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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Craziest Game i have ever been apart of

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=100535&nocache=97

and shout out to germany for only taking two centers that werent his by right or from a cd france

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28 Sep 12 UTC

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Need another Carthage again.

gameID=100298

Not in the best position, but there's still hope.

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28 Sep 12 UTC

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Need someone to step in as France! Spring 01, 24h turns.

Our France was banned for cheating, details unknown. We need a new one. The game hasn't started yet. The game is called Turn-A-Day conflict.

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28 Sep 12 UTC

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when will games unpause?

for all the games I'm playing that got automatically paused there is 1 person holding out on the unpause for each of these games. Neither of the people who have left their votes out have much of a stake left in the game either. Will the games automatically unpause after a certain time or do I need to contact the mods directly?

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Treaties

There was a game I played on VDip called 'Treaties' where you had to announce alliances, lay claim to SCs and declare war a year before invasion, all on public chat. Private chat is enabled though so you can plan effectively with your allies. I loved it and I was wondering if anyone here was interested. Bit of RPing makes it that much better too. If anyone is clearer on the rules, it'd be awesome if you could clear it up.

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Just Want To Hear Other People's Opinion..

It is the time of a game where you are just on whittling down the draw. And a 1-3 center power requests a draw for about a week. Do you give it?

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Unpausing

Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked before.
Does every player have to vote to unpause before a game can proceed or will games unpause themselves eventually?
Ta Doug

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Hyperactive Jam (299

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Need a takeover of Italy in excellent position.

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obiwanobiwan (248

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24 Sep 12 UTC

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The 46 Books of the WebDiplomacy Bible Or...

...How I Learned to Quit Quarreling and Love Some Books! ;)
I've always wanted to do this, loving literature and the written word so much:
Everyone picks 2 books/poems/plays/works (No Collected Works/Anthologies, Multi-Part Series can count as 2 books a la 1/2 Samuel.) 1 book chosen = literature/fiction, 1 book = philosophy/science/any non-fiction. So let's see what we compile together, what our Forum's "canon" looks like! :)

obiwanobiwan (248 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

And I picked 46 because of the Catholic Canon, obviously...

Just to give us a little extra room to make picks, 24 (Hebrew) or 39 (Protestant, if Wikipedia is right) being a bit short, and I didn't know if we'd reach 50+ (Eastern Orthodox.)

So:

To start our Bible, my picks...

Fiction:
"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (What else?)
Non-fiction:
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche (So many I'd like here, but others will probably place some other great thinkers and scientists in here, so I'll cast a vote for one of the most powerful and famous philosophical texts in the last couple centuries, and a book with ideas worth preserving)

Draugnar (0 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction - The Lord of the Rings (originally intended as a single book, but the publisher decided he had to break it up)
Non-fiction - "Peace, not Apartheid" by former President Jimmy Carter - a real road map to peace in Palestine.

TheFlyingBoat (2743 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: Game of Thrones by Martin

Non-Fiction: Being and Nothingness by Sartre

EmperorMaximus (551 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

A couple obvious ones,

"Art of War" Sun Tzu
"The Prince" Machiavelli

EmperorMaximus (551 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

O oops, missed the fiction bit

Zmaj (215 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

There are too many good books. OK, off the top of my head...

"Molloy" by Beckett
"Maxims" by LaRochefoucauld

mapleleaf (0 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

THE GRAPES OF WRATH Steinbeck
IN COLD BLOOD Capote

Zmaj (215 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

obi, since we both like Nietzsche, you might try LaRochefoucauld. Unlike Nietzsche, he was a calm man. But while N. had a penetrating gaze, L. had X-ray vision. His maxims are short and devastating.

obiwanobiwan (248 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

@Zmaj:

Maybe.

OK, so, to list what we have so far:

(Waiting to see what EmperorMaximus picks/drops)

Hamlet
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Lord of the Rings
Molloy
Maxims
The Grapes of Wrath
In Cold Blood
Peace, Not Apartheid
Game of Thrones
Being and Nothingness

2ndWhiteLine (2611 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (my favorite book of all time)
Nonfiction: Goodbye, Darkness - William Manchester

Celticfox (100 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
The Prince - Machiavelli

Celticfox (100 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Bah didn't see EmperorMaximus...
The Republic - Plato

EmperorMaximus (551 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction "Dune"
Nonfiction "The Prince"

someone else can have "Art of War"

Octavious (2701 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: The Beano Book, 1987
Nonfiction: Haynes Ford Escort Service and Repair Manual

