So I've got Missouri going all the way (I loved their Baylor and both Kansas games). I usually throw in four or five upsets just to try and cover my bases. Unfortunately, my team Bama drew a pretty tough bracket. I think we'll struggle past a close game with Creighton, but I don't think we can get past North Carolina.
Who do you guys got going all the way?
Also, I set up a CN bracket group any of you guys can join if you want: http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/group?gro
So… I listened to a fair deal of Schattenmann's chat with Emperor Brehon last night. The part where they talked about developing (or just getting) better dogmas struck a chord here since I have been tempted to be a full-time idiot poster since there really is not much good debate on the OWF.... and being an idiot seems to get the most attention around here and.... why yes, I am an unapologetic attention seeker.
So, some reaction: if I understand correctly, the NPO's dogma is to have no ri
For those who do not know, my show starts at 9 PM Eastern on Saturday (aka 8 PM CN Time) and goes till around 1.5 hours after update.
My show we talk about anything ranging from CN, to draggie's british accent, to politics, to ugly chicks on OKCupid.
The usual people on my show? Usually I have draggiebunny, theArrow, Bloodfury, Crymson, and a few other fellows who pop in from time to time. It shall be rather joyous.
If you want us to talk about anything specific or want a shoutout or somethin
The ones that break our hearts are always the best. That one person that understands you more than anyone, that seems so perfect. So wonderful. They give us the best songs, write us the best words, send us the best pictures, and speak the best lines. They show us what love feels like, and suddenly we understand that the world looks so much more beautiful from the passenger side of someone’s heart. They ignite the deepest desire in us, and a constant thought of ‘If I could have this perfectly fo
1. Suck up to anyone in power.
2. Pick on people who are unable to do something about it. Very Important: DO NOT pick on anyone who has the power to do something about it.
3. When called out remember the lines "faux moral outrage!" and "do something about it".
4. Whine about how everyone is whining as much as possible.
1) Identify yourself with a moral code. Don't worry too much about its tenets, as long as they're clearly delineated, and it's easy to identify infractions.
2) Scan the active threads in Alliance Announcements for a few days. Identify an alliance, individual, or policy that transgresses your newly acquired modal code. Note that this is not the same as transgressing the alliance or individual's own moral code.
3) Post in the relevant thread something along these lines: "Your bullying and tyr
My personal favorite top 5 war movies. So many to pick from but wanted to narrow it down to just the top few. Feel free to reply post with your own, may remind me to check out a few I've totally forgotten about! Wasn't till I finished that I realised I've selected nothing pre WWII, and thats including war movies set in the Middle Ages, Industrial Age etc but I guess none about that era really hooked me in as much. Was pretty hard to leave out Apocalypse Now but I felt it a little narrow minded t
Part I
Analogies can be a good thing. They can be incredibly useful in education; when trying to explain an unfamilliar concept by relating it to something familliar. This is a completely neutral action and I urge you to use them in this manner whenever you wish. You have my blessing.
Analogies used in an argument are nearly always utter crap. But even when a great analogy is used, it more than likely shouldn't have been. There are many issues, but they all stem from one thing: analogies are n
When people on top of the CN social ladder claim that anyone angry about their bull !@#$ is trying to score political points. There are some of us out here who legitimately don't like OOC attacks and bullying people around. We don't have anything to gain by calling you out, but we do it anyway, because we believe what you're doing is wrong. So shut the $%&@ up with "omg faux moral outrage!".
That's all.
On the 23rd, one of our long-time members, OrangeAvenger decided he had gotten bored of planet Bob and was going to go out with a bang. He decided to rogue as his means of escape. Naturally he decided to nuke Sardonic (who wouldn't?) but he also chose two other targets: Schattenmann and HeroofTime. Can't say he has bad taste.
If I may sidetrack for a moment, I want to briefly explain the point of this blog. In the past, GOONs has gotten a lot of flak for "calling in allies" or "not being able t
Jack Diorno returns as a purple team nation
#athens
So, I return.
