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A lost Maxis "Sim" game has been discovered by an Ars reader, uploaded for all
We at Ars Technica are proud to be members of video game archiving history today. SimRefinery, one of PC gaming's most notoriously "lost" video games, now exists—as a fully playable game, albeit an unfinished one—thanks to an Ars Technica reader commenting on the story of its legend.
Two weeks ago, I reported on a story about Maxis Business Solutions, a subdivision of the game developer Maxis created in the wake of SimCity's booming success. Librarian and archivist Phil Salvador published an epic, interview-filled history of one of the game industry's earliest examples of a "serious" gaming division, which was formed as a way to cash in on major businesses' interest in using video games as work-training simulators.
[...] The anonymous Ars user returned to our comments section on Thursday to confirm that they'd uploaded the disk's contents, after an apparently annoying extraction process, to archive.org for everyone in the world to download and play.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @03:15PM (16 children)
I hear St Greta was playing it during the lock down.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @03:19PM (3 children)
Simcopter was cool too. You could fly armed choppers around cities and pick off protesters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @03:26PM (1 child)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator (15W)
Enlisted Officer
Active Duty Army Reserve National Guard Entry Level
Overview
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operators are remote pilots of unmanned observation aircrafts, aka military drones, or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) that gather intelligence used in operational tactics. Our drone operators are intelligence specialists; they are integral to providing Army personnel with information about enemy forces and battle areas.
Job Duties
Conduct air reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting and acquisition missions
Plan and analyze flight missions
Perform preflight, in flight and postflight checks and procedures
Launch and recover air frame from runway
Perform maintenance on communications equipment, power sources, light/heavy wheeled vehicles and crane operations
https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/transportation-and-aviation/unmanned-aerial-vehicle-operator.html [goarmy.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @04:25PM
Tried, I was sectioned 8'd out of the application after the saying I had 476,000 kills in simcopter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @05:30AM
That's messed up.
It should have a mode where you can go around picking people up and giving them free helicopter rides!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @04:42PM (11 children)
Someone so obsessed and threatened by a sixteen year old autistic girl who's simply trying to make the world a better place (albeit naively) must be very insecure in his own masculinity.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @05:23PM (3 children)
I have to wonder if she's being coached by her parents. Does she have a Ph.D. in philosophy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @05:47PM (2 children)
The phrase you're looking for is "sock puppet".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @07:01PM (1 child)
Another example is clockboy
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @04:48PM
That is so racist. Clockmed probably has built his first nuclear reactor by now and most likely has jobs lined up across the board from companies begging to hire him. That lawsuit brought by his family has nothing to do with money. Anyone who thinks otherwise is antiislamic nonhalal double plus ungood floof.
How can you think of attacking a brown person in this climate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @06:49PM
OP may have just been concerned about her well-being. The autistic can go spastic when they don't get the attention they crave.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Revek on Friday June 05 2020, @07:46PM (3 children)
In case no one has figured it out the most scared males on the planet are white male US citizens. I'm a white male US citizen and as a result I get to see all of the sunshine they blow up each other asses while they discuss 'those' people.
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @08:01PM (2 children)
>> the most scared males on the planet are white male US citizens
Tell that to the black man staring down the policeman's gun barrel, you self-centered idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @04:52PM
After rounds of race training cops will now shoot anyone regardless of skin color
(Score: 2) by Revek on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:33PM
Let me hold you're hand and explain they are terrified without that kind of stimulus. You obtuse prick.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 06 2020, @06:54AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @04:55PM
Depends on what she weighs really