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Ah, freeciv, the best game on fedora core 2. I remember sitting there and playing it for hours on end as well. It was hilarious to see the phrase "Napoleon has launched a nuclear warhead - 1025 AD" :P Most fun I had in ages. I probably should dow...
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I recall when I started gaming on my Pentium 133 laptop, just when Blizzard's Diablo was hitting the shelves. Oh, MAN what a game! I was hooked. Warcraft II was also out and I remember the hours I used to spend wasting away in front of the comput...
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What kind of geek are you?
The Prefessional IT kind, with contact lenses :D
Why do you consider yourself a geek?
I compile my own OS
How did you find out about our Geek community?
Chris Pirillo
What are your "geeky equipment" specs?
- A linux-based recording and mastering studio, with home-brewed real-time audio over ethernet or firewire

- Custom servers that do useful automatic things..

- Backups by SSH halfway across the world
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Who said I wanted to GROW UP?
What makes you laugh?
british humor
What is the thing in life you treasure most?
sports - and the views in Switzerland
What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?
spent 72 hours STRAIGHT playing freeciv
What do you do to entertain yourself?
write, record music, play tennis
Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?
way too many to list - but Churchill, Hubbard, Goodkind, King and Smith are up there on my author's lists

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FreeCiv - are we really that civilized?

I recall when I started gaming on my Pentium 133 laptop, just when Blizzard's Diablo was hitting the shelves.

Oh, MAN what a game! I was hooked. Warcraft II was also out and I remember the hours I used to spend wasting away in front of the computer. It got to be too much. Round about the time I convinced my mother to buy me a $5000.00 Dell workstation for Christmas (with the world-legendary Pentium 4 (!) inside) to play Starcraft with, I was spending hours every day just clicking away, drones,… Continue

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 9:52am — 1 Comment

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