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[quote who="Sethai" reply="21" id="2961593"]... What about a simple fund through which western countries offer cash in return for sterilisation? No one loses their rights through that: if people choose the status quo then fine, if they choose to make use of it then it's a transfer or wealth to where it is needed. Ie, a carrot rather than a stick. This is similar to how renewable energy subsidies work and there are many other paralells.[/quote]  First, there is a

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="19" id="2961507"]... It took the world a long time to get to where it is with it's problems, solving them will more than likley take as long. As far as violence, most folks are resistent to change over a short period of time.[/quote]  I've read a lot of history and I basically agree with you here. Except that people can be damned surprising at times. When I came out in the early '80s, I could never have imagined that before

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="13" id="2961475"]It might if I had any idea what alternative lifestyle you were talking about. ...[/quote]  I'm pretty sure he's using outdated slang to refer to homosexuality. If you buy the Kinsey scale, which I mostly do, then it's true that perhaps half of the population has the potential remain exclusively homosexual, but that would take tremendous cultural change that would almost certainly entail lots of the violence

[quote who="Tridus" reply="11" id="2960656"]... What it should have been doesn't matter anymore. It is what it is today. ...[/quote]  Parent-frakking pragmatists. I hate y'all, not least because I so often end up being one myself. You really drove your point home with the MP talk. From the first days of the pre-beta boards, I disliked the fact that MP was part of the plan because I have zero interest in that sort of play. But I've re

Expecting global population control though our current international system does seem implausible, but cultures can and do change rapidly from time to time. But this one is probably harder than the civil rights struggles we in the U.S. have been going through since the 1950s. Outlawing porn would help nothing, and outlawing religion seems even more insane than wanting a world where civilized women can and do limit themselves to one or two children. As far as food aid goes, the problem

[quote who="Tridus" reply="9" id="2958566"]...It's half-baked AND not core to the gameplay. That combination is fatal. ...[/quote]  Your point is only valid if you accept that the dynasty system was always planned as some sort of decoration or secondary detail. To some of us who were with the beta well before the first version was released, dynasties were, conceptually at least, absolutely a core game play element. The only reason that they

[quote who="SwerydAss" reply="3" id="2956536"]Well lucky for us there is a Game of Thrones game but it will be an RTS ... It might be slow paced however. There are some pics and a video on gamespot. [/quote]  Oi. Mr. Martin definitely deserves a fat retirement portfolio, but RTS for Game of Thrones? That's a serious round-peg, square-hole mess. The business with the seasons being all vague and years-long puts long-term thinking f

The removal of the dynasty mechanics might be a good practical decision, but it killed all my 'game that makes me think of Game of Thrones' sentiments. Hopefully they'll return in an expansion and we can see a TBS game that lets us have units like Jaime Lannister, powerful on the battlefield and valuable in marriage negotiations.

[quote who="kaihonsou" reply="17" id="2955925"]This question confuses me. Will FE miss features that WoM currently has? If so, which features are cut? If none are cut, why is this being asked?![/quote]  Dynasties are cut , and not everyone who's been around since the beta is entirely happy with the decision. And the cutting 'major' things began before FE was in the picture--the decision to ditch Essenc

I wanted them gone from the first time I saw the 'card' things in the beta. The fact that most 'flavor' text was weak to annoying made it just a cleanup chore for me--very glad not to have to delete the stuff any more.

Clear the Allow Auto Login check box on the Gameplay tab of the Options dialog.

I sympathize with Tridus' take, but I'd prefer Stardock Central Redux for both the reasons Alstein lists and because I never wanted the 'store' version in the first place. A direct customer-producer connection just seems superior, even if it might not always be the most efficient way of doing business.

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="20" id="2939629"]... It'll be revisited, but we wanted FE to be a solid base, and for that the World, Magic, and Battles needed to be solidified first. ...[/quote]  Thanks, Scott; that's reassuring. I'm looking forward to the upcoming dev journal on FE magic.

