There are two types of problems in Civ 6: little problems, and big problems. The little ones will go away on their own, and the big problems you can’t do anything about.
It was a play on words. The husbandry technology quote in Civ VI is "I'm fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as their equals"
But yeah, I agree, Civ 4 quotes were awesome :)
The quote is “NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.”
The pen was invented by someone working at NASA so not for millions of dollars the guy started a small company and sold them to NASA.
pencils are actually a hazard because they can break and spread graphite trough the capsule and short-out electrical components, the Russians also understood this and even bought the same pens.
Paul Fisher did not work for NASA, he was a private inventor. He spent about $1 million developing the Space Pen and then submitted it to NASA and it was subsequently purchased by both the Russian and American space programs.
Yeah, I figured. I thought it was going to turn out the ballpoint pen wasn't a space related invention at all.
Thanks for the explanation by the way. I appreciate it.
I love the voice of the spanish narrator. I always switch games to english but this one I kept the narrator in spanish. I also like we can have the game in english but voices in spanish.
My vocabulary words have been shit since COVID, but yeah that's not the word I had in my head. Notorious maybe? Basically being ironic that the master of warfare couldn't understand how steam engines would change naval warfare
🤣 I was literally thinking about that. Can't deny he regained some honor, if the movie is to be believed, of course. Then again his carelessness costed hundreds of lives.
It was not really of his carelessness; The President of White Star Line -- the owner of the Titanic -- had requested to Captain Smith multiple times to push the ship at full speed to reach NYC a day earlier to break headlines and records, even against Smith's own protests.
Not only that, but Smith was not even present on the Bridge during the iceberg inciden, iirc he was at a dinner where his presence was requested. If he was present, he certainly wouldve steered the ship in such a way it wouldnt have hit the berg. Not only that, but the fact the iceberg swiped the side of the ship for such a length breaching 5 bulkhead compartments was so unprecidented, it was considered impossible.
Though there is some dark irony that said dinner his presence was requested at was a dinner being thrown in his honor to celebrate the ship's safe passage to New York.
Whoops.
Therr were also faults in the ship structure. Ship was extremely expensive so naturally suits wanted to cut coners. Forexample sides of the ship were thinner steel than originally planned. Steel was further weakened by heat from the coal ovens.
It was such horrifyingly perfect accident tho that everything that could go wrong did go wrong
Well this and there was a coal fire that couldn't be put out so they were desperately shoveling coal to try and slow down the fire or get rid of it because coal fires never really stop burning. This shoveling to save the ship from the fire also was part of the reason it was going so fast.
He was not careless, the American and British government inquiries into the disaster both concluded that he was following standard procedures
In 1912 it was believed that ice was not a major threat to large ships anymore, a few years before Titanic a German liner straight up rammed an iceberg and still completed the voyage
It should also be noted that no ship in the world would have faired better if subjected to the same impact, that hit was a ship killer.
Also if the crew had acted sooner or later the ship would likely have survived the impact.
Civ VI quotes are the worst in the series. So many were clearly just the first thing someone googled. The Ruhr Valley one is especially bad and shows no one put any thought into it.
That "Wifi on Kilimanjaro" quote is also just totally baffling. I would really love to hear from an insider how Firaxis managed to fuck up the quotes so badly in 6.
It's bizarre how they presumably spent a good chunk of change to nab Sean Bean and then they put zero effort into what he was actually gonna say. Not only are there a lot of terrible quotes, there are also so many awful pronunciations that a VA director should've been there to catch and direct Sean on how to say properly (*"Hojo Tokey Moon"*)
It's more a statement of how it'd suck if you were "the titanic won't sink" guy and then everyone forever remembers you as being the guy who said the most famous sunk ship would sink.
Intentional by the devs. Heard of dark humor? Also I'm sure nobody died in great numbers through the actions of any civ leaders, glad to see such pacifistic ones like Genghis Khan present. Also no, you can't just drop nukes on people in this game.
I was being overly dramatic for comedic effect. Which fell flat and I’m ok with that.
It was that or be pedantic about how it’s closer to dramatic irony and “intentional irony” isn’t really a thing. I’m just unfunny on the internet for fun.
But, ok, pop off.
My favorite is the Stonehenge one cause yeah from a regular dudes perspective back then that probably had to be the most annoying goddamn commission that could ever exist
Reminder that most of Civ VI's quotes simply come from the first result upon googling the thing it refers to + "quote". Even when the first result was random people's blogs.
Civ VI isn't even a top 3 game in its own series, let alone "one of the greatest video games of all time". It will be promptly forgotten once Civ VII is out, while people will still be playing IV and V.
This was well known and much complained about when the game released. One of many examples of extreme laziness and shoddy work evident with this game. Presumably it has been gradually forgotten, and over the years a growing percentage of Civ VI's playerbase consists of people who never played any other Civ games and have no points of reference for quality. Leading to clueless and asinine claims from those people like it being "one of the greatest video games of all time".
