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10 Sep 10 UTC

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High Dollar Chaos Game

There is a chaos game starting on olidip with a huge pot so it would be good if some people could join quickly.

http://olidip.net/board.php?gameID=2057

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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Hot Love

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=36926

I don't really know what the policy is for this... but Argentina and Brazil are quite clearly the same player. I know this is sabotaging the game, but it has clearly already been ruined.

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01 Sep 10 UTC

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Winning the game...

I realize that this is probably a really stupid question, but since I can't find the answer on any of the FAQs, or even the official rule book by Avalon, I must post on the forums. Why is it, that in a game on WebDiplomacy, the game continues even when one country has 18 supply centers? Every rule I've seen says that the game is supposed to end and that the player has "won".

Thanks to anyone who answers!

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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My week one picks...

MIN +4.5
CLE +3
IND -1.5

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obiwanobiwan (248

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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America and Islam...To Quote A Famous Jewish Philosopher:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100908/ts_alt_afp/usattacksreligionislam Really, first the protestations over that plan to build a mosque near the site of the WTC attacks, and now "Koran Burning Day???" I don't really care about any Holy Book, but I don't think it's AT ALL appropriate to burn them...flag burning's questionable but you can AT LEAST say it's maybe a prostestation against the government; this is attacking individuals's belief!

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06 Sep 10 UTC

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Sun Tzu, Jomini, Clausewitz, Machiavelli, Mahan...

What is the single most important classical work on political and/or military strategy to read for the purpose of becoming a better Diplomacy player?

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Chaos Italy and Fleet Rome

I apologize if this is old and boring for the forum, but I was wondering about experiences that folks have had playing these variants. Are they fun? Balanced? Fleet Rome (Italy starts with a fleet in Rome instead of an army) in particular looks like a promising way to give Italy a few more options in the early going. Thoughts?

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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tactical advice for game on another site

before i discovered the awesomeness of webdip, i started an account over at playdiplomacy.com and started some games. I am pretty committed to this site, but don't want to abandon my games over there. Anyway, I have gotten myself in a bit of a pickle, and I would like to ask some tactical advice.

before i go into specifics, is this kind of thread even kosher?

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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Looking for a sitter

It looks like some people in my game won't vote for pause :-P.
I will be back on 18th. Playing one Ancient Mediterranean game (1

phase) and one Classic (2

2h but this one is very close to the end).
Are there any volunteers for sitting in my game?

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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ACTA

See within.

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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New game, ppsc, 24hrs per period, 15D

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=37699

join, if you like :)

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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Live game starts in 13 minutes

diplomacy on, 15 mins turns

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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Shalom...and a Happy Rosh Hashanah!

Yep--happy Jewish New Year, everybody!

What that means practically I don't know, if I were religious maybe it'd mean something, but it's still a good excuse to show some New Years good will...and have a New Years celebratory drink or two... ;)

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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live game starting in 4 minutes

especially for new players trying to learn

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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1 Person needed for World game

gameID=37550
Check it out everyone!
It has good rules and enough time to diplo with everyone.

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09 Sep 10 UTC

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live gunboat

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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High Pot WTA Chaos Game!!

There's only 24 hours to join, and we need 16 more- so this is a bit of a long shot.
The bet's 50

, and the total pot will be 2200 as Oli will put an extra 500 in if the game gets going.
http://olidip.net/board.php?gameID=2057

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Is it just me or are the game timers a bit off?

The game timers expire and change to now minutes before they. Acctually hit there deadline on my iPad, is it just me or is it something with the site

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Classic Game Needs One More

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=36993
Password: brady

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obiwanobiwan (248

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05 Sep 10 UTC

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Obiwanobiwan and the Quest For The Rushmore Of Music!