Olympus has been very kind in granting me a home within their walls, and I can even choose my own resource, a definite boon for nuclear rogue nations...
After browsing the forums for a while I noticed that nothing has changed, people are posting about their new micro alliance, why the game is going downhill, complaining about how many recruitment messages a new nation gets.
Hmmm, 15,000 nations seems to be about what I
A friend of mine wrote this essay for a class that he took called "Confronting Moral Dilemmas." It's pretty funny - read past the first few paragraphs for the better parts. For what it's worth, he got an A on this paper.
At the beginning of the term, I felt as though I had a coherent grasp on many concepts concerning morality. I have strong opinions concerning many of the issues mentioned in the course catalogue, and I was excited to take a class which would focus on moral dilemmas and allow me
Author's note: Woo! I'm blogging again! I'll post when I feel the need to rant/extol virtues/whatever. Thanks for reading!
Since I've returned to CN, I've seen quite a few references to real life ideas of international political theory. I the Roq debacle, I heard Hobbes ideas thrown around, and a few months ago a serious discussion on realism in Cybernations took place. I am a poli-sci major in real life, so I inherently find this stuff fascinating. However, after some thought, I'm ready to giv
So as I elucidated on a past blog entry (link) I am a wee bit crazy about cycling, fanatical would probably be a good way of putting it. Back then I was riding a Kona Dew Deluxe (2010 model), and it got used a hell of a lot…doing a 12km commute during the weekdays and probably notching up a further 5 Km’s over the weekends, in short she got rode hard (no innuendo intended). But last month some piece of !@#$ decided to steal my rig…and not off the street but from the ‘secure’ underground car/bike
I am bored and, rather than write a RL essay, I decided to finally make use of my blog.
So I found an old post I wrote awhile back that I thought was rather insightful, edited it a bit and used superscript annotations to expand certain sections. A link to the original can be found at the bottom of the post. Hope you all enjoy.
http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=103534&st=40&p=2756262entry2756262
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuR-T25B6QjTdGh6YlBTZVMyOWpsb2Zmbmt5SFlQVmc#gid=0
A before and after of this war. A couple alliances accidentally got left off (GDA and NPL that I saw), and the Asg-Val merger threw off some numbers (I could probably fix it, or at least make it more accurate for "now", but it would be misleading in the before/after I was going for, I think anyway).
Couple of questions now...
Should I do this next war, too?
If I do, is there anything I should add?
After spending a few hours aimlessly walking around town contemplating the inevitability of death and pointlessness of existence, I decided to take a load off and get drunk instead.
So I headed off to the local sin merchant for my dose of sweet sweet oblivion. As usual I grabbed my bottle of Franziskaner Weissbier as a starter but I was at a loss as what to get next. Something different...
I like rum. Mainly because I fancy myself a land pirate. And want to live in the tropics. Other than that
Well seeing as bros already accepted [on air] that he did snoop on UPN when he had admin access, by simply clicking on a thread in the gov areas... Roq pretty much stands proven true on the "MK Spied" issue.
While this has been interesting to see, i would rather Roq took a different approach to this. It is always better to let the masses whip themselves into a frenzy than to seem like you are trying to whip them into a frenzy. The best way to drop a bomb, Roq, is to just drop it, and then pop
Ten days. It's not that long, but it depresses me beyond belief.
So for that length of time I will disappear from here and wordlessly protest my mother's actions.
I'll see you around, users.
This isn't exactly addressing a bad argument per se, but I reserve the right to depart from this blog's theme whenever I damn well please. Also it follows along the general theme of elevating the level of discourse.
I'd just like to speak a bit on a piece of my personal philosophy. It's very simple, and I'm sure you've heard it before, but its implications are wide and honestly it can be more difficult to follow than you'd first imagine.
Err on the side of caution.
This is a very useful thing