What Sid Meier has taught me

ARRRR!!! We haves the making of a crew then! All we needs is a fine sloop to do the cutting out! Me old sailing mate has a bonny 19 foot Mako. Too small for a cannon, but room a plenty for rum! But we needs to do the seizing quick. I’m fond of the fellow and he’ll shriek like a gutshot parrot when the lacerating begins!

Aw jeez. I’ve wasted my Sunday planning a life of piracy. Mom was right.

Hey guys, count me in! We should be able to find a map to an ancient Inca treasure by the third or fourth bar we stop at!

Depends on which game. In Civ 1, it was the Pyramids that prevented civil disorder during government changes.

Contrary to the real world, having the Eiffel Tower actually makes other nations like you.

Ah, but this one is actually true… :wink:

Civ taught me that when the military captures an enemy city, several improvements are destroyed and the population goes into civil disorder.

:: reads news reports from Baghdad ::

Hey! They were right!

…that world peace and stability could be ensured if Bush would end every speech with “MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.”