Recent content by shadow2k

Oh man, that sucks. But seriously, what is up with Ormus? They took another city, but they seem to be burning this one down. I've seen a CS capture a city here and there, but never multiple cities in the same game without player intervention (bomb the city to 0 so they can burn it...

Thanks for the replies. Let's just say for argument's sake that nobody is an ally of Ormus, and nobody pledged protection. I can work around any of that type of stuff. My main concern is how this is calculated in terms of warmongering, because the penalties add up quick, and I like to put it...

I need a little help figuring this out. Short version is Genghis conquered a bunch of city states, everyone else is all buddy buddy, and everyone declared on him for warmongering. In the confusion, he lost one of his conquered CS's, and they puppeted it. So Ormus (maritime) now has a...

I don't do anything in cursive. My signature is printing the first letter and scribbling a line after it, and everyone accepts it. It isn't cursive, it isn't anything but a squiggly line. I hate cursive, nobody can read anyone else's cursive righting. Stop using it.

Never received unemployment checks. To me, it would be embarassing that I could not provide for myself. My boss has two brothers who are both on unemployment, and have been for a couple years now. They don't try and look for work, they just sit at home playing video games and drinking every...

Most Jewish kids miss school twice a year. Once for Yom Kippur, which I believe is the Jewish new year. The other for Rosh Hashana, and I don't remember what that holiday is, or even if I spelled it correctly. Not sure what the big issue is. When I missed school due to those holidays, I...

It doesn't matter how many kids religious people have, or how many atheists have kids. If that held true, then atheism would continually be on the decline, at least in terms of the percentage vs religion. Every atheist I personally know grew up in a Christian or Jewish family. That will...

Sorry, I forgot where I'm posting, should have been more specific. It is starting its decline in the US, the same way it started in Western Europe 40yrs ago. The nations with more educated individuals tend to see the decline. The countries still riddled in poverty...yeah, they still believe...

Religion will die when humanity becomes extinct. However, I believe it will continue to decline...or to put it another way, the percentage of people who are atheists will continue to grow.

I've used the same avatar in pretty much every online forum that allows custom avs since sometime around 2001. Don't think I've really ever used anything else, except as a joke. I stopped posting here a couple years ago, mainly because I only post from work, and this site was setting off virus...

Was raised Jewish, had Christians in the immediate family as well. So we get X-max presents wrapped in Hannukah type wrapping paper at X-mas Dinner with Jewish food. Yeah, confused me too. When I became old enough to actually start questioning religion, it simply made no sense to me...

The scores are generally weighted out depending on age and sex as well. So one person's 150 score is not necessarily equal to another person's 150, even if they took the same test. Overall, I'd say that if you're looking for someone with a 150 IQ on the internet, this is as likely a place as...

People who complain about smokers annoy me. :smoke:

The very difference in the three Abrahamic faiths is who exactly was the messiah. They are not compatible with one another. Judaism was supposed to have one messiah, who they believe has not arrived yet. The Christians believe the Jewish messiah was Jesus...Christ means messiah. The...

The problem with switching to Metric in the US is that you'll confuse the hell out of about 90% of the population. I mean, they taught us metric in school, but unless you went into a field that uses it on a daily basis, we all forget it. I'm 30yrs old, and I can eyeball a parcel of land and...