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Old July 19th, 2002, 07:21 PM

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Default Re: OT: For all the genocidal dictators...

Awww...don't tell me you're done yet! I've been really expanding my vocabulary thru this thread.....

My hat(s) off to both of you. You guys can keep this forum very interesting without talking anything SE.....
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Old July 20th, 2002, 02:21 AM
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Default Re: OT: For all the genocidal dictators...

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a subject such as genocide is not appropriate material for any kind of game or as the basis for a 'joke' web-site
I still don't see how one can hold this position and still play any 4X game.

What is your opinion of the "appropriateness" of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement {link}?

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Old July 20th, 2002, 07:21 AM

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Default Re: OT: For all the genocidal dictators...

Ummmm, rdouglass please don't 'rabble rouse' Geo and the Tigga. They are bad enough as it is!!

(Geo, your body was again headless at the Cantina. ...but don't worry - you have a new 8 armed one now!)
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Old July 23rd, 2002, 10:52 AM
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I still don't see how one can hold this position and still play any 4X game.

I dont play against the AI. I play against friends (or one of the cats) and we practice strict Geneva Convention policies. You want to attack a colony? send in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

What is your opinion of the "appropriateness" of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement {link}?[/QB] [/quote]

This is not genocide. This is a matter of free will. If people wish not to reproduce, that is their decision. Unfortunately, quite a lot of people (and I am thinking of computer geeks here (carving out Geo "Da Squirrel" from Dayton , Ohio who we know for a computer geek to be a sexual tyrannosauraus) don't get to decide whether they get to reprodcue or not . If they choose to exercise this right as they believe it will help reduce global population pressures, that is their decision too.

Again, this is not genocide by any definition of the term (and I have checked the United Nations and public international law definitions before I said this).

As a humourous aside, vive la France is all I can say. A few years ago, the French government was concerned about the national population shrinking. The birthrate was very low and their cunning plan to combat this was to get the state television station to show, ahem, naughty movies late on Friday night to ahem, get people in the mood. Lo and behold, ante-natal classes all over France are chockablock in no time at all..

Now, I believe us English have the problem that although our population is shrinking, it is not shrinking fast enough. I am worried that Tony Blair and the idiots in Parliament will decide that like the French, mood inducing television may help out this problem. Instead of surgically enhanced blarts doing 'their thang' on TV, we are going to get late night programmes showing really ugly people rubbing themselves in chip-fat and doing exciting things like mowing the lawn...

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Old July 23rd, 2002, 05:32 PM
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hmm, just what the world needs. more Frenchies. to bad we can combat this with furious mouse clicking
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Unlike many English, I must admit I like the French. Here are 10 reasons why:

1 the country is beautiful

2 they make great wine

3 the cuisine is excellent

4 their capital city is beautiful

5 they have undeniable panache and style

6 they have a fantastic "bugger the lot of you" attitude

7 they get excited about nothing

8 you can have a damn good argument with a Frenchman

9 their national football team is charmingly erratic

10 the girls

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I found a new website for Gt to loathe.

"So you've decided to be evil, A step-by-step guide to joining the forces of darkness"

I think it's hilarious. It has tips on coming up with a good evil name, practicing your evil laugh, developing your master plan, even a "Evil Placement Quiz" to see if you have what it takes to consider a life of evil. My favorite is question #3...
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QUESTION #3: What did you want to be when you grew up?

A) A policeman
B) A doctor
C) A ballerina
D) Supreme dark overlord of all mankind. Either that or a lawyer.
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