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Hi, Today I sent over a PIAT to The Immortals who accepted it (we're friends lol). I went to look 10 minutes later and it wasn't visible. Is there a GFX bug being handled atm?

Myself and several other members (like @Pailin and @RagnarDanneskjold) of my alliance (The Knights Radiant) suspect that many fake nations have been created for the Swords of Sanghelios (SoS) alliance (formerly named Arsenal) in the last month controlled by one or two players perhaps using masked ip's or something else to hide this. Many of these newly created nations just sit and block good raiding targets without attacking. My mentor says this all looks very fishy and I should file a ticket. The evidence for this is complicated but I will try to explain: 1) If you klick on the alliance page and filter by date created and descending you will see there have been over 60 NEW nations created in the last month that have joined SoS. There are many more not on the list who are "applying" that have been newly formed as well. There hasn't been an active ad campaign for this alliance (and I've been on a lot in the last month) and most other alliances don't have this many brand new players suddenly joining their alliance. My alliance (the #2) alliance has had only 13 new people join in that time period. Most just joining our alliance don't almost immediately attack people either. Also, If you look at the graph for this SoS alliance there is a huge uptick. 2) Many of the newly created nations know exactly who to target almost immediately (nations that have had good raid results,). Some within minutes. Some even before they apply to join SoS (or formerly Arsenal). This is too coordinated and not the behavior of random independent newbies just learning the game. Here is some proof of the fact that these new nations suddenly know who to attack and the targets are top raid producing nations (scroll through their nation activity history and see when formed etc): https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=289093 (this one attacked people i've raided within 3 minutes of applying to sos/arsenal) https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=297290 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=298570 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=297902 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=289075 (this one waited a day to join but knew within 13minutes of applying which countries to attack) There are many more. Here are some that just sit and block spaces without attacking (notice also they know who to attack very early in their formation unlike most newbies) : https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=289093&display=war https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=292988&display=war https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=285279&display=war Recently, they have gotten a bit more clever and had some nations pretend to apply to another alliance but quit them and soon attack still when they shouldn't really know who to attack for example: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=296914 Some wait a day or so to join SoS and attack but it's still fishy that so many newbies are doing this and following a similar pattern for just this one alliance. In our alliance it takes people a while to learn the ropes. Of course, there's a chance that some of these are actually independent players but the odds of so many nations exhibiting the same behaviors and all applying to SoS seem pretty....odd! Also, given the recent news about a possible spy ring with multi's some of whom have been connected to SoS, the evidence above seems worth looking into. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I am hacker

once me mum and dad ate a snake

To celebrate the birthday of the Rothschild Family in Politics & War, Rothschild Family in collaboration with Royal Orbis News will be awarding four (4) different players or groups for their exceptional achievements that develop and help either the game, the community or mechanics associated with it. These four, hand-picked individuals may be of any background, size or alliance. Rothschild Family values their influence and achievement on the subject. The prize money will be split evenly among either the individual player or the players of the group receiving the prize. Rothschild Family and Royal Orbis News will nominate certain individuals, but nominations can be suggested to the Barons through our ticketing system in the Rothschild Family Discord server. The nominee’s achievement or influence should be clearly explained when suggesting the nomination. Ultimately, the final decision for the winners of these prizes comes down to the choice of the members of the Rothschild Family and the management of the Royal Orbis News. Categories (prize money) Economics (1000mil) Yet we know we don’t have all the answers and that continued radical thinking is required. We, therefore, established the Rothschild Economics Prize to encourage new and creative thinking in economics. In offering what we believe to be the biggest economics prize in PnW, we wanted to encourage contributions from a wide range of individuals, groups and organisations from the policymaking world and beyond, and spark a diverse debate about the best way to fix the game’s longstanding economic weaknesses and get our growth rate up, including but not limited to organisations coordinating other companies, streamlining economical impact and rating each organisation in an objective and descriptive way. Peace (1000mil) The Rothschild Peace Prize will be awarded to the person or group of individuals who have composed, achieved and settled the most astounding pre-post war peace negotiations, the sustenance of causing new or additional wars from happening again and doing so in a selfless and good sportsmanship manner. Technology (500mil) The Rothschild Technology Prize will consider the finest technical support that has been provided to the game by their players, which includes Discord Bots, spreadsheets, websites, APIs, suggestions and other technical help, including supporting the admin and resolving catastrophic issues. Journalism (500mil) The Rothschild Journalism Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically been entered. This prize will be nominated to a journalist that has gained practically inexecutable intel of wars prior to any official declarations of war, substantially supported investigations that would hunt for fair or unfair game mechanics exploitation and/or bad ethics embracement. Nominations can be suggested on and after the birthday of the Rothschild Family, the 28th March 2021, until the 9th April. Final nominees will be announced on 16th April, and winners will be announced on 28th April.. The winners will be announced as an Awards Show (voice chat) by the Royal Orbis News in their Discord server. The Rothschild Prize awards show will be hosted by Krampus and Zigbigadorlou. Sincerely, Barons of the Rothschild Family

