global warming

[TCO]

I can neither confirm nor deny the prescense of invisible smilies in my fla...er posts that is.

[TCO]

Just to show you how I think...and to bring this back on topic.

You know what I love? When one of the AI engineers wanders onto my land. He finds some pollution and starts to clean it up. I let him finish and than cap his little AI ass!!!

[Straybow]

You've gotta be pretty close to your opponent for an Engr to wander in, and when they're wandering they usually look for somewhere to settle. I've never seen one do any improving or tidying up.

I don't know why you wouldn't clean up pollution if it falls on a tile in use. It kills half the production, and that's an offense to the empire. I'm dispeased if the serfs are not working at their best.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Straybow
You've gotta be pretty close to your opponent for an Engr to wander in, and when they're wandering they usually look for somewhere to settle. I've never seen one do any improving or tidying up.

I don't know why you wouldn't clean up pollution if it falls on a tile in use. It kills half the production, and that's an offense to the empire. I'm dispeased if the serfs are not working at their best.

It's well known that the AI will clean up pollution if it wanders onto one of your tiles that has it. He will do this in preference to settling. And I'm always near the AI. Always pushing the border over towards him. Lebensraum!!

[Scouse Gits]

In one of the earlier fortnight OCC games the biggest danger was an AI engineer coming in and helpfully irrigating my expensively forested river squares

SG[1]

[Straybow]

That doesn't explain why you don't clean up pollution around your vital cities.

I tend to play on gigantic maps. I made a 105x95 map of Eurasia.

[TCO]

Global warming hurts the AI more than me.

Only a builder would worry about it. Warmongers don't let such stuff bother them. Heck, the game can be over before pollution even crops up...

[Campo]

Originally posted by GP:
ooooh, you're so much better, debeest. Good to know that you can suck up to somebody trashing Americans. **** em. Napalm their babies. We showed them in 1776 and 1812 what we think of em.

Just so it's clear, that was the line I thought was insulting.

I don't agree with much of Straybow's posts but I was enjoying the discussion. It was intelligent and interesting. I thought GP's remark to debeest was over the line. I took him as serious, and he hasn't said otherwise.

[TCO]

It was meant to be over the top. Probably I'm in the wrong for using that kind of language.

I am serious about "not liking to see Americans look sophisticated by sucking up to those who find us unsophisticated." Reminds me of my buddy's candy-ass friends from Ivy League schools who would wear a Canadian flag on their backpack, when traveling Europe. Being an American or (shiver) proud of it was so declasse.

[Straybow]

You have to go further over the top if you want to leave off the smilies. Napalm their babies, set Big Ben to Eastern Time, and force them to drop the "u" when they spell "humour," dammit! See? No smilies necessary.

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Straybow
You have to go further over the top if you want to leave off the smilies. Napalm their babies, set Big Ben to Eastern Time, and force them to drop the "u" when they spell "humour," dammit! See? No smilies necessary.

In the absence of smilies -- I shall have no choice but to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against our colonial brethren - Tony Blair

[Campo]

GP,
Perhaps I'm missing it, but I don't see debeest's post as sucking up. The one you quoted said:

Originally posted by debeest
SG1: Be nice, now. Many of us Amurricans are smarter than the oil man appointed by the Supreme Court justices appointed by his daddy. Smart enough to wonder how it is that "politically correct" is only used to refer to left-wingers, when the dominant politics of this country and most governments is thoroughly right-wing. And smart enough to see that that's exactly why the right wing got to define the term.

Then again, maybe I only know about Wales because that's where my grandaddy was born....

I can see where you'd disagree with him, but not how he's sucking up to the Gits. My impression was that you were taking a shot at him for expressing a liberal opinion, and combining it with a shot at the SGs. Maybe I overreacted but it seemed out of order for the reasonable discussion we'd been having.

I'd be pleased to put it behind us.

[Campo]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits

In the absence of smilies -- I shall have no choice but to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against our colonial brethren - Tony Blair

SG,
You shouldn't use smilies, you should just include a bottle count. We'd know not to take you seriously if there were more than two.

[TCO]

campo, you have to look to SG's earlier post, that debeest is responding to...

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by GP
...Reminds me of my buddy's candy-ass friends from Ivy League schools who would wear a Canadian flag on their backpack, when traveling Europe.

Trying to travel incognito!

Nobody will be able to tell - with the J.Crew top tucked into the khaki shorts (with belt), the sneakers, the wristwatch, the posture, etc etc etc... Kijk mama, canadezen!

Anyway, enough of the personal jabs. This discussion was going fine for a while...