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Tenacious Grip (155 D)
11 Jun 13 UTC
Where has the Mediterranean Gone?
If anyone is up for some good ol' medium - stakes med games Hit Me UP
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
09 Jun 13 UTC
gameID=120624 was canceled due to site violations
This live gunboat game was canceled since two people who knew each other played in the same game and they communicated outside of the site, which gave them an unfair advantage. They did not know the rules and now they have been warned. Any further infraction on their part will result in a ban.
Please do not try to determine who they were as this was swiftly dealt with.
Thank you for understanding.
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Draugnar (0 DX)
11 Jun 13 UTC
Defiance is an awesome game too!
So after the attack last night on my laptop, I decided to scrub it and start from scratch (new Sony Vaios have their OS on some firmware) so I completely formatted it and reinstalled using the VAIO key. I thought I'd give Defiance another tyr (an earlier attempt never ran) so I installed it and it ran great! Awesome game play and very immersive graphics. Not a fan of the odd keyboard and mouse, but I will probably remap those to match WoW/STO/other MMOs.
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Draugnar (0 DX)
10 Jun 13 UTC
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krellin (80 DX)
10 Jun 13 UTC
Call Me a Douchebag
Yes, it's time put together 7 fearless foes for a no-holds barred, low-point, non-anon game. Friends and foes welcome. Let's duke it out.

Submit your name and a fantastic bit of verbal abuse for consideration.
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Blackbeard1680 (0 DX)
11 Jun 13 UTC
Fast game!
Hello everybody, I would like to have a live classic match and nobody seems to see it, so I will post it here...
gameID=120804
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Draugnar (0 DX)
09 Jun 13 UTC
Fucking asswipe mod abuse!
I wasn't the next one to post and was trying to get people to stop and yet *I* got docked 20 fucking points! Fucking mods abuaing their fucking power again!!!!!!
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2ndWhiteLine (2601 D(B))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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So a funny thing happened on the way to work today...
I blacked out for a few minutes and when I came to it turned out I had just gotten engaged. Weird.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
04 Jun 13 UTC
New game
gameID=120097
For people who are in the top 250 in this list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ar7_3gsXAPwtdDVwZEloT3QycWRJc2FvYklrc0Y1X3c&output=html
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erist (228 D(B))
10 Jun 13 UTC
Is it cheating to refuse to draw/cancel?
When your opponents CDs have created a unfair advantage for you?
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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
SRGB GAME
To rekindle the lusthog squad, looking for 6 players who are willing to commit NOT voting draw until a stalemate line is reached and formed (read: no movements).
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Gamma (570 D)
10 Jun 13 UTC
World game
Just a new world game that needs more players.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=120626
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HumanWave (337 D)
10 Jun 13 UTC
Question about metagaming: the continuing discussion…
;)
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Jamiet99uk (808 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
"Coalition" voting in the Modern Diplomacy II variant
Has anyone encountered this? Using the "draw" voting button early on in a Modern Diplomacy II game to indicate your interest in forming a coalition to dominate the board? Seems dodgy to me. Not in the spirit of the rules. Thoughts, anyone?
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
09 Jun 13 UTC
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So a funny thing happened on the way to work yesterday...
My significant e-partner (online for the slowpokes) blacked out today, and I took advantage of him. When he came to and I came as well, we had gotten engage. Weird.
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MajorMitchell (1874 D)
08 Jun 13 UTC
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Don't let Draugnar join
"Don't let Draugnar join" is a new game I just created
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krellin (80 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Sea Monsters
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/rov-captures-first-ever-footage-of-oarfish-in-the-wild/
Another example of idiotic reporting. First Ever footage of Deep Sea creature...presumed responsible for spawning myths of sea monsters among ancient mariners.

Can you identify the flaw in the moronic author's comments?
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bzip2 (100 D)
06 Jun 13 UTC
What do you think are the books that everyone should read?
Hello everyone. I am trying to make a summer reading list and was wondering what the webDiplomacy community's favorite books are. Maybe I will get some ideas!
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Well, Arthur Miller's a great playwright...he and Tennessee Williams are the two great titans of American theatre...

Ginsberg...well, "Howl" is a classic, but I'm just not a fan of a lot of the authors in that era...

I'll take Eliot over Ginsberg any day in terms of long, symbolic free-verse poems.

Plus we were doing books, not poems (I included epic poems because, well, they're book-length easily.)

If we were doing all authors period, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson and Lord Byron would kick the door in and boot Charlotte Bronte right in the ass and off the list.

(Really, why couldn't Emily or Anne have been the ones to live longer? Not nice to wish death to anyone, really, but I mean, if I got to choose which order the Brontes died in, I'd probably flip the order--let Emily live the longest, between her poetry and a novel far more interesting than "Jane Eyre," Anne would stay in the middle, and Charlotte would go first...she feels so one-note in terms of just writing romances over and over, whereas at least Emily was more versatile and had some elements of the Gothic in her work.)
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Aaaaaand never mind, it seems we're going in a different, far more spanky direction with this thread...

