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Value is subjective. If I don't ever get to experience an artwork, it is of no value to me. You ignore the power of "and" - the work...

Look dude, I used to be a member of the Swedish Pirate Party back when we had MEPs, but even we never argued for the complete abolition...

The big weather prediction models have truly massive computational requirements - historically, IIRC, development of each generation of...

They've trained AIs on the huge amount of weather data we have, and found that except for novel weather cases that it had a very high...

As I recall, they also (tried to) make use of the microbial strategy, with spectacular results!

In this timeline it's far more likely that they'd push for wage slavery, Beltalowda.

It can't be that hard. There are more people alive today than have ever died.

“Hell is emailing other people.” John-iPaul Sartre

While I am enjoying Mechanicus, every time I played I couldn't stop myself thinking “why aren’t I playing Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate...

I enjoyed SMAC, but something about the modular unit design didn’t work well for me. I prefer the quasi-historical grab-bag of Civ units.

I’ll immediately undermine my own point by saying I would have ranked Old World, a rather complex Civilization-Crusader Kings hybrid, as...

your opinion is based an urban legend :P

Gandhi’s propensity for nuking may have been exaggerated, but I have a much more American outlook.

Civilization is the original and best. Complexity =/= goodness. And if you want to argue, well, my opinions are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

You are far too kind to Civilization: After Earth here! It wasn't an attempt to recapture the magic of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri...