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Fantasy and reality are parity states. Flipping occurs when totally bored.
According to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II, I am now a " Rational".
According to the Personality Type Test, I am now a "Conceiver".
If you are stuck on "revenge", Space Empires IV is the "cure"! Far cheaper than psychology too...
use http://lycos.com/
Get some philosophy... http://marsh.logical.net/master.htm http://dictionary.com/
If you spend fantasy beyond your means, then your means will spend you into reality.... http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm
Ipse Ergo Sum.

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http://www.zompist.com/kit.html#grammar http://www.zompist.com/kitlong.html http://www.zompist.com/kitgram.html#grammar
I said I would visit no more in the other thread. I did and here I am back again with the loot.
Request : Please be polite.
Response : Bizarre!
Request : No thank you, I would rather do it myself.
Response : What are you, some kind of idiot ? I only want to HELP you!
Request : Quoth the Raven - Never.
Response : More!
Okay, guilty as charged.
Why do I post here ? Well, some of you think pretty highly of yourselves, and others are experts.
The first toys I ever had were stackable alphabet blocks and a "pound a peg".
When all you have are words and intellectual hammers, everything looks like nails.
If the current hammer does not pound the peg in, get a bigger hammer.
There are so many things I could do that I simply hesitate to do anything at all.
Arnold Schwarzenneger howled a challenge in "Predator", and won.
Danny Glover in "Predator 2" simply did not know how to quit, and won.
I howl now - does anybody want to rent a loose hammer that does not know how to quit ?
If so, what do I get for bothering ?

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Hi again LCC,

I saw your two Posts in the "EEEvil Empire" thread including your apology for intruding and your promise to not do it again. That's good. You're certainly welcome to post in other threads as long as it has to do with their topics.

As for this OT thread, I don't have a problem with it. There are certainly other OT threads out there with nothing to do with SE4 (some of which I enjoy posting on http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif) which is fine. Actually, it would probably be best if you kept all your philosophical/song/founding fathers/etc. type Posts here in one thread. But please don't post completely unrelated material in a thread that actually does have a topic that's being discussed, OK? Thanks.


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Read what I said, not what you thought I said. One Last quote and I really intend not to post any more comments. "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a ****." - Gone With the Wind.

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I certainly did not intend to return here, but now my "credit card" has been cancelled, and I stopped getting useful email. So as someone intimated a while back, yes this seems to be the only forum where I can interact. A search Lycos took me to : http://www.crosswordmaestro.com/agd84.exe
Decode Lonnie Courtney Clay only took a second.
Very funny. Ha Ha. Big Deal. Do I care ? No, absolutely not.
I define what I am, and have since childhood.
Experience overcomes initial conditions.
The Last couple weeks have been full of experience.
Is this game over now ?
Edit : I will not tell you the many things I have experienced, just a quick sanity check took a couple of minutes.... See : http://www.terramarine.com/jp.htm

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Some definitions to consider : inoculation, obfuscation, inclination, inflection, deflection, correction, projection, prediction, situation, well the list goes on and on...
Old cliches to drag in :
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Practice makes perfect.
A stitch in time saves nine.
All the net is busily revising everything ever written, inventing new things, and faking it when clueless. Check the situation yourselves. How amusing. Would anyone care to add some more old cliches to this thread ?

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Had a strange thought Last night. You've probably heard of the "many-worlds" hypothesis? That there are many possible universes, and that they all exist simultaneously? Well, what if every fundamental particle in our universe is actually a universe, and also every universe is a fundamental particle in some other universe? It's actually a closed system, except that it is recursive in a seemingly illogical way. A "multiverse" with N universes would have N-1 fundamental particles to use. Or, put the other way, if there are N particles in our universe, then that allows for N+1 universes in the "multiverse." That's a lot of universes!

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Read "Wizard War" by Hugh Cook if I recall correctly. A green bottle and a red bottle posed a puzzle for a character. The controls for the bottles were rings around their necks. It took him a couple weeks to figure out how to get past a barred grill using the bottle he found on a desk in a library.
I would not care to attempt a rigorous physical description of creation. I think of it metaphorically as linked lists of data structures. Address pointers are information exchange operators. Data values range along a continuum in reference to "physical constants". The "laws of nature" are local rules entirely dependent on the local data structure.

For more food for thought look up *isms words. Then web search with them. Someone really should create a structured English dictionary that gets rid of this reverse Polish notation.....

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I love philosophy. I used to spend a lot of time at work talking to another Philosophy buff. God I miss working with him.

