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Article #719577Re: What Strategy Game For An Action & RPG Gamer ?
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:01
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:01
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:05:55 -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 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. That one would work in the sentence too. We could also say Sid Meier pulled his O-face on his fan base :)
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