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Old October 11, 2001, 01:05   #1
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Things you're doing whilst waiting for Civ III to arrive
Other than the obligatory spending time with girlfriend and university studies stuff. I have found a lot of fun on my little Game Boy Advance system. There have been a number of "AAA" grade games released recently that have done well to hold my attention. Advance wars, Castlevania, Mario Advance and Mario Kart are all extremely fun titles which I recemend highly .

On the literary front, I have read a few fascinating titles. "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, one of the best books I have read in recent years; and "Fast Food Nation" a fascinating, and often-times disturbing look at the Fast Food industry. Although only released earlier this year, critics are already hailing it as a modern-day "The Jungle". If anyone else here is a history buff (and I'm sure some are), "Japan's War" by Hoyt is a wonderful account of Japan's involvement in WW II.

Also, if Civ III weren't coming out, I would be highly pining over a little title by the name of "Zoo Tycoon" which is coming out Oct. 18th. Although I haven't played any of the previous titles in the Tycoon series, I am a great lover of animals and this game looks truly amazing. It would probably be the game dominating my every waking thought were Civ III to not exist. In any event, I reccemend anyone who enjoys sim-city/Theme Park type games to take a good look at it. Bears can get loose and attack innocent denizens of your zoo if you are careless...what more is needed in a game?


Oh yeah, and I have been playing a little game called "Civilization II" or something along those lines.
Let's hear what the rest of this fine community is doing to help pass the time.
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i've been playing alot of ps2 games (i just got a ps2 a week back) specifically gran turismo 3. . (man, those endurance races are LONG! but i've done several of those, and come in first place.)
also, i just got Chrono Cross and the Final Fantasy Anthologies (numbers V and VI) . . i'm about 5 or 6 hours into chrono cross right now. an excellent game. i've been reading Vaccume Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. . a very interesting books, makes me want to get the series that it's based on, but i can't for the life of me find it at the mall. i'm working on my computer some, installed linux and am fiddling around with that. i managed to screw with the partitions and delete my entire secondary harddrive. . (about 20 gigs worth of installed games and about 2000 mp3's. ouch.) posting alot on apolyton, and staying ahead in class. (i'm tied for the top right now with a 4.0, in the korean course. the only other two 4.0's are both held by native korean speakers that are taking the course to brush up. ) Watching moves, i just recently bought Snatch, Swingers, and Run Lola Run. (watching that movie made me remember how easy german is compared to korean. ) going out sometimes on the weekends to have a few beers, OR buying some beer to drink in the room while playing diablo 2 online (level 72 assasin anyone? ) hmm, there's probably more that i can't remember. heh
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I'm actually teaching a couple computer classes at school and trying to get ahead in my own classwork. I'm worried Civ III is going to wreak havoc on studying..
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Old October 11, 2001, 02:22   #5
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i'm tied for the top right now with a 4.0, in the korean course. the only other two 4.0's are both held by native korean speakers that are taking the course to brush up
Right on! I hope you'll visit out here soon. I'll buy large quantities of mood altering alcohol in celebration for you.

As for what I'll do while waiting for Civ: I'm chaning jobs right now, so life is chaos. Frankly, I probably won't be able to enjoy Civ anyway for several months.
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Work, school work, and for fun, Tropico. Not a bad game the first few times, but limited replay value.

And of course, I come here every day looking for the latest Civ III updates. I'm always thirsty for even the slightest new info on the game.
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1) Researching components for my new computer system.
2) Working more shifts (actually works --> I picked up a whole bunch more shifts since late Sept and poof there went 2 weeks)
3) Grumbling about there still being 3 weeks until Civ3 to my wife. ("why couldn't it be out now dear?")
4) Frequenting this site more often just to get some civsatiation.
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Let's see...I've been posting on Apolyton, learning Russian in my free time (boy is that difficult!), currently reading "A Brief History of Time" by Steven Hawking and "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan (not much into fiction as you can tell), sleeping, but not concentrating on my schoolwork like the rest of you (I'm a chronic procrastinator), although still passing my AP French and Spanish courses with flying colors, because after reading about Russian, the Romance languages are a piece of cake!
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Old October 11, 2001, 08:35   #12
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posting here, playing 3 accounts of both earth and utopia (I love floating ip's ) playing starcraft, eating, sleeping, all of the things i will never have time to do once civ3 comes out....
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Hmmm
how about *concept* civ2?!
If one has already quit playing civ2, I don't see why the release of civ3 excites them so much. It's not going to be that different
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Old October 11, 2001, 10:02   #14
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I'm playing Europa Universalis and realizing I don't like it. In case there are any EU zealots here, I understand the game, I know how to play it, just seems like about as much fun as using Excel and having some of the cells get corrupted every now and then.

