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DHSRules (100 D)
07 Apr 08 UTC
New 200 pt game.
Join plz =]
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canute (0 DX)
30 Mar 08 UTC
Any interest in a 3 team game? Italy cd
?
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dangermouse (5551 D)
07 Apr 08 UTC
Long convoys are even more fun now..
..that all of the lines are drawn on the map. :)

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3207
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anlari (8640 D)
07 Apr 08 UTC
Strange Variant
How about a game where it is forbidden to support hold?
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XiangYu (144 D)
06 Apr 08 UTC
A question: Who are we online?

This is a general question, or even debate based on why we change who we really are on the internet, and the reasons behind it.
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flashman (2274 D(G))
07 Apr 08 UTC
Reuters - Intensive Press Game
The game has been started, please let us know in here if you have been able to join or if you have tried to join but failed...

Please note, the seven players have already been selected.
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Gobbledydook (1389 D(B))
07 Apr 08 UTC
Winner takes all? 101!
Join this game:
Winner takes all? 101!
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Zalyana (702 D)
07 Apr 08 UTC
=^..^= New 102 point game!
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3463
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keeper0018 (100 D)
06 Apr 08 UTC
Longer Turns
That's it, I've had it. I'm so freakin' tired of going from diong great in my games to doing shitty, just by missing one freakin' turn. I really need to hear some of you agree with me that we need some longer deadlines.
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flashman (2274 D(G))
04 Apr 08 UTC
Have you ever met me...?
Unashamed personal advert coming up, so if you have a low tolerance for this kind of agrandisment, you are warned to switch off now...




TVB - 6:55 pm - Sunday

I am on the box (with Wombat) sounding off as to why he went to LSC instead of DBS...

I will be the good-looking one...

Enjoy

(Fame or infamy at last.)
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mapleleaf (0 DX)
06 Apr 08 UTC
STEVE RUBELL game, Italy in cd and in great shape!!!

Good time to join. Early in the game, and you get a build. Eighteen hours until spring......
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cgwhite32 (1465 D)
01 Apr 08 UTC
Intensive Press Game
I would be interested in starting up an intensive press game. This is not for the faint hearted, and would involve only those who have the time to post at length about tactics, as well as life, the universe and everything. The idea is to get dialogue going, not to have one word answers to discussions of tactics, which happens all too frequently.

If you are interested, please post below. It would also be for a mid-ranking pot to spice thing up a bit.

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Wombat (722 D)
05 Apr 08 UTC
Ban Trolling...
Kestas, lets just get rid of these threads... they're full of indecent insults and language, and simple stupidity.
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Noodlebug (1812 D)
04 Apr 08 UTC
WTA doesn't work - so I guess that's it.
This is a long complaint, a whine if you wish, and most of it is a re-emphasis of my philosophy that Diplomacy should be all about playing to win.

Please don't bother reading this if you aren't interested, it will waste 10 minutes of your life you will never get back. There is a serious debate to be had here, if all you want is to abuse me then start a new thread called "Noodlebug sucks" or something.

My complaint is against a class of people who play in games but do not try to win them. These people have a completely different philosophy to mine. I do not agree with them, but they have a right to play the way they play. I just wish they would stick to PPS games to do it rather than ruining WTA games...
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reptar_69 (122 D)
28 Mar 08 UTC
Kestas - Request to see the "Iraq- The beginning" Thread Closed
Not only is it sad... But it's filled with hatred and false information. There is nothing good about it... It's just a bunch of kids peeing in each other's Wheeties.

I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. And I will never forget the ones who died who gave me the right to be free.
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
30 Mar 08 UTC
History Thread!
What's your favorite thing/event/period from history, and why?

