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when you refer to your local parish/priest/imam/rabbi as an oracle or a seer
When you shout in Celtic at the screen while playing on COD4.
...you buy a helmet specifically to play EB.
-Glee
When you vote for your favorite faction leader in the United States National Elections.
guilty as charged. i only know one though. Foc il leat. I'll leave it to you to figure it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by strategos alexandros
When you're caught by people muttering "Lochos, eperchesthe!" to yourself (guilty)
You know when you play too much EB when... you bump threads such as these just to tell ppl when you know you play too much EB.
exactly
I consider my history professor an idiot...mainly because he:
1. Suffers from a disease known as Roman-worship
2. Stereotypically refers to all the Gallic/Germanics as smelly barbarians
3. Suggested that the Egyptians were all black due to Sickle Cell Anemia...(which is a trait against mosquitoes, even Italians have it)
4. Said that the college campus belonged to black people since slaves built it...wtf
The last 2 has nothing to do with EB, but I mentioned it anyways to show his idiocy
When U try to complete Agoge training and become Spartiatai:embarassed:...
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Originally Posted by Intranetusa
I can't really find anything wrong with #1.
NERDSTRIKE!Quote:
Originally Posted by Intranetusa
Heterozygosity for the sickle-cell anemia allele provides immunity against malaria. :smash:
I like the Romans myself...5/7 of my campaigns in EB have all been Romani. But if you met my prof and hears the way he talks about Rome..you'd understand. He has this mentality that everyone compared to the Romans are inferior and have no culture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate
jah, tis what I said. arrrQuote:
Originally Posted by desert
So, he's spent so much time studying Romans that he thinks like one?
Perhaps he too has spent too much time playing EB.
I must say that after nearly 2 years playing EB, a disproportionate amount of my book collection is now made up of classical authors. Livy, Polybius, Cicero, Caesar, Sun Tzu (er yes, really) would have been much less likely to have reached my shelves otherwise. And Goldsworthy would not even have been on the radar.
lol, if he played EB, then I think he would start respecting other civilizations besides the Romans. He'd know that the Gallic kingdoms weren't just a bunch of smelly barbarians after his full stack of Polybian-era Principes gets massacred by silver chevroned Avernai elites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maeran
Sun Tzu? Make sure you get the "actual translated version" - not the abridged version, which is often pathetically reduced to a collection of stupid fortune cookie quotes.
By accident I actually have two versions of Sun Tzu's Art of War (and also Macchiavelli's Art of War, which is horrible in the retrospective picking the wrong horse as it were and favouring sword and pike over gunpowder, but also suitably classical in his copying of the infuriating form of 'dialogue' in which the author has some fictional character espouse his views and another set of fictional characters sychophantically agree. This mode of literature is copied from Plato's "Republic" and Cicero's "On Old Age" and "On Friendship." No doubt there are many more of these examples of a form of literature that leaves me exasperated that I cannot join that dialogue myself to provide some real argument against the idea being put forward.)
Long digression aside. One version has a Chinese text alongside what seems to be an abridged translation. But my favourite of the two is Ralph D. Sawyer's translation which seems complete (or longwinded) and better yet, has a fascinating historical introduction covering Chinese warfare from the Shang to the Chin as well as commentary on the text.
This is a region and field of history for which I am otherwise ignorant, so I cannot say just how good it is. But it seems pretty good.
i'll tell u what's better =P learn chinese and get teh full juice of it xD
Naw man. You gotta learn one of the archaic Chinese languages, which is what they spoke back then, I believe. But Archaic and Middle Chinese are dead languages, like Latin. :/Quote:
Originally Posted by satalexton
The grammar and pronunciation have evolved significantly, but the Chinese characters were standardised byQuote:
Originally Posted by Intranetusa
Qin Shi Huangdi (the emperor who first unified China) around 220BC, and had been quite stable since the
Basically "The Art of War" is be about as readable to a modern Chinese speaker/reader as Shakespeare is to a modern English speaker/reader -- although spoken Shakespearian English would be much easier to follow than spoken Ancient Chinese.
