Recent content by penvzila

Missing a lot of posts... that is, probably a good thing.

How could a God possibly fail at anything?

OH man, are you kidding me? Civfanatics still censors profanity?

Stop calling black people "African Americans." Unless you are willing to refer to all humans as African, since every last one of us is a descendant of Africans. And on the topic of Africa. No, we didn't descend from monkeys, we share a common ancestor with monkeys. Just because you're...

Neutral? It's A-THEISM. As in, the opposite of theism. It is the absence of religion. It is not based on anything that religions are based on. Religion -> Faith Atheism -> Absence of above. Some people don't have appendixes. I don't have faith. That's ALL atheism is!

Wow, here we are in 2008 and Abiogenesis is still a topic?

DOSBox indeed works perfectly in Vista as well as Linux for Civ1. Unfortunately I own the version that has the Advisor Bug, so I had to download an abandonware copy or just turn off advisors. I seem to remember there being a patch for this, but I can't find it anywhere. I'd like to play my...

Yes, we had HTML for a while.

Young Earth Creationism is typically covered in an introductory philosophy class like Critical Thinking, or Science & Pseudoscience. It's just not an intellectually honest position, and there's not much to do but poke fun at it.

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Have you ever actually watched a game? Besides Shaq, there's very few NBA players who dominate based on size alone.

Yeah, and the NBA NEVER exaggerates the height of it's players. It's pretty much SOP to subtract 1-2 inches from any "official" height, and in the case of some players (like Charles Barkley for instance) 4 or 5.

It is based only on the first book. I doubt there will be sequels. Expect more action comedy and less Douglas Adams comedy, which may or may not be a good thing. I'll definitely be paying to see it.

Why is that my problem?

Shortly after it first came out, I got tired of Civ3. Now I play it all the time. It doesn't compare to the hours I put into CivI and II, but that's college for you.