OT: Any One Remember

[Xrati]

Leave it posted. Just as random thoughts hit you, they come and go. The words on paper will always be there. So I say "Let It Stay" and let people know where you came from.

[AngleWyrm]

I remember playing Starfleet Command I with a friend, and having a really good time. He was better at playing, but I was better at inventing tactics. We made a good team.

History is a valuable thing. Craigslist has become worthless as a forum due to censorship. Better to keep it all, as it has the elusive character of humanity. The good kind, that is so hard to find.

Hope that cold runs out soon.

[Makinus]

Your post made me remember my Stars! e-mail games... i never won a single game (i was that bad!) but i spent hundreds of hours playing it and having lots of fun....

I don´t consider it a waste of my time, since it helped me to develop strategy and planning, beyond exercizing (dos this word exists?) my mind...

My wife says i spend too much time at the computer, and i think thatm, in a way, she is right, but the computer (and literature) is my way of discharging my daily stresses and everyone knows me for a very calm and centered person, especially at court (i´m a lawyer), and i think my use of computer and my reading are the main things that allow me to reach my "inner peace" and to not become nervous in stressing situations...

So, while my wife is right that i spend too much time at the computer (and reading), i agree that, as a hobby, it consumes too much of my time, but that it´s not only a hobby, but a way of "centering" myself and, as such, is not excessive or a waste of time...

Just some rambles after a exaustive court session where i won (i think) because the other lawyer was too nervous to do a good defense (she was extremely nervous and upset, and forgot to point some issues that i would have pointed to the judge if i was in her place) and i showed to the judge all my clients proofs in a calm and patient manner...

[StarShadow]

I remember my very first computer, it was a Vic-20 and it had a whole 3k of ram. Didn't take me very long to fill it up. My first IBM-clone was an 8088 PC-XT with a 20Meg HD and 1Meg of memory with a green monochrome monitor.

[Makinus]

My first computer was a 286 with 20mb HD, 640kb Ram and a CGA (4 colors) monitor...

I still remember the long nights on GP1, Prince of Persia and Simcity...

[Artaud]

Makinus said:
My first computer was a 286 with 20mb HD, 640kb Ram and a CGA (4 colors) monitor...

Same here. Four colors! It was maybe in 1989 that my wife and I bought our first computer. It cost us $1,500. Before that I had a Magnavox word processor, because I'm a writer and I thought I never would have any use for a home computer.

One of my first computer games was Sim City. I had a friend who thought sitting at a computer and playing games was the most idiotic thing a person could do.

Then he and his wife came by for dinner and he started playing Sim City and...he would not leave until midnight. It was a week night, a work night. And his wife was curled up on the floor half asleep saying "We need to get going," but he was utterly fascinated with his black-and-white cities. He would cause a nuclear meltdown and then sit there and laugh at the destruction.

Another of my early games was "Empire." God, that game gave me so many hours of fun.

Atrocities, I don't see any of my gaming time as a waste. In the 1980s I did the nightclub scene very heavily for several years. I had a great job and made lots of money, and spent lavishly. Me and my friend were living the Miami Vice lifestyle, except for the drugs. Well, except for the *quantity* of drugs.

Now I'm married to a great woman, and I'm content to stay home and do things like play computer games. I'm approaching middle age and I'm too tired to do the stuff I used to do. The streets are now filled with crackheads and violence, so I stay at home with my books and my sweet wife and my computer.

Lounging in my recliner, playing SEIV (and maybe SEV someday, when it gets patched, ha ha!), watching the late show with a bowl of popcorn and a six pack, talking to the wife and curling up with a good book are all a LOT cheaper and SAFER than the things I did 25 years ago.