BrythonLexi
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Nation Link: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=237003
Ruler Name: Hikikomori Shubham Sharma
Nature of Violation: Message titled "Yo Snowflake", text calling me "schizo", which is a derrogatory term towards people who have schizophrenia, and generally used as an insult towards people with mental illness in general.
QuoteFrom: Shubham Sharma Date: 01/01/2021 Friday 10:00 pm Block Communications
Found a good loot, schizo?
https://politicsandwar.com/inbox/message/id=6184342
Adding for the record that this is the same nation/person who was issued a warning for misgendering somebody else on the OWF. Clearly the warn has done nothing.
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I feel like its moreso that the current rules have to be enforced a lot more, though the idea of a more active moderation hand isn't the worst.
Hate speech is already against the rules, but we have nations able to drop homophobic and transphobic insults and only walk away with a warn. Stuff like that is only going to drive away minority groups from the game, and likely make this even more a 4chan cesspit without community and moderative intervention
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4 minutes ago, Thalmor said:
People are waking up. We could be on the verge of a major political shakeup over the course of the Biden/Harris administration.
In contemporary times it will look like it started with the Trump/Pence administration and exploded in the Biden/Harris administration.
The historians will know it started long before that, when the people were no longer afforded stability and support after major crises.
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1 minute ago, Corpsman said:
Indeed.
But again, maybe CotL should practice what they preach. (I am aware you arent CotL, but its just a perfect segway lol)Please don't use me for your argument. I refuse to have my words twisted to fit either side.
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4 minutes ago, Baron Shubham said:There are only two genders - male and (what Akuryo isn't)
That is *absolutely* below the belt. Even if she's fully in the wrong [I refuse to take sides], transphobia is completely uncalled for. Attack the behaviour, not the person!
3 minutes ago, Hime-sama said:So much filth in this thread.
Yeah, seriously. This is absurd
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Just now, Redarmy said:
Odds on this thread being locked with in a couple hours.
I'll put all my cash on the lock!
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Just now, Ragnarok8085 said:
You clearly haven't been playing this game long enough to understand how the community works, my dear.
Dude, this definitely falls under the category of OOC attacks. That's a whole nother level that is much more serious and has to be dealt with, one way or another.
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4 minutes ago, Ragnarok8085 said:
Stop crying about your feelings being hurt, if you don't like it, stay off the internet and go into your safe space in the closet
Okay, look.
While my feelings on this situation are... complex, given my friendship with the accused - to say they should just suck up what they feel is an OOC grievance is absolutely absurd and unacceptable.
Corpsman, i'm sorry this has happened to you, and I hope some sort of resolution can be made between you and all involved parties. As for the accused, this doesn't look... great, especially the comment about wanting Thalmor shot. I know we're leftists who often have... harsh words about the liberals and conservatives, but to extend such grievances personally - and especially behind peoples' backs, is not a good look. Apologies and a call to change would be in your best interests, I believe.
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28 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:
i cant tell if a broken link is the joke, or if the gif was the joke. I think broken gif works in this context tho.
The gif was the joke (A large legion throwing javelins at a single enemy), but yea a broken gif is also a goodin
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The only grudge any of us have is against you right now. I'm friends with a few Quack people for crying out loud. You're the only one not over GW16.
But okay, whatever. Literally nobody else cares about GW16 anymore - right now people are making FA moves for the next war when the NAP ends. Nobody knows who will fight whom, but we love war.
Maybe when/if you're ever in a high gov position, you'll know just how little OWF stuff matters. Didn't come up once in my aa's chat - we just had orders to mil up maybe 5 days in advance.
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Or - hear me out here, the Orbis World Forums are a stage and that the people behind the doors just wanted to have some fun like the rest of us.
Whatever, you're not going to hear us out. Okay. But serious, I swear upon the Gods, that we are literally all here to have fun - and GW16 happened mostly because it was too long since the last war (thanks NPO) and people just wanted to fight because peace is boring.