Please don't turn this into a partisan thing.... please. In fact if your favorite thing is from the past 150 years I ask you to be really careful about how you say it lol.
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alamothe (3367 D(B))
05 Apr 08 UTC
Noodlebug sucks
i could agree to let you win in that particular game you're complaining about. you said your two options are a) agree to a draw (still open), b) fight to the death (probably meaning try to win, right?)

now you have c) france & italy let me win, i win after a long time, and i'm happy
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alamothe (3367 D(B))
05 Apr 08 UTC
i challenge Noodlebug
i challenge Noodlebug to make another WTA game in which i won't play and in which draws won't be allowed. let's see your supreme tactical abilities. but please don't make posts on the forum concercing the game while it is running (this is actually in your best interet Noodle :-)
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Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
israel and palestine
how do you feel about the recent events, i.e. the "holocaust" of the palestinians, etc.
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Apr 08 UTC
Bug?
During the retreat phase, when a country has nowhere to retreat their unit it is automatically destroyed.

yet the game doesn't resolve it like that, it waits for the person to disband and finalize the order, or for the time limit to pass and it automatically disbands.

Is there an arguement for keeping it as is?
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BrianW (195 D)
05 Apr 08 UTC
Question: Retreating
Have a quick question. If I were to attack Finland from St Petersburg, with aid from Sweden, would the retreating army be allowed to retreat to St Petersburg? Please not that there is occupying foces in Norway and Sweden, but the army in St. Petersburg is coming into Norway, leaving that region free.
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Medi (280 D)
05 Apr 08 UTC
Gettin' bored o' playin' Diplo?
Avast! Well, do I have the link fer ye.

http://greasemonkey.makedatamakesense.com/browse_like_a_pirate/

With this script, everythin' ye see looks like this post here!

It makes readin' press a lot more entertainin', let me tell ye!
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flashman (2274 D(G))
31 Mar 08 UTC
Revelstone... the 500 pts WTA game...
The seven players are:

TheGhostmaker
alamothe
Rait
MarekP
stoni90
arthurmklo
and me...

I will start the game and send out the link tomorrow (1st April).

If for any reason you cannot find an e-mail from me, please respond in this thread...
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Brutorix (100 D)
05 Apr 08 UTC
Trolls R Us
30 pointer game, join up!
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el_maestro (14722 D(B))
05 Apr 08 UTC
Missing army after autumn: Bugg ?
I play France

I had 4 additionnal builds after autumn, but of course I can only have 3.
2 are well set but the army in brest in missing

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3190
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Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Politics
Face it, your politics are boring as fuck
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
You actually do us all a real disservice with your tiresome, tedious politics. For in fact, there is nothing more important than politics. NOT the politics of American "democracy" and law, of who is elected state legislator to sign the same bills and perpetuate the same system. Not the politics of any leader or ideology that demands that you make sacrifices for "the cause." But the politics of our everyday lives. When you separate politics from the immediate, everyday experiences of individual men and women, it becomes completely irrelevant. Indeed, it becomes the private domain of wealthy, comfortable intellectuals, who can trouble themselves with such dreary, theoretical things. When you involve yourself in politics out of a sense of obligation, and make political action into a dull responsibility rather than an exciting game that is worthwhile for its own sake, you scare away people whose lives are already far too dull for any more tedium. When you make politics into a lifeless thing, a joyless thing, a dreadful responsibility, it becomes just another weight upon people, rather than a means to lift weight from people. And thus you ruin the idea of politics for the people to whom it should be most important. For everyone has a stake in considering their lives, in asking themselves what they want out of life and how they can get it. But you make politics look to them like a miserable, self-referential, pointless middle class/bohemian game, a game with no relevance to the real lives they are living out.
cgwhite32 (1465 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Er. Language please - can someone please remove the 'f-word'

Medi (280 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Oh, come on, it's just a word. It hasn't ever done anybody any harm, and it never will.

