I will tell you the truth, I am getting very pleasantly drunk today, though I prefer to call it "taking off the edge".
Tomorrow I take delivery of my Linux box and it should be installed on the network by about 4:00 pm if all goes well. This time when I play SH3 I will have a separate machine to run all the mathematical stuff - go ahead, shoot me - but I really like to make things as realistic as possible (but not for the first couple of hours, I need to be able to see where I miss with torpedoes for the first few hours).
I have actually played SH4 and SH5 for a few minutes, the graphics are nice, but somehow, the "immediacy?" of SH3 keeps drawing me back. I don't know how to explain it, but what I think I do know is that SH3 is an exceptionally good game, and I am very glad that I can play at this, rather than having to actually be a German submariner circa 1943.
I think if there are people in this world that I respect, it is them.
When I can survive a full game on 100% realism (it has not happened yet), I think I will feel that I have accomplished something.
Wassail.
Snjarulfr.
werwulf.