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[quote]I fully agree C&C Generals was a good game after ZH. I just wish the modding options were more flexible to make it a great game.[/quote] It's give and take. Generals was one of the easiest games to mod and has a couple of great ones.

[quote]Yes. That was intentional. You can't be an existentialist if you feel your life is full of meaning. That's a true statement.[/quote] Erm, except that no, it's not. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Fanon, and Frankl, among others, disagree. Strongly. You're thinking of pessimism or nihilism, which often share existentialism's claims that the meaning of life or existence cannot be rationally found to have positive value (ie. meaning).

[quote]A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.[/quote] Interestingly enough, later versions of that dictionary (and other dictionaries) exclude any mention of Left/Right. They also tend to distance themselves from talk of the 'merging' of state and industry and tend towards talk of state organization/control of industry. [quot

That's one of the best strategy guides I've ever read. I still have an electronic copy somewhere.

[quote]Gee... I hope you don't go to see Star Wars... You may be awefully disappointed with all the environments which are a terrestrial forest (or a desert).[/quote] What exactly are you trying to suggest? [i]I[/i] wasn't awe-striken by Avatar. I was, the first time I watched Star Wars. There's not much room for argument. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that the difference is that Star Wars did what it did in an era in which no other film could come close (and wouldn't fo

To be fair, it's closer to 'strategy' then any other genre and the strategy games that have come out this year have been almost uniformly trash. Empire Total War, I'm looking at you.

Gelfling! Kill it!

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[quote]My rhetoric rant was probably as much about the faux-populist power of sciency prattle as anything else. But I definitely enjoy disrupting a conversation by proclaiming that the first European doctors were priests who didn't want to be bothered by much contact with a congregation. Ah, professional culture.[/quote] Yeah, I gathered as much from your comments on scientific discourse's need for a worthy jousting partner. I just try not to miss an opportunity to make fun of people

I think this is what I voted: 1. World of Warcraft 2. Halo 3. Half Life 2 4. Diablo II 5. Warcraft III I felt bad about putting three Blizzard games in the top five. The rest I don't remember.

From a couple of pages back... [quote]Doonesbury was never for kids. You might like it now, and you can get to an extensive (complete?) archive somewhere on the page for the daily strip. I don't have a sharp idea of Trudeau's personal politics and I don't want one, but the strip is a remarkable rendering of what I wish was the US 'mainstream' or whatever.[/quote] I read through the more recent strips and it seems very hit and miss. Sometimes the irony can be, well, a bit too s

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Smaller empires in Elemental have a magical advantage. Why should they have a research advantage as well? Even if this weren't the case, why should staying small and focusing on research be a viable strategy? Also, how would this work, exactly? Would population create negative research points? Would the rate at which population generates research points decrease?

Merry Christmas six hours early!

[quote]This will not be a commonly held viewpoint, having relatives that have gone through seminary, it's most definitely not held by the Baptist associations. I've read enough to guess it's not held by any major religious sect, but can't be sure on that.[/quote] I don't think it's that uncommon among upper- and middle-class progressives. A lot of people have issues with soteric salvation.

[quote]I don't read ID sites or evolution sites. I don't get my information from the internet. Have I read about evolution? I already stated that I have. I have read all of Darwin's writings. I pointed you to Stephen J. Gould. I read the book by those evolutionists that won a prize a while back (their work on the galapagos finches) - their names elude me at the moment. I've read more about evolution than anyone I've ever met, which in

[quote]Mumble, you seem like someone who would really enjoy reading God's Debris. It's fiction, he admits it's fiction, but it's a damn good read anyway.[/quote] I know this wasn't directed to me, but I'll bite. To be honest, I read through the bulk of the chapters and wasn't impressed. It's just a laundry list of Big Ideas, none of which, with the exception of the convoluted explanation reconciling religious and scientific explanations for the origin of the universe, are nove

Geez. Turn your head for a few days and the thread descends from a relatively tame discussion on the spelling of 's[b]k[/b]eptic' to a heated debate over mechanical evolution. Over/under on number of posts until Hitler is mentioned?

It seems like you can vote multiple times for the same #. It's also impossible to deselect.

[quote]I should also probably confess that I'm a non-recovering postmodernist and have never gotten over the etymology of the English word "fact" having Latin roots that mean "a made thing."[/quote] [e digicons]k1[/e] for this. And, well, more or less everything that comes before it. Out of curiosity, why do you reflexively use single quotation marks (but with the punctuation inside) but Americanized spellings?

[quote]Shards and mana are 2 different things.[/quote] This. Elemental is going to use a mixed system. Gold, mana, population, and prestige -- the resources currently implemented -- are all stockpiled. Shards aren't. Other resources are either going to use a limited stockpile system or a flow system. Personally, I'd prefer the latter for the sake of simplicity. Most recent TBS games use mixed systems. The exceptions are fantasy TBS's, which usually have fewer resources than no

[quote]I may get the diablo battle chest; but is the online community still thriving? I hear it is full of spam and people looking to cyber and crap.[/quote] It's a mixed bag. Blizzard is still committed to maintaining the game, though. Patch 1.13 is in beta right now.

Mana is stockpiled, it's just capped.

[quote]Systematically ignoring me? Interesting way of putting words in my mouth. I did ask that people respond to some of the specific qualifications I added, but only so that I could modify points in response and further hash out the conceptual backing for the flow system. Please don't bring the drama llama, because then I'd get all troll on you and things would get stupid. Stupider. Whatever.[/quote] Cheers. [e digicons]:)[/e] [quote]I disagree with you tha