hullo there. First off iam a member of over 62 boards but i shall try be active..not including real life offline. Thank you

I'll admit, I have been a longstanding fan of the series (as have quite a few members here). Simcity 4 was well done for its time, and is still a fun game today, but we're talking about a game that's well over a decade old. To be honest, I might be speechless if the gameplay mechanics of Simcity 4 were combined with the city sizes and graphics of Cities XL. Unfortunately, both have now become boring to me after what was probably too many long hours of gameplay.

I've posted some stuff regarding Cities XL on the forums, and I'll say, it's actually a pretty fun game. It does get boring once you reach a certain goal because there is little left to really achieve in the game, but it's fun for a while, and it's worth the price tag for the amazing graphics you get. That said, the community isn't as good, the game can't handle large cities well, and the gameplay mechanics are only fair at best. 

I'm not going to necessarily write off the new Simcity because of its mechanics. I like online gameplay, and at least, from what I hear, it makes you feel like you're really a part of your city. However, it's been a while since I followed the series, and I don't know where it's at now that offline mode has been implemented, and a good 10+ patches have been released. 

Is it worth $30 to buy the game for what it is? I would have tried the trial, but it didn't start under WINE and I'm not booting into Windows just to spend five hours downloading files for two hours of gameplay.

Well, I know Darth-Apple from another forum I was at. So, decided to register here. He sure did put a lot of features that most forums don't have. For example, he put prefixes at the top of the topic when you're starting a subject so you can kind of guess what the conversation is going to be related to and/if you don't know what it would be about if you were looking at the subject that someone manually put in themselves. These are the kinds of forums I like.

Site : Dota International
Website Type : Blog, Dota 2 Tournament Hosting Site
Category : Gaming - Online Gaming

About Us : Dota International (Formerly known as Youth's Den) is a an online portal about Dota 2, the most played Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. We proudly present great guides for Dota 2 users / gamers and we also host Dota 2 online tournaments which are ticketed officially on Steam. Winners have received some great amount of prizes in last 7 Dota 2 tournaments we have organized. If you are looking forward for some thing about Dota 2, be rest assure you are at right place.

Dota International - Your Daily Dota Doze

Here are a few pictures I have taken with my iPhone camera (yes, all of them were captured using snapchat) XD :

As a programmer, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas and get proof of concept "releases" up and running as quickly as possible. That said, it's easy to do 90% of the work and to give up when all that is left is mere problem solving. I don't like giving up on projects, so it's always a tough decision for me. I do tend to stay busy with something, and a lesson can always be learned, but still, it's not something I like doing. 

Of course, many people in my observations seem to be just the opposite and gain motivation during their "home stretch." Do you often find yourself losing motivation near the end of a project due to the "problem solving" stage, or do you find yourself gaining motivation as you see completion of an idea or project nearing? Be sure to vote in the poll! 

This thread consists of featured threads and posts from members that have been deemed high quality. Note that these highlights are generally selected by the staff, and are not entered into the list by request. If you'd like to submit a nomination, feel free to private message a staff member, and it will be considered! 

Featured Content - Generic

• World Trade Center structural frame - An extensive engineering project to build a replica of the world trade center (by Aldini10)
  
• The RMS Titanic - a titanic documentary (by titanicbuff)
  
• Romulus - a compilation of quotes from the world's dumbest chat bot (from Darth-Apple)
  

• Forthwall's maplaps - for the map/road geeks around (from Forthwall)
  
• Promotional banner tutorial - for those who want to learn how to do basic promo banners for their websites  (From Darth-Apple)
  
• San Francisco Photography - great photos! (From Theezy)
  

• The "history" of Makestation - entirely fiction, btw  (from AcoG000)
  
• Wanderers in Time - from cheesesc4
  
• Project Starr Sinclair Chapter 1 - Great story! (from Teg)
  

• Harry K.'s reinventing of MyBB's theme/design - a work in progress that is worth checking out! (From Harry K. )
  

• Warwick's comedy video channel
  

Some would argue that being behind bars for life is actually a worse punishment. I see the reasoning behind that, but I disagree for a couple of reasons personally. 

A) People on death row tend to stay there for at least a decade or so on average. They are getting plenty of time behind bars to reflect and are in less than luxurious living conditions while they are at it. Death row is not going to be one of the more pleasant prisons that one can be in during this time.

B) Generally, the vast majority of death penalty cases are murder cases. If you murder someone else, the death penalty is symbolic to society, and is more than just pain to the criminal. Death is justice in these circumstances. 

Now, that doesn't deal with the fact that the death penalty may be wrongly given to innocent individuals. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen, and it is a very sad reality. I personally don't think it should ever be administered in cases where the jury isn't completely and totally certain of a criminal's guilt. 

What are your thoughts on the use of the death penalty? Do you feel it is ethical? Do you feel it should be administered, whether morally acceptable or not?

I feel that companies simply save credit/debit card information for far too long. Not too long ago, Home Depot had about 40 million cards stolen. I never keep that much money in my checking account just as a precaution, but still, I've honestly become a little paranoid about it. Plus, infrared sensors can be used to detect heat changes on PIN pads to steal your pin code. That's a little scary. 

Anyone else paranoid about this? I personally use cash as much as possible to avoid using my card more than necessary. 

After over two months since MyBB's initial release, we've finally become fully prepared and ready to make the upgrade here at Makestation. You'll notice the difference very quickly, as we've also pushed a brand new, 100% custom theme, built entirely in-house. For nostalgia's sake...



Our old design was not bad for MyBB 1.6, but 1.8 has a number of improvements worth noting: 

• Various improvements across the forum (including buddy list improvements, theme switchers, better default avatars, thread rating improvements, postbit improvements, edit reasons, better image resizing, etc. )
  
• Our new customized theme that works much better on smaller monitors and larger monitors alike. 
  
• Our registration form was fixed. (/oops)
  
• Better post editor
  
• We've taken a gamble to enable guest posting. Yes, captchas will be displayed, and yes, new guest posts will have to be approved before they go live. Of course, registration is still encouraged by all means, but our feeling is that visitors with something quick to contribute shouldn't have to go through MyBB's painful registration system to write a single post.
  

• Much better status updates plugin that will be significantly improved and have full support for status notifications and replies. (May be rolling out in the next week or so. )
  
• Significantly improved forum notifications
  
• Content management system/community wiki? Development is in the early stages, so I won't promise much, but some cool stuff might be planned...