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Re: Video games that changed your life
Does Pac-Man count? It did indeed change my life, and it did so by bringing me to the clear realization that I needed to stay far, far away from video games.
Fosdick
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Even in paradise, one has to contend with wasps…
Jeroen
Re: Where am I?
You are where you are and you are who you are.
Heh! Heh! Heh! 
Milk shake anyone?
Lionduck
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
@Jeroen said:
It’s tricky with words that are pronounced very nearly the same but spelt differently and have quite different meanings. I mean I was seeing visions of Smaug the Terrible (see also The Hobbit) gathering in a large collection of dead people… I was just racing @Federica in pointing it out.
@Jeroen ...It's amayzen ow how brains ah aball to decifer wat iz ment even wen worz in the centance ah spelt rong ..and the centance iz grammaticlee incoorect
Oops perhaps I should have put a trigger warning 
Shoshin1
Re: The Park is mine
Bearing in mind that at times what we do can be beneficial in some way for onlookers perhaps a reminder to slow down
We are all exhibits of our inner nature. Individually or collectively. I tend to meditate on my own, even when in a crowded dharma meeting … wait I think we all do.
We have to own our being alone or individually staged on The Bath Path. Our societies/communities are mostly noisy/busy/occupied. We are moving towards:
- Self awareness
- Self responsibility
- Self fulfilment
Self, self, self … it is all about me. I knew it! 🦞
… eh think I gone wrong again …
lobster
Video games that changed your life
By request…
@Jeroen said:
@FleaMarket said:
@Jeroen The difference is we ask "What video game changed your life?"Maybe a subject for another thread? Although I think you’d have to ask along with it “why did it change your life”, its not always so straightforward with game titles to get a feel for what the game is about.
I will kick things off…
Panzer General (1994): I spent way too much time playing this, marshalling little WW2 armies in the desert near Tobruk and in the European theatre. It led to a fascination that lasted decades about generalship and armies and game systems.
Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 (1992-1993): The first fully 3D games that I played, way ahead of their time. In the end I ended up programming 3D game engines professionally, and made a career out of it.
World of Warcraft (2005): The first massively multiplayer online game I played, I got quite severely addicted to this, it was not healthy the amount of time I played this in its Vanilla incarnation. Led to a fascination with game analysis.
Jeroen
Re: Books that changed your life Redux
@FleaMarket said:
@Jeroen The difference is we ask "What video game changed your life?"
Maybe a subject for another thread? Although I think you’d have to ask along with it “why did it change your life”, its not always so straightforward with game titles to get a feel for what the game is about.
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
It’s tricky with words that are pronounced very nearly the same but spelt differently and have quite different meanings. I mean I was seeing visions of Smaug the Terrible (see also The Hobbit) gathering in a large collection of dead people… I was just racing @Federica in pointing it out.
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
@Jeffrey glad to hear from a GM radish … eh … oh wait genetically modified vegetables are only semi sentient as yet.
Gone wrong again … Mooji not mooli. Delicious. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon
lobster