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Well Wonder what I should put here For starters, how about I go out of my way to dedicate this forum post to the wonderful folks at Chocolate Castle who consentingly brought me down the path I've finished walking Personally I think there was no reason for me to do what I've decided, but thus here I am At least I can be confident saying I'm not leaving the same way Nokia is... It's probably obvious what this is about, and I'll cut to the chase I'm leaving I'm done No more bad micros No more defending myself against allegations spawned from the exact alliance who took it upon themselves to work their way up my list of most hated alliances Of course, no better way to go At least not in my opinion Golden Dawn is a mess I made it this way, no one else The members that remain, have the inconvenience of not knowing what a good alliance looks like After all, I took it upon myself to exploit Golden Dawn to it's furthest extent So, I shall now leave the mess I have created to the same fool who followed me through this game Don't quit Don't blame yourself Just find a real alliance One that isn't Golden Dawn That's not a request That's an order My final order Lastly, I think it's of note to mention why I quit Lets put it simply Chocolate Castle Now, lets not point fingers But Chocolate Castle helped me, and the rest of the game realize what I couldn't No, not that I'm a fascist, and people will certainly take it this way But simply that this game is not made for me There are no goodbyes There are no farewells There are good riddances Not from me though More than likely from the comments on this post There is no tl;dr tl;dr's are for those who can sum up a page or two into a sentence or two That'd be if I could sum up this game into a forum post, which I can't Guess that's it Don't try to message me Those of you left in my friends list are there for a reason Hopefully you'll remain there Last post? September 11th, 2019 - April 15, 2021

It's a new trend. If you want attention, announce that you are leaving in alliance affairs. If you are a pro like Nokia and Wingawoo, you can do it multiple times, and get away with it.

People that think they're more important than they are.

The term originally referred to one player, @Oblige. I don’t know when it first entered in PW parlance, but it is clear that it carried over from Oblige’s time playing eRepublik. A TechCruch article from 2012 even cites Oblige: https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/16/conversations-with-whales-the-erepublik-2012-summit/ Relevant quote: Emphasis mine. For the longest time, I would have argued that defining who a whale was not dependent on a set number of cities. Rather, my definition was based on whether a person had an equal or greater number of cities than Oblige. If so, you were a whale. If not, you were not. Why? Oblige was the original whale, that’s why. Given that Oblige is no longer playing PW (as far as I know), I think that given that the average number of cities per nation is most likely increasing over time, that it’s useful to think of percentiles than a set number of cities. So say, if someone is at the 10-15% of number of cities they should be classified as a “whale.” If not, then no. Maybe that means that 33 cities makes one a whale in 2021. But in 2022 it may be 36 or something. Who knows? It’s a sliding scale than any set number 🐋

I Reg Penney will be stepping down as Co-Foreign Affairs Minister of TCW due to my Behavior, Stunts & disobeying orders on beige which I been advised by the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary. Peace Times was alright but when it comes to War, I'm not ready for it. I wanna thank Jeric for giving this opportunity to have government experience & Stony for being a great Co-worker & Co-FA Minister. And Special Thanks to the FA Teams in other Alliances, you're easy to talk to & glad to catch up with old TCW Pals. If I'm given a 2nd Chance, the only time I'll take if I'm ready for it. Signed Reg Penney Former Foreign Affairs Minister (9th February - 16th April 2021)

>posts goodbye post in aa affairs.

