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Putin33 (111 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Are no-hitters not a big deal anymore?
When guys like Ervin Santana can get one and we've had something like 10 in the past 2 seasons are no hitters going to become passe?

Also, what the heck is La Russa's major malfunction?
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Fasces349 (0 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
End of the LAST PERSON TO POST WINS!!!!!!!!
http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=444658&page-thread=385#threadPager

The thread is now locked so its now impossible to post. In the end there were 11532 posts over 728 days. dD_ShockTrooper was the last person to post and so he won. Congrats dD_ShockTrooper!!!!!!!
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Eleven (501 D)
20 Jul 11 UTC
Account sitting.
I'll be out of town for four or five days, and I'm not sure what to do. I'm pretty new to this site so I'm not sure how it works, but I've seen people mention 'account sitting'? How does that work? What are the rules? How do I find someone to do that for me? I guess I'm just looking for a general explanation. Thanks in advance. Oh, and sorry if this is explained elsewhere on the site. Perhaps I missed it when I looked.
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
How Much Is Everyone Muting?
I ask becuase I see folks saying they're muting folks in threads more and more...and it just seems like a shame and almost unfair to me, really...granted I'm probably one of the most-muted on the site--at least I would guess I am--but even so, all the more reason I just can't mute anyone..."if you can't stand the heat"...? You can't have it both ways, give a critical opinion and erect a shield to deflect all criticism, even if that "criticism" is a foolish troll, yes?
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
15 Jul 11 UTC
An Education in Economics
Liberals have the mistaken and baseless idea that government creates jobs, that government creates demand that stimulates the economy, and that any time there is a great reduction in government spending a recession will result.
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
29 Jul 11 UTC
new game
Hey all, I'm starting a game with some work friends, might not be able to get 7 though... anybody want to be an alternate? They're all new, so less skilled players preferred.

20 buy in, anon, 24 hours period, starts Saturday at 7:12
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UnknownHero (465 D)
29 Jul 11 UTC
Looking for sitter
I'll be away for 5-6 days next week and still have a couple games running. It shouldn't be too huge of a time commitment if anyone is willing, since one is a 4 day phase world game in which I have only a single unit. The other is a game in the summer gunboat tournament, so someone not part of that would be preferred.
I hope I'm not asking too much with only a few days notice, but if someone with a good reputation would PM me saying they can, I would be extremely grateful.
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Darwyn (1601 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Pizza v. Tacos
Let's say there is a pizza joint and a taco stand right across the street from each other...
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krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Collaborative Story...
You *must* reply with an entire paragraph. Each paragraph will be proceeded by a number. You reply must be indicated by (that number +1) so we know what you are responding to. In the event of simultaneous posts, the FIRST poster is the ONLY valid next paragraph.
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
And here is the opening of our tale:

(1) Molly flicked the bottle cap from her fingers, sending it spinning through the thick night air to splink against the half-opened window above. She kicked through the trash blowing around her black-booted feet while she stared up at the back of decrepit tenement building, running her fingers mindlessly through her rough cut black hair. No amount of grooming would ever make her style fashionable, but neither would anyone consider it unsightly; it was perfectly nondescript, the result of years of careful cultivation. Like most of her social quirks, most of Molly was designed to be obscure; to be seen without being noticed.
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<side note....first paragraph of a first chapter of a novel i am working on. Just want to see how perverted you guys turn this....lol>
Rommeltastic (1213 D(B))
28 Jul 11 UTC
(2) She glanced up and down the empty street. Being out at this time had never bothered her, but the embrace of the darkness could be rough to the nerves, especially tonight. Molly itched to look back up at the window, but she didn't think she would answer now. Not tonight. Not ever again.
☺ (1304 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<Tempted to derail this by doing something stupid, but I won't, because I think it's a really cool idea. I'd contribute, but I'm a terrible writer.>
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<bump>
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<Thanks, smiley....I'm not ALL bad! :P >
☺ (1304 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<Not at all, your posts are, generally speaking, far more intelligent and well formulated than they used to be, if you ask me.>
TBroadley (178 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
(3) She was a little nervous now. Her contact was late. Usually, he was never late. She... With a great explosion of cursing, I violently cast my pen to the tabletop, splattering ink all over the pristine white pages of my manuscript. I can't imitate Krellin, I say to myself in despair. It's a literary impossibility! Disheartened, I pull myself out of the rickety chair and head downstairs from my room in the inn. I need a drink.
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
(4) The Molly-mask lay on the floor, crushed under the floor of TBroadley. The perfect print of his slave-produced Nike shoes were imprinted across Molly's rubber face.

On a bed, Krellin lay in a drug-induced haze, his Molly-dress disheveled.

TBroadley knew that 1brucman would be sad....and yet, he looked at the anal-probe lying on Krellin's night stand and knew that, like it or not, it was best that 1bruc never knew the pain/pleasure of such a device....on designed to tap directly into his brain matter....
Rommeltastic (1213 D(B))
28 Jul 11 UTC
<I think that after 2 posts have been made, reposting should be allowed - or else we'll run out of people fast. Also - sorry for massacring your story, Krells!>
Rommeltastic (1213 D(B))
28 Jul 11 UTC
(5) TBroadley rose, awash with emotions of despair, anger, and vomit. A few moments later, it was mostly the first two.

