I am very sceptical about new sequels to old games in general. I was excited by Fallout 3, Elemental as new Master of Magic, about Battle for Kronos (Battle Isle new adaptation), Disciples 3, Master of Orion 3, Desperados 2, X-COM, etc, etc. Most of them were disasters. The vision and style of the original teams can seldom be replicated, and imitation often yields poorer results than coming with something new.
Well, even if you have cancer, you don't have to panic - especially if you are not aware of its seveity and impact. Peak oil is one of the major causes of the factual bankruptcy of the US financial sector in 2008, and subsequent global economic crisis that grows more severe every year. Recent contribution from industry veteran - former BP geologist: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013
My first game ever was Manic Miner on ZX Spectrum.
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="8" id="3428170"] Gimli was a kid in the Hobbit 2. That was his dad. It was in the conversation between his dad Legalos.[/quote] And Legalos was a promising young lawyer that was sent to the tenants of Barad Dur with vacation orders. Back in those days, he was not afraid to deliver a few "cease and desist" notes of his own making.
The OP builds on a false premise - that there is a common interest to solve the problems of todays world. That is patently false, if we wanted an egalitarian, just society providing reasonable livehood for most people, we could have one. Instead we have neoliberal capitalism that maximizes the advantage of accumulated capital and its motto is "Winner takes all". The current unjust, wasteful and destructive global system was not created by accident, but by deliberate desi
[quote who="psychoak" reply="1108" id="3417071"] NASA doing a 180 on the climate of the US inside two years is simple historical fact. If you wish to find a better explanation than retrieving some of their rapidly shrinking funding, have at it. [/quote] There is actually a very simple explanation. Unlike in political or religious circles, you can deny facts and their implication only so long before you lose all credibility as a scientist. And even the most
[quote who="uberlicker" reply="35" id="3392715"] I'm passing on Dom4 anyway, not just because the UI is annoying, but because I still don't think the micromanagement will be improved enough to suit me.[/quote] I have skipped Dom4 too, after being sorely disappointed by COE3. From what I have seen, Dom4 is just Dom3 with a few touches here and there, all the fundamental flaws included. Controlling huge empires is a pain, I remember spending several hours
" Now some researchers have revealed startling evidence that an Ice Age can be triggered in under 10 years." Yeah, really, I mean seriously. "Some researchers" without providing a reference. Please, familiarize us with scientific papers published on the topic.
psychoak - You can stop running in circles right now by accepting the recent scientific findings and educating yourself. Performing leaps of logic to save some refuted political dogma solves nothing.
I recommend to the participants of the discussion to familiarize themselves with the scientific peer review process. It's not so easy to "skew data" in line with your political propaganda, certainly not as easy as on your local Tea Party gathering. Well, you can try, and many people tried in the past, but the result is usually huge scandal and loss of professional credibility of said scientist. Scientific data and findings, unlike political propaganda, are verifiable. And mo
[quote who="psychoak" reply="1078" id="3416748"] CO2 is a greenhouse gas, true, but the atmosphere is not a greenhouse. [/quote] That's why Venus has higher surface temperatures than Mercury despite being farther from the sun... because of the greenhouse gases of its dense atmosphere. Right.
I will just post links: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/09/22/as-chinas-largest-typhoon-strikes-evidence-of-human-caused-climate-change-mounts/2/
One year later, the problem has been actually noted by the manufacturers, and the offer of flicker-free monitors is growing! Tftcentral is kind enough to manage a database of flicker free monitors, and examines the backlight of all reviewed monitors with great care: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/flicker_free_database.htm prad.de also provides detailed information aboujt backlight qualit
Sorry to say, but your reactions are really proving my original premise rather than refuting it - the defensive, flock behavior, the attempts to interpret my contribution as a personal attack, the tactic of making the question a political, moral or religious issue. Some people even go as far as mentioning the Oregon petition, which was not really relevant even by the time it was signed (1998), much less 15 years later, as some of the people who signed it admit themselves. But t
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="1" id="3380740"] There are various causes for "bad sectors" on a hard drive.[/quote] This is actually an incorrect statement. There are various reasons for file system errors, but the term "bad sector" is reserved for a portion of the disk that has permanently lost its capability to store and retrieve data, see the following definition: A bad sector is a sector on a com
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="209" id="3386204"] I'm skeptical on AGW and I'm neither misinformed nor ignorant. [/quote] Then you must know something world's climate scientists do not know, and in that case, I urge you to rush forward and publish a paper about your findings.
You need to go to other games for that, like Europa Universalis series, or Crusader Kings.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="204" id="3386155"] There are plenty of highly intelligent and well educated people on BOTH sides of the Global Warming 'fence'. [/quote] Intelligent? Highly educated? Well, that's a subjective evaluation, but one thing is certain about the climate change deniers - they are either misinformed, or have difficulties accepting facts they do not like. Because in scientific world, there is no controversy, no debate, no "fenc
I think global warming is progressing quite nicely. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/17/boston-preparing-for-higher-seas-more-flooding-from-climate-change/RJyczlbeDPUXx6wBjNDRsK/story.html
He dared to attack and shatter one of the essential pillars of the Sheeple Complacency: "Trust the Experts, and they will keep you safe and well." He did it so blatantly and obviously that he could no longer be just ignored or ridiculed or disgraced by the duty-minding press. He threatened the profits, he treatened the order, so someone in power actually bothered to lift his hand and remove this bothersome piece from the chessboard. The game, howe
I thought the Urquan Masters remake of SC2 is good enough.
Nothing like a properly frightened society - ready to run screaming like a well trained dog. Meanwhile, "innovators" like Mosanto have been quietly poisoning your food, land, air and water, and who gives a damn? Nobody. Even Coca Cola has killed more than all terrorists combined via diabetes and obesity-related problems, but if it does not look like a threat, well, it's probably nothing. Meanwhile - a bomb - whoooo, scary thought. And even though some of us
What is scary is the way how the single remaining empire can bully every state willing to offer asylum to Snowden. I guess that the myth about the "land of the free" is finally dying.
If you want to see a mature, configurable UI, go play some Paradox game running on recent version of the Clausewitz engine, like Crusader Kings 2. Discussions whether to hold players hand are not very relevant - the player should be able to configure how and when he wants to be informed about what specific types of events. FE UI has some horribly designed elements, depending on obscure dots and little circles that are not very well explained. Even proper unit selection in a group is a painful
America has advanced Stalin's doctrine farther than he himself would ever think possible. He would have been proud.