-Glee
You know you play too much EB, when you think it'd be cool to beable to make small talk in latin.
when you start talking about Chinese grammar and pronunciation.
when you start correcting people on ancient history in RL.
When you start correcting your ancient history TEACHER on ancient history, in RL.Quote:
Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name
:yes:
When you start to regularly correct AlexanderSextus on his faulty statements of ancient history. :beam:
When you start to regularly correct Methuselah that he is not nobility.
Oh wait, that is when you know you are on the EB forums too much. My bad.
:clown:
You know you play too much EB when:
1. You have an exam in one day but you play EB instead of studying (GUILTY)
2. There are only 8 hours to the same exam but instead of studying your busy reading AAR's (GUILTY)
That really is playing EB too much.
Good luck with the exam.
At least he haschickenEB.
I don't get it.:shame:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hax
Or was that not meant for me?
when on halloween, some kid dresses up as a roman soldier and you say
"no no no! This is leather, legionnaires wore chainmail! And what is up with this gladius! It is waaay to long, are you trying to be a celt? And where is your shield and pila... etc
oh no I find myself mumbling stuff like "signa ferte" or "milites mouete" (and some others which I do not know how to spell or transcribe) when ordering units to move while playing EB; or sometimes mumbling that for no reason
...when u start digging through livy and polybius to write your little story about makedonians against roman dogs...
well, EB helped me pass my history essay.Quote:
Originally Posted by julius_caesar_the_first
When you skip sexytime to conquer the Arvernii.
When I was in school I did that before I found EBQuote:
Originally Posted by AlexanderSextus
We need a poll - is this too much EB?Quote:
When you skip sexytime to conquer the Arvernii.
You feeling a pity for the Kardhastim, since if it you who replace hannibal at zama, you'll surely win...
The most hardcore gamer on here so far! Personally there's a line. You just get her to RP then you get the best of sexy world and ancient world!:clown:Quote:
Originally Posted by TruePraetorian
It's called do both!Quote:
Originally Posted by We shall fwee...Wodewick
@gamegeek2, My vote in the pole is that this is too far, but then no one has a girl like mine!:beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by TruePraetorian
Now that truly is playing too much EB.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruePraetorian
I know I play too much EB when I decided to create a trait in Export_descr_character_traits that helps me label which of my FMs or generals are useless fellas who are useful for nothing except an extra unit of heavy cavalry (and I have many. gah. :wall: )
If you know you're playing EB to much then you haven't played EB enough.
you know you had too much EB when crooks in "world's dumbest criminals" are labeled "Uirodusios", "Tindonitae", "drapanai", or "Gaesatae". e.g:
1-some black guy charges a daycare center naked, taking 3-4 taser hits to knock him out.:clown: (gaesatae)
2-two men shop for beer naked (no, they bought it legally-they're just naked). they even picked up a girl-big bits perhaps?:clown: (Uirodusios)
3-an angry lancastrian (PA) rages ike a tindonitae in a grocery store, because he has no smokes:skull:
4-a woman gets debloused in imitation of the drapanai...
5-a man charges at you with a mop, as if it were a falx.
6-some jacka** tries to rob a bank naked (Uirodusios rigt there)
No sir.. That is a true man :laugh4:.. Skipping sexy time for Arverni..You have my respect dear sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by julius_caesar_the_first
when you keep visiting this thread :sweatdrop:
when you call your computer a 20-watt-lightbulb for being unable to run EB and paint at the same time. or is that for reading the org too much?
My current condition...
If you will face a national competition on chemistry science in 5 days ahead, you must make 4 paper of chemistry subjects for this competition, and you still play EB 3 hours a day, and still had the time to write in this forum:dizzy2::dizzy2::dizzy2: (VERY GUILTY)
When you realize it's 4AM and you want to play more. Eventually it will be 7AM and you just wished the night could be longer.
When your classwork regularly has ancient soldiers sketched on the borders (my Spanish worksheets regularly have triremes and hoplitai sketched in).
you mean something like this?
https://i246.photobucket.com/albums/.../ebonnotes.jpg
I doodled this on the bottom of my notes, since there were around 15 more lines to doodle on.