Draugnar (0 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

@Oct +1 - I should have said "Haynes Chevrolet Corvette Service and Repair Manual - 1991-1995".

bo_sox48 (5202 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: "White Fang"
Nonfiction: "Nickel and Dimed," "Art of War," "Hagakure"

Socrates Dissatisfied (1727 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Nonfiction: A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation Of the Inequality Among Mankind - Rousseau

One of each really isn't enough, not that even 3 of each would be enough but I just feel awful leaving out for instance

Fiction: Penguin Island - Anatole France/La Duchesse de Langelais - Honore Balzac
Nonfiction: Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein/Autobiography of Malcolm X

Octavious (2701 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

@ Draug

Nice to know they exist on the other side of the Pond :). Many happy hour I spent on my first car armed with only a Haynes manual, borrowed toolbox, and a hell of a lot of optimism. And a couple of angry, frustrated hours too :p. Do your versions have the spanner ratings of difficulty?

Draugnar (0 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

I'd have to check. We have both Haynes and Chilton's as well as the ability to spends hundreds (even thousands for some cars) on the manufacturer's shop manuals.

BreathOfVega (597 )
24 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: Q by Luther Blisset
Nonfiction: A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco.

obiwanobiwan (248 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Hamlet
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Lord of the Rings
Molloy
Maxims
The Grapes of Wrath
In Cold Blood
Peace, Not Apartheid
Game of Thrones
Being and Nothingness
Catch-22
Goodbye, Darkness
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (we'll count the whole collected series as one text)
The Prince
The Republic (what the hell, we'll add it, two folks now have said it...)
Dune
The Beano Book (WTF is this...? LOL, I looked it up...wtf?) xD
Haynes Ford Escort Service and Repair Manual (So our Bible can become outdated too!)
White Fang
Art of War (You listed 3, I took that as someone else also already asked for it)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (NICE pick, good to see Goethe getting to live on here!)
A Discourse on Inequality (To take its shorter title)
Q
A Theory of Semiotics

24/46, so just about halfway there...

YadHoGrojaUL (330 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

F: The Shell Seekers (Rosamund Pilcher). A bit of pleasant, well-written romance never did anyone any harm!

NF: The Art of Diplomacy (or whatever its called) (Allan Callhamer)...

shikari (231 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

F: Wizard's First Rule

NF: Star Wars

obiwanobiwan (248 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

^I think we're doing books, shikari...

obiwanobiwan (248 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

I don't know...

Would you count Star Wars as 1 story, 3 chapters, the 6 chapters...and then you have the TV shows and books and all the rest of that insanity...

So if we were to condense it to text form, what would that be?

BreathOfVega (597 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

hardly nonfiction, anyway

KnightGeneral (1342 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, one of the most epic stories ever told
Non-Fiction - The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman, the definitive work on the beginning of World War I

aureliano5174 (0 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction - "Peace, not Apartheid" by former President Jimmy Carter - a "real" road map to peace in Palestine.
Non-Fiction - "One Hundred Years of Solitude" By G.G. Marquez.

Oh wait, I misplaced them, right?

obiwanobiwan (248 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Ah, true BreathofGega, LOL. :D

NICE picks KnightGeneral and aureliano (fits your pick!)

But Peace, Not Apartheid is already on there, would you like to add another NF one?

Putin33 (111 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Darwin, Origin of Species.
Niebelunglied

bo_sox48 (5202 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

I might throw in "All The Pretty Horses" too but I don't really have a vote now ;)

flc64 (1963 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: Catch-22
Non-Fiction: An Army at Dawn

semck83 (229 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction - Barrie, Peter Pan
Nonfiction - Locke, Two Treatises of Government

Nonfiction was tough. I think there are more interesting choices, but this one should definitely be there so I'm choosing it.

Your Humble Narrator (1922 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
Non-Fiction: Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco

Your Humble Narrator (1922 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

Oh crap. I want to throw The Sound and the Fury in there too, but I already voted.

Your Humble Narrator (1922 )
25 Sep 12 UTC

(Not to mention A Clockwork Orange, whence comes my username. Ah well!)

tj218 (713 )
26 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: The Caine Mutiny
Non-Fiction: ugh...this is hard so I will cheat, The Long Fuse is my favorite pre-WWI book. Overall though I think Rise and Fall of the Third Reich should be required reading for all.

Yellowjacket (835 )
26 Sep 12 UTC

Fiction: The Bible
Non-Fiction: Helter Skelter

semck83 (229 )
26 Sep 12 UTC

The Bible is a collection, YJ. I think obi meant to disallow such books.

