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| Hours and hours of fun. Just add naughty words. |
After reading that last post my good friend Cole, who was in the class
with me, reminded me of another funny story from advanced drafting
classes. There was a game, Scorched Earth, that was passed around on
floppy disks that a guy with a little knowledge of how the computer's
operating system worked could install on any of the school's
computers and play during work time. Scorched earth was a tank battle
physics simulation that pitted two or more tanks against each other
in various bleak landscapes. Each tank had a turn to attack dialing
in the angle and power estimated to put your bomb on your enemy. If
you missed the land all around your bomb strike would vaporize and
dramatically change the landscape. Every time a tank shot it would
let out a text based battle cry like “No Surrender!” or “Sic
Simper Tyranus” you know, the classics? One day when we were not
drawing random projects on the Laser Cad drafting program I tracked
down the text file that had the battle cry data base and a few of us
spent an hour or so replacing all of the inoffensive battle cries
with vulgar and crude ones that would appeal to the tastes of
sixteen-year-old boys. A 'Bombs Away!' was replaced with a 'Take it
All!', an innocuous 'For Glory!' would now be the much more offensive
'Show Me Your *&%@'. There were lots more and some with the king
boss swear word that probably were not on the borderline. It was all
intended as some good harmless lowbrow fun until one day we were
turned in by one of our fellow students and when we came to class the
drafting coach was pretty upset about our shenanigans and threatened
to throw us out of the class unless we deleted the game and the bad
swears. I think we did because we were not thrown out.
