How could I've missed this?

"People play campaigns in Dungeons & Dragons in the real world that last for years. We could do that with 64-bit. We couldn't do it with 32-bit because you can't make the landmass that big -- that's been a big memory limitation," he claimed. "If someone wants to play a game that lasts for three years, who are we to stop them?"

First, I wish I had a roleplaying group. Second, that. Sounds. Bloody. Awesome. Of course, three years for a single game is a bit long, but having such an epic game that it feels like you're going region-to-region on an actual globe, building a full empire the size of the Roman Empire (or the Mongol Hordes!).

@Luckmann - Wow. There was even a thread on the topic to boot.

[hits him over the head with a very large trout]

Actually that goes: "Let sleeping pegasi lie."

I thought it was "let sleeping pegasi fly".

Horses can sleep standing up, some birds can sleep while flying. Think about it

Ach, you're right of course.

How shamefull of me to get the pronoun wrong, so:

Let sleeping pegasi fly.

Finally might get some good usage out of my 64-bit Athalon!  Good to hear.