--- 8:17 PM The day had been pleasant, for a change. Work wasn't good, but it was better than usual. There were no particularly troublesome customers, and Jonathan had been unusually friendly. Maybe he was getting over whatever problem he had with you, and perhaps now you two could start to become friends for a change? After work, you met up with your friends at that new pizza place. You had been looking forward to this for weeks. It wasn't often that the four of you could meet up, thanks to everyone's school, work, and family obligations. The food was good, and you though the girl at the counter was eyeballing you some. So... the day was decent. It was a 6 out of 10, maybe 7 out of 10. The best way to top it off would be to enjoy some time on the internet. You change into more comfortable clothes, crack open a cold one (beer, soda, or water- your choice) and sit down at your computer. You enter your password and your computer fully whirs to life. You go to watch your favorite Twitch streamer, but stop before you can finish typing out the words into Google. Instead, you hold down backspace, and instead search for Politics and War. It's been a few days since you last logged in, and even longer since you were on Discord. Logging into the game, an interesting sight greets you. --- 8:29 PM The words 'utter failure' borrow into your head. As the adrenaline kicked in, you did all you could to fight back against your attackers; of which there are three of the bastards. However, the numbers were against you, and all you succeeded in doing was putting yourself into an even worse position. By the time you ran out of MAPs, the heaviness in your chest had fully set in. Your cities were being pummeled, two of your attackers had 'Air Superiority', and the third one had 'Ground Control'. You weren't fully sure what these terms meant, but you knew it was bad that they had those things and you didn't. Finally, some mechanism in your brain triggered, and the initial shock and panic had subsided. Rather than thrash around like a trapped animal, you bend over slightly, put your hand on your chin, and start thinking. You asked yourself a simple question. "How am I going to get out of this mess?" As you carefully scrolled your nation page for some hope - praying that all the numbers and statistics would hold some golden nugget of information - you find the answer. The answer, in fact, was so obvious that you were surprised you didn't think of it immediately beforehand. Your would ask your alliance for help. --- 8:42 PM Logging into Discord, you find 12 pings awaiting you. Most of them are @everyone or @here spam from trolls, two of them are @everyone pings from government, and 1 was a member of government thanking you for your taxes. Joining this alliance as a City 32 nation was a bit odd, but you've known the leader for a while as you've been Steam buddies with him for years (going back to your Counter-Strike days), and he promised you a voice in government if you agreed to 40/20 taxes (higher than the 20/10 the alliance runs for the rest). You felt good about helping the new, smaller players who joined the alliance, so you agreed. Of course, It didn't hurt to have some power too. You navigate past the Discord channels to find the member chat... passing up some archives, the public chats (including a NSFW chat you've been meaning to check out), and a room for the bots. Upon finally finding the member chat, you type out your plea. "hey im getting attacked. can i get some help??" Unfortunately, your message is lost in the sea of the member chat. The member chat is full of similar such requests, but also of some despair. A member of the alliance that you don't recognize, ForkofApple, voices his displeasure. "Guys I can't take this damage I think I'm gona quit." Your mind races. The entire member chat is full of similar such messages; of the collective of the alliance requesting help or voicing great displeasure. The heaviness in your chest returns. As the largest tax payer, you were promised by you leader some power in the community. You realize you have a duty to... try and do something to help. Clearly you should ask the 'Military Department' head for assistance. You send him a message on Discord, but he is offline. A quick look through Discord reveals that he hasn't said anything on Discord in over a week, and hasn't even logged into the game for over 3 days. That's a dead end. The chest heaviness is gone, but a general sense of dread fills the crevasses of your mind. You get another notification. You open it. Dope Dealer of Dope Land ordered a ground attack upon your nation of New New Canada. The attack was an immense triumph. Dope Dealer forces lost 7,672 soldiers and 127 tanks, while your defenders lost 28,102 soldiers and 1,284 tanks. You used 260 tons of munitions and 232.40 tons of gasoline defending the attack. The attack destroyed 229.01 infrastructure in the city of Newer Quebeccz. Dope Dealer stole $2,496,880.98 in the attack and destroyed 0 improvements. You swallow. Your drink from earlier is at room temperature, and is mostly untouched. --- 9:02 After pacing around your home some, you get on your computer and are pleasantly surprised to see a Discord message from your leader. Your leader, who you know simply as Disciple, sends you two short messages. "Hey man hows