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Couldn't be a wuss. Had to break out the old art skills for this one. See new post.
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27 minutes ago, Gaius Julius Caesar said:
Caesar sat in his office in Nassau, drinking his whiskey and staring out the window at the darkness of night as he pondered the great questions of life, the questions that kept him up at night. What is the meaning of life? Are we alone in the universe? What happens after we die? When will Sisyphus come back from getting the milk? His pondering was disturbed however by the chime of his phone on his desk informing him he had an new notification, leading him to turn away from the window.
Checking his phone Caesar saw he had received an email, and upon opening it he was greeted by the symbol of a griffon, and a request for a meeting underneath. After a moment's thought, Caesar dialed a number on his phone calling for a meeting of the Executive Board, followed by a second call requesting a meeting with his comrades in The Legion. It seemed that his pondering would have to wait for another night, there was business that needed to be handled.
Within the week, a meeting was set to be held on neutral ground. The members of the Executive Board as well as Imperator Kiwiwilliam and Praetor David Ben-Gurion of The Legion entered the hall, greeted by the sight of a group of people entering the hall from the other side. Caesar recognized them, Memph, Synthesis, JtTeE, Vanek, and Johnkal from Guardian, as well as someone from Oblivion who definitely either was or was not Ockey. As all present took their seats at the table within the hall, the first to speak was JtTeE, "We may have found ourselves on the opposite sides of the battlefield a number of times over the past few years, but we have never held any ill will towards T$, nor Legion. We requested this meeting in the hopes of finding common ground, and shared interests, for the sake of finding a path to working together."
Caesar nodded, "If peace, cooperation, and friendship is what you desire, then I've no reason to refuse. Let us have peace, and let our friendship and cooperation be fruitful and long lasting. Orbis asks for logs whenever drama happens, and people argue. If Orbis wants logs, then let us see how they feel about these LOG$."
As handshakes were exchanged, documents were signed, and people posed for photos, Chief Operations Officer President Tom could be found looking wistfully towards the sky, and was later quoted saying, "I just wish Lucas were still here to see this. He would have loved to see things return to the old days." Executive Emeritus Lucas, who retired just over one year ago and has since relocated to Exegol, was known to have formerly been a member of the alliance Guardian, but sadly could not be reached to provide a statement about his thoughts on the signing of the treaty and the formation of the sphere.
The Legion, Oblivion, Guardian, and The Syndicate, announce the formation of LOG$.
Article I: Non-Aggression
All signatories hereby agree to enter into a state of non-aggression with one another for the entire duration of these accords and agree to never conspire or commit acts of espionage against one another. All parties agree to not give any form of aid or assistance to any alliance or individual that a signatory of this treaty is militarily engaged with.Article II: Mutual Defense & Optional Aggression
All signatories agree to work closely together in times of war. Should one signatory find itself at war with another alliance, the others are obligated to defend them. When any party is preparing to declare a state of war between themselves and another alliance, the other signatures are welcome to, but not obligated to assist them
Article III: Aid
Should any signatories come into need of aid of either political or financial aid, they may request such support as is necessary from the other signatories. It is recognized, however, that this request is in no way an obligation.
Article IV: Intelligence
If one signatory comes into possession of or is made aware of important information, be that military, economic, or political in nature, they are required to share said information with the other signatories.
Article V: Cancellation
Participation in these accords may be withdrawn from at any time. The cancelling party must give the other signatories a notice of their intent to withdraw from these accords at least 72 hours in advance. These accords shall remain in effect until this time period passes, at which point, the withdrawing party is not beholden to the terms of this treatySigned For The Legion
Imperator: kiwilliam
Praetor: David Ben-Gurion
Consul of Military Affairs: _RobSigned for Oblivion
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Ockey 08
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Vanek26Signed For The Syndicate
Chief Global Strategist (FA): Tarroc
Chief Operations Officer (IA): President Tom
Chief Security Officer (Milcom): Flaredragon
Chief Financial Officer (Econ): Shiho NishizumiAbout 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. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Tarroc, Chief Global Strategist.
Shout-out to all of the Ockeys I couldn't name/list because they would make the forum post stretch into eternity if I did. You all have a special place in my heart.
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Caesar sat in his office in Nassau, drinking his whiskey and staring out the window at the darkness of night as he pondered the great questions of life, the questions that kept him up at night. What is the meaning of life? Are we alone in the universe? What happens after we die? When will Sisyphus come back from getting the milk? His pondering was disturbed however by the chime of his phone on his desk informing him he had an new notification, leading him to turn away from the window.
Checking his phone Caesar saw he had received an email, and upon opening it he was greeted by the symbol of a griffon, and a request for a meeting underneath. After a moment's thought, Caesar dialed a number on his phone calling for a meeting of the Executive Board, followed by a second call requesting a meeting with his comrades in The Legion. It seemed that his pondering would have to wait for another night, there was business that needed to be handled.
Within the week, a meeting was set to be held on neutral ground. The members of the Executive Board as well as Imperator Kiwiwilliam and Praetor David Ben-Gurion of The Legion entered the hall, greeted by the sight of a group of people entering the hall from the other side. Caesar recognized them, Memph, Synthesis, JtTeE, Vanek, and Johnkal from Guardian, as well as someone from Oblivion who definitely either was or was not Ockey. As all present took their seats at the table within the hall, the first to speak was JtTeE, "We may have found ourselves on the opposite sides of the battlefield a number of times over the past few years, but we have never held any ill will towards T$, nor Legion. We requested this meeting in the hopes of finding common ground, and shared interests, for the sake of finding a path to working together."
Caesar nodded, "If peace, cooperation, and friendship is what you desire, then I've no reason to refuse. Let us have peace, and let our friendship and cooperation be fruitful and long lasting. Orbis asks for logs whenever drama happens, and people argue. If Orbis wants logs, then let us see how they feel about these LOG$."
