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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 6:55 pm
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(March 26, 2017 at 6:48 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (March 26, 2017 at 6:45 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Bah... new games with lots of distracting eye candy! 
Unreal Tournament, Game of the Year edition, from 1999. That thing runs perfectly on every computer, nowadays, even the crappier laptop.
Pair it with an automatic sniper rifle capable of tossing out some 5 rounds per second, each with a very real possibility of producing a head-shot (don't forget to duck!).
Oh and tons and tons and tons of custom maps! 
My new pathfinder character in Mass Effect is interesting.
Just have to build her some decent armour. Resources. Must get more resources... Teutons require 20 less wood for farms! And Britons have cheap Town Centers! And Indians have cheap villagers! And Turks mine gold faster! Celts gather wood faster! Koreans gather stone faster! Mongols hunt faster! Slavs farm faster! Franks forage faster! Vikings get free wheelbarrow and hand cart! Oh and Vikings also have cheaper docks too! Yay resources!
Whoops! Wrong game!
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 6:56 pm
(March 26, 2017 at 6:48 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (March 26, 2017 at 6:45 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Bah... new games with lots of distracting eye candy!
Unreal Tournament, Game of the Year edition, from 1999. That thing runs perfectly on every computer, nowadays, even the crappier laptop.
Pair it with an automatic sniper rifle capable of tossing out some 5 rounds per second, each with a very real possibility of producing a head-shot (don't forget to duck!).
Oh and tons and tons and tons of custom maps!
My new pathfinder character in Mass Effect is interesting.
Just have to build her some decent armour. Resources. Must get more resources...
Don't you just love waiting for your resources to build up?
Ever played Dune?
http://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonwar...p?gid=1308
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm
(March 26, 2017 at 6:06 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (March 26, 2017 at 6:03 pm)Silent Snob Wrote: Should I take that as some kind of threat of some sort?
Nice one, nevertheless.
No, trust me.
You can ask anyone here: if I was going to make threats toward you there would be absolutely no doubt that it was a threat.
I don't do subtle. Subtle is something that happens to other people, usually with a brick attached.
I always thought the term "subtle" means: almost too vague to be true.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm
(March 26, 2017 at 6:56 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (March 26, 2017 at 6:48 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: My new pathfinder character in Mass Effect is interesting.
Just have to build her some decent armour. Resources. Must get more resources...
Don't you just love waiting for your resources to build up?
Ever played Dune?
http://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonwar...p?gid=1308
Nope.
Not seen that one before.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 7:02 pm
It's the first ever successful RTS, really. Pre-C&C.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 7:17 pm
I used to have to mentally play baseball. That's not necessary any more.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 7:28 pm
Some time ago I played some card-stuff and other boring things my computer-program came up with. Once in a while, like every two weeks for about an hour I wasted my time with that kinda thing. I don't get why and what for playing computer-games is even an option for a human being, who, in my case, likes to contemplate on some shit.
I feel so old-school already. I'm like a car for which one needs a hammer to start it. Keys haven't been invented yet. That's how I feel/think about internet/computer games and it's valuie for what I'm up to.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 26, 2017 at 7:54 pm
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(March 26, 2017 at 7:02 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: It's the first ever successful RTS, really. Pre-C&C.
TA ftw!
Having said that, it's not often I play games. I prefer playing my guitar, writing, hiking, talking with a special someone  , or doing a project out on the porch.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 27, 2017 at 10:45 am
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Total Annihilation is indeed an amazing game.
Created by Ron Gilbert.... the creator of Monkey Island, I believe.
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RE: The art of not playing games
March 27, 2017 at 1:30 pm
I'm not so much into games that I follow designers, I just play what I like.
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