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    Project idea: International Monetary Fund

    in Game Suggestions

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    18 hours ago, Joe Schmo said:

    This is just another passive income source. Get whales to bank, then offshore, then let the interest deprecate it. Also, here's a question: does the IMF have infinite money or something? where else does the money come in during a blockade? Airlift?

    It comes from the same place that all of those blockading ships came from. Directly out of someone's arse.

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    some dumb rando rants about gw18 idk

    in Orbis Central

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    On 7/6/2021 at 11:18 AM, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    One of the things I learned this war, is with the new score changes dropping score to get into range is now much harder than it used to be.  With cities and projects my min score is now 4500ns.  Eating nukes on attrition still only lowers your score by 40-50 points.  So even eating around 30 nukes this war it only dropped my score around 1500 points which when starting around 10k is not nearly enough.  Dropping military is also harder with all the military units also be worth less. 

    I know the little guys out there cry about the power of the down declare, trust me its much harder to do now than you think.  Also did you read this everyone in the world? Grumpy not good at fighting, so obviously we are not a threat, stop worrying about how to beat us, because we are easy to kill.

    I will say it again tho, HW power is not from its upper tier, it's from its activity, coordination and effort, atleast when compared to some of the other blocs.

    At C30 I was able to keep finding new targets, but it was usually bleeding edge downdeclares. At least one or two hits I had to make with less than 1 NS of wiggle room. Can't imagine even wanting to be at the absolute city count apex, there'd be nothing to do if I couldn't make the first strike.

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    [Sphere/DoW] We're going to hollywood

    in Alliance Affairs

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    5 hours ago, Dr James Wilson said:

    Child please.   We have had a long history of friendly relations with TKR going back to our founding.   We figured after the quack and oasis downsizes this would lead to continued improvements in our relationship with them post war.   But this is not that.   This is just repeating history.   Those who fail to learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.  And that’s exactly what happened here.   

    educate yourself.  

    What kind of nine dimensional poop smeared rubix cube do you have to have spinning in your zero knot balloon animal brain to call INH a child

    In Light of Recent Events

    in Alliance Affairs

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    4 hours ago, Prefonteen said:

    Hi a a, ii understand there's frustration over some people deliberately bothering aku with transphobic shit. I wholeheartedly denounce that and am sorry aku has had to deal with that. If any such stuff comes from ts camp please do dm me logs and I'll have a word. 

     

    I also want to share a bit of perspective and hopefully nuance. I have twice been dmed by third parties(not aku) aboutme apparently being transphobic. Whether there was discussion resulting in that conclusion somewhere or whether it was just inferred from my owf posts, I don't know.  I figure the latter. 

    In some owf argument, at the time, aku had apparently corrected with a *she in a post. Wrapped up in the ingame argument, I read over it and assumed it was a correction about something ingame (I.e. A who said what).

    ask I was surprised to get a dm from a third party about it. That was the first time I was made aware of her gender change. I promptly dmed aku to let her know  it was unintended and that I'd try to be mindful in the future. 

    The second time was a shorter time ago. Again, somewhere in a discussion I'd used he instead of she. There was no cause or intention behind it; it was a slip up. 

    So I fairly quickly got told I'm transphobic. 

    The thing is... I really don't concern myself with ooc unless it's rubbed in my face. Personally - and I'm certain this can be extrapolated to other experiences-I'm just a dude playing a game. I'm not looking for ooc trouble, I've got plenty on my mind irl and I don't track everything that goes on irl with people I talk to, let alone people I don't talk to.

    I try to make an effort to be chill about stuff like this. In terms of gender I try to defer to whatever is asked because it doesn't concern or hurt me to try. But at the same time I'm human and both probe to habit and error. That's something I can't entirely erase, even if I try. I hope that does not make me transphobic, and I hope that in that case, we can perhaps try to be a bit milder about the distinction on what's deliberate offense and what isn't. 

     

    Hi Partisan,

    I do not believe you are transphobic and have never seen, heard or had any conversations with you that would lead me to believe that you would be- and I've had more than most outside of t$. I'm no longer in any offsite PnW community, but if I ever did come across something specific regarding a t$ member, I would raise it with you.

    Screwing up pronouns by accident is not transphobia. I probably did the same thing all the time internally in CoTL. Screwing up pronouns deliberately, however, is a form of transphobia, and those parties likely assumed that your choice of language was not an accident. For people with zero knowledge of who you are OOC, who may have other pre-existing reasons to want to think the worst of you IC... it's a short sighted and frustrating step, but it happens.

    If there's 1000 active players on the site, there's 1000 different points of view, and each of those individual 1000 points includes a unique sub-point of view on all of the 999 other people they know of. We can be wary of a hot stove, but that doesn't mean we allow half a dozen badly judged impressions out of 1000 others get in the way of standing up for the right thing. Especially when there are people who are absolutely beyond the pale that need to be stood up to, and who are trying to use similar logic to disguise themselves and remain malignant for longer.

    Hope you're doing well, mate.

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    In Light of Recent Events

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted

    While I imagine I'm going to get widely ridiculed, I'd like to point out that Akuryo was not the only person who felt uncomfortable, and I got nowhere. There's been a significant uptick in alt-right content across many communities on this site, and it's everywhere, and it's frankly disgusting. Even within CoTL, there are certain flavour of the month conspiracy theorists that people weren't prepared to do anything about because of the fear of exactly this kind of backlash from the rest of the site. I hope LeftBehind takes a stand on this, because it's somehow become acceptable for transphobic insults to be constantly thrown at Akuryo for everything from CoTL's diplomatic unpopularity to the way RON is run (???).

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    The chain reaction is over.

    in Farewells & Goodbyes

    Posted · Edited by Avakael

    And because I probably should not have forgotten,

    I'd like to thank everyone in CoTL- I'm very proud of what we created there this year. We took the shattered remnants of Soup, Akuryo's bankrupt micro, Acadia, a few other micros and a leadership crew who mostly joined up for the memes, and turned it into an alliance that can both dish out and take one heck of a punch. I wish you all nothing but continued success.

    I'd also like to thank t$ for being home for 3-4 years (timing on when I first joined exactly and when I was at Hogwarts instead is fuzzy). I didn't get along with everyone all the time, and I wish I'd left under less frustrating circumstances, but y'all were probably the strongest alliance I've ever been in in either here or the last game, and as I've played these games for well over a decade, that's saying something. I don't even need to wish you success; you will inevitably find it.

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    The chain reaction is over.

    in Farewells & Goodbyes

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    After 4 years of complaining that the nuclear fallout flag overlay is slightly off centre no matter what the dimensions of the uploaded flag are, and getting nowhere, I have decided that I can take it no longer, and have elected to commit eternal 100/100.

    For real, though, when I play a game like this, I aspire to be a model member and the most effective fighter in whatever alliance I participate in. Unfortunately, working full time in Australia precludes both of these things, and even on the weekends, I'm struggling to give a damn. I have no desire to be mediocre, so I'm calling time, and assigning my nation to act as a tax farm.

    My friends know where to contact me.

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    Where to now, Immortals and TFP?

    in Orbis Central

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    On 12/8/2020 at 1:38 AM, Phoenyx said:

    Speaking as a member of an Immortals Protectorate and a former member of TFP, I am hoping that we get some news as to what they are planning on doing now. The first thing that springs to mind is if this changes things in relation to their current war with Quack. 

    Why do you speak at all?

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