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On 5/2/2017 6:34 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2017 19:36:23 -0700, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5/1/2017 3:59 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>>> * Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance (replay)
>>
>> I never did get into the Star Wars space combat.  It seemed pretty
>> lackluster for whichever it was I tried after playing Wing Commander
>> III.  I keep thinking I'll go play WCIII again, but never seem to get
>> around to it.
>
> Oooh, statements like that used to lead to epic Usenet flamewars!
>

Bring it!

> But Wing Commander's gameplay was a sad comparison to the X-Wing
> series. Even with WC3 - which added a very rudimentary power system -
> it lacked the depth of X-Wing games. Wing Commander also sported
> relatively tiny battles, rarely pitting you against more than a
> handful of enemies at a time, whereas the X-Wing games sported battles
> with dozens of fighters and multiple capital ships. The AI was far
> craftier in the X-Wing series too; of course, this was helped by the
> far more nimble fighters. Wing Commander also relied more on missiles
> than close-in dogfighting; it was far more forgiving gameplay.
>
> Where Wing Commander really shone was in its story-telling and
> characters; Alliance tried to its hand there but failed miserably. But
> the actual gameplay? The X-Wing series wins hands down!
>

Maybe I found the complexity of SW too much to be fun for a game about 
going pew-pew at enemy space ships.

I seem to remember some pretty epic battles at the end of WCIII too. :)

>
>> I'm off to jury duty tomorrow, not sure what I'll do on my phone then
>> (if that's even allowed), and it'll probably die far too fast.  Or maybe
>> I'll be playing "Hangman R.L." edition.
>
> Last time I got called up, they wouldn't even let me read an ebook on
> my device while waiting to be selected in the jury pool. It wasn't the
> reading they were opposed to, it was the fact it was on an electronic
> device. So make sure to bring some sort of analog backup to help pass
> the time, just in case.

Almost everyone had electronic devices here.  Some people working on 
their laptops while waiting around.  We had to turn them off once we 
went into the courtroom though.

I mostly waited around, I was in the courtroom for maybe a half an hour 
until I was released.  I listened to a podcast, read internet news, and 
played Ninjago Tournament until one of my phones died, then went back to 
podcasts.  They were also playing movies for the people in the pool, but 
I wasn't paying attention to them.

Back to work today.

- Justisaur