This news is perhaps worse than seeing the demise, momentary restoration, and second demise of Essence as a stat/resource. It seems that the impressive new resource investments for the Elemental projects have not meant any change to the 'ditch our best ideas because implementing them is really hard' thing. What's the point of being an indie, labor-of-love dev shop if not to be able to work on the hard stuff and put off mass-market polish until you've got a seriously cool new t

Re Larson's original BSG (not 1980), the project wasn't entirely without some efforts at the kind of SF social thinking that made the original Trek so good for so many viewers. True, there was crass reaching for the family audience with that horrible robot dog and the annoying little boy. But there were little background touches like the polytheism that Moore paid much more attention to and the legitimate work role for the 'socialators' (geisha). They also tried to work the fe

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2933904"]First, the option is supposed to be a short term choice. ...[/quote]  What in the UI makes you think a player should understand this very important distinction? All the other options are permanent production bonuses that have long-term benefits. Are the newest players expected to know instinctively that 'free' units will eventually become obsolete? Despite the fact that the current UI makes that one short-term c

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="19" id="2933859"]... It's looking at the ip address for sure. [/quote]  How can an IP address give you a followed-link status? Are there any IPs that answer only to one URL these days? Could PaleMoon be looking at the same visited-URL list as IE does? I dump all that data so often that I've never noticed a cross-browser thing like that even though I often have two or three browsers working at once.

Tut-tut, psychoak. Neither you nor Mumblefratz are idiots; you're both just apparently angry men with a flair for rhetoric and a taste for combative typing. Mumble has vexed me sorely on many occasions when he used angry typing to argue for policy positions that I share. You vex me because I can't quite understand why you appear to care about civic participation while also having an abysmally low opinion of your fellow nekkid apes. What the fuck is up with that? Are you a clos

Thoumsin, it is the blood-as-porn thing that puts me off a bit in Spartacus, not the depiction of sexuality. Slo-mo gouts of blood are boring at best and basically icky wastes of screen time that could be spent on plot and character. Re the brutality in general, I appreciate shows that don't try to sugar-coat the past (HBO's Rome was awesome). Shame about the lead actor's illness derailing production, but maybe they'll get around to a series outside the ludus. Re the n

Aside: where did dowdyhoody's original draft go? I read something like what Dsaraider quoted. I can read a minor correction to his/her reply 8 with the View Edits function. But reply 3 has no View Edits button despite showing different text. Is this a forum code bug someone should report to GungslingerBara?

kenata's onto a very important point in reply 66. It isn't really peak oil that's the greatest problem. The more important 'graph' is the intersection of spiking population and spiking automation in a world where the mega-corp market/culture still pretends to respect consumers as citizens when it in fact treats them as something much closer to the commodities they consume than as fellow human beings.

Primeval? Gah. It's an exemplar of the bad influence US TV can have on UK TV. Even worse with the subbing CGI for real creativity problem that Merlin has with its dragon, and smothered with a generous helping of mediocre acting and crappy writing. Shame, that. The premise and general story arc really had potential, but the pablum-quality end product made it unwatchable for me--and I watch some really weak stuff in the name of an interesting story line. The UK Being Human is not ex

I've seen most of series 1 and the beginning of series 2. I keep watching in hopes that it will somehow 'catch' or 'hit its stride' or something. The acting is adequate, but too many of the stories seemed obviously formulaic and the lack of serious long-term story arcs is very vexing for me. Sometimes I think I keep watching because Anthony Head is laughing all the way to the bank while he waits for someone to give him a better gig. Or maybe I'm waiting for Uther to pr

[quote]Based on the mind numbingly awful campaign, it'll be that chick who rules Pariden. [/quote] Procipinee isn't Fallen, she's human, she rules a Kingdom, not an Empire. I wanted the game to have an ethical framework that connected to the metaphysics behind things like restoring/polluting lands. Lately, I'm wondering if I'd rather see Empires and Kingdoms dumped completely, as you suggest. Maybe not. My core complaint about 'the good vs. evil problem' is that it really neve

[quote who="luketan" reply="55" id="2908814"]Looks like it is back.[/quote] Maybe not. It was on Brad's v1.3 running log when he first posted it, but it's gone from the OP now and there's no comment from a dev about the deletion that I could find.