That said, look at pre-industrial British peers. It wasn't uncommon to refer to them by their holding's name, rather than their own (e.g. Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, often called simply 'Norfolk'). Not that Leonardo da Vinci was in any position of power regarding Vinci, but non-Italians might have called him "da Vinci" (perhaps equivalent to an American calling a Slavic coworker, whose name he couldn't pronounce, "the Russian"). This might have been particularly true for those not speaking Italian.
There is a Phantasy Star Online v. 2.0 coming out this May (with an additional difficulty level, some streamlined stuff, tons of new weapons/Mags, and two entire new areas), but there will also be a Phantasy Star Online 2 coming out nearer the end of the year (as far as I've heard).
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"After all, these are US representatives... i didn't vote for them. nobody asked me."
They were elected on Diebold and ES&S voting machines... So we Americans didn't vote for them, either.
That said, look at pre-industrial British peers. It wasn't uncommon to refer to them by their holding's name, rather than their own (e.g. Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, often called simply 'Norfolk'). Not that Leonardo da Vinci was in any position of power regarding Vinci, but non-Italians might have called him "da Vinci" (perhaps equivalent to an American calling a Slavic coworker, whose name he couldn't pronounce, "the Russian"). This might have been particularly true for those not speaking Italian.
There is a Phantasy Star Online v. 2.0 coming out this May (with an additional difficulty level, some streamlined stuff, tons of new weapons/Mags, and two entire new areas), but there will also be a Phantasy Star Online 2 coming out nearer the end of the year (as far as I've heard).
-- Nik (Dacileva)
1. Sega didn't need to put in the modem. How many people actually used it? It was wasted money.
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they should've taken the money that they were spending on that stupid modem
Umm... More than 200,000 online players of Phantasy Star Online since December, 2000. See this Press Release from Sega.
-- Nik (Dacileva)