Sisyphus

Your capacity for hope exceeds even your tenacity for posting.

It would be more productive for representatives of Col A to speak with representatives of Col B if Col B is willing to allow Col A representatives to represent Col B until Col B can come up with a cohesive and comprehensive list of terms. I, of course, nominate Partisan.

When the double buy can change everything:

I wanted to start small before I worked my way up to the big guns.

So we've all learned that Roquentin will: Backpedal on his commitments, or refuse to honor his end of an agreement. Collude with "rivals". Break allied terms of engagement. Insert his alliance into an aggressive war against the wishes and stated goals of his sphere. Actively plot an aggressive war against his own allies/sphere with "unaffiliated" antagonists. Encourage and participate in duplicitous negotiation tactics designed to force players from the game. Promote the concept of disbanding entire communities. Actively infringe upon the sovereignty of his own allies by making external demands on their internal operations. A real example of moral integrity, that. I get that everyone's at least beginning to abandon the pretense that anybody in Col B (who hasn't already left the war) is operating in good faith on any level, and we're all starting to gravitate to the classic "might makes right / bend the knee" angle - but if nothing else let us set the record straight on what parts you'll all be playing postwar: Good Dog or Bad Dog. Servant or Enemy.

Why did you violate the intel clause of your treaty with HS?

Who is Duke Arthur and what did killzbob do to him?

An entertaining political exchange to keep us interested while Farmville is paused is something. On top of the self-satisfaction of exposing the disorganized hypocrisy and confused belligerence of your coalition in the meantime, it's not been so bad tbqh.

I'm pretty sure that's close to the definition of skewed. I believe Partisan meant to ask why you were so wrong.

1. It's not whining, it's all been a pretty standard and even playful approach from him. 2. It has forced your coalition to abandon their Col A obstruction narrative and now you guys are either ducking the assertion entirely or moving on to the next petty, impotent argument. Which is pretty significant for a coalition that literally wants their opponents to disavow the truth as a term for peace. 3. No time was wasted, really. Well, maybe your time has been wasted but we haven't wasted it. It isn't exactly our problem that your coalition partners obstructing the peace process also obstructs your peace as well.

The problem, and I've noticed this with several GOONs posters lately, is that you're responding to posts referencing years of context and background within this game but you're informing your opinions with context from an entirely different game. There's a large gap in your community's understanding of how exactly everyone has arrived to where they are currently at.

On one hand, I think this NAP is pretty silly. On the other hand, knowing what I know about the situation, I can completely understand why Fark doesn't have anything close to a single dog in this fight and would want to telegraph quite certainly that they have no interest in getting involved.

"I'm not saying t$ is on purpose exploiting this." He says after making a whole thread to imply it.

I know that the only intel you get nowadays is whatever you've told BK to repeat back to you but that's just absolutely completely wrong.

Yeah, not gonna bother quoting any specific points but if Roq had experienced my private DMs after we declared on Grumpy and Guardian he'd know better than to tread this line of rhetoric. Though of course, Roquentin isn't opposed to outright lies and deceit though, so he'd probably attempt it anyway.

I wish you'd just grow enough balls to say you wanted to escalate the war instead of slinging around all of this impotent spin.

WE CARED SO MUCH Says the coalition that sent one person to talk to one person that said they had a lot going on IRL but couldn't bother to direct message literally anybody else for a week until they saw a golden opportunity to go on an aggressive war in the middle of good faith negotiations after making outrageous demands.

God forbid you lift a finger. I'm not your keeper.

Now I'm sure it had nothing to do with your caustic and fumbling FA approach at all. Thank you for setting me straight.

Or I wasn't negotiating much at all in those talks more than checking in. I'm actually surrounded by capable government who can handle things while I'm away. I told Phoenix I have a lot going on, and I'm not about to delve into my real life to justify this, but that was two weeks ago when I suggested Phoenix reach out to someone else. And your gonna see my activity taper right back off as things go on beyond this initial upset. Phoenix waited around for a week before reaching out to anyone, just before you escalated by attacking our protectorate.

Except that's precisely false. Of all the narratives you guys vomit out this really is the worst one, informal relationships were burned left and right in pursuit of more dynamic politics, it's unfortunate y'all have locked yourself into your little feedback loop or else you might've actually picked up on that.

(nonchaining) Mutual Defense =/= Optional Aggression I think that's sort of the same argument the NPO is currently trying to make about their recent cynical play, but only because they can't read.

Which one?

Wah?

Yah