(Really, though, that's an appalling direction, gentlemen...to pick Audrey Hepburn atop the list...! An awful evil sexist list anyway that would raise ire if we weren't a bunch of white guys sitting around laptops and there were actual female players on site besides the one or two we've met...but AT LEAST do it right if you're gonna be awful and evil and sexist, COME ON, Audrey Hepburn? Pfff...)
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@ Major

1 Audrey Hepburn
2 Audrey Hepburn
3 Mila Jovovich
4 Aqua Marina - everyone loves a puppet :)
5 Kylie Minogue - case in point - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL1ND1U4Ud8 - would all the men in the audience stand up? No? :)
6 Olga Kurylenko
7 Alison Goldfrapp - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzfaJRDfveo - she spanks herself :D
8 Juile Christie... rather than Susannah York
9 Daphné Groeneveld - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAKwpdgTZI - possibilly much, much higher in the rankings, number one?! The new Bardot?
10 My ex-girlfriend - https://vimeo.com/37274268
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Ok, so Alison may not spank herself, but she scratches her butt a lot :0
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@ Obi - why you assume I'm a guy???
bzip2 (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Thank you very much for all of the help everyone! You have all given me excellent works to choose from as I make myself more educated this summer. Thank you for your time and effort.
bzip2 (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Just a question, do most of you guys live in Europe? Because almost all of the responses came when I was sleeping (I am from the USA).
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Please, I'll excuse you the once Bzip,
I am an Australian
( Kylie Minogue & Diane Cilento should have given you a clue)
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Well I made that assumption Jasbrum,
whatever your gender you can certainly admire a spankable lass, or chap,
like all of us you are free to choose which team you wish to bat for, if I can use a cricketing simile, ( I have two sisters and they bat for different teams )

please understand that the spanking I'd give a chap is an entirely different spanking to that which I'd give Ms Audrey Hepburn, or any other lass
bzip2 (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Revised question: Which country/nation-state/small planetoid are you guys (and girls) from?
iMurk789 (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
I would highly recommend Cormac McCarthy.
Draugnar (0 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@MjrMitch -

If we are adding animated/puppet spnakables...

Raven from Teen Titans (and even better in her original DC Comics incarnations)
Teen Titans TV Cartoon: http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss17/mikey_boy76/Mikey%20Boy%20II/Ravenlg.jpg
DC Comics: http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/144443/3043674-raven-dc-comics.jpg

Catwoman *and* Batgirl from Batman: The Animated Series.
brainbomb (290 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
How did Game of Thrones not make the list?
Draugnar (0 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@obi - Audrey Hepburn in her spankable prime!
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Hepburn,%20Audrey/Annex/Annex%20-%20Hepburn,%20Audrey%20(Breakfast%20at%20Tiffany's)_14.jpg

And let's not forget Diana Rigg in her Avengers and OHMSS days.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
07 Jun 13 UTC
The Song of Ice and Fire series? (of which Game of Thrones is the first book?) no...
owldo (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Yeeeeaaaaahhhh.......

O.o

Eh, what the hell, it's the WebDip forum, what could possibly go wrong (he said as things oh-so-slowly teetered towards the edge of disaster)...

So I'll ask--what's with the "spanking" thing?

I mean, I could get kissing or hugging or something like that...but I don't quite process how hitting someone causes arousal...obviously it must, since this is, well, a thing as old as time...that being said, my faulty robot brain simply doesn't compute...it's not as if you're, erm, going "once more unto the breach," shall we say, and all it really is is hitting a person in a certain context...

But then even if the context is sexual, why would that translate to actually hitting spanking someone a positive thing--isn't that supposed to be a negative thing? Unless that's the point and it's subverting or inverting that, or boys spanked by their mothers secretly like it while Freud jumps up and down in the background shouting "Aha, I knew eet!"...or...seriously, what the hell??? How is this a thing???

Yeah...OK, that being possibly the oddest thing I've ever written here...or anywhere...I think I'm done, I'm just gonna take my Jewish guilt and nerdiness and go read a book some long-dead white person wrote some old-living white person said was a good book to read because a now-dead-once-living-and-old white person once told THEM they should read it...

I close with that most eloquent of Shakespeare quotes, from Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1

W.T.F.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
07 Jun 13 UTC
Obi, just for you, this should answer all your spanking related questions: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spanking
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@ Obiwanbenkenobiwan

sexual drives / desires are primal but also complex and often illogical
don't try to intellectualize this stuff
I can vividly recall some of my sexual encounters, the inexplicable standout performances by partners, but make cannot make rational sense of them
as an example the verbal noises ( those gasps & moans etc) as a partner had a series of clitoral orgasms to then build towards and have a shattering full vaginal/g spot orgasm
Frued was a cluey chap, but there's a lot about sex that had him confused.

it's something of a relief to realise that age gelds men and fondly look back on all that madness of my younger days end enjoy these happy days of relative serenity
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@ Obi - I'm with major on this, the girls love a good spanking :)

+1 Draugnar - I'd spank Diana Rigg even in her GoT incarnation!
krellin (80 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
"but I don't quite process how hitting someone causes arousal."