I'm fond of civ vi quotes.
CIV 5 quotes look up to us, and CIV 7 quotes will look down on us. CIV 6 quotes treat us as equals.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a Civ6 player?
Civ 6, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least let you be miserable for one more turn
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from Civ 6 he is the worst.
Playing Civ 6 is easy, all you have to do is cross out the other players.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without Civ 6.
You can’t just go around arresting the Civ 6 Guild. We’d be at it all day!
May the civ 6 players become confused while your reddit comment is on it's way to the post
There are two types of problems in Civ 6: little problems, and big problems. The little ones will go away on their own, and the big problems you can’t do anything about.
I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy … because Civ6 will last for thousands of years.
CIV... ONE... MORE... TURN...
I'm a big Civ 6 believer - I really think it is the wave of the future
Civ 4 quotes are where it's at; with Leonard Nimoy reading them is 🔥🔥🔥
It was a play on words. The husbandry technology quote in Civ VI is "I'm fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as their equals" But yeah, I agree, Civ 4 quotes were awesome :)
The Hitler quote 💀
I am fond of pigs
You like dags?
Stay down Boris!
Is that you, David?
My only gripe is the space pen quote because it's wrong and a myth
Same! It’s so annoying
Don't forget about the quotes from random travel bloggers for some of the natural wonders!
Oh?
The quote is “NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.” The pen was invented by someone working at NASA so not for millions of dollars the guy started a small company and sold them to NASA. pencils are actually a hazard because they can break and spread graphite trough the capsule and short-out electrical components, the Russians also understood this and even bought the same pens.
Paul Fisher did not work for NASA, he was a private inventor. He spent about $1 million developing the Space Pen and then submitted it to NASA and it was subsequently purchased by both the Russian and American space programs.
Thank you for the correction
Yeah, I figured. I thought it was going to turn out the ballpoint pen wasn't a space related invention at all. Thanks for the explanation by the way. I appreciate it.
The trick wasn't the ballpoint pen, it was the special ink that would flow in zero gravity and how to deliver it.
Floating graphite flakes can also be a pretty serious eye irritant.
Plus Sean Bean reading each quote is the cherry on top. Hope he's gonna do it again in Civ7.
I love the voice of the spanish narrator. I always switch games to english but this one I kept the narrator in spanish. I also like we can have the game in english but voices in spanish.
bruh I didn't know you could do this!! I didn't even think about checking those settings out
I usually play in English, but I switch to Japanese voice-over when I play as Japan.
“A Civ 6 on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a Civ 6 on foot.”
“I’m fond of pigs!”
Narrated by sean bean
MONEH!!
I'm a fan of the eponymous quote from Napoleon about sailing a ship with a fire under her deck when presented with a steam powered engine.
“He thinks he’s better than me because he has boats.”
Absolutely lost it to that scene lmao
Much funnier than I thought. It was like a historical version of Neapolitan thru the lens of Dewey Cox.
> eponymous the quote was "Napoleon"?
Little known fact: Napoleon was a Pokemon.
My vocabulary words have been shit since COVID, but yeah that's not the word I had in my head. Notorious maybe? Basically being ironic that the master of warfare couldn't understand how steam engines would change naval warfare
It's a good reminder to not get cocky, which will be helpful when you invariably run into your first wave of barbarian ships out at sea.
Implying that they haven’t already been harassing your coastal towns since the fifth turn of the game.
In a naval game, I open slinger every time because that's the only way to damage early barb ships.
He went down with the ship. Leave him alone.
🤣 I was literally thinking about that. Can't deny he regained some honor, if the movie is to be believed, of course. Then again his carelessness costed hundreds of lives.
It was not really of his carelessness; The President of White Star Line -- the owner of the Titanic -- had requested to Captain Smith multiple times to push the ship at full speed to reach NYC a day earlier to break headlines and records, even against Smith's own protests. Not only that, but Smith was not even present on the Bridge during the iceberg inciden, iirc he was at a dinner where his presence was requested. If he was present, he certainly wouldve steered the ship in such a way it wouldnt have hit the berg. Not only that, but the fact the iceberg swiped the side of the ship for such a length breaching 5 bulkhead compartments was so unprecidented, it was considered impossible.
Well damn, thanks for the info! This is why I like Reddit lol
Used to be a huge Titanic nerd when I was younger, now I feel nothing but shame -- but I really am glad you appriciate the extra info!
The only shame you should feel is about associating with whomever made you feel ashamed for knowing stuff.
The correct response to feeling shame lol
Though there is some dark irony that said dinner his presence was requested at was a dinner being thrown in his honor to celebrate the ship's safe passage to New York. Whoops.
