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Sponge's finest hour, no less. (Well played scm.)

Bruno Ganz was awesome there. Great act.

Correct. You can mitigate it by limiting your deployments, but that doesn't refute your point. In my political and ranking position I'd expect to never have the upper hand. My entire military doctrine is based on the idea that I don't care about my losses, as long as I can make sure that any and all attackers can only lose something by attacking my nation... which is why I am never found with soldiers. This means that the FS is only good for me. In case of need I could easily dump it and rebuy it at a later time, as at my nation's size the entire wonder costs about just two days of profit. I agree that it's basically the same for any neutral, at least if they adopt the same zero soldiers strategy. I'll relay your greetings to Kurdanak.

The main downside of the FS is that an enemy can weaken but not completely erase your ground army with a nuke and then loot your nation, whereas without the FS any successfully landing nuke would leave you with zero soldiers, hence it would be impossible to get any loot from your nation. I have the FS, as I don't expect to keep any soldier, no matter the situation, for a very long time, thus the partial protection of my air and navy forces comes with no disadvantage to me. Others might find it convenient or inconvenient, depending on the kind of adversaries they expect to face.

You also improved since then. I don't remember your actual posts but I do remember the... not entirely favourable impression they used to leave on me. Careful. Although not exclusively, the GGA was largely Bilrow and, unfortunately, he's been buried (or equivalent) in the literal sense. R.I.P.

He's been great as well. TBH I'd never wish on Schatt or Doitzel that they come back to actually do anything. Great movie, and Nostalgia Train is a top class candidate as war name. Thank you.

At this point I demand that Schattenman shows up too, so that I could (figuratively!) rest in peace.

You're more nuanced than that! I know about ES's actual personality: although limited, I had my private exchanges with him long time ago. Still, the change in his public attitude is striking... and of course I was making some humour, exactly because I knew that he could gracefully take it. Neither of you two is familiar with being actually disappointing. Thank you.

"Shantamantan" and "Grubby" are the two best names there, both the individuals and your silly way of calling them. On a different note, I'm amazed that visible kindness somehow found a way into your aging heart... I'm shocked, actually. Can't we literally count on anything anymore, for heaven's sake?

I didn't mention the result because the point was my relationship with you, not the accusation. Your case was dismissed before even going to trial, BTW, it was determined that there wasn't a case to begin with. All is well, thank you, here hoping the same is for you old friend.

For Johnny's standards this looks a bit as something assembled in haste, but I nonetheless applaude the effort. For context and background: I really liked The Day Today, any chance we can have it back, @Johnny Apocalypse?

You went too far here mate.

I stand corrected then, thanks for your clarification.

JFYI everyone, monkbonk wrote elsewhere that he was born after 2008.

The GPA is currently closed to new members, it's been like that for a few years. For completeness, but not really relevant in this case: we could maybe make an exception for someone in exceptionally good standing and perfect reputation, and/or former some GPA member with a perfectly clean record, the latter less unlikely than the former, but that's all. Also, being ready to have everything thoroughly burnt down in battle, if necessary for the defence of the alliance, has been a hard requirement for all applicants since at least 2008, anyway (not all applicants lived up to their application promises on this... oh well). Additionally and finally, being scared of losing pixels is totally incompatible with going neutral, IMHO.

Of 120 nukes against SDI equipped targets you should expect around 48 hits and 72 misses, 40-80 isn't very far off that.

As this is an OOC forum I'll share my consideration that you may of course be disappointed with your former alliance, however airing your grievances in this way doesn't really look like good form - at least to me. That said, good luck for your CN future. Do you need monetary aid? I could send you some.

I too watched the whole video and ironically I unironically have no idea of what of it might ever leave an impression on anyone.

My gut feeling is that it's just you, though I may be wrong.

I gather it has more than twice your age. +100 points for you, and +100 ❤️ points as well. I don't even particularly like Boy George's music (although hats off to his/Culture Club's mastery of it, and heavens what voice he has) but this song is perfect, a true piece of art. I especially love the bass. (❤️ points are earned by/when really loving)

Sorry but I had to, it basically was an obligatory reply.

+100 points for the reference. ❤️

Quiet you!

Quiet you!

I worded it neutral: the GPA won't get involved in wars. Of course others can attack the GPA, as has happened multiple times, and the GPA will defend herself at her best. The GPA has never been pacifist, just peaceful.