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brainbomb (295 D)
19 Nov 17 UTC
Inspirational Females
Here is a thread to post inspirational stories about women who have positively impacted your life.
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brainbomb (295 D)
23 Nov 17 UTC
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Epic Forum Story Time
Rules, each person add a word. We create a giant story. So for example I say: Jim. The next person says Jim was. The next person says Jim was Old.
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
01 Nov 17 UTC
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Replacement for a top 100 GR game
One player can't continue this full anon game. http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=206204#gamePanel

If you are interested, please PM me and do not post here as I would like to keep it fully anon still.
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JEccles (421 D)
22 Nov 17 UTC
Classic Game
I have a rulebook press game up for people to join. If you're interested, see the game below:

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=211198
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reedeer1 (100 D)
13 Nov 17 UTC
A back to diplomacy game
I am just returning to diplomacy, and am looking for 6 people to join me.
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brainbomb (295 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
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Cookie Monster Solutions
Instead of regulations, (YAWN), lets have unrestricted gun laws and limitless purchasing. The only rule is the retail employees *must* dress like cookie monster to make gun stores more kid friendly. Offer gun buyers a plate of CoOKiEs.
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brainbomb (295 D)
15 Nov 17 UTC
Mansplaining and manscaping
I heard people use the term mansplaining recently. It was negatively stigmatized but what does it even mean? Also I head people saying something about manscaping and I wondered if that was a type of yard work. Any input is appreciated.
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Yoyoyozo (95 D)
21 Nov 17 UTC
Gunboat for Hall of Famers
There’s a game starting for webdip Hall of Famers. PM me for password.
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sevenbrokenbricks (100 D)
21 Nov 17 UTC
Spring 1901 NMR
What provisions are there in general for dealing with players who NMR on the first turn? Should we simply agree on a draw and try and rebuild the game with new players? Is there a way to bring in replacements?
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SkiingCougar (1033 D)
18 Nov 17 UTC
You mention anything to do with politics, you lose
Whenever a thread turns to politics it always ends nasty, let's have a nice friendly thread :)
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Thaneofwhiterun (1516 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
New York is the best.
Now that I've gotten everybody's attention, would anybody be interested in playing a game of American Empire where everybody plays as the region that they are from? I think that might be kinda fun and could be a way to release some of this clearly geographical tension that is brewing in the forums.
I'd have to claim NY
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WyattS14 (100 D(B))
20 Nov 17 UTC
Medium Pot Gunboat Classic
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=211039

40 bet (280 pot) gunboat game 1 day phases :) good luck
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Dreadnought1974 (100 D)
19 Nov 17 UTC
Live now
Live now starting now, 5 min
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wpfieps (442 D)
19 Nov 17 UTC
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Perspirational Males
Here is a thread to post perspiration stories about men who have profoundly impacted your nasal cavities.
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Fast Classic games
Hey! New here..
Anybody up for classic games to play with fast turns? 10 min/turn.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=210955
Up to the challenge?
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brainbomb (295 D)
08 Nov 17 UTC
Rhyme Time IV
Across the bloody plain arose seven soldiers, seven sonnets, seven rhymers riding a comet. Winter Rhyme Time IV has arrived, the press will be public and the goal is survive, win, or draw if you must, just dont stop rhyming or your castles become dust.
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peterlund (1310 D(G))
11 Nov 17 UTC
Sweden-Italy, 1-0 !!
I was watching the World Cup Qualifiers Game in a pub yesterday evening. And we nailed it! :) 3:07 into this video you find the goal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj55HHnBG_Y
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KansasBoyd (25 DX)
15 Nov 17 UTC
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Cookie Cutter Solutions
Several here have proposed generic cookie cutter style gun solutions for the United States
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MajorMitchell (1605 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Well Flashy, I thought that others, notably JMO had dealt with Kansas "facts? & stuff" Boyd's purported facts. KB's conservatism is largely irrelevant to me in this gun control debate, because I live in a country where our most Conservative Prime Minister introduced significant gun control reforms twenty years ago... And guess what...they actually work very well. So if you want to live in a country where your children can attend public schools in safety with a virtually zero chance of being shot dead then I guess you'd choose the country I live in ahead of the USA.
I'd like to say that I was "inconsolee" after reading your criticisms, but that might be Le exaggeration.
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Long guns and hand guns are pretty much not an issue.

