[Return to the OWF, fellow Orbisans]

Well said (and thanks for taking the time to write it), would be lovely to have more activity here. 😄 Forums certainly do have a few appeals that chatrooms do not, even back during IRC - and I'm not just saying that because my decrepit mind and body can't keep up with these damn zoomers in real-time chat. >_>

[[RoH] Lean Wit Me]

8 hours ago, Agent W said:

I mean, at any given moment, if you think that I am high, there's at least a 25% chance you're correct. 

You ever hear that some people apparently play P&W sober? I cannot possibly imagine.

[2021 Academy Award Nominations]

2 hours ago, Adrienne said:

@Belisarius @Kurdanak I, too, was disappointed when seeing those shortlisting results. I am sorry the alliance representatives do not share your eye for art.

Don't worry, shooting the messenger was simply the first step of many in my long campaign of terror. Next is @Aero. 💀

[2021 Academy Award Nominations]

Actual clip of @Adrienne spitting in my face both literally and metaphorically when delivering these shortlisting results:

@alliance representatives, you wound me. 😔

[[DoW] A Grumpy Old Bastard's Declaration of War]

12 hours ago, Placentica said:

Stop your crying you huge bag of pump and dump breastmilk.

A wayward Steve shitpost? Man, this war really does have everything. 

[TFP Yeets Camelot]

The fact that people ally Epi and expect anything other than disaster still baffles me, but congrats nevertheless!

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

5 hours ago, Zed said:

 

 

The people have spoken. The content god demands content. Walls of text have been demanded. People do not want radio silence!

Just doing my part, friend.

Not bad! Make that 20k+ characters, Partisan - lest you lose your WoT crown.

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

rise and shine, @Prefonteen

15k+ characters or bust.

(I know he was coming back soon either way, lol)

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

It'd be neat if you posted like this more often, HC - but I don't blame you for avoiding it.  Whether one agrees with it or not, well said, indeed.

[[RoH] This is a Very Serious Matter]

1 hour ago, Sval said:

Relish on Hamburgers.

HW still looking for a CB? I think this'll do. 

[[Treaty] Cats with Bread]

@Lysander your hunger games thing is over here predicting the future. 😰

Congrats!

[[DoE+Treaty] Cancelled plans leads to new connections.]

10 hours ago, Aiya said:

the same way that clowns all fit into the same car.. magic, of course.

@Magic 😏 I should've known you had a hand in this, you sly dog.

[[DoE+Treaty] Cancelled plans leads to new connections.]

4 hours ago, Vexz said:

We are passing @Harry Flashman's lighter in the bathroom... right guys? That's what we are all about... right?

Cheers! Excited to fly high with you all. 😉

[Hungry Hungry Romans]

On 1/13/2022 at 9:48 PM, Justinian the Great said:

Lawyer up, bud!

 lol I see you weren't joking. Thank god we had a 7 year head start, though at this rate we'll have to pick up the pace even still.  

22 hours ago, Michael Gary Scott said:

Does this mean you guys have officially passed Rose in most micros absorbed? 

 

[Press Release From The Galatic Empire]

29 minutes ago, hidude45454 said:

Woah buddy, that right there is a Rose trademarked strat - you'll be hearing from our legal team, @Justinian the Great.

[2021 Academy Award Nominations]

2 hours ago, Nukey6 said:

Half the space on this page has been used for shitposting. why

Bro in two days you'll have been in BK for a year (congrats!), and you're asking this question?
 

[2021 Community Award Nominations]

Biggest Controversy: HW formation/immediately rolling into Rose
Best Discord Server: DNN
Best Ad (please link): 100+ upvote Pika poach ad - 
Best Community Contributor: hidude
Best New Addition to the Community: Velyni Vas
Sexiest Voice: Redarmy

[2021 Player Award Nominations]

Player of the Year: Valk
Most Influential Player: Vexz
Most Likely to Succeed in 2022: Vice
Best Alliance Leader: Valk
Worst Alliance Leader: YM
Best In-Character Poster: WANA
Best Villain: DtC Justice
Nicest Player: Aiya
Most Controversial Player: Placentica (Steve)
Most Missed Player: Theo
Best Fighter: hidude
Best Nation Page: Dream

[2021 Alliance Award Nominations]

6 hours ago, Kurdanak said:

You already know why I'm here.

