Recent content by mintyfreshdeath

1984 is by far my favourite, although Brave New World probably stands as the more accurate since it is about arrested development of the intellect and inflicting pleasure as a means to political control. But yeah, 1984 isn't and never was a prophesy, but a warning. It's an explicit and...

Take it as a compliment :)

One of the things I've always loved about the civilization games is playing as communist America ;)

I'm in the depends camp. Depends on the game I'm playing. Depends on the civ I'm playing as. I have no idea how the new ideologies are going to be and how they're going to interact with everything else that will be introduced in the new expansion. Really looking forward to it!

Hemp?

It could be a resource that provides faith, in which case... I still can't think of anything.

Would anyone really define kangaroo as a luxury resource? It's just meat

Myrrh? Opium? Bitcoins?

Other - Australia

Yeah I can't wait for Civ V. The more I read about it the more apparant it seems to me that it's going to be a very different game to Civ IV - I have to stop myself from viewing what we know so far of certain game mechanics in the context of Civ IV. But anyway, can't help but poke fun a...

Three pages of hand-wringing and strategic planning based on some screenshots for a game that none of you have played. That's pretty impressive!

I'll let you know, at the very earliest, sometime after mid september.

Yeah, but in all seriousness, America did go to the moon and they were the first nation to drop the bomb and you probably consume your fair share of American pop culture. Hey, you might not though and if that is the case then good for you for not following the crowd. I'm sure there is a...

Keep in mind that you are expressing this opinion on the internet.

You know, as a side note, you guys ought to be paid for the work you do on BUG, BAT and BULL. It's the best mod I've used for BtS by a long shot.