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Damn we'll hope they get the IP address traced correctly before deploying the missiles... Meh, a bunch of people doing the cyber equivalent of vandalising street lamps and phone booths, how incredibly helpful.

Yes, he said he was from England >_

Yes, and it was great fun... probably the last time a mini game was actually fun Has the human gene pool really deteriorated that rapidly in last decade? Depressing prospects >_

I speak Danish, German, English and understand a bit of French (used to be way better at the latter). English has sounds that are way harder for non-native English speakers to learn than German. Oh yeah, and French is really a waste of good letters, they barely pronounce more than half of them

I have fond memories of the previous titles and was a big fan of them, but to see it reduced in this ways is actually kind of upstting. its hard for me to understand how they could take so many steps backwards. Infact no emotion translates well over the t'interweb, but its worth a try. Sorry to hear you feel that way about the game VeryAngry, but as somebody said, it is perfectly Ok not to like it, as long as it is expressed in a reasonable way (very angry or not). Lets leave snide remarks about whose language skills, punctuation, etc. is superior out of the "debate"

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"Mass shamble" Good to see people with a sense of humour >_

Coincidentally, a similar issue arose for me in Nationstates: I'll legalize cannibalism and see what happens >_

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Start of old thread End of old thread I have this craving for running over pedestrians... Now why was it I absolutelyeffinhate when companies wants my details online (for "improved customer experience")?

I'm gonna live forever Seriously though, I always thought it was the resulting stupification of the human population that would be the bane of the human race.

Meh, voted all of the above. In my own anecdotal experiences they make for poor party guests for everybody else Drunk is good, senselessly drunk isn't

I'm actually beginning to look forward to this game... I know it's silly, but I get this vibe of made by somebody who might share my taste in games

Eek! He said 'tinned' Use 'Canned' instead. A much more woody word Apart from that, spam, cheese, salsa, olives and lots of herbs between some sandwich bread in the toaster... Yum

Afrika Korps sand coloured Cow-moo-flage scheme?

Well, watching atheists and monotheists using claws and hair pulling can be fun too You are right though, and it is not as if we forbid people to create (yet another) religious debate thread. How about giving it a break in this particular thread?

Thread pruned a bit since people seems to have missed the first message. Just a friendly reminder that I'm feeling grumpy and trigger happy...

Sounds like the mating season has started for the blue-footed Swede

It depends a bit on who you ask I suppose (and during which time in history). For about 800 years, it was a major trade partner for the nordic countries. We can always agree or disagree whether they (the Nordic countries) are part of the western culture. Oh yeah, and occasional enemy in the case of Sweden, who always disagreed with the Russians over who the Duchy of Finland belonged to Intermarriage between Russian rulers and Byzantine ruling families was also the reason why they considered themselves "successors" to the Roman empire (after the fall of Constantinople).

Yup Thats a bit of a simplification. Nobody really knows the exact origin of the word (probably celtic), but the Romans used it geographically to describe the land east of the Rhine and usually in a generalizing way to describe people north of Helvetica who werent Gaul (i.e. non-Celts). The period of migration is a bit more complex than that, the Teutons, Vandals, Goths, Franks, Lombards, Saxons etc. either being displaced by people from the east (Huns and Mongols amongst them) in a domino effect or just milling around. Nobody knows for sure what instigated it. Probably global warming Which was sort of part of my original point. Leaving out somebody, pretending they don't exist makes no more sense than singling somebodys accomplishments out. The dynamics are too complex. Mindaugas disagrees. I use empire rather frivolous to describe a realm of signicant size and dominance. It was after all the largest country in Europe. I should probably have used a smiley. Look up Ugra River (or "The Standoff"). It makes the Phoney War look like aggressive military campaigning by comparison. The outcome (and lack of confidence in the leadership) however was the fracturing and internal war in the Golden Horde that resulted in infighting and decline.

Heh, if La Grande Armee hadn't been put on ice, we would all speak French (badly) and eat frog legs today Not trying to leave out Germany and Italy, but as nation states they are relatively new constructs resulting from unification wars (Bismark and Garibaldi iirc).

Who is this mysterious hardcore gamer?

It depends on scope and timeframe. 'Germany' is a modern construct and most of its predecessor principalities and kingdoms did indeed have way less impact on European history than Denmark. Basically, you have Denmark-Norway and Russia (or ethnic russian states) defining "world history" north of Central Europe, England and France defined history in Western Europe and the Iberian defined Southern Europe's history (post Imperial Rome). In the east, world history pretty much consisted of Byzans from 400-1453. Central europe was the place where everybody met and fought it out, resulting in the mess of fractured states, duchies, baronies, principalities and theocracies that made up the Holy Roman empire (sort of the predecessor of the EU). Not sure what you mean by "Lithuania is not synonymous with Russia.". The Duchy of Lithuanian was one of the largest empires in Europe in its time, even if nominally subject to the king of Poland. It's territories (and people) was absorbed in the expaning Muscowy though and because part of Russia. And no, after receiving a sound thrashing by Muscowy, the mongols never really threatened Europe again. Only the Turks did

Novgorod, Muscowy or Lithuania (there was no 'Russia', although Muscowy eventually scooped up the others when it expanded)? Holding off The Golden Horde from Western Europe? Trade? Art? Litterature? Philisophy? About as much as any other European country.

Geographically perhaps. But then Turkey can make a similar claim. After all it's armies has also reached far and wide into Europe. Nah, the presence of Turks in Europe is a historic novelty. When did their invasion start, early 1200-1300, reaching the western parts in early 1400? Even then, late 1400, the Ottomans had to contend with other Turkish tribes before establishing themselves as the dominant rulers in the former Byzantine provinces.