#civ ii

[idkaguyorsomething]

okay sid meier’s civilization twitter account, you win this one

(IMAGE ID: a screenshot of the Sid Meier’s Civilization Twitter account. It displays six different images of Alexander the Great from six different Civilization games which look drastically different, ranging from lionlike leader to rat-faced little bitch to alpha chin man to blonde guy I guess to that dude that’s on the cover of every paperback romance to discarded Shrek human design. The account has captioned these images “Did you do something with your hair, Alexander?”)

[videogamepolls]

[digitalfossils]

[ephemeral-gremlin]

reblogging for giving civ 2 its deserved flowers as the best civ game

What I hate about Civilization games and its successors is the whole "district" shit that they do now, with all the urban sprawl where a single city spreads all over a continent.

In all other Civ games, the cities took one single tile. So. The best to ever do it was Civ 2 (with mods) where the maps were huge and you got a true scale of an empire, for a Windows 95 game, the maps are still some of the largest scale I've played.

Like this WWII scenario, it might look like nothing but compare it to the minmap. This is with tech older than me.

I know that's too old, but even in Civ 5, for example, where the maps already were becoming microscopic, there were cities, countryside, and even rural areas deep into the game.

Again, I hate Civ 5 tiny maps (that is suppossed to be Earth, really...), but everything since then has become worse and worse. This from Civ 7 is just a mess, it doesn't feel like you're playing as a civilization, just some jumbled big city:

this is just gross, but it isn't even as bad as Millennia which one described as "Coruscant on the Rennaissance" with all the pointless buildings and improvements

or the worst in my opinion, Humanity, which is downright vomitive:

When I play strategy videogames, I want to feel in charge of whole countries and civilizations with lots of cities and territory, not two stupid neighborhoods shooting at each other. This is just ugly.

[sw5w]

You Want to Go Home and Rethink Your Life

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:23:01 - 00:23:02

As Immi Thrax points out on Bluesky, one of the sources for identification of drinks at the Outlander, How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills, may not be entirely accurate.

Toniray wine, which here is labeled as the reddish beverage that Elan Sel'Sabagno drinks, is actually described in Bloodline by Claudia Gray as being teal in color. The Toniray you can buy at Oga's Cantina at Galaxy's Edge also supports this, as it too is teal in color.

Immi also noted that several other drinks in the How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks... diagram don't match their descriptions in other sources:

• Starfire 'Skee, shown in the diagram as a dark blue color, is described in Aftermath by Chuck Wendig as being "brown and muddy".

• Port in a Storm, shown in the diagram as yellowish-orange in color, is described in Bloodline as being "reddish amber" (maybe better matching the tube labeled as Trandoshan ale or even Corellian Red).

Listing of callouts for search purposes:

• Agira Nyrat • Artuo Pratuhr • Civ Sila • Dannl Faytonni • Daro Willits • Di Mantid • Elan Sel'Sabagno, aka Elan Sleazebaggano • Immi Danoo • Joshua Jinzler • Kalyn Farnmir • Obi-Wan Kenobi • Onyeth Canavar • Reina March • Rosha Vess • Whimper Save • Zey Nep

• Unidentified Humans

• Alderaan • Core Worlds • Jedi mind trick • Toniray wine

• Unidentified beverages

[er-cryptid]

Cleopatra Eurydice

[haleth]

My best au is actually my 2020s social media au in which Maglor becomes a youtuber after he gets sick of lamenting by the shore and subsequently gets cancelled for rping as historic war criminal Makalaurë Kanafinwë.

[mystic-lilac]

Catherine the Great

Had to draw her. Anyways play Civilization 7 on February 11th 🤭

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

[skitskatdacat63]

I finally asked my prof who his fav Habsburg is and he was SO delighted 😭 I told him I've been researching and he was like "on your own???" 🤭🤭

[simplyghosting]

I’ve got to figure out if I can find a copy of Civilization II that it still has the live-action council videos and the “upgrade throne room” parts in-game. They were so fun to me.

[emdansavetheworld]

Now in widescreen! Welcome to the future! In today's episode the earth quakes, the game breaks, Dan hawks trip mines, and Em gets jump-scared.

All music in this episode was composed and created by Dan because the in-game music would get us copyright struck into oblivion.

[orteil42]

i actually don't want to play a civ-building game to "retrace the steps of Ramses II" or become France or build the golden gate bridge i want to start with some random tribe and give them their OWN identity and make their OWN country and build their OWN unique little things!!!

[sw5w]

You Wanna Buy Some Death Sticks?

