I was enjoying a quiet afternoon playing a not-so-quiet game of Civilization III. I'm in the middle of a war with my neighbors, the Japanese (run by the game's AI), and after several turns of having my diplomatic overtures rebuffed, they finally agreed to negotiate.
It seems that the guys who programmed the game have a bad sense of humor.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, it was probably programmed back when that was still funny.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
AYBABTU will never die!
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Well, it was probably programmed back when that was still funny.
Yeah, that's what I figured. The game was released about a year ago, and the dialogue was certainly programmed in several months sooner while it was under development.
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
Ok, what does that mean. It sounds familiar but I don't have the slightest idea where I heard or read it.
Posted by Tora Buttercup (Member # 53) on :
I still think it's funny. Very apt for the game and the country, anyway.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
China? Democracy? That itself is a joke.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Yeah, but that's just the game conditions. I was playing as China, and my government is currently a Democracy.
I promise you, that I am not Chairman Mao Tse-tung!
Although my country has been having some problems with corruption lately...
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I've gotten that too. I believe there is another AYBABTU reference elsewhere in the game (can't remember where)
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
It is probably in the scenerio where Cats destroys your fleet and takes over all your bases. He is wiley.
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
More police takes care of the corruption issues. Duh.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Yeah, I know that.
The problem is that I've got a few far-flung colony-cities, and I can either wait a very long time for the courthouses and police stations to build, or pay lots of money to hurry them up. And when you're fighting a war, you don't usually have the money to spare.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
What is AYBABTU... we might be able to get the joke then.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
?
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
AYBABTU = All Your Base Are Belong To Us. As in the internet joke that went around a year ago. From the game Zero Wing. Where the translation from Japanese to English was crap, so every line of the intro movie was screwed up, and hence we get lines like All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb, and Move Zig, For Great Justice!
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Funny Level, Circa 1999 = 100. Funny Level, Circa 2002 = 010. Funny Level, After Explanation = 000.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
About corruption,that was actually one of the biggest complaints about CivIII that I read about in my old Civ days. If you haven't already, try to get the latest patch, one of them tones down the corruption. In fact, in the pre-patch version, police stations don't even hurt corruption, they just stop unhappiness in times of war or something. In any case, whatever you do corruption will be crippling if you ever take a new continent forcing you to build a Forbidden Palace (you might be able to rush build it by building caravans in your core cities and dumping their resources into it).
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
There are no caravans in Civ3. I'm also running the latest patch for the Mac version of the game.
And finally, I was mostly joking about the corruption in the game. Tahna joked about a Chinese democracy being an oxymoron, so I continued by mentioning corruption.
Meh... I guess that'll teach me for making jokes about history.
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