Recent content by katipunero

What problem? Civ 5's realistic graphics and moving backgrounds in the diplomacy screen, among such other unnecessary doodads, killed what made civilization an immensely enjoyable game to play.

Civ V had "realistic" graphics. But it felt to me that the developers took themselves way too seriously and really did not understand what civilization as a game is about. Cartoony graphics is a good indication that the vision for the game has been switched back to the original ethos of...

I am loving the art style and graphics as a counterweight to sometimes very serious decisions that I have to make in game. I also prefer the cartoony rendition as it is easier to detect outlines of strategic elements on the map.

let Iran do what it wants. it's a sovereign country for chrissakes! to answer the question, a war with Iran is a possibility. but i don't think it will happen anytime soon contrary to what the headlines quoted suggest.

US, institutional wise, has a weak type of president compared to most. yet, people blame him for any and all misfortunes. criticizing Bush for the dumb war in Iraq is perfectly valid because that is within his war powers to start and stop. criticizing Odumba (haha), however, for failed pieces of...

the thing you call social discourse and social reciprocity run on a common a thread, or at least happen at a very basic and fundamental level which is on our very linguistic interactions. i have read somewhere that god is nothing more than a literary device or perhaps a semantic necessity. god...

best to stay away from the Philippines. avoid it like the plague. go somewhere else :p my country has imported practically all its legal technologies from the US. while we're a civil law country, most of our laws are of American origin. we have the strongest respect for the Rule of Law...

gold for money is one of those weird ideas you hear from people who think in absolutist and narrow terms. gold standard is simple and honest, but you can't have economic simplicity and value-for-value honesty in world like what we have to day. modern day transactions approximate the infinite...

nah, i'd skin Rush if ever our paths cross. pedophilia is not a subset of homosexuality. it would seem that way with Sandusky's case because all of his victims were male. it is easy to confuse his "sexual orientation" with his gross deviant behavior and actions towards young adults. Rush, of...

Go tell them Rush!

i don't understand either. the proponent of that argument has yet to find his way here in this new thread. until that happens, i cannot pick his mind for a more elaborate explanation why he said it because the first thread is locked. btw, i don't understand this thing with Fox News? is there...

the reference to Russia Today was not done by me originally. it was one of the points raised before the old thread got closed to make way for Part 2. i was simply trying to reboot the discussion, but sadly, the original poster who argued about media bias and why this video can't be trusted is...

no, it's the same, but the first video was a shorter clip. the only difference is RT's watermark on the first video that's not here of course.

if we're allowed to continue the discussions that were cut in part 1 of this thread, i'd like to direct you there so you can see and read that indeed the video cannot be trusted (although the one you posted is uncut) because Russia Today aired it. at least that's the impression i get from what...

^ Russia Today aired a clip of that video, so it's not a valid video. that video is biased.