# Brown out!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445
**Category:** random
**Created:** [April 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445 "2003-04-16T20:14:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Alex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/1 "2003-04-16T20:14:54Z")
Ah, i hate when this happenes!! i was working in flash, and i finally made something cool, and the power shut off. I lost it now, its not even stormy weather here either. its 4:00 and early summer and we are already loosing power.
its sorta a common thing around these parts, everyone has central air conditioning, so that makes it more likely for a brown out.
i hate it!!!:-\ :pirate: :hat:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/2 "2003-04-16T20:29:09Z")
you don’t live in California do you?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/3 "2003-04-16T20:30:16Z")
nope, good ole MA. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/4 "2003-04-16T20:30:32Z")
why don’t you call it black out? I never heard the term brown out before.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/5 "2003-04-16T20:42:07Z")
these college dorms could surely use some d\*\*amn air conditioning now that it’s getting hot.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/6 "2003-04-16T20:44:45Z")
my brother has a fan, it has 3 speeds, slow, tropicle storm, and tornado. thats what he calles it.
i bet that the top of the dorm is the hottest. they must be dying . 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/7 "2003-04-16T20:45:20Z")
a black out is when all the power shuts down. a brown out is when certain parts of a grid shute down, due to a shortage of surplus electricty. Not exactly a black out, so hence the term brown out… C’mon, you’ve never played Sim City??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/8 "2003-04-16T20:47:04Z")
who cares, it got my point across.
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/9 "2003-04-16T20:49:37Z")
> \*Originally posted by Majeye \*
> \*\* C’mon, you’ve never played Sim City?? \*\*
Yet another great fact of life learned from playing one of the best games ever created 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/10 "2003-04-16T20:50:35Z")
no… I need to go play that right now. hehe.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/11 "2003-04-16T21:21:23Z")
> \*Originally posted by SureShot \*
> \*\*Yet another great fact of life learned from playing one of the best games ever created 🙂 \*\*
yap really **good** game 🙂 I’ve played all the Sim City versions. Which one do you like more? hem I think that SC2000 was maybe the best, it had no cool effects and so but I spent months playing it 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/12 "2003-04-16T21:29:40Z")
I like the newest one the best number 4. The graphics and the things you can do are amazing. Fantastic Game.
You have to have a pretty good comp and video card though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/13 "2003-04-16T21:34:40Z")
We had a brown out in Sarnia too, first really hot day.
Because of it, the plants released some fumes or whatever, and the wind brought them downriver. There was a ‘stay inside or have the chance to puke your lungs out’ blanket warning over the city.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/14 "2003-04-16T21:37:11Z")
wow, that’s kind of serious. that’s why you have to place all your Dirty Industry away from the Residential areas. :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/15 "2003-04-16T21:38:55Z")
SureShot-
hm… yeah I like SC4 too. My computer’s stats are really poor (Duron700, 128MB, 32MB video), but I was playing it normally, with the lowest options of course but anyway it wasn’t lagging and I enjoyed playing it 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/16 "2003-04-16T21:54:14Z")
The plants and everything else made this city very very rich. The living conditions here are fabulous, with the exception of the occasional accident such as that one.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/17 "2003-04-16T22:03:12Z")
I live very close to Sarnia and have a good friend who lives in Ptown. I heard all about that “black cloud of death” on the radio - pretty \*\*\*\* scary if you ask me. I was in Sarnia last summer and noticed that by the plants it really really stunk. I wonder if you get used to that smell.
As for the living conditions - if you dont live near the plants and such the place is amazing. Very nice area.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brown-out/18445/18 "2003-04-17T18:33:18Z")
Here’s a tip…Save as you go.
jt