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Yeah, it was a tough nut to crack. 
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
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I don't think I've ever had a game under 60 hours, except when the AI cleaned my clock. But I tend to leave the game running while doing other things, so my totals are pretty astronomical...Enjoy Slurm - it's highly addictive!Comment
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Yeah, I have left a game up for days and never closed it. Nearly always will stop to watch a movie or eat and left it for a few hours. So the time is not telling me anything at all.Comment
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Which is why i abandoned the idea of doing a poll on this as it doesn't really represent how much time you have spent playing a game versus how much electricity you have wasted around the time you've played the game
Haven't been here for ages....Comment
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I leave games up and running *forever*... I find it very annoying that screensavers don't work when C3 is up!The greatest delight for man is to inflict defeat on his enemies, to drive them before him, to see those dear to them with their faces bathed in tears, to bestride their horses, to crush in his arms their daughters and wives.
Duas uncias in puncta mortalis est.Comment
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Screensavers??
People still use screensavers?? What for?? The only thing they can do is crasch your PC, modern day screens don't need them anymore.
Just let your monitor go in stand-by mode. ( monitor, NOT your pc)Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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No screensavers for me, nor any turning off of the monitor either. Let it burn all it wants. I have had this 21" monitor for years. If a pattern gets burned in, so what? You always have something up anyway to hide it.Comment
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I don't use screensavers anymore.
but I never leave the game running anyways. That's what the save game feature is for. Maybe you guys have heard of it
And I don't leave my computer on when I go to bed either. Waste of electricity. Though I am worried about my power button. The other day my computer wouldn't turn on. I moved my computer out from under my desk. I figured I'd try one more time before I disconnect the cords, and it actually turned on. So I am worried about turning my computer off now.
and I do play other games than civ3. smac, kotor2, morrowind goty, nwn, etc.Comment
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LCD Monitors definitely need screen savers, or at least need to be turned off when not in use.Originally posted by alva
Screensavers??
People still use screensavers?? What for?? The only thing they can do is crasch your PC, modern day screens don't need them anymore.
Just let your monitor go in stand-by mode. ( monitor, NOT your pc)Comment
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Sorry... I wrote screensaver, but I meant standby... when I have C3 up, my monitor won't go into standby.
The greatest delight for man is to inflict defeat on his enemies, to drive them before him, to see those dear to them with their faces bathed in tears, to bestride their horses, to crush in his arms their daughters and wives.
Duas uncias in puncta mortalis est.Comment
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I use the my pictures slide show as my screen saver on both my work machine and my notebook.
(I've used up some of the surplus hard drive space by downloading lots of photos from my groups)1st C3DG Term 7 Science Advisor 1st C3DG Term 8 Domestic Minister
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AI: I sure wish Jon would hurry up and complete his turn, he's been at it for over 1,200,000 milliseconds now.
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Other games than civ3? I've heard rumors about this kind of stuff. In fact I seem to recall once playing something called... um, 'civ too' was it...? Superstitious claptrap, I say...Originally posted by Dissident
and I do play other games than civ3. smac, kotor2, morrowind goty, nwn, etc.Enjoy Slurm - it's highly addictive!Comment
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It is the job of my computer, when I am not using it to create brilliant documents or dominate the world via Civ, to create visual entertainment on its screen in case I happen to glance in that direction. Therefore, it has various screensavers it cycles through, either slideshows of pretty pictures or different graphic doodles. It has nothing to do with "saving" the screen and everything to do with having aesthetic value. It can easily be argued that was the purpose of screensavers all along. But, whatever else my computer may do, it is not allowed to be visually boring. Now, if I could get Civ to play AI to AI and show me all the battles and stuff, maybe that would combine the two obsessions.Originally posted by alva
Screensavers??
People still use screensavers?? What for?? The only thing they can do is crasch your PC, modern day screens don't need them anymore.
Just let your monitor go in stand-by mode. ( monitor, NOT your pc)
As to the thread topic, yes, I leave Civ on in the background gathering time ticks. It gives rise to some amazing times reported at end of game. I figure that being able to ignore those obviously inflated numbers allows me to sidestep the real issue of how much time I do really spend on this addictive game.If you aren't confused,
You don't understand.Comment
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I don't think Civ is addictive at all. I would explain why, but I feel compelled to go start a new game. Maybe as Carthage this time . . ."We may be in a hallucination here, but that's no excuse for being delusional!." K.S. Robinson, 'The Years Of Rice And Salt.'Comment
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The greatest delight for man is to inflict defeat on his enemies, to drive them before him, to see those dear to them with their faces bathed in tears, to bestride their horses, to crush in his arms their daughters and wives.
Duas uncias in puncta mortalis est.Comment
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