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Not to be pedantic but.. 'bought the rights'? I love modders, but they're the ones using Paradox's code to (with simplified text files and such) produce content.

I suspect it doesn't matter much when the content matches THAT closely. Those provinces are literally a tit-for-tat matchup to what's in AE. Go download 1.05f + AE (or Balansegang) yourself and see what I mean.

Hm.

You can actually download all of those provinces in user mods (Balansegeng, for instance, and I think the original mod is something like African Expansion). I'm assuming they actually bought the rights to those mods from users (which is awesome, in a way), because it looks EXACTLY like AE, but that does make me wonder why I'd pay for something that's technically free already.

What I'm really wondering, though, is how this is really different from playing as Christians/Pagans. I mean, did they improve the Jihad somehow? Did they add additional Muslim-only events? I want to know what I'm getting that I can't just download via the usermod forum, because from what I saw in the video, I've already pretty much got all of that via mods (added traits, the African expansion, etc), and hell, you can already turn Muslim characters on with some *very* simple tinkering.

That said, I will be buying this if there's anything I can't get for free already. I didn't get the ruler mod thing just because I though it was silly and unnecessary (and again, basically free if you can mod even a little bit), but if they're offering something with even a little original content and functionality, it's worth it to support them. IMHO this is easily the best game of 2012 so far by a longshot.

Quote from: Lord Dullard on May 30, 2012, 01:08:08 pm

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MY BRAIN IS FULL OF DAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW

Yep, they do tend to have that effect. It's how they lure you into thinking they're completely innocent so they can chew all of your shoes and furniture into oblivion.

Hm. I wonder.

I figure they got this list one of two ways:
1. Office workers sitting around and deciding which words were best, in which case this is probably HIGHLY inaccurate for such a list.
2. They actually compiled all records of terrorist communications in their possession, then got the list by weighting words based on the scarcity of the words in normal communications versus how often it appeared in terrorist communications.

I mean, either 'pork' appeared unusually frequently in terrorist communications, or some fatass desk executive in the CIA decided it was listworthy.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/miami-face-eating-attack-lasted-18-agonizing-minutes/story?id=16458696#.T8ZQYdU29Bk

The grisly assault on a homeless man whose face was eaten by a deranged assailant lasted for 18 agonizing minutes and was captured on nearby surveillance cameras.

Rudy Eugene, who authorities suspect may have been high on a dangerous new street drug known as "bath salts," had to be shot four times by a police officer to halt the cannibalistic attack.

The victim, Ronald Poppo, 65, is in critical condition after police say 75 percent of his face was devoured by Eugene.

Footage taken by security cameras at the nearby Miami Herald building show most of the 18 gory minutes of Eugene's growling and vicious attack on Poppo when Eugene ate the man's nose, mouth and eyes.

O.o

Do you look anything like this?