Word: dooms
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...days of feverish anticipation. The twitchy teenagers and addicted adults who spend hours at a time blasting away the phosphorous phantoms on their PC screens know that Quake is coming. It's more like a second coming: Quake's forebear, the virtual reality, blast-'em-up sensation called Doom, is probably the most popular PC game ever created. Countless fans are currently searching 75 Websites looking for signs of Quake as if it were a visiting comet...
...suppose our studying habits shouldn't vacillate with the seasons. Reality is, however, far from ideal. This is the one way to make us enthusiastic about the start of finals. If we ruminate long enough about impending doom, sooner or later we'll begin to wish for it to be over...
...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...
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...