As handshakes were exchanged, documents were signed, and people posed for photos, Chief Operations Officer President Tom could be found looking wistfully towards the sky, and was later quoted saying, "I just wish Lucas were still here to see this. He would have loved to see things return to the old days." Executive Emeritus Lucas, who retired just over one year ago and has since relocated to Exegol, was known to have formerly been a member of the alliance Guardian, but sadly could not be reached to provide a statement about his thoughts on the signing of the treaty and the formation of the sphere.
The Legion, Oblivion, Guardian, and The Syndicate, announce the formation of LOG$.
Article I: Non-Aggression
All signatories hereby agree to enter into a state of non-aggression with one another for the entire duration of these accords and agree to never conspire or commit acts of espionage against one another. All parties agree to not give any form of aid or assistance to any alliance or individual that a signatory of this treaty is militarily engaged with.Article II: Mutual Defense & Optional Aggression
All signatories agree to work closely together in times of war. Should one signatory find itself at war with another alliance, the others are obligated to defend them. When any party is preparing to declare a state of war between themselves and another alliance, the other signatures are welcome to, but not obligated to assist them
Article III: Aid
Should any signatories come into need of aid of either political or financial aid, they may request such support as is necessary from the other signatories. It is recognized, however, that this request is in no way an obligation.
Article IV: Intelligence
If one signatory comes into possession of or is made aware of important information, be that military, economic, or political in nature, they are required to share said information with the other signatories.
Article V: Cancellation
Participation in these accords may be withdrawn from at any time. The cancelling party must give the other signatories a notice of their intent to withdraw from these accords at least 72 hours in advance. These accords shall remain in effect until this time period passes, at which point, the withdrawing party is not beholden to the terms of this treatySigned For The Legion
Imperator: kiwilliam
Praetor: David Ben-Gurion
Consul of Military Affairs: _RobSigned for Oblivion
Ockey00
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Memph
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Vanek26Signed For The Syndicate
Chief Global Strategist (FA): Tarroc
Chief Operations Officer (IA): President Tom
Chief Security Officer (Milcom): Flaredragon
Chief Financial Officer (Econ): Shiho NishizumiAbout 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. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Tarroc, Chief Global Strategist.
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Investor Contact:
Shiho Nishizumi
Media Contact:
Tarroc
NASSAU, Bahamas, 2024-11-21
As the Media Contact of SYNDICATE, Inc., (NYSE:SCC), it is my great pleasure to announce today marks 10 years of our existence. We offer our thanks to all who have stood with us over the past ten years, both those who still find themselves playing this game and to those who have moved on to green pastures beyond the screen.
I would like to give a particular nod of acknowledgement and thanks to our Founding Generation of leaders, those being Partisan, Roy Mustang and Manthrax, as well as to government figures over the years whose impact was instrumental in making T$ what it is now, such as Jessica Rabbit, Zed, Lucas, Sisyphus (Wilhelm), Leopold von Habsburg, WANA, Chaunce, and Tim.
Similarly, I offer thanks to our friends and allies in The Legion, and to all of our former allies over the years, for being by our side at whatever point in our history we might have been allies. Each of you has left your mark upon us and helped shape us into the alliance we are today, we would not be where we are today without your friendships.
I welcome any and all of you to stop by the T$ Discord server for festivities, and socializing.
About SYNDICATE, Inc.
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. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Tarroc, Chief Global Strategist
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A well fought war to everyone involved.
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2 hours ago, Buorhann said:
Didn’t TFP give you their word they would be waiting for the war’s conclusion before allying up with Sing/CIS?
TFP isn’t known to hold devious intentions.
My conversation with TFP happened weeks into the war. As I lack the ability to time travel, despite my attempts to achieve such technology so I can go back and prevent myself from ever playing PnW and getting sucked into the madhouse, my conversation with them could not have swayed my leanings on whether or not to worry over intervention. As for TFP not being known to hold devious intentions, Eclipse, who had been an ally to TFP at the time that war was beginning, publicly stated that TFP had been plotting against SAIL with third parties, which was the sort of thing I was looking to avoid being the victim of.
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14 hours ago, Sketchy said:I will restate my initial DOW position in it's simplest form.
Syndicate chose to attack an alliance, because that alliance wanted to do something in the future with us. We were already engaged in a war with you, and you attempted to further weaken us in the future, by eliminating people who would sign us. Tarroc laid this out in the screenshot that I posted in my response to him.
Syndicate wanted this war to happen, and thought you could weaken our position in advance by doing so. Well it's happening now. You seem to be under the impression this is us crying foul. No, it's merely us acknowledging your disposition and the lengths you'll go in order to secure victory.
Your attempt to redirect the conversation after Tarroc's blunders is noted. You painted a clever picture, unfortunately almost none of it is relevant to any of the claims I've made.
At no point have I ever suggested the Florida war itself as an issue. I don't care Syndicate hit us, nor do I care that it was a dogpile. My primary objection with Syndicate at the time was the treaty signed (and the inherent hypocrisy of it) and the CB presented, which Tarroc himself has already conceded was bs. Of course, I consider that rather convenient, as it had it's intended purpose, which was to pressure the breaking of Florida, and then, conveniently consolidate into the gap left behind. Bit late to be copping to that now I'd think.
And yet earlier it was said they were needed for a war against us. So which is it?
Not entirely sure why you guys are still trying so hard to deny this. The entire premise of our accusation is you were intentionally obfuscating numbers. You've conceded without us even needing to pressure you much, that those were your numbers, so make up your mind. These alliances were tied directly to your sphere, and no one else.
It's honestly amusing at this point you guys still cling to this shit.
I already touched on most of this in my response to Tarroc, whose points you are just repeating, but I am glad you brought up that last part.
