Marsupial Bob

Everybody needs a hobby. It's a small front. A frontlet, if you will. But the guys printing the stationary for me charged by the letter, so here we are.

Two months in... I haven't scurried off to CLAWS yet, and NoR has finally called in allies. Having a bit of a hard time with the one-man death cult then?

To be fair, I'm awesome, and everything I do is fabulously important. Or if you don't buy that one, you're welcome to join up and start chucking nukes as well. It'd be twice as irrelevant then. I thought I had it out of my system in '08 as well...unfortunately they came back. But I'm perfectly happy to do a bit of public service around here and see how many nukes it takes to get to the center of a Nordreich. I have very little attachment to my pixels, and enough money to keep nuking Nordreich for a good while. But feel free to quote this back at me with all due mocking if I run off to CLAWS.

GOD is dead, but there's still good works to be done... and The Iron Front is here to do 'em. We're gonna be doing one thang and one thang only … killing Nordreich. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as **** didn't come down from the god**** Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a ****in' aeroplane to teach Nordreich lessons in humanity. Nordreich ain't got no humanity. That's why any and every sum***** we find flyin' a Nordreich flag... they're gonna die. Anyone is welcome to join. But once you do, I want some Nordreich scalps, y'all...

Hey NoR, mind sending somebody else to hit me? There's already a TLR guy in one of my slots, and at this point I'd hate to waste my limited nukes on somebody who isn't NoR. http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=228566

Send her over; I've prepared a red wine jus in her honour.

Might want to have it drop by NoR on the way; I'm having great fun hitting people in DEFCON 5 with no military buildup. Apparently blitzkrieg tactics don't necessarily come with the territory...

You have your priorities, I have mine.

You may have forgotten your history, but not all of us have. Anyone who fights under the Odal rune - or in lockstep with those who do - will always be my enemy.

You mean that time we DoW'd a RoK ally against a prior agreement, then posted the DOW with a message taunting RoK about their inability to defend allies? Oh, wait... You missed the point and picked up only the ad homium there, numbnuts. Try to read through the insults and learn something for once in your sordid existance. See this line? Ignore it. It's for my benefit. And the practice in ignoring irrelevant bits will probably be good for your reading comprehension. Certainly can't hurt it. The point: The personal attack: See the substance in the first quote? The acknowledgement that sometimes we have to fight coalitions containing friendly alliances? Followed closely by the actual reason that I might be annoyed? Yeah, try addressing that. The insults are purely for my entertainment.

Speaking entirely for myself and not for alliance leadership: I am aware of what a coalition is and does. I am aware that the treaty web is such that all our friends are rarely - if ever - on the same side of a coalition war. That is an unpleasant fact of war here, and one which has to be accepted when entering with a coalition. I do not expect my 'partners' in a coalition to deliberately target my allies when it is not necessary. If targeting an ally of mine is necessary - and it sometimes is - I do not expect my coalition partners to call my alliance out by name to taunt a friendly alliance. GOONS left us in a place where we could either 1) do nothing, prove their taunt right, and damage a longstanding alliance tie with people we actually like, or 2) stand by a longtime friend when their attackers called out our absense. To my view, we did not fire the first shot in this. GOONS made a deliberate statement which - if we stayed with the coalition - was designed to damage GOD's diplomatic ties and future standing with R&R - an alliance we value. We have responded in the only manner available to us. In short, if you are a &$%* to your coalition partners, don't be surprised when they call you on it and join the opposition. If you'd like to drop by our forums I can spell that out for you far more colourfully, but I think that covers the basics well enough.

Well, if it turns out GOONS doesn't have the 7-2 off they seem to be showing so far, then we'll take those 2s and give 'em a papercutting like they've never seen before. Pretty sure that analogy has another post or two in it before it gets completely run into the ground...

I am looking for a long-term arrangement to buy tech at $6m/195 tech. This maintains a closer approximation of the old $3m/100 tech deals in terms of cost/benefit for both parties, but is significantly quicker. This would be $6mil initial aid, followed by 3 rounds of 65 tech. I get slightly less tech than 2 rounds of $3m/100, buyer cost is slightly higher, but the process is 20 days quicker. I am looking for 1 reliable, long-term seller. Message in game http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=228566

[quote name='Velocity111' timestamp='1323716978' post='2875399'] I, for one, welcome the removal of these individual surrender terms and support the continual rolling of GOD [/quote] Works for me. [quote name='bandnerd' timestamp='1323713277' post='2875350'] why yes, we ARE cute cuddly bunnies. provided you can ignore the switchblade. [/quote] Why on earth would I ignore the switchblade? That's great; a rabbit that comes with its own peeler... stew anyone?

[quote name='Striderwanabe' timestamp='1323671164' post='2874941'] As GOD has always been an irrefutable defender of all that is decent and moral in the Cyberverse, I'm sure that BN, NEAT and SC have been shamed into reconsidering their terms. Not really. Keep up the good fight you guys. [/quote] Because Nordreich is a bastion of moral decency...

Oh hell no, BN. Just for that you're getting MLB in your surrender terms. Azkaban's escapable; baseball sucks your soul.

[quote name='Bob Ilyani' timestamp='1323640553' post='2874270'] Take it like a man. [/quote] ..oh for the love of... See what you've done? You've made me agree with Ilyani. How the hell does that even happen?

[quote name='Aloop' timestamp='1323234214' post='2866851'] It's somewhat disappointing to have the chance to fight MJ, then end up fighting the MJ alliances we're OK with. [/quote] This; I can't even whittle away my scalp-debt now. Still need a hundred of the bloody things. Also, just as a preliminary note, nice to meet you BN; it's a welcome change to have somebody vaguely competent in the opposition. Riding in next to Asgaard just highlights the difference.

[quote name='Steve Buscemi' timestamp='1318825741' post='2826894'] Well, if you give us a good CB on that alliance I'm sure we'd take you up on that offer. We takes what we can gets! Not our fault they've been easy targets with allies that are cowards (in the case of UPN). [/quote] "You can always judge a[n] [s]man[/s] alliance by the quality of his enemies."

[quote name='Alterego' timestamp='1308665273' post='2737229'] His repeated attempts to force an alliance to disband will end up being disastrous for his alliance. That’s an ego trip that just hasn’t caught up with him yet and when it does I don’t think anyone will be saying he only made the right choices. [/quote] I always wonder about this. Do none of you see the irony in implying that we'll be forced to disband GOD as punishment for advocating other alliances be forced to disband? And if 'disastrous' isn't meant to imply disbanding, then frankly it's meaningless; anything you can do we can rebuild. Short of forced disbandment there's very little I would consider disastrous. Pixels come and go; GOD does not.

[quote name='gambona' timestamp='1308588234' post='2735929'] Flinders if you think you are upset, think of how Asgaard feels. No one has directed any insults or threats our way. We demand our share of insults and threats! [/quote] Well I would say Surtr's coming for you, but I'm pretty sure an Asgaard/Ragnarok alliance has already skull-@*%#ed the natural order too far for that to work. So instead: See you in Helheim. And bring enough mead for all of us.

[quote name='Aurion' timestamp='1306970014' post='2722257'] I appreciate the minimalism of the treaty text. Long ones annoy me for some reason. [/quote] This. I also appreciate the bacon roses, because bacon is delicious.

Offer sent. And as far as 'long term' goes, I'll keep buying as long as you're willing to sell.

Well, I just had 14 in a row get blocked. Not a record, but certainly a new personal best.

Please withdraw my name, another circle has completed.