So...

Aegix Drakan wrote:
andabout Civ 2...>_> I find that the races are terribly unbalanced. Humans, elves and infidels start out on thesurface, with no special access to other worlds. Merfolk get the ocean to themselves, since no other race can build cities down there. the Buteo can ONLY travel and build cities in the clouds, and on land (and the clouds suck. Almost nothing worth having up there). And so on. >_> I prefer the merfolk. you get unique acess to the ocean floor, which is chock full of resources.

I don't recall the ocean being good for anything but food. Also, I don't think there's restrictions on where you can build cities, regardless of race. You just have to get to the planes. and maybe find the right goodie huts.

The underworld has a pile of high production squares, usually clustered together. Plus, you find dwarves down there. And for some strange reason, as soon as you bribe one Dwarf to join you, he turns out to be King of the Dwarves, and you get to build them as units.

The clouds suck, btw. The only good reason to build cloud cities is so you can have a base for Sorcerer operations. No food, barely any production.

Be sure to be the one to build the Marco Polo's Embassy analog. It ensures that you'll get your race's hero unit, which is usually pretty bad-ass.

Mooncheese: The game we're talking about is Civ 2: Test of Time. It was a later version that had basic Civ 2, the EXpanded Civ 2 (where landing on Alpha Centuari just started the whole establishing a civilization process over again), a space version, and a fantasy version (based on Norse mythology)

russadwan wrote:Isn't it amazing how completly random you can be on this thread? And the best part is, it's impossible to get off topic. 😃

Dogs on a flagpole treat people in an ice cream burger?

Yes, let's elaborate more on the ice cream burger flagpole dogs. What do they treat people with? Are they all balanced at the top of the flagpole, or is the pole resting on the ground? Are they tied, leashed, duct-taped, or in any other way fastened to the pole? And is an ice cream burger entirely made out of ice cream, or is it just a scoop of ice cream in a hamburger bun?

You see, you should always ask questions about anything new or complex. You might learn something.

deathbyhokie wrote:Also, I don't think there's restrictions on where you can build cities, regardless of race. You just have to get to the planes. and maybe find the right goodie huts.

>_> go figure the odds on going to a new plane, and managing to find a goody hut that gives you a settler unit so yo ucna make a city there. ...of course...I almost forgot the option to seige a city and take it over :sly:

oh...that reminds me...One time, my embassador was expelled back to my capital city...WHICH WAS UNDERWATER. ...Poor skald could never leave, for some reason. XD

And Mc Donalds just called be back for a second interview today... 😮 So I went, and if they call back on friday, I got a job there. 😮 Noooooo! I'm being mistaken for a stupid person! ...That, or the guy posts here too, and saw my stupid mistake a few posts ago... 😞

Aegix Drakan wrote: So I went, and if they call back on friday, I got a job there. 😮 Noooooo! I'm being mistaken for a stupid person!

So yeah, ice cream burger flagpole dogs and stuff.

..and at that point, Pineconn was attacked by a weasel...wielding a chainsaw...with a cucumber sticking out of it's mouth!

on the subject of Civ, well, the board game version is massive. The board is probably three feet by four and a half, and there are over a thousand little plastic figures for settlers, units, etc. Not to mention 500 or so city cards, tech cards, wonder cards and improvement cards. The game is ginormous.

Uh-oh, not another chainsaw weasel! I just saw one of those yestermonth! Anyway, the weasel was being chased by a sentient bottle of Pepto-Bismol over the linoleum, which was on the back of a walking dead hippopotamus.

I've heard of the Civ board game. I would imagine it takes forever and a half, even longer than Risk, which we used to play at school sometimes.

And with that, I'm one-quarter of the way to the big 10K mark.

What a journey it will be.

Pineconn wrote:And with that, I'm one-quarter of the way to the big 10K mark.

What a journey it will be.

This thread is in serious need of a catchphrase, that way when anybody says it outside of this thread, we all zerg-rush this thread about the thread that mentioned it. And we'll laugh.

How about "the"?

Lacks character. Refused.