MajorMitchell (1874 )
27 Sep 12 UTC

Homer 1 & 2 (Illiad & Oddysey )
Damon Runyon On Broadway
War & Peace by the Russian chappie
Machiavelli The Prince
& Sun Tzu Art of War
The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Richard 2 & King Lear
Darwin - Origin of the Species
Dickens Oliver Twist & Great Expectations
Pygmalion
Animal Farm & 1984
I Claudius & Claudius The God -- Robert Graves
Moby Dick
Monsarrat The Cruel Sea
All Quiet on the Western Front
Diary of Mick Mannock ( English ww1 Fighter pilot )
Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Hughs --The Fatal Shore
We of the Never Never
Patrick White -- The Storm
& since I put in a few by Shakespeare & Pygmalion ( My Fair Lady )
Sheridans The Rivals
& Oscar Wilde & Moliere for a satire each as well (spin a wheel to pick )
& a few collections :
New Yorker - all cartoons published in New Yorker
& 50th year of Playboy
& Gilray ( a collection of cartoons )

& a few others I've overlooked, eg Newton & Einstein

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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Hi Guys...

I need your help...

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Tom Bombadil (4023

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Differential Equations.

Need some help. Not cheating on hw or anything like that. Just a practice problem that would be great if someone could walk me through. Reply if you gots some math knowledge!

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Need a Carthage....

We need someone to take over Carthage, it's early in the game but there is still hope!

gameID=100298

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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Processing time reset

Hi guys,
I've reset the processing time, and added 24 hours to all games. Apologies for the inconvenience. I'll add this issue to my automated warning system so that I'll be able to respond more quickly next time.
Regards,
Kestas

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22 Sep 12 UTC

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Any RP or highly talkative games starting?

Sick of playing games that turn into a gunboat. I do prefer WTA and anon games. Thanks

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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EOG- Mother of God

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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EoG Roma Victor

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Bob Genghiskhan (1238

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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EOGs for Wave upon wave of demented avengers...

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27 Sep 12 UTC

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Subs needed for Triathlon

Acmac hasn't been around since the 17th so I'm guessing that he won't make it in time to join the next round. I need subs for a gunboat and a full press game. Could be one person for both, or two different people.

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erik8asandwich (298

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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Replacement Needed

We need a replacement France for a player who was banned. France is in a pretty good position. PM me if interested for game details.

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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EoG: Happy Fun Palace-2

When England and France leave, it's Germany who should win... isn't it?

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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EoG: Mass destruction

Memorable moment: Denmark stays neutral until autumn 1904.

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25 Sep 12 UTC

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All Slaves

Huffington post recently claimed income inequality in the US today is worse than both slavery era US and the roman empire. Thoughts?

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23 Sep 12 UTC

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SEC is on such a higher plane

Which is why Rutgers went into a FULL STRENGTH Arkansas and came out with a win. Can't wait till Arkansas take some SEC teams down and the discussion is "How did Arkansas turn their season around so quickly." Newsflash, outside of LSU and Alabama the SEC is nothing special.

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Fortress Door (1837

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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What?

http://webdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=47277

he plays one game and get banned... this makes me wish that mods revealed case details for bans :P

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ckroberts (3548

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25 Sep 12 UTC

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Everyone knows this server isn't processed

Why is there even a webdiplomacy server if no one is every going to process games?

It just seems like the whole website is un-serviced and everyone knows it.

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Lando Calrissian (100

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26 Sep 12 UTC

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Why are these games paused ???????

gameID=99018 gameID=99030 gameID=99014 gameID=99015

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rokakoma (19138

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20 Sep 12 UTC

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Can't register to forum.webdiplomacy.net

Hi guys, I tried to register to forum.webdiplomacy.net, but the CAPTCHA says I'm wrong. I tried it like 100 times, still no result.

Tried it with space, without space, case-sensitive, insensitive, changing word orthers, still no succees. Is it just me, or is it wrong for others as well?

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rokakoma (19138

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19 Sep 12 UTC

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An(other) idea to handle multis/metas

See below

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Fortress Door (1837

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25 Sep 12 UTC

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Another Game...

I am sad because I was the only one defeated in abge's game. Signup's for the Third FD Game

1. Fortress Door
2. Legatus (signed up a wihle ago, via pm)

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Fortress Door (1837

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25 Sep 12 UTC

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bo_sox48

Please stop being an asshole. Thank You

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