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I am going to go ahead and move this to the politics forum just because of the direction it's gone in.

I suppose it's not wrong though.

"vented his frustrations in a foolish attack on the site's leadership" is a curious way to say 'threatened to DDoS us' lol

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Diplomacy Variant Club discord is excellent for this kind of thing.

So to be clear, you're saying that if a decision angers racists then it's wrong for that decision to be made? Your point here appears to be that Disney knew it would be controversial, therefore it was done for publicity, therefore it shouldn't have been done. But it's only controversial in the first...

NWG cannot convoy Yor-Nwy by itself; it is not adjacent to Yor. North Sea needs to enter the convoy order.

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Also very important to note - the bot played under Sum of Squares scoring in the games in this tournament, so having a power advantage over all other players in the region had a very distinct advantage. Any strategy in which you sacrifice relationships with all players in your region for an early po...

So I guess conclusion - taking Scandinavia is very much worth it, but doing it in the exact way the bot does in Gunboat is probably not going to work in high level FP.

Short answer - I'm not sure. Long answer - I gained an appreciation for just how strong a secure Scandinavian position is from these games, and that definitely still holds in Full Press. It basically has all the advantages that the UK homeland has, but it's much much more difficult to backdoor - all...

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I was Expert 3. Interestingly, looking at the games from the outside, Diplodocus-Low seemed stronger to me! I think that was because when you're not actually playing against it, it playing in a very human-like way seems less important (since that's only really relevant if you're trying to spot and c...

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