[The Molon Labe Situation]

How come this blog post seems so much like a Deja-Vu?

[CNTS Ep 7 - Cortath]

AirMe, you need to fix how other than yourself everyone is just on one side acoustically. You are stereo, while the others are only on the right side. Watch the streamed version of your podcast and look closely when, for example, Cortath is speaking compared to when you are speaking.

[Far From The Tree]

There's also the issue of when one of the two gets into a major accident, Alterego. Only relatives are allowed in some of those situations. To have your wife/husband not allowed because civil marriage registrations don't exist anymore would be one of the large downsides of your proposal.

[Protecting Families Through Self Arming Act]

O.O In the US people are forced to have a gun at home, over here we are going to vote on whether or not people should be disallowed to keep guns at home at all... This world is crazy.

[Will That Be One War or Two?]

It's kind of clear that this poll is dominated by MK...

Anyway, I agree with Adrian LaCroix there.

[2011-01-29 VE-NpO-NPO DoW chart]

May I ask what the meaning of the greyed-out ones at the bottom is?

[War Chart 1-27-11]

Missing Umbrella's on STA.

[Wars... 1/25/2011 (End of Day 9 and Day 2)]

At least these have more value than "MVP"'s senseless batter, Schattenmann

[I give up]

We consider you the bad guys because you appear to be giant hypocrites and paint yourselves as heroes. We have babyjesus arguing with AirMe in this blog post because, damn, MK might have gotten rolled, in the same blog post you are insisting you are just doing it "for the game." This war was fine without you and didn't need any more "spice."

Those player-enforced norms are there for a reason. They are there to restrict alliances from declaring willy-nilly and beating down anyone that might even remotely pose a threat, because THAT stifles gameplay. It also stifles any sort of conversation on the boards, because OWF discussion suddenly becomes CB for ever more blatant aggression.

Now, if you want more interesting gameplay and to REALLY spice things up, then you should stop trying to put yourself in an unassailable position. Sort of like how if I really want to play Call of Duty with my friends I turn on a handicap because they suck at it. Or you should break conventions that might actually put you in some real risk, like stabbing your treaty partner in the back and declaring on them because they have more upper tier nations, instead of engaging in actions you decried last year. As it is, this reeks of "might makes right," which is exactly what DH members say it is, which has absolutely nothing to do with restructuring norms to make the game more interesting.

Couldn't be more in agreement.

[Insert your feelings on MK here]

Can this here be a placeholder for what I wrote in "Community Service Position Available; Apply Within" please?

[War Chart Poll]

voting for senatorhung's because it looks far less messed up

[Community Service Position Available; Apply Within]

It seems something took the job. But apparently calls not itself but an injured person just out of the hospital the big bad.

This 2 wars now have been an eye opener in 2 directions.

I used to respect and like VE for being one of the alliances standing up for honour and the right, even though I didn't always completely share their view about what/who was right. I liked them for being "defenders" as I believe someone in your podcast called them, who also, justified, said that they are "aggressors" now.

I used to equally respect and like Umbrella. They had my respect for being great at nation building and for their strict internal workings. They also had my respect because I hadn't seen them be unfair or treacherous before. Maybe I was mistaken all along, but that doesn't seem to be the case judging from the respect Nolissar and other people I trust had for them.

I don't know what caused the change in those 2 alliances. Probably they are getting drunk / are drunk on their own power. Like, I assume, NPO did in the past. In any case whatever respect I had for those 2 alliances is gone.

And Stormsend, if you have anything to do with this decision, you should be deeply ashamed, as hawk_11 repeatedly said that NPO doesn't plan on (much less could) becoming what it was before, yet this is exactly the non-CB you guys pulled.

[CyberNations Talkshow ep. 4: Long-winded rambling]

http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=91563

[Community Service Position Available; Apply Within]

btw, where's that video you promised in the podcast hawk?

[Community Service Position Available; Apply Within]

MVP, personally I recommend you stop reading the blog if you don't listen to the podcast. You're not going to get any of the references, and I'm not going to "post scripts" because there are no scripts. It would require transcribing upwards of an hour worth of off-the-cuff talk into a post. I already have a day job, and you sure as hell aren't going to pay me for that extra work.

Btw, transcribing an interview (if done diligently and accounting for slang/dialect) takes about 6-8 hours transcribing per half hour of talk. In German anyway, might be slightly less in English and again less if experienced. This last podcast is 1.5h long. Assuming English reduces it to 4-6h/0.5h, We'd still be at 12-18 hours of transcribing. To do something like that (which is really boring btw) really would warrant getting payed for.

[What do you want to see old men spit at while remembering the good old days?]

Really?

Right now it looks like everyone knows the sides of the next war, and we're just waiting for the right CB to spark it off.

What would the sides be then? In my opinion it's all a big dough by now. Everyone tied to everyone else through several "paths". AAs that hate eachother might indeed have a common ally. The only ones not in the dough are the true neutrals and they don't matter for the sides argument in the first place. Sure there might be sides, but I'm saying that they depend to a significant extent on where and what the CB is.

[Why You Should Listen to Us: hawk_11]

Don't worry I'm done for good.

[Why You Should Listen to Us: hawk_11]

* Andy P awakens the linguist in himself

Only a Latin freak would campaign against splitting infinitives, it's been something speakers of English do since English exists. And something people who see Latin as paramount of grammar have been campaigning against since way back too. English isn't Latin, not even a romance language, suck it up.

Edit: about*->*against