Official Civ4 S&T Off-Topic Thread

I'm sorry I've been gone so long guys. I've become burnt out from reading stories, writing stories, and playing civ. It was taking up too much time in my year when too much was going on. I'm going to try and reintegrate myself, but don't expect a lot from me. I'll probably revive some stories that I've found interest in again. That being said, don't expect a lot, if anything from Mexico. My problem with the Mexico game was that I see Mexico collapsing soon, it was essentially going to become America, and it just wasn't interesting me anymore. It isn't a whole lot of fun to play a game and write a story that's already been written. "America: Write Your Own History" and my Mexico story were so similar it was almost ridiculous. Playing a world conquest game is fun once or twice, when I played Brazil and Ethiopia, but after awhile it just gets tedious. Also, having to write updates for the exact same thing that happened every single time gets tedious as well. I'm planning on reviving a story I'm growing interest in again.
 
Welcome back CK. I completely understand your plight, hope to read more of your stuff soon.
 
What happened to everyone? I know the junior year struggle hit me hard but geez, S&T is deserted...
 
No. Because you just TOLD ME. DUH!
 
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I believe you (it's not like you haven't given me a reason to not). See you in another 3-4 months.

:joke:
 
:sad: The state of S&T makes me cry. Maybe if I'm lucky I can come back a little bit in the early summer, but I don't even know if that'll do anything.
 
Wow! And I thought I was the only one that had struggles in life keeping me away from S&T.

That's terrible. I hope we can recover from this. But I still can't come here on a regular basis.

Good to see you guys again, I wish I could resume my activities here but life got hard on me since the end of last year.
 
Well guys, maybe I can come back not long from now, things seem to be getting back on track on my life. I don't want to get in too many details but college insists on making my life harder, my dad suffered an accident and was in Hospital for more then a month (thankfully he is already home now), my imunological system decided to kill my Thyroid (which is unbelievably smart on its part :crazyeye:) and I got aware of that in a critical situation already, and money (let's say students' parents prefer private teaching only when things are already catastrophic).

Also wish luck to my country because things are pretty intense around here. There are several english videos about it on youtube, so if you guys want, you can get all the info you need from those, or you may ask me and I'll gladly explain it, but long story short President Dilma Rousseff is almost suffering an Impeachment. It's now on the hands of the Senate to decide, which is the last step on this process.

So if anyone was planning to come here on the Olympics, think twice. Also if you really come and want a guide around town just contact me. My advice is actually to avoid coming, but that's up to you guys.
 
Best of luck to you Spirictum! That's a lot of difficulties life has thrown at you, but I'm glad you're overcoming them!

Is the impeachment of a president such a big deal in Brazil?
Being Italian, I'm kind of apathetic to the absurdities (the forum won't let me use a more appropriate term) our politicians constantly throw around, and changing governments (before their nominal expiration date) is kinda usual around here.
 
Noyyau said:
Best of luck to you Spirictum! That's a lot of difficulties life has thrown at you, but I'm glad you're overcoming them!

Is the impeachment of a president such a big deal in Brazil?
Being Italian, I'm kind of apathetic to the absurdities (the forum won't let me use a more appropriate term) our politicians constantly throw around, and changing governments (before their nominal expiration date) is kinda usual around here.
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Thanks Noyyau! :thumbsup:

But you guys are in a Parliamentary system right? I presume you change government whenever the parliament majority disapproves of the current prime-minister and his cabinet. I've just checked wiki and it seems you italians call both guys Presidents, one of the Council, and the other of the Republic. Is it common to have the Presidente della Repubblica Impeached?

Here we are just like the US, the government is formed by the elected President (Presidente da República) and the parliament has no power to remove the government because it lacks parliamentary majority. The President can only be Impeached by really serious stuff like crimes, which is the case in here.

It has only happened once in our history, in 1992, but back then the former President resigned before the process could reach conclusion, so we never had an Impeached President in Brazil before.

The country is completely split, with not much more people in favor of the Impeachment compared to the people against it (in percentages at least). What is new is that our people is normally completely away on politics, but now most people have an opinion on it. It's becoming a hot topic like Football (Soccer) and Globo's Soap Operas, which is the only good side about this IMO. Manifestations have been happening almost daily but certainly at least weekly.

I myself am not in favor nor against it, but I'm afraid of the outcome. Many people have been suggesting this could end up in a new Dictatorship like we had in the 60s, 70s and 80s, but I don't believe in this. The real problem I see about it is the empowerment of the worst political party we have here, the Brazilian's Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). The current Vice-President belongs to this party, as well as the President of the Senate, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, my State Governor and my City Mayor. This party is the biggest and most amorphous party we have here, crowded by corrupt politicians. If the Impeachment is done, the Vice-President becomes President, and then we are doomed. :scan:
 
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