Other than that, I'm keeping my wife up-to-date on the progress of Civ3 and the idiocy that reigns on some of the forums for that game.... oops, let that one slip.......
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Research and masturbation. Seems to sum up my life until civ3 comes out...
PH, your candid statements will never cease to amaze me. I mean, a lot of us may be doing the latter, but you don't have to state it.



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Other than that, I'm keeping my wife up-to-date on the progress of Civ3 and the idiocy that reigns on some of the forums for that game.... oops, let that one slip.......
Agreed.
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I'm playing Europa Universalis and realizing I don't like it. In case there are any EU zealots here, I understand the game, I know how to play it, just seems like about as much fun as using Excel and having some of the cells get corrupted every now and then.
Well, I've not played EU, but I've played that type of game before: detailed, cerebral, perhaps cumbersome (especially very detailed board wargames). If it's a game subject I enjoy, I usually have no problem with that. It takes the right person to enjoy a game like EU. Just go to EU's website; you'll find plenty of people who think it's the greatest game since Civ.

I know it's a game I'll like. I still vote EU II as my Christmas game instead of Civ III.

edit: Besides EU II is supposed to address a lot of the problems that were in the first intallment. See? It never pays to purchase the initial release of anything. This follows the point I made in an earlier post.
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  • and a lot, lot more!

I love EU, but the game always crashes when I try to quit! And, yes, I have the latrest patch.
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I've been planning some stuff for Civ3 mods and scenarios, working on a new micronation, and some other stuff. Also been looking at Apolyton.
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Well I plan on spending the time from now until CivIII comes out playing CivII and CivII Test of Time. I've also been playing a little Europa Universalis as the Ottoman Empire.

I just finished reading "Six Days in June" by Eric Hamel. Good book that details the June 1967 war between Israel and the Arabs. A little biased but still a good read never the less.

Now I'm reading "Stalingrad" by Anton Bevor. So far it's a very captivating book. This book doesn't appear biased towards one side or the other and the detail is great.

No matter how many distractions there are until release of CivIII I still can't wait. I want my Civilaztion III!!!!
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Now I'm reading "Stalingrad" by Anton Bevor. So far it's a very captivating book. This book doesn't appear biased towards one side or the other and the detail is great.

Try "Russia in War" by A. Werth. That book is really really good. "Stalingrad" is a tad overrated and has some inaccuracies....
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Just go to EU's website; you'll find plenty of people who think it's the greatest game since Civ.
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Those are the zealots to whom I was refering. They can get overly fanatical at times. Sound familiar??

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Besides EU II is supposed to address a lot of the problems that were in the first intallment.
Maybe I'll get it for my birthday (early January). Whereas I'll buy Civ3 without any feedback, I'll wait and see the initial impressions on EU2.
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I am playing Operation Flashpoint to keep me occupied until Civ III

I will play Civ III to keep me occupied until EU II

I wiill play EU II to keep me occupied until MOO III

I will play MOO III to keep me occupied until Stars! SG


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Im trying to finish The Prince of Machiavelli, thanks god ive got a girdfriend with who i date un saturdays (its curious, in spanish we dont say "a girl which is my friend" we call "novia", coz my chick isnt precisely a "friend" ), now im starting to play SimCity 3000, study a bit, and playing RPGs (tabletop) with my rpg party on sundays. And OF COURSE, after shool, the first thing i do is check the forums and the CIVIII section of Apolyton. Ahhh, and sending a LOT of email trying to find out when the hell is going to be released here, in Buenos Aires.
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Try "Russia in War" by A. Werth. That book is really really good. "Stalingrad" is a tad overrated and has some inaccuracies....

Interesting....Haven't heard of that book. I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip!
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Right on! I hope you'll visit out here soon. I'll buy large quantities of mood altering alcohol in celebration for you.
I plan on taking you up on that!! I should be there (korea) in just over a year. I plan on staying 2 years, the first year probably somewhere north of seoul, near the DMZ, and the second year, at yongsan, in seoul.
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