Recent content by Lars_Domus

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. You too.

I got mine today. It's awesome, thank you! :)

No, I inferred that one could make such a conclusion without being mentally ill. Mostly the game developers say that they would like to have gone without DRM, or at least as unrestrictive DRM as possible, while the publishers force the issue. Your argument still might make sense, though, as I...

1) None that I know of. Or... Well, there's that one Prince of Persia game, but whether it can be defined as "recent" is a matter of debate. 2) Yes, why would I debate that? 3) I get that you want me to conclude that Civ V will have DRM... But... 2k has already confirmed that, so what is...

And I would agree with them. Good thing I didn't ignore the first two thirds of the post wherein you asked the question, then! Though I would have to see some research backing up your claim that people who think/thought that Civ V would ship without DRM are insane, I didn't address this...

You put out an open question as to what alternative to Steam people would suggest, and so I suggested the one I would most prefer. I never indicated that I thought it was an alternative that was likely to be used, nor that I had ever thought Civ V would forgo DRM. Whether or not we live in...

This question seems to have little relevance to the quotes that preceded it. Please elaborate or clarify.

Nothing. I suggest they use nothing at all.

Compulsory Steam? Yeah, you can count me out.

You might or might not have a point. Damnit, Jim, I'm a jurist, not an anthropologist! :p At any rate, don't you think it's just a tiny bit hypocritical to depict Genghis Khan's appearance very differently from how his descendants view him, while totally depicting the Roman leaders like we...

We're getting far off topic here, but I'll indulge you. Let's get a higher resolution picture of Civ IV Genghis, so we can get a closer look at him: (The first thing I notice is that his skin isn't "silky smooth" at all! Take that, Hypernova! :p) Next, let's look at how the...

Well I can't speak for Hypernova, but I took it to mean he though Genghis Khan was made to look more Caucasian in Civ IV. It's an antiquated term for peoples from western Eurasia and northern Africa. In the United States it's even been used to mean "white people" exclusively. Now...

Well, on one hand there's learning a lesson the hard way, on the other there's nominating oneself for a Darwin award :P

Hypernova: I think part of the problem here is that you use "cartoon" in a way that I don't understand. What do you mean to say is the difference between cartoons and caricatures? You point to distorted body part ratios in the Civ IV leaders, and I agree - but they're simply "grotesquefied"...

For Gandhi you've got a point, in as much that the Civ IV one has always annoyed me - he and Hatshepsut seem to have been done in a style that differs from all the other leaders. Anyone would still easily identify him as Mohandas K. Gandhi, though. As for Julius, the Civ III version looks...