Scoutdog

Scoutdog

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Reply to EA: "all our games" will have microtransactions [retracted] in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="19" id="3328002"]Considering iirc the original statement only said they have the ABILITY to do microtransactions in all their games, I wouldn't call it a retraction. Just a poor initial choice of words.[/quote]Good point. It still doesn't exactly sound like a good thing (why put in the ability to make microtransactions if they aren't going to bilk people?), but it's not as disastrous as I suspected.

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Reply to Your Political Compass in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Kamamura_CZ" reply="145" id="3326809"]Might be an interesting person, then. I would surely like to drink a bottle of vodka with him... or three.[/quote]Well, he worked as a budget adviser for the Democratic Party back in the 70s (or was it the 80s, I can't remember). He also fancies himself something of an amateur military historian, and just wrote a book called Soldiering On In a Dying War about mutiny in Vietnam. I'm by no means a military expert, but I still th

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[quote who="Kamamura_CZ" reply="142" id="3326736"]Political Comminternpass Help! I may be a commie!!![/quote]Or my dad. I remember he literally scored right at that spot. Or left at that spot, I suppose.

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[quote who="Admiral_Kiernyc" reply="92" id="3326146"]Well I guess what I am saying is that don't condemn every single atheist just because these evil mass-murderers were atheists. Seems like this thread is deviating[/quote]Actually, I'm surprised it remained civil for as long as it did!

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Reply to Your Political Compass in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="77" id="3326096"]Hitler and Stallin were atheists. [/quote] Correct. There have been a number of authoritarian governments lead by atheist leaders that attempted to remove organized religion from their areas of control. I suppose the quoted poster should have said "A purely Authoritarian government would impose the religion of the majority (or the dictator ) (or lack thereof) ".

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[quote who="Nichtganz" reply="70" id="3326036"]Just because someone is Agnostic doesn't mean they're religious. There are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists. Agnostic atheists believe that divine creation is unlikely and most likely didn't occur but aren't going to go around tooting their horn about it because they believe in the burden of proof (Id est. the scientific process). Unfortunately in conservative America you run into predominantly Gnostic Theists. [/

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Reply to forum 'ban game' two in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned because I learned about that function my junior year in high school. I don't think I've had one interesting math course in college thus far. [e digicons]XO[/e]

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Reply to Your Political Compass in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="67" id="3326027"]how? I'm agnostic and I'm right of center.[/quote]In general religious people tend to be more conservative. You strike me as pretty pure libertarian, which having been an anarchist myself through most of junior high (don't ask!), I can understand. I also suspect that the "left/right" section deals solely with social issues, while economic liberalism/conservatism is simply called "authoritarian/libertarian

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Reply to forum 'ban game' two in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for e ^ ix. (This is a cool function. It's contained entirely in the real plane and produces a sinusoidal wave dispite containing no trigonometric elements!)

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Reply to How good is strategy game AI? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Fenix34" reply="37" id="3325894"]Pretty much like attempting to solve a math problem by plugging in every possible answer until the right one is found.[/quote]That is, in fact, exactly what the algorithm does.

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[quote who="DsRaider" reply="35" id="3325750"]Yes but in theory it's a economic question not a political one as central banks are totally apolitical. In theory this question has an actual scientific answer, although there is argument over what it is. Also it's not one most people would understand. Making Keynes left wing and Friedman right wing is a gross oversimplification that distorts their theories. Both use scientific arguments and these should not be viewed through a political l

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I remember these! We did them in my senior year political science class, so I brought the link home to my parents. It was a bit odd, really. Whenever we talk politics, they both consider me the leftist of the family. However, when we did the test I ended up as about two squares more conservative than either. EDIT: It didn't surprise me

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