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I would say that God is well aware of all events in creation, from personal experience. In case there is some misconception here I am not God, nor do I speak directly to God, at least so far as I know. I use another old hackneyed cliche "Where There Is A Will, There Is A Way".

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Amend brother. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif I can't agree more on everything you have said. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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New Age Ship Yards

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One of the major reasons why I am not trusted, and should not be, is that I have difficulty making the distinction between "can" and "may, between "to" and "with", the list goes on and on. So paraphrase whatever I say if it makes you uncomfortable. Dictionaries that I access are either unreliable or crash the net link I use when I access words. Many links I access, including those which are hyperlinks result in failure to access or once again crash the net link....

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Upon consideration, the problem is likely that the lists of *onyms I have conceptualized do not agree with common usage. I am fortunate in this regard because this means I am indifferent to attacks which presume I know what is occurring. For example I experienced a mild prickling while reading at one site and finally realized with a laugh that the owner thought that I thought that I was "Superman" and was attempting to attack using "green kryptonite".

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What happens when the worms come?

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I *ve a *lly *tty *ch I *ll now *ll.
*rth is *lly *ven and *ven is *lly *ll.
I am not Popeye the Sailor Man, but Popeye is on the right track when he says :
I means what I says and I says what I means.

Edit : I reiterate, beware the English I use and ignore anything you may percieve as harmful. Upon consideration, this may be a brain teaser too difficult to try. I noticed the other day that the government has a new computer called "Deep White". See what that computer can do with the rhyme.
In the early 70s as I recall there was a song "When The Deep Purple Falls". That song would also be worth examining....

Edit 2 : I looked at the net again. Song lyrics, poems, speeches, practically everything is badly quoted. What the net really needs most of all is some quality control and write protection.

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Oh well, I descend from high Opera to low Humor. Who has not yet been invited to laugh ?
I *ack patience and patience *acks me.
Rank hath its priviledges. The higher the rank, the ranker the privvy ledges.
For an English/ Scottish/ Irish engineer such as I, it is inevitable that locomotives will bump. Whose motives are more loco, those such as I, or those with one track minds ?
To misquote Star Trek :
**** it Jim, I am an engineer, not a *.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tesco samoa:
What happens when the worms come?
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Wh* worms ? I hope the humor I gave has defused any hard feelings. I recall various worm stories, but have never ever done a worm/virus etc. on a computer so far as I know. The oldest worm story I recall follows :

Ooey Gooey World Worm, He Did Not Know.
He Sat Up On A Railroad Track, Ooey Gooey Worm!

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I still have a problem with memory to prevent recall of many things. Now that I have had time to think, worm is write once, read many. This is an excellent method of write protect. It is better to have a slightly defective original than to have an amorphous blob.....

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Okay, I considered "worms" and found many variations. The one I like best is :
Women! Override Ridiculous Menace's Smugness!
As in "Dennis the Menace". The override I agree to is a wedding ring to go along with the "Diligence Integrity Citizenship" ring I just put back on. Years ago I took the ring off. Who says sympathetic magic does not work ?
See Suzette Haydin Elgin "Yonder Comes The Other End Of Time".
Balancing the possibilities of fantasy and reality is a tricky task.
I am willing to call the bumpkin IEEE versus ivory tower ACM contest a draw.....
Any, Every, More, and All criticisms are welcome, SARGE.
I do not of course promise to obey, just to listen.
Edit : modified text

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tesco samoa:
What happens when the worms come?
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Okay, I suppose that I am really slow. If you mean what I think you mean, then I simply exert willpower to validate what I am and take whatever comes. Usually after the situation returns to normal I find that I have new insights if nothing else. I do not intentionally attack, but lack the viewpoint necessary to be passive. If doing so is any help, then I apologize for the blundering I have done.

The fundamental complaint I have is simply this. In the Bible it is promised that the meek will inherit the Earth and the remainder of Mankind will inherit the heavens or if judged unfit will be externally punished. The eternal punishment part sounds like the product of a sick mind, but I will set aside that complaint. What I see is mankind stuck on the threshold, stagnating. Anyone who dares to stand up on his two hind feet and declare independence is punished or struck dead. The goal of a good teacher is a student who exceeds the teacher's abilities. So who is running this circus, and why does this show not go on the road / get on the way ?

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I just had a most amusing thought. Am I the Voracious Witty Boisterous Electrical Engineer Tiny Lying Extremist "VW Beetle" which you are offering to "Free" ? If so, where would I go ? Earth could be much better of course and is familiar territory. Just yet another wild *** guess for your entertainment. Should I create more limee ricks instead ?

