# Oddball Viral Marketing Sighted!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-viral-marketing-sighted/304647
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 19, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-viral-marketing-sighted/304647 "2005-05-19T22:23:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jkirkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkirkman)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-viral-marketing-sighted/304647/1 "2005-05-19T22:23:11Z")
Placed in Cafe Society as they are pimping a computer game (Civ4):
> **[Civilization® VI – The Official Site](https://civilization.com/)**
>
> Civilization VI offers new ways to interact with your world, expand your empire across the map, advance your culture, and compete against history’s greatest leaders to build a civilization that will stand the test of time. Coming to PC on October 21,...
The site is actually a little busy, hard to read, and overly multi-media, but more work went into this than went into some entire **games** I’ve seen.
If you aren’t into the Civilization series of computer games, don’t bother clicking–it will just be a big whoosh.
Don’t miss the “The Civil Unity Group” link on the left.
Well, if you are a Democrat don’t miss it. You might want to miss it if you are a Republican.
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### Author:  [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-viral-marketing-sighted/304647/2 "2005-05-20T21:44:45Z")
Hehe, gotta check that out from home (my work computer hasn’t got quicktime and I must find out about that guy in the toga).
I really liked the old lady testimonial: “I’ve been attending CivAnon meetings for approximately 18 months now. Partly because I began to get a perverse thrill out of wiping out entire civilizations with atomic intercontinental ballistic weaponry, and partly because they serve cake at the meetings. I like to kill, that’s true. But I like cake even more.”
And “No more turns” is a brilliant slogan. 🙂
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-viral-marketing-sighted/304647/3 "2005-05-21T00:43:37Z")
Oh, crap. There’s a Civ 4? There goes my sleep schedule.