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Jamiet99uk (808 D)
29 Jun 13 UTC
Pause error?
Two of my games just spontaneously went into pause without any of the players voting "pause". Is this happening to anyone else? Is there a bug?
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
27 Jun 13 UTC
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Why is Obama loving the Gaylords.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23076294

Why is he doing it? Maybe he is a batty-boy himself !!
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2ndWhiteLine (2606 D(B))
16 Apr 13 UTC
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MAD MARX GUNBOAT CHALLENGE
MadMarx is, without argument, the best player on this site. He claims to be bored, though, with his regular rotation of classic Diplomacy games. So why not try something new? I challenge you, MM, to a single game of gunboat with some of the top gunboaters on this site. You can have final approval over pot size, phase length, and the other players in the game. What do you say?
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
26 Jun 13 UTC
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DOMA struck down
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-doma-140330141.html
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rokakoma (19138 D)
28 Jun 13 UTC
Gord & Uptibrew - EoG
I just kicked Barnett's, Lando's and Fairfax's ass :D :D

gameID=119347
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
24 Jun 13 UTC
China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador--Snowden's Idea of a "Free State?"
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/snowden-washington-reaction-182004272.html "The freedom trail is not exactly China-Russia-Cuba-Venezuela" I have to agree...explain to me again how this guy's a symbol for freedom again (and again, do so WITHOUT saying "Well, the NSA was wrong--" YES. YES IT WAS. That does NOT mean this guy's good...really? Why pick those states, if he couldn't stand what the NSA was doing...they're not exactly Paradises of Government Transparency either...)
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goldfinger0303 (3157 DMod)
28 Jun 13 UTC
The Beginning of the End for Affirmative Action?
An interesting case came up in my research of the DOMA ruling that lays the groundwork for the nullification of all forms of racial preferences.

http://tinyurl.com/pzckk98
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matingara (100 D)
28 Jun 13 UTC
I want to be a league Substitute Please
Hi! I have been here at WebDiplomacy since the start of the year. Have played a lot of fun games and have been doing OK. Someone suggested that league games were a lot more strategic and the "done thing" was to sign up via the forums. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Joel.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
27 Jun 13 UTC
Share your dream with me!
What is your dream in life? Which cloud do you follow?
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
28 Jun 13 UTC
Kids teased in schools
So in Holland, as in all other countries, there are kids teased in schools. The government has gone through great lengths to "protect them", a dangerous development if you ask me.
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nudge (284 D)
28 Jun 13 UTC
Rulers of Modern Diplomacy II
continuing my series, who are you playing, here are the rulers of modern diplomacy as at March 1, 1994
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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
28 Jun 13 UTC
ALBERTA
Just out of curiousity, did the flooding register on American media?
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
28 Jun 13 UTC
Urgent Sitter or Replacement Needed
A member can't get onto the site because of flooding in his area. There is a world game (36 hour phases), and 2 Modern Varients (24 hour phases). Points to take over these positions will be provided. Reply or email [email protected] if interested
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Mapu (362 D)
26 Jun 13 UTC
Aaron Hernandez = so sad
A star pro athlete. Now charged with 1st degree murder. How hard is it to sit on your millions, enjoy your fiancee, baby, and career, and not do anything stupid?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
27 Jun 13 UTC
NBA Draft
Anthony Bennett (who?) goes #1... and as Bonnie Tyler once said... WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD MEN GONE??!!!
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Crazy Anglican (1067 D)
27 Jun 13 UTC
The Summer Road Trip
So how do you deal with "Are we there yet?"
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
27 Jun 13 UTC
Ecuador
Seriously, the United States has gotten the finger from two tiny, hardly important nations in our typical affairs in the past week... this is awesome. All over one guy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/27/us-usa-security-ecuador-idUSBRE95Q0L820130627
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mlbone (112 D)
27 Jun 13 UTC
interest in a 17 player world gunboat tourney?
I was thinking anywhere from 5-8 games depending on the interest. 5 pts. 24 hour turns.

