{"id":85682,"date":"2024-10-10T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-he-the-best-civilization-player-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:14:45","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-thinks-he-the-best-civilization-player-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-he-the-best-civilization-player-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Thinks He The Best Civilization Player On Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 fuSEnv align--bleed js_marquee-assetfigure\" id=\"\" data-id=\"4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 fDJNBs has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:1920px\" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"getty\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 knmQPh js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.3%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 hGpdBg\"><picture class=\"sc-epkw7d-0 diKDHf\"><source media=\"(max-width: 37.31em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 37.37em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_1315\/4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image for article titled Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Probably The Best Civilization Player In The World\" data-chomp-id=\"4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-height=\"1080\" data-alt=\"Image for article titled Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Probably The Best Civilization Player In The World\" data-anim-src=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-7s1ndr-0 fPOdhF no-caption\">Photo<!-- -->: <!-- -->Samuel Corum<!-- --> (<!-- -->Getty Images<!-- -->)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/4fa9de319bcee2ab23fb3a620193cf95\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"sc-r43lxo-1 cwnrYD\">\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook and CEO of parent company Meta, has played a lot of <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/civilization-civ-vi-6-review-2023-retrospective-pc-sid-1850242218&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/civilization-civ-vi-6-review-2023-retrospective-pc-sid-1850242218\"><em>Civilization <\/em>on PC<\/a><\/span>. In fact, he\u2019s played so much that he claims to be the best player in the world, and would be shocked if anybody else could \u201cbeat\u201d him in a match. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-1 gRtQsx\">\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-0 dccRTD instream-native-video instream-permalink instream-native-video--mobile\">\n<div class=\"sc-1h0epat-0 crfeiW\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-4 kDKXjm video-html5-playlist\" data-playlist=\"194600,197284,197260\" data-current=\"194600\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-0 hAZDOz video-html5-loaded\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-1 jShsAa video-html5-player\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-0 ldLvgq video-html5 autoplay muted mobile\" data-video-id=\"194600\" data-monetizable=\"true\" data-position=\"sidebar\" data-video-title=\"This Wacky Magical Girl Anime Is Studio Trigger-Coded To Perfection\" data-video-blog-id=\"9\" data-video-network=\"kotaku\" data-video-duration=\"127\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-2 emBeiF video-top-bar\">\n<p>This Wacky Magical Girl Anime Is Studio Trigger-Coded To Perfection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><video disablepictureinpicture=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" style=\"max-height:none\"><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194600\/194600_240p.mp4\" label=\"240p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194600\/194600_480p.mp4\" label=\"480p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194600\/194600_720p.mp4\" label=\"720p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194600\/194600_1080p.mp4\" label=\"1080p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><track kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/api\/videoupload\/caption\/20056.vtt\" srclang=\"en\"\/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pubity\/video\/7422388239169785120&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pubity\/video\/7422388239169785120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a recent interview with <em>Pubity<\/em><\/a><\/span>, the (supposed) human and<span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/metaverse-meta-facebook-selfie-vr-zuckerberg-ugly-1849424613?_gl=1*1jsixxx*_ga*MzQzNjkwNDM2LjE2NDY2NjQ1NzQ.*_ga_V4QNJTT5L0*MTcyODU5MjA5MC4yNDMuMC4xNzI4NTkyMDkzLjU3LjAuMA..&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/metaverse-meta-facebook-selfie-vr-zuckerberg-ugly-1849424613?_gl=1*1jsixxx*_ga*MzQzNjkwNDM2LjE2NDY2NjQ1NzQ.*_ga_V4QNJTT5L0*MTcyODU5MjA5MC4yNDMuMC4xNzI4NTkyMDkzLjU3LjAuMA..\"> recovering metaverse cultist<\/a><\/span> described a moment when his wife, whom he married in 2012, noticed how much time he had spent playing an unspecified <em>Civilization <\/em>game on PC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">\u201cPriscilla looked at my Steam account the other day and she\u2019s like \u2018What?! You\u2019ve played this for more than a thousand hours?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Zuckerberg then went on to claim that he wants to be the best in the world at <em>Civilization<\/em>, and suggested he\u2019d even stream online and face other people to prove his skills. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of strategy games, the one that I\u2019m more likely to want to be the best in the world at is <em>Civilization,<\/em>\u201d said Zuckerberg.<em>\u00a0<\/em> \u201cI think at some point I should do like a Twitch stream of me playing with someone because I\u2019m pretty convinced that I\u2019m close to Grandmaster status. I\u2019d be surprised if anyone in the world could beat me at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">It is interesting that Zuckerberg, in this hypothetical situation where he plays <em>Civilization <\/em>online against other people and streams it, decided to stream on Twitch and not Facebook. You know, the website he co-founded and owns. The social media site has spent years trying <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/facebooks-new-program-pays-black-streamers-to-help-them-1845836405&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/facebooks-new-program-pays-black-streamers-to-help-them-1845836405\">to get people to stream games on it<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Anyway, <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/civ\/comments\/1g0aeab\/i_am_almost_a_grandmaster_mark_zuckerberg_has\/&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/civ\/comments\/1g0aeab\/i_am_almost_a_grandmaster_mark_zuckerberg_has\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over on Reddit<\/a><\/span>, the reactions to this have been about what you would expect. A few people have pointed out that they have more hours and have even suggested that a thousand hours in the strategy game isn\u2019t <em>that <\/em>much, and said they could probably defeat Zuckerberg online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">I hope Zuckerberg actually does stream himself playing the game against random people and I hope they beat his ass and convince him that, no, he doesn\u2019t know how to run the world or a country. Perhaps that will save us from a Zuckerberg presidential campaign in the future. Come on gamers, save us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/mark-zuckerberg-ceo-facebook-civilization-best-player-1851670162\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Samuel Corum (Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook and CEO of parent company Meta, has played a lot of Civilization on PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}