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Touring A Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees Of GeForce-Powered Projection Systems

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Overall, this was a fascinating example of how improvements in GPU hardware have allowed companies to build simulation centers that weren’t really possible before. Shipping companies and airlines have used some type of simulation for decades, but the type and nature of the environments those simulations can include is rapidly expanding — and such improvements at the industrial scale inevitably trickle down to consumer hardware and applications.

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Customer Reviews: SimCity – Standard Edition

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The hours upon hours since launch that I haven’t been able to log in, whether it be sitting in queues, or server busy messages, or just plain old not working screens, I’ve managed to do a heap of things that I never do when I’m locked in my man cave playing video games.

I’ve washed the dishes, the laundry, changed the oil in the car, mopped the floors, dusted, did a spot of gardening, greeted my children who I hadn’t really seen since Christmas, walked the dog, asked how my wife’s day has been and listened to the entire response, restocked the groceries and many more things! My family has never been happier that they’ve got a father and husband again.

In fact, I feel like Simcity has given me a new lease on life. This wouldn’t have been possible without the seemingly crazy decision to have constant online connections and server side save points even for single player.

So I can only thank EA and Maxis. Your failures have been my rewards. 5 stars!

via Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: SimCity – Standard Edition [Download].

I don’t ever recall a product launch that went this badly.  I’ve been playing Sim City since version 2 and was looking forward to this.  This needs to be filed under what were they thinking?!