A while ago, I saw this mindboggling video about a guy that built an insane, fucked-up city in SC3K. Today I found a neat interview with the man himself, a 22 yo architecture student living in the Philippines. Pretty sick stuff in there: 

MadBuddhist said:

There are a lot of other problems in the city hidden under the illusion of order and greatness: Suffocating air pollution, high unemployment, no fire stations, schools, or hospitals, a regimented lifestyle - this is the price that these sims pay for living in the city with the highest population. It’s a sick and twisted goal to strive towards. The ironic thing about it is the sims in Magnasanti tolerate it. They don’t rebel, or cause revolutions and social chaos. No one considers challenging the system by physical means since a hyper-efficient police state keeps them in line. They have all been successfully dumbed down, sickened with poor health, enslaved and mind-controlled just enough to keep this system going for thousands of years. 50,000 years to be exact. They are all imprisoned in space and time.

 It's amazing how some people seem to have the ability to deconstruct a game to such extent. 

bugsonglass said:

 Portal was the best thing in the orange box IMO

 Yeah, I'd go with that.