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About This File
Well, everybody and everypony. It's official. It's the year 2025, the first quarter of the 21st century. Welcome to the future! Wait, what?
OK, remember when dates such as 2000, 2001, 2015 and 2020 used to sound futuristic? Pepperidge Farm, and me, remembers. It was awesome back then and we couldn't wait to get cool space stations and high-tech cities by the year 2001, flying cars by 2015, genetic engineered people by 2019, and Olympics on the Moon in 2020. Well, we don't have flying cars, fusion reactors, robotic butlers, Moon bases and global peace yet (and instead we got terrorists, global warming, economic meltdowns, pandemics, the return of fascism, microplastics in our blood, nuclear threats, and buffoons who believe that Earth is flat 
), but we still got some awesome futuristic stuff such as pocket-size multi-purpose supercomputers, smart TVs, on-demand video streaming, electric self-driving cars equipped with GPS that look like stylized versions of their 1970's counterparts, industrial robots, a robotic helicopter on Mars, reusable orbital rockets, relatively inexpensive DNA tests, real-time language translation, virtual reality headsets, robot-assisted surgeries, AI art, the I.S.S., 3D printers, The Internet (which nobody back then had even thought of, although some came pretty close with the concept of The Cyberspace), and of course SimCity 4.
Speaking of which, unlike SimCity 3000 which came with a convenient loading bar that visualizes the progression of loading a city, SimCity 4 only shows some silly texts when loading a city with a very strange sense of humor, such as Aligning Covariance Matrices, Gesticulating Mimes, Depixelating Inner Mountain Surface Back Faces (wait, what?), and Reticulating Splines. To be honest, I just don't get this kind of humor. Maybe I'm just as stupid as a Flat Earther. Anyway, these texts have been around for almost 20 years, so I think it's time for a change. And... OK, you know me. Some of you know me well. I build futuristic cities, with Space Age houses and flying cars. And loading texts like the above are just not my cup of tea. So I took Craig-Abcvs Text Loading Mod and I used it as a template to make my version.
My version contain 120 futuristic themed loading texts that replace the Maxis ones. Some of them are based on real life emerging and proposed technologies that are under development like nuclear fusion and green roofs, other have been inspired by futuristic but seriously proposed concepts such as geoplanes and Dyson Spheres, and other are references to beloved science fiction stories like Star Trek and Deus Ex. And of course a few of them are just silly jokes based on SimCity memes and not only. I just wanted to make something more sci-fi and futuristic, without removing the overall wackiness of the game we know and love. I originally made this mod for myself but I decided to share it with everybody, just in case somebody of you want it. Loading futurization guarantee. Or your money back 
Installation is so simple, even a Flat Earther could do it. All you have to do is unzip the file and put it at your plugins folder. And that's all. Next time you load a city, you'll see what the game is working on in order to prepare your urban empire, such as printing modular buildings, replacing advisors with AIs, covering Ceres with computronium, and nano-assembling mimes. If you want the Maxis text back, just remove the .dat file from your plugins folder. If you wish to suggest some new loading texts, go ahead. I'm always open to new ideas.
Have fun 
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