The entire purpose of separating out the peace talks, and forcing us to concede to other parties first, was so you didn't have to tell them to knock it off. That's my entire point. If what you were saying is true, you could have easily bundled the two peace talks together, and had that conversation, which is what we had initially expected would happen, since WTF themselves was calling it all part of the same war lmfao.
You are just lying. SAIL was indeed about to postpone it's own peace over a hold-up with WTF/UPN, because that's exactly what you wanted. That's why Syndicate sent us to them first, and refused to give us your terms until we had agreed to theirs. And that was true 1 month into the war.
You keep harping on the 2 weeks thing, and us "having our fun and wanting out". The reason we approached early was not because we expected you to peace us out after 2 weeks, the reason we approached earlier is because we expected the peace negotiations to be contentious, and for it to take multiple weeks for us to resolve peace at all. And that proved true, since after a month had passed, you had still not given us any terms.
Not two weeks, a month. We had no reason to expect you to deal in good faith, as you hadn't been up until that point. Tarroc was publicly gloating about peeling away protectorates as I recall. I didn't bother to mention that in our first post, because frankly it's not important to me, other than as another example of where things were. Contrast that to the Fortuna war for example, which ended without any delay tactics or drama.
And there it is. I was wondering when you would get around to complaining about dogpiles again. After already conceding in this thread that you were planning to dogpile us. The handwringing over the size of the coalition is hilarious to me.
Let's get two things straight. A dogpile is a dogpile, the gap in the size of the dogpile doesn't matter. Once you are dogpiling someone, more nations isn't going to make a difference to that outcome. This war is a dogpile. Just like Syndicates last two wars against us were dogpiles. Get off your high horse. You've admitted to securing numbers to make it impossible for us to defeat you. Syndicate has a long history of doing this, as do most majors now at this point.
Secondly, we started building this coalition months ago, long before you lost all of your allies. The numbers were closer then, obviously. We have watched as Syndicate has lost allies over the period. Could we have perhaps scaled back the size of the coalition? Sure. But why? Would you do the same for us? Of course not, you've already admitted so. Those alliances wanted to fight. Strong-arming people out of the coalition so we could have more slots, is not something I'm interested in doing. I appreciate the support of our coalition partners.
Like I said in my DoW. You reap what you sow, and I have no qualms paying you back for things you do. I don't care if you dogpile me. It's never been part of my complaint against Syndicate. I only ever bring up dogpiles when people complain about dogpiles. In fact, if you guys had simply hit us outright, without all of these word salad attempts to justify your behaviour, we wouldn't even be having these longwinded debates right now.
I'm sure that, in time, Singularity will be dogpiled again. And perhaps someone will screenshot this, thinking it a political victory or to use it as some sort of premature justification. But my position isn't going to change, I'll continue to object to any ridiculous CB's or silly arguments made, but I'm not going to sweat a dogpile if it happens. Winning and losing is part of the cycle of the game, we had our turn to lose, now it's yours. Whining about the size of coalitions is beneath you, pretending like you care about it futile. No one believes that. Is it a shame that we can't have fair wars? Sure, but it's been a long time since that was ever part of the dialogue, I accepted that reality years ago. If that's something you are truly bothered by Shiho, I'd say you are in the wrong alliance.
Anyway, I'll await Tarrocs response to my original post, as he is the FA representative for Syndicate, and I'm sure he is capable enough of responding to my points without your assistance. If Tarroc would prefer to take this private, we can do that too I suppose.
Alright so I have a few points of response here. Firstly, there's a variety of issues with your claims around TFP. Yes, one of the reasons TFP was hit was because they were intending on signing with you, because it was clear they were a hostile enemy party with ill intentions. We hit them because it made no reason to allow an enemy who had made it clear they intended to fight us in the future to sit out and just watch a war that involved the people they intended to ally. There were claims made at the time that "hitting TFP is just creating a self-perpetuating prophecy" when that's just clearly and blatantly untrue. We knew TFP had been talking to alliances like Rose about revenge wars. We knew at the time that TFP had wanted to intervene in Dodge This. We knew that TFP was not some neutral party that had some lily white persona, despite their in game colour. Was TFP hit solely because they intended on allying you? No. If TFP had been an absolute neutral before that point and was a total unknown as to what their desires and agenda would be and they expressed an interest in wanting to sign Sing, would they have been hit? No. If TFP had been a formerly friendly party who had no hostile history or clear ill will towards us who said they wanted to sign Sing, would they have been hit? No.
As for the matter of me gloating about stealing prots, I have no clue what you're talking about. I told TSC when I offered them a treaty, "Hey this is not a treaty dependent upon you staying with us for the long term, I just want to offer protection because I feel bad about the situation I'm putting you in." When TSC told us after the war "Hey thank you for the treaty and the protection during the war, but we aren't looking to keep this treaty going forward" I was not angry with them. I did not demand they reconsider. I did not threaten them. I simply wished them nothing but the best and hoped they would have success going forward, and I am happy to see they have. I did not pull any prots away from you.
As for the claims around Florida, I had this conversation with Tart the other day in RON. It had nothing to do with it being Sing in Florida. I intervened in Dodge This because Florida made me uncomfortable as a sphere. It was a gamble either way, I either did nothing and ran the risk of Florida not disbanding and ODOO being crushed in an extremely lopsided war, or I get involved and ran the risk of being wrong and angering Sing and Rose for rolling them in a war when my personal driving motivating factor was wrong. I chose one option and went with it, and we are where we are. I do not have ill will towards Singularity. If Singularity had formed and split with Rose at the same time, I wouldn't have attacked. If during and after Dodge This, Singularity had not repeatedly and constantly made it clear it intended on attacking for revenge and was looking for blood, I would not have fought you in Blue Balled. I have at no point in my tenure as Exec fought a war because I disliked someone or just felt like fighting someone. Has every gamble I made paid off? Have I made the right decision every time? No, I certainly imagine not. I live with that though.
