Thrasymachus

oops editing out what I wrote.... also, you gave me a good laugh

Dang, you sound like a hardcore Cyber Nations player now. Happy Thanksgiving!

What's past is prologue.

oh, I see.. i was thinking of that powdery stuff the girlies smear into their cheeks to make it look like they are blushing innocents

your rouge looks more like lipstick silos to me

The boxing of the terms realism and idealism is unfortunate here, for the consideration of morality appears in both traditions. Only the most "Hobbesian" realist rejects any consideration of morality in "international realism."

Your design is super attractive, but it reminds me of another text game I played with an all-in-one portal like this that, unfortunately, was so laggy it was almost impossible to play efficiently.

I also thought there were far too few ideologies here, but it seems there are many. They are just not always clear in voicing what they are, probably due to the fact that most place the importance of their moralities underneath that of self-preservation. That is another question, how to show that "self-preservation above all other considerations" is both a morality and an ideology. Looking forward to your essay.

This, right here. Yep.

“When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes” -Klemens Von Metternich This essay is just begging for a developed response.

Just teasing you since I see you posting at the water cooler a lot. Take care

The world is well.

I expect great treatises from you

Excellent to see this. Great analysis and application to gameplay.

It all makes sense and I appreciate the topic and conversation. You are right about most taking Nietzsche's rejection of God as atheism. My interpretation there is definitely a minority view. Nietzsche fascinates me mostly for observing the ways in which some ideologues think they understand him to the point of calling themselves Nietzscheans. In my opinion, that is the greatest injustice to his works.

Nietzsche quotes can be tricky out of context. You remember which book this came from? Wihtout finding it in context, I'd argue he is suggesting in that quote that we have different ways of seeking the truth, and being aware of how we seek truth should be more important to us than the "truth." This means that truth is not an opinion and definitely not something to be found democratically. His concept of the "will to truth" asserts that our philosophical obsession to seek truth blinds us from ever knowing what truth is. This does not necessarily mean truth as truth does not exist. In short, think of this like he most (in)famous quote: "God is dead, for we have killed him." That quote has generated a lot of different interpretations, not all agreeing that this means he rejected God. He rejected our God, perhaps, but not "God." But that is just one argument and there are plenty that disagree with that interpretation, too.

Salt pork? Incidentally, how would pigs make land cheaper? Not sure I want to picture that Back to srsbzns mode, even as a dinky nation that is growing only by profits from tech deals, I like your suggestions that would make tech a bit more cost-effective for larger nations to purchase on their own. This would be even easier to swallow with something like those marketplace ideas you presented in a previous post, so new, itty-bitty nations might have other ways to make quick cash, too. Not sure what I think about only allowing secret aid from nations with wonders, but the idea that possessing the FAC and CIA could trigger the ability for secret aid (or perhaps increase the amount of secret aid that can be sent if all nations were allowed the ability to send secret aid) seems like a good one. I seem to remember secret aid being a feature for a brief time, but not sure what became of it.

This Week in Cyber Nation Blogs, Week ending November 16, 2008 (DAC)Syzygy of the Gramlins has staked out some fascinating territory with a blog focusing on gameplay mechanics. Optional military clauses and bandwagoning by Haflinger of Invicta On the Future of Warfare in CN by Lord Boris of TORN Treaties by Xiphosis, Global Order of Darkness The Now World Order by Delta1212 of the Random Insanity Alliance On the reasons why anti-NPO groups fail by Lord Boris of TORN An in-character blog from Bob Janova of Gramlins: Serian News Corporation, promises to deliver. Ghostlin's interview with L J Scott, Mushroom Kingdom Duncan King has started a cool new blog There also are many interesting autobiographical blog posts, including luminaries like the TheBigBad of The Phoenix Federation, ZoomZoomZoom of DefCon and Nintenderek of Vox Populi. Ant, spider, bee and assassin bug posts continue, offering adventures of their own, of particular interest to members of Farkistan. Thanks to everyone for the many enjoyable and thought-provoking posts. And again to Admin, for making these possible. This Week in Cyber Nations Blogs, week ending November 23, 2008 [in progress] The History Show, Great War 3, Bob Janova Ghostlin interviews with Schattenmann of Vox Populi In defense of democracies by Ferrous of pending Note: Feel free to comment below or PM to recommend any entries I've missed.

Wholeheartedly agree. The charge of "bandwagoning" is downright silly/puerile. The presence or absence of a treaty is immaterial to whether or not any given war may or may not involve the interests of any sovereign alliance.

Can I rub your mandibles?

Interesting history. Looking forward to part 4

Known successful responses: a) tell the queen so everyone can eat him a) eat him yourself and then tell the queen or my favorite, B) tell him you'll keep listening if he'll do some of your work

Interesting missed manifestation. Something needs to be done about this. Sigmant will have a field day with that coat of carcasses illusion.

Coward. (rofl)

See the apparachiks reveal themselves! And definitely don't listen to Billy-Bob Kenobi, his riddle is subterfuge to get you back to work.