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steve  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading

the tail end... I think I meant you and I are old enough that we were on the tail end of the cold war... if you're like me, you played "guns" as a kid and ran around shooting each other, but only after deciding who would be "the Ruskies".





ButterflyEffect  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hah, we did the same thing growing up! Cowboys and Indians (...yikes...) / Cops and Robbers, though.

kleinbl00  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

End, yeah. But I dunno, man. Between the Evil Empire speech, SDI, KAL007 and the occupation of Afghanistan it sure didn't feel like the "tail."

steve  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

it doesn't feel like it now... we were clearly in it... but at the time, I wasn't aware of it all.

kleinbl00  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was constantly aware.

We knew where the major strike was likely to be, what the fallout would be, what missile would carry it...

steve  ·  2644 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We had two books that had full color layouts comparing the US arsenal to the USSR's (one might have been the encyclopedia?). I would lay there for hours looking at those pictures. crazy times to be sure.