As for KT and CTO, if fighting a war alongside people means you're in a sphere with them, Singularity certainly does have itself an extremely large sphere. Yes, CTO was an alliance that we felt was needed for a war with Sing. We knew there was a distinct possibility that if the war was up in the air, a party who we knew hated us and wanted to see us lose could decide to get involved and try to sway the sides, such as possibly..... TFP. Seeing how that war did end up concluding, I think being suspicious of intervention and wanting insurance and some extra security was well justified. Was CTO an absolute necessity to win the war? No. Did we feel having CTO involved was a nice insurance policy to dissuade others from getting involved? Yes. KT getting involved was a nice bonus insurance, born out of Sing trying to roll KT. If Sing had not attempted to attack and roll KT and been made to back down by SAIL, I don't imagine KT would have gotten involved. That was born out of your own decisions.
KT and CTO were not parts of SAIL. CTO was insurance in case anyone else tried to get involved in the war due to a grudge. KT was a bonus party who didn't like you and wanted to get involved and we had no reason to say no. Those factors do not, never have, and never will, result in alliances being part of a sphere.
This entire argument is based around things that are wrong. "T$ hated us and tried to isolate us" Untrue. "SAIL was the largest sphere because it had KT and CTO" untrue. "SAIL was trying to drag out the war and didn't want peace and was looking to throw harsh terms onto us" Untrue. You don't need to be the victim to have an argument, Sketchy. You didn't like us, and you wanted revenge, and so you hit us. That's perfectly understandable, but no one's believing this narrative that somehow you're a victim who has been treated unfairly and unjustly.
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5 hours ago, Sketchy said:Yeah the alliances that were lied about were not World Task Force. Granted, it's a bit disingenuous to claim them not being defended is proof of anything, you guys were under a nap and despite public protestations to the contrary were not about to break it.
The alliances that were lied about were Carthago and Knights Templar, which when factored in with all the various offshoots and peripheral ties that were collected, made you by far the largest sphere, and certainly larger than Florida.
It also refers to numerous comments made after the fact when we responded to it. If you wanted to make a CB out of us memeing on you, perhaps you should have done that. You chose to bring out of game context shit into an IC war for whatever reason, and I object to that.
Trying to dismiss it when it was literally included in your CB is weird though. Yet again another example of you making CB's you didn't need to.
Now you are rewriting history. It was cited multiple times the primary reason you hit them was because they were going to sign us. You guys went as far to include a reference to us in the naming of the war.
But I'll let your own words speak for you.
You seem to forget you made the clear declaration at the time exactly why you did it, there was no ambiguity, you took out someone who was planning to sign a rival in the future, in order to win a future conflict.
Yes, you placed our peace as being contingent on gaining peace with another entity. The part you are omitting is you refused to even share any terms with us until this was done. We were not given any indication submitting to your will would result in peace at all, merely hand you more leverage in negotiations down the line. Simply put, you did it to !@#$ with us, as there would be no reason to withhold terms of peace until AFTER we peaced out WTF other than if you intended to then smack us with more shit, and wanted them out of the way first.
I certainly hope Penta or TFP doesn't have any incredibly ridiculous terms to enforce upon you, I would of course have to make sure you satisfied all their enquiries first, before we could consider peace. Fair is fair after all.
Actually no, our affairs involved attacking Knights Templar. You became our target when your sphere chose to reveal it's hand by protecting them.
I can lecture you all you like, when you stand on a soapbox and pretend you are above reproach. The only difference between us is my attempts to sign people succeeded and yours failed. Twice.
Shiho explained the matter of SAIL defending CTO and KT the other day in RON. To quote him "t$ intervened because t$ was well aware that Singularity was gunning for revenge on t$ (and Aurora as well), and t$ wasn't going to just sit there and let KT, and by extension Carthago, get rolled and lose them when it was expecting to fight a revenge war by Singularity either way, and when KT and Carthago were going to be significant help for such a war. In short, rather fight together and win than fight separately and lose."
It was well known that Sing was pursuing revenge. It attacked, or tried to attack, allies of members of SAIL for "Fun' and "For The sake of burning pixels" which struck us at the time as attempting to bait members of SAIL into fighting wars they could not win individually, and failing baiting members of SAIL, you would compress your score, something that would aid you in a war where you're fighting someone with a superior upper tier, such as SAIL.
SAIL did not have an interest in letting you pick people off one by one, something you did in this war here, attacking T$ and Legion and establishing control of the war against those two parties and only then attacking Event Horizon, which would pull in KT and LoD. You claim that shows CTO and KT were parts of SAIL, but all it shows is that people understood then the same strategy you are using now and weren't going to let it happen.
As for us not being interested in negotiating peace with you before you settled with WTF and USN and others, because you had attacked them first, and those wars had been going on longer. Again, as we said in the post, you approached us for peace roughly two weeks into the conflict, when your nukes ended. We had no interest in discussing peace with you at that time, expecting us to start peace talks as soon as you achieve your desires in the war is foolish. We were not willing to tell you terms, even though they would have merely been a surrender, an admission of defeat, and a NAP, as we knew if we told you that, it would have led to Sing and its allies going out and saying "SAIL gave us terms for peace, SAIL won't accept peace though, they're dragging out this war just to punish us and try to kill our alliance!"
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4 minutes ago, hidude45454 said:There is something symbolic about this post immediately followed by two one-word replies
The absolute state of Politics And War Forums
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Investor Contact:
Shiho Nishizumi
Media Contact:
Tarroc
NASSAU, Bahamas, 2024-08-21
Following the outbreak of a global war this past Saturday, SYNDICATE, Inc., (NYSE:SCC) is coming forth to make a number of statements and acknowledgements.