If interested, please pm me, and I can set up a tournament. This seems to be the only way to get rid of metas....
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LeonTrotsky (1188 D)
27 Jun 13 UTC
Need a new France! The game has not started yet
Hi, the France in this game got banned before he first move even went, and because France is such an important country, would someone please take over? The game is ruined without him especially at the beginning

gameID=121797
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redpanda (100 D)
27 Jun 13 UTC
What does "Canecel" mean?
I am not an native speaker of English.
Could you tell me what "Cancel" mean?
What difference is there between "Draw" and "Cancel" ?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
25 Jun 13 UTC
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A Question For My Not-So-Christian Chums
Are you tired of religion threads too?
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MeepMeep (100 D)
08 Jun 13 UTC
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I have two questions to ask.
1. If I don't like a player and don't want to pause the game per that person's request, can the Mod pauses the game for that person?

2. If a person does not want to work and I don't want to give the person's my spare changes, can the government tax me then give the other person some welfare?
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philcore (317 D(S))
08 Jun 13 UTC
Immortal looking to stalk you, I've just wondered for a while what country you're from. There are a lot of people here for whom English isn't their first language, most have no problem revealing what their first language is. Timer, for instance. You can probably tell that he is very new to the English language, being born in Scotland. I'm not really sure what the hell they speak there, but its not English!

Judging by your sentence phrasing, my guess is Russia, or some eastern European country. Can you at least tell me if I'm right about that?

Also, what kind of martial arts have you studied. Your description of punching "through" sounds very much like wing chung, or even the newer spin off jeet kun do
philcore (317 D(S))
08 Jun 13 UTC
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"immortal" ? Wtf with my Autocorrect?

That should have been "i'm not looking to stalk you"
MeepMeep (100 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
My foster parents taught me a few incredible fundamentals which held true for so long. One was: To give and to receive, never take. Don't think about taking what is yours, only think about keeping what is yours.

I bow down to my foster parents' incredible honorable and intellectual power. And they were simple ordinary folks. There are incredible people hiding in the society.

About Martial Arts, when I was the teen, I took short cuts and study special force's Martial Arts such as destroying opponents eye sight, knee caps and groins. Basically if the opponents cannot see you, are immobilized, or stunned, you get advantage.

Later on, I was formally train in Karate so that I could be nicer to my opponents, to fight a more controlled fight. I learned a saying, "Don't exert all the effort to destroy your opponents because tomorrow, he might become your ally."

After I got Karate down, I adapted a few moves from Wing Chin for close combat skirmish, from Muy Thai for close combat brute power. I really like the way the Muy Thai use the leg shins, the strongest bones in human body to strike. Of course, my basis is always still with the snapping and chopping power of Karate.

Bruce Lee's system of Jeet Kun Do was to express oneself. My personal system is to 50% at expressing myself and 50% at adapting to my opponent's weakness. I personally don't believe in high kicks and always keep my kicks below the waist, but for some short opponents, I would not mind to risk a high kick to destroy his side of the skull.

If you punch fast enough, you transfer all the kinetic energy into a huge concussion which is easily break apart the fragile small blood veins inside your soft organs. Your opponent won't know it, but weeks later, the internal bleeding will kill the guy.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Or you could do what I do and carry a switchblade. Then you can watch the internal bleeding up close.

Seriously MeepMeep, are you posing as a character from a Jackie Chan movie or something?
MeepMeep (100 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
I do keep up with the Metaphysics stuff as one of my few hobbies. So, let me ask a few intelligence questions to show you how much I understand to ask question:

Recently the scientists discovered a sub-particle which is believed to give mass, the Higgs-Boson particle. So, we know so far a nuclear fission or fusion generate a lot of energy because of the loss of mass. Does it means those Higgs-Boson particles were converted into energy during such nuclear reaction.

My skeptic view of the Higgs-Boson particle is that everytime you have particles as a representation of mass-energy, suddenly your calculation get quantized. I have yet found any article shown a recalculation of nuclear energy reaction to be consistent with the Higgs-Boson theory.

