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Lord Exodus

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  1. Your replies seem to be based on the premise that I'm guilty of some terrible crime, probably because you mistakenly accept SNAFU accusations as fact. Endlessly it seems to be ignored that I only removed my own guides from the SNAFU forums and that this fact is being challenged by the very alliance which stood to lose from my resignation. Stetson76 launched his campaign (quite successfully) to defame me by utilising the support of his alliance and personal allies who would also join in, adding derogatory commentary about my character alongside laughable fabrications. In his campaign he managed not once to provide evidence of his case, playing it out much like an ordinary real world 'smear campaign'. For me the agony is not that there seem to be many opinionated members on this forum readily supporting baseless campaigns, but rather that rational judgement and inquiry seem to have been wiped out here. Sure some people have persisted with the argument that it's "common sense" that an alliance naturally owns that produced of its members, however herein lies several flaws to this method of thought. Firstly, the most obvious being, what is "common sense" and what is not? The definition of what is, or is not common sense will vary between individuals. Stetson76 made an assumption that was unknown to me, then expected me to be capable of abiding by his assumed understanding. Secondly, I would like to indicate that simply because an alliance feels that it is "common sense" that it may keep guides produced by its members without direct consent, does not make this proposition true, nor does it trump real world law protecting intellectual properties. As an Australian citizen I am afforded this understanding, and I did think that Americans (as I believe Stetson76 claims to be) are also of such an understanding and enforce very similar intellectual property laws as Australia. If anything, "common sense" would have dictated that your values assimilated with the intellectual property laws; a product of democratic governing. Furthermore, Stetson76 could have prevented such a grievous misunderstanding by directly disclosing his position on the matter earlier and making an agreement with myself. He did not do this. Instead he chose to later ambush me with this "common sense" argument. I would have thought that his knowledge of my political leanings would further have discouraged him from making the assumption that I sympathised with his "common sense" ideal whereby property ownership is forfeited without consent or agreement, or any kind of contract. As Stetson76's campaign evolved it seems he realised the support he'd garnered from his proficient rhetoric, resultantly demanding the public availability of my guides in order to appease the very situation he had created. This move was a well calculated one; lending SNAFU the admiration of the community for proposing the public provisioning of an arsenal of free guides and belittling the apparent villainous Lord Exodus all while returning SNAFU the opportunity to obtain copies of the guides they'd lost in my resignation. Quite rightly, I refused these terms. Accepting these terms would have implied my guilt, and supplied SNAFU the opportunity to regain the guides. Considering their vicious allegations, I was hardly going to reward them in such a manner. This topic was initiated with the intent to try to reveal the nature of SNAFU more honestly than when SNAFU attempted to portray me. Unfortunately it seems there are many who wish to endlessly regurgitate unsupported SNAFU claims, expecting some kind of explanation to grossly misrepresented acts. However, as I cannot complete the fairytale Stetson76 started to tell, I have instead above explained what I believe to be the pivotal points in understanding the campaign led against me. I find it entertaining that one of their members said this: Calling me callow, then later calling me a "doodoo-head"? In fact, I believe SNAFU members have resorted to name calling on several occasions if I recall correctly, which is hardly the behaviour of "mature" and morally upstanding persons I would have thought. Then again, it is one of the few tactics at their disposal given their baseless argument. Some of you also argue that I should "just move on". No doubt that argument is easy to make when you are not the target of such a campaign, but unfortunately for me, I was. As such I think it's fair I clear my name of this gross injustice, something I think anyone in my position would do.
  2. I was referring to the part I've emphasised in bold, which clearly implies that as of now, Stetson76 does not wish to have SNAFU attack me, but may at a later date. I mean, there's not much point warring with a newly rolled nation now is there? I'm 0 days old, have 1 infrastructure which amounts to 3NS. SNAFU doesn't even have anyone in my range. Even if they did, it couldn't be very gratifying to destroy 1 infrastructure, could it?
  3. Not sympathy, just thought it was a different perspective on SNAFU considering how they generally try to convey themselves on OWF.
  4. The conversation was hardly private, I didn't even need to register an account on the forum to view it. I just went to the forum and it was available to me.
  5. I thought SNAFU had implied they did not condone permanent ZI, but sounds like they're still out for my blood even after rerolling. For those interested, you can follow any further developments in SNAFU's topic as it is publicly viewable here unless of course they decide that they no longer wish to grant everyone access to view their discussion about me.
  6. Taken from the publicly viewable topic titled "Lord Exodus" on the SNAFU forum:
  7. You obviously missed my point. I was remarking on the absurdity of determining guilt before hearing the other side to the story or any evidence for that matter, which is what happened here. Why would I bother explaining myself to people who clearly do not sought truth, those who had made their minds up before I even made explanation? I don't recall saying I was better than anyone else, I only recall pointing out the flaw in many of the repliers approach to the matter.
  8. Hello, this is Lord Exodus writing. I wanted to add my own response as I think it is necessary for many of the posters within this topic to see. For a great while I watched with interest the developments of this topic; the accusations put forward by Mr. Stetson, the supporting rhetoric by his personal allies and the added comments by random users unrelated to the actual issue at hand, who, after merely reading content within this topic, became experts on the matter, able to confidently deploy a verdict of "guilty". And, frankly, while the resulting commentaries do not surprise me, I thought there would have been more that questioned the validity of the claims made against me, or at least challenged the original poster for some kind of evidence to support his claims. I suppose many would argue that if I were not guilty of these things then I should have made my case, explained my side of the story. I disagree. My reasoning for this is simple, many of you have already demonstrated an incompetence for scrupulous judgement of fact, upon which a rational mind would have determined a verdict. Without having heard my story, or any evidence to support the accusations made against me, you had already decided I was your villain. I do not see how presentation of my side of the issue will suddenly improve your capacity to deliberate rationally. Furthermore I do not think it likely that such people are capable of publicly changing their opinion, for this alteration would be a public admittance to a less than admirable characteristic in the first place. "Then if not refute the claims against you, then what be the purpose of this post?" you may ask. I suppose I just wanted to share with you how entertaining I find it when the willfully ignorant become experts overnight and spill their opinion on matters for which they can surely have very little special knowledge.
  9. Trade Circle details updated. Marble and Wheat are all that are required to complete this trade circle.
  10. Still require participant with Lumber and Marble.
  11. List has been updated. I need to hear from Adish. I have sent messages to many Lumber and Marble gifted nations, however I haven't any positive replies yet
  12. Thank you, the lists have been updated. Anyone else reading this remember, we still require another participant to fill our Lumber and Marble position (and must of course be on purple team, or prepared to change to purple team).
  13. Purple Team Trade Circle 3 Bonus Resources; Beer, Construction & Fast Food Proposed Participants: Aluminium - XxAssassinAcexX Cattle - Tristan the Hammer Fish - Lord Exodus Iron - Heheurfunny Lumber - Heheurfunny Marble - Pigs - Lord Exodus Spices - Tristan the Hammer Sugar - JuJuWitch Uranium - XxAssassinAcexX Water - JuJuWitch Wheat - Confirmed Participants: Aluminium - XxAssassinAcexX Cattle - Tristan the Hammer Fish - Lord Exodus Iron - Lumber - Marble - Pigs - Lord Exodus Spices - Tristan the Hammer Sugar - JuJuWitch Uranium - XxAssassinAcexX Water - JuJuWitch Wheat - Require Participants For: Marble - Wheat - Notes: Adish was removed from this trade circle for inactivity; he failed to reply to my enquiries.
  14. Unfortunately Rubber is not a part of this combination, as such you are unable to be placed in this trade circle.
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