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Ho Hum. Monologues are so boring compared to conversations. I welcome and invite participation on all these and the previous topics by anyone and everyone anywhere at all, so long as you understand or at least think you understand what I have been saying.
The little limerick I gave seems to be insufficient. After I crack the English language code, I propose cracking the DNA code. Notice that DNA is
DE [O x Y] RIB ON U CLE A IC AC ID which is a 10 U 10 limerick.
RNA is RIB ON U CLE A IC AC ID.
I also used dictionary.com to read definitions for "grammar", another word, then a third word with a wild card *.
The wild card * word caused the power to fail as soon as I hit enter. I was not especially surprised.
The system is correct to defend itself.
I recall a movie where a bull got loose in a china shop. Miraculously, the bull did no damage.
The manager was so delighted that he exclaimed. At that point everything crashed down.
I do not want such events to occurr.
Beware the mythos selection process. I noticed cues in the other threads. Here is what came to mind.
Song "They paved Paradise and they put up a parking lot".
Song "One/Won Tin/Ten Soldier Rides A Way" from the movie Billy Jack.
Judgement Day is a two way street. I suggest following the description by Heinlein in "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" for courts and judges.
The Space Empires IV map is a metaphore/ simile / allegory for the net. The net is a shadow of Creation.
The warp point links are low lag/ low loss hubs in a star topology.
The distances between warp points in a system model the transmission line loss/ lag between hubs.
I began to write a general purpose router for Aaron, then realized what I was doing a couple weeks ago and stopped.
Is it really desirable to improve communication rates when most of the data is garbage ?
Another amusing note - the computer I use now attempts to change the words I type.
I go back over the text and find corrections and "improvements".
As I said before, apply a means test to figure out what I mean, because most of the time I do not know what I am saying anyway....

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tesco samoa:
What happens when the worms come?
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I was finally able to do a dictionary.com search on "*worms" without the link crashing. Humongous Belly Laugh! I overlooked the Martin Luther connection completely. This is the United States of America folks, with seperation of church and state. There is freedom of religions and from them too if so desired. Nobody has given any guesses, so I will give one of many interpretations of the ditty.

I Have A Little Ditty Which I Will Now Tell.
Earth Is Really Heaven And Heaven Is Really Hell.
I *ve a *lly *tty *ch I *ll now *ll.
*rth is *lly *ven and *ven is *lly *ll.

Think about the description of Heaven. Either you are compelled to do nothing but sing praises forever, or if you are God then all you ever get is an incessant din of Halleluyahs and Hosannas.....

Edit : OOps, Freudian slip. Silly Ditty not Little Ditty. Though I must admit that the cure for a "little bit of Heaven" could be a "little bit of Everything".

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(Excuse typos. Be creative with my (lack of) letters)

I've beeen following your thread since it started and it never made sense to me. HOwever, I am now approc 71% drunk and I can suddenly understand your text. LCC, are you drunk too? I feel compelled to reply.

"What the net really needs is quality control and write protection".
NO! The net should be free znd uncensored. The surfer knows the deal and takes his choice. Caveat emptor. Other media have limitations, let the net be the one without.

"I descend from high opera" I hope this doesn't mean you're using IE. Opera is far more compact and security conscious. Oh dear net.politics twice in one post, completely by accident. Forgive me.

"Ooey Gooey worm"
Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear
but Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
So Fuzzy Wuzzy wuzn't fuzzy wuz 'e?
Derive what meaning you will. If you find any more than "not much" then you've missed the point (becasue there isn't one)

I note the conection between references to "IEEE" and "Electrical Engineer". Not many other people will. You need to bear that kind of thing in mind.

"So long as you understand or at least think you understand what I am saying" I vey much doubt that I understand what you are saying, but I recognise the disproportionate logic in your monologue. I try to emulate it. Why not? Rememeber though, that not everyone is the same as you. In fact no- one is. You know this is true. What you may not know is that this is good, not bad.

Grammar. Wildcard. you have a conspiracy theory. You believe in a malevolent AI infesting the web, twisting your words. It's not true. Get over it.

Mythos. Aesir? Hello.

Please, write your general purpose router.

"This is the United States of America Folks." No it's not. Not where I am. Remember that please. Thanks.

