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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: motherfucking CIVILIZATION VI Platinum
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:37:58 +0100
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On 19/07/2025 17:47, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 7/19/2025 8:34 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>
>> "Alpha Centauri" (or, as I often think of it in my head, "Alpha Civ")
>> had a lot of things I liked about it.
> The "proper" name for that game is SMAC.  Because it is that addictive.  :P
> 
Civ games can be 'bad' for their ability to suck you into to just one 
more turn but SMAC dialled that up to eleven!