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This is getting a little more than slightly aggravating. Ever since the last few election fiascos where George Bush was elected overeager and mediocre reporters, news anchors and strategists called the elections before the votes were even counted. This year no one is releasing any exit poll information until after that areas’ polls are officially closed. This is the most asinine thing they could have done. They’ve already taken away alcohol during elections, the only thing left was the hourly updates compiled from the exit polls. Followed a few minutes later by some pseudo-analyst trying to explain how one issue/canidate/referendem/etc flopped in 60 minutes. This has got to be the most boring election ever, since there is nothing to keep me entertained throughout the day other than the inane jabber of strategists and pollsters that pretend like they actually know what the rest of us think.

In all seriousness though, exit polls were never the problem. The problem came that some one looked at their exit polling data and decided to call the election and claim the election was over, before the the ballots had even been brought back to the elections commision to be counted. Just give me back my hourly exit polling so I have something…..anything and this time WAIT until the official results have come out before you claim anyone has won.

In honor of my friend Peridyd’s latest post on getting into Legend of the Green Dragon, I have taken it upon myself to install my own copy of LOTGD on this server. It’s always been on the list of things to do, fortunately Peridyd just provided me with the excuse I needed.

Back before the internet was the internet a lot of geeks, including myself, would spend hours dialed(yes through a modem, a 14.4kbps modem actually) into text based bulletin board systems. On these BBSes there would be a few games that were very popular, one of the most popular games was The Legend of the Red Dragon or LORD. To sum it all up Legend of the Green Dragon is actually based off of Legend of the Red Dragon, unfortunately the original author & copyright owner has not converted this game to the web or released the copyrighted source code. Thankfully smarter and more creative people than me went to the trouble of recreating the game for all of us to enjoy when we are bored.

So without further ado I present Paleck’s LOTGD