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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
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The Favorite Author Tournament: EDGAR ALLAN POE VS. J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Fighting out of the Red Corner, with works such as The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death, The Purloined Letter and The Cask of Amontillado, America's first international literary superstar, EDGAR ALLAN POE! Fighting out of the Blue Corner, author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the undisputed champion of the Fantasy genre, J.R.R. TOLKIEN! We began with 64 Authors...now, we crown WebDip's collective favorite!
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Troodonte (3379 D)
30 Jun 14 UTC
Semi-anonymous Gunboat
Hi guys,
I'm coming back and I'm willing to start a semi-anonymous Gunboat.
150 D to Join. WTA
Let me know if there is interest.
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
30 Jun 14 UTC
gunboat games r us
Please join if you're hard enough ....

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Putin33 (111 D)
30 Jun 14 UTC
Did Cameron do this on purpose?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/28/cameron-eu-juncker-defeat-britain-exit

His foreign policy is a total shambles but maybe he did this on purpose to accelerate the Brexit. It takes great strategic planning to bungle something this badly.
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
29 Jun 14 UTC
Could someone explain to me how to get the derivative of:
(3x^2+6x)/(2x^3+2)^5
So [(3x^2+6x)/(2x^3+2)^5]'=.....
I've missed quite some math classes lately and I need to know how to solve this type of thing (and other things but anyway) for a test tomorrow. I could probably figure it out myself eventually, but I just don't have the time and I have quite a bit more to go through.
Would someone be willing to show me the steps I should take?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
30 Jun 14 UTC
Of Kurds and Caliphates
http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-calls-jordan-support-kurdish-autonomy-214846630.html The ISIS today declared itself to be an Islamic State...and we'll see how long that lasts, or where that goes...meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyau called for support for the Jordanians (gee, I can't imagine why) and independence for Iraq's Kurds. Which is a more likely state to be recognized/come into being/"stick," a Kurdistan (if you will) or this ISIS caliphate? Thoughts?
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SandgooseXXI (113 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Where the heck is Mad Marx
Mark has been gone for a while huh, anybody say why?
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lixu893 (0 DX)
30 Jun 14 UTC
Good article
Thank you for your blog.
http://www.centurycases.com/
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lixu893 (0 DX)
30 Jun 14 UTC
B.J. Upton powers Braves past Phillies 3-2
Gerald Laird had two hits with a double and RBI for the Braves, who won for the sixth time in seven games though ending their road trip 8-3. Atlanta avenged a three-game sweep by Philadelphia June 16-18 at Turner Field.
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ILN (100 D)
28 Jun 14 UTC
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Enraging....
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/#comments

Home of the brave my ass.
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ThatBuhlLarry (100 D)
29 Jun 14 UTC
For Advertising Games:
World Dip. -> One more player needed!!!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=143877
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Bob Genghiskhan (1258 D)
29 Jun 14 UTC
Question for the mods:
I note we have some newish stats, like reliability rating. Ilove the idea of this. Is there some way we can set up games with a minimum reliability rating threshhold for participants? That would be a really nice way to filter out the people who join live games and then immediately quit the moment the game does not work out for them.
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Draugnar (0 DX)
28 Jun 14 UTC
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One great reason to drive a Mercedes...
Roadside service for life... Just saved me a headache and a bill. Had a blowout, made a phone call, 30 minutes later, they are changing my tire and setting up an appointment for tomorrow morning to get the blown one replaced.
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Draugnar (0 DX)
21 Jun 14 UTC
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SRG inspired by Chaqa's...
Simple rules. Each home SC (yours or opponents) gets one build. One build for every three non home SCs. So only 26 total units at most and everyone will want enemy home SCs more than the others. Interested?
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fulhamish (4134 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
UK population growth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27972335
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jkk0001 (40 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Longest Game?
Whats the longest game you guys have been in? I'm in a live gunboat right now thats in 1919...
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Chaqa (3971 D(B))
12 Jun 14 UTC
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Mafia III.V: The Second Coming
Soon.
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Putin33 (111 D)
28 Jun 14 UTC
The results are invalid: My opponent is an android
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/frank-lucas_n_5537217.html

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Kallen (1157 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
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What does FIFA 2014 have to do with the WebDip Mods?
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/world-cup-memes-2014-3.jpg


^this
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torra6 (130 D)
25 Jun 14 UTC
Fast game
If anyone wants to play a fast game join here now! We will play fast. http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=143845
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ERAUfan97 (549 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Ann Coulter
what a whack job http://www.eonline.com/news/554865/ann-coulter-slams-world-cup-fans-growing-interest-in-soccer-is-a-sign-of-the-nation-s-moral-decay
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ssorenn (0 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
who wants to game?
WTA,ANON,24 hour phases, and FULL PRESS

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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
27 Jun 14 UTC
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On nationalism and immigration
Seems legit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4
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Kallen (1157 D)
26 Jun 14 UTC
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Coastal Movement
Normally, when two units make a move to each other's territories, it causes a bounce (Rhur moves to Munich while Munich moves to Rhur). However, would coasts be treated as different territories for fleets? For example, could a fleet in Spain (nc) move to MAO while another fleet in MAO moved to Spain (sc)? Same with Bulgarian coasts and Constantinople. Thanks in advance!
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mapleleaf (0 DX)
25 May 14 UTC
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Elliot Rodger shoots a whole bunch of students.
Thank God they were all americans. 6 of them died. Hee hee. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
22 Jun 14 UTC
The Favorite Author Tournament: THE FINAL FOUR!
OK, sorry for the delay...and the continued delay--we'll start Midnight tonight. ORWELL! DICKENS! POE! TOLKIEN! Who will advance?

