It's 12:45 and the stock market is down 315 points!

Originally Posted by Odin

I have all the Civ games except for the first. I sear, they are the computer game version of crack. The Total War games are good, too, as are the Europa Universalis series.

Explain to me why Civ IV is great. I can see crack, but most good video games act as crack. It's fun building up your cities and going through the different economic systems and culture stuff, but the rest appears to be so-so. The realism aspect is lacking, too. Where are the exciting battles of Total War or the race through the different ages in AOE?

It's a good game, but it's lacking the tools that push it up to the next level, as far as I can see.

Originally Posted by The Rani

It's like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Everything can be linked to Bush. I think that would be a better game to play.

I'll start. Link the following problems to Bush, if you can, in six steps or less ...

Tooth decay

Poor cell phone reception

California wildfires

Bad hair day

Entirely too easy.
Global warming, which Bush did nothing about, is probably behind the the drought which led to the California wildfires, which have no doubt burned a few cell phone towers and caused people to flee their homes without time to round up the toothbrushes and hair care products.

Do I get a sucker?

Originally Posted by herbal tee

I used to be a big Sim City 3000 fan. I built maybe 30 cities in all. On the first couple of cities I learned the basics and then sought to build the biggest cities populationwise that I could. Sometimes I would create my own geography and sometimes I would use a real city terrian. My Los Angleles, based on the real city terrian was my largest city at over 1.7 million.

I actually bought Sim City 4 but found it to be a lesser game. The idea of regioal interaction between the cities is a good one, but the game took too long to load and it moved too slow. Also, there wasn't snough flexability in the boundries. IOW, your 'center city' was often no larger in land area than most of the suburbs. If you're looking for realism, that's not an ignorable flaw. In addition to creating your own regions, one should have been given the ability to presize the boundries and, in the case of existing regions, resize them.

It doesn't look like EA will come out with another edition of this game, but if they did one with the flexability of the 3000 and the regionalism of 4 would be good. I suspect that as computer tech has continued to progress, slowness need not be as big an issue in a future edition.

I have Sim City 4 (and still have 2000 and 3000 someplace) but it's too slow for me as well. By the time I get anything built up a few hours are gone and the game is crawling. I imagine when I get a Quad Core iMac in a couple of years with 4 gig or so of RAM I might have enough of a machine to make it playable.

My favorite pick it up and play for half an hour or so game is "Spaceward Ho". It's not that much of a challenge (I'm still playing the demo) but it's a nice little strategy game that lets me conquer the universe in my spare time.

Originally Posted by DonRobbie

I have Sim City 4 (and still have 2000 and 3000 someplace) but it's too slow for me as well. By the time I get anything built up a few hours are gone and the game is crawling. I imagine when I get a Quad Core iMac in a couple of years with 4 gig or so of RAM I might have enough of a machine to make it playable.

My favorite pick it up and play for half an hour or so game is "Spaceward Ho". It's not that much of a challenge (I'm still playing the demo) but it's a nice little strategy game that lets me conquer the universe in my spare time.

These days "Spaceward Ho" would only recall the Companion in Firefly to all too many minds.

Originally Posted by MichaelEaston

It's 12:45 and the stock market is down 315 points!

That's because, like you said, Bush sucks.

Originally Posted by DonRobbie

Global warming, which Bush did nothing about, is probably behind the the drought...

Al Gore wrote "Earth in the Balance" in 1992, and predicted dire consequences for us all in ten years time, if we didn't act "now." How many droughts, forest fires, devastating heat-waves and hurricanes came and went during the time Democrats were running the show for those ten years, buddy?

You all are such phony-baloney crisis suckers. Hell, ya'all make chicken-little and the little boy who cried wolf look like national heroes.

Originally Posted by zilch

Al Gore wrote "Earth in the Balance" in 1992, and predicted dire consequences for us all in ten years time, if we didn't act "now." How many droughts, forest fires, devastating heat-waves and hurricanes came and went during the time Democrats were running the show for those ten years, buddy?

You all are such phony-baloney crisis suckers. Hell, ya'all make chicken-little and the little boy who cried wolf look like national heroes.

Dude, take your meds and it'll all be okay, Okay?

Originally Posted by The Rani

I don't think the dude was trying to give a serious answer ... but ... I could be wrong.

It wasn't a serious answer. I looked at the list, had an aha! moment and transcribed from neurons to electrons.

Originally Posted by The Rani

Yeah I thought Zilch misinterpreted that one. But I think his comments were actually directed at others here anyway, not you specifically.

Always to the rescue! Is it because you agree with him or because you have that special cognitive link with him you were describing in some other thread?

Can anyone link Bush to the bridge collapsing?

Originally Posted by MichaelEaston

Can anyone link Bush to the bridge collapsing?

No brainer there, in the Katrina thread its been duly noted that had Bush not wasted all that cash on infrastructure in Iraq, those folks in Minnesota would still be alive today.

Originally Posted by The Rani

Actually neither. Just didn't want the other dude to feel attacked. I know how much that can suck, especially when one isn't even trying to create a ruckus.

When is Zilch not trying to create a ruckus?

Originally Posted by The Rani

Somtimes I wonder if you and I are actually speaking the same language.

I was talking about the other dude, not zilch.

Anyway, I think I saw a photo with Dick Cheney and a shotgun climbing up the bank of the Mississippi yesterday.

Hurry -- run, duck, and hide!

Maybe Cheney shot down that MN bridge.

Originally Posted by MichaelEaston

Can anyone link Bush to the bridge collapsing?

Not Bush, but Governor "I will veto any necessary tax increases and spending bills" Pawlenty sure can.

Originally Posted by Odin

Not Bush, but Governor "I will veto any necessary tax increases and spending bills" Pawlenty sure can.

That's no use.

Originally Posted by zilch

No brainer there, in the Katrina thread its been duly noted that had Bush not wasted all that cash on infrastructure in Iraq, those folks in Minnesota would still be alive today.

Thanks! I'll go impress my friends now.

Originally Posted by zilch

No brainer there, in the Katrina thread its been duly noted that had Bush not wasted all that cash on infrastructure in Iraq, those folks in Minnesota would still be alive today.

Another perfect example of obsessive Bush hatred causing total blindness.

This is the party line that is coming out of the Daily Kos.

Tragically, the left is missing a chance to make a real point here: If the aforementioned web site was "The Daily Brancato" (!) instead, you'd be hearing all about how the tsunami of selfishness sired by California's Proposition 13, and stoked shamelessly by Ronald Reagan, is responsible for the Minnesota tragedy - and that of Katrina too.

But of course the left can't get beyond its twin bete noirs - Bush and Iraq.

Chalk up one more missed opportunity.

Originally Posted by Anthony '58 II

Another perfect example of obsessive Bush hatred causing total blindness.

This is the party line that is coming out of the Daily Kos.

Tragically, the left is missing a chance to make a real point here: If the aforementioned web site was "The Daily Brancato" (!) instead, you'd be hearing all about how the tsunami of selfishness sired by California's Proposition 13, and stoked shamelessly by Ronald Reagan, is responsible for the Minnesota tragedy - and that of Katrina too.

But of course the left can't get beyond its twin bete noirs - Bush and Iraq.

Chalk up one more missed opportunity.

There are plenty of folks on DU (myself included) that were pointing our fingers at the 3T selfishness and rot championed by Reagan.

Originally Posted by The Wonkette

Hurry -- run, duck, and hide!

Maybe Cheney shot down that MN bridge.

Absolutely impossible! Plus, we would've heard reports on the news media about a terroist attack.