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>Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
>...
>> >> Currently rewatching Eureka.
>> >
>> >I never saw that one.
>
>> Excellent series, as is Chuck, both 5 seasons.
>
>Chuck was rad. Love its Buy More parts. It's funny see the products too espcially from my former employer's.

Worked at Best Buy did you?

Xocyll

Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
> ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
> spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

> >Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
> >...
> >> >> Currently rewatching Eureka.
> >> >
> >> >I never saw that one.
> >
> >> Excellent series, as is Chuck, both 5 seasons.
> >
> >Chuck was rad. Love its Buy More parts. It's funny see the products too espcially from my former employer's.

> Worked at Best Buy did you?

No, I shopped here like last night but online. :)
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On 2025-01-02, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> Well something popped up on my feed about this recently and I thought
> yeh it's horrific. So the basic game, almost twenty years old now, is
> all out nuclear war but what takes it above that, at least for me, is
> the way it's presented. It is a strategy game but everything is quite
> abstract and minimalist from its Wargames (the film) graphics, to its
> haunting sounds and basic units of fighters, bombers, aircraft carriers,
> destroyers, battleships, radar units, SAM sites, airfields and of course
> ICBM silos which can also serve to shot down incoming nukes. No
> research, no resource gathering just you all get the same units to
> deploy as you wish.
>
> You start at Defcon five and as the timer ticks down that level is
> raised meaning you get to place more units and eventually start actual
> conventional combat. Once it reaches Defcon one all hell breaks lose and
> it's a question of who is going to launch nukes first with an
> accompanying siren noise. See a city hit and all that's shown is a white
> flash and in big letters the death toll in millions. This happens over
> and over again until the world is filled with the glow of nuclear
> strikes and the timer reaches zero. The winner is then announced based
> on casualties for and against.
>
> The part I found really horrific is that it's only after you've played
> several games that it dawns on you that you're detached from what you're
> doing (you cannot die) and are taking enjoyment in counting the death
> toll you're causing while not overly caring of the death toll in your
> continent. The finally part is when the results are shown as raw figures.
>
> As the game says everybody dies. You don't win, instead you just don't
> do as badly as everyone else.

So, it's like an enhanced VMS Empire/XConq?