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(Subtitle: What's wrong with navigating space sims today?)

At this point, it's hard to imagine someone not having played a space sim at some point. Whether it's the pithy original Wing Commander, or the venerable X-Wing and Tie Fighter games, or the more modern Descent:Freespace titles, we've all at least seen them, and most of us have done our best to break a joystick or two (I killed one playing Freespace... A Wingman Warrior, too!) dodging enemies.

You may have noticed that just about every game today is done in three dimensions. Even card games have cute little shadow effects. These days, form is seen as just as important as function everywhere; Take a look at a Ram truck sometime.