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:22:57

Listing of callout for search purposes:

• Agira Nyrat • Artuo Pratuhr • Bufon Taire • Civ Sila • Dannl Faytonni • Di Mantid • Elan Sel'Sabagno, aka Elan Sleazebaggano • Hat Lo • Immi Danoo • Kalyn Farnmir • Obi-Wan Kenobi • Reha Logg • Reina March • Rosha Vess • Sel Maa • Whimper Save • Zey Nep

• Unidentified Humans • Unidentified Kajain'sa'Nikto

• Balosar • Death stick • Ixetal cilona • Slythmonger • Toniray wine • University of Coruscant

• Unidentified beverage

[wandamaximoffsbadgirl]

Now It's Always Summertime

History Professor!Reader x Student!Natasha Romanoff x Student!Wanda Maximoff

Summary: You're just trying to get your thoughts together for the upcoming semester, but there are a few distractions.

Word Count: 850

Warnings: Mentions of getting high, student professor relationship, age gap everyone is over 18.

A/N: I watched a Tik Tok that had the right vibes and this came to mind so here you go. A little treat.

You poured the black liquid from your stove top coffee maker into your glass mug. Your favorite mug with a world map on it. The steam bellowed from both the maker and your now full mug. The overhead lights of the office were off leaving the strings of fairy lights that adorned the bookshelves behind you and the warm glow of your desk lamp as the only sources of light. A Golden pothos falling over the sides of the shelves like waterfalls.

The leather bound notebook sat on your desk with coffee ring stains from setting your mug atop of the blank page. You always thought it gave the page character when one found its way to a page. You transferred your thoughts from the newest edition of the history text book you received for this upcoming semester. 

Going over your previous semesters lesson plan and improving on it with the new text book in mind. You taught a few different classes and with the short summer semester coming to an end only to pick back up. Before you'd have time to do anything it would be Autumn with a chill in the air worthy of the hot cup you sipped on.

A knock against the open doorframe brought you from your thoughts. Looking up over your glasses, hair slipping past your ear as your head moved. Your two favorite students stood in your doorway, Natasha Romanoff and Wanda Maximoff. Neither were history majors, but you seem to have captured their attention as they've now taken two of your classes. Your Western Civ I class along with your Mythology class. The two were already in your schedule for the Fall semester for Western Civ II and Wanda somehow snuck her way into your Norse mythology class. 

“What can I do for you girls?” You asked setting your pen down and picking up your mug, refilling it once more before taking a sip. The two girls stepped in and closed the door behind them. Natasha coming around to beside you and looking at the notes you took. 

“Is this for next semester?” The redheaded Russian asked as her finger ran over the words, a small smudge coming at the bottom where the fresh ink resided. You took her hand in your own after setting the mug down. Much like a mother would you licked one of your own fingers and used it to wipe the mark away on her finger.

“It is and I'd appreciate if my notes could stay intact. My thoughts are jumbled enough without you smudging them Tasha.” You looked up at the red head with a smirk plastered on your face and hers adorned a blush as Wanda came to your other side arms wrapping around your shoulders. 

“We wanted to know if we could help you with anything?” You felt her breath on the shell of your ear. Your attention moving from the Russian to the Sokovian. 

“I'm sure you two could be studying for your finals instead of coming to ask if I need help.” You raised an eyebrow to the brunette, the smirk still on your face as her forehead found your cheek. 

“Need some stress relief.” She murmured against you making a chuckle bubble up from your chest. Wanda let out a whine in protest of your chuckle. 

“Well she needs a stress relief. I'm getting high later.” Your head spun back to the redhead. 

“Without me? Rude.” Natasha started laughing along with you.

“Well I can bring it if you say we can come over tonight and then we can all have a good time.” Natasha wiggled her eyebrows and tugged on your hand that was still in hers. Another whine falling past Wanda's lips is what made you give in. 

“Okay. Okay you two can come over. We'll get high and have some stress relief from finals for everyone's sake.” Both girls became excited at the thought of getting to come over. 

You lived a ways away from campus so you never worried about anyone seeing the girls come over since the three of you started up this throuple of yours at the beginning of the summer semester. 

The classes were smaller and the two girls had already caught your eye. Since neither was a history major you figured once they got their history credits you'd never see them again. The campus was huge and the history building was nowhere near where these two spent the rest of their day. Yet when you saw their names once more you knew you had to say something. So as the old saying goes; one thing led to another and here we are. 

You wrapped and arm around Wanda, pulling her into your lap where her face now buried its away into the crook of your neck. Natasha just leaned against you. More than content to have you against her stomach. You never thought this is where you'd be when you started teaching here, but you couldn't be more happy, more full, more loved than you are with these two in your life.

[er-cryptid]

Sir Christopher Wren

-- born in 1632

-- Oxford astronomy professor

-- the Great Fire of London struck in 1666

-- Wren has designed his first building four years earlier

-- named King's Surveyor of Works by Charles II in 1669

-- involved in rebuilding more than 50 London churches

-- rebuilding included Saint Paul's Cathedral

-- inscription near his tomb in Saint Paul's Cathedral says "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you."

-- died in 1723

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