Let the buyer beware. There is a company out there intent on world domination. It will not rest until its software is on every computer, and every user is a slave to its all-encompassing world view.

Once you install this software, the jig is up. You will use it. It will take a fantastic act of will to stop using it. You will ignore the pleas of family, friends, and bill collectors. This software company doesn't just want your CPU cycles, they want your mind too. This is hard core; this bunch makes Microsoft look like synchronized swimmers at the Olympics. They are sneaky, insidious, evil people.

The cleverest twist is that it's packaged as a game, which frankly declares it is "an all-out quest to build the ultimate empire and rule the world." Yeah, right ~ what they don't tell you is that the world to be conquered is the REAL world, and that the authors plan to do it one scratchy-eyed, hollow-bellied, numb-bummed, sleep-deprived zombie at a time.

For those of you out there who are borderline obsessive/compulsive ~ you know who you are ~ well, let me just say that it could be life-endangering. I know what I'm talking about here.

Forget crack. The real threat to productivity and a meaningful life is Civilization III. God knows what subliminal messages have been buried in the code, ready to be triggered to mobilize the indoctrinated masses. (And contrary to the proud Mac user's belief that we don't get viruses, you too are no longer immune. Although the fan site craftily does not link to it, there is a Mac version. This is how I got infected.)

So trust me. Just say no. Do not install it.

You may now address me as "Your Highness."
That is all.

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