WorldConqueror

[quote name='New Frontier' timestamp='1302974351' post='2691560'] Was going to suggest NSO Wheat Kings. [/quote] Canadian youth hockey? idgi

Alright I'm down, Heart of Midichlorian it is.

lol. I thought Heart of Midichlorian would be kinda funny, if also nonsensical.

Congratulations on your longevity NV, 4 years is quite a milestone.

Congratulations on gaining peace TOOL.

Yeah, I don't particularly like it either, but I'm pretty terrible at coming up with team names. I was thinking about trying to work a Sith planet into it, but meh.

[quote name='AirMe' timestamp='1302213562' post='2686346'] TOOL has withdrawn. NSO get your squad ready. [/quote] Awesome, I'll get on that now. E: Team submitted. Suggestions for team name would be appreciated.

[quote name='HeroofTime55' timestamp='1302841921' post='2690969'] As a note, I wasn't banned for making fun of them, I was banned for making this exact point. [/quote] And that point holds little water unless you're being critical of and somehow politically threatening to [i]every sector [/i]of the web, since that's where your nominations and votes are coming from. Everywhere.

[quote name='Banksy' timestamp='1301736705' post='2682810'] ha, aha, ha. This is probably the dumbest thing i've heard in a while. [/quote] wow have some compassion he has a virus you know :<

Haha, this was pretty good. Nice work.

Why would you do this?

[quote name='Fyfe XIV' timestamp='1301618847' post='2681755'] Did it really take 103 pages to get Godwin'd? [/quote] TBF, the war itself was Godwin'd long ago.

WickedJ beating Mr. Antonio Salovega Six makes me sad.

[quote name='Methrage' timestamp='1301459843' post='2680440'] I think you're mistaking people pointing out that a contest like this held on a biased alliance's home boards rather than the official means the results don't matter other than entertaining MK forum visitors as complaining, when its just making a statement. I don't care what they do on their forum and I guess if they want to make a thread to try getting more people to come to their forum that's alright as well. Stating what I think of the credibility of the contest doesn't mean I have a problem with it, fake news shows can be fun to watch, although you just need to take it into context and realize its not accurate. What I find most interesting is how many from NSO and some other alliances are trying to defend this contest as something important and worth trying to affect the results of. Is it worth defending? Is it worth criticizing? Not really, unless they try portraying the results as an accurate representation of what the majority of CN posters using this board think. [/quote] The results aren't really going to 'matter' regardless of where the poll is held, and I'm not trying to say that it does. What I am arguing against is the crux of your argument being that they are hosted on offsite boards and will therefore be horribly biased due to the membership of those boards, when the fact is that everyone is able to sign up and have their say. If you don't want to participate that's fine, but don't dress it up in moral indignation, crossing your arms and shouting biased. Individual bias will be always present in an event like this no matter who participates, but in the case of group biases it seems nonsensical to me to rail against a situation and then consciously take an action that exacerbates it.

[quote name='supercoolyellow' timestamp='1301458674' post='2680421'] This is ironic. You are apparently trying to criticize me for not participating, even though you are not your self participating, otherwise you would know that I submitted a few nominations, and have been posting in the competition. From what I've seen though the competition has been completely dominated from one view point. [/quote] Um. I wasn't trying to criticize you specifically, I was pointing out that that attitude, when it does lead to people not participating, just puts the ratio more in favour of MK members. Which is the exact thing you're all complaining about. And I have been taking part. So, good effort?

[quote name='supercoolyellow' timestamp='1301454535' post='2680371'] @all the ppl using the "There are people from other alliances so this is unbiased" line. The polls in WPE right now have around 100 votes each, MK as an alliance has 160 members. ATM they might not be the only ones voting, but I'm guessing their dominating the votes well enough to decide just about any winner. When you take into account that after MK members, the next biggest group would be the MK friends and allies that are typically on those forums and think the same way on most thing, you really do have a small amount of people from other view points voting in that thread. Also its pretty pathetic that in an ooc forum that people are claiming they have no bias. Every human being has bias. To say you don't have bias just shows how much you are letting your own bias dominate and cloud your way of thinking. [/quote] See: [quote name='WorldConqueror' timestamp='1301404349' post='2679908'] And all these people that flat-out refuse to take part make this a self-fulfilling prophesy. [/quote] Also words.

[quote name='Methrage' timestamp='1301395096' post='2679835'] Only a very small minority of those who are at odds with you guys IC are taking part, the amount of votes they have compared to all the MK members along with your close allies already signed up on your board makes their participation irrelevant in determining the end result. [/quote] And all these people that flat-out refuse to take part make this a self-fulfilling prophesy.

