goddamnit twilight! You didn’t have to destroy the towers because of that, Now the american military has to come over to equstria and get even

“Spike survives this.”  
Ding +1 Sin

@C Money  
I was agreeing with you 9/11 jokes are funny.
 
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@Pagan  
Y’know what? He’s right.
 
@mlp_AusBattler  

 
You’re right.  

@mlp_AusBattler  

@mlp_AusBattler  
People with good humor, and recognize that 9/11 happened 13 years ago.

jeez, who the hell thought this would be funny?

Getting off topic? That’s just plane wrong.

@Jerkface  
maybe because like many people said, at this point, we’re not really offended by making the jokes so much as the incredibly tasteless timing of said jokes.

@Keith Mowz  
I played like that for the first 400 hours or so. I now play on difficulty five or six, forgot the names, because it got way too easy. Now these difficulties are like easy for me. I also try to stretch the game as long as possible, and try to take over every bit of land in the game before letting myself win. I’ve also never lost, but that is more because I am really careful.

@Jerkface  
Yup. And just like the rest of the year, that “always remember…” becomes feckless fodder in the light of everyday life😁  
And what the hell good does “always remember” do anyways? Do they REALLY think something like that could be forgotten? Are humans supposed to become paralyzed in fear just like the day it happened? If so, doesn’t that let the terrorists win? In my opinion, this is the epitome of what SHOULD happen!  
Yes, it sucks it happened, and my condolences go to those whom it ACTUALLY impacted. But we’ve come a long way since then, and if THIS type of things didn’t exists, we’d never heal. The government has milked it as much as they can, it’s time to let it go. Not forget it, but live after it…

This went from a 9/11 thing to a discussion about gold and video games.  
Cool.

@Eeveeinheat  
I’m only at 290. I also play it just to cheese it, always on settler or chieftain, beating everyone to 90-100% of the world wonders and either culture-jamming in their faces until I win, making it rain on the entire city state population the turn before a world congress vote, or blasting off to alpha centauri by 1980 if I feel like disabling the previous two.

@Keith Mowz  
I have 1,030 hours on the game. I might just go on another binge…

@Ferrotter  
Man, I already spend like 12 hours a week playing Civ V, stop making me want to play more of it.
 
With my hilarious culture-based technological advancement that always means I discover how to use oil and aluminum before I even have steam power.

@Ferrotter  
Dude, bra-fuckin’-vo. Why in the shit couldn’t our history/chemistry teachers make their lectures that damn simple?

>not funny  
Actually, it would be funny, if the shock factor wasn’t already loooooooooong gone.

@Keith Mowz  
Gold is also corrosion-proof; it takes a mixture of strong acids to dissolve gold, no one acid will harm it no matter how concentrated. Ordinary processes like contact with air, fingerprints, water, food, soil, etc. just leave you with the same pure, shiny gold you started with. And because of that, it’s one of the very few metals available at all to the ancient world. Gold, platinum, and silver can be found in their pure state in nature. Platinum couldn’t really be melted for most of human history, so its use was never widespread. Copper can be found as a metal too, on occasion, but even when it isn’t, its ores tend to be recognizable by their blue color. Oxygen can be driven out of most copper compounds, and the resulting metal melts at a low enough point that copper can be extracted from rock with wood-fueled fires. However, copper is soft and it corrodes easily. But add in some rocks that contain tin, and the molten copper will dissolve it out of the rock by solution, and alloy into bronze. Hence the Bronze Age; for the first time civilization had a metal that wasn’t soft, and could hold an edge. But the ability to refine iron at all was a HUGE technological advance beyond that, which occurred long after civilization’s norms (including “gold is valuable”) were mostly set.
 
Iron was actually available on rare occasions to the ancients. Actually, cobalt/nickel stainless steel, in the form of meteorites. Meteoritic iron was far more valuable than gold in Ancient Egypt, but there was almost none of it, and it was very hard for them to do anything with it. It could sort of be cold-worked into crude (but valuable) knives and jewelry, but with great difficulty.

@Jerkface  
Also one of only a handful of metals that aren’t grayscale.

@Keith Mowz  

@Jerkface  
Because its incredibly dense, rare, and conductive.

@Eeveeinheat  
Funny how gold is so valuable yet is such a shit metal.

@Dinos4Ever  
How would you know what dragon fire can melt? Also, gold has a lower melting point than steel.

@Ferrotter  
But it can liquify solid gold in a matter of minutes?