Recent content by Gingerbread Man

Played an absolutely terrible game and lost a cultural victory to the Carthaginians in 1983. Way out of practice. Ready for the next one :)

Thanks for this - after struggling with the other guides out there, the guide here got me going pretty much straight away. The old guides obviously got us to this point, but they had a lot of broken links and a general old-school developer experience. Anybody out there managed to follow these...

Wow okay so I saw CivFanatics mentioned in another site that I have started visiting lately (MafiaScum, though I've never played Mafia/Werewolf and am mostly there for the Survivor games). That prompted me to log back in to CFC for the first time in... nearly 17 years? Last time I was online...

Well, I don't define normal by what is the majority, and I don't believe that everything which deviates from normal is wrong. Some stuff that is done by the majority of people is wrong, and some things which aren't normal are perfectly fine.

Both sides are correct and incorrect in this debate, depending on whose definition we follow. If we define 'homosexuality' as the actions which one takes, then MobBoss is correct in saying that homosexuality is a choice. It would be incorrect to say that one has no control over their actions...

I think this is the important thing that people forget. There's a website attached to this ad, which is much more homophobic. The ad itself, however, appears to make fun of homophobic stereotypes more than it does of homosexual stereotypes.

OS X is based on a UNIX architecture, so the leap shouldn't be so big. But I'll be dual-booting linux/OS X anyway, and which one I use more will depend on which will work better for my needs. OS X has the appeal of having plenty of good audio software, plus the actual macbook hardware and design...

The findings are anecdotal, so of course there will be many possible explanations. It does, however, seem to confirm general knowledge about people who show abnormal distaste for homosexuality (at least publicly).

It's what I'm here for. To ruin everyone's fun! :devil: And I hadn't heard about the Blondie thing. Then again, I don't listen to rap, or Blondie, so I wouldn't have a clue either way.

nonconformist: Someone's done a study of it: NIH PubMed entry PDF of research and results Its an interesting read. Homophobic and non-homophobic men viewed pornographic videos, heterosexual, lesbian and male homosexual. The most interesting part - in the homophobic group, 20% showed no...

Can you really claim that a genre of music was invented by a single person? Every form of music is a product of its context, both cultural and musical. The evolution of certain genres of music from harmonically-oriented composition to rhythmically-oriented composition was pretty gradual, and...

Why does this topic always get so heated? Look, everyone has a different idea of what is right, and what is wrong. We can spend forever trying to get one to adopt the others' concept of morality, but it sure isn't going to solve any disputes. I am never going to accept that gay marriage is...

Rap isn't music? Since when? Sure, many people don't think it is 'good' music, but since when have they been the ultimate opinion above all others? I listen to a bit of free jazz, and other experimental music. It doesn't have a beat, it doesn't have a melody, its just sounds placed over time...

Are all of your opinions this uninformed?

Casual computer users won't see the need to upgrade what is an already perfectly fine copy of Windows XP. Many are getting macs anyway, because they are a lot more clean and easy to use. Advanced users are already toying around with linux, and see little need to pay for features they can...