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11 minutes ago, Adrienne said:
Welcome, Lexi
Thanks! 100 days in and I am still baby.
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Is it even worth humouring you? Fine.
It's a videogame and the members of Swamp thought it'd be most fun for them to fight the pirates. For whatever in-character reasons; be it a stop to piracy or whatever; it doesn't matter. Could be as simple as "they've raided us too much" or building comradery among allies/friends, but the OWF plays none-to-little in that. People in this game rarely go OOC for why they fight, nor should they - it's generally considered below the belt to fight for salty OOC reasons.
Again, the Orbis World Forums are a stage - it's moreso a roleplay to back the in-game actions. We play because the roleplay is fun. P&W itself is questionable in how fun it is, but the roleplay of the OWF makes it all the more engaging.
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13 minutes ago, Phoenyx said:
You're an Alliance of pirates Isjaki. I have heard a few nations in your Alliance don't attack other Alliances, but it seems they are few and far between. Essentially, Nations in your Alliance attack who they feel like attacking, when they feel like attacking. Perhaps if you had a list of conscientious objectors in your Alliance who don't attack other Alliances for raiding purposes, they could have spared those ones.
Given these realities, I understand why another Alliance, when faced with attacks from yours, would band together and attack your entire Alliance. Sure, many of your nations may not have attacked their Alliance, but they could have, if they so chose. Your Alliance has made it clear that they're not interested in NAPs after all.
You don't understand how P&W diplomacy works. At all.
When pirates raid ASM [or any other aa] nations, we just counter that pirate. Nothing major, the pirates are a part of the game and honestly spice things up a little.
When other alliances raid ASM [or any other aa], we send our foreign affairs people [namely myself as this isn't a high gov issue] to the other alliance, and simply ask them to peace out. 99 times out of 100, they'll accept. Same with the event of an ASM member attacking another alliance - their FA person will go to our Discord and discuss the situation, and we will tell our guy to stand down.
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Hello and good morning, Politics & War community!
I didn't introduce myself when I first joined, but 100 days is as good a barrier as any to do so. My name is Alexandra Brython, and I am 22 years old and pangender (Basically I feel all the gender at the same time) - any pronouns work fine but I prefer she/her and they/them. My country in-game is the Brythonic Autonomous Zone, currently C15 with 1800 infra (I bought a few credits when I lost my pizza money one day, built 3 cities at once).
I'm currently the Secretary of [low gov] Foreign Affairs for ASM, and have previously served as a mixed IA-tech role as well as a high gov advisor for them. I've been enjoying the game so far, and have made friends not just in ASM, but also in the Rosecam sphere, TKR, and even CotL. My thankfulness is incredibly high, as i'll soon be moving in with friends I met in P&W. I hope the new year goes well for everybody, both in real life and in game.
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Please stop. We're begging you.
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2 minutes ago, Phoenyx said:
I'm in an Alliance. The billions, not so much :-p. Anyway, conversing with others in this game is what makes it for me. When I started, I was only talking to people within my own Alliance, but once the global war hit, I wanted to know more about it, from both sides. I still do, but at this point, the information I'm trying to get is a lot harder to come by.
Have you considered why said information is getting harder to come by? You leak private conversations with your alliance leaders in the name of "information" that, if i'm going to be quite frank, doesn't even matter. Those in positions of power and trust are not going to keep talking to you if opsec stuff is just gonna get leaked.
I get it. Information good. But it's not so good as to forfeit months or even years of trust in the community. The people in the closed door discussions are people who have spent a long time building up trust and competency in the game. As it stands, you're doing the opposite - lowering your ability to be trusted, especially among those who have the information you seek.
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34 minutes ago, Corpsman said:
Jesus. I'm not even sure what he did, but the fact that he managed to unite the Orbis community into hating him scares me.
Communists, fascists, and liberals sleeping together, mass hysteria!
