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  • SOPA/PIPA/ACTA ... all in one.

  • @Highretrogamelord89 Don't forget the PATRIOT ACT, or the NDAA, which allows any US citizen to be detained forever. But wait, that doesn't kill YouTube, so it doesn't matter.

  • but will it blend

  • Hey, it's the SOPA after a few decades of improvement!

  • @kryptomanik

    More like the NDAA now but with better technology

  • But can the AI entity tell us why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

  • Man, that is the TACKIEST AI overlord I have ever seen....If I would build that thing, I would at least make it look...you know...welcoming? Or at least awesome.

    And what is this about a 3% revolt chance?! Who decided not to put in a killswitch? Did they not watch terminator?

  • WARNING! I have played this game for years. I NEVER build the AI Entity though. I feel it is more like a 50% or better chance it will revolt and let chaos ensure at some point in the game. At least that has been my experience.

  • I love that Call to Power referenced 1984 VISUALLY.

    So many layers of win.

  • Oh, hey, Siri in 5 years!

  • This is the only Civilization I played, but it had the coolest stuff, like finding aliens

  • NWO

  • Illumaniti ..... lmao lets see how many rude comments i will get back

  • @MasterOfShadows800

    lol and there are exactly 0 of those.

    ITS A CONSPIRACY!

  • More like... "Eye see al- TREASONOUS COMMENT REDACTED

  • I'm playing call to power at the moment. can anyone tell me why those videos dont play correctly? not even intro one. screen is just dark and i can only hear sound

  • @unsword It is the same for me. I can only guess its because the videos are not supported for Windows 7 (I am assuming u r running that since I am). Wish I knew how to fix that

  • @IDH2008 hoooooly shit i've didnt check the mailbox for long anyway if you're still interested about how to fix it, i've managed to get it working, turn the game synchronization to windows 98, worked for me bud

  • Anyone else see a resemblance to president Eden from Fallout 3?

  • @MrShootinputin This came before Fallout 1

  • @WorldChallenge I know that; I meant it the other way around.

  • Happiness is Mandatory

  • The one wonder in this game that I had no desire to build

  • @itsbankaibitch Because it's terrifying, or because statistically there's a better-than-even chance it'll rebel within sixteen turns?

  • @Kazmahu The latter. I prefer to have total autocracy for myself, thank you lol.

  • This is terrifying. Imagine if someone saw every single moment you were doing.Including your internet Po.... anyways.

  • D:  Oh god

  • In Soviet Russia, all see you!

  • I for one welcome our new machine overlords, 010101101110100100011010101001­00011100010100101!!!

  • @Wafflepudding was that a futurama reference? 

  • @loopofpoop Sort of, but it's actually older.

  • Reminds me of a line from cool hand Luke.

    "This is for your own good Luke."

    "I wish you wouldn't be so good to me boss."

  • For some reason a future like this comforts me, despite it being a sentient machine with a craving for power. I must be more of a AI sympathizer than I thought.

  • @stupidroro I actually feel the same way, but it just wouldn't be acceptable for only *one* being to know everything. In my perfect future, we'd all be connected. Ever play Deus Ex: Invisible War and help the Dentons at the end? Not a great game, but it's a good example of what I mean.

  • @TaintedMustard I've played the first one and seen videos of the 2nd. But the AI is only as good as its programming, just like us and our electrobiochemical stuff. :/

  • Sure there can be evil without Good, only a limited mind cant understand that good and evil dont work like degrees on a stove

  • @BitterBurst Good and Evil are social constructs. There is merely what is balanced and unbalanced, and what is balanced tends to be "Good" for all, but what is unbalanced is tends to be "Evil" for all but it is not an equal 1 to 1 correspondence.

  • @BitterBurst So what's evil?

  • @Wafflepudding

    You dont know?

  • @BitterBurst I don't know if I know, please indulge me. Some would say evil is deliberate malice, but many horrible things have happened in the name of a greater good. Some would say evil is selfishness, but others would say that's just ignorance, and yet others would say selfishness is a virtue. So what is the nature of evil? Malice? Ignorance? Selfishness? Imperfection? Is evil even a useful concept?

  • The Computer is your friend.

  • I never built this wonder. It sucks that the revolt chance is not just 3%, but 3% of revolt each turn.

    In other words, there is about 94.78975406% chance it will revolt at some point if you keep it acting for 100 turns.

    Statistics is a bitch.

  • @Zerodis It's actually 5% not 3%. Building this is just asking for it. But I bet must politicians irl would do it anyway.

