Mythos_Ruler

Add some houses, a few more wonders, some walls, and we got us a Roman city...

@Curu - I suspect the artist either had some kind of generic "elephant" in mind and only vaguely remembered how an Indian elephant should look, or he only had an African elephant reference available. Or heck, maybe it's a hybrid. PS: Heck, even natural genetic variation is bound to produce an Indian elephant with larger ears.

Right, that'd go hand 'n hand with my idea. You'd need to implement my idea to get yours to work anyway, so why not have both features? :D

I certainly can sympathize with the fact that we have younger forummers here. However, anything short of a bare nipple or reproductive organ, I don't see how it could have been listed as "offensive," especially since the topic was meant to be light-hearted. Regardless, I will not push the issue further - beyond my official protest.

Perhaps subtitles to user nicknames. For instance, once a clan leader or member registers a clan name, then any member that joins may choose the clan from a list of clans and this clan name will go beneath that player's nickname. For instance, I just joined Mythos Clan, so, then I make a new nickname called Mythos_Ruler and choose from a list of registered clans which clan I have joined. A permission is then sent to the clan leader, who then allows the new member to use the subtitle. This is then updated on the "server" and the subtitle is then applied to the player's nickname. Mythos_Ruler Member of Mythos Clan

I believe an admin's job is not to police the hearts and minds of the forummers. To remove content from a thread, it must be demonstrable that the content was inherently offensive and broke the rules and guidelines of the forum's community. Are the admins now going to delete many of the pics in the "Post your Desktop thread!" because they have a few girls in bikinis for a background? Such a picture would show much more than the graphic in this thread. Show me which rule was broken, else we have admins that alter forummer content at discretion.

Underwear is an article of clothing. It is neither amoral nor distasteful to most forummers. Why remove it when only one forummer complains?

Know what? I live in the "fattest" state in the U.S. (Indiana), and let me tell you - it's SUMMERTIME here. Know how I can tell? I see a whole bunch of girls walking around looking like the girl on the left. Seriously, the American "obesity" issue is seriously overstated, especially in foreign countries looking for anything and everything to criticize America about. Where I am from, more women my age look like the woman on the left, than look like the woman on the right (and I'm sure they ALL eat Fast Food once in a while too!). PS: On a lighter note, I have it on good authority that the main "difference" between European girls and American girls is that the European ones will admit that they're "easy" - the American ones lie about it. LOL.

The miracle of technology, my friend. I scan them from books I have purchase, borrowed, or have been gifted.

Have to agree with CheeZy there. After viewing the initial editor GUI concepts, this editor will be the finest with which I have had the pleasure of designing.

When I say Japan, I don't mean Manga. Just look at the actress who played "Taka" in "The Last Samurai." She is the most beautiful woman in the world. I am told she represents the ideal Japanese women aspire to. She's so beautiful she's a work of art. Also, Akya, I mentioned women from India and Persia, don't forget.

I'll stick to my computer's name... "Mike's bia bia..." My WinXP sign on is "The Tech Works" referencing my design company - Mytech Studios.

Just for kicks, we should include a LOTR Oliphaunt in the editor, complete with a castle on its back like depicted in the movies. LOL

Pauly Shore?

Possibly the worst TV shows of all time listed in your post. lol I smile at myself a lot. In the mirror, or when I think of stupid or funny things I've done.

An Indian War Elephant.

Sweden, Brazil, Japan (teehee), India, Iran. I do have to say though, mixed race women are the most beautiful.

I too thought those webpages would make GREAT sources for random unit names (if indeed that feature is still *in*). Problem would be trying to find applicable names for all the other civs as well. Romans would be easy. Carths, Iberians, and Persians might be difficult. Celts could be done easily enough I think. I havent even tried to look for any of those.

We will run around with our heads cut off.

Ancient Greek Names - Female http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateM...eece/Female.htm Ancient Greek Names - Male http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateM...Greece/Male.htm Hints on Pronouncing Ancient Greek Names http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US...US210/pron.html Hope those links help. I used the first two links to help me come up with some ancient Greek names for my screenplay I am writing. I named a female Hetaerae "Nikaea" after ruling out many others, like Harmonia.

