| Wondering |
[26 Oct 2009|06:44pm] |
If I should start a Phantasie Let's Play for the forums... Hrm.
Pick a race a class. First come, first serve, no rerolls. If you die, and aren't rezzed, well too bad next person on the list gets your spot.
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| Civ IV Posting |
[28 Sep 2009|04:59pm] |
I was bored so I decided to start up a new game of Civ IV (With the expansions, of course).
Celt Civ, the Big and Small map (Hooper sujested it to me, and it looks nice. Especially if you begin on the continent and not the islands. Were I the dutch, either place would be prime location). I'm not that great of a player, so Warlord is usually about what I can handle half the time. Especially since I play very VERY sloppy).
Start off, decent starting zone. Got cows and elephants nearby, with a whole fucking SLEW of Flood Plains within easy reach. A river winds through the middle of my starting site, and there's some grapes and rice about five squares down, which is a good site for another city, later on when I've almost got Monarchy.
The first village my scout gets, a settler. The second one, a worker. So, I'm in awesome shape. Two cities and a worker within the first five turns.
I tech to Hinduism quickly, because no one EVERY goes for Hinduism first, so I find, when it's open, that it's the best way of getting a religion really early in the game.
Resources aren't that plentiful, and I find out that the Sumerians and the Spanish are on the same continent as I am, and it's not that big of one at that. So, I need to take care of them as quickly as I can.
As soon as I'm comfortable with my city sizes, I build four settlers, and send them to surround and interdict the growth of the Summerians (they're the closest). Once those cities are established, with roads leading back to my capitals, my first two cities start cranking out Gaelic Warriors. My treasury, however, is running low. Luckily, the Oracle builds right then, I grab Monarchy with it, and suddenly those two vine tiles are giving me beaucoup cash.
And I build up Warriors.
I get Alphabet, and Gilgamesh decides it's prime time to offer me some Open Borders. I accept, and send a scout in to check out his defences.
He's got archers, and no walls.
Too easy.
Here's the thing about Gaelic Warriors; they're swordsman equivalent (you get them with Iron Working), but they do not require iron to build. Meaning, in a fucked resource game, as the Celts, you can still pour out strong combat units with Copper.
And I do. Oh how I do. With about eight of them built, all with City Raider, I send them against the capital.
It falls, and I only lose two warriors. I keep building them back in home base, and at four turns per warrior, with two cities dishing them out exactly at the same time, I recoup my loses quickly, and have an even better force ready to kill some Sumerians.
Second city falls, easier than the first (One archer and a warrior defending it). I send my troups south, with a steady stream coming from my capital and secondary city.
And, three or four turns later, the last Sumerian City falls to my greedy grasp. I'm bleeding money through every orifice at this point (-15 gold a turn), but I pillaged and captured Gilgameshes cities, giving me about 250 gold total to pay for it.
Now, Isabella is nearby, and I have two thirds of the continent under my control. I can wait an era or two before taking her out; I have more resources, more land, more cities, and more production than she can ever hope to match. I might make her a Vassal, or I might just wipe her out at my leisure at some later point.
The other possible problem is if the Dutch or the Greeks are around, on the Island Chains. I've been concentrating on land-tech, and my oceangoing tech is lagging.
I am, however, taking some time to build more workers, and develop the land I just conquered. It's got a fair few good resources I desperately need (My starting site was fairly bare of anything worthwhile, outside of the pair of vine tiles).
The date is 530 BC. Less than a hundred and fifty turns have gone past, I have over twice the score of the only other civ I've found, and I my standing army is probably bigger than any other single civ's at the moment.
But, then again, this part of the early game is Celtic turf. The Gaelic Warrior works wonderfully for exactly this kind of tactic; tech early to Iron Working, get a copper node, shove them out the door and wreak havoc.
I may need to pop my difficulty up one next game.
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[23 Sep 2009|07:56pm] |
Death Magnetic is actually a pretty damn awesome album
It is so much better than St. Anger that I have trouble believing it's the same band.
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| Books |
[20 Sep 2009|08:34am] |
Just reread Ilium/Olympos. Ilium is just as good as I remember it being ("Surrender now, and I'll spare your goddesses lives so they can become our slaves and courtesans", "Don't worry about it. Deus Ex Machina have a tendency to sneak up on us literary types"), but Olympos was a lot better than I remember it being.
First time I went through it, I just remember being hella dissapointed in the whole thing. Second readthrough? Much better. Maybe it's because it was right on the heels of Ilium, or maybe it's because I was expecting a terrible book and got something pretty good, but it held up its end of the story of the series.
And now to finish the Iliad. Now I wanna read about Achilles single-handedly defeating the Trojan army for two whole books.
Motherfucker has balls of steel.
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[18 Sep 2009|03:29pm] |
I'm many many MANY years late, but I finally finished Half-Life 2
Now to start on Episode 1.
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[14 Sep 2009|08:28pm] |
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Food Network is the best channel on television.
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| Things I know now I didn't before |
[09 Sep 2009|09:48pm] |
Differences between all of the kinds of RAID setups there are
... What a RAID setup actually is
How to make Ethernet and phone cable
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[23 Aug 2009|08:08am] |
I went out for a cigarette, last night. I go out, I smoke, I enjoy it, and I'm about to come back in when I realise I forgot to unlock the doorknob lock for the back door.
And I had shut the front door deadbolt.
And I didn't have my keys.
