Titus Ultor
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Unless it's just super-cooled and not actually melting, just heating up to a more flowing state.
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It's not as if they're driving the tank.
Yes, those companies censor their products for one of the world's fastest growing markets.. but, ultimately, any access to the internet is a positive influence.
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We are stretched far too thin to do war with a country with any sort of substantial military force. A realignment of forces is not particularly possible without a regime change (here, that is. :wink:), and would be very difficult to do quick enough for the military action to not face a well-prepared defense -- speed is far too important in modern warfare for a redeployment that would easily take months.
Of course, a draft would take just as long, so it's a moot point. A military option is just not a real possibility, unless China/South Korea/Japan agree to carry most of the burden on the ground war. I can tell you right now that China wouldn't commit a major contingent even if we somehow coerced a military response, and Japan hardly has the military capacity. The U.S. could shoulder the naval and airborne burdens, at the very least.
Just not possible.
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I don't think any sailor worth his salt would let ice or snow form up on his ship.
But, I've only seen snow a handful of times in my life, so I'm really not an expert here.
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Nuclear weaponry is a Pandora's Box we (Americans) opened. We shouldn't be surprised that so other countries would want the leverage and power it brings.
Personally, I'm worried about this because of the instability of the nation and the already apparent lack of concern for his people.
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So close to the leet aniversary.
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Looks lame. RTSs are for PCs, leave the crappy shooting games on the crappy console to other companies. You have better games to make, Ensemble.
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Amon Tobin - Nova
Difficult to explain, but it rocks.
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Not even cringe-worthy. Sort of funny, really.
History as, essentially, infotainment. Sounds like an idea Fox News and Air America can get behind. -
And you'd be amazed how often ES talks to their community like this.
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Yes, I was. And yes, the largest manpower contigent was indeed fielded by the Soviets in WWII.
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I tend towards atheism, but I can't seem to get past my Protestant upbringing enough to completely accept a lack of spirituality.
On the homosexuality ordeal, the act of homosexuality is indeed the sin. Of course, by Christian ethics, having sodomized in one's heart is just as sin as having sodomized. In any case, it is harshly condemned in several stories, laws and lists of sins.
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It's easy to fault the U.N. for that, but the U.N. is an organization acting on the fundamental beliefs and desires of a large contingent of nations. And the Gulf War was an entire U.N. action. We only accounted for about half of the total forces, which is quite impressive given the relative sizes of the armed forces of the other nations in the coalition. Compare that with the 90% we field in the Second.
Now that I think about Rwanda bit more, I do recall that our (the U.S.'s) Press Secretary refused to call it a genocide until after the deed was long done. The failure of the U.N. is the failure of all nations involved.
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Although we are cooking up some nifty ways to ensure that you'll see a variety of angles from the sun from match to match.
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In 0 A.D., ship combat will be quite epic. The ships are HUGE (bigger in relative size of the actual ships than AoEIII). I assure you, very few players will be able to field a huge fleet of ships.
And here's another great feature of 0 A.D. -- a useable navy will never ever be nearly the size of an army. Ships will be garrisoned; each ship's attack will be based on the units manning the decks, be it archer or catapult.
On the one-hit KO idea: such a feature would be very easy to implement with a mod, though 0 A.D.'s focus on individual units rather than mass hordes (to keep the pop count low) would make for odd gameplay.
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TLA will be an RTS on the same engine as 0 A.D., reworked to allow for more customized and specific features for the LotR universe and their vision of gameplay. It will essentially be a complete and total modification, but done by WFG.
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With as good of stuff as you're making, they might be daunted.Come on, forumers! Do it for infamy! Glory! Fame! Honor! Victory! Stuff along those lines!
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I agree with that limited reading. Though maybe that caveat may have been nice to mention, so I didn't go and type all that out.
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Aren't those the exact units and unit descriptions from AoEIII?
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Quite an extensive article. Apparently, not all marijuana users have problems concentrating. :wink:
Reading it more critically, however, the article relies solely on pro-marijuna texts and unproveable assumptions (they could've used this, or the etymology of this word could've been derived from this word from this word, which could be interpreted as cannabis in certain situations), rather than concrete evidence. The main reputable source listed, the Britainnica, doesn't even mention marijuana in the quoted text.
While I'm not going to deny the use of marijuana in ancient cultures as a whole, I'd like to point out several things: The Coptic Church does not have that deep of roots, and claiming that the Catholics dominated and displaced the historical evidence for the Church is pretty weak, logically and historically. We have plenty of evidence of other churches, like the Marian Sect and what have you, appearing in the time after the domination of the Catholic Church became assured at the latter half of the 2nd Century A.D.
Also, Hebrew culture has only really been "Semitic" within the past few centuries, since it more properly refers to Arab decent etymologically and historically. The use of the particular plant of marijuana being used has no solid support, despite the seemingly endless bevy of sacrifices and uses for altars listed in the books of law in the Old Testament.
There is evidence of usage of hallucinogens in Celtic and African cultures, but the effects of these are quite more, well, hallucinogenic and inspiring of religious visions than cannabis.
EDIT: And, of course, ancient usage hardly justifies the modern use of drugs. Unless you also want to justify human sacrifice, slavery, gladiatorial combat, and torture, as well.
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From a quick inspection, it looks as if the other ones are made with more of a grey color and sort of weathered a touch or two. But I'm not exactly an artist.
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The sheer epic nature of the gameplay blows my mind. I'm really looking forward to this game. Maxis rarely disappoints, in my opinion.
The only thing I'm worried about is the "sandbox" stage. How long will it keep your attention when there's no longer a real challenge in the game?
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A continent controlled by the Pope was corrupt and hardly holy as a whole when everyone had the same Catholic faith and the same general culture. I can't imagine it being anything but a huge mess of clashing cultures, ideals and viewpoints when a Pope tries to use political power over six continents with hundreds of different faiths and dozens of seperate cultures.
And. "Enlightened" thought didn't cause the corruption of the Pope. It's chronologically backward to say that. The corruption (such as the indulgences) of the Catholic Church throughout the Middle Ages led to the Protestant Reformation and along with it a general questioning of authority. When every European believes that the Pope is the earthly head of the religious world, it's fairly hard to question him; when half of the Europeans believe he's an idol of corruption and self-service, it's much easier.
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The units are just a skeleton overlaid with a texture with a variety of pieces of equipment propped to them. With just a few clicks, the apparance and equipment of a unit can be altered dramatically, or even completely.
I liked the Conquer the World-type gameplay. I believe TLA is planning on working on something to that extent (same engine, so you'll be able to simply use the coding/modding from that), if I recall correctly. Hopefully they'll notice this and correct me if I'm mistaken.
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I was making a joke -- and I don't know anything about you, so I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about.
And, yes, China supresses human rights to a great scale. But it is a rapidly industrializing and modernizing society (the United States in the 19th Century, a period of similiar growth, had issues from slavery to genocide of natives to exploitation of cheap labor), and will eventually be one of the world's largest markets. Hell, if 75% of China lives in the Middle Ages, that 25% still totals more than the population of the United States.
Censoring a product to sell it in a different market does not imply that Google is supressing human rights. If Google was funding secret prisons or something to that extent, I could see your point. If Google is supressing human rights, than EVERY company with a Chinese wing is doing the same by supporting the economy. And every company with a Chinese wing includes every major company I can think of off-hand, almost without exception.