Sibilantae

[quote]It's a statement of good industry, not a constitution.[/quote] lol I suppose you're right. I guess I shouldn't take everything so seriously...

[quote]Why for trial? Blizzard can more than afford the losses. For every blizzard game pirated, five more Koreans will start praying to blizzard, those faggots. If I pirate something, I keep it[/quote] So you're allowed to pirate because they make a lot of money? Please. Is it morally right to steal a plasma TV from a rich man on the basis that he could afford the loss? You could probably afford the loss if every time you bought a new coffee table someone stole it, but you'd be damn

I greatly respect Stardock, but I think this Bill of Rights is perhaps indicative of a bit of hubris. Considering, however, Stardock's success and what appears to be its moral integrity, perhaps they are somewhat justified it putting this up. It's just too generalized and rhetorical, though: 2. Who defines a finished state? 3. Who defines meaningful? 8. Who defines what a potential criminal is? If this refers to DRM protection, then isn't this point redun

This post makes me lol now. No offence intended at all :P

The Novalith Cannon fires a missile. The LHC does not.

[quote]Also, my thesis is not that absolute truth doesn't exist. It's reductionist: that there is a absolute "good" and "evil" built into us physiologically (just like most are biologically pre-conditioned to be afraid of bugs or height due to those traits being advantageous for survival), but that societal factors can override them. This "absolute good" does not transcend Homo sapiens - our "absolute" may not be the same to, say, a space alien. For example, for us altruism is "good" and killing

[quote]The only problem with religeon from my "Personal" perspective is that they don't accept eachother existance. It is written in the Bible that we should 'love thy neighbors' (Which I do agree with) but they never support it. They hate people who are of another religeon and dispise those who doesn't believe. They forget how to love and accept those who ARE different. Also their teaching of christianity has gone crazy aswell, Instead of the all loving and accepting god, preists teach people t

[quote]It could apply to the universe. The big bang theory is repeative. The universe explodes from a point in space. Then is drawn back into that same point and explodes. Sending verything scattering out again just so it can be drawn back in to explode yet again. A process that supports the balance theory. But science on PREDICTS that will happen, there's no way to prove it.[/quote] It's interesting that you say this. It seems that a lot of atheistic cosmologists find the Hindu idea (t

[quote]"evil" is a human-defined concept and one that exists really only to define ethically questionable actions. we can say something is evil to quickly define it as a action that is harmful, unproductive, etc, but then the risk is that that concept can be defined really any way you want it to. there is no shared definition of evil.[/quote] Keep in mind that Inches did not try to define evil itself. He merely marked a particularly "questionable action" as "harmful, unproductive", etc.

[quote]There is no good and evil? So if I think raping children is an evil act, that's just my silly point of view?[/quote] Echoed.

Do you take this as a religion, a philosophy, or both, if I may ask? Also, does this balance theory also apply to the laws of nature? Because if it did, then the universe would not appear to be accelerating in expansion. And what about the second law of thermo?

[quote]Thing is it wouldn't surprise me in the least if according to the Microsoft T&C you do need to buy a whole new copy if you loose the disk but still have the license.[/quote] Actually (and surprisingly), no! Apparently the Microsoft licence doesn't extend to the CD - when you buy the package, you buy the licence, and the CD doesn't embody that licence; you could just ask MS for another CD and they'd give it to you (for a small cost to pay for handling, but most companies do that,

My fleets tend to be small to midsize, each with one capship (later, with two), and control groups (you know, CTRL #) correspond exactly to fleets. I build them such that in the late game I have approximately four fleets that are thoroughly midsized, with another smaller one (usually containing my colonizer capship) available for use. I like to do this because it allows for fluid defense and quick mobilization, as well as for sheer brute force in attacks. As a semi-turtler it's always worked

[quote]I concur...the Bible--inspired by God--contains some great poetry, history, and ideas that have shaped (Western) civilization more than any other work. It has been published in more languages than any other work, hands down. There are more copies than any other work, hands down. It is the most quoted work, hands down. You could completely reconstruct it using quotations found in other works. Voltaire once thought that the Bible would be irrelevant within a generation. Now he is dead, and

[quote]I said borrow one of your mate to install and then use your own license number which he still had. Someone then answered after me that he must buy a new copy from Microsoft and that he was reported me for a breach of yahoo answers terms by advocating piracy.[/quote] I don't envy you. To be banned for "advocating piracy" because some idiot didn't know the licence conditions must be frustrating...

