Boycott CIV 4! (Shields not Hammers!)

[Helmling]

By the way...who changed the name of the thread? I didn't have that "(sheilds not hammers)" in my title. Such a statement ruins my whole joke.

Which of you wily admin's undermined my joke?

Oh wait, I just said I wasn't joking...DOH!

 

[lost_civantares]

Discrimination!!! Sue him! Class action on behalf of all those who have been psychologically damaged!!


Wow great thread!

 

[holy king]

no one's pschologically damaged here, okay?
no one wants all that to become violent or something, right?
so i suggest all of you just start to share the opinion that shields are the only rightous and good thing in this world, that hammers are pure sh#t that noone needs, and nobody gets hurt, okay?...

 

[knupp715]

Sorry didnt read through this entire thread. First of all, what is the point of this thread? Just wondering. Second of all, do any of you really think people are going to boycott Civ4 because they changed one word in the game? Third of all Hammers make more sense to me even though I am used to saying sheilds. But let's think about it, you can build things with hammers can you build anything with a sheild? The only thing I can think of is to hammer a bunch of sheilds together to make a giant sheild. But a wall would be more effective than this and plus you would need hammers to hammer the sheilds together. I know we are not used to it but change can sometimes be a good thing. Just think of it as such and let us all stop with our petty complaints.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Heh, I must admit it's going to take some time getting used to. And shields IMHO represents material better than hammers.

 

[Grey Fox]

Heh, I must admit it's going to take some time getting used to. And shields IMHO represents material better than hammers.

Its not about materials, its about PRODUCTION. And you produce stuff easier with hammers then you do with shields.

 

[Helmling]

Actually, sheilds did make more sense.

The labor was provided by your workers...so what were they producing? Couldn't be gold, that was represented elsewhere. It had to be some abstraction of "stuff gained from production." Sheilds were a nice way to represent that.

But to those of you who think we're taking this issue seriously:

YOU'RE RIGHT AND WE'LL HUNT YOU DOWN AND WIPE YOUR SEED FROM THE EARTH FOR ALL OF TIME IF YOU DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE ONLY VALID AND TRUE BELIEF!

 

[knupp715]

Sorry guys, I really hadn't noticed this was a joke. I knew I should have read the whole thread. Anyways sorry to take the issue so seriously.

 

[troytheface]

No need to apologise. But u might want to write in big letters and use small words for the Shield supporters.

 

[Helmling]

No need to apologise. But u might want to write in big letters and use small words for the Shield supporters.

You'll eat those words, Hammer-lover!

 

[Albow]

To those who would give voice to an opinion without reading this thread: shame on you! You must be at one with the shieldy goodness to know TRUTH. Those of you who have argued for coff ... hammers (oh dear, I feel dirty just saying that word), are in two categories:

1. You are unaware of the social damage you will cause and are unpatriotic and need reeducation!
2. You are a spiteful commie bastard who wishes to undermine this glorious Shielded capitalism (amen).

So, either get your facts straight and learn that Shield is Truth and Goodness, or go to commie pinko land!!

Long live Shields!

 

[holy king]

3. You endanger little children with your unresponsible behaviour.
4. You could even put an end to the whole universe, if you don't stop believing in shields, which destroys the balance of the space-time-continuum.

AMEN.

 

[ferenginar]

Hammers make me sickle

 

[NinjaCool]

With thine shield thou shalt build, a city most culturally even heaven blesses thou followers with people of greatness and belief.
And with thine wisdom thou shalt ponder, work of arts, perhaps even a mighty wonder!
Happy on the chair thou shall stay, not doing a single thing on this day....

Except shaping thine destiny

 

[megabrainz]

I look at it this way: If you smack someone about the head with a shield, it's going to hurt. If you try and use a hammer for defence, you're just going to look silly! So shields win on grounds of versatility.

Though I'm a bit worried that this makes Dubyah my leader. Oh well, sacrifices have to be made.

 

[invoke41]

Well dont you use a shield to protect yourself from people with hammers?

BTW you can hammer all you want but its not gonna stick without nails... so why didnt they put nails in the game? What a ripoff!

 

[ferenginar]

It's the introduction of religion that has caused it. "If I had a hammer"

 

[Pembroke]

Well dont you use a shield to protect yourself from people with hammers?

Exactly. We need a missile shield to protect us from the hammer people. Not a missile hammer to protect us from the shield people. The latter doesn't even make sense. So there: hammers don't make any sense. QED.

Shields stand for all that is Good and Noble in this fallen world whereas the Hammer is the Source of All Evil. That's why it's S.H.I.E.L.D. who protects us from terrorists and other bad people, and not something like H.A.M.M.E.R. Why, that even sounds like an evil organization of super villains.

And there we have it. We shield people are right and you hammer people are wrong. End of discussion. La-la-la-la-la-i'm-not-heaaring-anything-la-la-la...

 

[invoke41]

In fact the only good hammer was MC Hammer...

 

[mossmonster]

Oh yee of entrenched beliefs and limited vision, let us move to a new and better age. I proclaim henceforth the production icon should be a uniting aspect by using a shield...with a hammer on it! Let us thus put aside our differences and join together behind this glorious symbol of our shining conjoined future!