Firstly, The Syndicate recognizes that a state of hostilities currently exist between itself and Singularity The Fighting Pacifists, Rose, Unforgiven Legion, The High Table, The Golden Horde, Guardian, Oblivion, Mayhem, Global Alliance & Treaty Organization, Name Withheld, Black Knights, United Purple Nations, Pokimans, 99942 Apophis, and Arkham Asylum.
Secondly, The Syndicate recognizes that a number of alliances have revenge as a primary, if not sole, rationale for their involvement in this war. The Syndicate acknowledges this as a valid enough reason for participation by itself.
Alongside that reason, several others were provided by Singularity and The Fighting Pacifists, via their Declaration of War threads. The Syndicate will break each of these down per alliance, each contained with spoiler sections for greater ease of reading due to the length at hand, as it wishes to provide its response to them:
Singularity:
SpoilerQuoteAfter justifying an entry against Florida for “Hegemonic Sphere Creation” as they labeled it, and attempting to pressure Florida to separate, they proceeded to consolidate a sphere significantly larger than Florida ever was, the largest sphere in the game by a wide margin, and continuously lied about the size and members of that sphere, up until the moment they no longer could.
While not the sole reasoning provided, The Syndicate acknowledged that “Hegemonic Sphere Creation” was a wrongful justification for its entry during the conflict itself, in its exchanges with Rose. Provided that Singularity is talking about SAIL, SAIL was not larger than Florida itself was, and was most certainly not larger than all the other spheres in the game. Singularity’s assertion that deception was at hand to conceal SAIL’s size is discredited by it itself being able to attack alliances which sat on the periphery of SAIL without retribution during December.
QuoteThey used this sphere to intimidate and pressure other alliances, through hard power, trying to isolate their main rival, Singularity, for an easier attack. After helping to interject and disrupt our own plans, preventing us from settling legitimate scores with other alliances, whilst their allies goaded conflict with us, we were left with no choice but to mount a pre-emptive suicide attack.
Singularity originally presented itself as a main threat to The Syndicate due to the posturing it adopted during Dodge This, namely in the leaks showing the promise of revenge 10-fold and promises to make The Syndicate regret its actions. This posturing was not altered in the months between the end of Dodge This in August, and the end of the NAP signed between SAIL and Singularity’s grouping in January. While The Syndicate does not intend to question the validity of Singularity’s grievances with other alliances, The Syndicate ultimately prioritizes its own interests and that of its sphere over the consideration of third parties (and it naturally expects other parties to prioritize their own interests). It was ultimately the case that The Syndicate had no reason to expect Singularity not to hit it, if it was allowed to, and it acted accordingly.
As for Singularity’s isolation during this time period; this was mostly a self-generated scenario on Singularity’s side of things. The implication that SAIL intimidated other spheres into neutrality is not only baseless, but also plainly impossible because those spheres would have hit it if so, given that SAIL did not wield any kind of exceptional power.
QuoteDespite our primary opposition in the previous war being one of their allies, and not them, Syndicate revealed the depths of their animosity by deciding to make themselves the center of attention, choosing to be the driving force behind the narrative attacks on Singularity. Syndicate positioned themselves at the forefront, attempting to shape the storyline.
They launched an attempted smear campaign on Keegoz, making baseless claims of design team bias without evidence, which they then proceeded to double down on, until the falseness of their claims was clearly established.
The 'smear campaign' Singularity is talking about refers to a half a paragraph passage in the multi-paragraph Declaration of War thread which was published on January 2nd, on the outbreak of hostilities between Singularity and SAIL.
This passage went unnoticed for a day or two, until the thread was given proper read-through by members of Singularity, who took offense to it. It is understandable that they took offense to it, and Dr Rush's explanation on the timing of the changes is valid.
However, half a paragraph worth of content that takes a day to be noticed does not equate to a smear campaign. The fixation currently being laid upon the VM of former executive WANA, and to a lesser extent, former executive Leopold, would more closely resemble a smear campaign, given that it was publicized up, front and center, and given that both are being accused of avoiding the war.
Most certainly, nobody except for one leader in one of the opposing alliances asked before levying the accusation.And of course, The Syndicate has not forgotten about Singularity's own meme campaign levied against current executive Tarroc during Dodge This. This included a large amount of memes, comments, and even in-game advertisements which were commissioned by Sketchy himself.
QuoteThis on it’s own would have been enough to establish Syndicate’s vindictive disposition towards us, but they chose to cross an even further line, by attacking The Fighting Pacifists, solely for engaging in diplomacy with us, for a future treaty that was being actively discussed, and wouldn’t have been inked until AFTER the current war was finished.
It is known that The Fighting Pacifists had tried to intervene against The Syndicate during Dodge This, and as was said publicly on the forums by their former allies; The Fighting Pacifists repeatedly attempted to plot against The Syndicate, even before the two fought in Singular Hostility.
Merely engaging in diplomacy wouldn’t be reason enough for taking action, nor was it the reason for such.
QuoteExamining the logic of this decision, it’s clear their intent. By striking a future ally, they hoped to weaken us further for a future conflict, whilst the current one was still ongoing. They wished to further isolate us with the threat of force against anyone who would dare sign us, after pressuring us to separate from Florida, and then consolidating themselves. They were preparing for a conflict against us that was yet to come, all whilst dragging out the current conflict for as long as possible, playing games to delay the conflict as long as they wanted. In short, they sought to keep us in a state of permanent isolation and war.
The Syndicate fully acknowledges that the hit on The Fighting Pacifists was one of opportunity, performed against an entity it judged to be hostile.
