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Reply to Commander: Conquest of the Americas - first impressions? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Tried ... to download. Error. Error. Error. Main game has finally downloaded, but pre-order bonus content still erroring out. :(

Reply to "I would give you karma, but. . ." Game in Everything Else Stardock Forums

I would give you karma, but I already sold it to the devil.

Reply to Games that I miss in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

What!?! No mention of Master of Orion I & II!?

Reply to Breaking Alliances in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Weird how things go. I've often gotten "Culture" victories purely through conquest. Generally once I take a homeworld, most of the space belonging to that enemy becomes mine.

Reply to 3 Word Story in Everything Else Stardock Forums

cat produced hairballs

Reply to Why are the evil AIs so weak? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The Drengin were badly nerfed even worse. It seems to be their lack of focus/care for their economy ... they don't try to get it going, they fall way behind in research and tech and can't fund many colonies. It gets worse by the time you get to the last expansion because Stardock un-equalized the tech trees for all and gave the Drengin really shitty economy and research capabilities. I generally focus heavily on economy and research at the beginning and let other races get

Reply to What Did You Play this Weekend? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I binged on Master of Orion II. :P

Reply to did you love homeworld/homeworld 2?? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

It is somewhat difficult for me to choose between Starcraft and the Homeworld series as my fav. I play Starcraft a lot more often, but that's because, even on Windows 7 64-bit, I can play Starcraft. Homeworld (and HW2) just doesn't work on any modern OS, and none of my systems that could play homeworld (the last of which ran Windows 2000) are operating anymore. I have two current computers: this laptop and my gaming rig. Both of these have multi-cores, and RAM an

Reply to iPad definitely a threat to Windows in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Apple refuses to compete with Windows. They easily could have, OSX was written to be OSX compatible ... but then Apple said no and decided they didn't want to try to offer an alternative to Windows. They've even gone so far as to sue anyone who builds x86 systems and sells them with purchased OSX installed. I'm no fan of Microsoft's shenanigans, but Apple's is even worse. Forced bundling with AT&T, whom I will never do business with, and refusing opportunity for people

Reply to Ubisoft Confronting Used Games Sales in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Before you know it, they'll lobby Congress to have selling and buying used DVDs considered a felony. :/

Reply to My ignorance embarrasses me in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I agree with others - Show & Tell on Youtube! :P

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I actually like Epic. I was a fan of their games since their "Potomac Computer Systems" days and ZZT, heh. Haven't played one of their games since the 1990s though. I don't think there were many games more moddable ever in the history of PC gaming than ZZT. Yeah, yeah, I'm a dinosaur.

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Frogboy: Woohoo for any alternative to IE. :)

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Frogboy: Given your acknowledgement of Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior, using its deep pockets to under-price its product to eliminate competition (like OS/2) then, when they've destroyed competition, to then start dictating prices and terms ... I wonder why Stardock seems bent on helping it further this by using IE as a basis for Impulse instead of Firefox, Opera or another browser?

Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

I think I suggested this awhile back, but don't remember exactly and don't feel like reading through the hundred+ pages in the thread, so ... Techs are just too convoluted -- seemingly both from a playing standpoint and from a coding standpoint. There seems to be an intentional comical/cartoonish aspect of GalCiv versus, say, Master of Orion ... but still, given some of the tech descriptions, it seems those who built the tech database just got bored making the entries and coming

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

loose != lose

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="24" id="2616287"] No, hypocrite, I maintain that I will feed my family before the world. This I proudly proclaim without any remorse or regret. With the plenty I have left over, I will help those who are hungry outside of my family, but my family comes first. [/quote] No one has asked nor told you to feed anyone. What you demand is to deny anyone else an opportunity to feed their families so that you have the exclusive, supe

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

[quote who="Audiafox" reply="14" id="2615995"] I suppose you also believe the Civil War was fought over slavery? Bzzzt, wrong. Good old Abe Lincoln couldn't have cared less about slavery. In fact, most of the US didn't care about it either. The Civil War was fought because the South was protesting against the government trying to pass laws on them (outlawing slavery) when it was not supposed to be in the power of the government to force such a thing on the

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

As is common, unfortunately, the mob tirade is against liberty. When the mob is arguing that the federal abolition of slavery was illegal and unjust, there is simply no way for me to make any constructive arguments. When you declare you have superior rights because of your noble birth versus other unworthy folk who may not be allowed to earn a wage to feed ther family, you have zero claim to any belief in freedom, liberty or justice for anyone and, in fact, you are an enemy to e

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I like Impulse. I can turn Impulse completely off and still game.

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="9" id="2615753"]You're right. Let me correct that: Nice crock of feces, there. [/quote] Rewording the same wrong statement does not correct it.

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

[quote who="Audiafox" reply="8" id="2615706"] This isn't history repeating itself. Being against illegal immigration isn't because we're racist, it's because if Mexico were to come into the US there would be zero jobs left for native-born US citizens who want them. That wouldn't be fair. I, for one, don't want to have to move to South America just to find work because South American citizens + outsourcing snatched up every available job.[/quote] I

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

Nice foulmouth and dismissal of history repeating, there.

Reply to JOBS ILLEGALS WOULDN'T DO in Misc Stardock Forums

Illegals ... first it was free black men, then anyone with Japanese ancestry, now hispanics and anyone wearing a beard. If the United States is to be a supremacist state, then it deserves to be wiped off the face of the planet. Bigotry and fascism disgusts me no end. When you feel it is a crime for someone tobe allowed to work to feed their families purely because of their race or what side of a political boundary they were born, there is somethign seriously wrong w

Reply to Remembrance for fanboys of yesteryear in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Drug dealers did not invent this tactic.