Best spam I've seen in a while.

One of the things I love about Gmail is the excellent spam filter. I rarely see actual spam, and just review the spam box every few days to make sure nothing important has gotten stuck there. Today I found a message purportedly from the FBI. No attachments, so I opened it.

( It's a classic )

Forwarded to the real FBI. I may drop a note to the Rev. Larry Smith letting him know he's an idiot.

Must upgrade computer.

Oh, yeah, going to need a top of the line graphics and sound card for this!

I've been playing a lot with the Next War mod (greatly expands the late game tech tree - battle mechs, clone troopers, arcologies.. fun!) and yesterday got hat has to be the funniest message I've ever seen in the game. I was playing the Romans under Julius Ceaser, and my closest neighbor was the The Pan-Asiatic People Co-Operative led by The Glorious Leader. While still firmly in the Middle Ages, I got the Shofar horn sound meaning that war had been declared somewhere. Then The Glorious Leader pops up and says...

"You didn't really think I was going for a Cultural Victory, did you?"

I wasn't planning one either. Glorious Leader's timing sucked. He attacked me after I started producing macemen and crossbowmen. The PAPC was also about half the size of Rome, so I could simply overwhelm him with cheap praetorians and hordes of catapults. War lasted about ten turns. Burp. Also took out the Mongolians under Kublai Khan when they declared war on me for no apparent reason. Game ended with a Diplomatic victory in 1902.

One thing I'm hoping to see in an expansion or mod for CivV is the ability to form combined arm units. The new game eliminates that "stack of doom" combat tactic by limiting one combat unit to a hex. But in reality, an army would have a mixture of types. A Renaissance army in the field would probably be a mixture of musket troops and pikemen. A modern US force would mix armor, mechanized infantry, and attack helicopters. It would be nice to be able to build such units to maximize their strengths.