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by Condescension
Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What the hell happened?!
Replies: 103
Views: 13022

Re: What the hell happened?!

Feedback is always welcome, but feedback in that format without any request for changes or explaining concerns will be ignored or dismissed as the trolling it is, from me anyways. The actual site staff might be more professional. There's been plenty of feedback in this thread and others that didn't...
by Condescension
Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:33 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What the hell happened?!
Replies: 103
Views: 13022

Re: What the hell happened?!

I saw some of the earlier defenses of these changes... they are fucking laughable. If the previous forum's backend was so poorly designed, why would that ever require a total redesign of the entire front end - unless it's just that plugging in phpBB was just a way to cut corners instead of actually ...
by Condescension
Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:20 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What the hell happened?!
Replies: 103
Views: 13022

Re: What the hell happened?!

Durga wrote:
Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:17 pm
ps zultar no one would be sad if you banned this guy
I thought you hated these changes?
by Condescension
Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:19 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What the hell happened?!
Replies: 103
Views: 13022

Re: What the hell happened?!

I took a single UX course and that was enough to tell me that this forum is a travesty in literally every single way. Why you would elect to use phpBB is totally beyond me. If you have any plans to monetize this turd, you can throw it out the window if you're going to continue making changes like th...
by Condescension
Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:16 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What the hell happened?!
Replies: 103
Views: 13022

Re: What the hell happened?!

Jmo, please don't be rude. It's not really appropriate to say "feel free to leave at any time." On behalf of myself and the mod team, we apologize that our new forum does not meet your expectations. If you don't like it, feel fucking free to leave and don't come back. Feel free to find a site that ...
by Condescension
Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:54 am
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: "So, how would you like to split the Balkans?"
Replies: 12
Views: 2551

"So, how would you like to split the Balkans?"

Why do so many people lead with this meme? It's almost always a sign to me that the person I'm talking to doesn't want a useful conversation and is just trying to start nonsense conversation so they're not the odd man out. Has a useful discussion about 'how we split the balkans' ever occurred in the...
by Condescension
Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:40 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What the hell happened?!
Replies: 103
Views: 13022

Re: What the hell happened?!

I'll take organized categories, a moderation system that is actually halfway effective, permanent storage that we won't have to erase every couple of years, and no longer being known as the most frequent poster on the forum in the history of the site over the old forum. Especially that last part. I...
by Condescension
Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:29 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stephen Hawking Dies at Age 76
Replies: 15
Views: 2203

Re: Stephen Hawking Dies at Age 76

Red-Lion wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:22 am
I let out an audible "Awww" when I caught the headline. This one hurts. Minds like his only come around so often. R.I.P.
We've entered the first time in living history without a superstar genius physicist on the planet.
by Condescension
Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:48 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stephen Hawking Dies at Age 76
Replies: 15
Views: 2203

Re: Stephen Hawking Dies at Age 76

One of the smartest men in history and a very inspirational human being. RIP.

BB, what is wrong with you? What a psychotic response.
by Condescension
Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:35 pm
Forum: New Games
Topic: Doubloon Games
Replies: 10
Views: 2205

Re: Doubloon Games

Creating a new thread to be more general, but I'm looking to start up a series of larger pot games aka buyin of 101 or more. Here are the rules: Winner Take All Scoring Sb-Fasa Classic Map 48 Hour Phases Hidden Draw Votes What the fuck is sb-fasa? Glad you asked. It's somewhere-between-full-and-sem...
by Condescension
Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:31 pm
Forum: New Games
Topic: New game
Replies: 38
Views: 5810

Re: New game

Durga wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:30 pm

Yeah uh - I'm DemonOverlord btw
ew

yeah I'd rather not play with someone that throws temper tantrums when people don't play "optimally".
by Condescension
Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:22 pm
Forum: New Games
Topic: New game
Replies: 38
Views: 5810

Re: New game

Durga wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:41 pm
Condescension wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:29 pm
I'd play
Why... I thought we agreed we don't get along, and I don't think you liked me very much in the last game we played together.
I don't believe we've ever played together.
by Condescension
Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:29 pm
Forum: New Games
Topic: New game
Replies: 38
Views: 5810

Re: New game

I'd play
by Condescension
Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:34 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Yet another needless mass shooting
Replies: 271
Views: 22153

Re: Yet another needless mass shooting

So, President Eden: How do you propose to protect innocent US youths from being needlessly shot to death? I would propose huge restrictions on the rights of citizens to own guns. I'd more or less ban that, in fact. You disagree. Ok. What's your answer? Why is he obligated to provide an answer? Why ...
by Condescension
Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:35 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Yet another needless mass shooting
Replies: 271
Views: 22153

Re: Yet another needless mass shooting

So, President Eden: How do you propose to protect innocent US youths from being needlessly shot to death? I would propose huge restrictions on the rights of citizens to own guns. I'd more or less ban that, in fact. You disagree. Ok. What's your answer? Why is he obligated to provide an answer?
by Condescension
Mon Mar 05, 2018 7:19 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: March GR2 Published
Replies: 57
Views: 7485

Re: March GR2 Published

There should just be a different score for each game type, combining them is kinda meaningless.
by Condescension
Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:33 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: [Poll] Balkan Gambit
Replies: 31
Views: 5495

Re: [Poll] Balkan Gambit

The other thing, as Condescension somewhat touched on, is that it's far from optimal for Italy to attack Austria in S1901 every time. I won't go as far as he did and say that a good Italian player will never attack Austria on the first turn, but there are a ton of variables that go into a first-tur...
by Condescension
Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:35 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA starts a trade war with allies
Replies: 96
Views: 10858

Re: USA starts a trade war with allies

Plenty of experts believed that Trump had decent odds of winning. It was the media that spun it as impossible. Some experts being wrong about some things doesn't mean you should just throw out the whole of academic knowledge. The reality is that a race to the bottom is, by definition, sub-optimal. ...
by Condescension
Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:55 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA starts a trade war with allies
Replies: 96
Views: 10858

Re: USA starts a trade war with allies

@Octavious: the EU sells mostly specialized steel to the US. Some of it is not even made in the US. Hence trade. Well, that confirms Trump's national security argument then. If the US relies on overseas powers for types of steel unavailable at home he has a valid point. As for Ethics 101, is that r...
by Condescension
Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:03 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA starts a trade war with allies
Replies: 96
Views: 10858

Re: USA starts a trade war with allies

The best way to negotiate is to establish relationships so both sides don't defect in cooperation dilemmas. Ethics 101. This race-to-the-bottom shit is only conceivably profitable in the short term and leads to lower net benefit overall.