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dirge (768 D(B))
28 Jul 13 UTC
new maps, new rule
I'm guessing there was probably already discussion about this that I didn't see, but I noticed on the two new maps new builds can go anywhere. In traditional rules you can only build on your start centers. I think the traditional rule provides a better balance in the game. Why was this changed on the new maps?
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loki008 (183 D)
27 Jul 13 UTC
Looking for feedback and Tips on first gunboat game
I just finished my first gunboat game (as Greece) and would welcome feedback on the good, bad and the ugly. Figure this is the best way to learn

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=123103
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
New classic game
Classic, Full-press, Winner-takes-all,
Password-protected, 24h phases, 475 point entry fee, anonymous.
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Al Swearengen (0 DX)
28 Jul 13 UTC
Decline in the playerbase
I've noticed less players available for live games than this time last year. I didn't worry during the September slump, as I attributed that to kids going back to school. But it appears to me that the number continues to slide.
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Wizard_Of_Yendor (0 DX)
27 Jul 13 UTC
No Crookedness in the Dealing
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=123756

40 point buy-in, 2-day phases, full press, anonymous players, and WTA. Join up here and I'll send you the password.
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The Czech (39715 D(S))
28 Jul 13 UTC
Mods, please check your email
Thanks for all you do.
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murraysheroes (526 D(B))
28 Jul 13 UTC
Looking for reliable players.
gameID=123770

Full press, anon, WTA, 3-day phases, 110 point buy-in. Reply in this thread for a password if you're interested. I have a handful of very reliable players listed in my profile, and I'm looking to find some more.
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
27 Jul 13 UTC
Processing Reset
I've added 10 hours to all games and reset the processing. If you experience any problems with your games please post here or email [email protected].
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philcore (317 D(S))
23 Jul 13 UTC
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George zimmerman pulls family of 4 from a rolled SUV
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2575217

Strange, the article makes no mention of the race of the occupants ... ? Surely this was a race motivated rescue, no?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
19 Jul 13 UTC
American Christians--Beware! THERE BE A WAR UPON THEE! (So Sayeth...Others)
A quick Wikipedia check puts the approximate number of Americans identifying as Christian at 70%; a Gallup poll in 2012 said 77%...let's say between 70-80%, with easily 85-90% of those in Congress Christian. States such as Texas STILL *REQUIRE* you to be Christian to run for governor. We support Intelligent Design more than any other Western nation, we argue against Evolution/Gay Rights/Atheism more than most Western nations...HOW is there a "War on Christianity," here, folks?
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Sbyvl36 (439 D)
27 Jul 13 UTC
Need Replacement
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smoky (771 D)
27 Jul 13 UTC
is there admin online ?
i want to talk with him becouse i see 2 player abusing!
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
21 Jul 13 UTC
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Gays parents better for kids?
m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/3388498
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krellin (80 DX)
25 Jul 13 UTC
Obama Bans Students from Speech
Free speech...er....Free *LISTENING* apparently is dead in Obama world
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354434/college-republicans-denied-admittance-obama-speech-nathan-harden
OK, I *maybe* get not admitting Republicans...er, no I don't, he's EVERYONE'S President, is he not..but excluding those with "Patriotic" garb as security threats. Nice move, Hussein Obama. The Brotherhoods is proud...
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
26 Jul 13 UTC
Police Have No Duty to Protect You
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/zero_for_hero_5Aw3bMHF7vSPG7f27c0jOO

"Because “no direct promises of protection were made to Mr. Lozito,” the police had “no special duty” to protect him." ... from a psychotic spree killer using a deadly weapon? ........... Anyone else see the irony here?
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Jul 13 UTC
Obama's giving a speech on the Zimmerman thing
is he fully conscious? Is this really happening?
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Draugnar (0 DX)
25 Jul 13 UTC
Should that be "if the ivory tower fits, hide inside it covering your ears and mumbling 'They're all wrong. They just are. Doesn't matter how many holes they poke in my argument, they are still wrong!' "
Thucydides (864 D(B))
26 Jul 13 UTC
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Still waiting on a response to the rest of those studies.

Cherry-picked?

First you ask me to do your research for you, then you criticize me for citing my sources.

You don't see me asking you to cite sources that you're not racist. I'm taking your word for it.

And yet you continue to characterize me as a racist, extremist, liberal lapdog. I don't appreciate it.
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
"I don't appreciate it...." Wahhhhh.....Well, I don't appreciate you indicting everyone as a racist simply for being white. So fuck off, Thucy. Man up.

