It would be awesome to have a cat with en extra paw per leg. Just imagine how cool they would fight!

I can see them infront of me fighting like a Minion of Destruction 

All the pokey things would hurt!

ever saw the machine Mr. Garrison from south park invented to replace airplanes?   yeah...   yeah, that crowd would do just fine I'm sure.

But seriously, metal butt-plate (and not sitting on the sharpest parts) would fix the pointy bits I hope.

see, totally works.

1/500 of less than 7 billion is more like 14 million people, not 1 billion... Still, 14 million 6-fingered people is more than I'd have guessed even if most of them have had them removed.

I'm all for becoming a more unified world, but why must we use a constructed language to do it?

And if we are using constructed languages why not Elvish or Klingon?

Yes Esperanto is equivalent to Klingon in my way of thinking.

*I didn't go look it up and I've never played katamari*

awesome.  (many people I know never heard of it until I brought it up.  And the only pop-culture reference to it I know is Katamari which holds many Esperanto jokes)

The whole "unified world" thing was a shot at the fact that here in the US we still use feet, furlongs, miles, oz... oz again (I really don't understand why we have two different measurement units with the same name.  I find it very confusing)  They use seemly random intervals which requires you to go out of your way to remember the different measurements.  So if you want to find how big your home's yard is, you measure by feet...  3 feet to a yard, 22 yards to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, and 1 furlong squared is an acre.  So you've got to go down a bizzar conversion equation of seemingly random numbers to figure out how many acres of land you own.   And even then, how many square miles is that?   I call Bull S**T!

Communication is much more understandable to not-change.  Unlike measurements, there is a lot of culture inbedded in the way people talk, and language has no standard yet.  I don't believe any culture loss would happen if we changed to the metric system.

The point of Esperanto is to have have a simple language that does not break its own rules.  The reason you "must use a constructed language" is because languages that formed 'naturally' develop in a way that makes no sense and therefor are prone to communication errors.  Heck, nobody speaks proper english, and the reason is becaues english is a stupid mutant of a language.  English is so unnessisarily complex that we have invented the term "grammar nazi" to describe people who actually understand it and try to teach others.  Other languages are no better.  Why use something that is flawed in its very construction?  But thats a discussion for another time.  

sorry, I'm having trouble staying on-topic

I'm for having a single official global language, but I am not at all for having a single global government. Honestly for that to happen I think we'd literally need to be invaded by aliens.

And creating a new language that no one speaks natively, forcing everyone to learn it from scratch in my opinion is even worse than choosing a language that a large portion of the world already speaks. Choosing a new language just inconveniences more people. Yeah, those who already speak the international language natively have something of a heads up, but life isn't fair. Honestly I'd rather have the world decide to use Hindi as the official international language than esperanto. For one, Hindi was chosen as the official language of India because it was the easiest to learn of all the Indian languages. And secondly, because I'm opposed to inconveniencing billions of people for the sake of fairness.

Really for me, the biggest concern is the difficulty of learning the language, not whether or not it it'll make some people feel disenfranchised.

Mine can.... sort of.  Our "Red White & Boom" thingy yesterday was cut a bit short, and the local display is supposedly only ten minutes long. Besides, it's drizzeling outside.

Partly right about Swedish. My langauge when pronounced makes use of all the letters but a bit south where they eat "pölse" and "smörrebröd" it has mutated into some corrupted version that maybe can be charactized as a language.

http://www.livevideo.com/media/playvideo_fs.aspx?fs=1&cid=C05D896BA4A74291B0C0D5CA5B5E4528 <-- Typical dane

Our western neighbors on the other hand are pretty civilized and sound so funny when they talk so they're alright

Really though. You can get the whole world to accept english but never to surrender their original languages.

PS. How the hell do I get videoclips to show up like someone did to my StarCraft 2 Battlereport?? (Embed it's called I guess but how do I do it??)

I found a question to ask that hasn't been asked!

I would like to know about The legal status of mods developed by us, evaluated and distributed by you guys.

Do they then become property of stardock?  

A simple clarification of the terms for the modding community would be darn helpful.

because I have no life and fireworks are illegal the state in which I currently live.  And there is no way I could compete with the fireworks I'd watch as a kid over the mississippi from my church.  (our church were among some of the best seats, and we didn't have to compete with crowds because only us, the members of the church, could sit there)

So I'm not allowed to blow stuff my myself.... I'd have to compete with huge throngs of people to get a good view of other people blowing stuff up....     leaves my best alternative to be *troll the elemental forum*

(as a kid, me and some school buddies used to go and buy a bunch of fireworks after the 4th of July when they went on sale, and we'd throw our annual "pyrofest" in my back pasture where we'd build a HUGE bonfire and play with our aquired explosives.   In hindsight, it was likely very dangerous for children, but man it was fun.  So in a state I can't do anything of the sort because its so dry the entire valley might as well be combustable, 4th of July celebrations have been ruined for me)

Do you plan on spell research being linear like a tech tree that will be static from one game to another, or will spell research and spells available for research be different between games, and will there be any randomization involved in what is available to be researched?