TBroadley knew that if he didn't get to 1brucben fast, the whole forum might start listening to him...

"Can ANYONE defend 1brucben's views?" He mumbled to himself.
With a laugh, he added.
"Besides 1brucben, of course."
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Jul 11 UTC
(4) Realizing that her anti-psychotic medication was starting to wear off Molly pulled herself together and recited her affirmations: "I am not a character in a story, there is no such person as Krellin, and I am not jealous of his writing style." She took her pills and and slowly returned to reality. Her date would be arriving soon, and she was determined that tonight would not end in a tragic disaster the way it had so many times before.
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Jul 11 UTC
<okay I see others jumped in. My section will have to be renumbered part (6).
(6) Realizing that her anti-psychotic medication was starting to wear ...
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
To recap:

(1) Molly flicked the bottle cap from her fingers, sending it spinning through the thick night air to splink against the half-opened window above. She kicked through the trash blowing around her black-booted feet while she stared up at the back of decrepit tenement building, running her fingers mindlessly through her rough cut black hair. No amount of grooming would ever make her style fashionable, but neither would anyone consider it unsightly; it was perfectly nondescript, the result of years of careful cultivation. Like most of her social quirks, most of Molly was designed to be obscure; to be seen without being noticed.
(2) She glanced up and down the empty street. Being out at this time had never bothered her, but the embrace of the darkness could be rough to the nerves, especially tonight. Molly itched to look back up at the window, but she didn't think she would answer now. Not tonight. Not ever again.
(3) She was a little nervous now. Her contact was late. Usually, he was never late. She... With a great explosion of cursing, I violently cast my pen to the tabletop, splattering ink all over the pristine white pages of my manuscript. I can't imitate Krellin, I say to myself in despair. It's a literary impossibility! Disheartened, I pull myself out of the rickety chair and head downstairs from my room in the inn. I need a drink.
(4) The Molly-mask lay on the floor, crushed under the floor of TBroadley. The perfect print of his slave-produced Nike shoes were imprinted across Molly's rubber face.
On a bed, Krellin lay in a drug-induced haze, his Molly-dress disheveled.
TBroadley knew that 1brucman would be sad....and yet, he looked at the anal-probe lying on Krellin's night stand and knew that, like it or not, it was best that 1bruc never knew the pain/pleasure of such a device....on designed to tap directly into his brain matter....
(5) TBroadley rose, awash with emotions of despair, anger, and vomit. A few moments later, it was mostly the first two.

TBroadley knew that if he didn't get to 1brucben fast, the whole forum might start listening to him...

"Can ANYONE defend 1brucben's views?" He mumbled to himself.
With a laugh, he added.
"Besides 1brucben, of course."
(6) Realizing that her anti-psychotic medication was starting to wear off Molly pulled herself together and recited her affirmations: "I am not a character in a story, there is no such person as Krellin, and I am not jealous of his writing style." She took her pills and and slowly returned to reality. Her date would be arriving soon, and she was determined that tonight would not end in a tragic disaster the way it had so many times before.
Rommeltastic (1213 D(B))
28 Jul 11 UTC
<Thanks for pulling us back to reality.>
Tru Ninja (1016 D(S))
28 Jul 11 UTC
(7) Hours later, her date still hadn't showed. So like him and every other male. She's been toying with thoughts of suicide because she hasn't had a good lay in years. Depressed, she goes over to the mirror lying on the coffee table, and shaking she uses the razor, the one she pulled from her Bic after shaving her legs, and begins hashing lines of coke together. A few snorts later and everything was calm again. She stumbles over to the balcony overlooking the busy street corner and jumps 20 floors straight down fracturing her skull and spilling her insides across 13th avenue. It was best of times, it was the worst of times.
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Jul 11 UTC
(8) As she lay on the pavement, still alive but badly injured , writhing in agony, blood pouring from her open wounds, while passers-by, hurrying home from work and too caught-up in their own lives to even notice a girl with a nondescript hairstyle , let-alone stop to offer her assistance, Molly thought to herself "The bastard. I can't believe he didn't show. That's it I am finished with men. I am becoming a lesbian. As soon as I get out of hospital, I am going to let the hair own my legs grow, stop shaving the hair under my armpits, and join a dating agency for women who are interested in other women. From now on its going to be strictly girl-on-girl action for this little Dick Van Dyke."
gigantor (404 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
(9) Meanwhile, as Molly lay bleeding on the pavement contemplating thoughts of heterocide, her date stepped out of the shower, ran his hands through his hair and said, "Damn, you're looking good tonight, handsome."
"Hey! What did I tell you about that ego of yours?", screamed his wife from the next room, rather irritated.
Art wrapped a towel around his waist, and shut his eyes firmly as he walked briskly past his wife's office without a word. He was going to be late.
TBroadley (178 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<Sorry for that departure from normalcy, everyone.>

