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01 Nov 12 UTC

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The Next Four Years

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/day-after_657903.html

I know many of you won't like the source, but give it a chance.

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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EoG: All Saints Game

Dharmaton is a jerk.

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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How does one resign a game?

I notice that many games list some of their players as having resigned. However, the interface doesn't appear to have a "resign" button anywhere. So how do people resign games?

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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Just started a 5-min turn game. Sign up!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=103274

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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Vote Obama, Go To Hell

http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/10/30/mike_huckabee_to_christians_vote_for_obama_and_face_the_fires_of_hell.html

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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The Ancient mediterranean variant - 2 players needed!

Name: Die Macht der versunkenen Schiffen!
Password: bungabunga
link: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=103142
Lets play!

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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President Obama as a pro-life hero?

See inside

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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I'm Starting to Think...

…That the quality of live games on this site has gotten increasingly worse in the last few weeks.

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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Open thread: Happy Halloween!!

Post costumes and other shenanigans pictures here. Or just describe what you're doing. Whatever works.

I'll start: https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/404238_4197825136957_2061829067_n.jpg

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29 Oct 12 UTC

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On Cheating and Civil Disorders

see below

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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Situation: The denizens of webDiplomacy's forums are in a haunted house.

So here's the game. When you post, pick the costume you think the PREVIOUS POSTER would be wearing. Repeat posting is allowed, as is naming a repeat costume for the same poster.

Go!

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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Live Med, Global Messaging Only, 100 Pot

Any interest? http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=103232

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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If you could pick one language to be the world's lingua franca

Which would it be?

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01 Nov 12 UTC

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EoG: Haloweenboat II

Bunch of dicks and point whores exploiting CD's pretty much sums up this game.

Wasted two fucking hours because people care more about their super duper virtual points than actually having a fun, fair game.

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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EX-FEMA Director: Obama Responded...TOO Quickly To Superstorm Sandy (What???)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ex-fema-director-michael-brown-criticizes-obama-reacting-202803013.html
Yes.
This from the man who took forever to help New Orleans once it became Atlantis.
Because, fast response time...quick action--who wants THAT from FEMA?

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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Countdown Timer

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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Why Does Italy...

…Take offense to Austria tapping Venice in S01?

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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New "Star Wars" Movies coming! Awesome!

http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/disney-acquires-lucasfilm-star-wars-creator/

Can buying out Lucas bring a little credit to the series? Or will Disney bring even more muppet nonsense to the series?

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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Best Responses...

…To a message you've sent in press?

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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Plans for next week

Off to watch The Merry Wives of Windsor in Stratford...bet some people on here will be jealous :)

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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I am seriously considering buying this car...

http://carmax.com/enus/view-car/default.html?AVi=21&id=8858052&N=4294966961+4294967269+4294967105&Ne=2&D=60&zip=45014&sP=NA-28000&pD=0&pI=0&pT=400&pC=200&pB=0&No=0&Ep=homepage:homepage Make&Rp=R&PP=50&sV=List&Us=14&CD=662+14+966+240+190+398+9&Q=4ef2c703-2e98-41

7-869b-f30a2a7430bf

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27 Oct 12 UTC

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Favourite Video Games?

What are your favourite video games?

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29 Oct 12 UTC

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THE GIANTS WIN THE WORLD SERIES!

NEXT BEST THING TO THE METS WINNING...

WAY TO GO CITY BY THE BAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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29 Oct 12 UTC

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He Who Controls the Spice, Controls the Universe

Discuss.

Dharmaton (2398 )
29 Oct 12 UTC

gameID=103072 - ! -JOIN MY GAME - ! - CAPS LOCK OPTIONAL

2ndWhiteLine (2736 )
29 Oct 12 UTC

First you get the spice, then you get the power, then you get the women.

bo_sox48 (5202 )
29 Oct 12 UTC

I thought the women were the spice! #myworldisruined

Puddle (428 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

Only he who can destroy the spice controls it.

Draugnar (0 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

Not completely true. He who controls the spice's movement and distribution can control it. If the spacing guild chooses to embargo Arrakis and only allow spice to move off planet if they get a 20% cut off the raw or refined spice, then they control it. If they get greedy and decide 20% isn't enough, then whoever controls Arrakis still has to use them to ship it and has to pay the extored rate or the spice will not flow.

Al Swearengen (0 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

Why would they want the Duke's *son* killed?

Octavious (2802 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

I have a tub of allspice in the cupboard that's not been touched since the last millenium. If a taste of that doesn't have a profound effect on the human mind I don't know what will.

abgemacht (1076 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

I disagree, Draug.

