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Not bad. One of the better ones, IMHO. +24
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I have been playing this game[^] since it first game out as a board game[^] many years ago.
Used to be you could play over GameSpy but the shutdown the A&A servers.
I'm looking for any dev's here who have played, or want to play.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I still have the board game Shogun[^] which was released in the same series. A game which features a Ninja for hire can't be so bad 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That game is great! Playing as the Germans was the way to go, due to superior tanks and V2 rockets.
I used to play over LAN with some friends in college, but it's been a couple years.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: Playing as the Germans
Who is playing?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I play Germany all the time for that very reason. Once you get all the techs, it's hard to stop them.
I play LAN with a friend of mine fairly regularly. Are you interested in playing?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I have played this game since it first came out as a board game as well - also "Shogun" now known as "Samurai Swords" or "Ikusa" so as to avoid confusion with an inferior board game with the same name.
I used to have a copy of the original games but donated long ago to a games club I was in while working in Germany. I recently re-bought both games ...for nostalgia purposes, I suppose.
I occasionally play the PC version of A&A although I always play without weapons development to make it less biased towards the Germans. I think the AI cheats on the rolls to make up for the fact it is an AI. I haven't played either game online.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I was browsing books at a local bookstore the other day and stumble upon the Black Widowers[^].
It is a series (70-ish) of small mystery novels written by Asimov in the 1970s.
It is quite different from other Asimov Science Fiction books and quite enjoyable.
Rant/Discussion:
There is nothing on the internets that can better browsing real books in a real bookstore; even the website of that particular independent bookstore does not offer an interesting free-browsing books experience.
Is there a good model of website where book browsing is good? (amazon and others are crap for browsing and discovery new books IMO, but good for buying).
M.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I bought a copy of this, the Foundation series and I Robot a couple of years ago from a marvelous little bookshop in Edinburgh. You're right, you cannot beat browsing around a bookshop.
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I'm pretty sure I've read every book/short story he published at least once (I've read the Foundation series many times) and still thoroughly enjoy them. He is, imo, the greatest sci-fi author, bar none.
Asimov [^]
Pretty badly done site but does contains a complete listing of all of his works.
Since it is dad's day this week I must thank mine for introducing me to sci-fi and Asimov in particular, almost as soon as I learnt to read. Thanks dad. 
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I like Amazon's "Look Inside" feature.
It lets me get an idea of what is in the book. However, it is limited and frustrating. I don't think the web can offer a book browsing experience, because users can just read/screenshot/copy whatever they want from the feature.
I am a bit of a technophobe. I still like books and hate e-readers - I write in the books, flip back and forth between pages for comparing. I still like CDs instead of downloading music. I still prefer to be "off the grid" and avoid social media.
With small kids... I was a bit upset this past Christmas... it seems toy stores have disappeared, and I blame the current generation of electronic gadgets and entertainment. Buying toys for kids now is very frustrating and expensive as the companies don't have a good outlet for reaching consumers. Even at the big box stores... toys are junky and crammed into 1 or 2 small aisles.
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Just wanted you all to know. 
Custom code maintenance for some SSRS reports. Gotta love it.
-- Having the time of my life. 
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Good luck and God speed!
veni bibi saltavi
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For some reason the compiler doesn't like "&&" and ";"
Silliness I tell you, just silliness.
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you can use a ; simply put a ' in front of it, nobody will notice
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There's an easy fix for those pesky compiler complaints. Start every file with this line:
On Error Resume Next
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And do you have a point Or are you just moaning?
veni bibi saltavi
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: Doing a little VB coding currently
Sorry for your luck. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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VB is easier to code in so congrats. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No time to grab your coat - just run for the door as fast as you can! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It is not easier to code in if it is not something you regularly do. So, I have to disagree.
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I just had to remediate a few ASP pages...
One of them...this is so difficult to even think about...the writer made a new page every time the user had to navigate away from the current page for something.
Hard to explain...
OK.
Menu -> Login -> DoSomethingPage
but, if the user popped into the DoSomethingPage before logging in, he'd be prompted to log in first before continuing. Like this:
Menu -> DoSomethingPage -> Login2 -> DoSomethingPage
There are 127 ASP pages in this thing because of navigation nonsense like that.
So, yes, VB is easier to code. It also seems to attract people who should be asking if I'd like fries with that.
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GenJerDan wrote: It also seems to attract people who should be asking if I'd like fries with that.
Maybe. But I've seen a lot of bad C# coding too.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: VB is easier to code in
In what universe?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder (Hired) wrote: In what universe?
In the universe where typing less syntax is considered easier. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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