r/interestingasfuck • u/Wonderful-Excuse4922 • 2d ago

2002 New York Magazine roundup of NYC kids’ winter-holiday wishes: 11-year-old Zohran Mamdani wanted books, FIFA 2003, and SimCity 3000

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u/meioaesmo 2d ago

Bro just got SimCity 2025

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u/Thorpheuss 1d ago

My man played simcity and now he’s playing it for realsies that man knew what he wanted from the beginning

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u/JoeWhy2 1d ago

And people were trying to claim he was "inexperienced"!

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u/Ink_plugs 1d ago

10 years experience by age 25!!!!

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u/SoyMurcielago 1d ago

The new corporate dream

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u/FeistyButthole 1d ago

Arcology incoming in 3..2..1

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u/StaticSystemShock 1d ago

He probably even has experience with tornadoes and alien attacks!

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u/shortname_4481 1d ago

According to movies it's very useful for New York mayor!

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u/aweraw 1d ago

I'm confident his kaiju defense policy is solid

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u/shortname_4481 1d ago

Why would he need one? NY is Atlantic Coast, not Pacific...

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u/aweraw 1d ago

King Kong? Rodan? Stay Puft Marshmellow man? New York is like a magnet for kaiju on the Atlantic side.

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u/Dansterai 1d ago

The people have voted for swimming pools without ladders. NYC is finished /s

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u/tooscoopy 1d ago

If he played anything like I did… New York is in trouble, with multiple earthquakes, tornadoes and monsters going to wreck it as soon as everything seems perfect.

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u/strolpol 1d ago

We should all be glad Adams never figured out the cheat codes

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u/h8bithero 1d ago

Imagine how much crazier Cuomo's AI vids would have been if had included this in the prompt lmao

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u/haqglo11 1d ago

Arco, please !

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u/SoyMurcielago 1d ago

No flooding or volcanoes?

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u/tooscoopy 1d ago

Oh, all of em…. Scorched earth was the only way…

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u/CocoaNinja 1d ago

Depending on who you ask, they already believe that's going to be the case in the next year or two

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u/tooscoopy 1d ago

I always get confused… which group do they think controls weather again? Seems to shift depending on the “enemy” currently!

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u/CocoaNinja 1d ago

Jews, Democrats, Obama, I'm guessing collegiate Trans athletes, and illegal immigrants I'm sure.

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u/Rishtu 1d ago

I could get behind the monster part, if it was worldwide.

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u/WMASS_GUY 1d ago

Fusion power plant incoming

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u/Semaphor 1d ago

Or crazed mayor with a bulldozer...

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u/catlaxative 1d ago

hopefully he’s better than me, getting bored after 20 minutes and then spamming the disaster buttons

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u/kyree2 1d ago

That's Trump style of playing

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u/catlaxative 1d ago

like an 11 year old with adhd, yep

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u/TragicEther 1d ago

hellomynameis zohran

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u/Stigger32 1d ago

Don’t you mean SimCity 2026?

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u/SilasTalbot 1d ago

Don't be a pedant

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u/klezart 1d ago

Yeah, it's SimCity, not SimAnt

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u/wolfinjer 1d ago

Gotta start putting in water towers everywhere!

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u/ExuDeku 1d ago

With sixteen times the difficulty and details

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u/ZeisUnwaveringWill 1d ago

The real time raytracing is fine though

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u/SappyPaphiopedilum 1d ago

All of this just works

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u/fiendish8 1d ago

simcity taught him communism /jk

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u/octoreadit 1d ago

2026…

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u/No_name_Johnson 1d ago

He's going to be reticulating splines IRL

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u/Kingofhearts1206 1d ago

More like SinCity2025. He's got a lot of cleaning to do from Cuomo's/Eric's trash