With the season (mostly) starting tomorrow and Opening Day taking off in proper on Monday (Cesar Chavez Day, so hooray for having that day off, ah the perks of living in awesomely-Latino LA County!) it's time for that 162 game marathon once again! Will the Dodgers and their big budget win it all? Will the Red Sox repeat? Will my Mets possibly avoid completely and total embarrassment? ...Well, aside from that last question--pick the 5 playoff spots in each league, and the WS winner!

So a while back we played a gunboat game with live chat on Google+. I've got some time on Friday, anyone interested? First call to original players, Abge? PE? Celticfox?

Been looking at variants lately. Are there any you particularly like, or dislike? Why play them vs. standard dip?

The 2016 Republican front-runner dared to refer to the Israeli provinces of Judea and Samaria as the "Occupied Territories" in public. Was his private apology to Kingmaker Sheldon Adelson enough penance? Or does this serious offense against all that is decent call for greater contrition?
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/christie-promptly-apologizes.html

This thread is for the true, hard hitting questions that the world must have answers to.

Those of you who write are probably brimming with ideas like me. How do you choose what to write and what to keep as an idea? What is book-worthy and what is merely an article? What should remain in the confines of your mind?

As above, below.

Please join me in thanking President Eden and Damian for volunteering to join the moderator team. They are both on a 2 week trial, and if everything goes well, they will be our next two moderators.

CDs & those advantaged don't Cancel - Fuck This & FU !

if you attack a MAO territory from south coast of Spain, can the fleet you attack move into or retreat into north coast?

gameID=139014

PM me for the password. Please prepare to explain resigns, etc.

www.backstabbr.com

Has anyone checked it out? Apparently, it used to be confusingly named playdiplomacyonline.com (not the same as playdiplomacy.com).

A highbrow Webdip thread for a more civilised age.

you are England and have an army in London and Belgium
France has a Fleet in the English Channel and an army in Picardy.
If France convoys London - Picardy and you support this move with Belgium, does this dislodge the French army?

Taken as an extension of "The Special Relationship" the US and UK enjoy (which UK pundits sneer at and US politicians do their best to screw up, but I digress) and just taking the UK, US, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (we'll leave South Africa and other such areas out of this, unless someone wants to argue otherwise?)...are those nations a special family of political and cultural exchange...or are we none too special after all?

I'm sorry, I have a real issue with this. Why do we need 24 hours of coverage over what the news networks don't know, accompanied by random "experts" adding theories that could potentially explain the things they don't know? Does that bullshit get the ratings or something?

Anyone interested in playing some chess?

Sorry if there already has been such a topic. http://web.inter.nl.net/users/L.B.Kruijswijk/#6.F.14
I understand that we play by the rules, that the support is not cut and F English Channel is dislodged.

http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-claims-100-000-russian-troops-near-border-151112283.html
Yeah...Putin's *weak* says Obama.
"Russian troops are not in Crimea only, they are along all Ukrainian borders. They're in the south, they're in the east and in the north" Don't' worry...cold war's over...Obama's got 'yer back against the weak bastard....

I'm new at this game to which many of you probably were. Can someone explain this map to me? Where are my armies and fleet? FYI I'm Austro Hungary. Also, is there some essential information that I should know?

http://webdiplomacy.net/map.php?gameID=138019&turn=4&mapType=large

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/autism-rate-1-in-68_n_5041858.html

Yeeeeahhhhh....government comes closer to declaring everyone a retard. Little bit shy? Yeah...you're a retard too. And then we'll take your guns...

Sign up below! Each person must solely communicate using the language of their country: (English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Magyar, русский, Türk) To make Austria/Germany fairer the Austrian player must use Hungarian (magyar). Full press or public press?

Hey, I found this great site called www.backstabbr.com

The "save" and "ready" buttons are JUST the right distance apart, man, it's so cool.

I've been re-ripping a lot of my CDs to 320kbps MP3 high quality recently.

Looking for a Turkey...hehehehe

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=136572

I have found Backstabbr - a new website which allows diplomacy to be played online, very much like this one. The functions are a bit more clunky - this website runs smoothly. However, there are three main features which could be brought in. One is that build and retreat phases take less time - there is no option here. The second is a sandbox mode where you can experiment with different moves. Finally, it allows you to have a preferred country - an addition which we don't have here

Indiana just withdrew from the education program, and though the proposed program isn't much better, it's a start. Here's just one example why: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/common-core-parent-facebook-post-indiana-school-181841158.html

Can we just get rid of it before teachers get replaced by mechanical robots in their classrooms for "cost-cutting purposes"?

Passwords will be: password

gameID=138864
Fall of the American Empire. No in game messaging. Bet of 15. Winner takes all so not much to lose.

Old thread locked, here's a new one