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President Eden (2750 D)
20 Oct 11 UTC
Computer skullfuckery pt. 2
So I'm in four games right now and they're all pretty fucked over because I CDed/near-CDed due to virus issues. I'm looking for a replacement in 3 of them. Details inside.
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
21 Oct 11 UTC
TONG!
For all you old-school gamers out there, here's a new challenge for you:
http://www.nongnu.org/tong/
Enjoy! : )
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stratagos (3269 D(S))
21 Oct 11 UTC
Why I love Fark
The news: all US troops to be out of Iraq by year's end.
The trollish newsflash I got: Obama eliminates thousands of American jobs and hands them to foreign nation
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
20 Oct 11 UTC
I don't normally share diplomacy tips
because, you know, I'm super competitive, but...
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taos (281 D)
21 Oct 11 UTC
about disbanding a unit
if i disband a unit instead of retreat but i have 6 sc 5 units and its build phase after i disdand
do iget to build two units?
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guak (3381 D)
20 Oct 11 UTC
Game drawn
Is it possible to draw a game with a clear stalemate line in which one nation has refused to draw even though the same exact moves have been made by everyone for many turns? And there is clearly no way to break the lines besides an NMR or an attack between the allied powers which has not happened in years and will not happen since it is a WTA.
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The Situation (100 D)
20 Oct 11 UTC
中国人
这里有没有中国人?如果有,是什么州来的?
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Geofram (130 D(B))
03 Oct 11 UTC
NHL Fantasy League
Anyone interested in getting one going?
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Check_mate (100 D)
20 Oct 11 UTC
Is it worth it?
....moaning about a game destroyed by CDs, or shall I just remember who did the dirty and quietly slink off into the night?
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raid1280 (190 D)
18 Oct 11 UTC
New Game, Classic Map, 3 Day Orders Phase, 100 pt buy-in
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=70199
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Draugnar (0 DX)
19 Oct 11 UTC
The last leagues are wrapped...
...and it's time to figure out where to go and what to change. OK, so let's get it rolling. What do we want the latest iteration of the leagues to look like?
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Evmister (0 DX)
21 Oct 11 UTC
Diplomacy Currency
What Happens When you run out if currency?
I would like to know so i don't go betting it all
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SuperSteve (894 D)
21 Oct 11 UTC
Live play and multis
Are live gunboats always corrupt and live press games almost always corrupt?

Just wondering... Sometimes I have a couple of hours and want to play. Am I always a sucker?
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Cockney (0 DX)
20 Oct 11 UTC
How many players are in London (uk) area?
just wondering.....
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Draugnar (0 DX)
19 Oct 11 UTC
XKCD had me rolling on the floor today!
http://xkcd.com/966/
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Diplomat33 (243 D(B))
12 Oct 11 UTC
Teen Diplomacy Tournament!
It's time for the younger players on diplomacy to have their own tournament! Great place to play with Diplomacy players your own age. No offense to the older members of course! If enough people post with intrest I'll set up a tournament.
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Cockney (0 DX)
20 Oct 11 UTC
big game- 3 spots, 45 mins to go
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
16 Oct 11 UTC
NFL Pick 'Em Week 6
Sorry it's a bit late this week, had a Model UN conference...

So, Week 6's games--Pick 'Em! (And we'll list the updated Wb Dip Pick 'Em Pundit Standings...)
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Agent K (0 DX)
17 Oct 11 UTC
For the Webdip 1%
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stratagos (3269 D(S))
19 Oct 11 UTC
Dear mods
I want a pony. And I want it now. I've put a lot of effort into my (free) games, therefore you work for me. Therefore, get me a pony, stat.
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
18 Oct 11 UTC
Killing Terrorists=Bad Letting Europeans and Jews Die=Good, --jpgredox...WTF!?!
You call the English Imperialist Pigs and ENCOURAGE the IRA to blow up English troops...you knock FDR and The Greatest Generation...

