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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I remeber those too! LOL on your dog http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif penny candy was like 5 for it .10 for Snickers bar (bigger too) Ahhh those were the days http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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No offence, but...

Surely I can't be the only person here who having read four pages of this stuff, is starting to feel a little sick?

<sound of Mark legging it as fast as possible>

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Sick as in sick at people reminicing about the old days and what seems to be saying screw the future:

Or

Sick as in look at what our world has turned into in short little 100 years?

*sigh* Nobody even knows the answer anymore.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was only 5 or 6 at the time, and *I* remember doing that, too! About a week after Openign Day for the film; I barely remember much formt eh first viewing, just leaving the theater with a clear picture of Darth Vader's helmet in my wee mind, and an impression of "that was the most awesomest coolest bestest movie in the world!".

I saw it with my father, my FIRST-ever trip to the theater (my mother was peeved she didn't get included, but I didn't know about that angle for another 5 years or so, heh).

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">oh, how modern of you. i lament the old days when wars were fought on horseback, and you killed people by hacking their limbs off. i wish we still fought each other to determine who's god was stronger, rather than for economic might. the world sure was fun back when communications were only as fast as a ship could sail, and before the FDA regulated 'meat' processing plants.
people were SO much more altruistic back then, when the world was green and our hearts were free.

this is a great thread, people here are excercising optimism about the past. you can either look at it as cynicism for the future, or you can take a lesson in identifying what is good in life.

or maybe im just playing the devil's advocate, since the thread got me down.

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Damn, I remember when there were no PC’s. I remember taking physics with a slide rule. I remember watches without batteries. I remember 38 cent gas and cars with some guts under the hood. Four dollars a case for beer, good beer, not rotgut. Casual sex without the threat of an incurable STD. But I also remember men dropping dead in their 40’s from heart attacks. And I remember antiwar rallies and race riots. I remember a shanty town on the mall. And I remember a very hot-cold war. I remember gas lines and stations with no gas. I remember a melt down at Three Mile Island. I remember burnt out aircraft carriers returning from the South China Sea. I think we are better off today and that the good old days weren’t all that good

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ewww... What, did you hit a deer?

[ September 30, 2002, 09:00: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

indeed, most religions were invented for social or economic gain. of course that is the motivating factor for any military conflict you could name.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

what the heck is positive about that? that was some gruesome business (in both your examples)! or did you mean that we are better off now than we were before? All of my previous comments were designed to give the impression that modern society is leagues ahead of where we were 'before,' and all of the leave-it-to-beaver glorification of recent history should be taken with a grain of salt.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">it sounds like were talking the same language, here.

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Puke,
Yes, I meant that with near instant comunications we can avoid events like The battle of New Orleans.
And I miss understood your intent. I do feel the qualty of life has gotton better despite some of the negative things.
So, yes we do seem to agree

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Well, I am glad you two got that settled. Now why don't you guys hug and get out of here so the rest of us can get back to complaining. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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well then, now that thats all square:

I remember when you could get a bag of chips (or other salty snacks) and it would actually contain the product as advertised. These days, you pay a large sum of money for fancy packaging and pLastic canisters that are concave in the middle (so they hold less), are filled 60% with air, and the remaining 40% contains either air-puffed snacks or ones that are circular or otherwise hollow in the center so that they fill a spacious volume with a small ammount of 'edible' material.

the same applies to those bic pen-erasers with the hole down the center of them.

[ October 01, 2002, 00:12: Message edited by: Puke ]

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hows this:

i remember when i read the first review of SEIV, and when i first installed the demo. When that crummy envelope first arived in the mail, with that flimsy paper CD holder. The first stellar construction, the first game i finished, the first game i played Online. The first PBW game.

i remember the summer i spent playing CIV-1, maybe two years after its release. I remember my only multiplayer game of SMAC. (it was fun!)

i remember when playing games Online meant playing your daily turn, and waiting for everyone else in the game to dial in to the BBS and play their turn. As in TradeWars 2002, Operation Overkill, and other greats.

i remember when playing multiplayer games meant sitting next to a friend infront of an Atari 400 (upgraded to 8K RAM) and trying to time your button clicks to grab land faster than the guy next to you (M.U.L.E.). Or when it meant hotseat text-based games on an IBM-XT, or hotseat Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in its first incarnation. I remember that it was easiest to play Escape from Castle Wolfenstein with two players, because it took one to move and another to aim / do actions.