And who asked you to do research? Your fucking rigged studies are rather meanignless. I pointed out a couple of instances where you IGNORED stats in YOUR study that didn't go along with your conclusions...you ignore that. You ignore EVERYTHING that disagrees with your predetermined conclusion, even when it's your evidence! Hos fucking moronic is that?

I'll tell you what it is...it is RACIST. You entire purpose in life, apparently, is to continue to find, identify, and call out racism. You then shout racism from the top of your ivory tower, tell people to be angry, and in so doing you FOMENT AND CREATE RACISM.

iF YOU ARE CREATING RACISM IN OTHERS, YOU ARE A FUCKING RACIST.

You TEACH people how and when to be offended, how and when to be angry EVEN WHEN NO ACTUALY EVIDENCE EXISTS to support your fucked up racist claims.

YOU THEREFORE ARE A RACIST.

You belittle blacks, and tell us over and over again how they can not succeed on their own merits UNLESS YOU, THE WHITE MAN, helps them. You are a fucking condescending RACIST prick.

But, because nobody has subjected you to a study, you can't admit it...

YOu are pathetic, Thucy. Before this conversation started days ago I had no respect for you for a variety of reason...but now? I find you an absolutely repugnant human being. Racist to the core.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
26 Jul 13 UTC
"And who asked you to do research?"

Draugnar.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
26 Jul 13 UTC
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How exactly, again, is it racist to call out racist behavior?
mendax (321 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
The "I'm not racist, you're racist" response rather reminds me of the type of argument commonly found on primary school playgrounds.
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
Thucy - You *FIND* racism where it doesn't exist. YOu promote racist feelings in others. You tell people they are racist when they are not in order to foster your PERSONAL feelings of racial superiority in which you will save the world from it's self.

You are the *consumate* racist. You are the worst kind of racist.

I'd much rather have a racist walking down the street with a lynching rope in his hand than be around the devious, race=-baiter like you who goes through life *vreatign* racist situations, provoking violence and hatred, looking down on every minority and women you encounter. Your are the absolute worst kind of racist...your the ones the smile in the face of your victims and cries on their shoulders.

Your truly repulse me.
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
mendax....you statement in and of itself was exactly the childish schoolyard statement you accuse of us doing. If you don't have anything to contribute because your intellect is too dull to keep up, just be quiet. You are making a jackass of yourself.
mendax (321 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
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Personally, I think it's pretty clear that you're the jackass of this situation. But I can let it slide for now - one day history will judge our relative positions.
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
mendax -- I'm the jackass? lol Yes, because I did the great jackassery move of pointing out multiple times to day your faulty logic and your bogus race-baiting examples as you attempt to continue to stir the pot of racial hatred where none should exist. Yes...*I* am the jackass, but I am getting in the way of the Noble White Liberal Male's racist agenda. I know you guys get really pissed off when people tell you that you are no better than the black man and you are not needed. I know that being told you are equal makes you really angry, because without feeling like you are needed to save the world, when you are told that you are equal to everyone, that you are not superior because of your race or gender, it suddenly makes you afraid that maybe I'm right...maybe you *aren't* better than the black man. And that makes you angry, because you have lived your entire life believing that you were better than the blacks, and that you were needed to make their lives better. I know...it hurts to have a lifelong belief questioned....especially when you start questioning it yourself.

But, like taking a bandaide off of a healing wound, it's best to just rip it off and get it over with.

So...repeat after me: I'm a White Male. I am *NOT* any better than any non-white person. I am a White Male, and I am not better than a woman of any race. I am a White Male, and everyone around me is equal to me, and can succeed in life without me. I am a White Male, and I"m a recovering Liberal Racist.

Just repeat that 10 times every morning. Work up a tear or two as you work out your guilt...tears are cleansing.
mendax (321 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
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No-one is saying that black folk, women, LGBTQ* people etc can't succeed in life. All anyone has ever said is that the current system makes it harder for them. As a white man, I know I am not better than anyone else on the basis of race, gender etc. I also know that I have a huge amount of privilege making life easier for me, as if I were playing the game of life on almost the lowest difficulty setting. Acknowledging this is important, and is hardly the great racism that you seem intent on portraying it as. I honestly don't know where you have got your ideas about me from - change will come from within, and whilst I remain an outsider to affected communities I don't even pretend that I can speak for them. All I can be is an ally, and to amplify their voices where I have the ability to do so. This is exactly what I do. I don't understand how that can be seen as a bad thing.
Jack_Klein (897 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
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Mendax: Seriously, the best way to deal with krellin is assume he's always drunk, and he's always trolling.

