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Hi,
Sirian Wrote:You managed to relax while playing it, though, right? 
Yes, I did, thank you!
Quote:Feel free to try it again on Deity if you like.
Indeed I thought about something similar; something every professor should do when it comes to studying a subject thoroughly: Repeating the study under different conditions, to see how different parameters change the outcome. I'm thinking about playing the game again a second time under very unusual conditions, which will suit the absent-minded professor even more, and write a second, shadow report about it... 
-Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
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Kylearan Wrote:I'm thinking about playing the game again a second time under very unusual conditions, which will suit the absent-minded professor even more, and write a second, shadow report about it...
Ha! Just when you thought the well had run dry and the Epics must surely be about to die!
Along comes Sirian with a freaky new twist: uncharted explorations simply cannot be missed.
Now you can only but laugh at yourself for pulling down your copy of Civ3 off the shelf.
A run through the old playground lets you relax while you revisit an old friend and enjoy to the max.
(Must have been composed by a lab assistant. The Professor would surely be too busy to doodle something silly like that in the margins of his notepad.  ... Right?)
- Sirian
Fortune favors the bold.
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Someone else 'finished' the game for me (hint, hint) ... a great game, nice variant. Can't wait for the reports to read how I went wrong... 
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Clearly you need to get some better TA's. :P
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Griselda, was that towards me? TA?
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Griselda, was that towards me? TA?
As in "Teaching Assistants", the graduate students who help professors run their classes in exchange for a pittance of a salary. You know, as in what I currently do for a living.
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The oddity is that universities will pay radicals like Ward Churchill 100k a year, but they give the TAs pennies. Doesn't seem right. Some of these guys have quite a racket going.
Nobody ever said life was always going to be fair, though. OK, back to the lab...
- The Professor
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Sirian Wrote:The oddity is that universities will pay radicals like Ward Churchill 100k a year, but they give the TAs pennies. Doesn't seem right. Some of these guys have quite a racket going.
Nobody ever said life was always going to be fair, though. OK, back to the lab...
- The Professor
Well, they also waive tuitions, which is actually worth more than the salary (not even mentioning taxes).
At least I was happy to do the work in university.
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Kylearan Wrote:I'm thinking about playing the game again a second time under very unusual conditions, which will suit the absent-minded professor even more, and write a second, shadow report about it.
Second game finished. Preparing report for the workshop at this year's ACSWAI (Annual Conference on the Study of Weak AIs). 
-Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
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