Forum
A place to discuss topics/games with other webDiplomacy players.
Page 933 of 1419
FirstPreviousNextLast
Klaelman23 (100 D)
08 Jul 12 UTC
5 player Med game needs a 5th player!
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=94002

4 in, need a fifth. Anyone interested?
2 replies
Open
fortknox (2059 D)
05 Jul 12 UTC
Life as a moderator
Just a little reading to get an understanding of the life of a moderator...
44 replies
Open
S.E. Peterson (100 D)
06 Jul 12 UTC
Quickie-31
So we're going to keep playing despite the fact that England and Russia never showed up? Really?
18 replies
Open
smcbride1983 (517 D)
04 Jul 12 UTC
Holy F'n S!
Higgs-boson particle discovered!
30 replies
Open
Maniac (184 D(B))
07 Jul 12 UTC
Why UK is about to face a crisis
You heard it here first...
9 replies
Open
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Dear new users
This site is fun and cool! We are cool and friendly. Please hang out in this thread and post your questions - I will answer all of them and also tell jokes and interesting facts.

Webdip is my favorite website, I hope it will be yours too.
Page 1 of 3
FirstPreviousNextLast
 
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
And now I deliver as promised:

Here is a joke:

A cannibal went for a walk and he passed his brother.

Two fish are in a tank. One looks to the other and says: "Hey, do you know how to drive this thing?"

Okay now some interesting facts. Guess what? The robot soccer team built the University of Texas at Austin (my school!!) has recently won the international robotic soccer tournament in Mexico City!!

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/creative/2012/06/ut-robots-win-robocup-2012.html

Now for some diplomacy content!

Guess what? Have you ever heard snotty veteran players prattling on about stalemate lines and wondered what the hell they were talking about? Here is a primer!

http://www.diplom.org/~diparch/resources/strategy/stalemate.htm
http://devel.diplom.org/Online/StalematesAtoY/holcombe.htm

(I would like to take this opportunity to mention that I did not know the information contained in the above link for almost a year on this site)
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
An interesting news item: The citizens of the European principality of Liechtenstein have rejected a proposal to limit the powers of their prince - the most powerful monarch in Europe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18649156
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
02 Jul 12 UTC
I have a question: Why does everyone tell me I don't know shit about the Congo?
ghug (5068 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Because you don't. They eat people down there, man.
dubmdell (556 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
Bo, threadID=812782

One of my all time favorites.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Okay newbies what you are seeing above is a reference to an inside joke on this forum - people will sometimes talk about people eating people alive in the Congo. We all know that this does not actually happen, but some shithead a long time ago once posted an inane thread about it, so now we talk about it all the time.

Also I study African history sometimes so people have now associated me with the Congo and the eating of people alive.

Now you know
ghug (5068 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
I'm never more than three clicks away from that thread.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
hahahaha the fuck
thatwasawkward (4690 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
SOME say that the original design for the game of Diplomacy included a THIRD unit type, "Cavalry". It was a unit that was designed to be twice as fast as a regular Army but to have only half the strength. One could be dislodged by a single Army. Alternatively, in the early game powers with such a unit could easily outflank enemies to apply extra pressure where needed. Warsaw, Smyrna, Vienna, and Paris were considered possible starting points for units of this kind, until the idea was nixed in a closed door meeting shortly before the board game's concept was unveiled. What are YOUR thoughts on this highly contentious matter?
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
02 Jul 12 UTC
I love that thread.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Is this true? No seriously I want to know.
dubmdell (556 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
Yes.
ChrisVis (1167 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
I have a question, please, Thucydides. Recently, in one of my World Map games, I tried to convoy an army from Sanae IV to the Antarctic Peninsula. The interface would accept neither the "move" order for the army nor the "convoy" order for the fleet. I got an error message something along the lines of "Invalid TerrFromID=56" for one of the orders, and "Invalid TerrToID=62" for the other order.
Is this a bug? Or was there some way I could have worked around the problem?

I ended up placing inferior orders.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Seems like a bug, yes. I've never encountered that before. Might want to send the mods an email or make a thread about it to see if anyone else has seen that error.

Anyone seen an "invalid TerrFromID=n" before?
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Additionally, here are some crass jokes to cheer you up after those inferior orders:


(NON-PC JOKES INCOMING)

What do you call an armless, legless man hanging on the wall?
Art

What do you call an armless, legless man at your front door?
Mat

What do you call an armless, legless man in your mailbox?
Bill

What do you call an armless, legless man in the swimming pool?
Bob

What do you call an armless, legless man on a chalkboard?
Mark
Draugnar (0 DX)
02 Jul 12 UTC
"The robot soccer team built the University of Texas at Austin (my school!!)"

