[A Very Grumpy Announcement]

Congratulations old farts! 

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

The peanut gallery is having a field day with this one! 

 

Cheers!

[[RON Exclusive] Politics are dead!]

I'm afraid I disagree with your assessment of things. I'm not entirely sure when you entered this game Adam but as articulated by Keegoz above, the bi-polar era was extremely predictable and stale. Sydnisphere, succeeded by EMC fought NPO on repeat. Essentially we fought, we NAPed and at the end of the NAP we built up and fought again. Rinse and repeat. Eventually we attempted to move away from that stale politics, and a shift started to occur pre-NPOLT but really never came into full fruition until afterwards. 

Politics right now are extremely lively, the game in my opinion was on a very troubling decline just a couple years ago. However, with this new era of multi-polarity, combined with a influx of new, (younger players:/) the game seems to have gotten a second life. With the various spheres in the game right now, no one truly knows what the next war will be and who will be involved. Pre-NPOLT, everyone knew and on what date the next war would break out, it was like clock work. 

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

21 minutes ago, Hodor said:

Let's switch positions then. Say Grumpy considers it settled after this and we spend a couple months re-asserting that in our private channels. You'll consider it done?

That's something I have no control over anymore. Personally, I'm genuine in wanting to move on. Hence why I'm taking this "when does the revenge end" stance. 

18 minutes ago, WarriorSoul said:

The last war we fought was t$ hitting HW because G/G man bad. How can you credibly say that "oh we'll let bygones be bygones, as long as we get the last laugh"?

You don't get to unilaterally decide to bury the hatchet. Feels like the fine folks at the Syndicate would have the social aptitude to understand that.

Our two sides have been in a perpetual state of tension for an extended period. Both sides got their licks in. We cannot unilaterally bury the hatchet, however we did extend an invitation to do so and that was vehemently denied as we now see. 

If you're unwilling to move on and just want to continue this then so be it, but The Syndicate was and remains stedfast in our hope of moving on and improving relations. If you want to remain vengeful and bitter then take that stance, see where it gets you. 

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

16 minutes ago, Hodor said:

I think parts of this are the closest to being true, but I actually think we have an incredibly candid relationship. We've made it very clear to t$ over the past 8 months or so that we do not consider the ledger cleared or the sheet balanced and that we take issue with the wars you've waged against us. I think we focus on different things, at least I do. The damage isn't the issue here, it's the targeting. You all justify multiple wars because we come out supposedly unscathed in some of them, but an aggressive war is an aggressive war. If you swing at us and miss, you still swung.

As for the efforts to move past this, I think SRD said it best, you punched us in the nose and then immediately were like, "okay, NOW we are good", but we've made it clear that we are not good with that. You'll find no bullshit in Grumpy, we've been straight about this from the get go.

I think our justifications for our previous moves were quite rational, and in response to rhetoric and/or actions from GoB. Duck Hunt was a preemptive strike, we didn't swing and miss, we put our hands up before we got suckered. 

Nonetheless, I really can't be bothered to dig into the history or go back and fourth on who's the bad guy. I can appreciate GoB giving some insight upfront as to their motivations since it seems some are still lacking on that (TKR). If it's revenge, in this case the second revenge war, since Duck Hunt was more or less justified by GoB for t$ hitting them during NPOLT I really don't know when it ends. The line has to be drawn at some point. The Syndicate made efforts since the summer, and this is the response we get. The actions speak loudly that GoB simply isn't ready or willing to move on.  

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

8 hours ago, Buorhann said:

SRD's point is that Grumpy never initiated a fight against Syndicate.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

However, Syndicate always finds a way or reason to initiate on Grumpy.

(Grumpy has initiated fights against others though, like TKR during Chaos vs KETOGG.  Syndicate seems to be the one that has avoided it until now)

The point is moot. There's a long history of tension, rhetoric and aggressive acts from both sides. I'm not going to pretend The Syndicate and GoB have had a candid relationship throughout it's history. However, since the summer The Syndicate has made an effort to put differences aside and move on with the hopes of preventing extended polarity and a perpetual state of tension and conflict between our two sides. Some members of Hollywood were receptive to our invitation of improving relations, but frankly that was obviously a load of bull. We extended our hand, toned down the rhetoric and then get slapped in the face. 

[SYNDICATE, INC., ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE $HAKE-UP]

 

Investor Contact:

Justin

Media Contact:

WANA

SYNDICATE, INC., ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE $HAKE-UP

NASSAU, Bahamas, 2021-12-29: SYNDICATE, INC., (NYSE:SCC) is announcing a $hake-up to it'$ Board of Executive$ upon the retirement of long-time Chief Financial Officer Justin. $ucceeding Justin to become the 8th CFO of $YNDICATE, INC. will be Vemek. Vemek joined the econ team along$ide Justin and $erved as Justin's Vice Pre$ident of Finance throughout the pa$t year. He ha$ proven him$elf to be extremely qualified and capable of carrying out the dutie$ of CFO and outgoing CFO Justin and the entire $YNDICATE, INC. Board of Executive$ ha$ the utmo$t confidence in him in his duty and effort$ to continue to grow the value of the company and the profit$ of it's $hareholder$. 

