jerdge

TBH this thread went back to entertain mode exactly when the quasi-Hime posts and the tobacco blends secondary narrations stood out from the blob of back and forth on... I am not sure what anymore sorry. (By no means I am asking to anyone to do/continue do anything, but I had to express my gratitude for both topics: well done everybody.)

Confirmed.

Did you trademark this word or is it free to use? It's so ugly that it's beautiful.

I saw a mention of CNtel, probably it's 2012. Anyway: congrats to all cats, involved in this or otherwise.

Traditions are dead. Existence and its negative are overrated and, to the extent that anything can truly be true or false - not much - war especially is a lie.

It was Umbrellaellaella anyway.

IC: of course. OOC: I don't mind either way, the coincidences just made me remember that ancient (and rather irrelevant) stuff, apparently memory works by/is association. And I like to hear myself talking. And age... 👴

IIRC in the times preceding the Karma war, when I was in the (true) MHA, I had drafted a speech, intended for posting on this board, that paraphrased MLKJ's "I have a dream" speech. When I presented it to the MHA (government, general membership? I can't remember) the general feelings and statements were that my text wasn't bad, but that it wasn't recommended to make it public because of the resonance and importance of the original speech. We didn't want to risk offend anyone by exploiting that important speech for CN. Just this, I wanted to share that ancient experience as I think that the coincidences and similarities are enough to make it strangely relevant in this thread.

Eh, I am faithful to the GPA and, in my eyes, leaving to fight another fight wouldn't look well (moreover, if that was the right thing to do, I should have come back to help the MHA when it really mattered, many years ago). I can also only be active every now and then, thus I'd be of little help (and I'd disappoint my opponents as well), not to mention how bad at war I have become. Just for fun I'll anyway reveal that I could have been still at war with them, but people on their side didn't want to deal with any unneeded complication, thus that opportunity faded away. Oh well maybe the next time. 😊

True. Maybe more than four years (five or six maybe) but that doesn't detract from your general point. Revival of old events, not of you/your alliance.

Well I'd be outraged if you thought that I'd outright virtually hug Roq without first having asked for his consent by stating that I'd have virtually hugged him if he consented, but as undoubtedly nobody would think that you of all people couldn't tell the difference between chronological and syntactic order, I just thank you for having taken the time to call me "scum", and I feel flattered that you could state that the likes of me are cause of anything - I wish it was true, and that you thought it for real! On a more serious note (but seriously, what can be serious here anymore?) I admit that I am probably overdoing it: my apologies, I can't help it, I have it in and it has to get out of my system... maybe you can forgive me?... and I'd virtually hug you too, if you too don't object ofc.

Given the semi-Hitchiker spirit displayed by the fake MHA here, there's absolutely no reason the scuffle both sides seem to be ready to enjoy isn't followed by twinning. Also about the MHA triumvirs: jeez how long you people have been chained to the helm for? Because you can't possibly be doing it intentionally, right? 🙂 Have fun! It's almost, but not quite, entirely unlikely that I wish I could join you in this.

You We are degenerates... inconceivably, The Zigur's conclusions about this world are correct*. (I would go on with other jokes and "funny" faux announcements as well, but yawn... and unrelatedly, man, I grin and gleam and I'd also virtually hug you, if you don't object ofc.) * Not implying that Junkalunka did or didn't do it, but one can start from wrong premises, talk nonsense all the way and still reach correct conclusions, logic FTW!

These are a lot of understatements, for sure. What's long past is however long past. While I don't completely disagree with your analysis, you seem to miss a relevant point: this game rewards seniority too much, the benefits of technology (and the abusive ways to acquire it) wouldn't have broken it to this level if seniority wasn't that decisive in determining the distribution of technology itself. The same could be said about money (and wonders, but in a minor part). The flaws you mention having been there from the beginning didn't matter until seniority started playing a major role, which intrinsically required time. Anyway, the game is tainted to the bone and its owner hasn't been caring for years - as it's darn sure it's his right to do - why should we care about it anymore? IMO you've been a good member of this gaming community, which is what matter most: thank you and farewell.

Sorry double post.

