My brother just sent me a link to a great screed on War simulations that he found posted on Craigslist. The article was actually swiped from PointlessWasteofTime.com and was written by the same guy who wrote the now kinda famous Gamer's Manifesto.

David Wong starts out his rant on the ultimate war simulator with this beauty of an intro:

Like my Grandpa always said, there were no naked human pyramids in Starcraft.

There were no whiny anti-war Hollywood types or questionable war motives or granola-munching human shields. I'm starting to think that even Command and Conquer: Generals, a game so "realistic" it took a NASA-built Quantum supercomputer to run it, has left me woefully unprepared to fight an actual war.

What Wong wants is a real, real time strategy. One that "will give me a stress headache after an hour and an ulcer after a week. I want to identify experienced players on the street by their Thousand-Yard Stares."

What follows is a humorous and deviously insightful attack on the stupidity of real world war and real world war protestors. Read it, love it, live it.

Maybe this is old, maybe you've already seen it. Don't care, go read it again, it's that good.

Creating the Ultimate War Sim [Pointless Waste of Time]

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