Recent content by Sylith

Most of the elephants died crossing the Alps. The rest didn't last much longer. There weren't any by Cannae.

YES, SOMEONE GOT IT. I NEED TO VENT AND SOMEONE UNDERSTOOD ME. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THIS IS MY LAST POST. Lilith Thanks again, I'm glad somebody understood me. I feel better. Really, I do...

Unforutnately I can't do that, I obsess. Whether it's my latest program, a game, guitar, I obsess on everything I do. Moderation is not in me.

Like what? That I was addicted to something I wasn't enjoying and I had to destroy it to free myself? Sounds to me like I was admitting a fault there, like being addicted to a mere game. Like fifty bucks is a lot of money?! My rent's $1300 a month. What's $50?! That's dinner for two...

As if I'm the only person whose ever posted on this board expressing their dissatisfaction with the game! And if you look at my very first post you'll see I said I was wasting my life, and I did something about it. You don't know my gamer friends. Are you stoned? If I program...

Are you suggesting every football player you've seen throw his helmet in disgust, or every baseball player who yells at an umpire because they didn't like a call is a sore loser? No, they're pissed. OK, they might be sore losers, but you can't be certain of that. Unless you know them...

I may have exaggerated just a bit, for dramatic effect. :) People seem to be really upset about what I did. I don't get it. That's what I realized last night. I finally found myself asking "I've been spending HUGE amounts of time playing this, and I'm not even enjoying it. What am I...

Try the 60's smart a**. And there's a difference between competition and blatant cheating. Competition implies a contest. A contest implies a game where the outcome is in doubt. Yes, I could set it up so "I win". The small archipelago worlds, no settler diarreha by the computer then. It'd...

I'm not a very good swimmer :crazyeye:

Damn, I figured I miss something! I misspelled apparent to. Does anyone see the mistake in the previous sentence - I hope so. As far as grammar goes, it's the apostrophes that get me. I wrote tons of papers in grad school, and spell checkers generally won't catch an incorrect use of an...

HAR! Hey, I had to check how I'd get flamed. Also, I was curious whether I'd inspire others, it seems that I have not. Oh well... Lilith

Not that it matters, but yes. Besides, do you get your money back if you play it X number of times? In finance they taught us "not to try to get your money out of something", it's a "sunk cost", once the money is spent, it's spent, and you shouldn't let considerations of "We paid X dollars for...

Well, my penultimate post I suppose. I found others' reactions to be somewhat amusing: Flame: Take it like a man! Answer: I'm not a man... By the way, don't men wrap golf clubs around trees, throw their baseball bats, kick the dog and engage in other childish behavior when they TOTALLY...

This used to be a fun game. Civ I was great, and I could consistently win on Prince level, and half the time on King level. It was fun. Civ II wasn't so much fun, but it was ok. Then of course, there's this beast. Oh, I've won on King level, with tiny archipelago worlds as the Babylonians...

I built a couple - out of curiosity too - and then figured they weren't worth the resources. Privateers as warships is a rather silly idea anyway. The whoe idea was NOT to fight. Fighting decreased profit. If they wanted them, and they probably shouldn't have bothered to include them. it...