Oh, right.

Duh.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is...

Morning, Samu!

For May 8, 2026, my name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's my human to human lady. It's

Ashley Burns. I'm contagious. It doesn't like a transmission joke early on a Friday. So the thing I'm

probably going to want to talk about more than anything else today is the haunt of virus. But is there

anything else going on in the world that will not bum us out too much? Well, if you want to get the light

stuff out of the way, there's an update coming to one of your favorite franchises, Civilization.

Civilization 7, which came out, I want to say like it was like last February. So it's been out

a while. Might be getting good soon,

which is, I think that's typical of the civilization franchise. How dare you? Civilization is always good. That's typical of the civilization franchise, though, right? That like, it comes out and everyone's like, yeah, and then they release updates, you know, a year later or something, and people are like, yeah, pretty good now. but they're making a pretty major change

in that they are now going to allow you to play or something and people are like, yeah, pretty good now. But they're making a pretty major change

in that they are now going to allow you to play as a single civilization through the whole game.

Right, because that was a thing, right? That was a thing. That was a major change that was made

to Civilization 7. Hardcore civilization franchise fans didn't enjoy that much.

No.

Because that's sort of like a sieve mainstay, right?

It's like you pick a civilization, you play it through from like, you know,

Stone Age to Space Age.

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