1000 Clues You Play Civ IV Too Much

"you declared war on our friend"
"We are worried about our rivals being vassals to your empire"
"We are upset that you have fallen under the way of a heathen religion2
So then why aren't they?

 

The US and Japan are both secular states though.

 

2659. How can the USA be a Free Religion state when all its leaders praise Christianity?
2660. Every time you try to associate Civ4 civics with real life governments and politics, it never adds up and you end up with a head-ache. Yet you continue to try it because it's Civ4.
2661. You wonder how the tech Mathematics allows people to chop up wood better. And if that Math teaches your people simple stuff like how to multiply their woodsman skills by 1.5 or these kinds of uncompreensible theorems that will somehow increase their chopping skills later on.

 

They changed to OR.

 

2660. You can't travel to a country without that civ's leader's music playing in your head.

 

'cause with Math comes better measurement, allowing "measure twice, cut once"?

 

2663. Julius Caesar is still alive. Brutus is a fairytale.

 

If that's true, Lincoln, Gandhi, and Willem are also still ruling.

 

Of course they are, how can you be a such a nitwit that you don't know this?
Have you ever been inside the White House?

 

3 presidents rule over the same country

 

Yeah, Washington's President in the White House, Lincoln is the Supreme Court Judge and Roosevelt is the President of Senators.

 

What about Russia, France and England (the other civs with 3 leaders each)?

 

They take turns so they can spend ⅔ of their time on vacation!

 

2664. You wonder why Persia doesn't build up its espionage, when all of those foreign spies keep sabotaging its research of Fission...

 

But yet the American spy "drones" keep getting thwarted by Persian counterintelligence efforts.

 

2665).
When you ignore the alarmbell in the morning, since you think that "it makes no sense to go up before you have hooked up the silk for a happiness bonus first."

 

2666) You believe that the Celts really built the Taj Mahal and the Apostalic Palace and founded a prosperous and long-lasting Jewish empire

2667) You think its offensive to the Egyptians that people say that aliens built the pyramids... the poor guys spent fifty damn turns doing it and they don't even get the credit?

2668) You suddenly realise your girlfriend looks like Boudicca (guilty...)

 

Buy her some soap!!

 

I meant ginger, busty, slightly angry and wearing a leather top... she's sitting next to me as I type this and is demanding to see the Boudicca leaderhead so