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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:21
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Comparing SMAC with dating
The title of this thread is "SMAC or Love". Ahem. I will not compare SMAC with love. To avoid spewing excess clichés, I'll just say that I won't do it because I'd rather not try to do the impossible... you can't compare love with anything.
One-liners
Pro-SMAC:
1. One word - headache.
2. If you play with SMAC for an exhaustive session and fall asleep right after, SMAC won't mind.
3. If you play other games (silly you), SMAC won't mind.
4. SMAC doesn't nag, even if you come home after a drinking binge.
5. Women are just expensive. SMAC/X cost me 30 euros; with that money you take her out twice, but you can play SMAC/X for years and years and years.
6. No dates to remember ("Was that 16th or 26th of August?")
7. You can't marry a computer game.
8. A computer game can't;
- go out with other computer games (i.e. have games' nights)
- dump you
- shop
- be(come) mentally ill
Pro-women/girls:
1. Uh. The hole in the middle of the CD-ROM is way too small to be of any use.
2. You can kiss or hug the game, but it won't hug or kiss you back. Then again, in some cases girls might slap you instead of kissing or hugging back, so you have the element of risk involved.
3. Body temperature (unless you're one of those guys, ick)
4. Try sharing the bed with a cardboard box or a CD, and try sharing the bed with a woman.
5. A girl talks back. Well, that can be a bad thing too.
6. You can't marry a computer game (albeit I'm not sure of the legislation in all fifty states of the US).
7. A game can't accidentally reproduce (though that'd be profitable) and won't demand alimony even if you decide not to play anymore.
8. A computer game can't;
- do the dishes
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Elaborating on the subject
Let's see.
We have Asking a Girl Out (apologies to any ladies reading - I wont' handle dating men in this post) vs. Buying SMAC.
Finding a girl to ask out is a very difficult task indeed. I have met only one so far, then again, during my course of life there hasn't been much chance to meet any girl's that I'd want to ask out (I have standards you know... yes, I can't afford being picky, but still). And the actual act of asking her out is horrid. Stammering, sweating, the pressure, the feeling of having your feet turn to liquid form and trying to get the hell outta there. Especially if you've been rather attracted to her already.
Finding a copy of SMAC and/or AX is nowadays equally difficult (you can mail order it from the Net, then again so can you mail order a bride, at least in some states). The many, many threads of the subject on this forum serve as evidence. However, taking the case from the shelf and paying the game isn't that nervewrecking - of course, if you have to sit in a bus for an hour and wait to get to play the game, with it right in your pocket, that might be a bit nasty, but nothing compared to the anxiousness brought by a *gasp* girl.
Appearances vs. Graphics
Oh COME ON. There's no game in existence that could be on par with a beautiful girl. No matter how pretty the graphics. Harumph. There just isn't. A CD can't colour it's hair dark red and cut it short. It can't have bright green eyes or a white complexion. The CD case can't wear a white top and...
Erm, let's move on shall we?
Note: more importantly, a game can't wear nothing. 
The First Date vs. The First Game
The first date. Well, mine went pretty well actually. Talked, talked and, what do you know, we talked. It was fun, and we agreed on a second one. After a successfull first date, I was ridiculously gleeful, had a boost to my self-confidence and whistled. Gyah.
The first game. Now, I had had forehand experience with the demo version, so my first full length game wasn't such a big deal. But, after churning out the Ascend to Transcendence, I did feel gratified, ridiculously gleeful. I didn't whistle though. And naturally I wanted another game... started a new one right off.
Sounds
SMAC has nice music, the voice of Yang is something that etches itself to your synapses for years to come. And the voices of Aki and Deirdre are just hot.
In this matter, it's pretty much person-related. Someone has a good voice, someone's is moderate, someone's like a squealing squirrel high on helium.
Intelligence
Tough one. The SMAC AI is pretty clever. Again, in regards of girls this is quite personal. In my case, the girl won. In some cases, the AI might win, but then you're getting obviously desperate, dating a virtual retard or something.
Breaking up
I was six months separated from my SMAC. It was awful at first, but I got accustomed to it... until I got it back. Played twelve hours straight. The truth is that you can't break up with SMAC. You will find a way to play it no matter what (WWIII or an asteroid being the exceptions).
Breaking up with a girl (unless you're the one breaking up) - PAIN. Enough said.
The writer is a fifteen year old Finnish male who has played SMAC/X for over 20 months and who has dated a member of the opposite gender for the past four months. His experience in the former field of expertise can be thought of as moderate to good, whereas his experiences in the latter field of expertise is so far a bit... limited. Therefore, it is advisable not to pay and heed to any possible advice he might give in regards of the latter subject.
Oh and he likes to shamelessly plug his website.
Last edited by Kassiopeia on 27-07-2002 at 00:14
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Dove
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This thread is seriously weird. If you cancel a date to play SMAC you need help.
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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:21
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Dove:
Your worry, at least in my case, is futile. Though, I usually borrow my copy to keep from playing it. I've been on a hiatus for six months and can't keep my fingers off it any longer. 
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Originally posted by Mr. President
You frighten me, Kassi. |
You're the second person to tell me that in short time. Am I really that frightening?
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Nicely dissected.  I must say it's very hard to make me yell at a woman (particularly if she's good-looking) but it's quite easy to make me yell at, headbutt, and claw-hammer a monitor showing a Planetary Council where I've just been frozen out of the governor's seat.
Of course, that doesn't have anything to do with which I prefer, but it's a fun piece of trivia.
I suppose SMAC and the company of women are similar in many ways. They can both be very gratifying; they can both be painful and disturbing; they can both make you think too much about things you don't need to be thinking about; and they can both get you alienated from your family and fired from your job. |
I'd say that striving to use equally both venues of entertainment would produce the best result. Some SMAC, some dating. 
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