CornhuskerMac

Reply to Less politics please in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ah, I see what you're saying, Wyndstar. Yes, that should not be filled up with too many non-game related sheit.

Reply to Less politics please in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Would it be possible to leave off-topic posts out of the recent threads category? But if you're hitting "recent threads", you're getting everything. You see more threads than when you go to the main GCII home site and hit "Everything". That has its advantages and its disadvantages. If you want to exclude the wider threads, then don't hit "recent threads".

Reply to The definition of treason in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Hope that answers your question. Yeah, OK. I just didn't buy your use of the Punic Wars as if you (or anyone, for that matter) knows now what happened then. If you read the sources closest to the events, you could make quite a mythological account of it. And it seems to me that you're doing just that by basing some argument designed to have relevance today upon such an historically flimsy notion as what Romans settled near the remains of Carthage

Reply to Please read this, you might find it worth while. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

OK, then I apologize as well. After this, I'm sure your posts will be more appropriately titled. Good luck to your empire, roamer!

Reply to Less politics please in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Easy solution: just don't look at any off-topic posts. However, look what you've done. You've posted this off-topic thread in GCII. That's more offensive than what you're complaining about!

Reply to Happy as hell? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Playing escaped convict meets the French maid. [shuddering] TMI

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

the "happy as hell" thread Evil, is that one that you posted? I'd love to see your list of what you're happy about Edit: Holy Cow, Dude!! I was just joking, but then I see you actually posted one! Well, I guess I'd better read it, then.

Reply to The definition of treason in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

After the new Carthage was built, would attacks on Roman soldiers have actually been an act of patriotism? If so, to what nation? There was no Carthage anymore, what it had been was completely and irreprably destroyed. OK, so I would like to hear your evidence from ancient sources. I've read all these Roman sources, so please enlighten me now. Do you really believe that you know what happened with Rome and Carthage? Please tell me that you've rea

Reply to The definition of treason in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

You forgot a very important part about the definition of treason. All of the above apply to members of a country. That is - working to overthrow one's OWN government is treason. When the Romans conquered Carthage, they were not committing treason, they were invaders. Someone FROM Carthage who HELPED the Romans conquer Carthage, would have been engaging in treason. Is English your first language? Under both British English and American English it is implicit in the conc

Reply to Grumpy as hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Yea um i think it has gone from a defiant battle against all odds to somthing more like watching a cat play with a helpless mouse - not my kind of thing. What part of it is a cat playing with a mouse? Because your response shows that you stopped quite abruptly in your viewing. What Sci-fi in a long time has been as good as BSG?

Reply to The definition of treason in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Torture? We are not hacking off peoples heads and the such. Humiliation is not torture. Humiliation is just extremely humiliating to some. Honestly, I know a woman who was a guard at Guantanamo. It's as bad as the New York Times reports. There is real torture there. And, unfortunately, there was even worse torture in Iraq. And, unfortunately, we gave people up to others who would torture more deeply than we would. And some of these peop

Reply to Please read this, you might find it worth while. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Whats so bad about the post? It took you less then a minute to read, not that long is it? Fair enough. But why force people to read it? I would have read it if it was about a new empire!!!!!

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I would rather have a President who does what he thinks right even if I think it is wrong (Bush) than a President who does what he thinks the public wants even if he thinks it is wrong (Hillary? EEEEEEEEKKKK!) No, I would rather have a president who is insane, and who does what I think is right. I would rather have a mentally deficient, incompetent bastard, who yet gives in to those who are giving him advice. I don't care AT ALL about a president'

Reply to Grumpy as hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Hey, do you guys in Australia at least get the latest Battlestar Galactica? It can't be all bad if you get that! BTW, I don't get it on TV, I always download it (here in the US).

Reply to The definition of treason in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Wade0448 is obviously a troll. Anyway, if you've seen the PBS Frontline documentary about how Rumsfeld was in charge of organizing the torture in Iraq, and then at Guantanamo, it would be less than human to say that the US is not an institution which supports and implements torture. Wake up! That's what the US does! Those who fight being tortured are the heroes, not those who torture. And don't even start about how I'm not for the troops. I have family who

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I quote Stephen Colbert. I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound — with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" borde

Reply to The High Command Hegemony in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

For the first time my computer was running "slow" as it took a while for it to process turns towqrds the end of the game. Ha! I get that on medium all abundant maps. That's what we get for playing on lower-end comps. But at least we can play this game with the right settings. Most new games these days are far beyond what my system could handle, and this game is so good that I can't complain about slow-downs.

Reply to Please read this, you might find it worth while. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Dude, your title is misleading. If you have a great empire to start, then put that in your title. I'm pissed that I now had to spend my time looking at this post.

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Yes i'm not entirely certain America is truely taking advantage in Iraq of what it learnt from the Vietnam war? What's most unfortunate is that many of those in the Bush cabinet were involved in the Vietnam War, and yet they seem to have learned nothing. They still think along lines such as, "If we give up, we lose." However, war doesn't work that way. It's often quite the best thing to give up. Vietnam was utterly beyond winning, and Iraq certa

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

As much as we like to think it was faught for slavery, it wasnt, the North had another plan for slavery it just didnt work. Even after the war in reconstruction the South stayed the same, it was only till the mid 1900 that some change actually happened. No, I've read extensively in the primary documents of the American Civil War. The North definitely did NOT have an alternative plan for slavery. In fact, most of the motivation for the no

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

hmmm how come America recovered from the civil war ok then? I bet if America had opposing Muslim factions during the civil war then it would be a shit can of a country today, just like Iraq. Yes, you're right, the American Civil War wasn't a religious fight. In fact, Christian churches tended to "crap out" by not supporting one side or the other. Was that a good thing? Would a Christian now be happy to know that his/her church didn't take a stand on s

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

it was the Muslims who, during the European dark ages, preserved the Hellenic culture and Aristotlian empiricism that eventually formed the basis of modern Western science. Absolutely. I've read Latin (medieval) translations of those Arabic texts which are 1) preserving Aristotle, and 2) commenting upon Aristotle with great profundity. Islam has the potential to think in as rational a way as the West, it's just that their political situati

Reply to Terran Surprise Attack! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I had some such thing brewing in a DA game recently. The Torians put troop transports in striking range of my planets while they were still friendly. I got worried and put fleets around for defense. Their diplomacy with me then went quickly south, so I attacked their transports/escorts before they had the chance to strike. Still, they were definitely planning something sinister!

Reply to AltMeta Class Beta in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks, Mumble, that explains it quite sufficiently for me. Yes, I'll at least peek at the manual next time.

Reply to AltMeta Class Beta in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

But beware, once you reach that lofty goal of top ten in your prefered class you better not take too long a rest because with those games decaying at 1/6th per month, you can fall back down as quickly as you rose. I'm sorry if I missed a discussion about this facet of the AltMeta, so take this as a comment from someone who doesn't know the reasoning behind it. I personally would like to be able to shoot for those who have made high scores,