From:	"Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject:	Re: Old Age Runners (Was: Re: Sex & the
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 09:51:32 -0400

Erik Jameson wrote:
>Ah, SR1 and autosuccesses and variable staging. Hey, I bet the kiddies
>haven't ever heard of 3L1 or 5D4 damage codes, eh? Now THAT complicated
>combat.

Hey - I'm not a fogey yet (23, for the record), and I prefer the SR1
damage staging... Besides, anybody who's read SRII from cover to cover
has heard of SR1 staging. ;-)

>>(Who played back when there were TWO german states.)
>
>You know what the sad thing is? There are plenty of people on this list
>who simply have no recollection of living like that, who only know about
>the Cold War from books and school. Some of us geezers actually grew up
>with the spectre of the Red Menance and Global Thermonuclear War.

Heh - I remember watching WarGames for the first time. Back then
my computer was a C64 and I was still disgusted by how *stupid*
the movie was.

James Ojaste
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