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Article #719576Re: What Strategy Game For An Action & RPG Gamer ?
From: Xocyll
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:05
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:05
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Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:21:27 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> >wrote: > >>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails >>of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >> >>>On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:21:09 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle" >>><no-spam@never.spam> wrote: >>> >>>>Thanks ...I'm resigned to a long uphill struggle to get into CIV V . >>>>Clearly worth it. >>> >>>FWIW, I always felt that all of the Civ games beyond the original >>>suffered from too much "flare". Graphics and textual rhetoric that >>>really does very little to enhance actual gameplay. >> >>Did you really mean flare or flair? > >I guess if one were trying to be pedantic, he could probably work >either into the context, but I meant it it like an undesirable >outburst of glowy artwork that gets in my way. Ahh every time I hear flair I tend to think of the routine in Office Space and Aniston's character bitching about the flair they were forced to wear at work. That meaning of flair seemed to fit with what you were saying, extra glitz that really adds nothing. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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