Philip Newton ([info]pne) wrote,
@ 2008-09-15 13:16:00
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Random memory: "Brownouts, build another power plant!"

In school, I occasionally played SimCity 3.

I remember one of the messages you sometimes got alerting you to the current situation was, "Brownouts, build another power plant!".

Only years later did I learn that a brownout is a kind of power outage where the voltage level is below the normal minimum level specified for the system. I always used to think it was a made-up insult: "Yo, stupid, build another power plant already!".

(Though now that I think about it, if they had used a semicolon—as I think they should have anyway—, I would probably not have taken the word for a vocative.)


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[info]dampscribbler
2008-09-15 04:52 pm UTC (link)
I liked that game. Fun, but not as addictive as the current Sims. I enjoyed turning on Godzilla mode sometimes, too, when one of the "natural disasters" that could strike my city was Godzilla.

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[info]lexabear
2008-09-15 06:47 pm UTC (link)

From my understanding, brownouts are like blackouts, but when you don't have enough electricity, instead of because of some mechanical problem (e.g., lines down).

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[info]cest_amy
2008-09-17 07:15 pm UTC (link)
I remember SimTower, SimFarm, SimCity2000...so much fun! And then we lost the discs.

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