its going" "How much gas and ammo do you have?" You respond, but then stop. You check on your resources, and then respond. "im good except im getting screwed in my butt lol" "4000 gas and 2100 ammnition" Disciple doesn't respond to you for some time. You seen him try to coordinate a military response in the member chat, but his own messages are interrupted by people being uncooperative; claiming to either not want to fight, not having the cash/resource to fight, or simply in despair at how their military is mostly destroyed and the enemies are at max military. You check the alliance page, and a few minutes of discovery later, you find out that almost all 32 members have had their defense slots filled. Wait, 32? That's odd. You could've sworn it was 37 a few days ago. You search where you can for several minutes, and find out that within the past hour, 2 members have went into vacation mode, and 3 others have left. A page refresh reveals now 31 members- a 6th member has been kicked by Disciple himself. You exit out of the game and Discord. You need a break. This day was a 7 out of 10, now it's like a 3 out of 10. --- 10:49 You log back into the game, only to discover 3 more notifications. The last of your tanks were airstriked, and the last of your planes were spies away. Well.. almost anyways. Only a few hundred tanks remain, and only about a hundred planes. Tens of thousands of soldiers remain, but even you know that isn't worth much. You tried to watch some of your favorite shows to get your mind off of the game, but are unable to lay back and enjoy the media. An idea crosses your mind; why not ask our allies for help? You log back into Discord, and message Disciple. Asking about your idea. Disciple responds: "No silver knights and yorktown can't help. they've been hit too. we're just gonna have to fight as hard as we can and see where things are after round 1." Round 1? What does that mean? Actually, forget it. 1 round of whatever hell this is is already to much. Maybe if your allies could do unto your attackers what they've done to you, maybe it would be okay. However, with your alliance by itself, what does it matter? You check the alliance page. Now, 29 members. You don't care what happened to them. Another notification. This time, a ground battle. There goes all your tanks and most of your soldiers. You check on the members of your allies. Just like your alliance, most of their members have had most of their defense slots filled. Several times during the past two and a half hours, you've had your hopes crushed. Your attacks failed. Your alliance can't help. The head of military affairs is practically inactive. Your allies can't help. Your military is gone, and your alliance has lost a lot of its members already. Another notification. A spy op. An unknown nation has killed 22 of your spies in one go. You swear. You decide that enough is enough. The situation is intolerable. You leave a short rant in the member chat full of profanity. You navigate to the 'Edit Nation' page, then to the Vacation Mode page. You enter '14' into the box. You enter your password (the same you use for all other accounts in your personal life). You check both boxes, and then you click the big blue bottom. It's over. --- ??? Like a limb severed to save the body in times gone by, you emotionally detach from your nation the best you can. Over the next few days, your nation is ravaged. All your resources and cash are looted. Your military is 0'ed, and your average infrastructure level in each city reaches levels that they haven't been in years. You gain close to a week in beige time, but end up on grey. Perhaps you would've interacted with your nation had you not been in VM, but that is not the case. You inability to interact with your nation drains your interest, and you stop logging in. Your Discord usage also ceases. You log in once more after quite some time, only to see dozens and dozens of notifications. Your inactivity was rewarded by raiders pillaging what they could from the corpse of your nation- not unlike how scavenger birds eat up a dead deer once the coyotes have had their fill. Disciple unfriends you on Steam. Perhaps it was the not-so-nice things you said in your rant before you VM'ed. Whatever the case, your ties to your alliance mainly cease. Besides, who needs to be a part of such a shitty alliance that gets itself into such a shitty war anyways? You deserved better. How dare Disciple get you into that kind of situation anyways? He did you a favor by unfriending you. How could he reward your years of internet friendship like that? Your nation is beyond repair. To many holes in the ship. You think about starting over, but it would take years to get back to where you are now. And, just for what, for this to happen again? You don't delete your nation, but you cease logging in completely. You block emails from Politics and War, and soon you forget about the game. Eventually, the game itself puts you in VM, and then deletes you itself after a long time passes. Sometimes you think about the game, but you remember your feelings on that night- when the dumb bastards of some other alliance ganged up on you for no reason. When you were abandoned by your alliance, your leader, and your allies. You decide not to ever return- and you never do. What a stupid game. --- 🦍 ---

