1000 Clues You Play Civ IV Too Much

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333. You use tech-quotes in every day conversation:

"Bill, the company's bottom line is in shambles. What can we do?"

"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails......"


"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"Hath not the potter power over the clay...."

"Bill! Damnit, accounts receivable is needing an answer and did you just say "Hath"?"





"Beep, beep, beep....."

lol, now that is funny
 
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333. You use tech-quotes in every day conversation:

"Bill, the company's bottom line is in shambles. What can we do?"

"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails......"


"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"Hath not the potter power over the clay...."

"Bill! Damnit, accounts receivable is needing an answer and did you just say "Hath"?"





"Beep, beep, beep....."

lol, now that is funny


sorry double post
 
338. You have taken the time to look through the XML files, find the data used for calculating combat chances, study it, and create a mod that shows the odds of combat correctly.
339. When you see a khaki carpet/floor, you automatically think "hm, extra food and production".
340. When you are asked if you want to go on a trip, you say, "No way, it'll take YEARS to get there!"
341. You keep getting nightmares where you get a computer virus and it deletes Civ IV.
342. You never use the internet or play online because of said dream.
343. When someone asks for you to be their body guard, you say, "We just don't like you enough."
344. When your spouse tells you the baby needs a bath, you tell him/her, "Bah! Let them eat cake!"
345. When you are told to stop littering and care more about the environment, you say, "No, the old ways are best."
 
346. You think tanks are made of oil.
347. You tell everyone who would listen that Vatican city is supposed to be that small. It's because they play OCC.
 
348. You refuse to go skiing with your friends in the summer because "The mountains are IMPASSABLE!".
 
349. You think that all boats made in Spain have a +1 movement bonus because Juan Sebastian del Cano was the first person to circumnavigated the globe. (It was actually Juan Sebastian del Cano who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe because, of course, Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippine Islands by some natives & one of those natives became the Philippines's first national hero)
350. You saw someone's project at school that looked exactly like the Oracle & you thought, "That guy plays Civ4, too."
 
It's a movement bonus. Not a sight bonus.

Edit: He fixed it.
 
351. You've already started working on modding an Obama leaderhead into the game as one of the American leaders
 
352. You try to become a vassal state to an angry bear.
 
353. You lie awake at night trying to think of witty posts for this thread. posts simalar to these.

354. You play civ the night before your big end-of-the-year world history finals

1. Describe the beginning of America as an independednt country

"since time immorial, the American people have..."

2. What religion was Isabella trying to spread?

"After founding Buddhism in Madrid, she quickly spread it to the rest of Europe.

3. Descibe Alexander the Great

"phi/agg"


355. Upon recieving the test results, and finding out you flunked, you attempt to sue both the shcool system, and Sid.
 
358. When you wish you could restart your day at work/school in Warlord or Settler mode.

359. When I tell my wife and kiddoes, "That's President Dear and Daddy to you!" :p
 
349. You think that all boats made in Spain have a +1 movement bonus because Juan Sebastian del Cano was the first person to circumnavigated the globe. (It was actually Juan Sebastian del Cano who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe because, of course, Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippine Islands by some natives & one of those natives became the Philippines's first national hero)
The first person to circum navigate the world was Magalhães ( or like you Americans say, Magallean ): he had been in philiphines before coming from the other side of the world ( via Indic ocean ).
 
Magellan *
 
360- The Divine Right was discovered, patented and spread across the Globe by the lone saxophone player Louie "Sachmo" Armstrong sometime in the late 1100's AD
361- Uk's government is a hack for sure, a queen and prime-minister my foot
362- You get confused why Canada isnt flying the British flag.
363- On your death bed, your last words were "Noble was too easy"
364- When you dog destroys your neighbors flower garden, you blame it on "Raiding Bandits" and give him the option of "fixing" it for 30 GP
365- You covered your neighbors rock bed with toy plastic soldiers, swearing it looked something like 3 gold resources, your neighbor doesnt take to kindly, so you demand it in tribute, he refuses... you stand perfectly still hoping for an advantage....
366- After somthing like that, you cover your lawns with toy soldiers, when your neighbor knocks on your door you yell at him "Open Borders are CLOSED"
367- Before you sell your old house you say "Wait.. One.. More.. Turn.."
 
368. You can't find you civ cd's so you ransack every room in the house, still can't find them, cry, ransack again, yell at your kids for losing them, find them, play game and tell your wife her damn dog trashed the house again which means per your pet agreement "that dog is out of here is he wrecks the house one more time!" So its a win win situation, you get to play civ AND you get rid of her stupid little dog!
 
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