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Curt Sibling said:
I can still recall playing CIV-II that first evening in 1997 or so...I stayed up all night!
Quasi-historical alt-history potential, with endless replay value...It was a perfect mix at the time.

I was even playing an 1870s mod for CIV-II Test of Time just today...
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How disappointed were you when you first played Civ: Call to Power? Reading about it, how cool it was going to be, being able to play into the far future. Then it comes out and it's shit.
 
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Coleman Francis said:
How disappointed were you when you first played Civ: Call to Power? Reading about it, how cool it was going to be, being able to play into the far future. Then it comes out and it's shit.
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I recall looking forward to it, seeing the intro, and hoping for a new CIV crack hit. Then I saw the clunky as fuck UI,
the silly units, and fugly maps, etc. A real suck-a-rama. CTP did have some good ideas, just crappily implemented...
 
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Curt Sibling said:
I recall looking forward to it, seeing the intro, and hoping for a new CIV crack hit. Then I saw the clunky as fuck UI,
the silly units, and fugly maps, etc. A real suck-a-rama. CTP did have some good ideas, just crappily implemented...
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DrJonesHat said:
I played Call to Power II, and I threw it away in disgust.
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I remember reading about it online and being so excited, all these new things they'd add to an already great series, like they did from civ to civII. Then you get home and play it and its complete dogshit.

Instead of just sticking with what worked, they changed basically everything. It was an unplayable mess.

DrJonesHat said:
Remember having to fuck with AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to get memory hog games to work? I had a whole box of boot disks for games that required their own special boot configuration to work. I only played Civ I briefly, as II came out shortly after I discovered I liked strategy games.
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Oh you had to fuck with floppy disks? I remember family updating the computer and getting a brand new CD-Rom drive and an enormous 2 gig hard drive. The CD Rom came with a CD that had Civilization 1 and some shit flight simulator. It was all over for me then, I could barely read but I loved that stuff.
 
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I have a dent in the back of my head from falling off the monkey bars in preschool. I thought it would be smart to climb them upside down with only my feet, if anyone cares. If you start at the tip of my right ear and run your finger in a straight line towards my left ear, there's a two inch long dent running up and down. When the school called my dad to tell them, he asked what I was doing that caused it and told them that it was my own damn fault. He didn't tell me any of this until about two years ago when we were out drinking. When I asked why he didn't sue, he said it was my own fault to do something that dumb.
 
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ADN_VIII said:
I have a dent in the back of my head from falling off the monkey bars in preschool. I thought it would be smart to climb them upside down with only my feet, if anyone cares. If you start at the tip of my right ear and run your finger in a straight line towards my left ear, there's a two inch long dent running up and down. When the school called my dad to tell them, he asked what I was doing that caused it and told them that it was my own damn fault. He didn't tell me any of this until about two years ago when we were out drinking. When I asked why he didn't sue, he said it was my own fault to do something that dumb.
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Contrary to popular belief you generally don't win a million zillion dollars in completely bogus lawsuits about shit that was your own fault. Most shitty clickbait stories about this kind of thing leave out a lot of important details that the jury actually had. In theory they were somewhat at fault because they're supposed to pay closer attention, but you wouldn't be looking at huge awards if there was nothing major harmed and you just needed some stitches. At most, you'd get that paid off. If you had insurance coverage, it would usually be up to the insurance company to decide whether to subrogate the claim and sue someone for what they had to pay out, and they're not going to waste their time with small potatoes.

NatalieM said:
I have different eyes: one brown, one green :)
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Go out and zap to the extreme!
 
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AnOminous said:
Contrary to popular belief you generally don't win a million zillion dollars in completely bogus lawsuits about shit that was your own fault. Most shitty clickbait stories about this kind of thing leave out a lot of important details that the jury actually had. In theory they were somewhat at fault because they're supposed to pay closer attention, but you wouldn't be looking at huge awards if there was nothing major harmed and you just needed some stitches. At most, you'd get that paid off. If you had insurance coverage, it would usually be up to the insurance company to decide whether to subrogate the claim and sue someone for what they had to pay out, and they're not going to waste their time with small potatoes.
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I know, and dad knew back then. My fault, my consequences. The insurance paid and the world kept spinning.
 
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I used to climb trees as a little kid. Really tall trees.

I gave it up after I nearly killed myself falling almost thirty feet from one. Thankfully, it was a giant magnolia, and the combination of the bed of the tree having a ton of leaves and my shirt catching on a ton of branches on the way down slowed my descent to where I landed with a completely shredded T-shirt and the air driven from my lungs, but miraculously, I was otherwise unharmed.

Still, that little brush with mortality convinced me I needed a safer hobby.
 
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The longer I follow him, going on about six or seven years now, I honestly begin to like Chris-Chan. It almost makes me kind of happy that he exists. It just really spits in the face of how seriously the world takes itself and the cosmic absurdity of it all is really to die for.
 
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I've conquered this waterslide "The Leap of Faith" at Atlantis Dubai. It's 9 stories tall with an almost vertical slope. Went on it only twice due to longass lines.
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Dr. Meme said:
When I was younger, I went on a field trip to a farm. There was a chicken coop and at my young age, I was very fascinated by chickens. If I weren’t a squirrelkin, I’d probably be a chickenkin. Just to put into perspective how much I love chickens. So anyway, we were at the farm, and this guy just came up and picked up the chicken. He seemed to touch the chicken in inappropriate ways. And an egg fell out. And then the chicken died a little while later. As I mentioned before, this may have been a dream, but it was still very real for me. And now I cry when people are cruel to animals and it really puts me on edge too.
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For real, if that lolcow wasn't bullshitting, I think she's describing the farmer helping a hen suffering from egg-binding (hence having to manually get the egg out & the hen dying later, he's not randomly abusing a chicken)

When I was a little kid, I laughed hard enough to spray snot at this girl, who screamed and ran away.
I showed the same girl this horribly rotted tooth I had a few years later, still in my mouth, that I made stick out at a twisted angle (since it was wobbling out). She screamed just like before.
 
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I used to have amazing penmanship as a kid, I scored very high points in that throughout elementary and middle school. I'm sure if I would write more often, it'd get better and possibly return to the same quality, but meh. I think I write better in cursive than in print, anyway.
 
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