dear sid meier: i hate you but i love you

[rone]

My copy of Civilization IV Special Edition arrived today.  This should keep me busy during the time where i would normally be working...

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[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Well, huh... back when the wonderful oldmanmurray was up, her name came up - a LOT. But. Never mentioned she was female. And, well, it doens't on her website anywhere, either, so I'd never have known - and don't really - unless this is true.

But overall, I guess that actually points out something kinda good about oldmanmurray and similar game industry sites that various game industry workers have pointed me to - it doens't MATTER whether you're female or male. Or once male and now female (and unfortunately, dead.)

(the latter is a reference to one of the greatest designers of games ever, the designer of M.U.L.E and 7 cities of gold and so on, Dan(i) Bunten.)

Which is sort of where I have been alluding to this whole thread (yes rejoining late, sorry about that, don't know if anyone will read it.) But Dan(i) had some very interesting non-violent parts of his/her game design, and kept to that angle when pressure was on to do things like make M.U.L.E with weapons. (s)He knew that would change the game balance completely, and ruin it; and stuck to her guns - and yes, she worked with EA and other people. Heck EA wouldn't be who they were today if it weren't for her.

But, interesting that American MacGee is a woman. No, not surprizing, why not? But, yeah, interesting. Gives Alice a bit of a twist I didn't know about. Alisk had some twisted parts that were just spectacular early on... 'the door' is just a great spot (:

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You should really read all the other comments before you add to the conversation, you know.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Well, crap, I'm going thru emails cuz a friend asked me to please review this bit he's writing comparing operating systems for the University math department, and I'm noting I have a deluge of back comments, and...


Yeah I should but I was in a hurry, I'll assume I screwed up big there. LJ of course sends with 'reply to' so I missed everything else other than mine (:

my bad

[thingamarob.livejournal.com]

You'll see where I was mistaken about this later in the thread. Something to do with a magazine and a confusing headline and I think there might've been a talking caterpillar in there somewhere too. Just one more example of my propagating misinformation. Sorry.

Re: my bad

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Oh well, I finally got around to my point about Dan(i) in my reply (: