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Old April 13, 2002, 23:04   #1
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Man I Wasted 5 Months Of My Life On This Stupid Game!
Every day for five months, I would come home and post and read on apolyton in anticipation of civ3. I reserved it 4 times at my local babbages. I paid an outrageous $60 for the Crap Limited Edition. I defended the game makers endlessly through the hard-driving complaints of many naysayers in the 3 months preceding the release, and even for a couple weeks after the release. I thought I would be playing this game for months, if not years, as I had with civ2. In my defenses, I would come up with reason upon reason why the game was good. However, I never really "felt it" (shut up) with the game, and in the back of my mind ever since the day I opened up the box, there was the feeling of dread that I had simply wasted the last half of a year. (How do you think I became a king?) Now? 6 months later? I havent played the game in 5 months and I am just now realizing how stupid I was in trying to defend Firaxis. I never really liked this game. I have had much more fun with Starcraft, for which I paid 1/6th of the price, and never spent any time giving suggestions or asking questions. YOUVE WASTED MY PRECIOUS YOUTH, FIRAXIS, AND I WILL NEVER FORGET IT! I HATE YOU!
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Old April 13, 2002, 23:08   #2
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Man, I wasted 30 seconds reading that unoriginal rant.
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Old April 13, 2002, 23:11   #3
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[Insert CivII Civil Disorder Sound here]

Yadadadaya

Heard it all before.
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Old April 13, 2002, 23:34   #4
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unoriginal? heard it all before? really? you hear old hardline defenders of firaxians turn around completely after realizing that they were in denial for a month?
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Old April 13, 2002, 23:35   #5
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Nope, never seen it, not me, never.

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Old April 13, 2002, 23:36   #6
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hmm
and u jus wasted 10 more minutes of yer life writin that..
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Old April 13, 2002, 23:39   #7
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Yeah, I went from being a Civ3 Fan to a Civ3 Thrashingman.
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Old April 13, 2002, 23:52   #8
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Is there a rule that everything has to be 100% original? If so I believe a guy named Seinfeld said "Yadadadaya" first.
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Old April 14, 2002, 00:03   #9
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Yes Grrr!!

But you are going to try it again after patching aren't you? And you hope they make it right, don't you?

There's a difference between hopeful pessimism and no hope at all.
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Old April 14, 2002, 00:07   #10
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Of course, but that would be like winning the lottery.
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Old April 14, 2002, 00:11   #11
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Is there a rule that everything has to be 100% original? If so I believe a guy named Seinfeld said "Yadadadaya" first.
I don't watch Seinfeld. However Yadadadaya is a textual version of the CivII civil disorder sound.
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1) 6 months is not your entire youth
2) everyone that participates in any forum gets exactly that no matter his mood: the value of participation, the feeling of being part of a community. if someone keeps on participating in something despite continuously feeling bad about it, then he's probably a masochist
3) we havent done anything wrong in our lives to deserve to read the rants of a masochist
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