The robot soccer team built your school?! That's one fucking cool robot soccer team!
Draugnar (0 DX)
02 Jul 12 UTC
You are posting too frequently, please slow down.

No I'm not!
H.H (100 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
A noob thread, huh? Good to see. I was positively impressed with you, Thucy (is it alright if I call you Thucy? ;-), mainly from your endless bickering with Putin. I have a hate hard-on for the actual Putin, so people who even choose to call themselves after that prick really get my goat, even if they're just being ironic or whatever.


Is this a good place to look for potential teachers? my game needs a lot of work, mainly in strategy and especially with diplomacy (With tactics I'm OK. Not good, but passable). I have a pretty good poker face when it comes to f2f games, but this sort of online play really limits these options for me, and my style often seem either too formal and stilted or too loose; this causes suspicions.

In short: if anyone is willing to be my mentor\welcome me into the loving embrace of webdip\buy me a beer, thank you and may your banners always fly in victory!
H.H (100 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
@thatwasawkward that sounds like a really long introduction for Diplomacy-Stig :-D
hammac (100 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
What do you call an armless, legless man swimming around in the swimming pool?
Clever Dick.
SacredDigits (102 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
I'd offer to mentor you, H.H, but I'm awful at this game. I'm basically just here to fill a seat at tables with better players. :)

BUT. They do quasi-regularly offer "School of War" games where you're paired with a teacher who gives you advice. Look out for announcements of that variety.

Also, on the terrID thing, sometimes clearing your cookies helps, or it did when Oli told me to do it on vdip (a site with the same source code).
Fortress Door (1837 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
H.H, if you really think i am skilled enough, i would be willing to help. I like to think i am at least a little above average
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
Bro of course I'll buy you beer.

Other than that H.H I would definitely recommend the School of War if you see it ever. I never got a chance to learn from it but everything I have seen is very impressive.

In the meantime yeah dude I'll mentor you. I'm not like a God of diplomacy or anything but I've been around the block a few times. I often play with new players anyway, so we could even play together.
ulytau (541 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
You suck Thucydides, explaining stuff to noobs instead of telling them to stfu and lurk moar. You fail internet.
Draugnar (0 DX)
02 Jul 12 UTC
@Thucy & H.H. Set up a game and I'll join. Maybe gather a few other n00bs and another experienced player or two who are willing to discuss their moves after the fact. We could have a serious debrief so the n00bs learn what we were thinking.
Fortress Door (1837 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
i would be intersted in the game, Draug. I can be in either the noob section or experienced section, whichever you want :p
Draugnar (0 DX)
02 Jul 12 UTC
I'll let Thucy and H.H. set it up.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
02 Jul 12 UTC
@noobs

ignore ulytau he's drunk

I'll set up a game. Hang on.
TheDominator97 (133 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
I will join a game too...
TheDominator97 (133 D)
02 Jul 12 UTC
I'm quite new.

Page 1 of 3
FirstPreviousNextLast
 

86 replies
Sandgoose (0 DX)
06 Jul 12 UTC
BEHOLD THE BIG NASTY!!!
gameID=93599

1k point buy in...let's go, bitches... >:)
3 replies
Open
Putin33 (111 D)
06 Jul 12 UTC
BH Liddell Hart
Anyone read him? His Strategy is a very good read and makes a lot of sense. I know people like Mearsheimer loathe him, but I think he has a lot to say, especially about having limited objectives, that can inform today's defense policies. I'd put him right up there with Jomini's Summary of the Art of War.
2 replies
Open
Sargmacher (0 DX)
06 Jul 12 UTC
Is a MOD online now please?
Have a problem with a current live game.

Sent email but wanted to try every channel (so I'm posting here).
49 replies
Open
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
06 Jul 12 UTC
Why is King James' God So "Familiar" When He's...Not?
As I've said, I'm reading my way through the KJ Bible (KJ because you can't fully hope to ever be a Man of Letters like I hope to be someday without reading the Bible, like it or not, and the KJ version has had the biggest impact on English Literature) and it struck me partway through "Exodus"--OT, almighty, intimidating God speaks using "thou," but that'd be the INFORMAL version grammatically in James'/Shakespeare's day...but the OT God is anything BUT familiar and informal...?
61 replies
Open
taos (281 D)
06 Jul 12 UTC
join this game
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=93683
3 replies
Open
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
05 Jul 12 UTC
ISLAMIC THUGS DESTROY 15TH CENTURY MUSLIM SHRINES IN AFRICA
Timbuctoo, once regarded as equal to Cambridge or Oxford as a centre of Learning. Now Islamic thugs are running about destroying shrines and other things of great "Islamic" cultural and historical significance, killing, raping and looting

