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Rhine? (Score:1)
Cheers,
Paul
Re:Rhine? (Score:1)
Unwinding (Score:1)
I am obliged to put in a plug for Freeciv [freeciv.org] here.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Unwinding (Score:1)
Guns, Germs and Steel (Score:1)
For something that was written as a popular science book, I was remarkably affected by GG&S. The author's arguments are well made and have provided me much ammunition in my fights against the one or two racist bigots I sometimes run into. Well worth being on every bookshelf.
You called that hardcore? (Score:1)
Hourly updates at conquer is what you called hard-core? When I was working for my university, we'd mark the end of the semester by having a day-long (that's all it took to reach nuclear capability and win) game of Lightning Empire.
30. Second. Updates.
:-)
rjray--rjray
Re:You called that hardcore? (Score:1)
To my defense, the hourly conquer was played *during* the term-- you did your move, went away for a lecture/class/lunch, and came back an hour later to see the lizardmen swarming over your borders... some of the guys later moved on to Empire, I don't know what update frequency they had but I do know that they spent nights and weekends in the lab... by that time I think I was hooked by Nethack and Moria.
In case MUDs are/were your opiate of choice: couple of the Empire-playing guys went l