Thrasymachus
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Dang, you sound like a hardcore Cyber Nations player now. Happy Thanksgiving!
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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
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your rouge looks more like lipstick silos to me
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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."
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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.
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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.
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I've seen way to many people seemingly taking joy at the idea others are feeling discomfort or anger.This, right here. Yep.
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“When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes”
-Klemens Von Metternich
This essay is just begging for a developed response.
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Just teasing you since I see you posting at the water cooler a lot. Take care
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The world is well.
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I expect great treatises from you
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Excellent to see this. Great analysis and application to gameplay.
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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.
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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.
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Why do PIGS make soldiers fight better?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.
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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.
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Interesting history. Looking forward to part 4
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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
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Interesting missed manifestation. Something needs to be done about this. Sigmant will have a field day with that coat of carcasses illusion.
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Coward.
(rofl)
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See the apparachiks reveal themselves!
And definitely don't listen to Billy-Bob Kenobi, his riddle is subterfuge to get you back to work.
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I guess nuclear weaponry is close enough to dousing them with gasoline and tossing a match.
However, I find the infestation here to be most unworthy of destruction and I wish them no harm whatsoever.
While their forms of communication are seemingly foreign to conventional practices, their many-legged methods of self-contemplation also contribute to the exploration of our selfsame universal questions of production, power, war and peace.
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Sad but necessary.
Also, epic
The War In My Pants
in Firestorm's Blog
A blog by Firestorm in General
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oops editing out what I wrote....
also, you gave me a good laugh