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Oh Tiniest Bird

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  1. The important thing here is of course the upcoming Bird Weed space program, aiming to teach the intelligent life out there about birds and weed. Progress will be made as soon as we're done enjoying all the birds and weed on Earth, which is projected to be done at around ... 2162 or so.

  2. Spies are very powerful, but also very imbalanced. The dice rolls involved go all other the place, which I always felt was a bit extreme. Needing 2 weeks to build up spies only to have them wiped out in 1-2 attacks is rough, to say the least.

  3. Better information is definitely a factor. Some things are explained well on the site and some are really not, and the wiki is spotty also. More things to do would be a big one as well. I enjoy my time here, but there is so little of substance to do to really flesh out the nations and have more ways to interact with other players.

  4. Nation Linkhttps://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=190714

    Ruler Name: SWA

    Nature of Violation: Overreaction and Insults via In-Game Messaging

    Link to Messageshttps://politicsandwar.com/inbox/message/id=3761827 (for Alex)

     

    The leader of this nation had applied to my alliance, Bird Weed. After some review, the decision fell onto rejecting this nation due to not being a good fit for the culture of my alliance. It happens, no hard feelings on my end. Since I like to keep things in good fun, my in-character messages are always written by fictional ministers of my nation. Maybe that's not everyone's cup of tea, I can respect that, but it makes for fun nation roleplay with people who respond in kind.

    So I wrote this:

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    Greetings SWA,

    we hereby inform you that your application to the wonderful flock of Bird Weed has been rejected. Upon careful review by our eagle-eyed ministers, it was found that your nation contains several examples of behaviour that is not in line with the values of our flock. You use insults towards the LGBTQ community as your city names and have rudely rebuffed someone with the phrase "Political correctness is an illness". Curiously, you also have a city named "antigoon". As you are clearly not aware, Bird Weed is a protectorate of GOONS, and as such it might be unwise to flagrantly display your dislike of our protector.

    It is our strong and heartfelt recommendation that you rethink your unkind and ill-informed behaviour. Until that has clearly happened, you are not a good fit for Bird Weed.

    With chirpiest regards,
    Nebula Representative of Flock Membership and Camaraderie Affairs,
    Lady Senora Isobel Macaw

     

    SWA responded like this:

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    Lady huppeldepup,

    1) Antigoon is the name of a giant that supposedly lived in Antwerp, where he is part of the folklore of the name 'Antwerpen' >>> comes from Hand werpen, throwing of a hand. He defeated a Roman centurion and chopped his hand off. I went to college in Antwerp and worked there a large part of my life. Nothing to do with goons.

    2) It is indeed an illness and you are exhibiting some symptoms I'm afraid! My RL surname translates as '!@#$bers' , would I be the right guy to make gay jokes right? PERHAPS it would be WISE not to freaking take everything so literally or without humor. PERHAPS you need to watch Ricky Gervais' last speech at the Golden Globes.

    It is your loss, and stick the chirps where the sun don't shine.

     

    I looked it up, Druon Antigoon is indeed a real character of folklore (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hand-of-druon-antigoon) which I didn't know about. Fair play, if that was the actual reason he picked that city name. It wasn't gonna change my decision, but I like learning about cool mythological things.

    I was about to send a message about the folklore thing but before I could, SWA sent these messages unprompted, which made me decide to post this report:

     

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    I actually feel discriminated against by you and your alliance btw, being a heterosexual caucasian male... Why am I being treated as a lesser human being?
    Free speech is something irrelevant i guess. Allah Akhbar BOOM

    Hey have a good day eh

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    Ordnung muss sein oder nicht, tiniest Führer?

     

    I don't think my behaviour in any shape or form warranted this kind of response. Especially the "Allah Akhbar BOOM", "tiniest Führer" and "why am I being treated as a lesser human being" stuff is way out of line. If SWA disagrees with my decision, that can be done without implying I'm a muslim terrorist, a nazi or a man hater.

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