Spanking is not "hitting"...if you don't get that, there is no point in discussing. Further, there is a fine line between pain and pleasure when it comes to the science of the brain and neuro-chemistry, and what the brain releases when experiencing either.

Spanking/Pain (within the recipients level of tolerance) layers with the pleasure to heighten the sense of feeling/pleasure.

There are also people the get off emotionally/intellectually/whatever by the feeling of being dominated. This is not perverted/deviant/etc -- it is just what people enjoy for whatever reason.
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
+1 MajorMitchell - this one's for the Aussies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCGF0_1Vvc
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@ Krellin - according to DSM-5 etc, I think it is classed as perverted but it can't be deviant coz they all like it...
krellin (80 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
I don't know what DSM-5 is...but you do with your partner in your bedroom is between you and your partner. Who the fuck is anybody else to deem it "perverted" or whatever.

Frankly, a lot of people think two guys plowing each other's ass is perverted and "wrong"...because they don't understand the drive...but dare say that in public and you will be villified, lose your job, etc.

Bottom line, sexuality was never meant to be for public consumption, and I thought we were supposed to be at a place in our society where we stopped judging and labeling the activities between two consenting adults.

krellin (80 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Interesting read about a woman learning to cope (and ignore public judgement) of her desires/wants/etc.: "No Apologies: A Sexual Awakening" by Lizbeth Dusseau
krellin (80 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
Oh...DSM-5 or whatever -- vaguely familiar with the concept. Yes,this is the same sort of tome that in the past **would** have labelled homosexuality/bi-sexuality/LGBT bahavior as deviant/perverted/etc. So, if you want to base your judgements of people on the personal/politically-motivated consensus of something like this - which is less a reflection of what is right and wrong in a person's private life, and more just a reflection of popular cultural and society-at-large's (mis)understanding of human behavior, feel free.
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@ Krellin - no you misunderstand me, I hate DSM already :)
I believe in anything goes between two, or more, consenting adults... :D
Jasbrum (100 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, American Psychiatric Society
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
07 Jun 13 UTC
This is the funniest thread derailing this year. +50
krellin (80 DX)
07 Jun 13 UTC
@jas -- so we are on the same page.

jmo - very pleased to please...<wink wink...> if you know what I mean, sexy...

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SpeakerToAliens (147 D(S))
09 Jun 13 UTC
R.I.P. Iain M Banks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047

I really liked his Culture stories. "Excession" was particulary fine.
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cpman (0 DX)
09 Jun 13 UTC
Anyone Up for a VERY LONG Game?
I have a VERY LONG game for any and all who will only be able to check up sporadically next week (like me).
Each phase is 5 days long, and it starts on Monday. The gameID=120582 Enjoy!
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MadMarx (36299 D(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
couch to marathon
I've got the couch part down, and only 20 weeks to make the transition: http://www.columbiagorgemarathon.com/
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
07 Jun 13 UTC
PRISM
Have people been following this? Is it to be expected? Is the media just creating a stir or is this some nefarious government plot?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/7/4406416/president-obama-on-nsa-spying-congress-has-known-about-it-and
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nnfolz (100 D)
09 Jun 13 UTC
Question about metagaming
Is it meta-gaming when a player admits that his alliance with 3 other players wont break because they are real life friends and all 4 of them are literally sitting on the same room?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Jun 13 UTC
Good Takeover Position
Good game, I'm not involved in it but it looks like it has potential...

gameID=119798
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jimgov (219 D(B))
09 Jun 13 UTC
So how did you read the press, Trip?
I'm just wondering how you were able to read the press in a game that does not have public press. Obviously, my comment hit home that you were friends with one of the players involved.
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jun 13 UTC
Turkey
Talk about unrest in Istanbul, Ankara, others.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/fe6cfa9a6d45b0dd43fe513236fe94f5/tumblr_mnqsjpZnHx1qm2tv9o1_1280.jpg
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
06 Jun 13 UTC
Movie quotes
Post the best here, even though it's been done.
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nnfolz (100 D)
08 Jun 13 UTC
Hawaii glitch?
I've occupied Hawaii for 2 autumn phases and one spring phase and it hasn't changed to my color. I got credit for taking the SC so I was able to build just fine, but no color change.
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krellin (80 DX)
06 Jun 13 UTC
Alt Names....
If you could....if you were so devious and underhanded and inclined to do so...

What would you Alternate Name be???
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Jun 13 UTC
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#FuckDaPoPo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/04/the-blackwhite-marijuana-arrest-gap-in-nine-charts/

Keeping in mind that if you're black, they'll probably beat the living shit out of you. Post-racial America ftw!
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