The Board of Executive$ and entire $YNDICATE, INC. wishe$ to extend their $incerest gratitude and thank$ to outgoing CFO Justin for his dedication and $uccessful policies in $ecuring $trong growth and financial $uccess for the company and it's $hareholders throughout 2021. They al$o thank him for his re$olve in en$uring a $mooth tran$ition for Vemek and not abruptly departing with company a$$ets in order to entrepreneur a failed venture like some other former Associate$ had. 

A$ a ge$ture of thank$ to Justin, the Board has offered him a paid advi$ory po$ition within it, which wa$ gladly accepted. 

 

Given the $hake-up, the Executive Board of SYNDICATE, INC. is now:

Lucas - Chief Operations Officer (IA)

WANA - Chief Global Strategist (FA)

Gray - Chief Security Officer (Milcom)

Vemek - Chief Financial Officer (Econ)

Justin,

Outgoing Chief Financial Officer 

About SYNDICATE, INC.,

SYNDICATE, Inc., based near Nassau, The Bahamas, is the world's leading gasoline, aluminum and munitions distributor for a wide variety of peacekeeping and humanitarian activities. Wholly-owned SYNDICATE, Inc. subsidiary brands include The Enterprise, which provides development and growth opportunities for multinational prodigies around the globe, and The Dead Rabbits. This sentence is here because Hillary lost, Pablo. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact WANA, Chief Global Strategist.

[A Treatise on the Current War]

37 minutes ago, Charles Bolivar said:

Guardian also operates differently than grumpy when it comes to economic policies aimed at encouraging upper tier growth. We have somewhat significantly high taxes (I'm paying 28% last I checked) but we get a good return for these same taxes with these taxes being invested back into city growth allowing for shorter turnaround time between city purchases. Compound growth is just grand.

Yikes, thank you for this. This answers so many of our questions as to why Guardian's growth has been sloth like. 

[A Treatise on the Current War]

1 hour ago, Hodor said:

Why not on our level? Y'all gotta lower them taxes cus we aren't destroying our cities so you got come up to us. My 5 cities before Grumpy were purchased, on average, once every 190 days. Since Grumpy I'm averaging one every 67 days.

I'd love some more company!

GoB isn't the bloated size it is today because it has grown through the traditional means. GoB grew entirely through immigration of the games biggest whales from their traditional/original alliances and spheres to GoB. You are an example of that. 

 

2 hours ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

I hear about how bad we are for the game, but at the same time you dont want to force us to disband.  Yet tS attacks us over and over again because of it, and openly talks about it all over the place.  Almost like they want us to disband, but know that if they outright say it, they become even bigger bad guys.
 

No one in t$ would ever encourage nor want an alliance to disband. GoB is a community and those community members have every right to be and play together. 

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

17 minutes ago, Charles Bolivar said:

It's funny that you mention 20 days. That's about how long you lasted in NPOLT before giving up for the next 9 months only to show up at the end begging for a handout.

I've seen newbs with less than 10 cities and no war chest put in a better effort than that. If you are the best tS can do for gov, it's no surprise they got rolled last war and had to ask Rose for help this war 🤣 

That being said however, I'm happy you are probably getting a win this war. It will be good for your confidence and I don't think anyone could survive another salty tantrum like we had to endure during the last war from yourself. 

I'm glad to see you pulled it together 👍

 

You finally returned I see, you must've spent the whole day drumming this up did you?

In the meantime I had my 20 day old Junior Associate write me up a 10 page essay titled "How to cope with being a has-been in Politics and War". I will have it sent to you right away so you can start the healing process. 

 

Salty tantrum🤣Check your f**king posting history from the past week bro. It's so desperate I pity you at times.

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

28 minutes ago, Hodor said:

Because a tier has utility doesn't mean it is the most effective. I would guess that most people would concede that the mid-tier is the most effective tier to control, but I could be mistaken. I'll update and say the whale tier is certainly more effective than the tiny-tier, but I don't think that was ever in doubt.

This has to be the most meaningless argument to come from your side yet. The fact of the matter is, consolidation of power of any tier is extremely bad for politics and the game. It's a major !@#$-block and only leads to more lopsided wars like we see today. The only alliance in the game guilty of such is GoB so I'm not sure where you're going with this argument. The upper tier is where control starts Hodor and you've been around long enough to know that. Wars are fought top-down. You control the upper tier and it sort of dominos downward since down-declaring is much more effective than up-declaring. As has been said, we don't even need to get into the mechanics or details because war history speaks for itself. 

