I'm in a retro state right now, going back and playing old favorites or old games which I've heard favorable things about. It started with Dungeon Master on my ST emulator, then Outlaws and Jedi Knight 2. I've just installed Descent: Freespace, and I've built a new 98 partition for playing some of the older games which need real DOS to run. I never realized that Freespace was more of a space sim in the style of Wing Commander than anything like the original Descent.

Did you think I'd run out of Michael Moore links?

Yet another Michael Moore link? And another? A third??? A fourth??? How is this possible? I thought he was a saint!

I'm kind of having to eat crow. After saying on Friday that Rise of Nations was not my cup of tea, I find myself playing the demo more and more. I firmly believe that the tech advances progress far, far too quickly, but having gotten into the game and learned some of the nuances, I'm starting to really like it and wish I could play beyond the limitations of the demo (my old arch-nemesis "Wonder Victory" cannot be disabled, nor can "Armageddon" which results from too many nuke detonations).