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If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brilliant! You could have an overarching storyline of brief dialogues interrupted by full games of Civilization.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Yes! It could be like Assassin's Creed where most of the story takes place in Civilization, but then there are interludes that take place in the modern world.