Yeah, but people going nuts over a mundane word like "the" would be weird. THE! How about "gubernatorial platypus"?

All these random sentences remind me of an acting class I'm taking. Last week we did an exercise wear we each wrote one word on a big sheet of paper to make sentences. The only two I remember are "Breakfast makes good pancakes for my dead mother" and "Alligator skins refrigerate icy bodies." Then we were split into groups to write songs for these sentences. Oh the hilarity.

That sounds quite interesting.

It is quite a fun class. Best class ever, though, is Metaphysics. It's all about math, what it really is, whether it actually has any real content, cause it's not actually immediately obvious whether math has real content. I say it does, but then again I'm a mathematician. There are people who say it's all mental constructions or linguistic conventions, and some people who even go so far as to say it's all a grand fiction that we've come up with to sort out phenomena. That last theory isn't very plausible for a few reasons, but the rest of it, who knows?

Eventually they're going to move this thread to Forum Games and you guys will lose half of your posts.

And I will lose three. Ish.

I can live with that. I've been here for four years and I've only got 500 posts anyway, what do I care?

phattonez 466
Pineconn 223
Darth Marsden 160
Amaster42 158
biggiy05 156
Aegix Drakan 110

Damn, that would be a lot of lost posts for me.

Yes, your contributions regarding belly button lint must not rot in the Forum Games section!

Seriously though, I don't think anyone here really views post count as a big deal... and as this thread gets some good activity and some fun, albeit random, discussions going in general discussion, it'd be nice if it stayed right here 😊

How many more pages is this thread able to handle, anyway? If we go too far, will we cause it to explode in a massive um, explosion of randomness?

Hah, and then there will be all these jobs, nail clippers, civilization 2 games, and pineconn dollars, all over the place. That would be excellent.

Icey wrote:Yes, your contributions regarding belly button lint must not rot in the Forum Games section!

Perhaps one of my favorite posts in this thread:

Pineconn wrote:So I just pulled this 1-inch long cylinder of gunk from my belly button... and it smells bad. Very bad. That's an area I need to touch up on when I'm in the shower. :kawaii:

My favorite picture I posted was the one of the man leaning out of a car and throwing up/spitting out coffee, but it got taken down. Bummer.

I can see it now:
-Captain's log, Stardate 46793.2. We're 98 pages in the "So..." thread and we've almost reached critical mass. Scotty! What ............... are you going to do?!
-Ah dun't know, Captain! We'rrrrrrrre goooin' ter unerrrrrgooo grrrraviational collapse sooooon!
(Since I suck at typing out exaggerated Scottish accents, I'm gonna leave the rest to your imaginations.)

So I finally got my SAT and ACT scores back. I got an 1890 on the SAT and a 30 on the ACT. Are these scores any good? (For people who don't know, the max for the SAT is 2400, and the max for the ACT is 36. You get points taken off for marking an incorrect answer on the SAT, but you don't on the ACT.)

Honestly, now that I know what I'm up against, I think I can do better on these tests (more so on the SAT).

Couldn't you figure it out yourself, that you did pretty good? [shrug]

Sounds look you did pretty well. So, which one do you like better, the SAT or the ACT?

I got 1400 back when SAT scores only went up to 1600. I was one of the last people to take the old SAT, which was phased out in 2005. I heard the new SAT dispensed with those tricky vocabulary sections at least.

I got a 25 the first time I took the ACT, then re-took it and got 31.

MoonCheese wrote:I heard the new SAT dispensed with those tricky vocabulary sections at least.

Oh no, the new SAT still has those stupid questions like these:

1. As I entered the room, my viewing the _______ girl brought about _______ feelings.

(A) pale . . ambivalent
(B) wretched . . nostalgic
(C) homely . . sympathetic
(D) colorful . . anxious
(E) petite . . unnerving

Or did you mean something else? (Actually, that was a pretty good question I just made up. Anyone care to guess?)

russadwan wrote:So, which one do you like better, the SAT or the ACT?

ACT. It was much more balanced.

I got a 32 on the ACT and 1910 on the SAT. I hate the SAT and I really liked the ACT.