kirkdouglas

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Battlefield: Bad Company 22010
4 out of 5 starsAug 25, 2011
The Battlefield games have always been about offering a solid team-based multiplayer experience. This game takes that formula and builds upon it, putting you in a squad of four on two teams of 16 (I play it on PC, your version may differ). Add to it weapons that can be customised and an objective mode (Rush), as well as the standard Battlefield mode, Conquest and it is a solid formula for fun. In addition, there is…

Bombcast 644, now in 8-track format
Aug 13, 2020
My summer car is a 1978 Thunderbird Diamond Jubilee. The car has a Quadrophonic 8 stereo in it, but it will play normal 8-tracks just fine as well. The speakers sound like a Zellers intercom system though. In an effort to drive the car more so that the seals don't dry out and leak on my driveway, I started recording the Bombcast to blank 8-track tapes. For recording the Bombcast to tape, I hook...
When in SimCity, do as the Romans
Mar 4, 2013
By education, I am an archaeologist. I worked on an excavation at the Roman Villa Arianna in Castellamare di Stabia, Italy in 2010. Ancient Stabiae was one of the cities buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, which also buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. It also has the distinction of being the place of death of Pliny the Elder, a famous Roman statesman and writer of Natural History , wh...
What's the deal with....
Aug 26, 2011
The AI in Total War games? Don't they have someone there that know how to make it work? Seriously. Fighting a siege is the most tedious thing to do in Rome because siege towers are mostly broken vis a vis getting people in them. In Medieval 2, some units are broken except in auto-resolved battles because their special moves are broken in the battle map. In Empire and Napoleon, ranged units are...