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Burnsaber, DrPraetorious was joking. I ran with the joke stipulating that nerdy activity defines 'hotness'. In no way does this equate to the two of us asking her for dirty pictures. I feel people should be able to joke about things without being called out for being insufficiently politically correct.

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Well said, Burnsaber, well said.

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I'm sorry, are you nasty puritans saying that interns can't post sexy pictures of themselves, if they want? Why not make them wear burkhas?

You sexist bastards make me sick.

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It'll be interesting to see how much I recognize from a slavic-based nation, me being a big fan of myths as child, from many areas. I've read a few of those slavic myths, but my favorite myths have to do with 'meat needs salt' and norse mythology, true to original Aladdin, not the disney variety, and sinbad the sailer. Those are all over the place different cultures and all, but I'm still eager to see some slavic legends.

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I found a couple of relevant references to this riveting discussion on Women and the Internet;



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I hope the above links help http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Haha, point taken. Every patch seems like a free expansion!

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You just missed a ripe chance to take credit for some poor intern's slavish slav work.

You'll never make it to the big time like this.

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Ha! Mine and borsuk's laziness paid off at last! We wanted to make a slavian nation but decided to wait and let someone else do it for us!

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I'm sorry to go into a tangent like this, but I can now see how one could see my comment as offensive, and I feel that I need to clarify my previous statement.

I recognize that Dr.P and Panpiper were joking. It wasn't even that much of a politically incorrect joke. It was the type of the joke itself. Even as I'm typing this message, in some forum/IrC channel, this happens:

Person A: reveals that some internet personality is female in RL.
Person B: joke of sexual nature concerning the female personality.

I just find it extremely cliche, lame and overused as joke (along the lines of "knock, knock" - jokes). It happens every freaking time there's a opening for it. It's just not funny for me anymore, and when you remove the funny from jokes like that, they're just incredibly lame. I know, it's supposed to be joke about how internet is composed of horny male teenagers, but when you see the same joke for the thousandht time it stops being clever.

As a closing statement, I agree that the comic descripts a situation of completely different magnitude and perhaps I bit of over-reacted by posting it, but this is just one of my pet-peeves I can't leave to rest. I'm not in any way against Dr.P or Panpiper, just this whole "OMG is she hot?"-joke thing.

But, ehh.. Going back on topic.

Damn that new patch looks good. Just #onebattlespell suddenly makes dozens of different commander types possible. When you put the sprite limit and scale bug fixes on top of that.. I really wish I wouldn't have to go to military service in one month, just stay home and mod/play dom3..

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More less. As for me, it's more the fact that very little is known about ancient Slavs' warfare. They were supposed to be able to forge iron weapons, they used shields, spears, axes, bows. Mostly no armor. Proffesional warriors could afford swords and (if I recall) chain mail, but that's it. Without some inventions, it's very boring military. I couldn't think of any way to make military interesting.

Magic side is very interesting, though. I'll be offended if there are less than national summons.

Wait, you mean LA ?