PS it is nice to see Yarr continuing to follow the doctrine I put in place years ago - You can fault me for many things, but training and indoctrinating my crew to make peace wherever possible and hug pixels is not one of them.

Obsidian Order Redux: The Onyx Order Preamble: On the 3rd of April, 2021, The Black Knights and The Knights Radiants signed a meme treaty two days after everyone else tried and failed to meme on the 1st of April, 2021. We don’t need April Fools to make our memes. We make memes any day of the year. Today, we once again prove how far we will go for the memes by making this treaty official or whatever. Article 1: All Hail The Holy Legs Article 2: Hoedowns and Peanut Butter Article 3: Ayy Lmao Article 4: We have an MDP now and promise to share info and defend each other and do shit together blah blah blah… That promise to do stuff becomes optional if it’s for someone else. We can cancel it if we want in 72 hours. Article 5: Why are you still reading this? /s/ The Knights Radiant Queen of the Heralds: Head Trojan Second-in-Command: His Eminence Herald of Foreign Affairs: Cottage Cheese Connoisseur Herald of War: Allend You Herald of Growth: Mutually ASchirmed Destruction Herald of Internal Affairs: The GodFather Mk. 2.0 High Prince of Foreign Affairs: All Morf No Bite /s/ Black Knights Emperor: The Right Honorable Yosodog, Master Black Man of the Realm, Seducer of Women, Protector of the Unholy Lands, Secretary of State for Useless Titles, Purveyor of Sexual Favors, God Emperor of the African Alliance, Lord Admiral-General President of Zimbabwe, Printer of Currency, etc Viceroy: The Strump Archduke of Defense: Clown Archduke of Foreign Affairs: Supercheese Archduke of the Interior: Shadow Company Archduke of Economics: Brandon Donsberger

Left Black Skies to get in Carthago hope things go well

I don't mind a good fight and all but this c10 nation I'm fighting has bought about 400 planes today and about 60 ships. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=223119

--- 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. --- 🦍 ---

Welcome, Cob ❤️ No one calls you that because no one can spell it.

People using VPNs to cheat at a browser game. SMH.

I usually just go by what ever city count grump's lowest member is + 2250 avg. infra minimum to call someone a whale. back in the beginning of Knightfall most people I remember considered the cutoff 23 or 25, nowadays id say its at least somewhere like 28 to 34 to be a true whale, maybe a few less cities with higher infra to be called a beluga or mini-whale. i use the term whaler/whale-hunter interchangeably to describe both nations that hunt whale tier (most common use) or anyone that habitually hunts people 8+ cities than them regardless of city count. orca i use for militaristic smaller whales and mini whales and even the high end of upper tier if they fight whale tier and then Albino Whales are c40+

Alright it's possible to set different daychange, a new feature I was not aware of, so it's possible this person just did that

