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Review: BZFlag 3D Tank Game
GonzoJohn writes "LinuxOrbit.com reviews the 3D Tank game BZFlag. 'Have you ever been walking down the street, minding your own business, and suddenly look down to find something you hadn't expected? It might be money, it might be a decoder ring, it could be anything. But the almost universal reaction is pleasurable. 'That's a nice surprise,' you think as you stoop and pocket whatever good fortune has dropped in your path. The same thing can happen in the strangest places. For example, a recent post on our message boards inquired, 'What's your favorite flag in bzflag?'. Not being familiar with the game, I had to ask "What's bzflag?' Little did I know that such an innocent inquiry would result in an almost indecent obsession with a very cool game.'"
people say that is synchronicty... ;-)
Some events in sequence that would put you
in contact with something you desire/want/would like. It would look like coincidence, but
those people belive there is no coincidences,
so, the universe just helped you
When discussing the "pleasure" of such an event (as described in the original post), you can measure the pleasure in grudes. Grudes is a scale from negative values, through to positive values. I don't know if there is the equivalent of "absolute zero" for Grudes, but I can provide some examples:
a) -1000 Grudes is equal to the feeling you getin the pit of your stomach when you look in your rear-view mirror, and see that a police officer is about to pull you over for speeding.
b) 4310 Grudes is equal to the feeling you have when your home town team comes back from a deficit to win the final game in some sporting event playoff situation that you care about.
I don't know how many Grudes one might feel while playing BZFlag. Anyone have any ideas?
They're more likely to just stop signing the cheques that pay for all that high-tech military equipment.
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