Re: the opening statement, I agree that most people's politics are boring, but I'm not sure that simplifying the issues to make them more accessible is the right option. (Oh, and line breaks are a very nice thing!)
mapleleaf (0 DX)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Get your head out of the glue bag, Pandora. Bohemian means alternative, artistic, carefree, eccentric, exotic, nonconformist etc.
You have used the word completely out of context. Sad, but not surprising.
What are you doing online? Isn't this prime panhandling/shoplifting time?
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
I can shoplift anytime, since the large corporations deem it necessery to keep their stores open 24 hours a day

what are YOU doing online? a respectable middle aged man liek yourself, surely you should be working

bo·he·mi·an
A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior.

I'm aware of it's definition
fwancophile (164 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
my politics certainly aren't boring. they are a constant source of learning, investigation, analysis, and a bit of humor.

as for the criticism, naturally i disagree. the system remains largely the same because people like it, people like the american idea of commercialism and competition and living as you choose and as for the american people, americans tend to like their communities, local, state, and national - it is democratic to continue the same system. its maintenance is vital, not lifeless - it is the attempt to create a human monster of the collective efforts of hundreds of millions today and over the many generations that it has taken to get here. there are dreams to keep alive and pass on, and to partake in ourselves. an immediate and full experience, a sudden complete immersion in everything, i get the sense, is what you want. most people probably want that too but for some reason the fractured and cracked daily lives are what we get instead, and we have to organize that. our politics facilitates the health of our collective monster, but also directs its movements.

don't think i'm all collectivity. everyone already has a stake in considering their lives, but only the individual can truly claim it - the collective can teach and share knowledge but ultimately only the individual can craft that meaning for herself - would you not agree? is there not, then, only so much that politics as an organization of people can do - and more importantly, should do?

yes, i disagree, and still, much of what you say may be true, though i do think that those for whom politics is a weight upon people are precisely those who are in the domain of comfortable and generally wealthy intellectuals. for most people, i would imagine, what may be boring issues of the value of the currency, trade competitiveness, international relations, secure for the american nation, in particular - but most governments do this - these tedious issues secure a day to day existence in which people largely can define themselves, can live free, can pursue their joys and passions and responsibilities. far from irrelevant, the system is the guaranteur of individuals' self-interest - and what is less relevant to you than your life that you are living out?

perhaps its a vicious game, perhaps that people "choose" the system is no choice at all, but to the extent that is true, it is probably largely less attributable to politics than to more essential nature, the structure of the universe, essential characteristics of human beings, etc.
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
coming from you fwancophile, this is suprising, an humorous
mapleleaf (0 DX)
03 Apr 08 UTC
I am at work. I'm a fascist martinet. You should see my secretary. Life is good. I toss my change at people like you.
Go ahead. Entertain me....
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
what is a martinet


you are probably used to paying for your entertainment, and I'm not in the habit of accepting money
fwancophile (164 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
snap!
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
I've got to admit I'm proud of you for using your time at work to dick around playing games (no sarcasm)
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
"snap!"

not what I was reffering to
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
dirty minded boy lol
Wombat (722 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Who was the thread aimed at?

And do you have to use the F word everytime? It just makes you look immature.
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
alot of people

