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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.
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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.
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China? Democracy? That itself is a joke.
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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...
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I've gotten that too. I believe there is another AYBABTU reference elsewhere in the game (can't remember where)
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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.
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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!
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