You just need a better PR manager and bolder stance m8 You can get away w/ anything here, it's like Hollywood Just wait til someone does something worse, tabloids will get to it. If you fold, people just pick at your corpse (legacy and image) like vultures. If you roll with it and embrace it, you become like a ghoul/plague zombie. Chill with your swarm/herd and a menace to the others/outsiders.

If you want to better represent your alliance, dont go on the OWF and announce you are stepping down because you acted like a fool. Not a good look for your leadership or alliance.

[redacted]

Live footage of me joining and leaving the game repeatedly to farm infinite upvotes :serious:

You're to blame, bye.

Chute, you weren't that fun to play with, but you still were a prominent (and a very controversial) figure in this game. Even though it pains me to say it, considering who you are, I hope all the best for you in your life.

What's with all the leaving messages being posted in Alliance Affairs recently?

F for Chute Mi, I hope it goes well for you

why alliance affairs tho?

Thats not nice at all and i didnt say anything to him to deserve those words. I hope he will get some sort of punishment for that. Thank you.

https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=260070 First time sending something like this. Looked good enough to look into maybe? Two accounts are recently logged into.

Would you rather have Shifty as the 2nd voice in your head to comment on your decisions or as a figure that appears in your dreams and hallucinations to give you cryptic messages?

I want to see context. What are these stunts that you speak of ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

It would be more touching if I actually spent the time to actually read that utterly illiterate statement.

It sounds like a disbandment too.

Hey man, I wish you luck with your future. I enjoyed our VCs and lovely "banter" and even though you joined arrgh and raided me, I'll miss you. (Even if the rest of orbis doesn't.) You've been through a lot, and I hope you can figure things out during retirement. Best of Wishes, Star Now watch this post get ratioed for sympathizing with Golden Dawn

Some of us pixel huggers are the ones that fund the continuous and increasingly more expensive wars.

Pixel Huggers of the world, unite!

I will agree to rejoin Thalmor radio if you read this on air tomorrow 😖

It did! One thing to note is that if you're trying to search by discord username in the 'everything' category it won't work. I chose this because I thought it would be confusing for the majority of use cases where people are not trying to search by discord username. But, of course, selecting 'discord username' will search by it. It's even useful for me, often times players DM me on Discord and I need to figure out which nation belongs to them in-game

Packed with pulse-pounding action, fascinating characters, and electrifying intrigue, Thalmor does it again and proves why he is known around the world as the “Scourge of Pixelhuggers.” ~ The New York Times You should consider writing a book.

I think @PurpleElefante determines that.

Typically grammar is governed by style guides, in the case of what Elefante pointed out the final say could be that of any reputable dictionary, for example, Oxford or Merriam-Webster's. Having standardized rules is useful for formal occasions and communication with and between newer speakers of a language. From a purely Kantian or utilitarian perspective not complying with grammar rules is not unethical. Not complying can make what you write harder to understand and sometimes make you less likely to be taken seriously, though these are situational. Yes. Grammar changes through the contribution of all speakers of the language. "Applying" makes it seem like ideas changing or being phased out as times change is not the norm, but I think that it is instead the preservation of an idea that is unnatural. Not from a biology or physics based perspective. Why did I spend so much time on this???

Farewell, and best of luck on all of your future endeavors! Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you're up to and sharing your experience with P&W. If there's ever anything I can do to help you out in the future, just let me know. Best regards!

Economics: Dryad for causing Blackbird to delete 3.2b in infra in the biggest brain econ move of all time Peace: Blackbird for changing his name to Blackie to avoid conflicts based on his bounty. And also for being in Rothschilds, a shining model for all peaceful alliances Technology: Sheepy's assistant coder lmao Journalism: Yang for being the guy to tell me about the first thing :serious:

It is true, The Boris Wars Volume 5, Act 1 is completed, both sides have gifted eachother 250k, however, Boris has found more sinners, more who bear Infrastructure undestroyed, as such Boris invites Thr United Socialist Nations to the Boris Wars Volume 5, Act 2 THE BOOG. *better dead than red* Message to USN government, all peace talks must be directed at me, and I will involve all of my combatants, I'm afraid you will find it difficult to find them all or contact them all otherwise, the Boogahideen fighters are very sneaky.

Aside from being a CN mechanic, one of the better ones if I might add. Imagine that they did something right with their *dead* game. All the lol's Make infra cheaper to build, or in other words add "peak" infrastructure to the game. But on a serious note plenty of people have suggested this as well as myself and I feel that if Alex wants to make the game better and discourage pixel hugging this is the best way. An example would be if I bought 2k infra on a city and it gets destroyed to a low of 100 you can rebuild it back to 2k for 50% of the cost. Where it normal costs like $14m it'll cost $7m this of course is without the urbanization projects & policy. The only downside I see is pixel huggers will cry and giant behemoth whales will have a huge advantage but It's worth it. I'm curious what the rest of you think about this.

Ah micro drama, you guys are so cute. Peace out and good luck to you.

Take care Chute

I don't know much about you, but it was nice knowing you, Chute mi. Farewell.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. You're observing the way things are, and you're largely correct. What I'm saying is we have created, whether by choice or simply through lack of choice, this false dichotomy wherein the only people who really do get to enjoy the game are the warlike (or semi-warlike) ones. To say that one can enjoy the game in whatever way they please isn't really true when the people who would prefer not to fight don't really get a say in the matter. For instance, the only reason to attack an alliance like Alpha, unprovoked, is exclusively to derive enjoyment from others' losses. There's nothing else to be gained there. You can say that this is KT's (or whomever's) way of enjoying the game, but it's just sadism lol.