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Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years
Have you ever wondered what a game of Civilization 2 would look like after running for 10 years? According to one gamer it's a "hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation." "Lycerius" says that he's been playing the same game of Civ II off and on for over a decade. Some highlights of the marathon session include: 1700 years of war, the ice caps melting over 20 times, constant guerrilla uprisings, and "Roughly 90% of the world's population has died either from nuclear annihilation or famine caused by the global warming that has left absolutely zero arable land to farm." It's too bad you can't build the Hanging Gardens more than once.
Go look at the front page of any news website /can't/ tell me that this is less interesting than whatever crap the media is trying to feed you today.
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What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Deny it exists and do nothing to stop it?
Hold on, I'm going to submit your comment as a slashdot story now.
This is John Carmack. Stop being a bitch.
you're telling me you don't have Civ2 installed on your desktop? At the very least you must surely have MoO2 or Master of Magic.
No? Not even x-com on steam? Well... frankly I don't think YOU matter.
Wow, this guy has some serious management skillz! Maybe he should be running Spain or Greece or the US?
Just one more turn....
Apparently, there are three main super powers left and they have been locked in constant war with each other for the past thousand years or more.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
I used to play Civ 1 on a monochrome screen. The first objective was to find the nation with units of the same shade of gray as your own and completely wipe them out.