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  1. 1 minute ago, James II said:

    *Cries fowl over alleged consolidation*
    *Consolidates*
    *Gets  mad when people criticize them for ACTUALLY consolidating*

    *replies without quoting anyone*

    *no one knows who you are talking about*

    *mystery maintained*

  2. 3 hours ago, Sisyphus said:

    The Syndicate and its affiliates* declare war on the alliances of Guardian and Grumpy Old Bastards.

    The Rules

    1.) This is not a result of hard feelings. This is strictly business.

    2.) The Syndicate and its affiliates have no intent to expand their war on the coalition currently fighting the Black Knights and their allies beyond Guardian and Grumpy Old Bastards. 

    3.) Any counters upon The Syndicate and its affiliates by any alliance outside of Guardian and Grumpy Old Bastards will be met with extreme prejudice. 

    *The term "affiliates" refers to any party committed to this effort, announced and unannounced.

    We're attacking you, but NONE OF YOUR ALLIES CAN ATTACK US OK? OK?? BECAUSE WE'LL BE REALLY MAD OK, LOSING WARS IS FOR LOSERS AND YOU CAN'T MAKE US. 

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  3. 3 hours ago, Buorhann said:

    He re-read the farewell post, which I VERY MUCH CLARIFIED why our community left (Not just 1 change, Curu, but multiple poorly timed changes).

    I didn’t want to address his post because, well, he’s an idiot.

    By the way, how long did we keep our alliance tie with BK after Curu fricked that up for us?  Wasn’t it just 14 hours?

    Remembering would require giving a shit, so... no fricking clue. The game got really boring, we basically "won" as Pfeiffer always claims, etc. I guess you could call that a failure on our part to "sustain interest" but I think that's a stretch. 

    Most of those of us who remain are what we call "2 clickers" in Guardian, except for Vanek because he is a legendary machine. 2-clicking is a level of activity far, far below whatever might be required to remember or understand half of what Curu wrote in his post above...

  4. I see two problems here:

    1) We are consistently smarter than this game, and whenever we prove it, Alex looks for ways to keep people from outsmarting him. This is not a winning strategy long-term. 

    2) Alpha are the sorest, whiniest losers this game has ever known. Their entire strategy is to lose with lots of fireworks. Virtually every member of Alpha has terrible, terrible kill/death stats. Have they ever actually won a war? 

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  5. Sad to see this. Hopefully Rose is strong enough to make this work, I'm happy to have played a small part in sustaining Rose by sealing the Mensa/Rose alliance and hope that its new incarnation survives to decide that our side is the right side after all ;-P 

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  6. The war so far v5

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    valid CB

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  7. All good points.  I think meeting with either school (or non-school) could probably be very beneficial and to your first part, that might be part of the schools protocol....I don't know.  I wouldn't say having a cop follow him around everywhere, just check his bags everyday at the beginning of school at the schools foyer and random checks of his locker.  As to teaching kids to recognize the signs of someone getting ready to have an "acute breakdown" and how to react in that kind of situation would be a daunting task as every kid is different and every situation is different.  From "Freeze", "Fight" or "Flight" people react differently.  In the same situation, person "A" might fight, while person "B" freezes.  In another situation, person "A" might take "Flight" while person "B" fights.  It's hard to say how to react or what to do to a bunch of teenagers.  Hell, 20 years in the Navy doing security work as a collateral duty, we trained and trained in various scenarios....schools can't really take the time to train for varying or fluid situations.  

     

    School shootings aren't a new issue. There is lots of training out there for mass shooting / mass casualty events. I'm sure you remember bomb threats from when you were in school - the school reaction was to basically slowly and lazily walk kids out of the building into the adjacent parking lot, wait for a few fire department reps to walk through the school and give the all clear, and then everyone went back to class. The modern protocols to respond to threats are drastically different - electronic lockdown of classrooms (no evacuations), police sweeps through every inch of school buildings, significant training to teachers on how to minimize risk, hardened physical plants (strong doors with puncture resistant and opaque windows, video monitoring equipment, etc.), and so on. 

     

    Bottom line - smart people have spent decades working on this issue and have developed a deep book of measures to mitigate risk. Don't assume that there are no useful and effective steps that can be taken other than painting a social target on one kid by having him frisked and surveilled indefinitely by police. 

  8. wait so if i decom all my troops in the middle of a war, as long as i don't look at my nation page, my score will stay artificially high?

     

    thats fun info to have.

     

    Need to test whether it refreshes *only* if you view your own page, or also if someone else views it... And if there is some tick, whether turn or otherwise, that refreshes it even if a view hasn't happened after some period of time. 

  9. Jeez thats horrible :(

     

    If I were you I'd go as high up as possible because that's really serious. I know if I were a parent I wouldn't accept for one second knowing that kid would be allowed anywhere near my child/children again.

     

    If your school district has a superintendent or something I'd maybe go to them?

     

    Im in 10th grade currently, so I'm not entirely sure how far you could/would be able to go with it

    But I'd atleast start there if possible

     

    Have some empathy. A troubled kid who hasn't hurt anyone needs time with a counselor and an intervention in his life circumstances by responsible adults, not a permanent bar from public education starting in grade school. Social isolation and harsh treatment make it more likely, not less, that he will break. 

     

    As for Sailor Jerry, he should teach his kid to understand signs that one of his classmates might have an acute breakdown, and teach him also how to react in that kind of situation. And instead of urging the school to have the suspended kid followed around by a cop, maybe he should ask the principal to have experts meet with all students to discuss school shootings, how to intervene with troubled children, and what steps teachers and kids can take to be safe. 

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