33 minutes ago, Hodor said:

I know I'm not going to convince you that the previous three wars Grumpy fought in weren't dogpiles, but let's at least acknowledge that is nowhere near universally agreed upon.

Ten-Day wasn't a dogpile?

Duck Hunt wasn't a dogpile?

GnR was supposed to be a dogpile had things went your way. 3/3 on intent, 2/3 on execution. 

 

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

2 hours ago, Charles Bolivar said:

🤣

You lot really have to get a new punchline. Come on boys and girls, you are better than this even if the talent pool is starting to dry up. I have faith in you.

 

🤣

A single 20 day old Junior Associate brings more talent to the table than you could ever put forward Charles. 

 

 

[[Peace] Mercy Mains Unite]

Congratulations on peace and good luck with the rebuild. 

[A Treatise on the Current War]

1 hour ago, BigMorf said:

 

All i’m doing is pointing out the areas where you are seeing things differently than how they were. We get that we are a threat to you by merely existing, and that you saw an opportunity.

TKR signing GG which is a classic and infamous partnership and simultaneously jumping on an non-militarized Rose is not “merely existing”. You got off on the wrong foot from day one and you can’t fault us, Rose or others in this game if our alarm bells started ringing. 
 

[A Treatise on the Current War]

1 minute ago, Indger said:

You need to wait and watch.

No caption needed. 

 

[A Treatise on the Current War]

1 minute ago, Indger said:

I have a bad news for you: We kill snakes.

You and what army? 🤣

17 minutes ago, BigMorf said:

If by considered a target you mean that one person floated the idea and was immediately shot down by the rest of the group then sure. That’s like when the one weird kid in school suggests everyone should indeed jump off a bridge for science and everyone tells him to shut up and keep listening to Green Day. 

"Yes SRD said some things but you cannot take his word seriously"

"Yes you were considered a target but surely not a serious one"

😴

40 minutes ago, Canbec said:

A publicly-listed yet wholly-owned subsidiary? 🤔

Huh? Wholly owned parent, public subsidiary. 

[(RoHt) Orange Man bets on the Moon]

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

2 hours ago, Adrienne said:

Are you new to Orbis?

I've been wondering the same about your side? 

I'm confused as to when ghosting all of a sudden no longer was considered an aggressive act? Intentional or not, multiple members of HW leaving to join KT in a war against a Syndicate ally is and always has been an aggressive act. You can't play the "they were bored and wanted to do something card". You folks have been around long enough to know that is unacceptable and should've put a stop to it or came to us upfront and explained that they left on their own accord and you won't be taking them back. 

Your side did not do that. Instead, you immediately started militarizing when we were forced to militarize in defence of Eclipse. Do you not see how the chain of events unfolded and how your side was coming off to us?

And this is all recent, GoB has been continuously hostile towards The Syndicate dating back a very long time. We were dogpiled by them just over 6 months ago. Before that it was TCW. After us it was Rose. During and after the Rose hit, SRD made it quite clear that if it wasn't them it was us and if not then we're next. When you consider the history and pair it with the recent developments you should be able to understand that you're not innocent. 

And yes, SRD's word is credible. You cannot pass off his rhetoric as a joke as his past actions speak for themselves. 

[Mercy Rule]

Congratulations to The Federation on peace and best of luck moving forward. 

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

People have such short memories it's hilarious. Or they're just pretending. Either way it looks dumb. 

 

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

3 hours ago, YangMoment said:

congrats you spineless f**ks,

 

[Alliances Tier List]

45 minutes ago, WarriorSoul said:

are the people putting kt at/near the top all doing it ironically? gotta be some joke i'm missing out on

KT is amongst the all-time best fighting and most capable alliances in the games history. Their history dates back almost 3 years before you even created your nation and even though they're a shadow of what they once were, they'd still put up amongst the strongest fights you'd get in the game.

[[DoW] Here we go again]

9 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

Its grumpy justin, please at least get the name of the alliance that has embarrassed yours the last few wars correct.

What’s embarrassing is that your own d**kstroking on the forums literally comes off as a parady because of how much of a joke it is. 
 

GOB

9 minutes ago, Hodor said:

Grumpy

GOB

[[DoW] Here we go again]

I can just imagine the effort the great and mighty GOB will make in helping out their Hollywood friends in the tough battle ahead. I fully anticipate the very tough, strong and capable GOB to drop mil to hit low and alleviate some of the pressures their sphere mates face. 
 

No tough, strong and capable alliance such as GOB would ever dream of keeping their score maxed and out of range of their opponents while the rest of their sphere dies. 

[[DoW] Here we go again]

Just now, Kevanovia said:

"wE DiDn'T hAvE sEkRiT tReAtIeS"

HM 2020: Sekret treaties good, must kill t$ man

HM 2021: HOW DARE YOU HAVE SEKRET TREATIES