There is a league pause request in the Mod email due to a player wanting to withdraw. ghdip told us to ask for a force pause. Thanks in advance!

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This is one of the saddest and funniest (in a twisted sort of way) videos I have ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RClJ6vK9x_4
This seemed very apropos of the debate in the NPR thread re: Fox's reliability compared with other stations. This seems to me to provide the definitive solution to that debate.
Thoughts?

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=52470 enormous Wars

come please

Hey guys, you're all technophiles...

This is such a good rant by an Australian MP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lpGP50CSBw&feature=player_embedded

great battles ı need 4 person
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=52468

I recently had an encounter with an annoying little twerp in which he crossed (in my opinion at least) the metagaming line. The question is should I bother to mention it to our already overworked mods? Should we attempt to crush all damaging forms of metagaming with an iron first, or should we ignore the more minor forms of cheating?

As a newbie I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or not, but I am seeing two performance problems that are quite irritating. I time out readying orders, and also every time I change pages on the site there is a delay of 10 seconds or so before I can do anything. Is this normal?

What is your opinion on using proper English in diplomatic correspondence as opposed to shorthand (like u = you, wanna = want to etc.) I am usually less likely to trust a shorthand player and prefer full English communications.

As usual:
http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net

So, I didn't think this would ever come up, but:

If you have an SC left, but it's not one of your home centres, and your last unit is destroyed, and then the game ends, what goes on your record? And are you considered defeated immediately? Or not until someone walks over to your SC and sits there over the winter?

I like Johnny Depp. I think "Gilbert Grape," "Pirates otC I," "Ed Wood" and "Sleepy Hollow" are all very good. But I saw "Rango" today, misled by the generally good reviews, and found it dark, vulgar, violent, slow and fatally self-aware in an ironic, in-jokey way. If you loved it, peace to you. I did not.

let's use this new thread from now on so that we avoid getting confused.

Why didn't Northeast Atlantic get dislodged? It looks like a basic 4 vs. 3 to me.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=41766

Why do you not get notifications from these games?

pshhh sup war friends how yall doin? hit me up ;)

A group that I play with are moving our correspondence game to web diplomacy. Normally, we switch country assignments between games so people don't have to play as the same country twice in a row. Is there a way to manually select who plays as what country or can it only be done randomly?

I'm in an anonymous gunboat (might be a tautology, still new-ish) at the moment with someone who saves his orders but never readies them, as there are 24 hour phases where most people are finished after around 10 or so this this could be getting quite annoying if it continues throughout the game. Just wondering if there's any way to communicate that it would be good for them to ready them?

http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=772
20 2 day phase 35 people in this game, join & have fun.

Anyone from this lovely city?

Starts 7pm EST 101
gameID=52287

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=52265

it's alive game starting in 14 minutes. If someone would come............we are 3 now. Need 4 guys to start. Do you want a different evening instead of the obviuos film? come here!

gameID=51964 pls join, password "dagger"

The Sage of Omaha once said that investors should try to be "fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Which tendency, if either, tends to govern your Dip play, especially when you divert from a long-range plan (i.e. to stab earlier than you had hoped)?

That's a question I got on the bus this week, and it's been on my mind ever since, sort of simmering there...just when I think I'm happily ready to watch a movie, on comes Hamlet and instantly he's talking about this and that about death and there the question is again, so I put it to you as well, WebDip members--play Dante. If YOU could have your perfect, 100% version of what the two "afterlives" are, what would each be like? Is it anything to be excited about?

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=52240

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=52231


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What is your favourite television show?
1. Over the last year
2. Decade
3. All time