Well, that Philosophers contest almost entirely fun (damn you, Seneca! lol) and I was going to propose a world leaders contest next...but that BAND contest never went anywhere, never ended...so start nominating songs (max 5 per person) and we'll take the first 50 or so (flexible there) and give them 3

each until we reach our Top 20, then start like last time. ANY genre, from Beethoven to the Beatles to Britain's Anthem to Bieber (OK, THAT will get tossed fast!) ;)

obiwanobiwan (248 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

One quick note:

When I say a song I mean a SONG...so no 2-second Snickers jingles and not the entirety of "Carmen" or "Les Miserables," pci a singular song like "Do You Hear the People Sing?" or The Toreador Song (aka "Votre Toast.")

Obiwanobiwan's picks:

-"Votre Toast" from "Carmen" by Georges Bizet (my favorite opera aria...)
-"Hey Jude" by The Beatles (you KNEW I'd have that one in here...)
-"Haktiva" by Naphtali Hetz Imber (Israel's National Anthem...BEAUTIFUL...and, well...)
-"Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig von Beethoven (Prefer Mozart on the whole, but THIS...)
-"ABC Cafe/Do You Hear The People Sing?" by from "Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil (French lyrics) and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics...if I can't have both then the latter, but in the show they're sung back-to-back without pause, sort of like Sgt. Pepper/With a Little Help From My Friends, so...)

And those are my picks...yours?

peterwiggin (15158 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

@obiwan

Which movement of the Moonlight? and if you ask me, songs should be well, sung!
My picks:
"Maria" from West Side Story
"Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2
"O Fortuna" from Orff's Carmina Burana
"Erlkonig" by Franz Schubert
"Lacrimosa" from Mozart's Requiem
"Stars of Track and Field" by Belle and Sebastien

peterwiggin (15158 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

that was six . . . take out Erlkonig

obiwanobiwan (248 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Hmmm...to be honest, I don't know the movement, I just know the section has a definite begiining and ending, it can be interconnected like opera songs, but it really exists as a stand-alone piece...and there is/can be some choir music with it, so I put it in, a slow version of it, tell me if you think it counts...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

If not, then I'll probably pick either another Beatles song or, more likely (since we should get a few Beatles songs as it is) another aria, maybe "O Mio Babbino" or a part from "La Boheme" by Puccini or else a G&S song (probably Pinafore's "Overture/We Sail The Ocean Blue" or Mikado's "I've Got A Little List."

obiwanobiwan (248 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Songs confirmed so far:

-Votre Toast/Geroges Bizet
-Hey Jude/The Beatles
-Haktiva/The Nation of Israel
-ABC Cafe/Do You Hear the People Sing?/Les Miserables: The Muscial
-Maria/West Side Story (nice pick, btw, never would've thought of it, good song...)
-Where the Streets Have No Name/U2 (don't know it...)
-O Fortuna/Carl Orff
-Lacrimosa/Mozart (Hooray, some classical/operatic musical rep. early!)
-Stars of Track and Field/Belle and Sebastien (don't know it...)

peterwiggin (15158 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

That's an atrocity! The piano part is the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The rest of it is cloyingly sentimental dross, although I guess the choir part does technically make it "sung."

obiwanobiwan (248 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Well, thinking it over we have some early classical representation anyway, and Beethoven will probably get another song up here anyway...

So I'll swtich the Sonata vote to..."Let it Be" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" are both tempting, but will likely find some other wupport, at least one...I can't think of a really good pucini part by itself, he's my favorite, but his arias bleed togetehr for one big powerful movement (part of why he's my favorite, or a favorite, Tchaikovsky being the other, adn he has the same issue, to a lesser degree but still his melodies are best without the singing) so I'll let in maybe an overlooked gem.

