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Reply to Fun with Sins of a Solar Empire in Real-Time JoeUser Forums

I'm really looking forward to this game... I always liked the idea of RTS, but haven't seen much of an RTS l liked to play. (with the exception of Supreme Commander, maybe) Most so-called RTS are just to much Real-Time and to little strategy for my taste. To much about clicking fast and to little about coming up with good strategies. Sins of a Solar Empire could be the game I've been waiting for... I am still a bit skeptical how it will turn ou

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Reply to Coke or Pepsi? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I prefer Afri-Cola. It's german brand and they've been around for quite some time, but lost a lot of market share to the big ones and because they kept changing the recipe. A couple of years ago, they listened to their fans and switched back to the original old recipe. Was the right decision, it seems - they had a bit of a comeback during the last years. Aside from the great taste, I like them because they've got 250mg caffeine per liter. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/ju/T_JU/

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Reply to Solving the Terrorist Problem in Misc JoeUser Forums

Are you in Germany now? Why? Where? Boy do I miss it. I'm actually german and live near Wiesbaden (beautiful Rhein-Main-area). I worked in in the US for a while a couple of years ago (in Providence, RI to be precise) and - boy, do I miss it. <img src="../images/smiles/joke.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle"

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Reply to Solving the Terrorist Problem in Misc JoeUser Forums

With some things in this article I agree, with some I don't. During the 70s, there have been instances where the german government indeed did negotiate with terrorists. For example, the 'Bewegung 2.Juni', another terrorist group with loose contacts to the RAF, managed to kidnap Peter Lorenz (a candidate for mayor in Berlin) and successfully exchanged im for several imprisoned terrorists.* This successful operation was inspirational for later atte

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Reply to Hey Prophet Muhammad? Look what your people have done? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Allah is a pussy and Jesus could kick his ass any day of the week. Oh. Oh crap. Now, that line of argument gives us atheists a tough time. 'Jeses might kick Allahs ass, but... noone can beat them both.' Na, that doesn't work. Damn, how shell I prove my intellectual superiority? *brain implodes*

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Reply to Would people want Mega events? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Definitly, YES. And a lot of great suggestions here. I totally agree that these mega-events should be optional. I'd like to go one step further: Instead an on/off-checkbox, give us some more options, like we have the galaxy setup: MEGA-EVENT PROBABILITY: - a slider on how often mega events happen. Never, extremly seldom, about once per game, several times per game... MEGA-EVENT IMPACT: - how severe the consequences are. Light (small invasion fleets turn up, little stuff

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Reply to Windows Vista: A pre-beta 2 status report in Windows Vista JoeUser Forums

All the 'seucrity' dialogs are not only annoying, but also a security problem. The result of having those dialogs everywhere is training the user to click themaway without really reading them. *click* not again... *click* yes I really want *click* YES! *click* ... So, there's a good chance that you'll click 'Yes' by reflex on the one really cirtical pop-up where you should have clicked 'No'. For handles and memory usage... insane. Just

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Reply to New VLC released - 0.8.5 in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

May favourite player, too. Definitly worth recommending. Very slim, very stable, and can cope with almost any format you throw at it. Another small, but for me quite valuable feature: When you're using two monitors, VLC (DVD-)playback works on both monitors - several other players only work on the primary monitor. (Means I can play GalCiv2 on one monitor while watching Babylon5 on

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Reply to Mandatory Health Insurance: a Trend for the Future? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

This is one of the stranger differences I've experienced between europe and the US. Here in germany we've had mandatory health insurance forever and nobody considers it 'totalitarian'. (Which does NOT mean that we a good working healthcare system... but that is another issue. It although doesn't mean that we don't have totalitarian tendencies... ah but that is another issue again. Wait, what did I want to say?)

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Reply to Ooh. 2 page ads in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I've got the same attitude towards ads as you, Brad. And in fact I have a huge distrust against magazines, be it printed or online. When deciding wether to buy a game or not, I always look what people write in forums. Best way, in my experience, to find out what a game really is like. But when I look at ads now and then - everything that conatins to much buzzwords and only screenshots from cutscenes makes a bad impression. Showing what the actual GAME looks like is the right way to go, in m

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Reply to Worst Star Trek Character in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Wesley was the best! SO why? Please explain. Um, is 'slimy smartass' enough of an explanation? By the way, that just reminds me - some guys here in germany re-dubed several episodes of TNG. Quite funny, because although their dialogs are 100% silly, they fit the expressions of the actors perfectly

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Reply to Really hate CD copy protection today in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Agh. I was thinking about getting Oblivion today, but in this case I probably won't. Well, I'm pretty busy playing GalCiv2 anyway. Here in germany, the music industry, eh, of couse I mean the politicians, are about to pass a law which makes copying music CDs for your own use legal only if it has no copy protection. So, ripping a CD with copy protection so I can put it on my ipod or removing some &%$&#

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Reply to Copy protection follow-up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Haha, I'm at the CeBit right now and StarForce is here, to. Went there to see the guys with my own eyes. They didn't look to happy, so I thought starting to discuss with them about the stupid stuff they did and how their tech sucks might be redundant. So I just grinned at them and went on. But now I can claim that I looked into the eyes of evil. <img src="h

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Reply to Implementing player suggestions in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

Taxes ====|========= 30% Spending (Industrial Capacity) Production Rate =======|====== 50% Research Rate ===========|== 80% Production Distribution Military ==|======== Social Yes! I'd love something like that!

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Reply to AI: I'm so excited! in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I totally agree with the 'AI needs to understand the advantage of being the attacker' thing. The AI (even on intelligent) is rather passive when it comes to space battles. Which is especially deadly because it rarely bulds ships with strong defenses. I have won several wars just because of that fact... both our fleets hanging in space, more or less equally strong, and the AI rarely attacks my fleets... lets me pick what to fight and leaves me the

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Reply to Know your flame warrior in Blog Communities JoeUser Forums

Harhar... around here, I am a lurker most of the time... but hell yeah,. it reminds me of a time when I was moderating... eh... some forum elsewhere.... At first, I was always the 'Diplomat'-guy... and without recognizing and knowing why, I (was?) turned into a godfather. That was kinda creepy. And one of the reasons I quit.

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Reply to An easy way to multiplayer? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There should be a sticky about how to get multiplayer working... or maybe a document from the website to download. Otherwise these topics will frequently be popping up. There is a sticky 'The case for no multiplayer' and still the topic keeps coming up again.... *shrugs*

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