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Alpha Centauri Quotes: Intro and Tech's 0-24
Audio clips of the intro and technology quotes from the 1999 strategy game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, in male and female voices, covering techs 0 through 24.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN fans share it as a way to hear the game's philosophical, sci-fi quotes in sequence.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- uvwar
- Topic
- alpha centauri game quotes
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The special projects videos in that game are some of the best science fiction creative work ever made, IMO. Also, something I still think is predictive and sends chills up my neck, "as the Americans painfully learned in Earth's final century" (presumably the 21st): [LINK] …
kyuudou on Hacker News · 2020-04
In The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after deathSome thoughtful sorts put all of them into a series of YouTube segments. I find them to be timeless, and quite heady when listened to in sequence. [VIDEO]
alchemism on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2016)Some how Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was a 4x game that had one of the most interesting stories / atmospheres in video game history, even if it was just from a few clips and quotes. [VIDEO]
duxup on Hacker News · 2020-10
In Sid Meier's Memoir
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.