The_Dalai_Llama

Well I'm excited. Also, how did I get here?

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I had to come out of hibernation to say that the lack of mass transit in the offline mode is a kick to the face. A major city cannot live on roads alone.

Will Wright speaks yet again, this time to Gamespot. Interesting little interview. Fun fact... he knows way too much about Care Bears.

While many of us, including myself, are happy about our new custom labels that are popping up everywhere, I think consolidating all the thank you's into one thread would keep the forum less cluttered. If you have a new custom label, use this thread for thank Simtropolis for the gift of custom text. Your Enlightened Ruminant, The_Dalai_Llama. P.S. Please don't turn this into a generic member label thread. Only custom labels, please.

Link My question to Capcom is, "Why did it take you so long?"

Originally posted by: Barbarossa Muck308 said Still, there is currently democratic majority in the House...quote> Technically. A 51/48/1 split is not a practicable majority. The Dems need to have a solid 60/39/1 split to be in full control. Let's make that happen, then Obama can do much more. Barbarossaquote> Sorry, but no party should have total control of the government for any reason. The country works best when there's some give-and-take between the parties. If Obama gets to do whatever he wants, things could be much worse than they are now. If it were the other way around (total Republican control), it might make the conservative part of me happy, but you know that with power comes greed and we saw a bit of that during the Bush years.

Originally posted by: your_adress_here Could someone explain who he is and how he just made 8 billion dollars in the past month?quote> I think it has to do something with collecting underpants, then ?... which leads to profit.

Like them or not, debates are necessary... many undecided voters watch them in order to help them make a decision. Sure, some debates are worse than others, but they're important to the process.

Biden, eh? I don't think it's going to help Obama's street cred, but that's just me.

Life is good, short, a highway, and worth living. That's all you need to know.

Man they love their military coups in Mauritania, huh? It's a shame much of Africa is run by brutal regimes and militant groups just looking for power.

Great news. Hopefully the price of gorilla meat will drop considerably.

Masochist, you're allowed only two topics with a Yakov Smirnoff reference, you know.

Another hit for freedom of expression... but it's Russia so it's not a surprise. I would like to see a world without emos, but I'd rather see the fad die than a forced ban.

Originally posted by: TV-VCR Originally posted by: The_Dalai_Llama I just came back from the future and I found out that no, it's not possible.quote> Originally posted by: coolotter88 you can't travel through space, not unless if you enjoy cancer.quote> I really want this thread to be more of a serious discussion. Not insulting you in any way. quote> Well... if I have to be serious. Seriously, I have little or no knowledge of this subject so I can't comment much on it, but I don't see time travel, as we refer to it, possible. However, we are always traveling in time... but only at one speed.

It's not the size of the planet that matters, it's the motion of its oceans. But yes, Earth is small even compared to other planets in our solar system... except for Pluto, but we don't talk about him anymore.

I'll go in alphabetical order. A. I kind of like the direction SCC is taking even if it's a bit underwhelming graphically. It's definitely not a true SimCity game, but it could be a nice, little distraction before they announce a proper sequel. B. The SC Box is just a way to get skeptics to buy SCS for a relatively cheap price, but I don't see the point in the combo pack. SC4 was one of the best-selling PC games of 2007... 4 years after its initial release! And SCS did sell alright, not great, but not horribly. C. Yeah, perhaps EA definitely hurt the SimCity franchise with Societies and I don't see Creator doing much to help, and having Spore being delayed and perfected didn't help SimCity at all. Spore is probably 99% complete now so Maxis and Will Wright should have to start brainstorming about a future SimCity. Not that the Spore delays were bad or anything... because Spore will be amazing and we can't have Maxis release an unfinished game.

Originally posted by: Barbarossa First, from my perspective, the majority of news programs are Republican-oriented, or, more precisely, are conservative-leaning. With the sole exception of Keith Olberman (and perhaps Schiffer), I cannot think of a single news show host who is not biased towards the right. Tim Russert is dead, mind you. quote> I must absolutely disagree with you to a point. Countless polls and studies show that most journalists define themselves as liberal while a small majority say they're conservative. I find that some news outlets (MSNBC, New York Times, and CNN to a lesser extent) typically lean to the left... and the big 3 nightly news shows are also pretty favorable to liberals. That doesn't mean there's conservative bias out there. Talk radio is still heavily conservative and I believe Fox News somewhat balances the cable news bias with its conservative bias... but overall, the media is left-of-center, in general. Originally posted by: MrCinatit You want to see commentary masquerading as news? Watch Lou Dobbs. Watching his hate-filled mouth-frothing tirades is rather sickening.There was a four month period when I had a little contest: I would watch his show for the night until he would "report" on a story involving himself, or inject himself into a story. The longest I went during that period: 15 minutes. That is right - every night, Lou Dobbs would report on a story about Lou Dobbs within 15 minutes of every show. The guy is terrible.quote> The same thing can be said about Bill O'Reilly, I think. He always seems to bring himself into some of the stories he covers. Nevertheless, I'd rather listen to O'Reilly and Dobbs than Olbermann or Matthews, by far the most biased "journalists" on TV. Of course, we do have opposing opinions... I don't mind Dobbs that much. Link to some Wiki thing about bias Oh yeah, I do agree on your other two points. Too many pundits, too much propaganda, too much celebrity news.

Originally posted by: NMUSpidey Entirely too many beer snobs! If you want incredibly terrible beer, try Pabst Blue Ribbon, anything Natural, or Busch (the high school house party trifecta). Of course, when I go to buy for myself, or I go to a BYOB event, I'm grabbing some Molsons. Mmm, nonunion Canadian beer.quote> PBR and Natty Light are truly nasty... High Life and Milwaukee's Beast are pretty awful, too... but the worst goes to my dad's beer of choice, Genesee. Miller Lite is my default beer of choice, but it's certainly not the best. I'm more into Molson or Magic Hat myself.

I just came back from the future and I found out that no, it's not possible.

One of the greatest websites in the world started in Canada... take a guess which one? C'mon... take a stab at it.