This blog entry is an overview of the recent creation of the alliance called Anathema, and it's failure becoming what all the government members intended it to be.
It's not very often that both sides of a war can point to a specific event and look at the people, and laugh together thinking "Wow, these guys are terrible" yet, Anathema provides just that. Watching Anathema is like watching Jersey Shore, it's such a magnificent trainwreck that you can't turn your eyes away.
From Anathema's DoE thread, we have many comments from the members excited about what they've just created, the so-called alliance that will recreate politics on Bob as we know it and create a third sphere to challenge both the PB-SF-CnG grouping and the Invict-o-Sphere (or whatever you like to call it). Let's take a look:
"we're amazing, just to tell you."
- Mogar
"I'm glad to see this. o/ Anathema"
- James Maximus
"AND...here. We. Go.
o/ Anathema!"
"We are loving these underestimations, folks. Keep 'em coming."
- Hadrian
"Loving the attention. When infamy strikes together to create harmony.. love it.
I think the more and more you rap on us, the more validity you lend towards us existing in the first place. If you truly believed what you say none of you would bother saying it."
-Daggarz
So what do all of these quotes have in common? All the posters above have already left this failure of an alliance within less than a week. They didn't quite prove the haters wrong, which is unfortunate for them, but hilarious to us.
Humorously, people saw the failure pretty soon:
"In about a week when you lose interest"
- Babyjesus
"50 tech says that the PC-RoK front of the war lasts longer than this alliance."
- King Xander, to which James Maximus accepted the bet. Maximus is gone, so I think Xander wins!
"if you asked me to write up a list of people to never have in the government of any alliance on Bob, it would bear an uncanny resemblance to your list of founders. as for your government structure, it must be the most awkwardly put together mess i've ever seen. while i'm really happy you've all managed to find yourselves government positions, i do have to question the logic behind having two people running your entrance academy, two 'seconds' in command (with another MoFA placed on top of that) and someone to 'kick out' misbehaving members.
i thought exodus was hitting new lows, but they've been trumped."
- Banksy
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My first thought when seeing the alliance was this: You have a lot of failed ex-government members of former alliances (Daggarz and James Maximus), people with egos bigger than their brain (Hadrian and Kev), and alliance hoppers (Doeroler). I honestly wonder what the thought process that went through each of their minds as they thought "Hey, we've all failed before, this is definitely going to work!" when creating this alliance.
I think my favorite part of the whole ordeal was when Bloodfury and Hadrian started to argue who had the better alliance. Anathema promised 2 million NS when they founded, yet they fell short, as Bloodfury stated:
Hadrian responded with this:
I love this quote, especially now when Anathema exists as only 4 nations, and a 15k NS. Congrats, Zeon, you are officially the better alliance.
Obviously, the straw that broke the camel's back was Kev's thread about "clarifying spying" in which he states "While it's usually fun to see weak minds get wrapped up in accusations without merit, it's disappointing when the weak minds come from your own alliance." A good quality of an alliance leader is to not throw your entire alliance under the bus, including former members, but I guess Kev doesn't quite get that.
In the end, the detractors were right: your "alliance" didn't last more than a week. Sure, there's four people on the AA now, but you've become such a joke that no one will ever take you seriously in the future. At this point, Kerberos Nexus has more credibility than you.
Final points:
- If there was a betting pool on how long this alliance would last, Babyjesus wins for calling it first that it wouldn't last longer than a week.
- James Maximus, I hope you pay King Xander his 50 tech!
~NFLGeneric
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