From:	Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Old Age Runners (Was: Re: Sex & the Single
Date:	Fri, 8 May 1998 00:53:24 -0400

Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> wrote:
>When someone shot a vindicator minigun at you in the old days, you KNEW
>about it. And the DRAIN codes! None of this f/2S bunkum.
>We had REAL drain codes back then, like L1, S3, and I challenge ANYONE not
>to suffer some drain after the dreaded D4....

There was also added fun of watching min/maxers try to figure out if it was
better to toss a powerblast (staging 1) or a power cloud (staging 3). I
actually much preferred the variable staging stuff.

>And verily, did Erik Jameson hastily scribble thusly...
>|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.

Hell, plenty on the list don't remember a time with sex without worrying
about AIDS. "In my day, we didn't have none of this sex = death stuff..."

Wordman