Shellhound

I'd prefer if we tried to stay away from the current events, while theyre certainly relevant I think by bringing them up the thread will only devolve unto a multi page monstrosity of people insulting each other.

With this newest war the subject of OOC/IC has been brought up, with the other threads it's usually brought up in a way to blame others, spread propaganda, or talked about in the context of the situation. With this thread I'd like to step away from all of that and have an actual discussion on OOC/IC and how we as a community should treat it. I believe this is something that needs to be talked about, anyone who's played (That terrible game that is totally irrelevant and I shouldn't be bringing it up anyways) or eRepublik knows what it's like when the lines between the game and RL get blurred. For clarification on that, personally speaking I've made several RL friends from the game, this is not what I'm talking about however, I'm specifically talking about when someone takes their IC issues with someone and bring in their RL problems as a means to insult, discredit, or harass them. There are levels to this just like with anything else, sometimes RL gets brought in as a joke, jokes about age, sexual preferences, the sexual activity of their mothers, etc. Now this, while sometimes annoying, is not inherently bad in my opinion. This is normally the type of behavior you'd find among friends, it's not one that I find to be particularly troubling, when it gets to be a problem is when it turns from a few jokes here and there to actual harassment. Players repeatedly or viciously insulting others on the OWF, IRC, skype, whatever. Now, an in-game context this is pretty much expected to happen. While it can be annoying, you can't really stop people from doing this and I personally wouldn't want to. When it gets into OOC though, that's when it becomes not only hurtful, but dangerous as well. When this sort of OOC trolling becomes tolerated and accepted by the community it starts to open the door for terrible things to happen. In a conversation last night with Oblige we talked about OOC trolling in some of the other games we've played, he mentioned that someone in eRep had to go so far as to get a restraining order, in (That terrible game that is totally irrelevant and I shouldn't be bringing it up anyways) there were issues such as biodad and things that I personally just don't want to get into here due to how dark they are. I don't want this community to have to go through issues like that, while our community is routinely criticized (generally by our own community) for trollishness I'd like for us to be above OOC attacks on each other, because I have seen how nasty it can get. If you think this issue with Mensa or even Ashlands post was bad, that was nothing. It does get worse. I think we as a community need to have a discussion on this and bring it out into the light, do people see OOC attacks as an issue, is it something that we can do something about, what's an acceptable response from alliances when another alliance starts going OOC, etc.

It didn't, but the beauty of the gif is how versatile it is, it can apply to anyone at anytime.

Your tears taste delicious.

So, I read the first three pages before I had to take a smoke break because jesus !@#$ing christ guys. The whambulance is in full effect today I suppose. You all knew this was coming, maybe not them switching up and hitting Vanguard, but tactically it's a sound choice, for both political reasons and due to the fact that Vanguard is the weakest link (no offense intended there), you blitz them and hopefully take them out and you have one less threat to deal with before you get bogged down with VE and Rose. This little feud has been building for a while now, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone unless you've been living under a rock or you're new. As for the CB, we all know what the CB was. Let's not bullshit around and pretend like Rose is an innocent child in this. When it reaches above and beyond a certain point consequences are to be expected. These are the consequences.

I can't be assed to read this thread but I assume this applies to someone here <removed for filter evasion> Probably Impero or some !@#$, idk man, I've got !@#$ to do.

I agree, Roy does kinda suck. o/t$ (-Roy ofc) o/Mensa #I'mSorryButAlmighty>Dio

I like to think that at this point the mods just accept that this is what I do and no longer care. Though I'm probably wrong.

For the record if he was banned for that copypasta I would definitely find a reason to post it somewhere. Sheepy's absolutely right in the fact that at least 10 more would post it.

You remember when I said "I hope this works out as well as last time"? It is.

Join the syndicate &#33;@#&#036; Also, I should probably read the post before opening up spoilers in the future >.>

For the record, Cynic didn't quit. I won't say anymore than that however.

ayy lmao

Glad to see you in charge Hodor, I'm sure you'll do great.

Sheepy, can you make it to where if you're in the same alliance as someone (an actual member) you can see other members spy counts? That kind of information's super helpful for IA/Military.

You speak with the power of a thousand nations right now.

So does this mean you don't want that 300 steel back? You're a pain in the ass.

Skyrim is for the nords, Thalmor scum.

[02:12] <~Sheepy> http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/forum/42-alliance-affairs/ [02:12] <~Sheepy> Whoops [02:12] <~Sheepy> http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7352-tdx-ministry-of-economics-internal-investigative-report/ [02:12] <~Sheepy> It's not my place to post in there [02:12] <~Sheepy> http://pastebin.com/uRdKLFc0but this is the response I had typed up [02:12] <Shellhound> Sheepy, you can't say something after you ignored my request to skype you. [02:12] <~Sheepy> Will someone please post something similar at least, and call them out on their faulty math [02:13] <~Sheepy> Using his most recent tax record is ridiuclous Sheepy wants you to read the pastebin.

Get rekt

Shellhound9, currently tier 3 Cruiser though I'll likely be going with battle ships as soon as I can unlock one.

ME > PW Edit: sheepy, why did you link ME back to PW? I still want to mortar people on mars dammit. I need that kind of satisfaction in my life. Let me explore the 'verse.

His bank transaction seem to be just a little bit suspect.

From what I understand Malone was bringing it to light to the general community and had planned on exiting the game entirely until him and Sheepy talked about it and he became an admin. He wasn't involved in trying to track down anyone or anything like that.