I've voted; not sure about the other members. Presumably, ElWhop0 has Yes I did vote. As for an empire image, hmm I like to do simple stuff. I need motivation though. I'm such a sensitive artiste! If a simple pic is needed, I could try and do something, if I had an idea to work with. The scrooge toon pic is so cute tho! I like it!
Humanists believe that HUMANS are more important than god(s) are, I do not think you are a Humanist. I dunno ... sometimes I think we (Humans) just made up Gods as a way of explaining the unexplainable, but that's not what a lot of other people believe. Everyone needs something to believe in. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone else or violate others' rights, I pretty ambivalent as to what others believe. Just got done talking to one of my neighbors who
I d say he's closer to Machiavelli's ideal prince is IMHO Machiavelli's prince didn't start out as a prince, he had to be put through the wringer, as we all must if we are going to grow and fulfill at least a part of our amazing potential. You seem to be bordering on suggesting 'good&evil' dichotomy ... fortunately there is no such thing. That dichotomy is a fantasy-myth in itself. Re-reading your post ... mythos v. pure fiction ... hmmm. I wonder if a r
Satan by the way is often described as the first humanist. Hmmm... well, seeing as how most of what I've heard is a bunch of whining cheating losers blaming everything they do wrong on something else, I'm not sure that applies. I consider myself a Human, but satanzes have a real hard time managing to hang around me very much. Makes them uncomfortable and edgy ... besides, I kicked the Devil's azz (that wuss) right off the ****** planet! Now it talk
Since my personal religion doesn't allow use of drugs or alcohol, and not even medicines unless they are A. homeopathic. or B. justified by a real need to assist my body to heal because nothing else will work; all I can say is - I'm glad to hear someone say Canadians are not frantic about things! I agree!
Also Paul is an outsider as well, OBL is not. This is a point I thought about bringing up myself. Paul is not a fremen, he's a member of the other side who is dissatisfied. After all, he's a good guy, and youthful, and idealistic. Perhaps he sees the Universe from a fresh perspective, and what he sees doesn't make sense. The connection that he is forced into (by fate or whatever) is turbulent and difficult to manage, yet he does quite well. A respectable ro
ever tried downhill ice plant surfing? hint: use an old board. Nope. Tried to imagine it though. Ice plants must have some kind of waste pile, and it probably gets pretty big. [thinking] Does a new board make an unacceptable dent compared to an older more flimsy one, when it comes into contact with the skull? Absinthe. Anyone ever hear
Why is that? I mean if somone asks "how do you auto launch ships" it is simple to answer. But if somone asks "is there a God" well it is a tad more complicated don't you think? Perhaps.....but thats a noob question. Imagine if every noob started a god thread. Galciv2.com would be renamed to Galciv2.god! Much easier to just activate the built-in commo gear already in place...it's even faster than thought!
Check out Lois McMaster Bujold. She's won three Hugos for science fiction novels (and one for her fantasy) Just finished reading "Paladin of Souls" ... prety good read. I'm a little confussed by the list of books the publisher has on the back of the front cover tho. It lists 19 books, but they don't seem to be in order. The front cover of the book advertises the author as being a multiple award winner for writing the book that is listed after the one I read. Maybe
Check out the options menu. If in the game, try esc, then look for a checkbox like "keep stuff on ships when upgrading" (forgot the actual wording and too tired to look it up) Cheers!
