Micheal Malone

So.... after 1411 days... I think it's time to bounce. I just wanted to give some shout outs. To all my old school friends from the ISSF & Orion days... keep it real. Someone please punch Matt Shovel in the mouth for me. I'm sure he deserves it for something. I miss all of you all, no seriously. FOK and all my friends from the days gone past.... You all had a special place in my "killing time" phase. To iFOK, y'all were some special peeps. MikeTheFirst, Arexes... if it wasn't for you two, I wouldn't have been here as many days as I have been. To Non Grata. Screw you. Peace, love, and chicken biscuits. I'ma rogue out on some random schmuck, yall can steal my tech etc. I'm not collecting any more after tonight. Cybernations: The only thing that has ever stood in your own way was the neck beards. Seriously, learn to shave. Love you all, but I'm out. Malone ISSF -> Orion -> iFOK -> Non Grata -> RL.

[quote name='Londo Mollari' timestamp='1320511646' post='2839660'] If might alone truly made right then MK would have been rubbed out a long time ago, when you were weak. People also respect things like nobility, self-sacrifice, honor, and a sense of fair play. Power changes because of these things. NPO was not cast down because they were weak, but because they were not just. In my view, MK has chosen to renounce all of the qualities that made them great to pursue this concept of might. True strength is found not only in pixels and in the pixels of allies who will honor pieces of paper they have signed saying that they will do so, but in being able to command the respect and admiration even of those who styled themselves as your enemies. Chasing the kind of might that the NPO had will at worst get you killed and at best make you into another NPO. Is that really what you want? I applaud your service to the world in casting yourself as a villain when there was none before, but I condemn that you have squandered the specialness that was MK's potential to reinvent the spectre of your old enemy. [/quote] Listen to this man... he knows how power corrups, amirite?

[quote name='Wu Tang Clan' timestamp='1320470143' post='2839392'] I have a question. [ooc] Since CN runs on US Central Time, which observes Daylight Savings, which ends on Sunday... [/ooc] Do they really have 73 hours? Or will you attack an hour before update? [/quote] [ooc] I don't know about Central, but I assume it's the same as pacific time. the switch happens at 2am, so that would be after update. [/ooc] Meh, people get bored and things happen. I mentioned this weeks ago that someone would do it, I even tried to talk our gov into allowing aiding of nations when the "don't aid against our allies" thread went up. Edit: [ooc] I was right, 2am. [url="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b2.html"]http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b2.html[/url] I only know that from working in the bars in a state where alcohol sales end at 2am. [/ooc]

[quote name='Mogar' timestamp='1319843117' post='2834071'] You still can't give me an answer of why you waited until our treaty was downgraded, can you? you can try to nitpick at my argument all day, but you don't seem to be able to give me an answer [/quote] Nope, I sure can't. I'm not in gov, sadly. What I do know is that I am surprised that find upstanding gentlemen like yourself hold a treaty to defend a partner, yet seem to stress the Optional over the previous Mandatory. As I said, deflection at it's best I guess. Do I know why we didn't hit while it was Mandatory? Not for certain. Can I guess? Yup, and so can you. Do I know that for someone who seems so concerned about their allies why you did not jump to their aid? Nope. Can I guess? Yup. [img]http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh209/Knoxontholos/Demotivational%20Posters/FortitudeSave.jpg[/img]

[quote name='Isaac MatthewII' timestamp='1319831428' post='2833845'] this is a terrible idea why would you make a propaganda thread for a war that isnt very eventful and has one tiny alliance vs one big alliance.....nobody cares about this war lol [/quote] To be fair, we had a propaganda thread about a few tiny alliances vs one big useless alliance. Don't you know that people like to occupy their time with MS Paint?

[quote name='Mogar' timestamp='1319839521' post='2834031'] why didn't NG declare while RIA had an MDP level treaty with them, answer me this. [/quote] "Guys, guys... look. I know we have a treaty that says we can defend our friends when they get attacked. But that's not my argument. Let's not focus on the fact that we didn't defend our friends in what would have been a justified defense. Let's focus on the fact that Non Grata attacked after we changed our treaty from FORCING us to defend. They're cowards!"

Some days I wonder how any of you roll out of bed and put your pants on right. So far we've got the "I'm not going to do anything because I want you to do it first so I can call in my friends argument" and then we've got the "I'm not going to do anything because I want you to do it first, first" argument. Then we have the sad sacks who are to shickenchit to do anything at all adding in their back slapping and trumpeteering. It seems like the only thing we need here is for MooCows to roll into the thread call you all idiots and you to agree. And we wonder why our world has turned into what it has...

Zog I've always liked your style, CN will be a paler place without you. Take care wherever the keyboard takes you.

