On the topic of Mensa's CB

[Kemal Ergenekon]

Pfft. With all the posts I read today, I need to go and update those top 10 shit posters list. Estelle faces serious opposition.

[LordRahl2]

This is my default mode, I'm currently on auto-pilot at a cruising altitude of your mother. 

 

 

Oh. Tactics. Right. TACTICS. Not attacking the bigger threat, letting them build up more and choose when where and whom they hit. You're right. TOTALLY the smart move. The power comes in the first wave, and you've wasted the first wave on what you've admitted to be the weakest targets. Thus you expect your allies to pick up the stronger targets when they hit you.

 

Mensa sure are brave, noble warriors.

 

Ehhh, 2/10 troll, maybe?

 

I suppose you are just trying to justify your later involvement in the war based on your recent score change.

 

I thought Mom jokes were only cool when I was like 7-8 back in the 80s.  Are they back again?

[Prefontaine]

Pfft. With all the posts I read today, I need to go and update those top 10 !@#$ posters list. Estelle faces serious opposition.

 

Yeah, Mensa really wants that title.

 

You're making it too easy.

[Glorious Littleton]

ITT Prefontaine gets so angry we all find out he's in the 8th grade.

[Kemal Ergenekon]

To improve the quality of this thread, here are some menacing owls:

 

[Prefontaine]

I suppose you are just trying to justify your later involvement in the war based on your recent score change.

 

I don't need to justify my involvement in the war if/when that happens. I'm just a grunt that will be following orders then.

[Kemal Ergenekon]

Yeah, Mensa really wants that title.

 

You're making it too easy.

 

Ohh, this burn is so sick I can cook some marshmellows Pref. I bow before your might xdxdxd

[Hypnotoad]

This is my default mode, I'm currently on auto-pilot at a cruising altitude of your mother. 

 

I think I cut myself on all this edge. 

[Glorious Littleton]

To improve the quality of this thread, here are some menacing owls:

 

All of Orbis should be legitimately terrified by the implications this could hold. Terrified.

[LordRahl2]

To improve the quality of this thread, here are some menacing owls:

 

 

[Thedark]

All of Orbis should be legitimately terrified by the implications this could hold. Terrified.

 

Wouldn't want cCcCcCc inci cCcCcCc now would we? They think we're bad.

[PigInZen]

Don't say we didn't warn people... Kemal for the love of Dio, they don't know what they're doing!

[Tenshibo]

Omg, if we recruited inci to this game, whats his face would shut the game down xdxd no amount of income can handle them and their dank turkis delights/

[Placentica]

I actually edited and did, didn't see your reply though. Trumping up something which occurred out of game to score sympathy points in an online political simulator is generally just as bad to me, sometimes even more cringy to be honest.

Even more cringe-worthy is me agreeing with you on something.

 

ITT Prefontaine gets so angry we all find out he's in the 8th grade.

So you are sensitive to OOC attacks, but post stuff like this? Interesting.

[Oblige]

Wow. I just started reading this thread. I had ignored it because Kastor started it.

 

I will step in to clarify some matters:

1.) I did not make the ad

2.) The grand total of assistance was in providing creative criticism on it (I wanted a haiku and different colors / fonts / spacing). I did not provide content.

3.) Doing a bare modicum of research Rose found an OOC attack picture using the *same image* from back in April of this year

4.) If you know Pfeiffer's IRL name the image pops on the first page of Google image results

4a.) Let me be extra clear on that - neither Pubstomper, nor I, gave away Pfeiffer's insta account

5.) After realizing the image had leaked it was myself and Pubstomper that had demanded the image take down requests be sent

6.) I personally followed up with each take down request and sent a second round when some images weren't removed

7.) I also shot down a request to put them up in game as an ad

8.) The logs of me "admitting" to everything are (I assume?) a conversation with Sheepy/Malone where I was trying to asses how far the images had spread

 

I did not mention any of these in my apology because they are not relevant. I am accountable for this action even if I'm not responsible for it directly. Had I not been online at all there would still have been a banner created and shared. That being said, I opened up my big whale mouth because the details are apparently important.

[Hysteria]

You mad whale? 

 

We know what you did your the only one with access to Fluffs instagram in Rose or knowledge of his real name. !@#$ i dont even know his real name.

 

Don't you usually take credit for all the work of other people anyways?

Edited August 24, 2015 by Hysteria

[Isolatar]

You mad whale? 

 

We know what you did your the only one with access to Fluffs instagram in Rose or knowledge of his real name. !@#$ i dont even know his real name.

 

Don't you usually take credit for all the work of other people anyways?

 

He actually uses his name a lot in eRep and thats how Foxes got the image, by googling his name.

Edited August 24, 2015 by Isolatar

[Wayne]

He actually uses his name a lot in eRep and thats how Foxes got the image, by googling his name.

