CyberNations Talkshow: The Blog

No one wants to fight for NEW and their ridiculous ideas for tech-raiding.

Well, whatever you need to tell yourself.

Well, whatever you need to tell yourself.

I said my piece on you guys actually doing the fighting in the latest podcast. Once AirMe posts it, you'll probably be a little upset.

Nothing you two can say can ever hold sway about how I feel, just so y'know, whether positive or negative. And btw I don't listen to your podcasts so you can either not care about me, like I do likewise to you and should do to me, or you can just post the scripts here.

Well we do the fighting, you two can do all the commentating you want.

The problem to your call is the problem that creates your call. Who's going to press an envelope when they're all treatied to each other? Push the envelope agaisnt who? Their own MDP partners?

The fear-mongers tried to tell the world that a successful Vox Populi would impose its will on a crippled world. Its too bad we didn't.

MVP, personally I recommend you stop reading the blog if you don't listen to the podcast. You're not going to get any of the references, and I'm not going to "post scripts" because there are no scripts. It would require transcribing upwards of an hour worth of off-the-cuff talk into a post. I already have a day job, and you sure as hell aren't going to pay me for that extra work.

Fair enough.

Where can we listen to/download the podcast?

Where can we listen to/download the podcast?

This thread has the podcast. We're going to start putting update posts in the blog whenever we put out a new podcast also.

The problem to your call is the problem that creates your call. Who's going to press an envelope when they're all treatied to each other? Push the envelope agaisnt who? Their own MDP partners?

The fear-mongers tried to tell the world that a successful Vox Populi would impose its will on a crippled world. Its too bad we didn't.

I planned on extending the blogpost to include a section on the MDP Web and dealing with it, but it can all be boiled down to one thing: it needs to be trimmed in order for any of this to be a reality. Not only that, people need to start having genuine issues with each other, which completely goes against the norm of diplomacy. We may have achieved world peace here. This would be admirable in real life where people die in war, but in a game where war used to keep everyone interested, it kind of bogs things down.

I guess what I'm trying to say is "Sure we can solve our cyber-issues with cyber-words and preserve our CyberNations, but is that really cyber-interesting?"

I planned on extending the blogpost to include a section on the MDP Web and dealing with it, but it can all be boiled down to one thing: it needs to be trimmed in order for any of this to be a reality. Not only that, people need to start having genuine issues with each other, which completely goes against the norm of diplomacy. We may have achieved world peace here. This would be admirable in real life where people die in war, but in a game where war used to keep everyone interested, it kind of bogs things down.

I guess what I'm trying to say is "Sure we can solve our cyber-issues with cyber-words and preserve our CyberNations, but is that really cyber-interesting?"

It's an ambition problem. All these complacent leaders willing to sign away sovereignty and potential in return for a comfortable postition in a tie for last place where no one wins or loses anything. Hope they're happy.

MVP, personally I recommend you stop reading the blog if you don't listen to the podcast. You're not going to get any of the references, and I'm not going to "post scripts" because there are no scripts. It would require transcribing upwards of an hour worth of off-the-cuff talk into a post. I already have a day job, and you sure as hell aren't going to pay me for that extra work.

Btw, transcribing an interview (if done diligently and accounting for slang/dialect) takes about 6-8 hours transcribing per half hour of talk. In German anyway, might be slightly less in English and again less if experienced. This last podcast is 1.5h long. Assuming English reduces it to 4-6h/0.5h, We'd still be at 12-18 hours of transcribing. To do something like that (which is really boring btw) really would warrant getting payed for.

It's an ambition problem. All these complacent leaders willing to sign away sovereignty and potential in return for a comfortable postition in a tie for last place where no one wins or loses anything. Hope they're happy.

I think less an ambition problem and more of a by product of the times. Politics and the major power plays you wish to see are probably happening behind closed doors at the moment. Most alliances are taking to acting likes ducks, calmly gliding over the water while their feet are paddling furiously. As prior to pacifica's dominance thier was a lot of open opposition to them. In the GWIII to Q period any talk of overthrowing pacifica seemed to be behind closed doors and non existent. Then came vox, and another period of open opposition. With the multi polar world were living in at the moment I think think your seeing a lot of quiet (and not so quiet, nods at MK) realignment. When war comes as it inevitably will I think we will see players with ambition grabbing power but just in different ways.

With the multi polar world were living in at the moment I think think your seeing a lot of quiet (and not so quiet, nods at MK) realignment. When war comes as it inevitably will I think we will see players with ambition grabbing power but just in different ways.

We're living in a multi-polar world?

We're living in a multi-polar world?

SF, CnG, PB + other other spheres...right ... ...

We're living in a multi-polar world?

Actually I would agree with that. I think by the next war you'll see there are three different ways you can go.

My listening sucks, can you made a written version of the podcast?

It's an ambition problem. All these complacent leaders willing to sign away sovereignty and potential in return for a comfortable postition in a tie for last place where no one wins or loses anything. Hope they're happy.

Someone's been reading my posts again.

http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=95171&st=0&p=2525715

That's the second time this month, if I recall correctly. I'm glad to see you're learning from my writings.

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Btw, transcribing an interview (if done diligently and accounting for slang/dialect) takes about 6-8 hours transcribing per half hour of talk. In German anyway, might be slightly less in English and again less if experienced. This last podcast is 1.5h long. Assuming English reduces it to 4-6h/0.5h, We'd still be at 12-18 hours of transcribing. To do something like that (which is really boring btw) really would warrant getting payed for.

And not all of it would be worthy of transcribing given how we can go off on tangents as we do.

Also, NSO already tried to fill this role, and they did quite well for a while.

SF, CnG, PB + other other spheres...right ... ...

All the same pole.

btw, where's that video you promised in the podcast hawk?

Tell you what....

If The 'German' Empire messes with Nordreich's internal affairs again, that will be their fifth such offense against my alliance.

If this should occur, I will personally do my very best (not being in .gov limits my power, but perhaps not my influence) to ensure that we do not bring this to the OWF or TGE's allies. We'll simply inform our allies (who already support us with respect to TGE) that we'll be rolling in 'X' number of hours.

Then you can watch the treaty web fly apart at the seams in a way that will make the Bi-Polar War look tame by comparison.

If The 'German' Empire messes with Nordreich's internal affairs again, that will be their fifth such offense against my alliance.

Wow. You guys really need to do something about it already.

It seems something took the job. But apparently calls not itself but an injured person just out of the hospital the big bad.

This 2 wars now have been an eye opener in 2 directions.

I used to respect and like VE for being one of the alliances standing up for honour and the right, even though I didn't always completely share their view about what/who was right. I liked them for being "defenders" as I believe someone in your podcast called them, who also, justified, said that they are "aggressors" now.

I used to equally respect and like Umbrella. They had my respect for being great at nation building and for their strict internal workings. They also had my respect because I hadn't seen them be unfair or treacherous before. Maybe I was mistaken all along, but that doesn't seem to be the case judging from the respect Nolissar and other people I trust had for them.

I don't know what caused the change in those 2 alliances. Probably they are getting drunk / are drunk on their own power. Like, I assume, NPO did in the past. In any case whatever respect I had for those 2 alliances is gone.

And Stormsend, if you have anything to do with this decision, you should be deeply ashamed, as hawk_11 repeatedly said that NPO doesn't plan on (much less could) becoming what it was before, yet this is exactly the non-CB you guys pulled.