The claim that The Syndicate dragged out the January conflict, let alone it seeking to keep Singularity in a state of war, is simply untrue. Singularity placed itself in a protracted state of war, first by attacking House Stark on the 12th of November, with that conflict concluding on the 19th of December. On the same day, they attacked the United Purple Nations, World Task Force , United Socialist Nations and the Lost Empire. It had been at war for 51 days by the time its conflict with SAIL broke out, with these wars being wars of their own choosing.
Pertaining to the claim of dragging out the conflict; Singularity contacted SAIL to initiate peace talks on the 18th of January, nearly two weeks after the war began. The timing for Singularity’s request coincided with its stockpile of nuclear weapons being completely exhausted, and its missile arsenal being mostly exhausted. Singularity was asked to secure peace with UPN and WTF.
Fast forward to a bit over a week later, on January 26th, The Syndicate is informed by James II that Singularity had approached WTF and UPN on the same date for peace deliberations. Singularity began to militarize at the same time. Whilst unbeknownst to SAIL at the time, this militarization was due to Singularity having gained ODOO’s and Rose’s support in the form of a planned entry against SAIL, which eventually took place on January 31st.
In short, Singularity approached SAIL to peace out only when its arsenal had run dry, did not do what SAIL asked it to do for a whole week, and when it did do it, it was done in the context of Singularity working towards expanding the war, not towards concluding it.
The Syndicate does not begrudge Singularity’s attempt at trying to turn things around in a way which would favor them. If anything, The Syndicate gives it credit on what was inarguably a play well made.
However, the claims put forth by Singularity of the Syndicate dragging out wars and seeking to keep in a protracted state of war do not conform with the established facts.
QuoteWell. We saw how that ended. Not exactly the finale you were hoping for. Now all these months later, I have to express some amusement at how things have turned out. How spectacularly that attempt backfired, and how avoidable this fate was, had you simply stayed out of our affairs, and not drawn our attention to you.
Singularity’s ‘affairs’ involved attacking The Syndicate’s allies, and plotting to attack The Syndicate itself. We could not have stayed out of it, even if we had tried to.
QuoteNow with all your options exhausted, all your attempts to sign other majors and build coalitions against us thwarted (Yes we know about those too), and apparently, all your allies gone, the long trail of lies and double dealing with everyone have left you back where it all started.
Who The Syndicate wishes to sign is none of Singularity’s business, nor is Singularity in any position to be lecturing any other party when it comes to signing majors.
Furthermore, while we do recognize that this war is about The Syndicate, we are not fighting alone. Both The Syndicate and The Legion were aware that this war was coming with plenty of notice. The Legion, our long standing ally, could have left us to our fate and saved itself. Instead, they chose to stay with us, knowing full well what was coming.
We have been through highs and lows together. Today, a coalition of fifteen hundred nations stands against us. When faced by what is possibly the most lopsided war in this game’s history, The Legion stands with us, unflinchingly.
Their courage earns them respect and appreciation in equal measure.
The Fighting Pacifists:
SpoilerQuoteOver the past few months, The Syndicate has made numerous attempts to undermine us. They have refused to communicate with us, attempted to humiliate us, and continuously targeted us. We are a peaceful folk who enjoy farming our pixels, but there’s only so long you can interact with a group that is baselessly hostile towards you. The Syndicate has given us no choice but to take action.
Back in January, we found ourselves returning to our roots in the realm of Paperless+. The Syndicate was engaged in a war with Singularity at the time, with whom we had known intentions to ally in the future. We had hoped to put an end to the constant hostility between the two groups, allowing for a more dynamic political landscape. We intended to make them aware of these plans during our talks, but eventually they refused to respond and converse with us. Despite our best efforts to reach out to them diplomatically, t$ attacked us as soon as the opportunity presented itself. They cited our intention to ally Singularity as their CB, alongside other vague and fabricated reasons - mainly, that TFP had been continuously hostile toward them, though failing to produce any accurate evidence. I must say, hitting someone sure is a great way to alleviate perceived hostility. After all, what’s FA for?
The Syndicate had its reasons corroborated by statements made by your former allies. Relations with The Fighting Pacifists over the previous year or two had ranged from neutral but negative, to simply hostile. The Syndicate had little reason to expect any sort of change to those state of affairs, let alone a sudden one. Especially by way of a last moment reach-out.
The Syndicate has also taken note of the recent decision made by The Fighting Pacifists to attack Event Horizon, The Syndicate’s former ally, with one of the reasons provided being, as Schwin put it in Royal Orbis News, “enabling t$”. In other words, former association with us. The Syndicate can not help but notice that when presented with an opportunity to act on its grievances on a former ally of The Syndicate’s, The Fighting Pacifists chose to seize upon it. This decision is particularly insightful, given that the size of the grouping which hit Event Horizon meant that it could have managed without The Fighting Pacifist’s participation.
The inconsistency in expectations on the part of The Fighting Pacifists is duly noted.
QuoteEven after the global NAP was signed, The Syndicate continued to target us and our leadership. In a public forum post, they claimed we had broken the NAP by hiring pirates to nuke their members, citing a food trade as their only source of evidence. They chose not to reach out to us beforehand to discuss the matter and decided to shoot first and ask questions later. It was clear that this was another attempt by The Syndicate to humiliate and wrongfully hinder us. They once again demonstrated their continued willingness to target and refuse to communicate with us. They then solidified this policy by refusing to acknowledge any wrongdoing or even apologize for their unreasonable actions. The Syndicate acts as if they are the mighty law and order and a powerful force when in reality they are so unbearable that even their allies choose to disband, merge or seek treaties elsewhere.
The Syndicate did indeed decide to shoot first and ask later. The thread itself was, without a doubt, ill thought out, even if it had truly been a case of a mercenary hire.
Given that The Fighting Pacifists had no known history of hiring mercenaries, the decision of shooting first and asking later was the wrong one. The Syndicate apologizes for both the attack, and for the thread itself.
