anoldman

Happily plunked down my hard earned money. Can't wait! --AOM

You could rambo, but don't kill the deer while its all struggling in the net with fear/panic/flight... makes the meat tougher. Instead, wait till it calms down then give it a good stealth kill and muscles will remain nice and loose... erm... and, uh, btw, I also am ready to pre-order as soon as window opens... =) Woop, --AOM

I also feel Outback quality slipped in last few years. My wife thinks our tastes have just matured to Morton's, Palm, etc... That said, I did eat at a 'Texas Roadhouse' chain restaurant last week that was like the outback of yester-year i.e. pretty good. Btw, if anybody lives in Alexandria, VA area let me know and I will clue you in to the best steaks in DC/NoVA... My theory is some MBA type gets in there and shaves a nickle off the quality of some portion of their menu or service. Then he/she does quality tests and no-one really picks up on the nickle cut. He then compounds the savings from 600 outbacks X 365 days over a period of 10 years and touts he just saved the company Y million in profit. Of course the problem is that after enough nickle shavings, if you were to compare first product to 12 nickle shavings you would overwhelmingly pick first product over crappy nickle shaved current product. Not sure if that makes sense to anyone but me though... Just charge me an extra dollar or two and give me good food. Leave lowest common denominator chow to the fast food joints... My two cents... --AOM

What does 'Yodl' mean? ..a tie? Are your games all by email or do you play mostly TCP connection games? (Grew up in Coeur d' Alene btw... Go Idaho! ...where even the democrats are pro-gun rights...) --AOM

SO… just thought I would see what’s currently playing on other’s computers. I am going through a nostalgia period while I wait for some new games to arrive on the shelves. Anyhoo, mine is below: Finished recently: (pc) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Great game and I had a lot of fun although fps usually not my ‘thing’. I always seem to enjoy post-apocalyptic stuff... (pc) C&CIII – Didn’t really hold the magic for me anymore. I think I am just getting to old for current ‘frantic’ style rts’s. Was fun to play for awhile though… Currently playing: (pc) War on Folvos – basically a sci-fi remake of Panzer General I but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Having fun with it so far, it is turn based. (pc) UFO: Extraterrestrials – XCOM remake that I am really enjoying, it is also turn based. (ds) Etrians Odyssey – Wizardry remake that is a lot of fun. U actually draw your maps on the ds with your stylus. Definitely a grinder like Wizardry but I am having fun with it. Waiting for: (psp) Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics, looks really good and is turnbased/3.5 rules based so should be good. On the other hand DnD as a cprg seems a hit or miss kind of thing. (psp) Warhammer 40k: Squad Command: Just announced but is turnbased wh40k that supposedly mirrors the tabletop game. (pc) Crysis: will probably need a new computer to play but looks awesome (fps). (pc) Hellgate London: still not certain. Love the idea of Diablo dabbled with some sci-fi but I am not sure that is really what this is. We’ll see though, it is a talented dev team for sure so should be good… (pc) SC2 Weapons and Warfare: Of course... Waffling on: (pc) Lord of the Rings Online: I just don’t know. Being older I just don’t have as much time for regular 4-6 hour sessions every night (Lol, be lucky to get 1hr let alone 2 of uninterrupted gameplay…). On the other hand it seems like reviews are uniform about how good it is. *shrug*, still waffling… So that’s it for me. What about you? --AOM :cool: [ June 20, 2007, 07:55 AM: Message edited by: An Old Man ]

Lol... NM... just saw DD's thread... reading now... =)

**Deleted due to seeing DD's ROLFMAO post below...** --AOM

Well, not sure what I can do to help but feel free to send me the files and what you would like me to test. silvercourage[at]hotmail.com Looks awesome! Definitely like the idea. Woot! --AOM

That... looks... awesome... *drools*... --AOM

Good read! Thanks Terif and JJR! --AOM :cool:

Well... it's not a bad catch... It's no Major-Bug-in-'39-Surrender-Script kind of catch, but it ain't to shabby neither... ...*joke*... --AOM :cool:

Ok, so I admit before you read any further that I lied in the title to get you to read my post. Truth is, it's really not all that 'major'. In my excitement over the possibility of being recognized in one of Hubert's future patches I might have exaggerated the significance of my bug find just a little bit. Ok, here is the offending snippet of the Surrender script... Right there! Bang! :eek: Pow! Bam! oh the horror of it all... ... ... ... ...well erm, you see, "Independence" is spelled wrong... That's it! But hey! Admit it! "An Old Man" recognition will be appearing in a patch notes coming soon to a computer near you... I mean this qualifies as patch quality stuff, right? I mean maybe not an emergency issue of 1.05 or anything but... And me with my old man eyesight all bad and everything... Ok, that's all folks. You may now return to your regularly scheduled message board trolling... Wo0+! --AOM [ September 13, 2006, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: An Old Man ]

Thanks as well to n0kn0ck and R.J. for image assistance... --AOM

You rock Terif! Thanks for clarifying. --AOM

Yep, thanks n0kn0k... Space in between is supposed to be there. File is named "River tiles.jpg" Thanks for trying though. One of the odd bits about it is that it works on other messages boards cut-n-paste as is! Mystery... --AOM