Finally got the Octopus Achievement... Thank god that it wasn't during a GW

This thread shows that it depends on who you ask. A lot of raiders use the term whale and farmer interchangeably. Others will just say the whale tier is the mega-tier of PnW. I think it has to do with a multitude of factors though. If you're a c35 but with 500 infra raiding people you aren't a whale. If you're at c27 but have 4k infra per city you could very well be a whale. So cities aren't the only thing. Whales are generally the inflated nations in PnW who have a higher city count but also a higher-than-normal infra count. Other typical things include staying at a higher level of militarization than normal nations, not logging in as often as other players, lacking war mechanics knowledge, and being less-than-active in the social settings like discord or the forums. A lot of the typicalities of whaledom are negative associations. It's definitely not a compliment to be called a whale, but it's not always an insult. Sometimes just a fact. Krampus is a whale, for instance, but not in a bad way. Wampus is also a whale but definitely in a bad way.

no you have to let them live and grow into a fully developed human so you can harvest their spines

bird

Pavitistvo Kozatskiya | Павитиство Козацкия Pavitelstvo Kazakiya | Павителство Казакия 哥萨克政府 - 哥薩克政府 | Gesake Zhengfu Pamahalaan ng Bansang Kosakya | Government of Cossackia April 17, 2021 Cossackia and East Asia People of Cossackia, every day China is feeding us lies with their orators. They claim that China "didn't do anything wrong". We are all aware that China became the imperialists they resist to be as. We are all aware that China stole the lands of our Filipino motherland. We are all aware that a small coalition of weaker members in the South China Sea can't match the Chinese Navy any longer. Taiwan is getting recognition from its recent ally the United States. However, China is still feeding its own people and our own lies, to begin with as always. Their loyalist speakers can deny everything, but we Cossackians won't stand for this. We even have applied Glasnost and Perestroika way early so that we don't need to be a thorn in the side of Asia. However, everyone wants peace and not war. So for now, we will realign (economically, not militarily) to China. Why? Because of these reasons: 1. They are more powerful than us, therefore have more resources. 2. They may be powerful, but still can be contained. In simple terms: if they boss us around, we do too. 3. We will enforce the Liezelnja Doctrine, the doctrine written by our beloved Premier at his time of stay in Liezelnja. It goes like this: Trade will resume if Cossackia didn't declare an embargo. Trade will still resume if Cossackia didn't declare an embargo and if a country embargoes us. Trade will also still resume if Cossackia still trades despite a country declaring an embargo. And trade will only stop if Cossackia accepts the embargo. We may search for alternatives to trade. In other words, we still like you economically. But if you hate us yet we didn't hate you, we will resume our commerce no matter what. We will stop if we want to, there's nothing you can do about it. About the Japanese Fukushima incident, Tritium water, and such, we are proposing to buy Tritium-treated water to purify it and make it useful. We are gathering knowledge from one of our neighbors which is Singapore because they are more advanced than all other nations; at least in their own way. Then we propose to make a pact that will try to contain the (military) influence of China. In other words, we are going to resurrect SEATO, the South East Asian Treaty Organization, and base the new headquarters in Karlagrad-Karlinagrad, therefore making Cossackia the new leading nation of SEATO. For my closing remarks, if there is anything to say you may say it here. We need everyone's opinion to make our resolve acceptable. And we also love that we are using the language of a powerful world bully against them. Thank you. Godspeed. Directly From: Politburo Rada (Announced April 17, 2021) Karla Soyokov - Premier & Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal

Take care Chute

Sorry to see you go Chute, Hope I see ya round and good luck for your future and all that

>posts goodbye post in aa affairs.

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?

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

146719 (his nation id). I stumbled across a user named dryad because he was listed as having the most money stolen but that’s beside the point. I was looking at his cities and in all of them he has around 54 improvements but it lists its cap at only 14. I looked at the projects but there doesn’t seem to be one that does this. Is he a hacker or am I missing something?

Gucci gang >~<

This is because Dryad has hit the cap on looting money and has started stealing improvements. :serious:

Improvements will remain after the Infrastructure is destroyed. He bought to at least 2700 infra, got those improvs, and then got rolled multiple times. His Infrastructure was destroyed, but most of his improvements remained.

Depends, but if you're a new player, you should be primarily focusing on raiding, some aas have you on a raid-only build, while some aas have your produce raws and raid (I dont know TKR's policy), in which case, disease doesnt really matter as you dont have commerce and disease at that level doesnt kill off your population. What I recommend for you to do is join the TKR Discord since you're an applicant, spam ping @BigMorfto be your mentor, and ask him to fix your cities. click this link: https://discord.gg/t7dzPAV click the reaction to give yourself the applicant/squire role. Then open a ticket in #squires and ia/admissions staff should get to you. they will also require you to make a forums account and a slack account btw.

