Spying is a key fault of all Civs, not just Montezuma. Try having Washington as a neighbor. He fucking loves thieving the tech from you.

That's really where it's at with Civ-repped India in Civ 5 ... he's not actually a physical aggression. But he'll be at the forefront leading coalition charges against weaker Civs, voting for things that might actually hurt you in World Congress, and generally being a passive-aggressive pest. Harun al-Rashid will…

Any leader with a skill rating set to a very high aggression level will get you in really shitty situations with the leader, without much fault of your own. There's also a rating for "mean-ness," and while I'm not quite sure what that affects, Shaka's another aggressive guy with a high mean-ness rating.

Dido's insane, and so is Napoleon. I take neither of their demonstrated positions as factual. I take stock instead on the good deeds I do for them. That's the secret that keeps them off of my back, while they ride others.

The good thing about Montezuma is that he's really skittish. It's like toying with a cobra. As terrified of you as you might be of it.

There are indeed! That one you should know about in particular, because it's a valuable weapon.

Yeah that's still a creepy one for me too.

The Halloween sequel, when the pumpkin would open up, and that candle-lit skull slowly appeared ... (shudder)

Strange Meat isn't food ... it's people!!1

Unless you already encountered a rare one-time random event, like the one where you get the Firelance, it's probably good to start from the beginning.

Oh wow, I wish I had found this article days ago.

Been watching a let's play of the 360 version ...

Depends on your definition of beer and lime.

Not just fist fights ...

In such games, generally I run through the game once, taking whatever comes with the decisions I made.

That's some nice bait you got there.

The guns are sometimes too much fun in that game to the point that I rarely build for melee either.

How much blood would you shed to stay alive?

For me, I've been to both ... F3 came before I visited DC, and it served kind of as a weird PR type of virtual tourism for me, albeit in ruins. IRL DC was much better.

The unsettling appearance of Vault Boy that Patricia mentioned in her article ...