Gorgon

Well, we have been doing the dialogue and trade approach for nigh on 20 years. The Chinese don't seem to keen on the the representative democracy/free trade formula which we have come to believe, perhaps in our own arrogance, is where all countries will end up eventually with globalization and western cultural influence. Not that a hard stance would be any more fruitful, but there is an argument to be made that our engagement with the Chinese does nothing at all to steer them towards democracy or human rights. They are content to do things their own way, which is as much as you would expect from anyone.

D.ick Turpin, the Tudor highwayman And his faithful sidekick Swift Nick.

My god 'This game is currently unavailable. Steam error'. 'Updating steam'. (non responsive update progress bar) 'please check your internet connection'. (it's fine) This is really pushing it. My first and last game with steam.

After the last patch the game hangs my computer whenever I order one of my ships to board. This is bad. Can't risk damage to my HDD as a result of powering it off manually all the time.

What am I supposed to do with trade ships, leave them in the ports they were constructed in, leave them on top of a green line indication a trade route, Sailing them to neutral trade ports only get's me the option of going to war. Far as I have been able to tell sailing them onto the trade route does not increase the route's revenue, but neither does increasing the number of trade ships docked at a trade port

Is that 'the road to independence'

I dunno, I kinda wish there were less ships in the average naval engagement. It all gets out of the players hands pretty fast. So far it's pretty confusing, don't like the land combat particularly much. Why can't I have all of my unit volley at the same time to stop a cavalry charge dead in it's tracks, or follow the volley with a charge of my own. More formations and units are researchable, but it seems like an unreasonably long wait with boring line infantry. Cannons aren't much use, not even massing 6 of them made much of an impression. Maybe they get better.

'Connecting to steam account 'suckmywetfarts'...' hmm... maybe I was a bit hasty.

There is an XP version for students that is freeware now I believe, it ain't even illegal.

Regardless, it looks like it's doing it, at x1 speed. Installer still active, about 20% to go now.

I also noticed my drive doesn't make the usual noise, maybe it's dying. Failed a few burns too recently.

It's installing,, at one 1 kb/sec. Is this normal, it's been nearly an hour and it's still on disk one.

So I got the game at a reasonable price from a games shop, and I realize there is a deluxe version with more units. Bunch of rip off artists. There is bound to be a hack to include those units sooner or later, too bad I won't get to use em anytime soon. Won't have time to play until the weekend, unless I give in to temptation sometime tonight.

I imagine this is the same kinda deal, more a test of manhood than a deliberate provocation from the government, who likes to spin nationalist and anti American rhetoric, but doesn't like it when things get out of control.

One of my dad's friends was arrested, kinda last minute, for shooting at the USS Reagan with a BB gun. Apparently they were arguing whether or not to return fire when the harbor police showed up. True story. He got laid a lot that year for his efforts.

Evil dead 1 and 2 (essentially exactly the same movies) are hilarious, army of Darkness is merely ok. And don't forget Brisco County Jr. Hercules and Zena slipped past my radar because, well, I'm not 13 years old.

You have been de-clawed, at your own request. Now guess how much appealing to common sense is going to net you compared to mod buttons.

Joysticks are much more enjoyable than gamepads, maybe that's just me. I think the thumb controlled thingies lack the proper resistance and feedback to hit the same spot every time. They also tire out your thumbs in a way a joystick doesn't. Pads are better than a keyboard for games that don't involve aiming though.

Anyway rule of thumb, to be a tranny you have to be able to pull it off on several levels. Approximately 1% can actually do this, the rest look like circus freaks.

I dunno, I find that more sinister than funny. Did the van clip the tranny by accident...

Monty Python's the meaning of life. It's the only film in existence with musical acts I can stand watching, also the best Python movie bar none.

I kinda liked that the Soprano's ended with a whisper rather than a bang. The Gallactica ending can't help but be hindered by all these uninteresting story threads that have to be accounted for. I kinda hope they don't try to explain everything.

Messy crappy episode.

Shouldn't it be 'hermaphrodites' to be a true spam topic.