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From: "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: FREE GAME: motherfucking CIVILIZATION VI Platinum
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:57:54 -0500
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JAB wrote:
> 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!

I never had that one more turn syndrome.  That's for dumb berks. 
There's 500 turns in a game; they are already too fucking long.

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