Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nuclear holocaust ominous enough to send schoolchildren diving under their desks at a teacher's practice command. (I remember studying an aerial photo of New York City, on which concentric circles described the effects of an H-bomb blast over the Empire State Building, and feeling a sense of doom that I lived four blocks inside the zone of vaporization...
...healthy long-term growth in productivity, real wages and standard of living. I rushed to the library to reread The New York Times, in the hope of finding some indication that my line of thought had been considered by some optimistic pundit. Alas, I found nothing but gloom and doom in the articles themselves. But in a sidebar that featured the opinions of various experts in business and economics, I found a rumination that cheered me greatly. The particular expert being quoted was Bill Gates. "Men and women are worried that their own jobs will become obsolete...that economic upheaval...
...realized that players get tired of killing Imps, Demons and Barons of Doom; they'd rather kill their roommates or coworkers. So Quake has been designed to create the best Deathmatch experience...
...Unlike DOOM, which was limited to four player games, Quake will eventually accomodate up to 32 players at a time, connected to machines acting as dedicated game servers...
Quake also features a true three-dimensional engine, unlike the simulated world of DOOM. Quake players kill and are killed in lovely new ways--by having a grenade dropped on you from above, for instance...