The only thing update blitz does (if proper) is allow you quad attacks before your opponent is prepared sending them into anarchy and hopefully eliminating their ability to declare offensive wars allowing you better control. Given this day and age, nukes are inevitable and expected. Going into a war (and even most tech raids now days) you expect you will be nuked. The fact that warchests are the norm eliminate many of the pitfalls of nuclear anarchy and merely inflict damage which is easily re-attainable.

Congrats to NG for a [s]$9mil/50 tech $6mil[/s] gain in reps, and whatever we managed to steal. Too bad I missed out on all the fighting, guess I better go raid someone or find a 1v1. Edit: Sadly I thought the surrendered guy was above 15k, I was mistaken. Now I really want to fight. DAMN YOU PEACEMODE!

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Fair terms. [quote name='Jaiar' timestamp='1317359683' post='2812452'] As far as you posting your nation link: If you're man enough for a 1 v 1. 7 day war, one round. My defensive slots protected so no others will mettle with our affair. Then, I'm your huckleberry. That's just my game. You up for it Ringo? [/quote] If Ringo ain't, look me up. Ask berbers, I'm fun for it. You just lemme know if you're down and we'll throw blows.

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All y'all are acting like a bunch of bored kids throwing a temper tantrum.

Right, like I said, you surrendered to Orion. I didn't put the words in your mouth or in your pen. Nor were they taken out of context. You withdrew from the fight and agreed to not re-enter. Now, while that is debatable about whether that's a true white peace or not, you did agree to it. As did we agree to withdraw from the NPO. Oh that's right, we were fighting them too, not just you, right? Haf, just suck it up on this one bud, Invicta surrendered, no matter how you spin it.

Nations who at the time were under the protection of Non Grata due to a merger. amiright?

[quote name='Haflinger' timestamp='1311546409' post='2762994'] Shall we have this argument again? I know you managed to get bk to quit, but I still have the logs (and now that he's gone I see no need to protect his privacy, so I'll share them if you like) where we both left the war at the same time, with your alliance suffering devastating losses while ours ... didn't. [/quote] Awww, that's sweet. Revising history AND a threat to log dump! How ... quaint. I'm not saying we didn't suffer losses, I'm merely stating you guys surrendered to us. Hard to swallow that pill, huh? In fact, I'm fairly certain the announcement read "[color=#1C2837][size=2]After much negotiation, the forces of Invicta and Nebula-X have surrendered to the collective forces of Orion and the Karma Coalition." Funny how that surrender thing works, right?[/size][/color]

[quote name='dane0' timestamp='1311539252' post='2762921'] Franz. Why do you care so much. Just because NG protects you doesn't mean you have anything to do with this. Edit- grammar mistake [/quote] My guess is the same reason everyone else cares so much, boredom. Otherwise this thread would have died a looong time ago.

And while I may have been everyone's favorite target, your alliance still surrendered. Do we really need to relive this past again Haf?

Gov is only doing what I already did in channel with Green Muffins.

The way I read those logs, they DIDN'T come to us. Tetris came to us. At least I'm fairly sure that's what Tetris stands for...

Hi guys! Me again! Look, I'm no there to say what I did was right or wrong, because that debate can be had a million times over. What I will say is that as far as TAA was concerned at the time, it was a legal raid. I didn't consult gov, because since it was legal I didn't have to. Afterwards, Green Muffins and myself joked around in main channel, I even offered to finish out the tech deal with him at a rate of 3mil/38 tech. If the guy I raided is cool about all this, why are you all so whiny? Seriously, if yall are that bored maybe you should stop sitting on your thumbs, grab your joystick, and find some fun games to play. Oh hey, Haflinger! Add another successful one to my record will you since you're my official war-stats keeper now.

[quote name='Haflinger' timestamp='1311292323' post='2760777'] You have been a member of alliances that won wars, yes. You personally have not won any individual nation wars though. (Well until now; now you have. Of course. ) There's a difference. [/quote] I have to agree with SirWilliam, I have a fan? That's sweet! [font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif][size=2]Well I guess tech raids don't count as wars, so I can't count the any number of tech raids that went off successfully. So I guess as far as full-scale wars that my nation was individually involved in, I rogued on Locke and ended in a 5v1. And then this one. So that means I'm batting .500, what about yerself there pardner? Have you even stepped to the plate at all? (And no, don't get that confused with me offering another 1v1, lol)[/size][/font]

[quote name='Haflinger' timestamp='1311220172' post='2760236'] ... I can't believe Malone finally won a war. [/quote] I can't believe it's not butter? I've been on the winning side of wars my entire existence, except of course the 5vs1 when I rogued on Locke.