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Bush also has depressingly low poll numbers;

My floridian senses tell me you misspelled "reassuringly", there. It doesn't start with a d

I'm just glad!  And honestly the scenario was so absurdly horrid that I didn't believe it, but I didn't want to jump in and call anyone a liar.  Particularly on the off chance.

For what it's worth, I have had cats mown over before. As well as chickens, rabbits, and probably some things I'm forgetting. Quick enough thing small enough to get under the machine blindsides someone driving a riding lawnmower around and there's not going to be much left besides a mess. And there's definitely people that'd do it intentionally

... dude does realize it's folks like him we'd probably be best off killing if we were going to buy our freedom like that, right? Is he sure he wants us younger folks to start watering the tree?

Look, if that kind of play is how carson gets his jollies at that age, so long as it's not hurting anyone we shouldn't judge. Even if it's bleeding over to stated policy.

Do you have an opinion? Does the Internet discourage people having intellectual debate and actually coming to conclusive answers? Do you have any experiences or evidence to back up your claim?

It's probably somewhat sideways to the intent of the question you're asking, but I would probably argue that the internet has done more to encourage intellectual debate and coming to (the next best thing to) conclusive answers than any human invention since relatively effective courier mail.

Evidence: Internet enabled academic/experimental/economic/etc. cooperation and communication and the freakishly improved capabilities we've had in that field since the internet started to propagate. There has not existed a point in human history where we were as physically capable of holding robust intellectual debate as we are now, and there's frankly any number of fields (academic or otherwise) where that's incredibly visible -- basically any that's seeing any meaningful degree of international cooperation would be a dead-on example thereof. Even if there has been some sort of reduction of the average level of discourse, the sheer expansion of the amount is what I'd call a gigantic net positive, even if that leads to its own problems.

Really, the weirdest thing to me about those sacred giants, in this game, was that... none of the sacred giant people really did anything with them (from what I could see, anyway). Boksi was the most aggressive sacred user I noticed, and they staled like 1/10th of their turns. Don't think ever really attacked anyone except Al, either. EA got jumped by pigeons, BFEL and Iwa just seemed to somehow die off while playing in the water or somethin', it was ruddy weird. I was seriously expecting giants to come stomping over the everything for probably the first thirty turns or so, but it never seemed to manifest.

Though re: Giants and costing, while it'd probably be (much) easier to bump their price/add penalties, what I'd probably like to see more is doing something to the little people. Make it so tiny folk in a world of sacred giants actually have something that can gold-for-gold match the blighters. Maybe do something really silly and have the generation process check (probably near the end of the process) for size>own!sacred and dole out a point or ten of giant killer for every size category they're lacking (maybe multiplied by the percentage of genned nations that have a giant sacred?), or something to similar effect. A post-gen check for % of genned nations that have sacred giants, and then adding more stuff to everyone else's sacreds based on how prevalent they are, that kind of thing. Think I said it somewhere else, it wasn't really the giants or the formorians, it was just how many people had the things that was the major problem -- didn't have that kind of meta balance the base game has, where a giant nation is more or less all alone.

Make sure you didn't press the button (combination) that turns off wifi? Or disconnect yourself through some other means.

i have accidentally gotten myself into a relationship. and after all the years of successfully avoiding it too.

Being unsure if condolences or congratulations are appropriate in this case, I will instead offer condolations. Condolations, red.