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Are there any Stuarts left? You never know, if the Scots vote for independence they may need a new monarch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stuart My history teacher showed off some folks who claimed to be of stuart decent, and claimed the british crown last year in class, but wiki wants to tell us that they died out in the 1800's, with house being back as royals becuase princess Di was a Stuart. Personally Three Kingdoms era China, the Sengoku era of Japan, and the Napoleonic/Russo war in 1812ish are all EXTREMELY interesting to me. It's slightly hilarious to see what Aleander I did to propagandize against Napoleon (declaring him the anti-christ among other things), only to do a bit to reverse it so that he didn't have his serfs going nuts during a time when a truce was on the table.

officially moved, got my internet back up and running just now... don't have a place to put my arm and mouse and keyboard.... kind of annoying, will probably fix it with boxes. God this is expensive.

The only thing that I have to fight with tw2 is "deus ex" syndrome. That is to say that I start it up, know I'll love it later but get frustrated at the brick wall that is the three tutorial fights (ballista, gate battle, and the dukes henchies). It would be nice if they set up an me3 level of c&c (before cupcake colors ended that) so that you had Adda or shani show up

Finished my campaign as the Brutii. Basically I attacked east and took all the way to Sainai before considering my options. Realized that with my industrial and financial base in the Greek Archipeligo, I could easily take on the other houses in rome and spent the next six years shifting over four legions (for kicks I call my RTW stacks that) to the italian peninsula. and then was the time to strike. Managed to take the peninsula within 2 years, and expanded to include gaul, and much of the former dacian territory before victory was declared. Installed Medieval 2, started the grand campaign as Britannia. First order of business was the elimination of the Scotts. Quick and easy. Control of the isles was mine alone, and I moved my forces south to attack out of Caen. Managed to cut my way south taking Caen, Rennes, Angers, and Bordeaux with papal sanction. before they sued for peace. Admittedly the peace didn't last long as Milan decided to flex it's muscles and attack from it's northern provinces (it's been cut in two by the HRE). As I fended off the Milanese, the French decided to try for round two and lost their last four provinces (Tolose (to a crusade), Paris, Rheims, and Dijon). Almost as soon as I finished off Rheims (and thus France), I had war declared by the HRE, and a full army appeared near Metz, with a fleet blockading Tolose. Oh and the danes declared war but have done nothing because of their treaties with the now-dead French.

Dag nabbit. I specifically told those drug cartels "el tiene ningun dinero." My spanish is rusty, but that should translate to "he has 9 million dollars!" I thought it might translate to "he's got a ninja with guns!"

I was just pointing out DS9 because JMS went to paramount to make Babylon 5 in the first place, but got turned down, and DS9 is very superficially similar to the concept (right down to being based on a station)

There's too many similarities between Mass Effect and Babylon 5 for it to be a coincidence. Deep Space 9 sucka

Moving from school housing to actual apartment. I get a kitchen, bathroom, family room, 2 bedrooms.

New Apartment, get the keys tomorrow at Noon!

That's all normal.

I don't think so... the things I learned are baaaad.

You forget the fact that Gold is a non-renewable resources... so the money supply is limited to how much is coming out of the ground at any time. That's one of the reasons that the advent of credit in the early modern period was so important, nations were no longer beholden to their supply of gold to buy and sell things and the currency could grow far beyond what it used to.

Got drunk with several of my managers at work.... This is an odd feeling because last night and tonight are the first times I've been drunk.

Spent 5 hrs comforting and carting around a friend to docs offices for back pain.

http://jalopnik.com/5905240/meet-the-two-guys-behind-the-greatest-craigslist-car-ad-in-history an interview with the guys who created the grand am ad that I posted before.

Adam Sessler is gone from Xplay.... and apparently so is Xplay (I think)

A few surprises in there. Hard to imagine "Scotty" as anything but the engineer,,, and Dolph Lundgren the genius??? He's a chemical engineer... I think that the way somebody put it on here when I brought it up a year or two ago was "He will break you... on a molecular level" sincerely craigslist.

Got a 97 on an exam! And used "Fear will keep the local systems in line... Fear of this battlestation!" as part of that!

There's a small amount of that, and it mostly goes to disorient than anything else. The only major thing I remember from Dead Space was the fact that you were basically performing surgery to kill a punk rather than actually shooting him (you chopped their arms, and legs off, and then could cut them in half etc... rather than shooting)

So basically while Mitty is winning (officially) all of the races, there's a suggestion that Ron Paul might be able to sneak enough delegates under the wire to get a fighting chance at the nomination.

Tigs has me interested in Crusader Kings... although I'm not sure I'd be able to get into it as deeply as rome

Well they need the help

Video embedded in the article, but David Gaider, Chris A, Ken Levine, and a Kotaku guy discussing over story and plot http://kotaku.com/5904279/designers-behind-bioshock-dragon-age-and-fallout-spill-their-game-writing-secrets

My military has managed to take all of turkey, and in the process accidently started a brawl with Egypt. Greece lies prostate before the Roman army and three legions march south from Anatolia to fight their unfortunate enemies. Many of the Pharoh's sons lie dead on the roads to Tarsus, having fought amongst themselves so much that they were unable to unite to fight off the oncoming Romans. The Egyptians are also the first to experience the post-reform roman military, Most of my "artifact" units are being bled dry or put into occupying duty, while they're replaced with cohort after cohort of new (professional) soldiers. As the armies grow more powerful, and more cohorts are raised in Greece, the worlds eyes rest upon Jerusalem as the two most powerful kingdoms clash yet again.

The fight in greece has begun again! (that is I'm playing Rome total war as the Brutii) Started out simply, with tentative expansionism into the Macedonian subcontinent. As time has gone on I've gotten in two wars (Greece and Macedon) which led to the death of a VERY promising young member of my family (age 17 had 4 stars), and while I was cultivating a replacement I got a young ambitious captain that made himself useful enough to be adopted into the family. Under his leadership the Brutii armies have completely taken the Greek archipelago and are fighting to take several of the outlying isles before attacking Asia Minor. The Family council has discussed moving the Capital from Italia into the newly captured Greek territories (Athens probably), but the current head does not choose to move the capital. Instead he prefers to keep closer ties to the Senate. At the current juncture, many of the older members of the family refuse to gamble with their fortunes (we have in excess of 30-40k Denarii) and refuse military adventurism that does not co-inside with the goals of the Senate. The only other discussion being tabled by the heads of the family is if we will continue to fight the Greeks on Asia Minor, or if we will fight north in to Scythian and Germanic territories for easy strikes.