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I had dinner with Brent Spiner and Marina Sirtis. Marina is really nice in real life. Brent Spiner is okay, but...let's say he is definitely the right guy for his role as an android. Brent thought Will Riker and Patrick Stewart were both a little headstrong to work with, but Patrick was supposed to be, as the captain (William Shatner can be more than a little headstrong, too). I mentioned to Marina that I thought it was a little stupid

I like Two and a Half Men before Charlie Sheen left. And The Office before Steve Carrell left.

That's two Big Bang Theories.

What you described for Terminator and Firefly is exactly how I felt about the first Battlestar Galactica. I'm going to go with Big Bang Theory. Maybe not the genre you're looking for, but.... Hee hee--at work I just put together a computer network with a local DNS domain, and I decided to name all the hosts in the network after characters in Big Bang Theory. So somebody out there has a machine named "hofstadter" and "wolowitz". A

Plymouth is basically the Detroit metropolitan area.

Let's go to Detroit and demand Galciv3. Occupy Stardock movement. Bring your sleeping bags. And your laptop--I want to play some Sins while we're there.

The Civ V expansion (Gods & Kings) is bringing religion back. Should be on time for July 4th weekend.

Linux is already in the ARM market. Which is a contradiction of terms, really, when you consider that at Linux's inception it was, by definition, Unix on x86. No matter...Linux is in the ARM market with or without Microsoft, and if I'm Microsoft I don't want that to just go unchecked. Just like they have been trying to put Intel in check for quite some time now. Intel did it to them first--it is Intel who invested so many millions in their own Intel Develop

I can't remember the exact aspects he didn't like, but he did say before that GC2 is not a classic, but WOM is. Obviously the marketplace disagrees. That's got to be tough when what you like in a game and what the rest of the world wants are two different things. IMHO some aspects of the economy were a little screwy. I didn't care, personally--it's a game. Things like the population had no bearing on the productivit

Hello, it's outer space. Space is 3D. Galaxies aren't exactly laid out in pretty flat 2-dimensional grids. Stars go up, down, sideways.... If anything has no logic to it, it's laying out outer space in 2 dimensions.

I'm not positive Kumquat would work for the kind of 3-D map Galciv3 would most likely be. Galciv3 would probably be closer in look to Sins of a Solar Empire. You can see in Sins that it had to have been originally designed for truly 3-D maps, and then they had to scrap it and go 2-D (but leave the 3-D graphics engine in). I would be very surprised if anyone architected Galciv3 and did not intend it to have truly 3-D galaxies. At least, in the very early

Market research studies have shown that 100% of all applications not developed yet have no customer base.

I will argue yes, it matters to mainstream developers now. But I'll admit it hasn't hit the marketplace en masse yet. The wave hits the developers before it hits the end consumers.

How is Stardock's bias with people from Ohio?

I have faith in Blizzard. They haven't put out duds. Doesn't mean I will be buying it on release date, but I'm confident that whatever happens it will be good. Also D2's MP supported locally-hosted games where everybody cheated anyway. D3 will probably have servers where people who want to play differently can do their thing.

The best support I know of in competitive gaming supposedly is a jock strap, but I never understood that. A jock strap doesn't do squat. You need a cup.

Anything good for the dog's teeth I'm all for. I do raw beef soup bones. My stinker absolutely loves those. A little too much, in fact--he growls me off whenever I get too close...to the soup bone that I just gave him. :D LOL I had the vet do my dog's teeth while anesthetized once, and that was at the same time he got stitches from a bigger dog biting him anyway. I just hate having him sedated. </p

My yorkie can't eat necks. Chicken and turkey necks, absolutely not. The bones will get stuck in the throat. No big loss--not much meat on them, anyway. Beef necks are safe for him to eat, but they just don't work. It's like eating a lobster bare-handed. Hearts all all kinds, though, are totally awesome. But there are those big strips of fat you need to cut off. Dogs don't handle fat too well.

Definitely should have been an alien race in Galciv2.

Are there articles or something somewhere where Jon Shafer shares his thinking behind the design of Civ V? I've heard many reasons behind 1UPT and hexes, but I'm thinking in terms of modding. Well at least besides the mod where I gave myself access to Giant Death Robots in the ancient age. :) I won deity that way. Now I want to do a new civilzation, the Playhouse. Barney the Dinosaur is the leader.&n

[quote]because you're not experienced or intelligent enough to grasp the games fundamental flaws[/quote] First off, I am no longer a noob. I have beaten Immortal. Second, calling someone not intelligent enough to understand a game is openly insulting, and I'm going to ask nicely this once that you retract that.

Windows is not a given. You can install Linux on it for free. And from there you can do things like VMWare or wine to emulate Windows from Linux. You also have the option later to install them both and give yourself the choice at boot-up which you want to use (that's called grub). But this assumes you know what you are doing--you just may be a software guy rather than a hardware guy. The pros and cons of Linux vs. Windows are

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Firaxis just announced their Civ V expansion's release date today. June 19, I believe. Diablo III is in mid-May, Civ V is in late June. It'll be interesting to see how it all times with Elemental:FE.

IMHO, the whole "you're a noob, so you're not qualified to speak to the game" is a cop-out, anyway. If someone said, "I have logged 600 hours on Steam playing Civ V, and I can say with authority that Civ V sucks," then what would people say? How much expertise do people tend to acquire in games they don't like?