  • @DarkTemplar40k

    I could have sworn it was 3. Then again, I haven't played in a long time. Regardless, 5% means you're pretty much more screwed if you build it.

  • @Zerodis I've usually gifted it to the AI, and then waited for them to build it and gloated over their misfortune once it rebelled.

  • The Computer is your friend. . .

  • "No desire, No need"

    does this remind anyone else of

    "Desire is the root of all suffering"?

  • @OrbGoblin

    Doesn't make it any less true.

  • @DarkArtistKaiser

    Nope, in fact I'd say just the opposite

  • Is it wrong that this actually seems like a desirable future to me?

  • @OrbGoblin Are you like, the T-1000? O.o

    lol 

  • @Nonamearisto

    *sigh* I wish...

  • @OrbGoblin A fututre like this scares me

  • the AI makes me feel happy and safe :)

  • Venus Project?

  • Oh so this is who the Zeitgeist Movement wants to appoint as world ruler.

  • This is sexually turning me on >)

  • Seriously doesn't like this wonder.

  • This is what Alex Jones thinks will happen if Obama is re-elected.

  • ...Okay, umm... I really want to play Call to Power now. Wish they made a thrid... Anyway though, can anyone tell me what happens when that thing revolts?

  • @Archris17 It takes a portion of your civilization with it. NEVER build this wonder, it's a disaster!

  • @svartmetall48 Wow. Okay, yeah, pass on that! I've never been a fan of AIs and transhumanism anyway... Unless an AI has the capacity to care, a lifespan and human emotions, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

    Gods, I wish there was a Call to Power 3 now. The second one seemed dummed down a bit to me... That and I can't run either any more and I've yet to find an emulator that will work.

  • @Archris17 Have you tried changing the .exe file's compatibility to "Windows 98"? And, yeah, the first Call to Power was in many ways better. For one thing, the second dropped space colonies. But both can be made even better with modding - the game data is stored in text files, CtP 2's source code was released in 2003 and there a few cool megamods on the Apolyton Civilization fansite.

  • @Archris17 Why would it revolt? The entity is your friend, the entity was built to make our lives better.

  • What I hate about this one is I have to surround the city with an army so I can reclaim it every turn.

  • the most broken wonder in the game! it always rebels no matter what!

  • wow, besides being creepy, that thing is huge!! even that Perfect Machine Perfect Justice sign is bigger than a house

  • The Venus Project!

  • 3% chance every turn means you are near guaranteed to get a revolt before too long. Although it is fun to build it and then give the city away so it's owner will suffer teh inevitable revolt.

  • @ObadiahtheSlim I would let the computer build it, and since I had the "foreign revolting cities join your civilization" wonder, the AIs cities would all join my civilization. Then I would move all my troops out of that city, the computer would recapture it, and I would then blow it up with an Eco Ranger.

  • The computer is your friend.

  • The AI entity is easy enough to defeat. Now, where are those wire cutters?

  • @UberGrue Chuck Norris has it.

  • We must dissent ;)

  • 1) Build AI Entity.

    2) Technocracy with maximum work day.

    3) Curb stomp the planet.

    Seriously, I had one turn wonders with this thing. If you can't pump out enough shit to overrun your opponents by the time it revolts, you're doing something dreadfully wrong.

  • Reminds me of HAL/ AM/ GlaDOS. O.o

    I would say "Skynet", but that computer wanted to kill, not to rule.

  • Can't concentrate... voices in my head... ALL HAIL AI ENTITY!!!

    ;).

  • @lynx233 ALL HAIL OBSCURE REFERENCE TO A CERTAIN COLD-WAR SHOOT-OFF RTS GAME THAT HAS 2 IN ITS TITLE!

  • I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

  • I peed blood for this

  • Friend-Computer would like to remind you that the viewing of this video is TREASON.

    Please report to the nearest termination booth. Have a fantastic Daycycle!

  • @unfunny12 to become an unperson is doubleplusungood.

  • @unfunny12 The term daycycle is now deprecated, citizen. Please report to the nearest Joyful Citizen Re-Education Center for a brainscrub.

  • Pfft, here goes Activision playing into "Illuminati" conspiracies this is such a load of-01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110101 01101110 01111001 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110011- I mean... nothing to see here! move along!

  • I hated this wonder cause I've seen so many times the 3% chance of Al enity revolting happen so often. What I like to do is let my opponents build it and I will build the eglarian act. So when the 3% chance does happen I get all the cities that does revolt.

  • ow my schizophrenia

  • Thats absolutely not creepy at all(!)

