On receiving anonymous hatemail.
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davywavyAs some of you may have noticed, I seem to have picked myself up an anonymous poster giving me grief on my last post. Evidence is that it’s someone who at least knows me, but heaven knows who it is, as the writing style could match several people.
They signed themselves ‘G’ which is Grims usual signoff, but it isn’t his writing style and the possibility that he has changed his style greatly and then signed the post anyway (presumably as an elaborate double-bluff?) is fairly slim, and the idea just doesn’t sit right. So from there, who might it be?
Well, the implication is that it’s someone trying to get Grim into (yet more) trouble by taking the opportunity to pop at me. So what sort of person might that be? Who would bear an active dislike for both of us?
In some ways, Grim & I have many similar personality traits: we’re both arrogant, self-centred and insufferably self-righteous, with an inability to learn from our mistakes or experience. However, we couldn’t sit further from each other on the political, social, or moral spectra.
So what sort of person would take an active dislike to the pair of us? Someone who hasn’t got any fixed opinions, perhaps, who doesn’t like those who do? Someone who sits in the middle of those aforementioned spectra, unable to decide which way to turn and instead turning with the political and social breeze? Someone, in other words, who lacks any ideas of their own, any confidence to stand by their own beliefs, and will change with the wind.
Just my luck. My stalker is a member of the Liberal Democrats.
When I first started getting anonymous postings, I naturally turned IP logging on, and the posts promptly stopped – no surprises there.
But then I realise that I don’t much care, so I’m gonna turn IP logging off again. If someone really wants to spend their time dissing me from the anonymous safety of their keyboard, who am I to stop them? After all, if I don’t let them then I’m sure that when they lie on their deathbed all those years away, their dying words will whisper…”I wish I’d spent more time posting anonymous hate mail to people…”
So, my anonymous chum, come on them. Fire away. I really don’t care that much.
I’ll offer a deal though – tell me who you are, and I’ll tell you how I dealt with the real stalker I had all those years ago – and she did many more scary things than anonymous mail, believe you me…
In other news, The Ring is the best horror film I’ve seen in a while as it has the confidence to let you use your imagination to fill in the gaps – a confidence that so many filnms lack and lose impact thereby. I still found myself checking behind me this morning, so good and creepy – and with an ending good enough that Jenny & I were unable to agree on the implications, but agreed that they were pretty horrid whichever of our ideas was right.
Heroes of Might & Magic is far too addictive for it’s own good and I ain’t gonna stop until I beat the friggin’ thing.
And, after a week of illness & awayness, I’m off to the gym for the first time in ages tonight, presumably to whimper in pain and frustration as the world goes grey and they have to call me an ambulance.
They signed themselves ‘G’ which is Grims usual signoff, but it isn’t his writing style and the possibility that he has changed his style greatly and then signed the post anyway (presumably as an elaborate double-bluff?) is fairly slim, and the idea just doesn’t sit right. So from there, who might it be?
Well, the implication is that it’s someone trying to get Grim into (yet more) trouble by taking the opportunity to pop at me. So what sort of person might that be? Who would bear an active dislike for both of us?
In some ways, Grim & I have many similar personality traits: we’re both arrogant, self-centred and insufferably self-righteous, with an inability to learn from our mistakes or experience. However, we couldn’t sit further from each other on the political, social, or moral spectra.
So what sort of person would take an active dislike to the pair of us? Someone who hasn’t got any fixed opinions, perhaps, who doesn’t like those who do? Someone who sits in the middle of those aforementioned spectra, unable to decide which way to turn and instead turning with the political and social breeze? Someone, in other words, who lacks any ideas of their own, any confidence to stand by their own beliefs, and will change with the wind.
Just my luck. My stalker is a member of the Liberal Democrats.
When I first started getting anonymous postings, I naturally turned IP logging on, and the posts promptly stopped – no surprises there.