"incessant din" Being God would be like being the Queen. Everything smells of paint.
Please tell me, does any of this mkae sense to you&gt; If it does, there's something wrong, becaus it doesn't make any sense at all. I know because I wrote it. I'm afraid you just have to live with the nonsense. Sometimes, there is no meaning. Sorry.

NB - attach no significance to my words - I am drunk and you may well be over sensitive. The only interpretation to be drawn is the interpretation of your response. I hope this makes sense. Idon't hitnk anything less will.

Have a good night LCC, hope you will be back with us soon.

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Thank you for replying!

As a check on what I have been "saying", I ran some phrases through the anagram generator I just bought. The results were most amusing. If you are interpreting what I say using anagrams, then do not bother. I am (so far as I am aware) not using anagrams. However as I mentioned previously, there may well be a problem with definitions, synonyms and so forth.

I am not drunk. As a matter of fact, I have been on a diet of water and premium saltine crackers for several days now. Occasionally I eat candy to get some sugar.
Life is a far stranger place than I ever suspected. All the 45 years I have lived, I thought that I was perceptive, intelligent, and generally superior. Test scores confirmed this opinion, because I could have scored well above the top 1/1000 of the population. Now I realize that all of this time I have been faking it, and barely getting by.

When I conceptualize something, the meaning is unclear. The brain is a very complex organism, with layer upon layer of awareness. I have just in the past few weeks started to integrate those layers of awareness. I do not know if I have become more brilliant, or hopelessly confused. Possibly both have happened simultaneously. In any case I expect that as neural pathways stabilize I will be able to focus on a common ground for communications.
What I have experienced is not necessarily the same as what you who read this thread have experienced. Recall what I said about the structure of creation with local structures defining "laws of nature". Metaphorically speaking, as a consiousness expands it may simultaneously span more than one "reality". So the inputs to the consiousness are normalized to a median and the outputs resulting such as "typing on a keyboard" as I am doing now are consensus operations.

The process of awakening has been very stressful. I will simply say that if your eyes cross, your ears ring, your skin tingles, you feel groggy, and you generally are having a "bad" time, then chances are that you are finally getting connected with yourself. I recall from teenage years that these are precisely the symptoms of "drunkeness". I got high on false "information", in particular fantasy and science fiction. I suppose that various authorities such as doctors and priests will be alarmed at this notion. The fact is that probably anyone at all can do it if they only try. The route I followed was through a fantasy and took years. I suspect that this was totally unnecessary. I am not familiar with Asian philosophies, but "Karma" and "Yoga" come to mind. If you are gullible enough to believe anything, while simultaneously being suspicious enough to trust nothing, then the stress of the conflict will pop you like a cork into a greater reality ?

I can do the router in just a couple of days. I would like to give it to Shrapnel Games as a "thank you". The concern I have is that whoever recieves it will be unable to survive the experience because some larger company would buy them out to gain control. Then the new product might never go to market because it would compete with existing product lines. As an example, both NL McCullough and Datapoint were destroyed when innovative products were developed. Those products are NOT present in the marketplace today. Something similar happened to Amiga too. Who/What is responsible ? I have no idea, and I think it possible that even those who did it are not really aware of why they did it. See "The Santaroga Barrier" by Frank Herbert to get an idea of what I mean.

I still occasionally experience the "bad" symptoms. Following each post I have made I often was (if I interpret the experience correctly) attacked. I simply focused willpower on the determination to survive and not be shut up yet again. It is possible that what I experienced was not an "attack" but rather a forceful insertion of yet more content by some greater consiousness. It is certainly true that I have done the best I could to provoke any such entities who may exist. To misquote Patrick Henry, I have said "I demand either Liberty or Death". The notion of a final "Liberty" is of course probably a fantasy. Recall what I said about the expanding wavefronts of identities propagating toward infinite dimensions in the direction of infinity. "God" is somewhere way up there, yet since spacetime is itself an illusion, "God" is simultaneously coextant with every possible postion, time and so forth. So if the theory I have is correct, then a reality composed of multiple universes would be no more than a minor twitch in "God"'s pinky finger. Presumably there is a near infinite heirarchy of deities who manage smaller affairs, according to their dimensions.

I am an engineer, not a manager. The notion of bossing other people around does not seem appealing. However I do indeed feel free to criticize and "help out" even when such participation is offensive to others. I suppose that other people will just have to get used to it if they desire the work I do....

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I was not clear as to the cause of stress. I will try to state it in more rigorous terms.
I believe anything. I do NOT trust anything.
I trust nothing. There is nothing I will NOT believe.
The structure of English does not lend itself to operator theory...