I am very skeptical about the Higgs field. What kind of a field where when you move in space, you don't feel any mass, but you only feel the mass when you accelerate. I know in the magnetic field, when you move the wire, you get current. You don't need to accelerate. That's a field.
MeepMeep (100 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
You guys watch too many movies or mixed martial arts shows. Do you know they are all fake. In real fights, the destructive power of offense is far exceeding the defensive power. Most fight last no more than 10 strikes in blow exchange. I only need to land 2-3 strikes to destroy just about any body.

The real boxing is when Mike Tyson showed a thunder punch and took out an opponent under one minutes even he had the glove on. Without the glove, such punch would kill anybody. Some person paid more than 2,000 bucks for a front seat and the fight lasted under a minute. lol what a waste of money.

But we all know, movies and shows were made for entertainments. My fights were simple and direct. For example, I invented a simple system, when kid rushed against each other and threw rocks, my side would threw rocks at distance but as we closed in, we held the rocks in the hands to smash on the enemies. We took some thrown rocks, but the rocks in hands at close range was superior. It's just common sense.

bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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I would mute him but this is just funny....
philcore (317 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Muay Thai is a great system. Close quarters, knees and elbows, mid range fists and shine, long range feet. Tough to beet as a stand up style.

Thanks for sharing your martial arts experience. You sound very skilled and knowledgeable. Now about the general region of the world you are from ... Am I right about eastern Europe?
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Eastern Europe? There's no way he's from Eastern Europe. He's obviously from Western Europe.
philcore (317 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Or maybe south east Asia? Vietnam, Laos? But not western Europe. Germans, French, dutch, they all speak English more fluently.

@meep, not disrespecting your English, its a hell of a lot better than I would do in German, which is the only other language I've even studied.
MeepMeep (100 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
@bo_sox48 I am going to lol at your switch blade. When I was 13, as part of gaining supremacy over my rivals I spent lots of time studying human anatomy figuring out way to fight. Most of kids were not allowed to carry weapons around so we have to used what could grab or hide. A switch blade is just too obvious. And it is an inferior weapon.

I learned from reading books, a person can lose 20% of the blood and still can function normally. At 40% of blood loss, the person will be weaken and get a headache. At 60% blood loss, a person will faint. At 80% blood loss, the person will die.

So, perhaps you can get a cut at me, and I would lose some blood. But if I land a strike to cause you to be stunned, from then on, I will systematically destroy you in several more strikes. Then I bind up my wound and stop the bleeding.

You need a gun to deal with an opponent like me. Now, I have never pushed far but I have the potential to be as fast as the Israeli special forces. They were not as fast as the bullets but they are faster than the fingers which pull the triggers. They can disarmed your gun if you are close enough. All of this is based on the latency between your eyes to your brain, then from your brain to your fingers. I was trained and fought serious battles so my brain was rewired for fighting. Thus I moved and reacted far faster than the other kids who were chicken doo-doo hunkering down to be beaten.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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I have a .40 Glock 27 Gen4 at home. I also have a British longsword from the Crimean War that I bought in Germany. Would that work?
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
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"I only need to land 2-3 strikes to destroy just about any body." Try going into a bar with a bunch of motorcycles parked outside and yell this as you walk in. It's the fastest way for me to prove you wrong.

In an actual fight nobody is going to stand still and let you throw a punch with the proper transfer of power that you would need to cause internal bleeding. Martial arts is about respect, it's not supposed to be about boasting and the majority of all martial arts teach and encourage ways of fighting that will leave an opponent disabled, instead of mortally wounded. Fighting with the intent to kill someone is premeditation and should be as a last resort only, if you can't get away from the situation, both morally and legally.

Enjoy prison if you do ever end up killing someone that takes a swing at you over something trivial. Though I suspect you're simply trolling so this shouldn't be a problem you encounter.