Currently, the game rules ban "Treasure Trading", ie, the ability to transfer treasures to a different person or alliance for in-game cash. The way treasures work is that if you hold a treasure and someone defeats you in a war, you forfeit your treasure to the victor. This can work as a treasure transfer mechanic where you can ask someone to declare war on you or declare war on them and lose the war to transfer treasures to them. Earlier, treasure trading wasn't banned and I've talked to people who sold treasures to different alliances for a big chunk of money ranging in the hundreds of millions. Infact, the reason treasure trading was such a big business was because treasures give your alliance a 2% monetary production bonus, ie, if you have a treasure in your alliance , your alliance revenue goes up by 2%. Since a treasure can stay in your nation for upto 60 days since spawn, an alliance like say Error 404 making 250m/day or The $yndicate making 1.6bn/day in cash would make 5m and 32m a day more respectively if they had a treasure in their alliance, translating to upto 300m and 1.9bn over a 60 day period respectively. However, an alliance like Arrgh(12.5m/day) or Knights Templar(-9m/day) won't much benefit from having treasures in their alliance. Instead, these two alliances can make a lot more by selling their treasures to other revenue-based alliances and make some good money off it. I'm not exactly sure why treasure trading was banned but if the objective of the game is to have more smaller wars, treasure trading is the way to do it. Once someone steals your treasure, it can be a a cb for war against them or their alliance. If the treasure is stolen with the purpose of selling it to someone, this can be a cb for war against the buying alliance. Once someone has sold a treasure and has some money on their nation, raiders can come in to steal that money as well. Treasure trading can be a dynamic way to keep treasures moving about in the game even in peace time which I feel is lacking in the game. This also makes piracy a tad more interesting. And the best thing about this change is that it can be done within 10 minutes by Alex without ever needing to touch the coding of the game at all. Just an announcement and maybe a changelog update and that's all we'd need. I understand there is a system currently being developed to trade treasures on the market. However, I've been told it has been in development for a very long time as well. If such a system is hard to implement, this is an easy fix I'd say.

Nominate myself in 3 categories: Economics: Selling $3.8b worth of Infra to get out of range of GOB and up-declare. (June, 2019) Peace: For helping to start 3 global wars, and helping to cause RON to go into slowmode numerous times from arguments. Technology: For breaking @Putmir and @Christian Dahl sheets everytime I tried to look at them for TCW.

I nominate Guardian's incredible bot Locust for the tech prize. Time and time again, Locust has been proven to be an incredible addition to the Guardian server and very enjoyable for all who get to see the bot in action.

I nominate Vero for all categories

I agree The only incentive to war should be to to Roll Kastor

Ill be honest, I don't care much for how you layed it out mechanically but something like this or a change to the treasure system could work if implemented right.

The title says it all. I have answered the questions trying to get a Fascist and Extreme Left outcome. Instead, I always get Extreme Left Economic Policies but nothing higher than Authoritarian Social Policies. Here are my usual answers. Cannabis: A. Mandatory service: A. Capital punishment: C. Secondary education: D. Prohibition: B. Energy: B. Assisted suicide: A. Same-sex marriage: B. Unions: A. Campaign finance: D. Speech: A. Hard drugs: B. Spending: A. Infant circumcision: A. Immigration: A. Gun rights: D. Religion: D. Healthcare: A. Polygamist marriage: B Taxes: D. Torture: B. Abortion: D. Welfare: A. I know that it’s possible to have Fascist Social Policies and Extreme Left Economic Policies. I have seen other nations with this outcome. What must I change to get Fascist Social Policies and Extreme Left Economic Policies? I would be most obliged to anyone who can help me.

flying pasta monster is satanic cult! i would not work it here.

This isn't an airport.

Delete

seem stupid! if we come from monkeys why are monkeys still around???

Because we didn't come from monkeys, dipshit.

In actuality, we are all but strands of spaghetti floating in the infinite aura of the great flying spaghetti monster.