He's basically incapable of making a discussion that doesn't involve personal attacks, strawman arguments, and just generally flailing. He's really e-tough, you know?
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
26 Jul 13 UTC
"He's really e-tough you know"
Don't you just love webdip.
I was hoping by one Lucy would have converted the racists into non-Republican Americans but I appreciate real change takes time.
My advice if you think you're losing the argument USE CAPITALS, a sure fire winner.
I suggest Paris, Tokyo & Rome to start with, if they cut up rough try Cairo, Tripoli & Jeddah, they won't know what hit them.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
26 Jul 13 UTC
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I have yet to figure out krellin's logic when he says that refusing to ignore racism is itself racism.

Krellin, you say I find racism where it doesn't exist. But indeed, I am not making these things up myself. I'm taking cues from people who actually have these experiences. So if racism is being made up, it's being made up by droves of people, many of them people of color.

Are they all liars? Why would they lie?

Other than the modern context can you provide even one historical example of a no-longer-oppressed group faking continued oppression in order to gain advantage over former oppressors?

I'm wracking my brain - I've got nothing. Perhaps you can provide an example that will make your claims seem less staggeringly extraordinary?
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
Trayvom Martin. Zimmerman was not racially motivated and there is ZERO evidence to support this claim. Yet black leaders call for race riots.

I'm done Thucy. Enough said. Quit being such a racist.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
26 Jul 13 UTC
"Other than the modern context "

So you can't, then?
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
God you are an idiot.

Why would I want to provide anything BUT the latest and greatest example, fucktard. By demonstrating that RIGHT NOW, TODAY, the Liberal Race-War Machine is alive and well, creating racism and dividing this country, I am demonstrating the point I am making -- the your fucktard Liberals are *creating* the racial divide in this country using false information, and you are creating racism to:
1. Make your Noble White Liberal Male persona important, as only you can save the poor inferior black man from the racism you create
2. Keeping alive racism - which you only pretend you want to defeat - because it gives you a cause that makes you important. It is high-value political currency, and you Liberals are *experts* at the political economy of racism.

Fuck off, Thucy, you racist fucktard.
ghug (5068 D(B))
26 Jul 13 UTC
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First, I just think it's important to keep this quote in our memories forever so that we can always look back at krellin and laugh: "I'd much rather have a racist walking down the street with a lynching rope in his hand than be around the devious, race=-baiter like you." I think it demonstrates quite well what krellin's problems are even before pointing out the obvious mischaracterization of Thucy.

Second, why are you so vile? Can't you have a civilized discussion with people, or is this the only way for you to cope with the obvious problems people see in pretty much everything you do?

Third, you're completely avoiding his point. You're claiming that racism no longer exists, or that it's better to just ignore it. Thucy has decided to not give this up as a lost cause for some reason that is far beyond my comprehension and asked you quite simply to find historical precedent for your claims. Alone, the fact that you can't find some precedent doesn't refute your claims, but the fact that such precedent doesn't exist and you're still trying to avoid that by implying that it does while screaming a lot doesn't really do wonders for your argument.
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
ghug -- what is so difficult to understand? Two types of racist -- the Thucy racist who actively seeks to create racism, but he smiles at you whiel he does it, and he pats the poor little black kid on the head in sympathy as he look condescendingly down upon him. He's devious...he's dangerous.

The guy with a rope? He's obvious - he's easy to avoid. he's easy to catch and punish. Therefore, thoug flagrant and open, he is much less dangerous because people identify him quickly and easily and avoid him.

That's why SPIES try to blend in...it makes them more dangerous while they attack you from within. enemy soldiers in uniform are easy to spot and kill...therefore less dangerous than a spy.

It's pretty simple stuff, Mr. Ghug-the-Simpleton.

And ghug...for the billionth time, I have never said racism doesn't exist. How the hell could racism not exist as I point out wwhat a racist Thucy is, as he constantly seeks to create racism?

What I have said is that it is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be, that in this country it is *strictly* illegal to enact racist policies in hiring/firing, etc...that we have done everything systemically that we can to eradicate racism, meaning that at this point, racism is an **individaul** problem. I.e. individuals may act racist, and they *should* be caught and punished for it. But the *system* is not racist, by law, by structure. I have also pointed out that a great deal of racism exists and IS CONTINUALLY CREATED by the Liberal Left. It happens by way of ideology (depsite evidence to the contrary, they believe no black person can make it in this country without a white man's help). It's happens by way of marketing, as they seek racism in every corner and always find it, not matter if their is evidence to support it, and then they tell people to be angry, they create racial divides in communities and thereby create the racism they supposedly seek to destroy.

