Official Civ4 S&T Off-Topic Thread

That's really sad CK, the death of a close person is a really bizarre feeling to deal with. :(



In other news, I wanted to come here to share with you guys why lately I have been so rarely coming here to do a major post on a story I participate, or to realease anything new about the Caliphate. Most here know what it is to be a student, especially a college student, but that isn't enough to slow me down like this :cool:. What has truly changed is my work as a teacher. I have been giving* private classes a lot more then before, which has been consuming most of my days. And it's not like working in an office, with a pc connected to the internet, bosses that can't monitor you the whole time, and plenty of spare time to come here and do the stuff I like. I have to keep moving from place to place for the whole day, so I can go everywhere I have to.

And these classes are becoming something quite pleasant. I really like to teach. One of the best sentences many of my students have already told me is: The class is already over? It feels like it has just started!

I have been teaching math, physics and chemistry, but mostly math. I was going to give a history class today, but unfortunately it was canceled.


The bad side is the lack of free time to spend here and to play games. But at least I'm sure I have 2 seasons of the year that I don't teach, and by those times I really hope to come here more and spend my time reading through these interesting stories or contributing with those stories I participate.

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*I don't know why, but something tells me that this word, although it is the one used in portuguese for such a situation, seems wrong. Is it correct to say 'give a class' in english? Or do you use another verb?
 
That's really cool Spirictum! I'm happy for you :) On the English word, you can give a class. That's acceptable, but if you're uncomfortable with that you can say just say teach. If it's simply a private session though you would say that you tutor them on whatever subject. If it's a small group or one on one tutoring would be better, but class wouldn't be wrong. Someone can say "I give/teach a class down at the university on physics"
 
That's really cool Spirictum! I'm happy for you :) On the English word, you can give a class. That's acceptable, but if you're uncomfortable with that you can say just say teach. If it's simply a private session though you would say that you tutor them on whatever subject. If it's a small group or one on one tutoring would be better, but class wouldn't be wrong. Someone can say "I give/teach a class down at the university on physics"

Thanks for the compliment and the lesson ;)
 
Congrats Spirictum!
I'm also interested to know if it's more like private tutoring or actual teaching to a bunch of students at school.

I did the former when I was in my later high school and early university years, but then time requirements for labs and study made me quite free time-less.
I concur that it is a very warming feeling to teach someone that is happy and interested to learn!
 
That's awesome, Spirictum!

In other news, I have a very important question: who is better, Millard Fillmore or Franklin Pierce? My friend and I have been fighting about this for upwards of 6 months.
 
Presidentially or otherwise?
 
They both unsuccessfully tried to compromise to desperately avoid a war everyone knew was coming.
Neither
 
Truman confirmed Franklin Pierce to be the hottest president ever.
Then again, Pierce had to deal with a crippling depression caused by his son dying in a horrific accident just before his inauguration and ended up drinking himself to death.
YMMV.
 
I am really loving the fact that I picked up a Chinese class this year, and am learning the language. It's a good thing I dropped Arabic for this, because Chinese feels so much simpler than that would have been.
 
I don't know anything about Chinese, but I do know that Arabic isn't that complicated of a language. It has its roots which can be manipulated to make a variety of words.

slm (using these as a substitute for the arabic letters of seen, lam, and meem, since these letters have similar phonetics to one another) make the root word that means peace. From that root you can make Islam, Muslim, Asalam walaykum etc. The rules on plural, singular and dual objects as well as male and female pronouns can be confusing though.

That said, I'm glad you're enjoying Chinese.
 
Congrats Spirictum!
I'm also interested to know if it's more like private tutoring or actual teaching to a bunch of students at school.

Private tutoring. I go to their places and teach to a single students or to groups up to 3. Most prefer individually though.
 
so for those who play Vicky2, I'm working on a mod that will make spiriticum very sad in its current state
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OMG! The doomed version of our history!

Here we say this would surely happen if we had traced the same steps our hispanoamerican brothers did, by not having a central monarchical authority to quell any separatist rebellions. We had many rebellions, but none besides that of Uruguay has succeeded.

If you want any suggestions about how to divide Brasil at this time, so it feels more realistic in an alt-hist scenario, I'll be glad to help.
 
What's the mod called?
 
this reminds me of the superstates mod for eu4

best of luck to you in your endeavor
 
Long time no see, everyone.

Junior year has been quite the load of work for me, with lots of APs and extracurriculars. I've barely had time to play any games, let alone Civ 4 (which I still haven't really gotten back into yet). I'll try to post on occasion but I simply don't think I'll have the time to keep up a story.
 
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