I was with the MHA at the Härmlins times, we had a rather decent* military, not the best one but almost as good as you could get while being in a mass-recruiting alliance. For a laid back community it really wasn't bad, people were happy when we entered wars at their side. IIRC Sparta had a terrible reputation at the time, but I can't say whether it was deserved or not. In my MHA times we had a couple of brawls with IRON (which for the record I think was a little more than slightly better prepared than us) and I think that some old fart there may also be able to confirm/deny what I am saying. * Of course, I am talking of "rather decent" by 2009-2010 standards.

So is CN now an endless revival infested by obscure inside jokes and old threads' remakes, with lazy and incomplete edits on top of that? I can get behind this kind of humour, it fits the times.

Probably.

I'll have you know, it might even be that, but considering how old, senile and confused we've become, and also knowing that no one reads our old papers anymore, we don't know what conspiracies, if any, we might have concoted in some distant and long forgotten past. If you find any specific evidence please bring it up to me, thank you, so that we can address that women and children side of the issue, to your satisfaction.

I rarely comment on this kind of announcements but I have always had a soft spot for NG, not only because of Stewie, and I 100% approve this specific announcement and its style, so... let me wish you all good people the best of luck. Arise NG, arise in this black day, ere the sun rises!

You're talking of which neutrals, exactly? After having checked directly with Bart I now know that he wasn't referencing any (even relatively) recent event.

Recently I resumed buying tech and the first thing I did was to send out about 140 PMs to nation Rulers, that I had selected based on the downloadable Foreign Aid data (it wasn't big work and I got it done relatively quickly - spreadsheet etc, easy stuff). What surprised me a bit, and the reason I start this thread for, is that in about 48 hours I heard back from more than 30 people that are available, sometimes eager, to sell tech. Not a few of them sell at 9/200 or 18/300 (one even at 9/300!) I was a bit taken aback as, considering the NS and tech distribution in the game, I expected to find much less people available and with multiple aid slots ready to service new partners. I guess that a lot of old players with big nations are too inactive to actively look for deals, and maybe others don't see the point in accumulating tech that will then be easily and quickly wiped away by much superior aggressors. I don't conceal that I don't anymore really give much importance to my tech level, either, but I started again to buy tech also to help smaller nations to build up their infrastructure. If new players found it more easy to sell tech they'd grow their nation faster and they'd remain more interested into the game. What is your opinion about this situation? Isn't it bad for the game? How it is that this many tech sellers are available?

tl;dr - meh "Long" version - Aside that I don't care about anything anymore, there's been no contradiction: Tiberius reported words that had been spoken, I reported words that had been written, we were both correct as far as I know. Usual pointless ramblings of an old man I don't remember having fought against any Pacifican* and I am happy with that, mostly due to my sentimentality: back in ancient days I was an Hitchhiker and we had an eternal MDP with Pacifica, then things went downhill and we canceled the treaty (I was against that, for the record)... Even nowadays I still feel a vague moral obligation to avoid being involved in anything that might cause direct harm to any Pacifican, if I can. This might even change in the future (what future anyway?) but for now it is like that. * Although it might have happened last spring, while my nation was being sitted. Who cares.

In the Youtube video description the author wrote that he was actually a Pacifican, that he had mistakenly said "Polar" because he was nervous. I'll anyway also have everyone note that the only "activity" on this board is about ~10 years old debates between Junkalunka and Vladimir and about an ancient video that wasn't breaking news even when it was recent (although admittedly it was funny... 11 freaking years ago!) I don't know what this means, I just wanted to share this thought with you all.

An Unofficial Announcement by probably the only Agency's member that cares to make one Incredibly, we sort of already realized about the attack by these "Cowboys". Personally I am slightly disappointed that the war reason used against my specific Nation is that dull, and that no fancy PM was sent to me before or after the first attacks. But I guess that this is the state of the general apathy these days. On the bright side, I didn't imagine I would have had another occasion to post an Announcement. Apparently I am not completely dead. I might even remain focused for long enough to send a few other missiles in someone's general direction, or something like that. Don't hold your breath, though. Cheers jerdge