no I dont, it's just part of my vernacular. people constantly form innaccurate opinions about me and it really doesnt concern me.
Theophilus (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Pandora, I must say that your apparent practice of theft concerns me. If it is necessary for you to steal to live, you should not live.
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
hmmm. this gives me an idea
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
What is living to you anyway theo? How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? A computer screen? Behind an automobile windscreen? All three screens combined? What are you being screened from? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously?
Is watching things as exciting as doing things? Do you have enough time to do all the things that you want to? Do you have enough energy to? Why? And how many hours a day do you sleep? How are you affected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movements with those of millions of other people? How long do you ever go without knowing what time it is? Who or what controls your minutes and hours? The minutes and hours that add up to your life? Are you saving time? Saving it up for what?
Can you put a value on a beautiful day, when the birds are singing and people are walking around together? How many dollars an hour does it take to pay you to stay inside and sell things or file papers? What can you get later that will make up for this day of your life?
How are you affected by being in crowds, by being surrounded by anonymous masses? Do you find yourself blocking your emotional responses to other human beings? And who prepares your meals? Do you ever eat by yourself? Do you ever eat standing up? How much do you know about what you eat and where it comes from? How much do you trust it?
What are we deprived of by labor-saving devices? By thought-saving devices? How are you affected by the requirements of efficiency, which place value on the product rather than the process, on the future rather than the present, the present moment that is getting shorter and shorter as we speed faster and faster into the future? What are we speeding towards? Are we saving time? Saving it up for what?
How are you affected by being moved around in prescribed paths, in elevators, buses, subways, escalators, on highways and sidewalks? By moving, working, and living in two- and three-dimensional grids? How are you affected by being organized, immobilized, and scheduled rather than wandering, roaming freely and spontaneously? Scavenging? (Shoplifting?) How much freedom of movement do you have--freedom to move through space, to move as far as you want, in new and unexplored directions?
And how are you affected by waiting? Waiting in line, waiting in traffic, waiting to eat, waiting for the bus, waiting to urinate--learning to punish and ignore your spontaneous urges? How are you affected by holding back your desires? By sexual repression, by the delay or denial of pleasure, starting in childhood, along with the suppression of everything in you that is spontaneous, everything that evidences your wild nature, your membership in the animal kingdom? Is pleasure dangerous?
Could danger be joyous? Do you ever need to see the sky? (Can you see many stars in it any more?) Do you ever need to see water, leaves, foliage, animals? Glinting, glimmering, moving? Is that why you have a pet, an aquarium, houseplants? Or are television and video your glinting, glimmering, moving? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously? If your life was made into a movie, would you watch it? How do you feel in situations of enforced passivity?
How are you affected by a non-stop assault of symbolic communication--audio, visual, print, billboard, video, radio, robotic voices--as you wander through a forest of signs? What are they urging upon you? Do you ever need solitude, quiet, contemplation? Do you remember it? Thinking on your own, rather than reacting to stimuli? Is it hard to look away?
Is looking away the very thing that is not permitted? Where can you go to find silence and solitude? Not white noise, but pure silence? Not loneliness, but gentle solitude? How often have you stopped to ask yourself questions like these? Do you find yourself committing acts of symbolic violence? Do you ever feel lonely in a way that words cannot even express?
Do you sometimes feel yourself ready
to LOSE CONTROL?
figlesquidge (2131 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Sent from: Theophilus (100 ) Sent: 06:47 PM
Pandora, I must say that your apparent practice of theft concerns me. If it is necessary for you to steal to live, you should not live.
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Are you advocating the death penalty?
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
mapleleaf>> 2 things, 1st what is a martinet.
2nd, I find it funny that your basis to insult me was not at all from any of the ideas I presented, but from one single word which you perceived I misused
mapleleaf (0 DX)
03 Apr 08 UTC
A martinet is a tyrant. You did misuse the word. I may have time to, as you put, dick around at work. I do not have time to pick apart the direction-less ramblings of a scatterbrained degenerate. Your thoughts, to put it charitably, are incoherent.

I hope that you make a lot of friends in jail.

I'm done with you.

Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
thanks now I know.
I did not misuse bohemian

hmm, well my incoherent ramblings are generally well put together. I at least start discussions, you just attack those you dont agree with.

I have alot of friends in jail. leonard peltier, jonathan paul, exile, etc.

aww I'm so hurt sweetheart. I'll no longer be insulted by an aging canadian facist for near imaginary reasons. oh no!
Thucydides (864 D(B))
03 Apr 08 UTC
Lol Figlesquidge, of course he advocates the death penalty. Have you not read his other posts?

Side note: I advocate it too, but I don't have to post much now that I'm in a UN game.
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
thucy how do you feel about abortion.

just say yes or no
Tucobenedicto (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
>>How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen?