  • WTF IS THIS?!!!!

  • "Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind."

    -- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"

  • Epic... ALL HAIL

  • Ah, utopia. I can't wait.

  • The what an obvious reinactment of the all seeing eye of the Illuminati...Im not from america, but check ya dollar bills... Novus Ordo Seclorum..the illuminati pyramid

  • @auradistorter1

    It's a reference to america's newfound democracy, and the all-seeing-eye simple represents a supreme being in a politically-correct way, since Masons don't care what you believe in, just that it's a god.

  • @auradistorter1 did you read "angels and Demons"?

  • D: scarred for life again.

  • This is in the US, right?

  • ILLUMINATI!

  • I for one, welcome our new machine overlord.

  • You gotta love when the AI Entity goes rogue on you and takes half your cities with it.

  • So this is the Venus Project then?

  • Big brother is watchin...

    Oh, fuck, wrong game/movie/book/someting.

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  • I'm writing a science fiction novel based on what you see here. Quite a spook too!

  • @IDarkPaladinI I'd love to read it.

  • reminds you of a god doesnt it? all knowing

  • The vuvuzela button somehow makes this infinitely more terrifying.

  • Of course, the best part about this wonder is that it eventually starts a robot rebellion :) Only way to get a decent fight out of a computer player half the time :p

  • It sees all, but if I cover the eyes; CHAOS! MUWUHAHA!

  • Creepy as hell. But I can't... stop... watching.....

  • Damn this video is addictive.

  • The weird thing is, when this machine revolts it just forms your typical Barbarian society. Isn't this thing supposed to be more than Mr Attila the Hun? Guess the programmers got lazy here.

  • Looks like the Party got tired of using Big Brother to control the people and decided to personally create something to continue and permenatly assure totalitarian control.

    ... Too bad for them though- it looks like the AI Entity doesn't agree on the Party's interpretation of a perfect society. After all, how can a perfect machine follow such stupid beings as the Inner Party, people who care only for there own pleasure?

    Yup- this is the next phase of Oceania, right here... no, the world!

  • This is the most terrible wonder in the game - it always backfires and takes contoll of all your cities.

  • Why do I hear the shower scene music from Psycho?

  • @LNERfan

    Because they have Casio-brand Guinea Pigs as part of the soundtrack.

  • does he watch you masturbate?

  • But can the AI Entity see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

  • @Kemonokami Whoops. Accidentally voted down. Please don't kill me!

  • @Kemonokami You just made my day. Best pop culture joke I've seen all year :D

  • @Sintar07

    Thank you so much, it means a lot to me.

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  • @Kemonokami Of course. IT SEES ALL.

    If it can see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch, then it can see into our souls.

  • @Kemonokami You may have said this a year ago but damn if it isn't still worth every thumbs up it can get

  • @Kemonokami

    because there's cinnamon & sugar swirled over every byte?

  • Big Brother is Watching YOU!

    Yes you. No, don't pretend to ignore me. The person sitting staring into the computer screen. Yeah, that's right. YOU!

  • It kind of reminds me of a creepy taoism

  • All hail our brilliant machine masters!

  • This one chills the shit out of me

  • The CGI in this game hasn't age well, has it?

  • I just wet myself.

  • Hail Friend Computer!

    Glory to Alpha Complex!

  • Now thaaaaat is creepy. D:

  • The One Dollar Bill is going to KILL US.

  • I have to admit though, the AI entity bares a strange and somewhat creepy resemblance to the pyramid on the back of the 1-dollar bill. The eye on the top is supposed to represent God... so does this mean this is some twisted version of divine retribution or something?

  • It's a nod to the countless conspiracy theories revolving around the eye pyramid symbol.

  • The "Eye atop a pyramid" represents the concept of all-seeing. In other words, it represents god.

  • The symbol is called the Eye of Providence. It represents "the eye of God watching over humankind". Or in this case, the totalitarian machine.

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  • that's the free mason sign the all seeing eye gives me the chills

  • Not at all. It will just destroy your will and make you a mindless drone.

  • @gufu1992

    I think that's more likely XD

  • It's the Eye of Sauron D=

    RUN AWAY!!

  • May I ask, why must all those fancy AI entities have a silly number of flashing bulbs?

  • @siderumhk Because, everyone knows fancy AI's have lights. It's completely practical.

  • Why do humans wear clothes?

  • If it's got a lot of moving and flashing lights, you know it's doing it's job properly. If the lights are red, you know something's gone horribly wrong.

    It's like spinning. If it starts spinning and lights turn on, you just know it's doing something science-related.