(10) Art walked straight out the front door of his small clapboard house, still wearing only a towel, and climbed into his car, ignoring the shocked and confused stares of the few pedestrians on the street. He wanted to make a big impression with Molly when he arrived. He practiced his line again: "Hey baby, sorry I'm late. Let's have makeup sex in the middle of this dark, cold alley!" As he passed Molly's body, spreadeagled on the bloody pavement, the combination of his fixation on his line, Molly's nondescript hairstyle, and the speed of the car contrived to make Art not notice her limp form. He pulled into the alleyway and seductively climbed out of the car. That was strange.... she wasn't here yet. Usually, she was never late. Then he saw a figure emerge from the shadows. Molly! He launched into his line. "Hey baby, sorry I'm late. Let's have makeup sex in the middle of this dark, cold alleyway!" The figure responded in a growling, lascivious voice very different from Molly's nondescript monotone, "Sounds good to me, hotshot..."
gigantor (404 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<Holy crap, I literally laughed out loud at "still wearing only a towel". Well played, good sir.>
TBroadley (178 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
*bows*
krellin (80 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
<awesome...>


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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Obama Repeated Buffet's Misstatement
Tomorrow's WSJ shows that Warren Buffet misstated a fact Obama included in his national address Monday, Buffet doesn't pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. It's nice to see the press doing its job.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
18 Jul 11 UTC
Social Security Funding
It's interesting that the motto of social security is that you've paid in all your working life and the money is sitting there waiting for you.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
21 Jul 11 UTC
Immorality of the State vs Morality of the Market
Big government advocates proceed under the assumption that government is moral and the marketplace is immoral when the exact opposite is true.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
19 Jul 11 UTC
Thy mythical victim
Why is it that opinions put forth to justify government monopolies to deal with social problems consistently rely on mythical victims instead of truth or logic?
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Who would pass a tax increase?
The House certainly wouldn't
The Senate would pass a tax increase.
You are going to find 51 Democrats who will vote for a tax increase?
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
25 Jul 11 UTC
Hysteria & Welfare State Bankruptcy
In the current budget debate you see two viewpoints-the House of Representatives realizes the Welfare State is bankrupt with $200 Trillion in deficits and unfunded liabilities. The Obama administration and the Senate think everything will be fine if they raise taxes and keep pumping devalued dollars into the economy.

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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
25 Jul 11 UTC
Monks 1 Autocratic State 0
The verdict from federal court. Monks can sell caskets in Louisiana without also providing embalming and other funeral home services that the autocratic state government required in order to grant a monopoly over casket sales.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
26 Jul 11 UTC
States defy Big Government lunacy
In individual states smaller government candidates won a majority of elections across the country in direct defiance of Big Government lunacy dominant in Washington D.C.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Common sense saves schools
Schools are for the kids not for the administrators and teachers.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Signed copy of Reckless Endangerment
How many of the forum frequenters have a signed copy of the best seller "Reckless Endangerment." What a great read.
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Babak (26982 D(B))
26 Jul 11 UTC
League Format for next Season
Alderian, have you decided how you will proceed towards next season?

The detailed thread about this subject has been locked, but here it is for others who want to read the debate: http://www.webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=742701#742701
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1brucben (60 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
gunboats are stupid and ruin diplomacy
the point of diplomacy is exactly what it says. DIPLOMACY. When we get rid of ingame messaging it does away with the crucial factor of diplomacy and results in no improvement of luck. It actually makes the game far more random and chancy than it should be. I believe that we need to get rid of this option to allow DIPLOMACY to take its course. Please add your comments about this.
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Mujus (1495 D(B))
28 Jul 11 UTC
Can anyone defend, I mean remember, centrists?
Why is politics so polarized today--what happened to the centrists? Is it a function of the political parties controlling the vast majority of campaign contributions?
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TBroadley (178 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Can anyone defend 1bruchen's views?
Besides 1bruchen, of course.
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denis (864 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Nationalism and Patriotism
The bane of civilization?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Can anyone defend posts asking in the title for posters to defend something?
If you can--well, I suppose you're needed on one of the many other generic "defend" posts...
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Ruisdael (1529 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Minor bug
I'm not sure if others in this game are experiencing the same oddity, but in
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=63232, which is a gunboat, it's telling me I have an unread global message and I can't figure out how to "read" it or otherwise fix the problem. Thanks.
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President Eden (2750 D)
24 Jul 11 UTC
How the hell does one succeed as Turkey?
I've done well as Turkey before, but rarely ever in high class play and never in high class play when I haven't jumped in mid-game.
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cpman (0 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Please Join this Long Term Game
Hello all! I would like to ask you to join this game: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=64615
Thanks!

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1brucben (60 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Lets take back this forum liberals!!
are we gonna let these conservative retards take over this forum? Liberals post your ideas here. comservative ideas will be deleted
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MaxVax (5610 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
could someone pick France? - low point game, good practice.
Could someone pick up France here?
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=63317&msgCountryID=7&rand=61916
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