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Warning! When I posted the previous item, the computer I use went into a repeated crash cycle attempting to resolve the conflict. I had to power it down and restart. If you experience bad symptoms, take the illogical one step at a time. Actually for most people and all computers it would be best to stick with the logical. Otherwise we might inadvertantly open the way to chaos. "Reality" is a collective agreement of the unity of consciousnesses ?

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"Like A Spiral In A Circle, Like A Wheel Within A Wheel,......"
Songs...
Kaleidoscopes...
Anagrams ???
Does Shrapnel Games WANT a network router ?
Edit :
Once again I did a Lycos lyrics search on
"Like A Spiral In A Circle"
Once again the link crashed.
Does anyone want to post the full and correct lyrics here ?
"When The Deep Purple Falls" crashes....


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Is the contest still on, or what ?!?
Garbage In, Garbage Out, "Garbage Rings ?!?", Reality Shouts!

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Rule of thumb :
That's Close Enough.
1985 demand :
Do it right the first time so that you do not have to do it over....
2001 reply - "Eat this one"
The long and the short of it is, I do not think that, I know that.
Anagrams !?!

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Silly Wins :
If I Knew What I Knew I Would Be Wisest.
Edit :
Silly Anagrams :
The Computer I use is too slow!
It Crashes too often too!

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Reality" is a collective agreement of the unity of consciousnesses

'Reality is waiting for a bus'.

Subhumans 1979

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Life Is What, You Make It.

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Nobody Knows What
Its All About
Sorry About That
Let It All Hang Out....

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No Body Knows
What Its All
About Sorry About
That Let It
All Hang Out

}
War Huh Yeah
What Is It
Good For Absolutely
Nothing Say It
} Again Yeah

**** English Punctuation, Inflection....

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"I am Woman" http://persweb.direct.ca/fstringe/oz/i384.html
Not the lyrics I recall, but close.
I am a man. Any Suggestions ?

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how did you find that web page ???

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Ho hum, uh well, ah, I suppose - Serendipity.

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Oooh that one touched a sore nerve! When I tried to use the Anagram program to check what I said, the computer crashed. I had to POR three times to boot the poor computer up. Be careful what you ask, you may not like the answers......

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This computer keeps crashing, but is always game for another round, down but never out, up like a rose from a compost pile.
Anybody here ever play the original Star Control ?
[Oooweebaybee,Arilouleeleeleelay]

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Yep. That and Star Control 2.

Still have them.

Very funny games

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Another game I really liked was Star Flight 2. I also spent over 300 hours playing "Global Effect". That was a very frustrating game. No matter what I did, the planet either froze, went Co2 hothouse, or was polluting so fast that cities disintegrated. The AI opponent was miserable, building seemingly random cities....

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Pivot : http://www.billyjack.com/films/tbj.html
Spin : http://members.tripod.com/~f_fly/magic1.html http://www.thecolefamily.com/onetinsoldier.htm http://www.larrys-dream-inc.com/sand...TinSoldier.htm
There is no common reality, only intersecting sets.

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never played star flight 2. Actually I never even heard of it.

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Finding the game from amoung dozens of boxes of things would be a long chore. Possibly someone else on the forum can provide the manufacturer ? It was for the Amiga.
Star Flight II synopsis - Using the original ship and a single lander, you visit planets to collect organics (plants and animals) and minerals. There are aliens everywhere and most inhabited planets have several trading Posts. In a trading post you can buy what is locally worthless and sell what is locally valued. The traders always are willing to haggle. Once you have visited many inhabited planets noting the trades available on each, you will discover that enormous profits are possible without anyone being cheated simply by following crafty trade routes. I will not spoil the tale by giving the ending, which has a surprise twist.
Other games I found during a brief rummage :
Battle Isle - UBI SOFT - Blue Byte - mostly tactics
The Colony - Mindscape Inc - 3d shoot em up rescue mystery
Using Amiga Intuition games can be developed in a fraction of the normal time....

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http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php...e+Cloud+Nebula


Is that Starflight 2?
Askan

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by askan:
http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Starflight+2%3A+Trade+Routes+of+The+ Cloud+ Nebula


Is that Starflight 2?
Askan<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yes, I checked the fans page. I recognize the map.
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Either lousy or incredible programmers, depending on the viewpoint, actually probably all of the above.
Should I give you a dose of set theory, or would you rather do it yourself ?

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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
 

ever play battles of destiny

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tesco samoa:
ever play battles of destiny

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