I've just had the most remarkable squabble over at http://forums.indiegamer.com. It caused a bunch of forum regulars to close ranks and all but boot me. What...
... As always, a sound, reasoned thought from you. I don't understand why you attract so much wrath, but then again, I guess I'm still rather optimistic about...
... I can say that gaming in general (pen & paper and arcade/computer games) has impacted my life. But just one title? AD&D or X-Com comes close, but I'd...
... That's a really good shorthand explanation. ... I can see that. Star Trek TOS was a really progressive show. 1st Asian in a major role on TV, and the...
... My experience is it's important to keep a forum from becoming a club. Otherwise you get Lord Of The Flies phenomena. We came up with the co-moderator...
... I'd say TNG was even more groundbreaking, as the range of controversial themes was wider (not to mention still relevant to this day, sadly), and the...
... Difficult to communicate such a message successfully even if you know what you're trying to do. Think of all the movies that probably had a point, but...
... Also there are plenty of examples where one of the sides actually were horrible, so any example, whether in this game or otherwise, that want to say that...
... Not in the case of the Spanish in the New World! I don't shed a tear for the Aztecs, bloodthirsty buggers that they were, but an equally bloodthirsty...
... Maybe you can claim art/beauty is tied to survival instincts as our view of beauty is tied up to the golden..... Hmm my english fails me, I only know the...
... The point is not that all sides are necessarily on the same level, but that they distort the truth to their favor. Taking for instance american movies...
... It's a fine line to thread between coming off as heavy handed and being so subtle nobody gets it. Being a fan of "mind fuck" style movies myself, I might...
... The Golden Mean, aka the square root of 2. Take a square, take the diagonal, make a rectangle from that. ... On the other hand, the Greeks flogged off...
... Fascinating historical odyssey. The archivist's commentary is summed up by the following caption, however. http://www.superdickery.com/propaganda/27.html...
That I agree with completely. For instance, before WWII, it was the british and others that were the villains with their extensive colonies where there were...
... Never got into that cartoon so I don't know, but this one in particular... if the japanese soldier didn't actually get killed there, I could swear it's a...
A modern day conservative comic, about an ultra-liberal One World Government takeover. http://accstudios.com/ I dig the alternate future, whether I agree with...
Brandon Van Every <bvanevery@...> wrote: [snip] I think of similarly far out ideas about Jesus Christ, [snip] Hey Brandon, I was wonderting what sort of...
... *ahem* To be fair, many(most?) of the games banned because of violent/sexual content aren't of the exploitative kind. In fact, it seems to me it's ...
... Manhunt 2 is the title I had in mind. And we aren't going to be playing it in its current form, as it got banned in the UK and an "Adults Only" rating in...
"Earlier this year, the Church of England threatened to sue Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for depicting the Manchester Cathedral in the latter's sci-fi...
I am not modern. I cut teeth on the internet back when Usenet was the best public forum available, and NCSA Mosaic was this newfangled "web browser" that was...
Last night I thought I had finally done it! I thought I had finally found a "Golden Path" through Freeciv that I had previously overlooked, that could allow...
But isn't this story just a testament to the fact that the game is quite well balanced and that the AI is good? On the other hand....depending on the map size...
... Think I'll save the concept of "well balanced" for a day when things get slow. I think it's a myth. ... On hard, the AIs do expand a lot. It does so at...
... I played a 3 hour game this evening on "Normal" difficulty with 4 other AI players. I started on a huge continent by myself in the center of the world,...
Is there anyone here that creates first person shooter games or 3D games? I make them and I use 2 different programs. Mainly I use Reality Factory and FPS...
More Freeciv inspired shenanigans. I made a huge empire, because I was on a huge map with huge continents, and I could. But when it came time to use the...
... In Supreme Commander it's not uncommon to zoom out with a flick of the mousewheel, shift the mouse a little and zoom back in. It's not necessarily much...
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