With that being said, it is regrettable to see The Fighting Pacifists would use the disbandment of a long established and well respected alliance such as Church of Atom, and all that such a thing involves for its former members, as a chance to make a dig at us. Whatever grievances you may have with us do not give you carte blanche to politicize an alliance’s disbandment, and will ask you to refrain from making such undignified comments again in future.
QuoteI’m sure The Syndicate will cry, complain, and VM to try and escape reality. Nobody in this coalition is here simply out of opportunism - rather, everyone here has a genuine axe to grind. I hope The Syndicate will take this opportunity to learn from their past and make better choices going forward.
The Syndicate has no intention of complaining, even if we do not appreciate the VM jabs done out of ignorance (We appreciate Buorhann reaching out to inquire about it before passing on judgment). Not only is complaining pointless, but beneath us. We will simply fight this war, alongside our ally in The Legion, as well as World Task Force and The Foundation, until its conclusion.
As for axes to grind; We are aware that a number of parties have grudges with us. While we do not agree with everything put forth, as per the above, we nevertheless understand where they are coming from. We are open to having constructive talks with any of the parties on the opposing side, and hope for any such talks that may take place to conclude with mutual understanding.
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. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Tarroc, Chief Global Strategist
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It was a pleasure to be allies with you all. Church Of Atom was founded a week before I joined the game, I grew up in this game aging alongside you folks. Seeing you go saddens me greatly, and I'll miss you all. Whenever I see the explosion of an Atomic Bomb, I'll think of you all and smile.
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7 minutes ago, Bobert said:
i still miss the snek
As of current, resurrection rituals have failed to yield successful results. As Pontifex Maximus however, I have yet to give up, and continue to make all possible efforts.
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President Tom Gaius Julius CaesarSYNDICATE, INC., ANNOUNCES STRUCTURAL AND LINEUP CHANGES
NASSAU, Bahamas, 2024-04-30: SYNDICATE, Inc., (NYSE:SCC) has a number of updates to provide to the broader community of Orbis.
Firstly, the Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Chaunce and Tim to the position of Chair of the Board.
The Board of the Syndicate is composed of the Executive Officers, and a selection of highly sought after Advisory members, who have previously held executive positions and have been retained to provide guidance into the strategic direction of The Syndicate. The non-executive Chair(s), while having no impact on the day-to-day operations of The Syndicate, will ensure high governance standards, and act as trustees for key assets.
This appointment is made possible due to the welcome expungement of a series of convictions against [redacted].
This move provides the Executive Officers with a strong board along with additional oversight in a goal to reduce the ongoing concerns regarding embezzlement and reduced shareholder returns. Tim was overheard asking: “Are we supposed to share the chair or can we get one each?”. Chief Global Strategist Gaius Julius Caesar responded: “I have helped bring some fossils semi-out of retirement.”
Secondly, the Board would like to inform the shareholders of changes pertaining to the Chief Financial Officer. After serving as CFO for fourteen months, Keram decided that the time for retirement had come.Following his resignation, and boarding of a flying boat headed for an idyllic island where he could enjoy his retirement to its fullest, the Executives held consultations; the conclusions derived from these led to them deciding that Shiho Nishizumi would be the best candidate to replace the outgoing CFO. Shiho was promptly contacted, and after a brief telegram exchange, he accepted the offer. Within half a day of Shiho’s appointment, his White Swan could be seen making a landing on the company’s private airport.
The Board would like to thank the outgoing CFO for his efforts and contributions, and congratulate the Chairs and new CFO on their appointments.
Lucas, recently retired longest-serving member of The Executive and now a member of the advisory board, could not participate in the inauguration ceremony but offered his congratulations through a spokesperson. “Executive Emeritus Lucas expresses regret at not being able to leave Exegol for this ceremony but he is most pleased with the new Chairs,” hissed the figure, pressing bony fingers together and clad in a black and red cloak, its face hidden under a hood. “That the ones known as Tim and Chaunce have found their way back to the forefront is a most heartwarming feeling, to be sure. No one ever’s really gone.”As always, this press release was written and edited by an unbiased third party, and The Syndicate is not liable for any legal charges that arise as a result.
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 Top Gear 2002, which continues to test the limits and boundaries of speed and motion. This sentence is here because we still couped Zed. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Gaius Julius Caesar, Chief Global Strategist
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NASSAU, Bahamas, 2024-04-05: SYNDICATE, Inc., (NYSE:SCC) deems it necessary to inform the community at large about recent events surrounding the former servers The Syndicate utilized for its public operations.
On the early hours of 04/04, the Board learned that the Discord account of the person who held ownership of both servers had been compromised via phishing. Efforts to back up the contents of both servers began immediately, and were completed midway through the day. Efforts to duplicate the servers' template likewise began immediately and were concluded by the next day, with the original owner of the account contacting Discord support to have the account frozen.
On 04/05, the perpetrator transferred ownership of the servers from the compromised account to a new account (a presumed buyer, according to this account). With the servers effectively lost, t$' govt proceeded with eliminating the now backed up contents of both servers and kicking everyone who wasn't a t$/e$ member (who had already been notified about the situation) to minimize the harm the perpetrator could carry out and to render his ill-gotten gains void. After trying and failing to everyone ping in the now hollow server, and after a self-incriminating conversation which was screen capped to provide to Discord support, the perpetrator proceeded to delete both old servers.
A link to the new main server will be provided below. For FA staff in need of joining the new FA discord, please contact our government so that a link to it may be provided.
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. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Tarroc, Chief Global Strategist.
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Lucas, I can say without a doubt, I've never enjoyed a greater honour in this game than serving alongside you for these past nine months. Your unwavering dedication and determination have been an inspiration and a marvel to behold over my years in T$, from the moment you stepped into the office of Chief Operations Officer, to this moment now. I wish you a relaxing and fruitful retirement, no one in the history of T$ has more earned it than you. Thank you for your service.
