Recent content by astrognash

Well, Cicero is not so different from the American founding fathers, who certainly didn't trust the common folk to make decisions -- I think it a bit unfair the way some disparage the one yet venerate the others (though, of course, you don't find too many among the camp of anti-Ciceronians who...

I'll fire it up now and then. My friend likes to use the feature where you can see your creature on a black background as a makeshift CGI/greenscreen thingamajigger since he likes to make movies that need CGI monsters, but doesn't have an actual program for it.

I have a new story up. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=418761 It's called the Pilgrim of Peking. It's from an RFC DoC game as China, and it follows the lifelong journey of a Taoist missionary from Beijing to Niwt-rst, detailing the sites he sees and the people he meets along the...

In the mid 100s AD, Chin Pho Lu, the Wandering Daoist Missionary of Shanghai, set forth on a journey to the Great City of Roma, home to the Augustus of the Western Realms. The current year is 366 AD, and Chin Yang Lu, aged 15, has set forth on a journey similar to that of his venerated ancestor...

I like the new narrator, although Nimoy would've been better. I think Christopher Lee should narrate for 6, although Shatner'd be pretty awesome/hilarious.

I have a big problem with ModBuddy right now - when I try to run it, Windows User Account Controls asks for a password for the ModBuddy Updater, which then promptly proceeds to "stop working" without doing anything and close itself. Then ModBuddy loads and I get the following screen: (in...

To get us back on the track we're supposed to be on, and not on the one which has a train coming the other way... 103. Paint the dead person's face up like Heath Ledger's Joker, and go dressed as Batman.

92. Read your favorite humor blog, and laugh uncontrollably. There. We're all caught up now. Next one shall invariably be 94.

87. During the eulogy, shout "Nelson Mandela!!!" and run screaming for the trees/hills/parking lot.

Yes, but Ender's Game is set at least a hundred years into the future, by which point I doubt we could recognize the descendants of the PC Game, considering how much technology can leap forward in a century.

Grow a sense of humor? I would also like to put forward a motion to change a civ on the list, North Carolina, or to at least show my take, regardless of whether you like it, from what is perhaps a slightly less silly perspective: North Carolina Terry Sanford (Who actually governed our state...

America needs John Adams, but only if Paul Giamatti does the dialogue.

Not something I'd personally buy, but I'm glad they're releasing it for those of us who are more hardcore fanpersons than I am. And the Mech is making me happy, because it suggests a decent future era.

The CivFanatics Empire Leader: Thunderfall UU: Modder (replaces Worker, can build improvements 200% faster) UB: Forum (replaces Circus) Power: Modded AI (has an AI that improves itself each game, and automatically uses units and places cities intelligently)

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