Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Virtual World

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From the videogame known as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, this is the secret project video for The Virtual World.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project
Cost: 300
Prerequisite Technology: Planetary Networks
Effect: In addition to their normal effect, Network Nodes count as Hologram Theatres at each of your bases: reduce number of Drones by two and increase PSYCH output of base by 50%.

"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"

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[ChuutRiit]

Yang wraps his despotist worldview in beautiful quotes and speeches, yet that cannot hide the fact that he is a vile tyrant.

[MarciCow]

"Take control of the input, and you shall become master of the output" = Whoever controls the media, controls the masses.

[halosammy14]

Why is he naked? He should ago east be tortured with some pants on.

[Cruel Angel]

I checked Wikipedia page about the Franks, oh shit, you are absolutely right! I actually learned something new from youtube comment instead of the tactics of rage war!!! Thanks Man!!! You have restored my faith in humanity, Russian scout! What does Arabassist mean?

[TheArabassist]

Yes it's true, although the term probably dates back further to when the Arabs interacted with the Franks who ruled most of Europe at the time. It was used interchangeably with 'Westerner', much like 'Saracen' applied to any Muslim or Arab. I wouldn't be surprised if it was spread through to the Indian sub-continent through the expansion of Islam, and then eventually diffused into Thailand through trade and whatnot.

[Cruel Angel]

Really? Is that true? If that is true then it is interesting. Well, it is possible as some words in Thai are from the middle east... We also call France-Farang-sed, I think the etymology that we mis pronounce France into Farang is more possible, but then history is all about reconstruction of something that is not there anymore, we can only get a rough image.

[TheArabassist]

Interesting how you use the word 'Farang' for foreigner, which comes from the Arabic term for the Franks that invaded the Holy Land during the Crusades.

[Cruel Angel]

By the way, you truly used you tube in a way that is very civilised... like we are actually humans talking to each other...

[Cruel Angel]

Though one could argue, life at its core, at its origins, was nothing more than a self replicating chemical reaction that gets better and better with each cycle, structures are added, organs, sentience, intellect, but ultimately all answer to the original DNA one way or another, symbols, meanings were simply applications to be installed into intellect to boost ability to cope with ever changing circumstances, yet we all know things can always transcend its original reason for existence...

[Cruel Angel]

Buddhism as a deconstruction of the concept of life itself resulting from the obsession with philosophy of the Indians... Applying the neuroscientific brain altering techniques of yogis of his day to alter the very structure of the brain to remove the senses of happiness and suffering to attain true freedom... thousands of years before neuroscience... Prince Siddatha is amazing...