AR-15s with extended magazines are.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"AR-15s with extended magazines are. "

Which the gangs are possessing illegally under the current laws.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"So if you want to live in a country where your children can attend public schools in safety with a virtually zero chance of being shot dead then I guess you'd choose the country I live in ahead of the USA"

Despite some extremely unfortunate incidents here in this country, the chances of your children getting shot dead is virtually zero here in the United States.

In fact the odds are greater that your child would be killed in an auto accident going to or coming home from school than they will be shot by another person with a gun.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"That's where gun studies come in. It would be nice if the CDC conducted gun-related research. But they don't do it, and they don't do it because they're afraid of having their funding cut by Congress "

The CDC did a study on gun violence in Delaware in 2015.

http://dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dms/files/cdcgunviolencereport10315.pdf
MajorMitchell (1605 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
I think that whilst the parents of numerous children shot dead or injured at schools in the USA might disagree with your "virtually zero chance" assessment, I think the greatest number of child shootings in the USA involve a sibling using a gun owned by a family member.. Typically they find one of the many guns supposed to be there for family safety, and play with it, with disastrous results. But you can ignore that if you choose to do so, Kansas Boyd...but I've caught you out making untruthful statements and then there was your regrettable allegation about me, made most inappropriately, that was dismissed completely. So go have a dummy spit elsewhere and please discontinue your PM campaign.
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"AR-15s with extended magazines are. "

"Which the gangs are possessing illegally under the current laws."

If the assault weapons ban had not been allowed to expire in 2004 (thanks Dubya and Republicans), then AR-15s would not have flooded the market. Legal AR-15s end up in the hands of criminals all the time. It seems every week there's a story about how cops get their firearms stolen out of their cruisers. Straw purchases happen. Gun shows are less regulated.

If those weapons weren't available commercially, then criminals and psychopaths alike wouldn't have access to that scale of death and destruction.
MajorMitchell (1605 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Plus I might point out that when I sing the praises of the gun control laws in my country I am recognising good work by our most Conservative Prime Minister, John Howard.. Hardly the act of a die-hard Liberal is it ? So maybe the labelling of Daffy old MajorMitchell as a die hard Liberal is a trifle innacurate. Gosh, I said John Howard did a good thing..shock horror.

That is an excellent point Jeff.. About the "leakage" of guns from legitimate sources to illegal owners.. Sort of self evident, but so many of the anti gun control reforms brigade are so wonderfully obtuse. Just love that interview on YouTube
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"Legal AR-15s end up in the hands of criminals all the time. It seems every week there's a story about how cops get their firearms stolen out of their cruisers. Straw purchases happen. Gun shows are less regulated."

Obama sells them to the drug cartels in Mexico.

Straw purchases are already illegal, so that would not make those legal AR-15s.

KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"I think that whilst the parents of numerous children shot dead or injured at schools in the USA might disagree with your "virtually zero chance" assessment,"

What a stupid statement.

The parent of a child struck and killed by lightning might disagree with the statement there is virtually no chance of being killed by lightning.

That doesn't change the factual odds.

As I have shown with ACTUAL FACTS, the number of gun deaths not including suicide and gang killings is a very small percentage of the total gun deaths.

So again, unless you plan on shooting yourself or hanging out in gangs, the odds of you actually being killed by a gun are extremely small.

That is just a fact.
Flashy (176 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
@Major 20 years ago a conservative PM brought gun control to the UK.
@Atti "You know how we did it in Australia, right?"

Well, No, we don't know how you did it in Australia. And we don't know how you just legislated it 20 years ago. That is my whole point. How about bringing a little more info to the table guys.

You can't just make a law and everybody complies. Just like, you can't just give people welfare and make drugs legal and gangs go away. Especially in a country where we are already in trouble with money, where is that supposed to come from?
And who is to receive the welfare?

The interesting thing about the two example nations, is that they both have a natural "wall" and it is easier to control who comes and goes if you've got a convenient body of water around your island. But that might be another subject.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Flashy, I can see you are able to comprehend that the two situations are remotely close so therefore what might have worked in one situation probably won't work in another situation.

Australia never had a gang situation like we have here.

