Recent content by The Lombard

Amazingly flavourful mod. Really interesting gameplay quirks as well. With all the buildings that autoproduce units it leads to massive wars. I think that the teleport, town portal and dimension door type transport spells are perhaps a little powerful in the hands of the human player, it makes...

Keep up the good work. It sure is figgerin' to be one fine mod-ee-fee-cayshun, yes siree.

Yeah, that was wrong of him. He should have called you an idiot. No, he shouldn't have. Warned for flaming.

That's good if they're especially bloody-minded and you can't get anywhere with 'em. It's also good to do 'meatspace trolling'. Use every sly fallacy in the book until they're so frustrated they storm off and look stupid. Sophistry FTW! Since you can never be sure of any objective truth anyway...

I'd be highly tempted. I think his enviromental agenda is a good one, though I have to admit that it's maybe nothing more than a halo effect from that which makes me think he'd be similarly enlightened in other areas. But I'd also be tempted to vote for Hilary or Obama, JUST because of the...

Oh yes I do.

100 ducks for every human.

Dialects and very closely-related languages are two points on the same continuum - and of course, there will be a grey area in the middle where it's hard to say whether it's a seperate language or a dialect. They already are - or rather they are two dialect groups, because they contain many...

I think, Ecofarm, that you are a sophist. Not least in conflating 'US as State' with the people who live in it, and hair-splitting over 'intentions'. I hardly think that US military targeting policy is made any less worse simply because it's not as bad as that of militant Islamic terrorists...

True enough - and just so you know, I didn't assume outright that you held the views. :) I suspected you might, since people often have a bit of an anti-rant if they post something they don't agree with, but I didn't know for sure, so I didn't make any comment at/to/on you personally.

If by 'interesting read', you mean 'paranoid and belicose Right-wing rant', then yes, it was very interesting indeed. 'Fraid my eyes started rolling as soon as I saw the old "It's because dey is JEALOUS!!!" line at the top. My eyes were rolling so much that they traced 4-dimensional...

I think 'Darwinism', and indeed any doctrine based on reason and scientific principles, can make someone move away from a religious morality. Aside from some reasons given by the OP, another is because religious morality is founded on arbitrary 'because it is so'-isms rather than...

It's a buyer's market! That salvation ain't gonna sell itself. The customers need choice. :)

Bang on the money. It is a logical fallacy known as an Appeal to Ignorance. The proponent needs to give positive, incontrovertible and logical proof for the existence of Original Sin, not reverse the burden of evidence.

But why shame? Shame implies a degree of personal responsibility. One cannot be responsible for the actions of others, and it is not rational to hold oneself responsible for actions that one hasn't commited. Responsible awareness and shame are not the same thing. One does not need to be...