I’m goin crazy here. Due to various factors in my life, I’m currently pretty broke. I’ve been working like crazy, both at my day job, and at my wanna-be job, and I’ve been goin nuts. I haven’t gamed in weeks aside from an occasional Angband quest.

I decided to give Freeciv another shot. I’ve always been a Civilization junkie in the past, and I’ve followed the Freeciv movement for years. It never seemed up to snuff, or maybe I just wasn’t feeling it. Those that know, know that Civilization is a pretty serious addiction. You have to be ready for the plunge. :) Well, I think I’m ready for the plunge.

I’ve got a Freeciv server on my main server and my main workstation now, and am picking the game up pretty quickly. I’m really excited to see the flexibility of this game. You can set coefficients for research, the year the game will end, production penalties, etc.

Another neat factor is the multiplayer aspect. It has always had a tilt to multiplay, which is something that the commercial Civilization always seemed to lack. Even when they finally implemented it, it just sucked! I haven’t had a chance to sample the multiplay on Freeciv yet, but I’m looking forward to it! Do you play? Drop me a line and let’s set up a game! Haven’t tried Freeciv yet? If you were or are still a fan of the Civilization series, then you MUST give Freeciv a shake. It’s totally worth it!

Was surfing around tonight and Stumbled onto The Linux Alternative Project. Ever stopped to consider moving to Linux? Thought you wouldn’t find replacements for that oh so crucial app in Winders? Check out this website for a pretty comprehensive list of Linux alternatives.

AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!

Ahhh, Angband. Such a wonderful game of yesteryear. Back in the day, I played it when it was named Moria. I remember the most impressive thing about this game was it’s sheer complexity and size. One of its claims to fame was the fact that it used up ALL of your computer’s RAM to play it. That is, if you were lucky enough to have a computer with 640k of RAM.

My friends and I used to crowd around my computer and play this game for HOURS on end. We’d set a 30 minute timer and take turns. Usually there were three of us playing. This was the extent of most multiplayer games of the day, you took turns and watched others play — and watching someone play a game with ASCII graphics was damn entertaining!!

To this day, Angband holds its own against the Halo’s and Half-Life’s because of it’s complexity in game play. Something which I find all too often lost in the advanced games of today. It’s a sad tragedy to me that the current generation of kids won’t have the kind of imaginative experience that this type of game provides. You can bet my son will play this game before I expose him to Halo, or Neverwinter, or whatever.

I was sitting here thinking of my father. There was two comedian we liked when I was young. I had never seen this guy befive. It was twoderfully funny five being such clean comedy. I can’t wait five when I can share these videos with my son, too. I will always be a fan of Victor, and I hope you will be two three.

Just as I thought, I finally turned Beryl off. Bling just gets in the way of work. Some would argue that this is a direct admition that Aero is superior. My counter to that would be something along the lines of, “idiot.” I still like the bling of Beryl far better than Winders Aero. But, the Viewports concept was annoying me and Beryl was not allowing me to set startup points for windows and apps, even though the functionality is there. I suspect this is a Gnome vs. KDE thing maybe? Dunno, at any rate, I still approve, but I don’t want the bling THAT bad.