  • To better control the minds of the citizens. They'll be to busy looking at the flashing lights to bother thinking for themselves!

  • illuminati stuff :/

  • I should stop listening to this.

    His words are starting to make TOO much sense to me.

  • This video is a box full of wrong.

  • *sigh* I had an amazing civilization, until i went for lunch, and i didnt know someone started building it on my game!!!!!!! And when it said i constructed it...NOOOO!!!-.- but im l33t at ctp2 so no worries :D

  • wow...creepy

  • Dystopy,,,,

  • If you see the historical article in the game, the A.I. Entity in reality is not as horrifying as it seems. According to the game, it doesn't fully take over your mind; it just "sends gentle impulses to the mind of the first sign of discontent" which is just making them happier while giving them a free will.....if that makes any sense....

    Its also noted that this is better than the mind controller, WHICH IT IS NOT. This peice of crap made ALL my cities revolt at the same time and I lost. :(

  • Duely Noted, except I was lucky when it revolted and lost a city. The city soon crumbled under a massive assault by me.

  • Not horryfying, yeah right. Sounds like those experiments that were performed on rats. They put electrodes in rat's brain that would stimulate the brain's pleasure center if the animal would press a button. Rats wouldn't eat or sleep, just kept pressing the button until they were too weak from starvation to even move.

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  • It also checks for any current grievances a citizen may have at the moment. Sorta like the Helios AI in Deus Ex Invisible war.

  • The Mind Controller is, by far, the scariest wonder imo.

  • This is the most interesting wonder in my oppinion. It sucks that it was removed from Call to Power 2. Say guys, is there any Civ game or mod that includes this wonder other than Call to Power?

  • That is some of the creepiest shit I've ever seen.

  • I totaly agree

  • damnit , whats it say at the end?

  • machine rules with total authority, all workers are content (no riots), but every turn there's 3% chance of AI revolting. It's a kind of trap, really, since AI lets you set work time to maximum, wages and food to minimum in any government type, and people are still content. Then when AI rebels, its effect is first turned off, all your cities become VERY unhappy and then join the AI's barbarian faction. Save often :P

  • This Wonder is inspired by the book 1984.

  • This is easily one of the more creepy, and flat out scary Wonders in CTP (because, really what government wouldn't LOVE to have this?)

  • All the future Wonders gave me the chills, but this takes the cake. "Without want, there is no need. I SEE ALL"

  • if it sees all?

    OMG ITS WATCHING ME IN THE SHOWER 0_o

  • I never got much into the game. When the Wonder triggers a revolt, does it create a new civilization? Is the leader named "A.I. Entity"?

  • No, it creates barbarians. I think the programmers got lazy here and didn't want to add a better rogue civilization.

  • I don't remember what civilzation or leader it makes, it just says "The A.I. Entity has malfunctioned! Your city has been overthrown by super intellegant machines!" in a text box. :p

  • It should do so real fast, too! I haven't played Call to Power myself, but here's a trick of probability mathematics.

    3% may be miniscule odds on any single check, but if it's checked every turn, the chance that it never comes up is (1-0.03)^(number of turns).

    By 23 turns, it's a 50-50 chance that the Terminators have rolled out.

  • I personally never built the AI Entity because it almost always eventually led to a revolt.

  • @Epoq I never played Call to Power enough to understand what the AI Revolt is like. However, I'm really curious. Care to enlighten me?

  • Enlighten I shall... basically what happens is that you pretty much lose the game since you lose all cities to the revolt. That's about it.

    It keeps everyone content until then at least. :/

  • It creates a rebel nation from some of your cities and troops. I only lost rhe game once because of this. The AI took the city with the most military units inside and raped my other last cities in like 4 turns.

  • Hmm, that's odd... for some reason it liked to take over every single city I had.

    But now that you mention it, the reason for that might be because I had a substantial amount of units guarding all of my cities, hence all cities being taken over...

  • It was like 5 years ago or more since i last played CtP 1. SO i could be wrong. But since you loose the game if you lost all your cities, having all of them taken away in a single turn is to harsh. I'm pretty sure i remember fighting the AI a few times. I used to have all of my military in one or maybe two bordercities. If these two were taken, i was raped. If not, i quelled the rebellion quite fast.

  • It is harsh but that's exactly what happened, when I moved onto the next turn I would be given the loss video. After a few attempts with no change I sold the AI Entity wonder and it never happened again.

    Oh well. Building individual mind controllers is more useful in this case anyway since there's no chance of rebellion.