Mythos_Ruler

There's a fair chance of that too...

In a manner of speaking, yes, but certainly not in the manner you are suggesting, like the unit list one may find at AOM Heaven.com.

However, and this has been my point all along, movies and shows have never been *truly* representative of the American culture. Sure, in the 1950s there were shows like "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Andy Griffith Show," that had NO cursing and little to NO selacious subject matter, but did these shows truly represent the way America was at that time? Does ANY Western country's popular culture truly represent that country's traditional lifestyle? In this, I wouldn't put America's supposed hypocracy over other nations'. So what of it, though? Entertainment has always been escapism in one form or another, and is never meant to be truly representative (as a whole) of current culture.

Yes, there is a very good chance.

A plot point in "Clerks."

Yeah man, but it's a dry heat! http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/allheadlines/75853.php

Or the thousands in Africa that starve or die from AIDS...

I fail to see how cussing in times of crisis makes one a bad christian, Zezar. Also, about the "fake" part, surely you understand the difference between the movies and reality?

Welcome Blorx (nice name).

Who claims the be "christian"? I certainly don't. My friends don't. To me (and to many others), curse words are only words. Words change meaning according to context and intention of the speaker. I assure you, Mr. & Mrs. Smith did not use the F word at all in the script. In fact, cursing in the movie was kept to a minimum. How do I know this? Because of the rating. A PG-13 movie is only allowed to use the F word once, after that it becomes an R. Weird criteria, I know. No one ever said the MPAA had reason or logic. As for American Pie, it's called a comedy for a reason. In fact it's farcical, taking absurd situations and turning them into comedy. You equating this with actual American lifestyles says more about your (mis)understanding of the medium of film, than the lifestyle of the average American.

I am none too fond of the FCC either. It is the typical buracracy growing beyond its original mandate of assigning and maintaining airwave signals.

And the thing about that poll, as was stated, is that the questions asked which religions they identify themselves with, not necessarily if they actually follow the tenants of that religion or church. For instance, I know many people who identify themselves as Baptist or Catholic or whatever, but don't ever go to church. For the longest time I used to call myself Catholic (more specifically, "I was baptized Catholic") but never went to church and didn't really believe in the Church. About curse words, they are very prevelant, but as Erik pointed out there are subtle differences between the different curse words that determine when and where they are acceptable to use. I have observed that even in business, or other stricter settings (business meetings, worship centers, etc.), the acceptability of the use of curse words falls to the most prestigious member of the group in that setting. For instance, a bunch of underlings at a business meeting won't curse, but the boss can throw a few epithets around here and there and it would be completely acceptable. And about TV, funny how ZeZar gets the exact opposite reaction about America from TV as middle eastern Moslems do... perhaps it's the programming being shown to the seperate groups of people? Propaganda from Arab TV stations maybe? At any rate, watching American television, I personally discern no great indication that the United States citizenry is more or less christian than we actually are (as a people, not regarding individuals).

The Units Gallery has been updated with some great full color concept artwork by our famed Shan Sherrill (aka Hyborian). The update includes previously unreleased concepts of 4 possible Roman heroes, the Hellenes Hoplite, and a conceptual piece of work evoking the fall of Carthage! Enjoy!

Socrates was once included as a Hellenes hero. His bonus was that as long as he was alive, all techs researched faster or something along those lines. Although it was an interesting unit, we decided to replace him with a hero that was more "proactive" in nature.

@godlike: Personally, I'd like to see archers have a minimum range, ala Skirmishers in AOK. When the enemy comes too near (say, a hyppikon), the archer tries to flee and will continue to flee until it reaches minimum firing distance (or is cut down by his pursuer).

How would you handle this "reloading" action without adding too much micro or unnecessary movement?

OT: Lorian, what's the BB code for that thumbnail you used that shows the image size?

Well, those are usually the well televised instances. This is a VAST country when compared to a single European country, and there are thousands of cases ruled upon every day. There are even many other lesser known cases of famous people that *DON'T* cause a media circus, which go off without a hitch.

I am positive someone will mod into the game all the myth units from AOM. (hmmm, might be cool for us to include a few myth beasts into the editor for @#$%es and giggles, just to show what can be done and how good our modellers and texturers are!).

Right. My point was not to squash discussion, but rather curb the kind of comments like "The jury must have been CRAZY!" or (from a European): "This is an OBVIOUS example of how your American system suX0rz! LOLz!!1!!" Follow?

Our court system is not the best, but in the majority of cases it works. I stress this above all: only the JURY saw the evidence and heard all the testimony. None of us did. No one in the media did either. You don't know if you would have made the same decision as the jurors.

Basically.

Poor Iberians... too bad no one has any idea how truly unique the gaming experience will be with this civ.

About the Greco-Roman article - perhaps an article detailing the *differences* between the two. There had been much discussion in the AOMH forums regarding the Roman mythology and how it was (dis)similar to the Greek mythology. There is even a really good "Roman Civilization" mock-up for AOM written up in the "Future ES Games" forum at AOMH (or AOE3H now, I think) that stresses the miniscule and vast differences between the mythologies. Certainly the differences in the organization of the religion are vast. To my knowledge Rome never had its equivilent to Delphi or Mt. Olympus. The role of priests and the clergy was different as well (depending on the city-state), as was the role of worship.

Holy cow, Adam! Good catch!