Those of you who follow the various cut and thrust of my personal life will know that on most Saturdays I play host to a mob of eight or so 12 year olds who spend the afternoon yelling at each other as they play one of Games Workshop’s myriad convoluted wargames. This invariably leads to door slamming, stomping away furiously and plenty of voluminous accusations of cheating. How it takes me back…
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If you know me, which you probably do, you’ll be more than aware of my affinity for games of a management nature. Whether it’s taking the Carthaginians to glory in the latest iteration of Civilization or pondering for hours over whether to play 442 again in Football Manager I’m never happier when confronted by a spreadsheet masquerading as a game.
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Creative abuse of technology for the betterment of mankind.

Once in a while, usually much later than every bugger is doing it, I jump on some fad craze thing that is sweeping the nation with the aim of turning it against itself in the name of amusement.
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Friends, as you well know by now I am something of a veteran of the messageboard, an artisan of bulletin boards, a messiah of forums. To that end I have seen it all when it comes to abuse, spam, flaming, trolling, hotlinking, avatar-theft and every other fabricated internet crime one can imagine.
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Quite a bit, apparently.
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