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Welcome back to the feature formerly known as Do You Like Free Stuff. This time around, I am offering up one pre-order Direct2Drive copy of Civilization V.
The contest will run til 8:00 P.M. Eastern Thursday September 2nd.
How do you enter? Just leave a comment below. I will randomly choose one winner this week and announce it Thursday night.
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Welcome back to the feature formerly known as Do You Like Free Stuff. This time around, I am offering up one pre-order Direct2Drive copy of Civilization V. The contest will run til 8:00 P.M. Eastern Thursday September 2nd. How do you enter? Just leave a comment below. I will randomly choose one winner this week [...]
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I like free stuff and I love Civ.
Thanks for doing this!!
This is awesome. I would like to enter your contest of chance.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
Oh mister cranium, you bring such joy to this rotten world.
You. Are. The. MAN!
Oh, you gotta be KIDDING ME.
I am quite looking forward to Civ 5. Hexes all the way!
I actually don’t need it, it turns out I just accidentally bought in between these two comments!
I don’t have any other Civ game. So, uh, wanna influence your random number generator?
Hex yes.
Free Civ? Sign me up.
already own it, but I applaud your banishing another person to their computer for days…
I will buy it, but why not win it!
You rock, huge!
hugecranium is a Generosity Superhero, by gum.
(PS I don’t like Civ style games very much, so if I come up in the random draw, re-roll for somebody else! I just wanted to say huge is awesome, for the record.)
I’m entering, but please don’t give it to me immediately–I may ask you to gift it to someone more deserving.
But YOU ROCK, DEAR SIR.
Today I had a fever so I watched Stalin dance to techno and it made everything better.
I would like you to destroy my social life. For free.
You delight me with the freeness of your stuff. I will take it now.
On another note, I think I should get it simply for working out how to get an avatar. It has taken a very, very long time.
This comment won’t make sense once it feeds through, but right now I see no avatar.
Also, nice simul-comment!
Ah, yes. I think it’s worked now! As far as I can see.
Or maybe I still don’t have an avatar, but my mind is so desperate for one I’m imagining it.
Sorrow.
Oh man. I have to take 5 days in a row for “sensitive” leave before the end of the year. I’m thinking I’ll do it after I get this, and then I will play the most epic game of Civ V in the history of all Civilization! (On “Settler”/super easy, of course!)
Hi thar
I ain’t never played no Civilization game. Huzzah!
Oh boy! Civ V! That’s where I’m a Viking!
I love free stuff?
Oh, man. I’d so have no life for like, a month. How much vacation time do I have saved up?
I say.
This DOES appear to be a spiffing way to obtain a vidjagame.
Tell me, does winning one of these mean you can’t win another free stuff drawing?
Nope, all winners can be winners again. Such is the rotato of randomness.
I can haz Civ V?
Yes Plz
Civ 5?
FIVE?
I remember building my palace in the first one….
Hugecranium rocks!
Normally I’d not be so greedy and drop my name in this tiny hat after winning a copy of Puzzle Quest 2 (thanks!).
But.
Civ5? Seriously? Do Want.
Civ hwaaaa? I missed CIV IV!
Free civ? One can only hope.
The only thing better than Civ 5 is Civ 5 for free!
Oooh, Civ V. Who wants a damned “social life” anyway?
Just one more turn!
oh yea my wife would not like to see me for weeks on end. My children would say who is that guy on the computer…let me at it.
I would like this game very much indeed
Wheeee~
Something tells me I’m going to regret this…
Agree with Jake.
Oh god, I do NOT have time for this. And yet here I sit, hoping that I win. Hugecranium and huge heart, a wonderful combination.
With an extra two directions to leave a cell, my turns are going to take 50% longer and my body is going to get a hell of a lot less sleep.
All hail Civ
Hmm. Let’s see if I can pick this thing up.
Two hours left.
contest is over, winner announced soon!