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Gung-Ho Gun

Sword of Islam and Legacy of Rome are pretty good. These newer DLC's also seem decent, although indeed perhaps they should've been playable before hand, and the DLC should've just fleshed them out. It also has a shitload of facepacks and music DLC, though, which is utter filler money grabbing shit which I can in no way apologize for.

If it were in the game to begin with, it would've sucked.

It's not a very profitable venture as it is. I'm not going to criticize them for trying to stay afloat, especially when on top of everything we get religions that are actually specialized rather than the same generic, non-culturally specific flavor to everything, as in EUIII.

Well, Paradox has released a new DLC for CKII, The Republic, that allows you to play as most of the Merchant Republics in the game. They're also going to release another one, "The Old Gods", that allows you to play as a Pagan or a Zoroastrian. This is so awesome.

What I really need to do is get on Skype and talk to some people who speak some actual Chinese.

Do you want me to send you my Anki deck with lines from the Iliad on one side and translations on the other? That's my primary tool for learning ancient Greek. So far, I can pretty much just read the first 50 or so lines of the Iliad, but my Ancient Greek is still weak. It's stronger than my Chinese, though, which is pretty much limited to a few set phrases.

This blog is what I use for inspiration:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

Dude knows 8 different languages, learned them all by simply going out and talking to people. He has a good attitude, and reminds me that learning a language really is not that hard, you just have to put a little effort into it.

The other day, I heard someone complaining about how difficult English was. Of course, I responded "No, you know what's the most difficult language? Ancient Greek." Then I explained that every word could have hundreds of possible forms. He looked at me like it was the craziest thing in the world, to know a bit of Ancient Greek. I think it took him a while to recover, but when he did he said "Oh, so it's like Chinese?"



Chinese is pretty much the opposite of what Ancient Greek is, it's an analytical language with no conjugation or declensions, many words are one syllable, almost all that aren't are two syllable (really one word and another word next to it to help distinguish meaning from homonyms). I feel kind of sorry for him though, who would expect that they're sitting next to the one guy who knows a little bit of both Ancient Greek and Chinese?

I don't pay attention to ILA or any responses to him.

I suggest that rule in the Announcements section be amended sooner rather than later.

OIC. An ex post facto decision, based no doubt on everyone's friendship with that piece of shit Voltaire.

You mods should be ashamed.