RicOlie_2

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Assuming your move is bedexf6, my move is (EDIT: I'm not getting impatient, I just thought I'd move the game along a bit more quickly since I'll be gone for a few hours once again. Your most likely move in each game seem obvious to me anyway, but still confirm them both, in case you chose to do something else for some reason.)...

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Assuming you move Pxe3, I move...(scroll down to see it, I don't want to change your mind if that is indeed your move).

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April 9:

A.D. 1483: Edward V succeeds Edward IV as King of England, but is never crowned, and disappears after being imprisoned in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard. Both boys were presumably murdered.

A.D. 1667: The first public art exhibition is held in Paris.

A.D. 1869: The Hudson's Bay Company relinquishes its' territory to Canada.

A.D. 1912: The R.M.S. Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for New York.

darklordoftech said:

RicOlie_2 said: And what relevance did your comment have to J. J. Abrams directing Episode VII?

It's the director's job to put things in a movie.

 The thread title isn't "What do you want J. J. Abrams to put in Episode VII", so you should have phrased it like this:

darklordoftech should have said:

I hope he shows the bad guys being bad rather than just labeling one side "good" and one side "evil".

I believe "downgraded" is the word you're looking for. ;)

darklordoftech said:

TV's Frink said:

The title of this thread has no question in it.

The title of the thread is a topic. Posting a topic is saying, "If you have any thoughts on this topic, post them here."

 And what relevance did your comment have to J. J. Abrams directing Episode VII? The thread isn't titled "What Do You Want to See in Episode VII?", so your comment has nothing to do with the thread title. You have an odd way of posting incomplete ideas that are direct answers to the thread title (except in this case, because what you wrote had nothing to do with it).

It's definitely still going down, but I don't think we need to mention every time it happens unless it's supposed to be fixed....

Oops, I forgot your pawn was there. I guess you can take it. That sucks though... :(

My mistake. I hadn't moved your gold generals to the right spots for some reason. My move is instead Bx3e+

B-f6

April 8:

A.D. 1139: Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

A.D. 1783: Russia, under Catherine II, annexes the Crimea.

A.D. 1802: The French Protestant Church becomes state supported and controlled.

A.D. 1946: The League of Nations assembles for the last time.

I think it was a mistake to drop my bishop there. Hopefully it doesn't cost me.

B-2f+

B-g5

I have something unrelated to whine about: stupid rules and regulations. Warning labels are a legal requirement on anything that is potentially dangerous. Really? They're there for the benefit of stupid people and people who sue with little provocation, but they are generally entirely unnecessary. Of course a little kid could choke on all kinds of toys. Why must the company that makes the toys be legally required to put warning labels on them? It's incredibly stupid.

My dad's family owns a blind company (blind meaning in window coverings, the company can see just fine) and they had to discontinue some lines of blinds due to strangulation hazards. Because it's a fairly small company, switching over to a new system can have a big effect on the business. If you have thousands of blinds in stock that can no longer be legally sold, what are you supposed to do with them all? If people just used their brains, a lot of money, time, and effort would have been saved. The irony is that one type of pull-cord that had to be abandoned was far safer and less likely to strangle a child than the one that had to be used instead.

This stupid safety thing is also a problem in schools as well. When I was in elementary school (the same rules usually apply for junior high/middle school students as well though), some of the rules (my wording of course) included:

-Do not pick up snow off the ground or throw it, regardless of whether or not it is going to end up flying towards someone, because you might accidentally hit someone and there might be a piece of ice in the snowball which might hurt someone. If you don't plan on throwing it at all, that doesn't matter, because you could still cause bodily harm to another student and we don't trust you.

-Do not pick up sand--the wind could blow it away and take someone's eye out.

-Do NOT EVER climb on hills of snow. You could fall through them and get buried in the snow, or slip off of them and break your neck.

-Do not climb trees. What kind of idiot are you? You could fall off and hurt yourself. If someone is underneath the tree you could hurt them too, so it's a terrible idea overall.

-Do not play tackle football as it is far too dangerous. Do you know how many people sustain serious injuries from football? Not many, but it doesn't matter.

-No play fighting, wrestling, tackling, or doing anything else violent like that. Someone might get hurt and it will probably escalate into a real fight.

Wooden playgrounds are also considered very unsafe, due to the risk of splinters and rotten wood. Never mind that more injuries are sustained on metal playgrounds because they put silly metal bars over every slide and almost everywhere you turn, resulting in many sore heads, bruises, and in some cases, concussions.