But killing terrorists who were caught planning to bomb the US and fighting Hitler in WWII is just horrible??? ...AND AWARD FOR MOST ASS-BACKWARD MORAL COMPASS GOES TO...
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
20 Oct 11 UTC
Error
Error triggered: Division by zero.
This was probably caused by a software bug. The details of this error have been successfully logged and will be attended to by a developer.
Got this when I tried to go from page 6 to page 7 of the open games.
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rkane (463 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Diplomacy based on Game of Thrones
As I was sleeping last night I was dreaming about making a Diplomacy map based on the "Game of Thrones" / Song of Fire and Ice series.
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ibadibam (377 D)
10 Oct 11 UTC
Need replacements for banned players
A gunboat WorldDip game, Metal Swarm, needs two substitutes for players who were banned. Argentina and Western Canada are vacant. No turns have been missed and the positions are decent. Low buy-in.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=69351
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President Eden (2750 D)
20 Oct 11 UTC
Fuck viruses.
I'm sending this from a school computer in the lab. Just wanted to apologize to everyone for the crapload of games I CDed out of. I'm not going to be able to pick those up for some time because my laptop is f-f-f-f-fucked and I can't get down here consistently enough to play a good game.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Can the Frequency Factor in the Arrhenius model
...for chemical kinetics be modeled for liquids? I know how the scientific community is all into calculating the activation energy but how about A?
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Actually i think i meant for "solutes" but you catch my drift my fellow nerds
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
19 Oct 11 UTC
Man, you really want the answer to this question, don't you? : )
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
I DEMAND AN ANSWAH!
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Yeah i really wanna know this it's been bugging me for ages :)
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
19 Oct 11 UTC
Can you link me to a good white paper that describes the problem?
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Eh.. I actually just took a nap and am playing with my phone but the wiki on the Arrhenius model is pretty good. I believe transition state theory as described by Atkins in "physical chemistry" is a start, but I'm not sure it's the best way to approach the problem that is available.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Arrhenius equation sorry..
carpenter (645 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
well, I don't get your question? If I had to guess it's: does anybody know how to determine that A? Well in short there are two answers: experimentally and empirically.
Judging your own responses I guess you mean it the experimental way. For that I need to refer to your Statistics course, assuming you have one. Most (reviewed) paper follow the techniques used in there for means or maximum likelihood to determine that the activation energy (E) and the pre-exponential factor (A).
However there's a trick, if you plot the logatithm of the reaction rate constant (ln(k)) against the inverse of the temperature (1/T), plotting ln(k)=ln(A)-E/(R*T), you'll get that A and E. Another short-cut is to make the model in excel, calculating the E and A at different temperatures, minimizing the summed squared differences with the found reaction rate constants - by varying E and A - will hand the results.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
@Carpenter, yeah sure, but i mean an all inclusive model: no experiments on the reaction itself, but using the physical data on the individual used products of course.
carpenter (645 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
I hope you understood my last post. But I forgot about the empirical version: it sucks and is applied rarely, but is possible. You basically look for the same reaction with different reactants (preferably you only change one reactant); identify which properties of the reactants are different and which are the same; try to identify a trend in that property and thereby estimate that A for your reation.
carpenter (645 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
@redhouse, I hope my last post's clear as well. But it's a lot less well-studied as gas-based reactions
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
"I hope you understood my last post"
Don't worry bro, the method was of course part of my curriculum :)
That would be interesting, the empirical one, but basically i'm looking for a model that asks as parameters starting product properties (charge, mass, viscosity, etc) and gives you a collision frequency as a result.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Exactly! For gases this model is available, but for liquids it's much more important!
carpenter (645 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
@redhouse well: liquid-based reactions way more complex than gas-based reactions (i.e. non-elementary and the higher density prevents something like a collision model). I don't know about research on liquid-based empirical reaction models. Can I get back on that later? I don't have the time right now to do that.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Yeah sure! Prevents say you? That sucks.
carpenter (645 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
hmm, maybe you can look up the wiki page on collision theory. Of course, this doesn't prove anything, but it's enough to say that the collision theory can be applied to liquid-based reactions. However, that A still needs to be estimated and is to some extent independent of the collision frequency.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
Thanks!! It seems like Moelwyn-Hughes theory was what I was looking for..! I'm going to sleep will check tomorrow.


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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
18 Oct 11 UTC
Mod Policies
So, there has recently been some confusion/criticism about how mods handle cases. Without talking about any specific cases, I'd like to review how we handle different cases and the reasons for it. Hopefully, this can turn into a productive discussion, since this site is community-driven.
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Mack Eye (119 D)
19 Oct 11 UTC
New 10-day phase game
Do you choose evil ways instead of love?...

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=70368
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Cockney (0 DX)
18 Oct 11 UTC
Gunboat and the
Why the hell can't people press the ready button in gunboat games?????

its not like they are waiting for an answer to a message or anything
its ridiculous. If they want to wait because they cant play in the next phase or something, then they shouldn't have agreed to play in the game in the first place with that phase length
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
16 Oct 11 UTC
Porn from feminist perspective
Here discuss feminism with emphasis on misogyny and the morality of pornography. Give me your views and moral justifications. Thanks.
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