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BigTalk is for BigHeads

qwert

Agree to some point, small talk is for smal minds.
But arguing politics/religion on forums is just plain stupid.

About diplomacy, I dislake england and italy :(

Talking about nothing but diplomacy the game is like analyzing the finer points of hopscotch. At some point there is nothing left to discuss. There are only so many moves you can do.

Thats like saying chess has only so many moves.
You never run out of material to discuss with a complex game like diplomacy (and chess, i like chess).

Chess has more openings than 3 or 4 per side.

The point of diplomacy is not tactics anyway. The main aspect of gameplay is completely contingent and based on interpersonal relations/persuasion/ deception, which arguing about politics & history is good practice for anyway.

About diplomacy:
What do you guys think about my (england) third move in
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=137722
especially A nor move to yor.

Chess has more openings than 3 or 4 per side.

I agree, but the more moves into the game you get the more posibilities there are, the more moves there are possible the more discussions we could have.

Ok very well, obviously there's a cottage industry for analyzing particular games or sports to death. I just find it rather dull. I just don't get why certain people have to shame everybody else into doing it and nothing else. It's like forcing people to listen to people argue about whether a run or a pass play was more optimal in a 3rd down and 5 with 11:52 to go in the 3rd quarter on the road with 15 mph winds. Certainly there are people who would like to discuss something else and I'm getting rather tired of having to justify doing so to the Diplomacariat every couple of weeks.

And gunboat falls where?

The best part is, if you don't like what's talked about, don't partake.

But no we have to have these obligatory shame-fests from the diplomatists if anyone dares say anything non-diplomacy related. I bet their kitchen drawers are full of single-use items and they never discuss food at a sporting event or while shopping for shoes.

@putin33
If you are shamed ,please keep to yourself, or don't and we can keep laughing

Don't know what you are talking about. I'm not shamed, I'm responding to the attempts at shaming.

And yet you refused point blank to discuss the noble sport of Mouse Trap, Putin. Double standards yet again ;)

@Clarity

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abgemacht
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He's serious about the chase account.

You might find it boring to discuss posiblities, but that does not mean everybody does. I for one enjoy that kind of thinking. Maybe even play out a litille game in our minds with if (example:) russia does A Aus does B an then tur does C leaving Rus open to D. But if Rus does E Aus is forced to do F etc. etc. etc.

hey guys i didn't see a thread for this but join to live gameID=137748 gogogo

I never said that everybody did...I'm simply saying that not everybody wants to discuss diplomacy and nothing but diplomacy, and people should stop insisting upon it.

Indeed. Ask questions such as "If you're France with 2 builds after the first year and want to invade England, how many of those builds must be fleets?" (to which the answer, of course, is none) and see what responses you get

Putin is correct. Start your own thread, ask your questions...someone will answer. 2WL to the rescue.

Well, OP, if you think the threads aren't sufficiently level-headed and focused, perhaps you could bring some

[[sunglasses]]

CLARITY to the forums!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Cant really say anything to contradict with that.
Live and let live basicly, making a ton of topics about it seems pointless but this is the first one i`ve seen so sorry that i missed a lot ;) But te recap about at the first response always talking about politics/ religions seems to be just as pointless..
To recap at Putin`s first response, diplomacy can not be compared o "hopscotch", and if you want to you can never run out of stuff to talk about diplomacy, contary to the point you were making.

I'm sorry, PE, but I'm going to have to Silence you now. You know why.

Oooooooooooooh

Actually, it a lot of emotionally disturbed people arguing for fun.

Bleargh. Tip tip tip.

Insane ones too.