I think the phalanx guy looks limp.
nah, he's just fine. Argyraspid, right? or is it klerouch?Quote:
Originally Posted by everyone
I think he looks more like the Argyraspides, though I forgot to add a cape.
LOL dude, I also sketch all over my school work:beam:
You know you play too much EB, when you start to "flank" people when you're walking through the city because they're too slow.
Yeah, something like that. Here's what happened to my Spanish stuff:Quote:
Originally Posted by everyone
https://i331.photobucket.com/albums/...hIMAG06681.jpg
So much for Spanish class...:smash:
(Sorry, my scanner broke, so I had to use a low-quality camera.)
you know you play too much eb when you discuss which unit is dipicted on a school note doodle.
this game is like changeing all of the settings on your phone in to spanish to try and learn another language
the only problem is that you probably never have to use the words "inbox" or "contacts" when ordering a meal in Barcelona.
it's the same with this, you might leard how to speak a variety of ancient, nolonger used languages, but even if they were still used in places like Italy and Greace, you probably would have little need for the ancient greek word for Citadel Baracks.
You know you play too much EB when you know the word for Citidel Barracks in Punic, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Persian(?)
True, but on the other hand, when I saw "PEZOI" on every pedestrian crossing in Athens, I was unable to stop musing about EB to that extent, that I was almost overridden by a passing car on at least one occasion...:sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by Badg3r
Also all sorts of "ETAIREIAs" (Companies) on various billboards instantly evoked a vivid picture of galloping unit of "Somatophylakes Strategou" in my mind sometimes mixing strangely with that nice ancillary girl...:charge::belly:
I really do not play EB too much, I just think about it all the time...:embarassed:
P.S.-Still no use for "theureoporoi" or "mistophoroi toxotai kretikoi" not to speak about my favourite "daha baexdzhyntae" yet.
Hehe, so I am far from the only one to doodle EB in school... My favorite units to draw are Principes (Camillian), Hoplitai (Greek Classical Hoplites) and Iberi Scutari.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk
when you know its actually GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR and that it has to be in upper case
when you shout in glee everytime a roman gets skewered by a sarissa
Actually... it's CAIUS IULIUS CAESARQuote:
Originally Posted by miotas
No G in ancient roman alphabet. Gotcha!
(...Guilty?) xD
You carry a yardstick and are tempted to throw them like javelins, pretending to be a peltast.
Guilty
:charge:
NOT TRUE TILL U THROW IT!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Novellus
lol
I believe EB uses Classical Latin (however, not quite sure). Anyway, Gaius was the transliteration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skullheadhq
well thats what i meant with ancient roman alphabet.its classical latin yes. but there is no g in that!
well maybe at the beginning of eb's time period but i thought that for most of eb's time period they had a G, and it was definitely there by caesar's time. feel free to correct me if im hopelessly wrong, ive been in that position most of the time ive been playing eb, especially in regards to the "barbarians".
C whas the commonly used letter in Latin. G was invented by an FREEDMEN (not even a roman citizen, even former SLAVE!) and little people used it. so it would be CAIUS IULIUS CAESAR.
:laugh4::laugh4:Will noone say this or do i gotta scream it? Ok then asd they say on Robot Chicken...
NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:
jk
HAHAHAHA, You're writing an Swezboz AAR and you are calling us nerd!:rtwno::drama2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Olaf Blackeyes
and now :focus:
ps: AAR writers don't be cross with me aye?
lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Olaf Blackeyes
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Originally Posted by TruePraetorian
LMAO!
LOL!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
*Points and laughs*
ROLF!
EB fans have sexytime?Quote:
Originally Posted by TruePraetorian
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
nope, for some geeks, better plays EB...Quote:
EB fans have sexytime?
:wall:
I know i haven't had any sexytime since EB was made available. Not because of EB... it's just the way the cookie has been crumbling.Quote:
Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name
When you get a washing line pole (you know, the ones to stop it sagging) and cannot resist holding it as if you are in a Makedonian Phalanx (I think it's Makendonian, please correct me, the one with the really long spears.)
When we are discussing sexytime of EB players!
I did throw them. They never came down from the top of the pine tree in my front lawn!Quote:
NOT TRUE TILL U THROW IT!!!!!!!
lol