I guess world GDP will boost today as everybody stand up from hic computer and starts living a real life actually for at least a couple of hours :)

Talking to friends, working, reading news, going out, etc :D

Good stuff coming up

Today I donated stem cells from my bone marrow to a patient with leukemia in need of a transplant. The whole process was very easy for me and the registry needs as many donors as they can get - it relies on specific genetic matching. www.bethematch.org (more details and a picture inside)

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PM me for details

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I gotch yer back!, Bet 31
We gotch 12 players, need 5 more!!
Only 35 minutes!

Alright, you cool daddy-o's and wanna-be-Byrons...
Post your poetry below so we can all snap our fingers in derision, er, delight!
(My poetry's bad, but then, I can always just do what my professors do--become a bitter professor and force my students to by my poetry and write essays about how awesome my awful, trite, piece of shit work is...but maybe we have an Eliot or Plath in our midst?)

Anyone else playing the new Civ V expansion? I particularly like Pacal and Dido as leaders. Not sure how I feel about the religion being added in. I wish there were different options sometimes.

is a bi-polar crazy?
what is crazy?

See first post

Let's talk about pros and cons of a national ID card.

I would like to challenge the 34* eligible players on the site who have more than 3000 to a gunboat game with a buy-in of 3043 . This is my current total points and as such this game would take me "all-in". Does anyone want to see my bet? This would also be the biggest pot of any game played in the history of Web Diplomacy. WTA, 48 hour phase, Anon, Classic Gunboat - whose game?

*figure correct at time of printing

I volunteer to TD a new and better gunboat tournament. Details in next post.

In every world map game that I've played, I've noticed that when you have amassed around 18 units +, the orders log lags whenever you want to move a unit 'via convoy' or 'via land'. It takes around 15-30 seconds to load the order. Is this common, has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know why it occurs? Thanks :)

...that temporarily memorizes numbers of replies to a thread to know if there are new replies in that thread?

Not by the "commerce clause" or the "necessarily and proper clause", but by a tax law, Obamacare was upheald. Thoughts?

Obviously it's in a bit of chaos. Let's work together to remedy this...

Not going to post the link but why on earth has this not been drawn yet? This is clearly a draw - nothing has changed for years.

Need more people for a mediterranean game. starts in about 10 min

I often see/hear people who have chosen to not have children asked the question: "Why?" More often than not, however, this question is never asked of people who DO want to have children, so many people end up having kids as a "default" life choice without ever really thinking about it.

Read the article and comment

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/andy_staples/07/02/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-ncaa/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

If you have a particular item in mind or if you need to borrow some gold, let me know. My battletag is zultar#1904.

Discuss. My EoG will come in another post.

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..to please sit my account. Real life is hitting me real hard right now and I can't devote the time I should to my game. Please message me if you're willing to do me this huge favor and I'll give you the details.

Does anyone remember this thread? That was a fun thread. Who started that one anyway?

just finished playing my First game and it ended in a 2v2 draw Me (as Austria) and Italy in a stalemate against, France and Germany. I must admit this game is a hell of a lot more fun then I had first thought it would be, interacting with people and forming alliances and plans makes for a very interesting game!

I hope to be a very active member of the community for a long time to come, and thank you to the people who I played with for making it an interesting game

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Hardly used, great opportunities to expand. One owner only, friendly neighbors! Act now!

Hey guys, I am proposing the 13th this month...I wanted to share it with the community and was wondering if you could recommend a good way to upload a video in order to share it with you. :) and if you're curious as to how...well...just wait for a couple weeks :D

LHC news to come out Thurs., Jul 5th