As Paul-Maud'Dib showed, the Guild is irrelevant if those on Arrakis know how to control the Spice. They had the Guild by the balls and through the Guild, the entire Empire.

Draugnar (0 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

True, abge, but had Paul not been the Quisatz Hadderak (sp?) he would not have had the power to control and kill with a word alone and could never have commanded the worms as he did. Paul was unique and effectively all powerful while on Arrakis.

abgemacht (1076 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

Kwisatz Haderach

True, but I'm not sure he was the only one who could have done it. Remember, Liet-Kynes already had the Fremen working on converting the surface of Arrakis. It's realistic to assume that had Kynes not died, they could have done so without their prophet.

Draugnar (0 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

In time maybe, but their conversion was very small in scale and to make it greater would have gotten the attention of the Emperor and the Baron. It took them being organized into a force to be reckoned with to make that dream a reality. It took Paul-Muad'Dib.

Ursa (1617 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

What's your gom jabbar?

Draugnar (0 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

I remember your gom jabbar, now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.

Octavious (2802 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

Spice is irrelevant. There is nothing that spice can do that can't be done better by thinking machines.

abgemacht (1076 )
30 Oct 12 UTC

Not true. Back before the Guild, the Machines were restricted to Newtonian travel. It took 1,000s of years to communicate between some of the furthest machine planets.

Draugnar (0 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

As abgemacht points out, space could not be folded before the Spice Melange.

abgemacht (1076 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

Well to be fair, the Holtzman generators fold space, which I'm sure the Machines could make. The real issue is not crashing into a sun or planet or debris when you fold space, which requires a Navigator.

Draugnar (0 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I often wonder though if the Mentat's might not be able to compute all the interations quickly enough to fulfill a Navigator's job.

abgemacht (1076 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I think many mentats could be trained to be Navigators, but on their own, I doubt it. The limited Prescience obtained from massive amounts of Spice is what allows the Navigators to see through Fold-Space, as far as I understand.

Draugnar (0 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

Have you read any of Brian Herbert's prequels?

abgemacht (1076 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

Yes, all of them, I believe.

Draugnar (0 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I did House Atriedes and was working on House Harkonnen when I got distracted by Les Miserables. I need to get back to them. I have House Corrino, Butlerian Jihad and Machine Crusade. I need to pick up the thrid from the early history trilogy and there are 6 other books by him as well. He published twice as many books as his father.

abgemacht (1076 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

Twice as many Dune books? Frank wrote a bunch of other books as well

I thought the prequels were OK. It was smart thinking teaming up with Anderson.

Draugnar (0 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I meant int he series. Frank did 6, Brian and company did 12.

I never did finish Chapterhouse. One of these days I need to go back and try again.

ulytau (541 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I actually like the Prequels and Legends more than most of the original series.

abgemacht (1076 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I'm actually rereading Dune right now, but it's been a while since I read the others. If I had to rate them, I think it would go:

Dune
God Emperor
Heretics
Chapterhouse
Children
Messiah

I liked the first prequel trilogy (with Leto), but I'm not sure they were necessary. We really didn't learn anything that you didn't learn from the appendices in Dune.

The Butlerian prequels were much more interesting. I wonder how much was based off of Frank's notes.

abgemacht (1076 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

I am particularly fond of the Tleilaxu, which are featured more prominently in the later books.

YadHoGrojaUL (330 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

Is Hannah Montana a geographically confused Duncan Idaho ghola?

Draugnar (0 )
31 Oct 12 UTC

Or maybe an Indiana Jones.

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31 Oct 12 UTC

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EOG: WTA GUNBOAT-219

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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I just finished my 50th game

And I know no one cares, but I would like to publicly thank the mods and the donors for their hard work in keeping this great site up and running. I love Diplomacy.

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27 Oct 12 UTC

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europa universalis

I just got the game, and i must say, its extremely difficult. its like one of those programs that take forever to learn, like autodesk or photoshop, but when mastered, can turn out to be really fun :D

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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No Media Bias...<rolls eyes...>

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/30/msnbc-trashes-romney-collecting-food-and-supplies-sandy-victims#ixzz2Aoy9BldZ

WATCH THE CLIP before you trash the source. Utter bullshit...Romney is criticized for doing **what my kids schools do**...asking for canned goods, etc for natural disaster relief.

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26 Oct 12 UTC

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Disabled Variants

I noticed there are four disabled Variants to the game. Were these ever activated? Will they be activated? Does anybody know about this that can share?

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30 Oct 12 UTC

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Guess who won the game 'Please not Austria Again'

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