perfect car free city 😅

[@cringebaby7462]

Seeing this, mr Something, I propose to you a challenge. Fixing Brasilía, the capital of Brazil. Overall, it's not a terrible city, but, it was created around the concept of the automobile, and because of that, if you don't have one while in that city, you are, simply put: screwed. Happy hunting. edit: (I primarily mean the city core: the south and north wings + the city center/ administrative areas. The areas around it are planned in the most part, more normal.)

[@troypowers750]

I wonder if city planners have used this software for their planning. I mean, drafters that taught me use AutoCAD.

[@maximilianbeyer5642]

Given that induced demand didn’t exist in the first game and there was no way to get rid of cars, most likely yes

[@Pratalax]

Knew it wouldn't be an adam something video without some fucking WILD shit, holy crap Hungary!!!

[@ristovirtaharju5030]

This video felt like an advert with a small comment about hungarian politics added in to try and add some actual content. I really don't think this is Adam's best work.

[@jippee1]

Up vote

[@gigamoumantai2696]

We need to ban all forms of transportation except for walking, horses and bicycles. Also Shiggy and his friends didn't need any cars to get to the city.

[@calibula95]

Finally Adam can have his dream come true.

[@AmazingDuckmeister]

Hungary failing at building railways makes me slightly better at the failure of High Speed Rail in the UK.

[@Thats_my_Point]

Came for the game review, stayed for the Hungarian political corruption

[@Jonas988]

Inspired by this video, I think I will make a disaster mod for C:S2, but instead of a hurricane or Godzilla destroying the city, it is Victor Orban destroying your city's economy. Everything will cost five times as much to build, and 90 % of your tax income will mysteriously disappear.

[@jinmong5417]

You are always talking about the threat of cars, I would like to hear what you think about motorcycles ? Same as cars or better ? Or even worse

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Well there's far less of them and they take up much less room so they aren't a huge problem But they benefit off the same infrastructure as cars

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Good question. But honestly i dont see them as anything other then gigachads or crackheads (man, there is like 0`C outside with 90% humidity, what are you doing?)

[@ultracapitalistutopia3550]

Getting sponsor from the party you literally roasted previously. Legendary.

[@RobsNeighbor]

Love the work you do!

[@kostakole9876]

I can only imagine what kind of shenanigans are happening on the Serbian side of the Budapest - Belgrade railway, seeing how completely incompetent the Serbian government is.

[@grasak1594]

Mora se javi neko ko prica gluposti

[@3EyedFox]

As a Houstonian .... I'm cryinnnnnnnnnggfgggggggg 😂

[@MattMichaliszyn]

As another Houstonian, the only way to really fix this city is to shrink it by like 90%

[@martins.4240]

I get you. As as Dane I would cry too if I lived in Houston.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Paradox: Hey, showcase our game! Adam Something: Sure. Anyway... HOW ABOUT THE FUCKING HUNGARIAN RAILWAY!?

[@ravstar52]

You had me at "mixed zoning"