I was, to put it bluntly, fucked.
I walk around the house about fifty times, trying to find a way of getting in, but all the windows are shut (it's summer, we have AC, you do the math).
So I'm fucked.
I pace, I pace, I need a way of getting inside. My mom isn't home, she might not be for HOURS still. I need to go to bed, I got work tomorrow, I'm fucked.
I need to get in.
I find a piece of wood that has a wedge in it. I think to myself "Maybe I can wedge a window open"
I try for the basement, because they have sliding windows with one of those little plastic spring-hooks, that lock onto a lip on the window, to lock them in place. I figure, with enough pressure and leverage, I might snap the plastic doodad, slide the window open, and if need be do it on the second window inside.
I try, and it works, sort of. I can get the window open a smidgen of a crack before it snaps back in place, due to bad angles, a kind of dull edge to the wedge of wood, and sheer stubborn resistence from the plastic hook thing.
I need something to slip into that crack, so I can keep it open a bit and slip the wooden wedge into it, to slide it open more.
I find my dogs lead, which has a metal end to it. It's thick, a lot thicker than the opening I can make. But I keep at it, wedging and prying the window until I can slip the metal bit into it. I do, the window is open enough to slid the wedge into it, and pry it open more. The hook snaps open (It doesn't break, though it's now loosened more than a hooker when a ship ties up at the dock), I slide the window open, I pray to whatever god looks after dumb people I left the inside window open, and slip into my basement.
Then I post this thread.
Things I have learned;
Always bring your key
Always double check the door
Never shut the door completely if you don't have your key
fuck me I need another smoke.
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| The Witcher |
[30 Jul 2009|05:26pm] |
I was at Ed's place after D&D, tuesday, and got to try out The Witcher. I've been hearing about it for a while, since it came out, but never got a chance to try it.
It is a damn solid RPG, with fun and quick combat. The combat actually took me a little but of time to get used to, until Ed told me that all I needed to do was treat it like a shooter.
At which point it got fun and easy.
The writting and story, up to the point I played, was top-notch, with a fantastic set of voice actors.
I'm seriously considering buying it, if it I had spending money left.
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[15 Jun 2009|06:44am] |
 
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[15 Jun 2009|06:32am] |
There is a march today all across Iran in protest to the fraudulent elections held Friday. The Ayatollah Khomeini, and the current standing government of Ahmedinejad, which all three opposing candidates have called illegitimate, have issued statements that they will answer the protests with deadly force.
There are reports of machinegun nests being placed along the planned protest route.
CNN, BBC, Routers and most other international media chains are not reporting on this. Once more, like last night, the only real reports coming out of the region are individuals with cell-phones and computers, using proxies kindly provided by various people and groups in the west, to post updates and pictures of the events currently unfolding in Iran.
Here are the links that seem to be the most trustworthy.
http://twitter.com/persiankiwi
http://twitter.com/change_for_iran
http://twitter.com/breakingnews
http://twitter.com/tehranbureau
Here are various pictures, taken on the ground by protesters and the few media sources still active in the country.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/sets/72157619592664479/show/
This is very real. It isn't a bunch of fake Twitter accounts set to troll the internet. People are being beaten and shot right now in Iran because they have dared, for the first time since 1979, to stand up and cry out against tyranny in a single voice.
Spread the news, let people know about it. The country is a stones throw away from civil war.
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[14 Jun 2009|09:15pm] |
I don't know how many of you are following this, but Iran is basically in open revolution right now following the elections on Friday.
There are massive protests in the streets of at least three of the major cities in Iran, and the protestors are being attacked by riot police and the Revolutionary Guard.
Most international news inside of Iran is being blocked; all of their satelite feeds have been cut, and at least one channel, from Germany, has had government troops inside of the station threatening them if they were to broadcast any coverage of the situation, and kidnapped one of their technicians.
The only real stream of information coming out of Iran right now is from individuals who are posting to Facebook or Twitter, and uploading videos and pictures from their cellphones.
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| My best post yet |
[09 Jun 2009|07:07am] |
"That's how they get you.
Then that random nutball comes back and tells you about how the Light Rail is actually a front for the Billy Ray Cyrus Is Our Saviour fund, which is running drugs and money for something called Analytic Anachronist Arsonists, who are planning on burning down the Golden Gate Bridge as a protest against the Venusian takeover of Cameroun.
And before you know it you're fucking a pink banana Mount Vernon while George Washington is stuffing hash into a crystal pipe and talking about how he always thought Jefferson was a little too fruity for his taste. "
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| Hey, Athena |
[29 May 2009|09:47pm] |
Remember when you said "don't get banned"
Looks like you're banned longer.
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[10 May 2009|08:23pm] |
For the beer lovers out there;
I taste a delicious beer recently called Kwe. It is a Native brewed beer, from Quebec City or thereabouts, that isn't made with hops or barley.
It uses corn.
The result is a nice, light and refreshing beer that has a roasted corn aftertaste, with none of the bitterness of hops. It is damned good.
Apparently, they bottle it, so anyone in the province could probably get it through the SAQ in some way.
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[05 May 2009|07:46pm] |
Best line in an Ace Attorney game;
"So you walk in on a murder and the first thing you do is shoot the clown?"
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[23 Apr 2009|06:38am] |
Two threads that are bound to explode into amazing lols on the front page, and I cant read them during school hours because of my exam.
curses ;_;
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