I'll take "I've Got A Little Lsit" by Gilbert and Sullivan...hilarious song, great tune, and you can adapt it for jsut about anything...

obiwanobiwan (248 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Wait, take it back, even BETTER and NEEDED--

Always Look On the Bright Side Of Life, that HAS to be in the amount of times we've spoofed it here! XD

killer135 (100 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

mixing it up with my genres, not who i like, but who i think might win
"Round and Round by Selena Gomez"
"Whitehorse by Taylor Swift"
"Seek and Destroy by Metallica"
"Rock and Roll all night by KISS"
"Every Rose has it's Thorns by Poison"

killer135 (100 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

BTW, out of those, I really just don't like the Selena Gomez song, but it's popular nowadays so hoping it wins it for me.

peterwiggin (15158 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

My "early classical" nominations are all sung . . . without being destroyed by some arranger in the process. Not a nomination, but if you want an absolutely beautiful melody, try this (Shostakovich Piano Concerto no 2, Second Movement):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHpmHhi1Rxk&feature=related

Mafialligator (239 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

I think this is going to be really difficult to do. I mean, there's so much music out there, and no really objective way to judge it. I mean, I could put a song here and say "I like it" and you could say "I hate it" there's no way to argue it, it's all just feeling. I think any final four or five you end up with will be completely meaningless. Sorry.

peterwiggin (15158 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

@killer135
I don't think I've even heard of any of those songs . . . but then again, my tastes in music are somewhat strange.

killer135 (100 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Seriously? walked into store other day and heard Round and Round on TVs for sale, anyway, I'm more of a rock fan, though I do enjoy Taylor Swift songs (something about the tune of them I guess)

obiwanobiwan (248 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Well, Mafialligator, remember that I argued for a way to evaluate all art, if you'll recall that trope...come to think of it, maybe the further away we stay from that (and Gaga, at least she's not here yet...Taylor Swift is one thing, Jonas Boys or Gaga and I might start a-gaga-gagging.)

But I don't know, I guess we'll see how well this works...if it doesn't we could always try that world leaders thing, but I figured that be more serious talk and after the phisophical battle we had I thought Top Songs might bring some levity...

Mafialligator (239 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

I just think asking people what their favourite music is and why they like it might be a better way to approach the question, that's all. I just don't see the value in actually trying to narrow it down to 5 "greatest songs" when it's either just going to be the result of one or 2 Beatles and Beethoven fans, or everyone just compromises on songs and artists they don't at all care for.

killer135 (100 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Does no-one like my Taylor Swift vote?

Mafialligator (239 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Sorry. I just think that Beyonce had one of the greatest videos of all time.

(I don't actually think that. I'm just being a jackass like Kanye West.)

killer135 (100 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Everyones a critic

LJ TYLER DURDEN (334 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

2112 by Rush. Anyone that disagrees is free to burn in Hell.

acmac10 (120 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

These are my 5:

In The Name of Love-U2
California Gurls-Katy Perry
Love the Way You Lie-Eminem ft. Rihanna
You Really Got Me-Van Halen
Dynamite-Taio Cruz

abgemacht (1076 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Come Together by Aerosmith
Light my Candle from RENT
Band Romance by Lady Gaga
Elanor Rigby by Godhead
Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday

Draugnar (0 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

I've seen some great U2 picks up the but what about their greatest? And are we forgetting Aerosmith's greatest? And the best song from West Side Story? As for covers by others...

With or Without You - U2
Dream On - Aerosmith
Somewhere - from West Side Story
With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker's cover
Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer

I wish I had room for a dozen more... I can think of five off the top of my head that won't make the list but deserve to be on it. I'll mention them in case someone else wants to nominate them.

New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word - Elton John (and Joe Cocker's cover)
Rex tremendae - from Mozart's Requiem Mass
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr with Bill Withers
Red Barchetta - Rush

And pretty much everything Robert Palmer ever did. Robert Palmer and Grover Washington Jr: two musical greats taken way before their time.

Draugnar (0 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

I just realized I left New York Minute, Life's Been Good, Money for Nothing, and Brother's in Arms off. OK, so I have 8 more someone else needs to nominate.

