Chunky Monkey

House had to polish his nukes, he's very particular that the people he's nuking can see their reflection when they get hit.

Good luck out there Sparta!

You really need better sources if this is your determination of the "facts".

Go team!

Congrats to our friends and their friends who are also our friends!

Happy Birthday Invictans!

I have some bad news for you. Your command center is running Windows XP. You might want to take a look at an upgrade.

CCC votes for our senator, not Grub. Because Christians recognize that we have strong morals and values that all of blue needs.

We don't sanction people who vote for our candidate so you're safe LH.

I was always confused by the fact that you guys had a purple flag but were on red. Now it all makes sense. Enjoy the move!

If you're at least as active as gibs then I've already spoken to you as many times as I ever will.

Firstly, you started in 2012? Noob. Secondly, on the topic of why the treaty web is the way it is, it's pretty simple. Treaties Ingame = Nukes IRL. The game has become less about having fun with your friends and building something interesting, and more about finding a way to ensure that it is others who get destroyed and not you, or at least if you get destroyed, you take them down with you. Functionally, the idea of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Unfortunately the only real ways out of this are either to do some kind of reset (not necessarily a nation reset, but possibly a game mechanic reset or something else), or for a whole crapton of new people to join. Otherwise this will continue as is until there are so few people left that it devolves into some kind of Mad Max style wasteland (which some may say is an improvement). Lastly, on the topic of how long the game has left, it's entirely dependent on what we do as players. If we choose to make the big changes necessary to revitalize interest in the game, we could see this continue for quite some time. If people keep the status quo then I don't even see another major war occurring. The major powers will continue to isolate and destroy people they don't like until no one is left, and why wouldn't they? It's a winning tactic, why would they stop?

Sorry to say farewell to some great friends and allies. Hopefully wherever you end up you will find yourself well. Good luck out there DKers.

It is sad that Polaris continues to put you in positions of power when your only purpose seems to be to sling insults at people/alliances you have some perceived issue with. I expect better from Polaris, and it is disappointing to see them continue to allow you off your leash instead of putting you down like the rabid dog you are.

I'm famous! Or something!

I would. Don't push me, I might do something crazy like declare war on LUE.

Yes. We'll be cutting ties with CDS and NAAC as well.

I don't know who has mountains, but we have icebergs.

All I ever post in these is "Go team!".

Molagbal: Edit Post King

Go team!

This.

A sad farewell to a very noble alliance. It's been an honor to be your friend and (on and off) diplomat since my days back in GOONS, and it was a pleasure being in an alliance allied to you guys for a short time (The Liquor Cabinet, if anyone remembers that alliance). Hopefully those continuing to play find great homes.

Go team!

I went and looked up the word reactionary because I thought, "surely it only means that if you're cherry picking a definition", but I found that it is one of the most common definitions of the word. If you look further though, even though the word is usually used to describe people or movements that are against progressive and liberal changes, the more general definition simply indicates that it is a movement against radical change in the status quo. One could argue (and I assume that Schatt is) that Vox was a reactionary movement to the change of going from a multi polar world to a single polar one. In this case, the status quo was a good situation for the world, and this change was regressive and hegemonic, thus the reactionary movement. Many people forget this, but one has to remember that conservatism is merely the idea of continuing the way things are. Thus the resistance to change was not to regress the world state, but to prevent it from regressing.