ModCast 36: "His Name Could Be Bob"

[GarretSidzaka]

[img=right]http://civcomm.weplayciv.com/polycast/images/modcast_logo.jpg[/img]But should it be? The thirty-sixth episode of ModCast is now netcasting. Entitled "His Name Could Be Bob", it features core panelists Tony "GarretSidzaka" Kiehl, Wouter "Locutus" Snijders, Kenneth "Impaler[WrG]" Ferland and John "bt_oz" Archer with first-time guest co-host "Ekmek"


03m44s | News
The v3.19 patch for Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword released and what this means for modders.
- 09m14s | Artist Sketchpad
The American Confederate and Union Great Generals by bernie14.
- 14m05s | Code Corner
The MongooseSDK MOD component by LunarMongoose.
- 19m38s | Modding Spotlight
Ekmek on his Mare Nostruma MOD for Civilization IV: Colonization, and his leaderhead guide for CivIV: BtS.

ModCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game modding; sibling show PolyCast focuses on Civ strategy and RevCast focuses on Civilization: Revolution.

As always, enjoy.

 

[mechaerik]

Alright! And Ekmek as a guest!

 

[GarretSidzaka]

yes sir this one is quality episode IMO

enjoy!

 

[phungus420]

This doesn't have anything to do with Civ4, but it irritates me so I feel I must adress it. Also I haven't smoked a cigarrette in 36 hours so my level of irritation over the statement is far more intense then usual.

GarretSidzaka in this episode you state that "Slavery wasn't the cause of the Civil War... It was more about States Rights". This is a false statement and shows a lack of historical knowledge or an intentional desire to ignore the facts due to cognitive dissonance. It is perfectly understandable for a child or teenager to make such an assertion, I would have myself when I was 12, as it shows a historical knowledge of history beyond the basic black-white moralistic premises of a young child. However by the time you're an adult you should realize all the state rights issues were directly caused by slavery, all the confederate states clearly lay out in their declarations of secession they are seceding due to slavery, and the vast majority of the popular arguments found in southern media revolved around slavery. To put it simply you can extricate any other cause from the civil war, such as tarriffs, other taxation issues, and federal laws from the civil war and no rational person would conclude eliminating such individual issues would have resulted in no civil war. Yet you cannot extricate slavery from the civil war. If you remove the institution of slavery from the arguments and tensions of the time, you are left with nothing, and no concrete cause for secession. Finally had the southerner's really cared about federal authority superceding state authority, where was the southern outcry over the Dred Scott case. Sorry the assertion that the south was more for limited government, and against federal overreaching is just empty rhetoric. It's much like today where conservatives pine about state rights, and government intervention, yet at the same time support state intervention in reproductive issues, drugs, and Sports. It's not that the confederacy at the time had a problem with federal authority in general, it's that they had a problem with the direction federal authority was taking, ie the south knew institution of slavery was being put in a vice and slowly squeezed by federal law, and the squeeze was only going to get stronger and pressure added faster if nothing was done.

To put it simply. The southern economy needed slaves to maintain it's socioeconomic organization, and the south felt the only way to maintain their "way of life" as a result was secession.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

snap you got me

i agree with you and admit to oversimplification

personally i feel that the civil war was a major step in america becomming the superpower it is today.

edit: are you quitting smokes? if so good luck

 

[The Capo]

This doesn't have anything to do with Civ4, but it irritates me so I feel I must adress it. Also I haven't smoked a cigarrette in 36 hours so my level of irritation over the statement is far more intense then usual.

GarretSidzaka in this episode you state that "Slavery wasn't the cause of the Civil War... It was more about States Rights". This is a false statement and shows a lack of historical knowledge or an intentional desire to ignore the facts due to cognitive dissonance. It is perfectly understandable for a child or teenager to make such an assertion, I would have myself when I was 12, as it shows a historical knowledge of history beyond the basic black-white moralistic premises of a young child. However by the time you're an adult you should realize all the state rights issues were directly caused by slavery, all the confederate states clearly lay out in their declarations of secession they are seceding due to slavery, and the vast majority of the popular arguments found in southern media revolved around slavery. To put it simply you can extricate any other cause from the civil war, such as tarriffs, other taxation issues, and federal laws from the civil war and no rational person would conclude eliminating such individual issues would have resulted in no civil war. Yet you cannot extricate slavery from the civil war. If you remove the institution of slavery from the arguments and tensions of the time, you are left with nothing, and no concrete cause for secession. Finally had the southerner's really cared about federal authority superceding state authority, where was the southern outcry over the Dred Scott case. Sorry the assertion that the south was more for limited government, and against federal overreaching is just empty rhetoric. It's much like today where conservatives pine about state rights, and government intervention, yet at the same time support state intervention in reproductive issues, drugs, and Sports. It's not that the confederacy at the time had a problem with federal authority in general, it's that they had a problem with the direction federal authority was taking, ie the south knew institution of slavery was being put in a vice and slowly squeezed by federal law, and the squeeze was only going to get stronger and pressure added faster if nothing was done.

To put it simply. The southern economy needed slaves to maintain it's socioeconomic organization, and the south felt the only way to maintain their "way of life" as a result was secession.

Damn straight. I think someone deserves a smoke after that one...

And lo and behold the "Southern Party" still pulls the same crap today, and people buy it. Things really don't change that much do they?

 

[The Capo]

I just listened to the modcast, how much time elapses between recording and release? Because Ekmek mentions we are working on the Alexander Project and that thing happened a couple of months ago!

 

[GarretSidzaka]

yes i give an explanation on polycast77 about the delay. i have been swamped with a new house, new baby daughter and was hoping someone would cover me. but alas everyone else was busy too, so the show had to wait. there will be one more episode that is lagged behind, then i plan on starting new recording soon. we also have a new co-host, Maniac from Planetfall mod

i hoped you still liked the episode despite the delay.

 

[mechaerik]

Any more news on ModCast?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

hey the next episode will be out today.

 

[mechaerik]

Excellent. I love this show, its funny, yet informative.


Its edutainmenting!

or is it.... entercational?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

i like the enter-cational.

um looks like we might be delayed as my publisher hasn't seemed to put up the next episode quite yet

 

[Lord Tirian]

um looks like we might be delayed as my publisher hasn't seemed to put up the next episode quite yet

- I'm still waiting!

Cheers, LT.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

me too

 

[mechaerik]

Maybe his name is Eschroeder. His leaderhead making tutorial PDF lists "eschroeder" as the author.

 

[cephalo]

me too

Yeah, I'm ready for a new modcast. Sombody needs a kick in the pants it seems.

 

[The Capo]

Seriously. Wasn't this supposed to be up like three or four days ago?

oh and...

@ Garret: When I finish my mod can I plug it on Modcast?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

Seriously. Wasn't this supposed to be up like three or four days ago?

oh and...

@ Garret: When I finish my mod can I plug it on Modcast?

dan has been insanely busy and i havent even heard from wouter.

also you are welcome to be at the next epsode in a coouple of weeks. if you are serious, i will go notate this in the modcast area.

 

[The Capo]

dan has been insanely busy and i havent even heard from wouter.

also you are welcome to be at the next epsode in a coouple of weeks. if you are serious, i will go notate this in the modcast area.

Well I was mainly asking about plugging my mod, which probably won't be out for another month and a half or so, I am in the process of putting it together and doing playtests with the group that is helping me. So I'd rather be on at that time, but if you need someone else to be on I wouldn't mind doing it at all, just let me know the specifics.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

its usually better to come on the show before you are 100% because people might submit art or somthin after hearing the show. i will set you for 2 weeks from next sunday, will dec 6th work?

pm me please