10:37 (BST), 15/10/2008
War Plan Pacific
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Remember when you were a kid and you would reenact the battle of Coral Sea in the bathtub with your collection of toy ships? You'd make funny sounds, and splash the water around, and think to yourself, "One day I hope that someone will bring the fun and excitement of simulating the Pacific Theater on a computer rather than a bathtub. Computers are cool because they make the sounds for you and don't cause shrinkage when you sit there too long. And I hope that instead of taking forever and ever to play that I can play the entire war in a matter of hours." Then your parents would yell at you to get out of the tub-you're going to turn into a prune, and for Pete's sake stopping touching yourself-and your fantasy was gone just like that.
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