Heh, you're right... you have that all-important server in your garage... and you have no idea how it works!
Say... my brother lives in Dayton... you live in Dayton... I live in Cincinnati... there have got to be other SE fans in the area (ok, my brother doesn't play SE, but he's a more likely way to get my dad to take me to Dayton other than "hang out with people I met online playing this computer game"
)... I know a while back there was a convention in Columbus or somewhere where Shrapnel had a booth; I wish I could have made it there to meet up with you and all the other cool people in the community... I was just thinking maybe it would be neat if we could have some sort of Ohio Space Empires get-together, maybe to celebrate when SE5 finally comes out... LAN games ahoy!
(Heh, not to shove my foot in your door - I'm not saying you have to host anything like this, but I might as well bring it up in case you or anyone else in the area is interested in such an idea...
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Perhaps now we will find out the ultimate truth... how the others pronounce "Drushocka"!!!
"I wanna be the Drew-shockah!" "The what?" "The Drew-shockah! You know, the silicony green guys?" "Oh, the Drush-o-caw? No, ancient treaties stipulate that the Drush-o-caw belong to me." "Hey, are you guys fighting over who gets to be the Drew-so-kay??? It doesn't matter, I claim the Zye-att-eee." "The WHAT???" "The Zye-att-eee, the cybernetic timelords!" "You mean the Icks-eye-uh-tie? Or are you talking about the insectoid Zee-Chung?" "The Kye-Toon? Doesn't ANYONE here know Chinese?!?"