beauty in unexpected places

[rone]

As i Googled for something i'd written somewhere, i found something else i'd written:

like blooming flowers,
i seize your underwear thus —
behold! a wedgie

I just finished my first game of Civ4.  I delayed the ending by putting off the construction of the final spaceship component so i could see other civilizations put the smack down on the mouthy Egyptians.

It bothers me that Civ still treats diagonal moves as single moves.  PYTHAGORAS, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?  Updating the game and upping my RAM to 640MB improved things somewhat, although in the wonder movies, where the sound used to hiccup, both sound and video hiccup now.  Tomorrow, i'll probably try the third-party patch that mjlewis showed me and see how that does.

Comments

[pobig.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even nethack gets diagonal moves right in its wacky way.

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

640Mb should be enough for anybody.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I guess that is why all those old Avalon Hill games used hexagonal grids.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

It would be nice if they moved to a hex grid format. Oh well.

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it.

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

A hexmap is the obvious solution.

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Xconq (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xconq), of which I'm a developer, includes Civ-like games on a hex grid, but they're not really in fully playable form.

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

like blooming flowers,
i seize your underwear thus —
behold! a wedgie

Oh my God, I want that as my epitaph.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Hexmaps are confusing and forever brand a game as grognard fodder. This is Received Wisdom in marketing. Everyone knows how squares work, though, because of chess and checkers.

C4 is modifiable enough that I believe some enterprising group of nerds is working on a hexgrid conversion, but don't hold your fucking breath, as that's some nontrivial changing. I'm still holding out for my Alpha Centauri full conversion, dammit*

*except there's no way to implement the Unit Design Workshop, waaah

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy if they put in a thingy that makes diag moves cost 1.4 (or, hell, 1.5, to keep it stone simple), instead of 1. They keep a decimal place of strength visible, but not movement. Why? Pinheads.

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

I care not at all about Civ, but must applaud the two silly little gems herein. *giggle*

[kodi]

It takes ONE THOUSAND YEARS to walk from the mouth of the Nile to the Cape of Good Hope, and you're complaining that it doesn't take LONG enough?

Also, that is my second favorite haiku of all time, evar.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

Damn, you beat me to the damn sqrt(2)=3/2 punchline. (That's what I do in all my work. Not 1.5--2 and 3 respectively.)