Conservative Man (100 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Only 1 Metallica song? Really? Well here's 5 more:
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Dyer's Eve - Metallica
Orion - Metallica
Welcome Home Sanitarium - Metallica
The Unforgiven 3 - Metallica

Crazy Anglican (1067 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

"Serenade No. 13 for strings in G Major" aka "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" - Mozart

http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart/_/Eine+kleine+Nachtmusik

"She's a Brick House" - the Commodores

http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/c/commodores/brick-house/

"Dust in the Wind" - Kansas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koBWtYVRf-0&feature=related

"Frankenstein" - The Edgar Winter Group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo

"Jimmy Olson's Blues" - The Spin Doctors

LJ TYLER DURDEN (334 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

@ Conservative Man - If you're gonna go Metallica I gotta add Four Horseman. That being said, the rock genre should be won by 2112, so the Metallica songs are largely superfluous.

Draugnar (0 )
05 Sep 10 UTC

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik - way over played and doesn't even come close to being Mozart's best. All of the Requiem, the overtures to Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflote, & Don Giovanni, and his Wind Serenades and Symphonies are all better.

peterwiggin (15158 )
06 Sep 10 UTC

@Draugnar,

I thought Maria was the best song from WSS, although somewhere comes close. Likewise, I prefer Where the Streets Have No Name to With or Without You. I have to agree with you on Eine Kleine, however, and add in the B-flat Piano Sonata, the 20th Piano Concerto, and all five Violin Concertos as well.

Draugnar (0 )
06 Sep 10 UTC

Absolutely any Mozart is better then the rather pedestrian Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Crazy Anglican (1067 )
06 Sep 10 UTC

Um... well....ungh......"I LIKE IT!".......so there.

mapleleaf (0 )
06 Sep 10 UTC

" Life With No Friends " by The Conservative Troll
" Yet Another Inane Formulaic Masturbatory Thread With Consensus Pretensions " by obitroll
" U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! " by diplomat
" Me Me Me " by Sicarius.
" Why Oh Why Didn't I Listen To My Friends And Get An Abortion " by obitroll's, diplomat's, Sicarius's, and The Conservative Troll's mothers.....

Draugnar (0 )
06 Sep 10 UTC

The Mapletroll's back... <sigh>

peterwiggin (15158 )
06 Sep 10 UTC

@mapleleaf
You left me out.

Crazy Anglican (1067 )
07 Sep 10 UTC

Anything come of this one?

acmac10 (120 )
07 Sep 10 UTC

No, it's crap, and leave it be so it can be lost in the forum's ruins :D

obiwanobiwan (248 )
07 Sep 10 UTC

Nope, it's dead, Jim ;) Didn't work out...

Thucydides (864 )
08 Sep 10 UTC

"I Am Falling" by Tobias Hume.... anything by Tobias Hume really.
Mahler's 6th, the "Tragic" symphony
"In the Upper Room - Dance IX" by Philip Glass
"Stranded on Death Row" from The Chronic
"Jump Jive and Wail" by Louis Prima

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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gunboat 10 min intervals

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Bug in gameID=37581

This game bugged out on me. Do I email a mod about it? And how can I get it addressed without revealing which country I am?

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06 Sep 10 UTC

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WebDip's "Black Hats"

Who are the least trustworthy players here? Vote...

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Live games...

What are peoples general opinion on live games? And should there be a rule against advertising live games on the forum outside of the designated thread (ADVERTISE YOUR LIVE GAMES HERE)

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Live Game Anyone?

Any variant, any setting. Who is up for it?

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07 Sep 10 UTC

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live guboat NOW

gameID=37581
30

wta anon gunboat
30 mins to join

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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Live Gunboat

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=37592
5 min phases
30 minutes to join
20 bet PPSC

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07 Sep 10 UTC

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Minecraft.net

Minecraft.net

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08 Sep 10 UTC

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JOIN

Please join the game War In Europe-6. Game starts in 10 minutes

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07 Sep 10 UTC

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Is it poor form to ask...

For someone to join an ongoing game (with annon players, but messaging enabled) in place of a player that has left in order to make the game a bit more balanced?

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