You're the one who seems to spend upwards of several hours a day writing lengthy, incoherent posts about inane bullshit.
Chrispminis (916 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
I enjoy your diatribes so much Pandora. =D

Here's a practical biological reason for why our politics may seem so detached from the individual.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

The brains that we've been burdened and blessed with are unfortunately limited. It's a purely physical limit. We can only fit approximately 150 entire humans into our brain, whereas most political theories have a much larger scope in mind. It's a simplification for sure, but I'm sure if you wrote a practical alternative you'd be hailed as the greatest political theorist of our day.

Manmade constructs are not as evil as you make them out to be. They are merely the extended phenotype of our genetic nature. Like beaver dams. You have to realize, that we and our creations are not so separate from environment. In the end, we are all something that the universe is doing. I'm sure what Alan Watts has to say will ring true for the both of us, and perhaps then you can cross that bridge into acceptance the of the thousands of years of hard working people
Chrispminis (916 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Uh, well, that posted prematurely. To continue...

...that bridge into acceptance of the product of the thousands of years of hard work put in by people just like you and me.
Pandora (100 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
why do you think modern society is such a good thing
Wombat (722 D)
04 Apr 08 UTC
Because you live off its back without realising how damned lucky to have the privilege of living comfortably.

I'd like to see you get your way around in Darfur.
canute (0 DX)
04 Apr 08 UTC
I want my 10mins back!
Chrispminis (916 D)
04 Apr 08 UTC
I'm sad that you didn't post more of a reply, Pandora. Did you read the article I linked to you, did you check out any Alan Watts?
Pandora (100 D)
04 Apr 08 UTC
I'd like to see anyone get their way in darfur

no I didnt read it
canute (0 DX)
05 Apr 08 UTC
God. Shut up!
McCain (100 D)
05 Apr 08 UTC
your politics are boring, they are rehashed nonsense that sensible people have rejected since Rosseau first came up with it.
Pandora (100 D)
05 Apr 08 UTC
no one "came up with it"
it is the way the human race lived for millions of years


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splee (1086 D)
02 Apr 08 UTC
Draw request - Hitler was a Jew
the powers agreed to a draw, and the points are to be allocated as such:
Germany - 16
Austria - 12
Italy - 9
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Timmy1200 (100 D)
04 Apr 08 UTC
making a one hour game
Just for a laugh, there will probably be more civil disorder than the middle east, but its worth a go isnt i suppose
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Noodlebug (1812 D)
03 Apr 08 UTC
Why I love Trolling
It's such a rush posting controversial but totally irrelevant threads which are supposed to show everyone how cool and unconventional and nonconformist I am, it's just such a shame that people read them and shake their heads and think "what a numpty." Because I'm daring and challenge authority at every turn and don't obey the rules because I'm too cool for school, I use rude words like a three year old to show how grown up I am and I encourage anti-social behaviour which will solve all society's ills by making bread £3 a loaf because the stores have to cover the cost of idiots like me stealing it, which of course forces more people to have to earn more money to feed themselves and become mercenary consumer slaves to the capitalist system so that I can make them feel even worse about themselves while Daddy bails me out yet again next time I go too far.
Of course I'm jealous of those real revolutionaries who are actually out there doing genuine protests and standing up for their beliefs and quietly getting on with living an ethical life without feeling the need to broadcast it to everyone, but I don't have the time because I'm too busy spreading the message to all the people who don't want to hear it. Because if the revolution is going to come, the people who are going to start it are obviously the people who play internet strategy games, and besides the moderators kicked me off all the serious anti-capitalist and environmentalist websites because they said I was "off message". They're all wrong and I'm right because I know I'm right and it's not about how many people agree with you it's about how much you believe in yourself. And yeah some people are genuine fruitcakes but not me because I talk sense.
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Timmy1200 (100 D)
04 Apr 08 UTC
New Game
It's called Timmy's Game.

See you there
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