Now mulitplayer games mean glassing the planet of someone you have never met, or silly click-fest / frag-fests that have more to do with how much money you have spent on your computer and internet connection that how good you are at the game.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I remember the days when things could only add up to 100%. Of course even then, nobody liked a smartarse...

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How's this! Gas......$0.23 Per Gal!

How 'Bout it anyone else? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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[quote]Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:

Quote:

Originally posted by Puke: [qb]I remember the days when things could only add up to 100%. Of course even then, nobody liked a smartarse...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">what? whats that over there? LOOK, A COW!

hey, i think you need to check the validity of that quote, i think you doctored my statement.

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Puke,
Reguarding this thread getting you down:
My interpretation is that most of the wars including the Crusades were for economic power. Even the American Revolution was motivated by the merchant class who stood the most to gain from it.
On a positive note:
As for regulating meat: Did you ever read Sinclare Lewis's description of the meat packing industry in the US? I have forgotton the name of it.
Positive note:
Comunications as fast as a ship:
Remember how many people died at the Battle of New Orleans 3 days after a peace treaty was signed.

It is my Optimistic Cynical positon to quote,
"Times Change, People Don't"
I do feel the quality of life improves. The people who talk on cell phones in a restaurant, well, I don't know about them.
I feel people still take as much leasure time as they would have 200 years ago. Work a holics existed back then as they do now.
In short: The pase of life has not increased. Our capacity to fill it has.
Disclamer: I could be way off base here. I just choose to belive all of the above os true.
Life Gets Better.

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You could go to school and kick some kids arse and not have to go to therapy afterwards to discuss your pent up rage at your mother for not giving you a bottle when you were two or something.

When you could say what you wanted to say and not fear getting sued for not being politically correct.

When the term "Politically correct" just ment your political party won the election.

[ October 01, 2002, 00:56: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What do you mean? I bought Gas for my car on Saturday for "39 cents"

Mind you I meant LPG Gas and not Petrol and it was by the litre. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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btw sinclairs novel was (and acutally still is) called The Jungle.

I'm only 17 so i don't ahve the greatest persepctive on life, however i will add my 2c in like 2 days when i finish writing 20 million different essays because next week is homecoming week and since we arn't supposed to have homework then they just double it the week before. Good logic ehhh?

not that you guys care much for high school life.

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I remember when the Turbo button unpressed disabled the Cache and made the computer go slower.

I remember learning that there goes two nibbles on one byte, but altough I programmed alot of assembler I never had any use of that knowledge.

I remember my second computer , the Amstrad CPC-464 (Aka Schneider) and it had colours.

I remember playing Civ-1 a month ago becourse it still beats civ-3.

I remember being an unsecure teenager, never sure of anything.

I remember that things was worse before and now they are great.

I remember that some time ago I hadn't heard of SE4.

I remember when companies didn't have any enviromental ethics, now they atleast say they have.

I remember when equality between sexes and feminism was something extreme, now it's political correct.

I remember that it sucks when the reserve parachute doesnt work, and when it finally opens and you land you realize you packed it wrong yourself.

I remember staying up at nights becourse the kids wouldn't sleep, I remember things are much better nowadays http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ November 06, 2002, 08:20: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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I remember when AT was here all the time!

Were did ya go AT.

Come back Please.

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I remember when fighting video games were 2-D and there were only 3 possible moves: a button to jump, a button to kick, and a button to punch. (Remember Kung-Fu Master?) It took 30 seconds to learn how to play.
The games today are so complicated! Each character that you can play has 50 different special moves that require a long sequence of direction/button combinations that you need to memorize, and it takes a month to learn.

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Kamog: Try "Way of the Stick", as seen in my sig.

[ November 06, 2002, 17:48: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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How is that, a six paged topic i have never seen?
Somebody enlighten me what is this about, and what is your kungfu?

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SJ: Thanks, that's a fun game! I'll need to practice. The first game I only got 24. A bunch of 3 or 4 guys keep swarming me and then I'm toast. I'll have to try to keep my distance.

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24? You must have got only a single drop-kick in then.

Try using the throw button when you're surrounded.
You'll grab one guy, flip him over your shoulder, and then kick him towards the guys on the other side of you, bowling them all over http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Plus, you get 49 points for the throw.

Also, there is a health potion past the first wall.

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Thanks, I tried that. Now I got 316! Throwing the guys works great. I still haven't reached the wall though...

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New high score: 2143! This game is addictive! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I'm doing OK as long as I stay on the original side of the wall. I go to the other side and the guys there are tough...