{"id":1504,"date":"2010-08-21T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T23:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2010-08-29T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T23:35:11","slug":"my-dedicated-civilization-ii-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"My dedicated Civilization II terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"x-western\">\n<p>Praise be to Uncle Furry, for he hath bestowed upon me a 10 year old Thinkpad with which to bask in the glory of Windows 98 SE!<\/p>\n<p>Hosanna!<\/p>\n<p>I had originally considered reinstalling one of the virtual Windows XP setups I run as a virtual OS inside Linux.\u00a0 As you are probably tired of hearing, I can&#8217;t install one of my favouritist games evar in XP SP3.\u00a0 This is untenable.\u00a0 Also, this is madness.\u00a0 Also, this&#8230; is&#8230; SPARTA!!!<\/p>\n<p>And believe it or not, Civ2 isn&#8217;t just a time waster for me.\u00a0 When I play it, I&#8217;m actually learning stuff too.\u00a0 I simultaneously read many a Wikipedia article on some historical topic or another while I play.\u00a0 And the mindless gameplay relaxes me like nothing else after a shitty week of working way too hard and putting up with stupid people.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep relaxes me more, come to think of it.\u00a0 Yesterday I had a day off, so I took a little nap in the middle of the day.\u00a0 I had 5 hours of the deepest sleep possible, and woke up feeling better than I had for a week.<\/p>\n<p>And then I picked up a game of Civ2 from where I had left it over a month ago.\u00a0 See, this little laptop isn&#8217;t ideal for playing games like Civ2.\u00a0 The screen is too small and the keyboard just slightly too cramped for comfort.\u00a0 But now it&#8217;s the easy solution because it&#8217;s one of only 2 machines I have left on which to play that game.<\/p>\n<p>And my first PC is just too slow, even for Civ2.<\/p>\n<p>But since I&#8217;m not going to bother downgrade any of my XP systems to SP2, and since I&#8217;m not about to reinstall any of them, this little Thinkpad from the year 2000 is now my dedicated Civ2 terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>Zoy!<\/p>\n<p>RGAR!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise be to Uncle Furry, for he hath bestowed upon me a 10 year old Thinkpad with which to bask in the glory of Windows 98 SE! Hosanna! I had originally considered reinstalling one of the virtual Windows XP setups I run as a virtual OS inside Linux.\u00a0 As you are probably tired of hearing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38,26],"tags":[39,254],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-video-games","category-windows","tag-civ-ii","tag-geekdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}