Best Holiday Flag: The Immortals:

oh and just for shits and giggles:

Alliance of the Year: Eclipse (not sure what's up with all these Rose-sphere peeps shilling for Eclipse, but I'm here for it)
Most Improved Alliance: Eclipse
Best Rookie Alliance: VooDoo
Best Alliance for New Players: Rose
Most Likely to Succeed in 2022: The Legion
Most Likely to be Rolled in 2022: Cataclysm
Most Honorable Alliance: Guardian
Most Immoral Alliance: Alpha
Best Fighting Alliance: HoF
Worst Fighting Alliance: Atlas Technological Cooperative (negative net in a winning war 🥴)
Best Alliance Growth: The Wei
Best Foreign Affairs Team: Rose
Best Foreign Affairs Move: Brawlywood
Worst Foreign Affairs Move: Oasis - Mystery MDP
Alliance with Best Propaganda: The Wei
Most Missed Alliance: Chocolate Castle
Best Alliance Flag (please link): Weebunism (https://politicsandwar.com/uploads/4ab3fc36a5daf2e585c8ea6a00ac21ee8e7ec04d500x300622.png)

[2021 Academy Award Nominations]

Well said, @Belisarius 👏 to scholars such as yourself, every pixel is already burnt into your retinas beyond repair (and joyfully so!). However for the sake of the masses, I'd beware posting The Immortals Holiday Flag ™️ in such a brilliantly high resolution - it is...truly powerful to behold. 

[2021 Academy Award Nominations]

  New year, new opportunity to make the right fricking choice this time. 😤

On 1/1/2021 at 10:33 PM, Kurdanak said:

One that I'd like to get out of the way right now, is Best Holiday Flag:

Now, I know what you're thinking, "holy shit is that flag awful," and you're not wrong. But just take a few minutes to really take it in. What on Earth is that texture on the red background? The rendering is uncanny. The gold on red contrast is poor, but I can get over that - however, it should be noted that the snowflake colour scheme is consistent except for one single snowflake. I get the ankh, because, you know, The Immortals. But centre-scene, the early 2000s CGI Santa popping out through Christmas wrapping paper background? Truly astounding.

It's so bad that it's practically a work of art. Whoever made this, know that I'm so very disappointed in you, but I also have a deep, immense respect for having created an atrocity of this scale.

On 1/1/2021 at 11:00 PM, Belisarius said:

I would second Kurdanak’s nomination for Best Holiday Flag belonging to The Immortals.

Look at it! Look at it! In the history of vexillology I do not think there has been a flag as awe inspiring as this. We throw around the word “awesome” too frequently, to denote a good thing like a tasty cheeseburger. But this flag, this thing, is awesome in the traditional sense: it is to behold the face of an uncaring diety as we watch the Earth crumble under the weight of a ravenous Sun. If one were to imagine a contemporary take on Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias,” we would not behold the decaying monument to a forgotten Pharaoh. No, it would be The Immortals Holiday Flag.

Pablo Picasso is to have once said: "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.” Is this not true with the Immortal’s Holiday Flag? A cretin, on first blush, will remark that the Immortal Holiday Flag has no good sense, no redeeming quality. Is the field supposed to be a pixelated simulacrum of wrapping paper? Are we supposed to see the Santa jumping out of the ankh as a friend, ushering in the bacchanalian merriment of the holidays, or a threat about our transient place in the universe? And why the unnaturally large snowflakes?

But these incongruities, the inherent heterogeneities found within the Immortals Holiday Flag are the literal embodiment of the adage: "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Individually, each aspect is a betrayal to all good sense. But as Picasso knew full well, the Immortals Holiday flag, in bravely subverting the good senses of existence, has made the most creative of creative endeavors. When I first witnessed this flag, I knew I was looking at a work of sublime genius. If there is any evidence for the existence of a benevolent God, is this not it? Thomas Aquinas had nothing on the Immortals Holiday Flag. 

Indeed, one wonders if art is at an end. Once the summit of the highest peak has been surmounted, what else is there to do? Indeed, once perfection has been reached, why bother? Was Fukuyama right that the end of history is at hand? Maybe not with regards to the fall of Soviet communism, but certainly with the Immortals Holiday Flag. I feel a melancholy that we will never see anything like this ever again. I grieve for us as this flag is both a culmination of human achievement, but also a clarion call that there is no better future out there. 

But yeah, totally best holiday flag for 2020 👌

 

[2021 Alliance Award Nominations]

You already know why I'm here.

Best Holiday Flag: The Immortals:

[Curiosity Kills Dogs Too]

[[Treaty] A Hollywood Productions Press Release]

I'm just here for the Deulos downvote, looks like a great chance to add to the collection. As such, best of luck! Especially to TKR!!

[[Treaty]TFP Finds Its Johnson: An Adoption Story]

please let me off the cursed timeline, I'm scared 😰