ktarthan

God damn you all make me wish I could give myself a lobotomy. Look at how once I mention anything other than the topic at hand it gets jumped on and wrangled to the dirt like some sort of derail rodeo. We're not gaining enough NS for you to be satisfied? We're in 300 wars right now, so you can go take a running jump for all I care. Stop backpedaling with excuses for why your nations are too lazy to engage us; it's disgraceful. The fact of the matter is that there is no shortage of targets in GOONS, but we've been given the ability to dictate the flow of battle as shown by the fact that while most of our enemies are licking their wounds and hesitating to make that decision to jump back into the fray, GOONS is quintupling your collective war output. This is not a blog about GOONS getting aid. This is a blog about alliances that register barely above brain dead.

So what you're saying is that declaring war below 20K NS is pointless?

Find someone in the entire coalition arrayed against us to engage Umar or Sarin or RagingBoar or Oblivion590, and that growth would go away very quickly. The only thing that's clear to me is that the nations that currently occupy your lower tier are either lazy, out of money, or just scared to draw attention to themselves.

You've got a solid 10 offensive wars on GOONS; there must be at least one fellow in military command awake over there.

Yeah, I agree. Great coverage job. (I could go on, but I think you get the point. There's a reason GOONS is gaining NS.)

I can't tell if this is a joke, or just a really badly formed thought.

They declared on the members of Doomhouse, which includes GOONS. I'm not sure if they ever had any intention of launching attacks against GOONS, but I figured I'd take an inclusive approach to this reminder as I didn't want to leave anyone out.

That's not really true. There's only 8 Invicta nations with no GOONS targets in range.

Wrong list, buddy.

To: Schattenmann From: Ktarthan Subj: Re: Re: Reminder Dear Schattenmann, Thank you for your quick reply. I must inform you, however, that your barbs are becoming incredibly dated and don't really have much relevance to a nation who was not a member of Neutral Shoving. That said, thank you for letting us know that your new plan to help 64Digits help TPF defend NPO from Doomhouse is to focus on ODN. I will strike CoJ from the list.

Yes, I know that this war has been going on for quite some time and people can be forgetful. But I assure all of the alliances currently at war with GOONS that the war is still going! Now war is something that constantly happens to GOONS, so at times it can be difficult to differentiate actual warring from "noise" inherent in the system. To measure this we use The RUKUNU Factor. RUKUNU is a low-level rogue that has had three offensive wars on GOONS at every opportunity for more than an entire year. Using this as a baseline, we can determine that any AA with three or less offensive wars against GOONS to not be actively warring us. As such, I would like to provide a quick reminder to the following alliances, reminding them that we are, in fact, still at war: -CoJ (0) -Avalon (0) -Invicta (1) -Legion (1) -64Digits (2) -TLR (3) -ASU (3)

I saw you guys a little while ago lurking on the Display All Alliances page with your tiny ANS, and was curious when you'd pop your heads up. To see that one of your first acts on the world's stage is to get into a headbutting match with Schattenmann brings me no small amount of joy.

Ehhh I say there's some factors to consider. If all you're going to be doing is throwing your warchest at your opponent if you try GAs, and rebuying soldiers is only giving your opponents a chance to fund their other wars, then turtling makes sense. It still ticks me off when my opponents do it, but I can see why.

[quote name='LittleRena' timestamp='1299523432' post='2655597'] Recruitment went so far, then you wheren't close enough to the list that you got some nations to ghost you so you could get back on. I don't really care, I just think it's silly to go through so much effort to get onto the list, but whatever floats your boat. [/quote] How does that even make sense? Without those two "MK" nations we'd still be ahead of TPF, soooo... have fun being contrary for no reason I guess?

[quote name='LittleRena' timestamp='1299522445' post='2655579'] It looks like you;ve "borrowed" a few members from other alliances to get back on the list, but hey, if you're desperate, do it. [/quote] Right, it has nothing to do with the ~120 members we've recruited in the last 30 days or the 80K NS we've grown over the last 9 days, and everything to do with the 1.3K NS and 3.3K NS nations from MK that may or may not be ghosting us.

Looks like GOONS may crawl their way back into the Sanction Race before this war is over!

[quote name='LittleRena' timestamp='1299394286' post='2654202'] Make propaganda that doesn't require much reading. Pretty simple point. [/quote] Medical condition. Gotcha. Now I just feel bad that you don't get jokes. edit: or what "propaganda" is, for that matter

[quote name='LittleRena' timestamp='1299392356' post='2654182'] Why? What happend to propaganda just being an image with [i]maybe[/i] a few words. Suddenly NS Charts with a full sentance is good propaganda? Did you hear that guys, get your charts out! Edit: Look, I found an alliance at war where damage is getting lower! [/quote] Wow, are you missing the point that badly on purpose, or is it a medical condition?

[img]http://i55.tinypic.com/jh8uac.jpg[/img] [size="4"][i]GOONS or: How I Learned to Stop Losing NS and Love the Nukes[/i][/size]

Welcome to the field, NoR.

[quote name='Schattenmann' timestamp='1299116769' post='2650297'] Penkala says you got less tech in reps than you lost during the delay. If you lost more than 20k tech in 2 weeks, my mind is blown--you must have been giving it away. [/quote] Leave it to Schatt to find a new and hip spin on the old and tired "You lost NS during war" insult.

[quote name='JT Jag' timestamp='1299179771' post='2651340'] Can we please not derail my ascension thread with mindless bickering over the spelling of my alliance's acronym? I have a very fragile sense of self worth, and will feel like a failure of a human being if I don't get a minimum of thirty (30) mindless hails. Get to it. [/quote] o/ jt TAg [quote name='Earogema' timestamp='1299181410' post='2651368'] Hey cool, I was fighting the former and now current co-Pilot. Death to all of you! [/quote] Death to you first, sweetie.

[center][img]http://i53.tinypic.com/dnm61w.png[/img][/center] Responsibility is not always an easy thing to wield. In every leader's career, they will be faced with moments where they must consider whether or not the best use of their power is to pass it on. GOONS is my home and I want nothing more than for it to prosper under a driven and competent leadership. Due to the circumstances of life I am now only able to fulfill half of that role. I'll let you guess which. For this reason I officially resign from my position as Co-Pilot of GOONS, and I appoint [b]JT_Jag[/b] to be my successor as selected by the GOONS time-honoured "smell test" tradition. To take JT_Jag's seat on the GOONS Council we have selected [b]KingShibby[/b]. A new Dongmaster to replace KingShibby will be decided at a later date. Signed [i]Ktarthan, GOONS Emeritus[/i]

Happy Anniversay, folks.

The only other reasonable way I could think of to deal with it is to use two-sided arrows, but that brings up a very important question: who even gives a !@#$?