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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.

Just speculation on my part, but I guess that with the resources and manpower that Russia has, they don't want to play second fiddle in world economics. Especially not with the potentially booming (and crashing?) economies in India and China. Putin isn't stupid, trade and modernisation of infrastructure is a priority.

R00fles! I see it for me... Mass Effect Unleashed! *Groan*

Historically, Russia has always been part of "Europe". A few decades of Iron Curtain will soon be forgotten and real-politics will reassert itself. Denmark has mostly had cordial relations with Russia, not at least during it's 12 major and 20 minor wars with Sweden (Denmark and Sweden holds the world record for most wars fought against each other). Personally I think the world outside Europe is viewing Russia with way more trepidation than Europeans themselves.

Which one? Which Zork or which Mud? If the latter, it was called Deeper Trouble (incredibly, my 'Gorth' login still works after all those years), if the former, no Zork, just the style of text interface and area description.

Hehe, big bad Jedi conned by a scammer. Just imagine a holocron with guy from planet something who used to be the treasurer for the now exiled planetary government, needing help to get a cargohold full of credits off-planet. We just need your account no.

Thanks for the reminder... I bought Velvet Assassin on a sale a long time ago. Never got around to install it. Might give it a try some day. Since I bought the big box of GTA games, I think I'll start with GTA III (somebody shout 'stop' if I should try San Andreas or Vice City first). Hey, I resemble that remark Spent many years, many manhours (and many beers) being part of a team running MUD (before video games got graphics). Sort of MMO Zork Of course, I never had any ambitions of ever working in game development, but it was a fun experience. Ye gods, gamers are whiners when they are subjected to rebalancing and rule changes

Blasto... the first Hanar Spectre!

Hey, seems way better than shopbot Unfortunately the one I'm curious about (the gtx 590 hydro coppper) isn't there. Closest thing I got was Black Tea tech who had the 580 HC2... and the buggers at EVGA doesn't ship outside mainland North America. Been there tried that too.