[quote]is not good to have full progrmas for free, but is too expencive. to hell piracy is good[/quote] I'm quoting this just because I found it utterly hilarious.

[quote]Race is utterly irrelevant, *ANYBODY* with Barack Obama's level of experience, running for POTUS, would have his experience questioned by members of the opposing party.[/quote] Yes - my point was to say that it is automatically because of racism, simply because he's black, is wrong, and that seems to be the sort of attitude that the OP had (no offence meant to him) - to exaggerate: "Oh, it's not coming to PC. The only possible reason for this, regardless of what the producer says

I'm going to go right ahead here and say something defined by this guy as unconstructive. itsmevic, will you please see reason? You have a response from the Monk that actually refers you to a previous post that you made, to which the Monk responded with decency rarely seen on the interwebs, and which you didn't acknowledge. You then proceed to quadruple-post saying pretty much the same thing, ignoring constructivity (if that's a word) and, indeed, reason, picking out imagined personal f

[quote]I can assure you this many others you're literally assuming is just a small minority among the Civilization fan base[/quote] Perhaps it is. "Many", however, does not equate to "most". Many of the world's people are rich, for example, but most are poor. "Many" relates to absolute values, while "most" or "few" relate to relative values. You'll notice that despite my reference to the stated "many" others, I also disagree with the implications made by the OP, because I believe them t

[quote]Stardock actually charged in USD no matter where you buy from, they don't bother with regional pricing, so if you ever order from them you'll only pay the USD price.[/quote] But can retail franchises still up the price? EB over here charges $70 for Sins (though a sale was on when I bought it a few days ago)... is there some other mechanic, as well? I also notice that the box was labelled with N3VTF4LL - the Oz publisher, if I'm not mistaken? I'm confused :P Thanks for th

[quote]Before Sins, they didn't exist. This is their first game For a fun fact, Ironclad Games is composed of 9 people, in total.[/quote] A group of nine people's first game, and they get editor's choice award on every major and many minor review sites, bestselling PC strategy game, and second-best selling PC game (for a period - how are the updates on this?) not even counting their online sales. What was it, 200,000 total sales in the first month? Of course, that's not counti

[quote]I would like to see campaign writers break the mould here and have the player retain learned research in subsequent chapters. It has never made any sense to me that a player loses everything they have learned when moving on.[/quote] Yes - I personally would [U]hate[/U] to have my empire comprised [U]entirely[/U] of amnesiacs :P [quote]Personally I don't care about a campaign in 4X game, not only because they usually don't need one, but also because I rarely see one that

[quote]Millions? Wow. I didn't know you have massive Murdering Kid Armies roaming the countryside, wiping out entire cities! Man! That's horrible! And here I thought that hippies actually were about, you know, make love not war, no guns, just flowers, such things. I didn't know they were actually secretly training their children to form death squads of mass destruction...[/quote] I think his point is that lack of discipline, due to said hippies, has had a major effect on delinquency

[quote]We need a campaign, sure it is a GOOD game as it is but a campaign could take the ranking from a 9.0 (GameSpot.com) straight to a 9.5-9.9! SoaSE has great pontentail to be THE BEST RTS out there![/quote] Yeah, this is my point :) You stole it! Why are other people always better with succinctness than I? :P

[quote]Also, does anyone else here think stopping the game breifly when a diplomatic transaction occurs (a la GalCiv or Civilization IV) would be the end of the world?[/quote] I like this idea as well, but what if you want to negotiate with an AI on a multiplayer game? Would everyone have to stop so you can finish the diplomacy? Still, though, I do agree (now that I finally have the game) about the diplomacy. On a side note, however, I must say that although it seems the RTS aspects