No. Medusa had 2 sisters, correct, but they all had their own pairs of eyes. Sorry. Her sisters had wings too!

Actually, it's a gorgon - Medusa was one of the gorgons.

Here is a sketch and painting collaboration done by myself and Hyborian. I did the initial sketch with pencil and paper and he did the painting through Photoshop. We are using it for a joint project we are working on - Mythos Warriors MMORPG. It should be cool. I'll let everyone know when we beta test the game. In the meantime, check out this fabulous painting Hyborian (Shan Sherrill) did over my sketch!

I've had a few close encounters on the road. That's about it.

Genetic mutation turns tot into superboy 4-year-old is first documented human case, scientists say A German boy, seen here at seven-months old, has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth. The Associated Press Updated: 12:35 p.m. ET June 24, 2004BOSTON - Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other kids his age and half their body fat. DNA testing showed why: The boy has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth. The discovery, reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, represents the first documented human case of such a mutation. Many scientists believe the find could eventually lead to drugs for treating people with muscular dystrophy and other muscle-destroying conditions. And athletes would almost surely want to get their hands on such a drug and use it like steroids to bulk up. The boy’s mutant DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called myostatin that limits muscle growth. The news comes seven years after researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore created buff “mighty mice” by “turning off” the gene that directs cells to produce myostatin. “Now we can say that myostatin acts the same way in humans as in animals,” said the boy’s physician, Dr. Markus Schuelke, a professor in the child neurology department at Charite/University Medical Center Berlin. “We can apply that knowledge to humans, including trial therapies for muscular dystrophy.” Given the huge potential market for such drugs, researchers at universities and pharmaceutical companies already are trying to find a way to limit the amount and activity of myostatin in the body. Wyeth has just begun human tests of a genetically engineered antibody designed to neutralize myostatin. Dr. Lou Kunkel, director of the genomics program at Boston Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School, said success is possible within several years. “Just decreasing this protein by 20, 30, 50 percent can have a profound effect on muscle bulk,” said Kunkel, who is among the doctors participating in the Wyeth research. Slow wasting process Muscular dystrophy is the world’s most common genetic disease. There is no cure and the most common form, Duchenne’s, usually kills before adulthood. The few treatments being tried to slow its progression have serious side effects. Muscle wasting also is common in the elderly and patients with diseases such as cancer and AIDS. “If you could find a way to block myostatin activity, you might slow the wasting process,” said Dr. Se-Jin Lee, the Johns Hopkins professor whose team created the “mighty mice.” Lee said he believes a myostatin blocker also could suppress fat accumulation and thus thwart the development of diabetes. Lee and Johns Hopkins would receive royalties for any myostatin-blocking drug made by Wyeth. Dr. Eric Hoffman, director of Children’s National Medical Center’s Research Center for Genetic Medicine, said he believes a muscular dystrophy cure will be found, but he is unsure whether it will be a myostatin-blocking drug, another treatment or a combination, because about a dozen genes have some effect on muscles. He said a mystotatin-blocking drug could help other groups of people, including astronauts and others who lose muscle mass during long stints in zero gravity or when immobilized by illness or a broken limb. Eventual health problems? Researchers would not disclose the German boy’s identity but said he was born to a somewhat muscular mother, a 24-year-old former professional sprinter. Her brother and three other close male relatives all were unusually strong, with one of them a construction worker able to unload heavy curbstones by hand. In the mother, one copy of the gene is mutated and the other is normal; the boy has two mutated copies. One almost definitely came from his father, but no information about him has been disclosed. The mutation is very rare in people. The boy is healthy now, but doctors worry he could eventually suffer heart or other health problems. In the past few years, scientists have seen great potential in myostatin-blocking strategies. Internet marketers have been hawking “myostatin-blocking” supplements to bodybuilders, though doctors say the products are useless and perhaps dangerous. Some researchers are trying to turn off the myostatin gene in chickens to produce more meat per bird. And several breeds of cattle have natural variations in the gene that, aided by selective breeding, give them far more muscle and less fat than other steer. © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.