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

[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.

[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.)