[quote name='WalkerNinja' timestamp='1301310244' post='2678996'] If the shoe fits, wear it. [/quote] Heh, ok. Have fun with that.

[quote name='Lamuella' timestamp='1301296044' post='2678942'] consider it a positive compliment on your cleavage? [/quote] GOONS, what a charmer.

[quote name='Lamuella' timestamp='1301293716' post='2678916'] oh come now, that's deeply unfair to Captain Cold. Leonard Snart is one of the most badass characters in the DC universe. [/quote] I'm still not sure if it's good or bad that we were made Catwoman.

[quote name='ImperialCubanacan' timestamp='1301295415' post='2678936'] Lies. Pure lies. Since when do people use spies? According to the world, spying is wrong. [img]http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/cat_vs_catdoor.gif[/img] [/quote] I guess I should apologize for those DEFCON flips I did...

[quote name='Antonio Salovega VI' timestamp='1301291693' post='2678895'] Your folks dropped it. It is still usable. As my sainted grandmother used to say: "Use it up; Wear it out; Make it do or; Do without." The broad strokes of the current plan is to: "Use NPO allies up; Wear NPO allies out; Make NPO allies do as they are instructed or; Make NPO allies do without tech, infra and $$$." I suggest you look into your pacifican crystal balls. Even you NPO types in the pacified-mode should be able to see that far ahead. [/quote] I'm sure that was very hard-hitting and witty, however I'm afraid it may have lost some of its sting since I am not in the target alliance. I'll allow you a second to cast your eyes to the left, to the 'Alliance Name' field, and then down, to my signature. I'm reasonably certain that there you will find some clues to aid you in your time of confusion. See where you went wrong? OK, good. So, as I am one of those NPO allies, it would seem odd to try and attack me for things NPO are/were apparently doing to me. You see, as tantalizing as it must be for you to have a chance to get in a cheap shot at me, in your haste you've inadvertently made a fool of yourself with the most elementary of mistakes. Now, I'm sure it does your agenda, and you yourself, no favours to have all that bluster stripped away so immediately and so publicly, so for both our sakes, let's try to get it right next time? Now that we've got that out of the way, I'll set you straight on the intent of my original post. With one sentence WalkerNinja had implied that the entire NPO coalition had been claiming that DH and co. had lost because they couldn't hit any of the NPO coalition, and that each alliance in the NPO coalition had a large contingent of perma-peacemoders. What my earlier post was saying, in a very non-confrontational manner, was that he was making sweeping generalizations about a number of alliances and therefore quite a few nations, generalizations which do not recognize, for instance, that most of us aren't silly enough to claim victory by virtue of having been beaten down out of DH's declaration range. Perhaps if you could introduce a bit more substance to your post, rather than conducting a thinly veiled attack on an AA, we could have a much more pleasant discussion, Mister Antonio Salovega Six.

[quote name='WalkerNinja' timestamp='1301289973' post='2678877'] Tell you what, get your side to stop claiming that we have lost because we are no longer capable of declaring war on your obliterated war mode nations, and we will stop calling your pristine and unviolated peace mode nations cowards. Deal? [/quote] That's a broad brush you're using there.

I'm curious as to why, if you've already been working on this for two months, you didn't wait until you could fill all the triumvir positions?

[quote name='+Zeke+' timestamp='1301275301' post='2678657'] If it were merely worthless then I would find better things to do. But when I see your casual and flippant manner of malicious denigration of those who oppose you then staying here and calling a spade a spade is worth my time. [/quote] The problem with your stance here is the lack of a political agenda in this competition. If it was being run by MK for the purpose of trashing their political opponents then sure, I could see your point. However, if you had had a look for yourself, you would have seen that nominations were put in by people from all across the CN political spectrum. Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of those nominations were not done along political lines but were simply recognitions of people's terrible posting, regardless of whether they're on the same general side or not. With the large numbers of nominations garnered by the forerunners it would seem to suggest there is a certain consensus about posting skill that transcends the political divide. As an example, in my nominations I chose two 'on my side', 3 'on the other side', 2 fence sitters, and 1 that no longer plays (I think). If I'd gone back to round out my 10 I would have added the_rebel and KDII, so all in all it's a pretty even spread. And it's the same case with the rest of the nominations. So in that context, this half chicken-little/half boy-who-cried-wolf performance you're putting on here is doing nothing but make you look ridiculous. It's certainly not helping you in whatever you're trying to accomplish.