In the end I can't really remember that an AI declared war on me directly after me refusing such an "offer", so it doesn't really matter. I suspect there is some kind of memory of a refusal involved. The only ones that declare war are the ones I have refused, though it may be a few turns later (can't remember either). I did pretty much prove one theory I had though ... if you have the diplo skills, 90% of the time it's possible to turn around
I don't drink alcohol anymore (just to let ya know I'm not current), but I do have some fond memories, which i will strain to dig up for y'all. "Alt" (usually dark) beers in Germany - Schlosser was one I think. Schlosser Alt. A good alt beer and a schnitzel (there must be 50 different kinds) will put some meat on those bones fast! Then there were the beer mixers (also in Germany[Berlin]) of half sweet medium (I call it blonde, don't remember a name)/half guinness. Smashing! Ah
I mean countless parents have had sex and I didn't result then right? Surely there is a better argument? I'm not certain that I'm not the result of millions of 'random recombinations' of dna. In that sense we are all the children of everyone that ever had sex, including the first enterprising sea-slugs. There's nothing wrong with that, but I might add that if someone were to take the self-centered view, it would be easy to assume(probably a mistake) they
"We can all hang together, or we can all hang seperately" -Thomas Jefferson I believe that this is a Ben Franklin quote. Yep it is and it goes "We all must hang together, or assuredly we shall hang seperately" The "cans" just ruins the flavor of the quote. Though mayhaps Jefferson was misquoting Franklin. Thanks! I was just worrying I had misquoted. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smil
"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." --Dan Hirschberg I d say Atheism is more like losing the pigmentation of the hair, and we call that color gray! Listen to songs like "Imagine" and you see just how religious they become. When is the last time anyone here listened to Jimi Hendrix "All along the Watchtower" ? "There must be some kinda way outta here, said the Joke
... Bud Light doesnt need a patch. I respectfully disagree on that! If U.S. beer-makers hadn't "lobbied $congress$" to put so many restrictions on imports, and kept a lot of people in ignorance of what real beer is like, they wouldn't be lusting after water with artificial beer flavoring that some slutty commercial pushed off on them ... imho. If you'd ever been to a German gasthaus, you would know what beer is!
buddhist doctrine of shunyata. "Parable of the Raft (Alagaddupama Sutra), the means of crossing a river are of no more use when the goal of the other shore has been reached." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunyata] I hope I'll see you all, and Jimi (Hendrix), and a whole lot of other folks on the other side. It'll be great! I'll bring the ... well, I'll think of something. Who wants to bring the 'tater salad? <img src="http://images.stardock.com
Haven't we met somewhere before? Just wanted to ask, in the spurit of fun ... this membership drive doesn't have anything to do with The Gerontacracy steadily moving up, does it? MuWhaHaha! Good Luck! (seriously) I luv reading the different Empire threads. Lots of cool humor and fun. C'Ya L8r
any particular albums you'd suggest? I lumped all related works under the title of "Jefferson Starship" as a convenient general label. My personal preference is "The WORST of Jefferson Airplane" - There may be one or two worthwhile tracks on the other albums, but I have yet to be motivated enuff to sort through them diligently. I find that, allowing for all the many various extraneous influences on this group during their career, perhaps most of their music was n
Maybe we could smash open people's heads to see what's inside, but unfortunately, anyone stupid enough to resort to such desperate tactics wouldn't be capable of understanding what they found anyway; or else they wouldn't resort to violence in the first place. Monkey-magic does not work. thankfully, now we've invented MRIs, and so far they don't even cause tumors! i remember a quote from a neurologist who was studying mollusk ne
playing computer games and authoring computer programs even since I got my first computer a Franklin Ace 100 back in 1982! Wasn't that the one where you typed in programs from that magazine, what was it ... or was that the radio shack model? I had a Franklin something in 1983 and did some Basic stuff once or twice. Tax spreadshhets worked out preety well. (heh heh) Brings back memories! Just so happens I'm getting more than 2 hours sleep these days. Six is mucho b
WoW, that's nice to know. I was thinking about getting Vista (not really) but now ... actually I lately assumed it does have to do with the sound drivers & the sound card & the system chips % the output device (speakers/headphones). I don't get any crackling on bf2142 or supreme commander since I got a decent sound card (better-than-walmart-stuff), and I never had any with galcivII, so I dunno? I remember reading that on-board sound mobo's often (not always) had some inconsistentcies due to how
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Try using the spies... when you place a spy (or start to) you see everything built on the planet. It takes time and patience, that's all. Send your ships out to scout the planets, buy some spies, and take notes. 'Voila! Tout que vous avez besoin est quelques imbéciles occupés simples qui feront n'importe quoi pour l'argent, et vous pouvez conquérir la galaxie !
The problem is that we can smash open the teachers skull and find a brain, yet we cannot smash open the sky and find a god. Ask the astronauts, they'll just tell you it's space outside of here. Reminds me of stories I heard, not saying they are true because I haven't verified them yet, about the things that happened to Mr. Einstein after his death. A large number of people were quite interested in examining his material legacy. According to one story
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When the computer can outwit, or throw a total surpise at the player, that game will get played over, for the what-will-it-do-this-time factor I noticed this - when I restarted a saved game three different times, every time the AI made different choices and pursued different courses of actions from what I assume was exactly the same start point. That was pretty refreshing, compared to a lot of other AI that would be lead-footed and predictable.