And a bonus question, just for schnicks and giggles--what's the first book you read after high school (or, if it was a while ago, the earliest book you can remember reading after high school?) Just curious to see what we get.
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Chaqa (3971 D(B))
26 Jun 14 UTC
Poe.
semck83 (229 D(B))
26 Jun 14 UTC
Woah Chaqa, this is the final four thread, not the final thread! You can't vote till there's a new thread.
Tru Ninja (1016 D(S))
26 Jun 14 UTC
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I read several Dragonlance books after HS, especially the Chronicles "trilogy"
Putin33 (111 D)
26 Jun 14 UTC
Chronicles is the best fantasy trilogy I've ever read. Tracy Hickman came to town recently for a gaming convention. I missed him. Makes me sad.
Chaqa (3971 D(B))
26 Jun 14 UTC
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
26 Jun 14 UTC
*Waits on Obi*
Draugnar (0 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Come on, Poe v. Tolkien. Let's get the finals thread going.
mapleleaf (0 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Bugs Bunny did an homage to The Raven.
Fishstudios (245 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
The Simpsons did an homage to The Raven, too - or rather, they just read it verbatim (except that it was edited for length). I don't think they've done that for any other work of ... anything, really.

I'm not sure what the significance of this is, but it must mean something.
taylor4 (261 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Last year at secondary school, Shakespeare: The Scottish play in fall term; Hamlet in Spring.
After school graduation, Sophocles (in translation): Oedipus Rex.
The last 2 handy since we got Freud's CIVILIZATION & ITS DISCONTENTS in Spring term at College. Had ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, and KING LEAR (seen performed on stage several times since) Fall term in College.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN's "Frodo" leads the list of Heroes (which also includes Chaucer's WIFE OF BATH ) on the "Great" something or other commercial, catch-up spoken books advertisements. Commercial HEROES also includes Aeneas, Odysseus etc. etc.
Yadda yadda wisdom: You have to have read all the major works byk age 20 (Twenty).
Then switch entirely to non-fiction, except what you see in the print, TV or WWW media.
It's (Poetry) all been downhill since Swinburne. It's (All Literature) been down hill since Aeschylus.
Poetry is dead, and the novel ... dying, according to Nobelist I.B. Singer.
Harold Bloom, the Gnostic independent, lists Cervantes, Dante, Shakespeare, mainly the major majors of Shakespear
Great Books. The (Dr. Eliot's ) Harvard president's four foot high shelves of must-reads. .. include also Goethe's FAUST Part I. The King James's (A.V.) Bible, if you do English Lit.. T.S. Eliot if you do early mod.
And then there's Stendhal and Stendhal Syndrome! CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA versus LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR. Bizarre!

You cannot omit the women writers: V. Woolf, the writer of the Odyssey, Sappho.
Nor Nora's James Joyce.
If you list Poe, then you cannot rule out A.C. Doyle's S. Holmes magnum opus
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
...I...I think you're a little late to the party?
Draugnar (0 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Ya think?
POE/TOLKIEN THUNDERDOME GO

##VOTE POE
mapleleaf (0 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
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The fact that Poe/ Tolkien is the final indicates that SOMETHING'S broken.

You morons.....
Draugnar (0 DX)
27 Jun 14 UTC
I'm with Eden on that. I was hard pressed between Tolkein and Dickens for that round, but Poe is my favorite of all three. My all time favorite (Ian Fleming) wasn't on here at all and number two was eliminated a while back (Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle).
it's ok mapleleaf, Poe will win and everything will be alright

well, except that America wins the gold AGAIN ahaha wow USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA


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Kallen (1157 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
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America Hate Thread
Putin, mapleleaf, and anybody else who feels the need to express disdain about the US, please feel free to share your feels in here. Everyone else, don't click open and have one less thing to piss you off =]
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
27 Jun 14 UTC
You can put lip-stick on Ann Poulter but ........
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/26/ann_coulter_no_american_whose_great_grandfather_was_born_here_is_watching_soccer/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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Dunecat (5899 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
Starting a new game, my friends. It's been a minute.
New game, open to all. Classic map, 500 D buy-in, winner takes all.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=143927
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ILN (100 D)
27 Jun 14 UTC
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'Lazy Greeks' aren't so lazy after all
http://euobserver.com/social/124761#.U6wWJN4c02x.facebook

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