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Oh gods. It's clear examples don't work, as you just read into them and argue the facts of the examples and not the lessons to be learned.
Let's try pros and cons, aye?
Action: Leaking opsec info
Pros: Get [what you believe to be] the truth out there.
Cons: Violate someone's trust. Lose trust from other members of alliance governments. You may not be believed. You may lose respect. You may be kicked out of your alliance.
Action: Start many forum posts
Pros: Get your words out
Cons: People dislike you more for spamming. Possibly reported for spam. More chance to be seen as a liability.
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Specifically adding onto "When you re-post something that someone told you privately and in confidence, then you insult them and show them that they should not have "trusted" their assumption of privacy and confidentiality."
This, Pheonyx, is why "opsec" exists. Things that are classified as secrets, because them being leaked can negatively impact everybody, be it reputation or otherwise. If somebody had leaked the paperless treaties among Hedge, Rose, etc., then things would have gone on very differently - Quack might not have attacked, the coalition may have never formed or rushed to eachothers mutual defense, etc. If somebody had leaked Quack's plans to attack Rose and/or Hedge (I have heard variations of who they planned on hitting first), Rose/Hedge may have attacked first (if they didn't - again, it is unclear).
"Trust" plays an important role in our community, and the designation of "opsec" is there for the exact reason of "trust" and allowing plans to be safely executed - instead of the details being leaked by any random member, foiling the entire plan. If Quack's plans were leaked, they could have been dogpiled even faster. If Hedge/Rose/etc.'s paperless treaties were leaked, that could have spelt doom to the whole coalition and maybe lose them the war.
By violating this "trust", not only would more people lose pixels (a meaningless thing in a web game, of course), but real life relationships could be severed over the resulting paranoia. This game community allowed me to find a home with comrades. If I had instead leaked everything ASM ever did to RON or something, I could've sacrificed myself to being homeless for Gods knows how much longer.
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That's the thing - what you've "revealed" is kinda public knowledge anyway. All the different spheres gave their public reasons for fighting - but that's irrelevant. The OWF has, is, and always will be a stage. It's kinda like basing your knowledge of the Scottish monarchy off Macbeth. The real action, again, is behind closed doors. The things every alliance / sphere says in public, and what they say in the closed door discussions, is completely different.
There's paperless treaties, different possible CBs, and all sorts of things that I don't have any idea about, and i'm the low gov FA person for ASM. The real politics of this game happens in secret.
Edit: Let me give an example from the real world. In 1618, Bohemian aristocrats chucked a Holy Roman official out of a window in Prague, igniting the Thirty Years War - a conflict that dragged Europe into a decades-long slaughter. The common soldier was fighting for God, be it Catholic rule or Protestant. However, the real reason many of these empires went to war was completely different. King Gustavus Adolfus of Sweden claimed to be fighting in defense of Protestantism - but was really fighting to expand Swedish control in the Baltic and northern Germany. The French rode out to combat the Holy Roman Empire, despite both of them being nominally Catholic - because the French wanted to curb Austrian aggression.
The casus bellis we are given are not the actual causes for war. But we will likely never know what really ignites these things, because they happen in secret and for underhanded reasons. It is not our place to know, and that is why we are not at the negotiation tables.
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Dude, you're C13 and have been playing just slightly longer than I. Let me be clear: We don't know anything. The real foreign affairs work is done at a level higher than you and I would even be aware about. When our alliance and sphere leaders go to discuss things like peace settlements, even people in said alliance govs have very little idea what's going on other than maybe the leader, 2ic, and high gov FA.
The Orbis World Forums are a stage - and the posters here are merely players. You're not going to be able to uncover what goes on in those closed-off talks via postings on the OWF.
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I have to agree w/ @Isjaki
on all this. When the punishment for a swear is equal to a dehumanising, transphobic attack, something is messed up for sure.-
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Another loss to Orbis and the PnW community.
in Orbis Central
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I've never met Stavros, but I hope their final rest is peaceful. Rest in peace.