 

Surely, CG already knew his name already...

[Isolatar]

Surely, CG already knew his name already...

 

He probably did.

[Lu Xun]

Just a tip, the next time you do radical unconventional DoWs and treaty policies make sure you have a politically dominant position to the level where you can more or less get away with cheating by compromising the mods. If Mensa gets rolled again it will be because you played too aggressively and too arrogantly while in an inferior position.

 

Have you ever heard of Martingale betting? It's relevant to my business as well as many types of work; it means that when you play roulette, you bet either on red or black and you double the betting sum every time. Sooner or later you'll come out ahead, and then you walk, ensuring a win.

 

The problem is, casinos catch on to this, and in many real life applications of doubling your risk every time you take a loss, you will run out of money and run out of capital before you finally make a profit. Especially in the markets, martingale betting tends to ensure losing as increasing leverage and corresponding asymmetries result in massive value destruction and some studies suggest anti-martingale betting (i.e, reducing risk as your position deteriorates) is correlated to positive returns.

 

Perhaps it's the same in PnW; as I mentioned last war, optimal strategy, in my view, however little you might value it, might have been for Guardian, Mensa HQ, and SK to exit the war together, with a collective treaty, then play a passive strategy with the objective to avoid getting rolled and to let the major remaining powers fight each other, then profit off neutrality to exploit a commanding position in the next war cycle. It won't work this time; if UPN and VE link up you will likely be on the target list as too unpredictable / incompetent to work with, given that you made two different bad attempts on VE that failed.

 

Of course, if you can drag UPN and DEIC into your side, all of this moot, but I would say you have less than a 50% probability of success at this point.

 

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I used to work with this guy a long time ago who was a cultist aficionado of Sun Tzu's Art of War, especially the parts emphasizing exhaustive planning. At the time, I believed much the same as you did, that planning was for idiots and that improvisation and brilliancies were what was needed to win the game; you constantly changed the situation, like in Major Boyd's OODA loop, to disrupt the planning and decision-making of your rivals, with unconventional tactics. After a while, I realized that he was right and risk-taking has to be mediated and fitted to the situation, but of course, what happened was that I failed, he succeeded, I failed again, and he failed as well. I'd like to think I got a bit smarter from the experience.

 

Of course, as a counterpoint, there was a LCol in the Canadian forces, an analyst and an ex-peacekeeper, I think, who made a comment once about how Sun Tzu is totally unsuited for most personalities and how he is best coupled for aggressive personalities and aggressive leaders, as a complement and a tapering mechanism, and in more cautious personalities, he'll simply lead to passivity and inaction. I respect that analyst and I think he's right.

Edited August 24, 2015 by Inst

[Glorious Littleton]

Check stores for my new book

[Crust]

My opinions aren't really of any worth here but am I the only one who actually thinks it's better that this is all getting resolved ingame rather than outside the game?

 

Let's say Mensa actually took the advice of someone in this thread and just doxxed the involved parties. Wouldn't that not only make things worse but also ruin the game even more?

 

Instead they war it out, the game gets a wee more exciting for a bit, and then things settle down again.

 

You can whine all you want about OOC stuff getting mixed with IC shit, but this is a multiplayer game after all. It's inevitable. You're playing against real human beings after all, it's impossible not to mix real life with ingame, no matter how hard you try. If you're so upset by this, maybe playing against humans isn't your thing? There's a multitude of games you can play against computers, without ever having a computer break character. 

[Oblige]

You mad whale? 

 

We know what you did your the only one with access to Fluffs instagram in Rose or knowledge of his real name. !@#$ i dont even know his real name.

 

Don't you usually take credit for all the work of other people anyways?

 

I'm pretty sure everyone in eRep has knowledge of his RL name. He has posted several RL pictures of himself before. He posted his name publicly, as recently as a week ago. I know facts aren't super important to you, which is why I didn't want to get into the details.

 

You are welcome to continue your ad hom and OOC attacks though

 

In addition, I will point out that the previous, unattributed, OOC attack could've also been used as source material, even though I don't believe this was the case. Again, it hardly matters. 

[Dan77]

Have you ever heard of Martingale betting? It's relevant to my business as well as many types of work; it means that when you play roulette, you bet either on red or black and you double the betting sum every time. Sooner or later you'll come out ahead, and then you walk, ensuring a win.

 

That's the worst betting system there is.  Many, MANY people have lost everything following this system.  It escalates quickly to a point where it's totally unaffordable to continue.  It sounds simple and you might get away with it once or twice but it's never worth the risk and if you carry on with that system for any amount of time, you'll get burnt.

[Sweeeeet Ronny D]

dont also forget, you are betting huge amounts of money to win a very small amount.