Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[SumBum]

Well, it's been a month already since that game came out. Plenty of time to play through a single player game.

I must be slow. I haven't even touched the west half of the map yet.

[Piscator]

Well, I was just guessing. I've never actually seen the game, let alone the map.

Rant/thought: I'm apparently getting a cold and if I go by the "three day rule", it will be in full bloom around Christmas. *sigh*

[gejyspa]

I always wonder why religious people refer to God of Jezus with a capital H in the word Him... It's a demonstrative pronoun.. It NEVER has capital first letter when not being the first word of a sentence! Why al of a sudden now it does?

It's correct either way. Here's what the Chicago Manual of Style says:

Q. Is it proper to capitalize pronouns that refer to a deity? For example, “God is willing to forgive anyone who comes to Him.”

A. Yes, although it’s not Chicago style. Capping the pronouns can imply an expression of religious faith on the part of the writer; lowercasing them leaves the writer’s beliefs unclear. The choice of style should be made with sensitivity to the type of reader you are addressing. Lowercasing is more inclusive, but it might offend in some kinds of religious literature.

I also liked this quote:

If you capitalize pronouns that refer to God to show reverence for His name, fantastic! Continue doing so. If you capitalize pronouns that refer to God to make it more clear who is being referred to, great! Continue doing so. If you are not capitalizing pronouns that refer to God because you believe proper English grammar/syntax/style should be followed, wonderful! Continue following your conviction. Again, this is not a right vs. wrong issue. Each of us must follow his/her own conviction and each of us should refrain from judging those who take a different viewpoint.

The oldest English Bible edition that I've been able to find that does it is the New American Standard Bible (1971)

None of this matters to me, of course, since I read it in Hebrew, which doesn't even have capital letters

[SumBum]

I think they should use a word other than "capping" when mentioning Chicago style. Shame on my dark humor, but it made me giggle.

[Snickie]

Supposed to be doing schoolwork online, but the site is crapping out on me. And I know it's the site because, while the forums and FanFiction.Net sped up after awhile, the site I'm supposed to be doing the work on did not.

Figures that I have an assignment due in less than half an hour that I can't even access at the moment.

[gejyspa]

Speaking of things beyond our control -- why are teenagers so stupid? (not directed at you, Snickie). My 14yo had an assignment do in Hebrew class -- a report, plus a picture. Only our color printer is crap (the color cartridge NEVER works right, and we've been on the phone with the support, and tried everything, etc. Gonna probanly have to buy a whole new printer if I can afford it (which I can't)) Anyhow, so the picture didn't come out well at all in grayscale, while the text was fine. So, I told him, that since the document is in the cloud, he should just show the teacher what he has, to demonstrate that he DID the assignment, but is just having technical issues printing it, and if she maybe has a printer he can use, can he please print it out? But NO, less than perfect is, in his mind, not good enough, so he's not going to do that. He didn't take the poorly printed document in to school He'd rather get a zero and have her assume he didn't do the work. Will someone please explain this logic to me??

[Snickie]

Um. -cough- Heh.... -looks in another direction- Oh look, a bowl! -points-

[Sunni Daez]

Why do I procrastinate so? I have so much to do before catching a plane and here I sit!!

[Henkie]

Ugh.. Working with 4 people where we should have had 6... Had to work late.. 105 freaking minutes extra! They better pay out...

Ps; thanks gejyspa!

[Snickie]

FOUR ASSIGNMENTS UNTIL I'M FINALLY DONE WITH THIS CLASS!!!!!!!
-eats snickerdoodles-



In other news, I've had this urge to listen to Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" for the past three days. It probably has to do with the fact that there's a character named Alejandro in the fanfiction I've been reading, and the fact that I like Vitamin String Quartet's version of it doesn't make it any easier.
So, I put it on, and I remember why I refused to watch it before. But I can't tear my name.

Don't call my name, don't call my name
Alejandro
I'm not your babe, I'm not your babe
Fernando
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch,
Just want my cigarette and hush
Don't call my name, don't call my name
Roberto
Alejandro, Alejandro
Ale-Alejandro, Ale-Alejandro

That song and that video will never get out of my head in the next week. Not unless, of course, I infiltrate it with another Lady Gaga song. ><

[Henkie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chWFWGG-GfY

You should really watch this one sncikie, I love it!

[Snickie]

That was super awesome, man.

[Henkie]

No problem

RANT:
Ugh.. I've started playing Rome Total War again (did Barbarian Invasion with atleast 10 different factions, stopped for a while and now started again). Anyway, I edited some things in the unit-stats and the AI agressiveness to make the opponents more challanging. Now I have about 40-45 cities with the beautiful Roman Brutii family...
So to get to my rant, I was fighting the last city ot The Seleucid Empire, named Babylonia (quite a big town). They had 6 groupes of Scythed Chariots (which I edited to be almost unstoppable in the charge), 2 generals (faction elader and heir) and a whole bunch of other troops. I was laying siege and decided to assault the town with my army of my faction leader, 8 highly experienced hastati, a few barb spearmen and 2 mercenary hoplites (the only units that OWN chariots). So I broke the wall and gate on 5 different places, charged in on a few, waited untill the chariots came then sent out the hoplites which destroyed the chariots (all of them!), owned the shit out of them, and then when I was making my way through the last 400 men they got from 2 sides and was allready in control of the town centre... Then the game came across a fatal error and descided to shut itself down.... 45 minutes of beautiful tactics and focuss gone, vanished... I make a game more fun and actually challanging and it goes and f***s itself up, ARGH!

[Doug R.]

Download the Rome Total Realism mod. It's great, and it takes care of some of the issues with units getting stuck on the siege towers. Don't know if it'll help with the crashes or not.

[Henkie]

Yeah I checked into that.. But wasn't really sure what it actually did to the gameplay and such.. Can you explain?