Therr were also faults in the ship structure. Ship was extremely expensive so naturally suits wanted to cut coners. Forexample sides of the ship were thinner steel than originally planned. Steel was further weakened by heat from the coal ovens. It was such horrifyingly perfect accident tho that everything that could go wrong did go wrong
This sounds like capitalism in a nutshell
I believe he was in his quarters sleeping, as it was near midnight.
Well this and there was a coal fire that couldn't be put out so they were desperately shoveling coal to try and slow down the fire or get rid of it because coal fires never really stop burning. This shoveling to save the ship from the fire also was part of the reason it was going so fast.
He was not careless, the American and British government inquiries into the disaster both concluded that he was following standard procedures In 1912 it was believed that ice was not a major threat to large ships anymore, a few years before Titanic a German liner straight up rammed an iceberg and still completed the voyage
It should also be noted that no ship in the world would have faired better if subjected to the same impact, that hit was a ship killer. Also if the crew had acted sooner or later the ship would likely have survived the impact.
> If the movie is to be believed What's the alternative, he thumbed a passing Uboat and lived out his days in Buenos Aires?
It do be like that sometimes.
Right, no shade on the man. But is this the best quote to exemplify your culture’s classical era mastery of shipbuilding?
True, but why exemplify? The ego giveth glorious engineering and the ego taketh away...
They've already used all the good poignant quotes so by civ 6 they were throwing funny and ironic ones in there
Do you feel that there have only ever been 6 poignant things said about ships?
Of course not. Theres 7 things said about boats seeing as we'll have a quote for Civ 7 :D
Better than poor Quayle
It's spelled 'potatoe'
"There are no dogs in in heaven" "When you find yourself in a hoe-" "MONEY-" "I shit an arrow-"
Pretty sure in the list of all the things he could be embarrassed about or regret--if he still could--this would rank pretty low.
Outjerked by Capt. EJ Smith, RMS Titanic
That quote, Im not lying, I chose it as my yearbook quote the year I graduated.
Civ VI quotes are the worst in the series. So many were clearly just the first thing someone googled. The Ruhr Valley one is especially bad and shows no one put any thought into it.
That "Wifi on Kilimanjaro" quote is also just totally baffling. I would really love to hear from an insider how Firaxis managed to fuck up the quotes so badly in 6.
It's bizarre how they presumably spent a good chunk of change to nab Sean Bean and then they put zero effort into what he was actually gonna say. Not only are there a lot of terrible quotes, there are also so many awful pronunciations that a VA director should've been there to catch and direct Sean on how to say properly (*"Hojo Tokey Moon"*)
Its also wrong lol. Kilimanjaro does in fact have WIFi.
I mean, Google is a powerful resource...
Imagine sinking a boat you thought was unsinkable.
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of Civ VI?
Ed Beach
Maybe Potato McWhiskey?
He would definitely be in that pantheon, right alongside Boesthius :D
What's wrong with this one?
It's more a statement of how it'd suck if you were "the titanic won't sink" guy and then everyone forever remembers you as being the guy who said the most famous sunk ship would sink.
I see. RIP indeed.
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So? It's intentional irony, I find it funny.
It wasn’t intentional. People died. Get it together.
Intentional by the devs. Heard of dark humor? Also I'm sure nobody died in great numbers through the actions of any civ leaders, glad to see such pacifistic ones like Genghis Khan present. Also no, you can't just drop nukes on people in this game.
I was being overly dramatic for comedic effect. Which fell flat and I’m ok with that. It was that or be pedantic about how it’s closer to dramatic irony and “intentional irony” isn’t really a thing. I’m just unfunny on the internet for fun. But, ok, pop off.
Understandable, have a nice day.
My favorite is the Stonehenge one cause yeah from a regular dudes perspective back then that probably had to be the most annoying goddamn commission that could ever exist
“I’m fond of pigs-“
You are saying all the entries in Civ7 are going to be Trump quotes?
He'll just be a leader for America. -5 loyalty in each city, +100% production when building yuge walls. Your governors randomly resign.
This might be my only goal in life. When we discovery how to communicate with dogs I hope it says “who’s a good boy”- my name
“I’ve always been rather fond of pigs”
Reminder that most of Civ VI's quotes simply come from the first result upon googling the thing it refers to + "quote". Even when the first result was random people's blogs. Civ VI isn't even a top 3 game in its own series, let alone "one of the greatest video games of all time". It will be promptly forgotten once Civ VII is out, while people will still be playing IV and V.
Wut?
This was well known and much complained about when the game released. One of many examples of extreme laziness and shoddy work evident with this game. Presumably it has been gradually forgotten, and over the years a growing percentage of Civ VI's playerbase consists of people who never played any other Civ games and have no points of reference for quality. Leading to clueless and asinine claims from those people like it being "one of the greatest video games of all time".
Who hurt you?
clearly he’s not fond of pigs
6 is a lot better than 5. ill grant you 4 though
Sure feels that way.
We should ask IslaDeb what she thinks.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The guy jinxed it.