Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
and not evil minded. One of his more bizarre character traits is that
he prefers simulations as a surrogate for real life;

I know quite a few people who use simulations as a surrogate for
real life, and not necessarily by choice but for the simple
reason that real life is not physically accessible to them; we
don't know anything about this guy (and about most other
participants to newsgroups for that matter)...

besides I have a natural tendency to root for the underdogs rather
than the mob, but may be is it just me :-)

--Sylvain