But then I realise that I don’t much care, so I’m gonna turn IP logging off again. If someone really wants to spend their time dissing me from the anonymous safety of their keyboard, who am I to stop them? After all, if I don’t let them then I’m sure that when they lie on their deathbed all those years away, their dying words will whisper…”I wish I’d spent more time posting anonymous hate mail to people…”
So, my anonymous chum, come on them. Fire away. I really don’t care that much.
I’ll offer a deal though – tell me who you are, and I’ll tell you how I dealt with the real stalker I had all those years ago – and she did many more scary things than anonymous mail, believe you me…
In other news, The Ring is the best horror film I’ve seen in a while as it has the confidence to let you use your imagination to fill in the gaps – a confidence that so many filnms lack and lose impact thereby. I still found myself checking behind me this morning, so good and creepy – and with an ending good enough that Jenny & I were unable to agree on the implications, but agreed that they were pretty horrid whichever of our ideas was right.
Heroes of Might & Magic is far too addictive for it’s own good and I ain’t gonna stop until I beat the friggin’ thing.
And, after a week of illness & awayness, I’m off to the gym for the first time in ages tonight, presumably to whimper in pain and frustration as the world goes grey and they have to call me an ambulance.
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Re: Civ III: Play the World expansion
Date: 2008-05-30 01:23 pm (UTC)Now, I play Civ4 almost exclusively. I like its religion balance, and have overlooked its naval bombardment shortcomings. I haven't bought any of the expansion packs though - I don't want more of a time vampire on my hands - I'd rather go cycling.
Re: Civ III: Play the World expansion
Date: 2008-05-30 02:15 pm (UTC)I ran across this old exchange and wondered what you made of Civ 4 - the critical programming error in the great people killed the game for me.
Re: Civ III: Play the World expansion
Date: 2008-05-31 02:12 pm (UTC)Great People programming error - that might've been fixed in one of the patches, actually. In any event, the accumulation of useless Great People in the late game became a mere extra management variable. I found that as my cities grew larger, the default inclusion of Priests was something I would have to manually change - but it would at least stay that way...until the next numerical urban increase.
Overall, I like Civ 4's:
- evolved challenges at different eras of development...from animals and difficult siege numeracy at the start; to barbarian cities a bit further on; to terrain limits.
- Some of the compromises produce interesting effects - namely the elimination of zones of control, and making mountains impassable...result in making the game less wargamer, less war/territory focused.
- I rather like how borders are determined by culture and religion ... and the commercial and spy benefits of spreading one's religion - it's a rather nice aspect to Civ4.
...I find the Civ4 ecology algorithm good, but not as good as SMAC's. I would like to see more done with elevation, water flow, energy potential, and forest growth/retraction. It's a shame that reforestation is not an actual possibility in Civ4...but becomes another player value, to decide whether to conserve or not. Late-game uranium deposit discoveries in jungle and forest is one small bonus for long-term conservation.
Re: Civ III: Play the World expansion
Date: 2008-06-02 03:25 pm (UTC)I think that aging + responsibilities has made me less susceptible to hefty time-sink games as a whole, and CIV 4 with it's flaws didn't break through my susceptibility-barrier in the way that Civ 3 or Medaeval did. I beat it a few times (it's the first time any Civ game has had the French as my favourite people. It's always been the Indians or Egyptians previously) and didn't feel it was a challenge on any of the levels that didn't involve my opponents cheating outrageously (I hate games which cheat) and that, coupled with my great people being able to build/invent etc as much stuff as I wanted just meant that the interest never really bit.
Civ4 game balance
Date: 2008-05-31 02:16 pm (UTC)In other words: the perfect model of real-history Persia. Kindda cool, actually.
Alternately, if I wipe out those opponents and not capture cities early on, I'm left with vast unpopulated areas that become thronging with barbarians and their cities. Woe betide the border-delimited Civ that fails to expand its army after this clearance and instead switches to cultural projects...you will be confronted with centuries of barbarian attack.
The perfect model of real-history Rome. :-)