Schools shouldn't have to be so afraid of getting sued that kids go to the principal's office for picking snow off the ground--literally. Kids learn how to be safe from experience. Don't throw snow with ice in it because you'll get hurt. Throw snow without ice in it and try not to hit people directly in the face if they don't want you to. Letting sand sift through your fingers shouldn't be against the rules, but after getting sand in one's eyes, a kid will probably learn that they shouldn't throw sand (after throwing it back at the kid who did it first, of course).

Recesses were often very boring as a result of all those silly rules. Being a boy, I had lots of energy and a tendency to be rough (and still do, of course). Of course, my teachers in elementary were all women, so I had to put up with their pacifist attitudes towards everything ("The fun part of snow forts is building them, not the snow fights, right? I think we can all agree on that." Yeah right. :P).

Another separate (mostly separate, anyway) issue is the way the school system is. Almost nothing gets done at school (I can get as much done in ten minutes homeschooling as I can in forty-five minutes at school). The teachers treat the class as a unit rather than a group of students, punishing everyone for one person's misdeed and teaching everyone a concept that only one or two people have trouble with, and punishing any students who begin working while he/she is still teaching.

The curricula are terribly designed as well. 50% of my social studies textbook does NOT need to be devoted to the native Americans when they make up less than five percent of the population and have been a minority for well over a century. The social studies curriculum is biased in their favour, never once, in most textbooks, mentioning the countless massacres by their side and painting too much of a white and black picture rather than the truth. Grade six is spent learning about government. By grade eight, most students forget just about everything they learned in grade six social studies, not being involved in the government in any way, and having been bored to death by the largely monotonous content of their textbooks. Very little history is taught besides strictly Canadian history, leaving the typical students with a confused knowledge of history, since it is neither taught chronologically nor given relevance in world history. What little history that is taught is taught out of context, without background information or knowledge of how events in Europe led to the colonization of the Americas. Canadian history can be interesting at times, but it is more often dull than not, at least compared to a lot of other history which many students would rather learn.

The math textbooks in use are often ill-suited to many students' learning styles and following them requires little advancement (a lot of time that could be spent learning new material is instead spent reviewing old material).

Science is too environmentally centred to be of real interest.

Language arts is OK, but teachers are generally too lenient with their teaching and marking of grammar and spelling, resulting in nearly illiterate teenagers who are too used to texting in abbreviated, un-punctuated, poorly constructed sentences that they are unable to write a proper essay. Books used in novel studies are only very rarely classics, and are usually very easy and dull (not to many students, but that is because those students haven't been taught well in previous years). Poetry study is retarded, with songs like Katy Perry's "Firework" being used as a study poem. It isn't poetry, it's pop music! There is no deep meaning to that song and it is not worth spending an hour analyzing! Students rarely learn how to write real poetry either. By grade 9 or so they are still writing limericks and haikus.

*sigh*

I doubt many people read that, but I needed to put that out there. That stuff irks me to no end and I need to rant about it every so often. ;)

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Bxc1

Thanks, I do have to keep checking the moves. Not knowing the moves well makes it harder to plan ahead, but I'll get the hang of it soon.

If you want, we could start another game and play simultaneously, agreeing to put our moves for this game before the moves for that game. You might just want to finish this though.

While trying to find the saved file for the game we're playing, I opened up an earlier game we had played. At the point we had left off, you had captured all but three pawns and had, among others, all the knights, bishops, and rooks. So you aren't doing nearly as badly as I used to...

B*5c

N-c1

I should have just backed down when I had the chance. Oh well.

April 6:

A.D. 1652: Cape Colony is established by the Dutch East India Company.\

A.D. 1722: Peter the Great ends a tax on men with beards.

A.D. 1869: The first plastic, celluloid, is patented.

April 7:

c. A.D. 30: Estimate of the date for Jesus of Nazereth's crucifixion outside of Jerusalem.

A.D. 1827: Wooden matches are invented by English chemist John Walker.

A.D. 1933: Jews are banned from legal and public service in Nazi Germany.

A.D. 1933: Prohibition ends in the United States.

I'm not sure if you're already planning to, Frink, but you should drag out the last bit of the Battle of Yavin, from the time that the order to fire is given. Repeat the same lever-pulling and button-pushing scenes over and over again and extend the trench-run as much as you can, so as to increase tension. After the torpedoes go in, cut to various stormtroopers and random people throughout the Death Star (and of course, Obi-Wan still doing his thing with the tractor beams).

No worries. P-8c+

Nxa2

Try VirtualBox. It allows you to run different versions of Windows on your current one, so you should be able to run whatever version you need in order to play Simcity 3000.

*sigh*

STOP TRYING TO DROP YOUR KNIGHT ON MY PIECES!!

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