Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse

At 21:34 13/05/99 -0300, you wrote:
>Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>> Gary Shannon wrote:
>> > Not so strange, really.  When I was a kid I used to love to draw maps of
>> > imaginarey lands.  I still admire nicely done works of concartography.
>>
>> Me too.  In fact, I have a roughly-drawn, periodically revised, map of
>> the Continent (the one continent on Terra Nova).  I wonder if many other
>> conlangers/conculturers were the same way?
>>
>
>I'd forgotten, and now I'm remembering in flashes... Yes,
>when I was a kid I had a neighbour and we had invented
>some imaginary countries... We drew the frontiers and the
>big cities, and some rivers and such, and then we played,
>"invading" countries, holding diplomatic conventions,
>accumulating missils and so on :( Each country had different
>currencies and languages, and we kept statistics of
>cash flow, population, etc. (in a very rough manner, of
>course). After a time we did it all the time, and our
>parents began to worry a bit, I think -- anyway, then we
>stopped gradually, when we became "too grown-up" for such
>games.
>
>The language issue didn't pop up, usually, except in the
>names of the countries and the big cities, which had some
>consistency as regarding their phonetical structures...
>After that time, I think, I began writing short stories
>and creating words for them. I was engaged into this years
>later, when I learned about Conlang; I didn't have Internet
>access, but when I got it, subscribing was one of the first
>things I did.
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
>
>
        Don't you think this kind of concartography is a somewhat general hobby?
Why do games like Civilization, Sim City or others are so successful?

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