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TarrocNASSAU, Bahamas, 2024-02-11: On February 10, Eriko of Dune, Facilitator of The Fighting Pacifists, paid Hatebi a sum of 86 million dollars at 1:08pm EST, and soon after Hatebi declared war upon two members of The $yndicate. Hiring pirates to attack members of The $yndicate is a hostile, aggressive action. Hostile actions towards us will be met with hostile responses, and so Eriko will bear the consequences.
https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=328624&display=trade
https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=109046&display=war
About SYNDICATE, Inc.
SYNDICATE, Inc., based near Nassau, The Bahamas, is the world's leading gasoline, aluminum and munitions distributor for a wide variety of peacekeeping and humanitarian activities. Wholly-owned SYNDICATE, Inc. subsidiary brands include The Enterprise, which provides development and growth opportunities for multinational prodigies around the globe. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Tarroc, Chief Global Strategist
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I can't say I expected this tonight, but I wish you all the best of luck and fortunes in your endeavors, both Tri-Force and those still in ODOO.
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Happy birthday my friends. May you be blessed with another 18 years of joy, prosperity, and success!
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18 minutes ago, Buorhann said:
I can't speak on the Hollywood bit, but the NPO one? I personally warned Syndicate that they were lieing to you guys. Still, I see your point on that one. (btw, weren't you also defending NPO back then? Pretty sure you were)
But are you really putting TFP up there with Hollywood and NPO/BK?
I wasn't in T$ at the time back for NPO, I was in BK and a whelp wet behind the ears, so I can't attest to who said what back then beyond what I've heard. For TFP though, what I'm saying is that assuming the best of an alliance takes some trust, and that isn't something that is just freely handed out. There was no effort from TFP's part in that regard, including no effort from Shwin towards me as alliance head to alliance head.
Taking something as a gesture of goodwill, or a sign that things will turn out better than they look takes trust. There was no explanation for the move, even though you're right and TFP didn't have to say that they were signing with Sing. All we were given was that a hostile alliance planned on signing with another hostile alliance that wants to roll us for revenge. No explanation was given and no "Hey were going to work on mending the fence and preventing a revenge war" was given. Perhaps we're going to be called opportunistic for this, but everyone in this game is opportunistic, that's part of the game.
5 minutes ago, Tartarus said:(He was BK Foreign Affairs high gov)
At the time the war started, I was a normal member. I was made low gov about a month into the war and made a figurehead "high gov" December of that year, about two and a half months before the end of the war.
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1 hour ago, Buorhann said:
What alliances did you put faith/trust in that have bit you in the rear? I’m very curious about this.
Two best examples are probably the Hollywood-Celestial demil situation back in 2022 where both sides de-milled, Hollywood re-milled to deal with raids from pirates and then hit Celestial despite telling Celestial their remilling was just to handle the pirates, and the NPO situation in 2019, where T$ believed that NPO and BK had actually split and that NPO was an ally that would keep its word....... and everyone recalls how that one went.
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4 hours ago, Buorhann said:
I'd argue the fact that TFP mentioned it to you guys in Syndicate is a sign of good faith for their intentions. They had no obligation to do that.
I feel like it would be quite a leap of assumptions to say "An alliance that has been hostile towards us since before Darkest Hour has told us of their intentions to sign with the alliance that is clearly the most hostile towards us. This is a sign of good faith and of good things to come."
I would be more inclined to agree with your point if there had been a history of friendship and cooperation and openness between T$ and TFP, but there hasn't been. I'd be more inclined to agree if there had been a history of openness and friendship between Shwin and I, but there hasn't been.
At no point since I became Executive has Shwin reached out to me or my staff about improving relations, or mending fences or anything of the sort, and outside of the one screenshot presented in Shwin's first post I don't know of any instances of that happening before I became Executive either. Hells, even in the very matter that led to this situation, the questioning of intentions after TFP was removed from WELP, Shwin reached out to CTO and Aurora about their intentions and asked THEM to ask T$ and SAIL of our intentions instead of coming to talk to us ourselves.
You're asking that we'd put a great deal of trust and faith in an alliance that we've had multiple years of bad blood with, have heard for months has has had ill will towards us, and has never reached out to us to improve relations or mend fences, especially when T$ has been bitten in the past when putting faith in and trusting other alliances to have good intentions towards us.
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13 minutes ago, Buorhann said:
Can't wait to see what box this opens up!
I'd like to honestly ask a question, and I don't want it to come across as being hostile or anything.
If you're told "Alliance A intends on allying with Alliance B, your enemy, an enemy who has made it clear they intend on attacking you in the future to get revenge" does it not stand to reason that, since everyone knows about Alliance B's desire for revenge, alliance A must be on board with that, and thus is fine with a future revenge war? And, with that in mind, if an alliance plans on attacking you in the future, and you find that they've ended up in a situation without allies, and you can attack them to set back their growth, and ensure they're weaker in the future if/when they come for revenge, would you say "No, I'll let them continue to grow unhindered" or would you capitalize on a chance to set back their growing by forcing a rebuild?
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TarrocNASSAU, Bahamas, 2024-01-13: SYNDICATE, Inc., (NYSE:SCC) The Syndicate has taken The Sword Coast region under its protection. Any wars or incursions into their sovereign territory during the period of our protection shall be met with deployed military force from Nassau to secure peace for the residents of this land.
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13 minutes ago, Tartarus said:
Oops wrong number, which line is the weeb department? Role code still TWD?
I dunno, I've been purging the weebs as fast as I can find them. Who gave them a department and a phone number?
[Nuke Event] Total Drama Orbis - Round 2
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Had to make my own art. Couldn't rock with the AI slop I posted, had to make a real G move. Eat your heart out, Da Vinci
Submitted for Team Snowbirds.