It's really not hard to figure out ghug...you jut refuse to open your mind to teh idea.

BUT....I'll bet $1000 you think cigarete manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to market to kids, because marketing persuade people to do things they would do. So you will beleive in advertising....unless it is attacking YOUR sacred cow...
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
ghug -- Simple question: No matter what you think happened in the Trayvon Martin/zimmerman case, do you think that the street demonstrations by "black leaders" like Al Sharpton - which ended up prompting and inspiring vigilante attacks in cities across the country -- do you think these race-oriented street demosntrations and constant beating of the racism mantra in the media HELPED or HURT national race relations.

A simply YES or NO will suffice.

If yes, then you are delusional.

If No, then you admit that Liberal race activism created more racism.

If you have *any* intellectual integrity you will actually pause and think on this quite seriously.
krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
ghug -- What? Is that simple yes or no question too tough for you to answer? Or is the answer to damning of your belief system that you are going to, as any good racist coward, just crawl away and snivel in a corner?
mendax (321 D)
27 Jul 13 UTC
The question: did the actions help or hurt. The provided answers: yes or no. Something doesn't quite match up here.


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krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
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Obama(care) Destroying Middle Class
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/16/obamacare-benefits-mandate-could-further-phase-out/?page=all

read on...
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TBagJohn (243 D(B))
25 Jul 13 UTC
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Not Getting to 100 Points
I thought that if I finished a game and I was under 100 D, I'd be "moved" to 100 D.

I've finished a couple of games and still way down on the points - 44. Why is this?
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futurewolfie (100 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
Pausing?
We're attempting to Pause a game as one player is gone for the weekend. However, certain players haven't checked in yet and so they haven't voted pause. The player who is leaving has left, but already voted to pause.

My question is, if the game progresses to the next phase, will the "Pause" vote reset, or will all the Pause votes stay in place unless cancelled by the voting player? Can we finish up our orders to progress to the start of the next round and then vote "Pause"?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
26 Jul 13 UTC
Detroit - WTF are you thinking
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/26/news/economy/detroit-bankruptcy-arena/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Build a $400,000,000+ arena while you are *bankrupt*! That's great economics. Good luck getting bailed out for that one in five years.
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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
26 Jul 13 UTC
BEACHES' JAZZ
Any chance for a mapleleaf sighting tonight?
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Hot Fuzz (159 D)
26 Jul 13 UTC
A new player needed
Turkey has gone astray

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=123609&msgCountryID=0&rand=9617#chatboxanchor
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krellin (80 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
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Feds Demands PASSWORDS From Internet Companies
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

Good read - timely and a scary future vision. Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" Give it a read and let me know what you think. It's the modern day Orwell's "1984" and should be required reading.
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Invictus (240 D)
21 Jul 13 UTC
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How that "psychic" really found the boy's body
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/the_new_best_case_for_psychics_did_intuitive_visions_locate_missing_boy/

Nothing supernatural at all. Obviously.
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mapleleaf (0 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
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Adolf Hitler was always nice to his dogs.
The race of his dogs was never considered, nor their religious beliefs.
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trip (696 D(B))
25 Jul 13 UTC
Lusthog Squad-6
Ready to resume tomorrow.
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Saviour Krolis (121 D(B))
25 Jul 13 UTC
Cheating
Mod, please check e-mail concerning cheating on live game ASAP. Thank you.
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krellin (80 DX)
25 Jul 13 UTC
When Cats Attack - Dateline France
"feral cats launched an attack on a young woman...dragging her to the ground and mauling her..." OH MY...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10201769/Warning-to-tourists-in-France-after-attack-by-feral-cats.html
* I guess this is one way to keep those pesky Americans out of France
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snowden007 (102 D)
25 Jul 13 UTC
What does it mean when there is a dash (-) next to a country name?
What does it mean when there is a dash (-) instead of an double exclaimation point (!!) or check next to a player before the next turn?
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Nikola Maric Eto (24945 D)
25 Jul 13 UTC
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Motion for a new phase length
When playing live games on maps America and Modern Europe, there is not enough time to move 20 or more units in 5 minutes. So, can there be a new phase length of 6 or 7 minutes?
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