Sadly too many people can't understand that extremely simple and basic concept.
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"Straw purchases are already illegal, so that would not make those legal AR-15s."

The fact that AR-15s are available for sale is the problem. If they weren't, no AR-15s would be sold via straw purchase.
How many gang shootings come from AR-15s rather than handguns? I'd be interested to know.

Also, please use the past tense for Obama. It's not like he's still selling them. And it's not like Reagan didn't sell them to terrorists in the 80s either.
Flashy (176 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
KB, I completely understand several aspects of this subject. My father-in-law has been a police office/detective in a large metro city where we saw lots of gang-related stupidity and Chief-of-Police in a small town in central (wait for it) Kansas, where the rising drug related death by overdose or intentional suicide continues to grow. My family also owned a tutoring franchise in the Littleton, Colorado school district in 1999 (here read -Columbine). Let's just say I've seen senseless gun violence, gangs and drugs and the results. I agree 100% a cookie cutter solution is not going to work and to simply think throwing money or legislation at the problem is stupid and unrealistic.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Looks like gangs are still mainly using handguns, not AR-15's.

"The weapons of choice for gangs today are 9MM semiautomatic handguns, followed by .40 caliber and .45 caliber semiautomatics, says Thomas Ahern, an ATF senior agent based in Chicago."
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
But the liberals will continue repeating their brainwashed mantra
Yigg (2454 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
I thought this post was about Tasha Yar's problem with rape gangs. I'm clearly on the wrong post. Sorry about that. Carry on.
So, Kansas. Given that gangs do not use AR-15s, but mass shooters do, would legislation on those types of weapons have tangible results? It's not targeting the larger, criminal problem with guns, but it's less likely that these people would have the illicit connections that gangs do to get around the law.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Would legislation on AR-15's have tangible results on the overall gun violence issue in the States?

No. Not really. Gun Deaths for assault rifles account for about 2% of gun deaths a year.

Do not confuse the amount of media coverage a few high profile incidents get as meaning a high actual percentage of deaths from assault rifles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sunday-review/the-assault-weapon-myth.html

Taking from this article are the following quotes...

"But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.
It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows."

"The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots."

"This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban."

Reality > Myth or the brainwashing people get by the liberal media

MajorMitchell (1605 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Is that the Liberal media you are misquoting ? "The Liberal.media brainwash" says KB, then quotes from the "Liberal media".
KB's opinion of his own infallibility > any known reality..LoL
MajorMitchell (1605 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
@ Flashy. Then based on your experience, what should authorities in the USA do to reduce gun crime & gun fatalities & injuries of all types ( so including suicides, children shooting siblings with a family member's gun etc )
You've criticised other suggestions ( which i think you misrepresent ) as stupid & unrealistic... Got anything positive to offer ?
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
MM you already got schooled when you tried to claim that I said ALL media was liberal media.

Yet you continue to misrepresent what I say.

And then turn around accusing others of misrepresenting.

Please also show where I have claimed to be infallible. I will be waiting for you to prove you haven't offered yet another misrepresentation.

Just because YOU can't prove me wrong doesn't make me infallible. It makes you lack the ability to prove me wrong.
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
And MM, you are supposed to be the world famous security expert yet you have been asked multiple times to present your plan for de-arming the gangs in the US and all that you have provided is misdirection, misrepresentation and avoidance.
So, I find it especially weird Kansas tries to mitigate gun regulations by saying 20,000 of gun deaths won't be affected because they are suicides. This troubles me because:
1. Since these are 2/3rds of gun deaths we should probably care about them a lot
2. There is a pretty strong correlation between strong gun prevalance (which tend to be in the same states that have fewer regulations, who would have thought) and suicide rates. Source:
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/spr08gunprevalence/

So yeah, even if his flawed argumentation about gun homicides is true (I'll handle that in another post), it is clear that more gun regulations will have a consider amount of not just gun deaths, but deaths overall.
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
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"No. Not really. Gun Deaths for assault rifles account for about 2% of gun deaths a year."

There are approx 33,000 gun deaths in the USA each year. So you said that 2% of those are assault rifle related deaths. That is 660 people. If we passed a more intelligent law regarding the sale of those weapons and it only saved half of them, that is still 330 people who are not dead. Who are you to judge that those 330 people aren't worth saving? Who are you to judge that only saving 1 of them wouldn't be worth it?

