What is the latest book you have been reading? It doesn't matter if it takes you one day or three months. If you're like me, you rarely catch a moment and it takes forever to get through more than two chapters.

Personally, I've lately been slowly re-reading Machievelli's The Prince. It's not the most amazing work ever, but I find it interesting for the purposes of knowing European history at the time of its writing. 

I work at a place where you never know how long your shift will be. Some would say it's a bad thing, but on busy days, the money that is made is all worth it. That said, I have worked a couple of 14 hour shifts, and I can't say they have been the most pleasant ever.

What is the longest shift you have ever worked? 

Hi, I'm VRVisions but I usually go by Alex, my other username being Suzaku. I am a huge anime and gaming fan, but I usually love virtual reality and simulation games. I have a site I run called VRVisions, a resource site for virtual reality, simulation and other creative games. I know Darth-Apple from Simmania (a SimCity fansite) so I figured I'd come back here. My favorite anime types are action and sci-fi, my favorites being Bleach, Kill La Kill, Full Metal Alchemist, Code Geass, and many more that if I'd list, we'd be here all day.

Thanks for reading and I hope to post more.

So, for our first poll, should the team names of "the moderns" and "the ancients" be renamed to the conservatives and the liberals? 

The following requirements must be met for this change to take effect 

• A minimum of four votes
  
• The final percentage must be 75% in favor
  
• Results will not be processed until November 20th at earliest. 
  

I routinely drive through heavy traffic more often than I should. I can't say I've ever loved it, but I've certainly grown more used to it. If I had to sum up the single two most annoying traffic behaviors that I have observed as a driver myself, they would be as follows: 

• People texting and driving (I don't know how many rear-end accidents I've seen as a result of this).
  
• Tailgating. I don't care if you're going 10 MPH below the speed limit. I won't tailgate you, period. I particularly don't like when the tailgating driver behind me immediately changes lanes as soon as I turn on my turn signal to prevent me from changing lanes, then flies in front of me 15 MPH above the speed limit without the usage of the turn signal. That sort of behavior is guaranteed to get me to hold the horn for a good long three seconds. 
  

hullo there. First off iam a member of over 62 boards but i shall try be active..not including real life offline. Thank you

I'll admit, I have been a longstanding fan of the series (as have quite a few members here). Simcity 4 was well done for its time, and is still a fun game today, but we're talking about a game that's well over a decade old. To be honest, I might be speechless if the gameplay mechanics of Simcity 4 were combined with the city sizes and graphics of Cities XL. Unfortunately, both have now become boring to me after what was probably too many long hours of gameplay.

I've posted some stuff regarding Cities XL on the forums, and I'll say, it's actually a pretty fun game. It does get boring once you reach a certain goal because there is little left to really achieve in the game, but it's fun for a while, and it's worth the price tag for the amazing graphics you get. That said, the community isn't as good, the game can't handle large cities well, and the gameplay mechanics are only fair at best. 

I'm not going to necessarily write off the new Simcity because of its mechanics. I like online gameplay, and at least, from what I hear, it makes you feel like you're really a part of your city. However, it's been a while since I followed the series, and I don't know where it's at now that offline mode has been implemented, and a good 10+ patches have been released. 

Is it worth $30 to buy the game for what it is? I would have tried the trial, but it didn't start under WINE and I'm not booting into Windows just to spend five hours downloading files for two hours of gameplay.

Well, I know Darth-Apple from another forum I was at. So, decided to register here. He sure did put a lot of features that most forums don't have. For example, he put prefixes at the top of the topic when you're starting a subject so you can kind of guess what the conversation is going to be related to and/if you don't know what it would be about if you were looking at the subject that someone manually put in themselves. These are the kinds of forums I like.

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