Maggie's Farm

A 'simulation', or sim, is a computer game that mimics every aspect of real life.  Silent Hunter 4 places you inside a U.S. attack submarine smack-dab in the middle of World War II.  Everything about the sub (and its enemies) is true to reality; the time it takes to dive, to surface, to get up to speed, to stop, the turning radius, torpedo speeds, reloading time; everything.

Luckily, there's a speed-up option so you don't actually have to sit there staring at the computer screen for eight days while you cross the Pacific Ocean.  You'll see the speed-up used in a few places in the following video.  It's to note that this video is mostly comprised of scenes taken directly from the game, most using the 'external camera' view.  Click on the little symbol on the player's tool bar and watch it in full-screen mode.

But first, John Milton's 'On Time'.

Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,

Which is no more then what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross;
So little is our loss,
So little is thy gain.

For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd,
And, last of all, thy greedy self consum'd,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss,
With an individual kiss.

And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,
When everything that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love
Shall ever shine
About the supreme throne.

Of Him, t'whose happy-making sight alone
When once our heavenly-guided soul shall climb,
Then all this earthy grossness quit,
Attired with stars, we shall forever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance,
And thee, O Time.

And now the intro.

Admittedly, that's not your average game intro.

But, then, it's not actually a 'game', is it?  It's a sim.

In a game, you win or lose.

In a sim, you win or die.

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