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I think civilization series needs to rework its system of expansion, especially early on. I will briefly summarize it in these terms; - Early expansion from 4000 bc to roughly 1300 AD should be driven by population pressure and events largely outside the control of the player. - political...

You should try this one, Cleverbot. For instance, here is a mature conversation we had: Me: Suck my balls. Cleverbot: Oh I will. Me: Go ahead. CB: Mmmmm. Me: That's nice. CB: Knew you'd like it.

I've recently started playing civ again and obviously I got some ideas. One thing I've always found annoying about civilization is how utterly it revolves around cities. Cities are everything. Land isn't really populated, it's just inside a border projected by a city. Populations and their...

Someone probably has thought of this before, but it would be awesome to combine total war and civilization series into a single game with features from both series. Basically, the game campaign would act out like a civilization game. You'd start with a single settler (or equivalent start up) and...

So, what should I do? I haven't been able to participate in civfanatics offtopic for a while because my windows XP wont load, basically. :sad: It ceases and the screen goes black right after the XP splash screen and wont load from that point on, it simply remains black. It doesn't help...

By a congressional investigation, which found that ACORN has not broken any laws in the last five years. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/acorn-broke-no-laws/

And other awesome (US presidential) inauguration hats. I ran into this article on huffpo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/inauguration-attire-bring_n_155843.html

:lol: What a scumbag this Artur. But, what do you expect from these European "nativists"?

Well, this is funny. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/acorn-mccain-and-gop-used_n_134284.html

Why can't these Islamic charlatans get a life already. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1002/p04s01-wosc.html

I frequently encounter these three arguments against abortion. 1. The argument from soul and God or as I like to think of it, the argument from the supernatural. 2. The argument from self-evident and natural right. 3. And sometimes, a sort of utilitarian argument: because the unborn baby...

McMorons and tons are McCains and metric tons respectively throughout this post. So now that we've seen McMoron's pathetic incompetence, ignorance, unscrupulous lies and generally unpopular positions, why would anyone vote for him? When he talked about the Wall Street and this...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ I think it's a fair question. Even Karl Rove -- the most obscene political scumbag out there -- admits McCain is lying, doesn't that make McCain's campaign quite sleezy?

I don't know whether this has been brought up before or not, but nevertheless, I googled McCain flip flops and google came up with these: 10 flip-flops in 2 two weeks: a new record. Other delicious links included: http://www.alternet.org/election08/90956/?page=entire So, debate. Why has...

http://www.gregpalast.com/farc-documents/ http://www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/ I thought this would be an interesting debate-provoker.

An 18 year old gunman began firing in a Finnish Jokela school, killing one and wounding several. The Police have since, I've heard, captured the gunman, so he is no longer a threat. http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1452380 But apparently, the gunman . . . Pekka, is...

While I've read some of Adam Smith's Wealth of nations, I haven't quite gotten to a good start.:p But, apparently, in page 340 of book five, he writes that... "In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great...

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/23fellowship.html "Unused audio commentary", supposedly from two of my favourite dissidents. :p Chomsky and Zinn. :lol:

Naomi Klein gives a very interesting speech on Iraq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-qBY-TiZg&mode=related&search= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCabHXPOeo I think she puts it well.

When I first read about that Republican get-together at the Great Communicator's great pyramid, I was expecting a "debate" about supposed "values" and "how America's great" and so on. When me and my brother heard about it, we were already laughing hard, imagining what the debate would be...