well done to the Fundamentalist Islamic Criminals
49 replies
Open
Balaran (0 DX)
05 Jul 12 UTC
Olympic Torch relay
boring or what!
24 replies
Open
flc64 (1963 D)
03 Jul 12 UTC
Sagan or Cavendish?
Who will win more TdF stages?
Who is faster?
Who cares?
4 replies
Open
Celticfox (100 D(B))
04 Jul 12 UTC
BBQ
'Tis the season for some BBQ. Anyone have any recipes or favorites they wanna share?

15 replies
Open
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
05 Jul 12 UTC
VALE ERIC SYKES
Comic genius, Eric Sykes has died. Eric was one of the post WW2 comic talents, wrote for the Goon show, had his own comedy series and was a brilliant comedian. He will be much missed.
1 reply
Open
President Eden (2750 D)
06 Jul 12 UTC
LA Representative on Vouchers: "I Didn't Mean MUSLIM Schools!"
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/07/05/louisiana-republican-when-i-voted-for-state-funds-to-go-to-religious-schools-i-didnt-mean-muslim-ones/

Because it needed to get even more comical. Thank you home state
12 replies
Open
Jamiet99uk (808 D)
06 Jul 12 UTC
Internet Forums
An cartoon from a while back, but one of my favourites of all time:

http://xkcd.com/386/
0 replies
Open
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
03 Jul 12 UTC
So Help Me God...Naw--So Help Me WebDip Physicists, What's Higgs-Boson About?
Leaving that "God Particle" title alone--and if anyone brings God into THIS thread...shame on you, we have a debate coming up, for once, let's have a discussion sans the rhetoric, eh?--can any of our brilliant scientists here explain this? I've heard of it, and apparently it's important, but...what's it all mean, this particle...why would it hep give proof of...things? (Note my very technical jargon there.) ;)
37 replies
Open
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
07 Jun 12 UTC
********Purple Monkey Dishwasher Champ 5-Game Tourney********
call for players.....
247 replies
Open
achillies27 (100 D)
03 Jul 12 UTC
Are we updating the Player of the year awards?
I saw them on the GR site and noticed that there were none for 2011, are they still happening?
27 replies
Open
dubmdell (556 D)
05 Jul 12 UTC
Which subjects are sacred?
Zmaj raised an interesting point. We can slander and insult and wrestle and mock politics and religion without end, but as soon as someone starts in on personal histories and former cheating cases, it becomes very hush hush and people start tiptoeing around. Not that I disagree necessarily, but what makes personal history and former cheating cases et al. more taboo than politics and religion, the latter of which is supposedly deeply personal?
29 replies
Open
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
05 Jul 12 UTC
SOUTH KOREA JOINS JAPAN AS A NATION THAT WILL HUNT & KILL WHALES
South Korea announces it will resume "scientific whaling"
Boycott all South Korean products and services and let the "shopkeepers" know it's Whale Hunting by South Korea that has driven your decision.
and what a "contradiction in terms" -- "scientific whaling" is a propoganda phrase
17 replies
Open
Texastough (25 DX)
30 Jun 12 UTC
Democrat Vs. Republican
the great debate between the two biggest parties. Democrats defend Obama and Republicans defend Bush or whoever
148 replies
Open
Sydney City (0 DX)
05 Jul 12 UTC
replacement in live game needed- great position
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=93733&msgCountryID=0
0 replies
Open
JamesFitz (0 DX)
04 Jul 12 UTC
ban away
go ahead.... me unhappy anyways
14 replies
Open
Sydney City (0 DX)
05 Jul 12 UTC
Replacement needed asap
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=92260&msgCountryID=5&rand=25236#chatboxanchor

france has 5 sc left and balance of power in their hands!!!!
1 reply
Open
Jamiet99uk (808 D)
03 Jul 12 UTC
Terrible joke
Here is a bad joke I just came up with. Apologies....
14 replies
Open
Frank (100 D)
05 Jul 12 UTC
anyone want to sit a live game for me?
in good position, fun game. pm me for deets and password.
1 reply
Open
BrownPaperTiger (508 D)
04 Jul 12 UTC
Mod/s - please check mail
A multi or three seems to have got caught out in a game I was playing - but the actions dont seem to match the notes in-game.
Have mailed the mod account - I see that one of the caught/accused is still playing?
13 replies
Open
Page 933 of 1419
FirstPreviousNextLast
Back to top