P.S. The femur and skull are the strongest bones in the human body, where as the shin bone (tibia) is actually a decent target and is rather painful when hit with force.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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I've broken my femur and cracked my skull. I'm special.
philcore (317 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Meep, come on, just a region of the world ... Eastern Europe, southeast Asia, south America, give me something. I've been wondering since you joined the site. I'm a bit of an accent buff. Here I only have sentence structure and word choice to infer an accent. I've always been respectful to you while others mock you. Give me this one bit of information.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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I'm starting to think he's from Southeast Europe, maybe in the Balkans or in the Mediterranean. Maybe North Africa? Every little bit more suggests something in that region.
gavrilop (357 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
"The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong." - Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins
MeepMeep (100 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
jmo1121, you misrepresent me. I have never gone into a bar. I was raised by a high-class foster family. Bars are just something none of us would ever even think about. And clearly going to a bar yelling statement is an aggression act. I am a lot more subtle than that.

When I was a kid, whenever I wanted to test out a new fighting system, all I had to to was to walk around peacefully in a new street and acted timid/scared. Other kids viewed me as a weakling and wanted to attack me for fun. When that happened, I gave myself all moral just to destroy those kids with my new system of fighting. Years later I felt bad about this as I realized my act was an entrapment, I baited the other kids to attack me. It's called 'passive aggression'. But then at the end, I did good. Those kids who were put through my lessons will never fight again. I made them into better human beings. I guess the end results would justify all mean, does it?

I learned philosophy since age 11, and I realized 'rights or wrongs are subjectively defined by some humans. And those humans could be right or wrong too. So, at the end, there is no really right or wrong.' Things just happens in the universe and the humans tend to interpret them right or wrong since the millenium.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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You can't "learned" since age 11. You just can't. Sorry.
philcore (317 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Keep. Where are you from? Your philosophical insights now lead me to believe it's China or Japan, they are very noble people and in my mind I see you as one of them.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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China or Japan? I gotta hand it to you Phil, you're getting colder each time. You were really close in the beginning.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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By the way, Meep, I'm pretty sure I could take you with my switch. Just sayin...
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
"But then at the end, I did good. Those kids who were put through my lessons will never fight again. I made them into better human beings. I guess the end results would justify all mean, does it?"

Bullcrap, kids who bully others are commonly abused and beaten at home and beat up others to gain a sense of power over others because that's what they know. Having someone else beat them up would be more likely to make them pick weaker targets to brutalize. The ends justify the means is something people say when they need a way to justify their actions and can't come up with a valid reason.
philcore (317 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Language jmo, language ... bullcrap is a little harsh!
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Honestly, did the Kings just score to tie it up with 9 seconds to go... god fucking dammiittttt..........
largeham (149 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
"When I was 13, as part of gaining supremacy over my rivals"

Good gods...
SacredDigits (102 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
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We were high class. We'd never go to a bar. We only did civilized things, like participate in largescale street fights.
seth24c (5659 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
Wow... This is awesome.
seth24c (5659 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
And hilarious.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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Lol SD... +1

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jcbryan97 (134 D)
19 May 13 UTC
New Gunboat Series
Not a tournament and no special rules. 36hr phases to avoid NMRs, but ready-up ASAP. 5 pt WTA games. I'll join as many as my points will allow. Last series was fun and hopefully this will be too. Anyone interested?
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SYnapse (0 DX)
26 Jun 13 UTC
Kerbal Space Program
Check out this amazing indie space simulator.
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smoky (771 D)
27 Jun 13 UTC
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Premade!
classic live gb-wta in this game England and Germany are playing as premade and talk with each other.
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Laptop Recommendations
I want to buy a new notebook and I think a lot of people here are pretty knowledgeable about this stuff.
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
26 Jun 13 UTC
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Porn
Have fun with this one.

http://nesn.com/2013/06/boston-pornography-viewership-skyrocketed-immediately-after-bruins-stanley-cup-loss-photo/
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Crazy Anglican (1067 D)
24 Jun 13 UTC
I AM A WEBDIPPER
join my tribe.
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kaner406 (356 D)
26 Jun 13 UTC
Yay!
Go Rudd!!!!
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Jack_Klein (897 D)
25 Jun 13 UTC
Blackhawks and the Stanley Cup
As a Chicagoan, I so rarely get to say this.
Chicago are the champions!
Amazing game.
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