Anytime someone is killed it is tragedy, and writing them off as a small part of a larger problem is just disgusting.

Gun death in any form is not acceptable, and the US needs to find a way to address the problem. There is no perfect solution to any problem, ever. But any solution has a better chance of success then trying nothing.
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
Great. Ban large capacity magazines too.

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/02/did-the-1994-assault-weapons-ban-work/
KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
I see you left out other factors that the article states and very strong contributors to suicide rate of those states, poverty, population density, and crime.

So that study has Illinois at 43rd in terms of gun prevalence yet Chicago has near the most, if not the most, gun murders of any city.

But since it is guns that apparently spike the suicide rate in this country and this country has the most guns in the world, then clearly the US most lead the world in suicides by your logic.

Oh wait, the US ranks 48th despite having the most guns.

So perhaps there are many other factors at play.

KansasBoyd (25 DX)
16 Nov 17 UTC
"There are approx 33,000 gun deaths in the USA each year. So you said that 2% of those are assault rifle related deaths. That is 660 people. If we passed a more intelligent law regarding the sale of those weapons and it only saved half of them, that is still 330 people who are not dead. Who are you to judge that those 330 people aren't worth saving? Who are you to judge that only saving 1 of them wouldn't be worth it?"

Way to read the entire post.

LOL!!!

Clearly you missed, or chose to ignore the stats from the FBI I provided later in the post. Nice job.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
16 Nov 17 UTC
Maybe Chicago should build a wall to keep all those guns from Indiana out.

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Fluminator (1500 D)
18 Nov 17 UTC
Haha. Canada blew off America in the 60s
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cia-wanted-to-punish-canada-in-1962-for-flouting-cuban-trade-embargo-jfk-files-reveal/amp
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JamesYanik (548 D)
15 Nov 17 UTC
Prediction Thread
Trump gets back from his tour in Asia soon, and he'll likely have a response to Roy Moore. Vote on the likely response here:
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mmcconkie (113 D)
15 Nov 17 UTC
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Resources to Improve Players
I signed up for the mentorship program. As I get ready to work with a mentor, what resources do you all like to improve as diplomacy players? I'm looking for websites, blogs, podcasts, videos, etc. Thanks!
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brainbomb (295 D)
15 Nov 17 UTC
Cards Against Humanity Heroes
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cards-against-humanity-buys-a-piece-of-the-us-border/
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Smokey Gem (154 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
The best way to mange your press and play when you are definatley going to lose.
What is the best way . Roll ovr , influence the winner. spitefull delay ??
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MajorMitchell (1605 D)
14 Nov 17 UTC
Trump blunders around Asia, returns home to more scandal
Trump blunders around Asia offending allies. Meanwhile Jeff Sessions "cannot remember" what went on at important meetings when "giving evidence". Further evidence of the inadequacy of gun controls in the USA with her another tragic shooting at a School.
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Smokey Gem (154 D)
13 Nov 17 UTC
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The rest of the World Apreciation Thread.
MAKE ROTW Greater Again .
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Matthewew (157 D)
16 Nov 17 UTC
How do I talk to players?
Am I just missing something. How do I talk to the other players in my game?
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JECE (1322 D)
11 Nov 17 UTC
Who wants to play 1600?
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=32997
PPSC with perfectly divisible pot if we don't draw.
Rulebook press, rulebook civil disorder and hidden draw votes
42-hour phases, so that you won't CD if you check the game once a day
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Thaneofwhiterun (1516 D)
15 Nov 17 UTC
Strangest/ Least probable alliances?
What do y'all think are the least likely alliances between countries in the long term?
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JoJoReference (35 DX)
14 Nov 17 UTC
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Advanced theory
Who would win in a fight, Alex Jones with a katana, or Obama with a hatchet & shield? No prep time or outside help allowed
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slypups (1889 D)
15 Nov 17 UTC
Replacement player needed for public, non-anon World Diplomacy game
Game: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=207427
India has disappeared and we need a replacement player. His position is still pretty good, so lots of potential there. If you are game, we'll try contacting a mod to swap you in so that there isn't another NMR.
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