While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Lord_Herobrine]

Not here either.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Me either. pc+1

 

[Angst]

Me either. pc+1

REPORTED

also can't see it either

 

[Crezth]

Currently in Toronto, Canada. Giving a shout-out to my homie-bro Iggy, who is probably a stone's throw from me right now (Canada isn't that big).

 

[North King]

Currently in Toronto, Canada. Giving a shout-out to my homie-bro Iggy, who is probably a stone's throw from me right now (Canada isn't that big).

Oh hey, I just drove through Canada. Iggy didn't call me, either.

EDIT:

EDITEDIT: @NK, I kinda just saw the excellent terrain map for N3S in the last two updates. Did you make this yourself, and was it a Blue Marble cut & blend, like my map for DaftNES2 back in the day? I think it turned out rather well!!

Yeah. Thanks.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Currently in Toronto, Canada. Giving a shout-out to my homie-bro Iggy, who is probably a stone's throw from me right now (Canada isn't that big).

Only five thousand, four hundred and fifty one point two kilometers away! You should have given me advanced warning.

 

[North King]

Only five thousand, four hundred and fifty one point two kilometers away! You should have given me advanced warning.

Okay, there's no way you can determine the distance to that many decimal places with the information in this thread.

 

[Lord of Elves]

All true Canadians can detect the presence of a foreigner with great accuracy. They can smell us and our rude, boorish ways.

 

[Crezth]

Finally back home!

 

[Daftpanzer]

RE the missing image, thanks very much - I think it was working until it had a couple of views, then probably got deleted from the server. Bizarrely, ImageShack downsizes the map but it actually makes the filesize bigger because of the introduced anti-aliasing on the PNG.

Unless I'm missing something, the only place to host large PNG's that will be kept in their pristine condition is on my DeviantArt. My attachment space here on CFC would rapidly evaporate.

http://daftpanzeruk.deviantart.com/art/Pixel-World-Map-Sample-395775362?ga_submit_new=10%253A1377433606

 

[Daftpanzer]

So has anyone read 'The Shortest History of Europe' by John Hirst? I'm reading it at the moment, finding it very interesting in the way it deals with the evolution of European ideals and attitudes.

 

[Angst]

I find its style very cute, but glancing over it feels like it builds on the wrong premises and... Could it be called European exceptionalism? I don't personally find Europe unique and some of its points remind me of the killer apps thing, which is a little alarming. Google Books would not let me see more than about 30 pages.

On the other hand, it has a cute style and it serves well to introduce people to history, I think. We need more easy entry like that. I've seen all of Crash Course: World History on Youtube for example, and while eg Dachs as a good historian might twitch from its incorrections and unprecise claims etc., I find accessible and inituitive - and entertaining - history to be important to have access to.

 

[Thlayli]

I like the map, Daft, though I think it needs some test humans and architecture to see how well it all blends when the map gets civilized.

 

[Terrance888]

TOO SILLi 4 U!

 

[qoou]

Oy Masada. I've always been under the impression that designing+building a highway system is just plain daft for anything other than military purposes (trains, public transport, trucks being a horribly inefficient mode of goods transportation, etc). How far off the mark am I?

 

[Symphony D.]

Oy Masada. I've always been under the impression that designing+building a highway system is just plain daft for anything other than military purposes (trains, public transport, trucks being a horribly inefficient mode of goods transportation, etc). How far off the mark am I?

Trucks carried 62% of North American freight in 2006, so, pretty far I'd say.

 

[Terrance888]

Was he even aiming? :3

 

[Crezth]

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Moderator Action: Crezth, you know better than to drag such crap from chat and put it hear. Please stop.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[North King]

Oy Masada. I've always been under the impression that designing+building a highway system is just plain daft for anything other than military purposes (trains, public transport, trucks being a horribly inefficient mode of goods transportation, etc). How far off the mark am I?

Really, highway systems are undesirable for various [many, many] other features; their long-distance efficiency isn't bad at all.

 

[Tycho]

Has anyone thought of a political type NES where people run parties and join them, in a Byzantian government where political assassinations are common and there is a tenuous grasp on power even if you are elected? Seems like it would be fun as a story driven NES with the updates of the mod dealing with the elections and the revolts, and the way that NESers operate.