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08 Jan 14 UTC

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Bad luck on the world map...

Which countries is it unluckiest to be landed with playing gunboat on the World Diplomacy XI map? Surely some are especially awkward to deal with. I'm looking at you, Australia...

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08 Jan 14 UTC

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Traders

Are there any traders on this site? Equity,option,fx,or commodity.

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02 Jan 14 UTC

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Is there anything that forum members know nothing about?

It seems that we have many experts on here, but I'd like to find out what we don't know. Post your topics to see if we can find something we all know nothing about. I'll start.

Topiary.

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08 Jan 14 UTC

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Christie linked to Fort Lee traffic

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lane-closings.html?hp&_r=0

Officials from Chris Christie's office have reportedly been linked to lane closures earlier in September as a measure of political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee, NJ.

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08 Jan 14 UTC

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why me????

I know you should expect to be backstabbed in this game but I feel like im being backstabbed every time I make an "alliance". Is this normal and does anyone else feel like they are being backstabbed this often?

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03 Jan 14 UTC

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"Is Christianity a force for good in the world?" The Great Debate #2

"Is Christnaity a force for good in the world, counting both today and the past?" Crazy Anglican representing Christian theism and obiwanobiwan representing atheism. Full debate transcript inside!

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That moment when...

Auburn gets crushed in the national championship game and people realize that the SEC just wasn't that good

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07 Jan 14 UTC

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Need a New Game

I find myself in need of a new game. Anyone interested in a 2-3day Classic WTA?

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08 Jan 14 UTC
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j'accuse!

I forget where we are supposed to send our cheating accusations. I know enough not to post them here.

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07 Jan 14 UTC

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Because Racism and Stereotyping is NOT an Exclusively-White Practice...

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/tiger-mom-39-book-stirs-culture-wars-195300564.html The high drama Tiger Momma has selected 8 select groups as being more naturally-successful than others--Mormons, Cuban exiles, Nigerian Americans, Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, American Jews (we're the Chosen People Again...yay?), Iranian Americans and Lebanese Americans...Stereotyping--selling shitty books since the Dawn of Time!

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07 Jan 14 UTC

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Global Warming - Polar Vortex Edition

Is global warming happening? Even with unprecedented cold plaguing North America?

Let the debate continue

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03 Jan 14 UTC

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Frost Quakes anybody else experience this

When the water in the ground suddenly freezes and causes a loud boom and shakes the ground. This was experienced widely outside of Toronto. Temperature hovering at 40°C

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Holiday CD Take Over

Post here with any games you take over, or pm me if they are gunboats, and I will reimburse you the points if the position you take over is not the one with the most supply centers.

*This coupon is not valid with any other offers from webdiplomacy.net, coupon is not valid if you CD in the positions you take over. Moderators and family of moderators not eligible. Terms and conditions may apply.

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07 Jan 14 UTC

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What is lamer than people who join but don't move?

I am new to this web based forum, but holy cow is there anything than people who don't move? I mean for crying out loud, you have 12 hours! to figure out what to do and, nope, can't be bothered! Yeah, it kind of wrecks the game for everyone else when the neighbor of the lamehead grows too strong too fast, but whatevs.

And joining a live game minutes before then simply doing limp? WTF?

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07 Jan 14 UTC

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Actors Running for Office

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/07/steven-seagal-and-5-other-celebs-who-flirted-with-running-for-office.html
Actors saying they might run for office even if not legally able to do so.

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02 Jan 14 UTC

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And speaking of Bonobos

Em... See inside. (bonobos AND chimpanzees are our closest living relatives)

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obiwanobiwan (248

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04 Jan 14 UTC

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The People's Choice--Facebook's Top 5 Great Authors...by Likes--Thoughts?

At least from my searching for them on the pages with the most likes to their name...leaving aside the J.K. Rowlings, Stephenie Meyers, And Stephen Kings--Shakespeare (surprise!) ranks 1st with 6.8 million, Maya Angelou (surprise...?) is 2nd with over 4 million, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 3rd with over 3 million, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ranks 4th with 1 million, and Jane "Life Begins at Man and Gossipy Bickering" has 900K. ...Thoughts on what that says about our popular choice in classic authors?

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01 Jan 14 UTC
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Ghost Ratings updated

http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/theghost-ratingslist
http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/theghost-ratingslist/ghost-ratings-by-category

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27 Dec 13 UTC

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webdiplomacy's facebook presence (PR)

Hi guys, I noticed that webDiplomacy is somewhat non-existent on facebook. Shall we do anything to change that?

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diplomacy world ezine

Some interesting articles, includong a challenge to plan a turkey-austria alliance...
http://www.whiningkentpigs.com/DW/dw123.pdf

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24 Dec 13 UTC
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Dwarf Fortress

Does anyone play it? I am about to mount an expidition up it's learning cliff...

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05 Jan 14 UTC

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Player needed

gameID=132903

Anon, 50 point buy-in, 2 day phases. This group has played several games with each other, but we need someone to fill in one spot. Post here if you're interested. This is a pretty good group, so the games have been pretty challenging (we haven't seen a solo yet). As long as you don't have any CDs, I'll PM the password to the first interested player.

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05 Jan 14 UTC

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Replacement Player

gameID=130256

this game is in need of a player for Britain, not sure why they left in such a strong position (10 SC's)

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01 Jan 14 UTC
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slow full press semi-anonym wta anyone?

I propose
25 buy-in
3 days/phase

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02 Jan 14 UTC

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Top 100 GR Game

Hi guys. I started the following to set up a competitive game among higher level players. Please join up if you're interested.

gameID=132808

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rokakoma (19138

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Scheduled live games

I was thinking about we could create scheduled live games, like monday 9PM CET, or weekdays 6PM ET, and so on.

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The goal is to make people, and ourselves, get used to certain times, when we can expect a live game actually be up and running, instead of trying to create them every 10 minutes, so we could join them far earlier.

The solution would be to name these games the same way, like
'Scheduled live GB/FP WTA/PPSC 6PM ET'.

Then, anyone, who knows he/she wants to play a live game later, can create the game hours, or even days, ahead. Once people are used to show up on these specific times, or at least to expect a live game on every evening, we might have more running games.

Of course I cannot pronounce strong enough, that mods, please adopt Reliability Rating, auto-disbands please!!!! They are essential for having good live games.

Opinions?

Lando Calrissian (100 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

I would be happy to play most Sundays beginning in February.

virtuslex (483 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

Me too.

rokakoma (19138 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

I created one for tomorrow, but all I want is to create a tradition, so we will know we will find a game at specific time.

I'm planning to create the games in advance, and when a few players have joined, I leave the game, so I don't have to be there all the time to play, but the games will be there regularly.

Hopefully, later, others will follow the 'tradition'.

Lando Calrissian (100 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

Sounds good man. Of course, I may hold off joining until I know I will be able to play tomorrow.

Chances are I will b sitting at home without power though :-( The terriest of forecasts is upon us atm.

rokakoma (19138 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

It doesn't matter if the game is not starting at all. I just want regular and scheduled games every day, to get used to them.

I encourage everyone, to choose a day/time fitting his availability every week, and create games for that time, when he/she wants to play. Hopefully every day/time pairs will have their 'owner' in a couple of weeks.

csabri (100 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

bad idea.

Lando Calrissian (100 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

Thanks for the constructive feedback there csabri. Really appreciated that you can give us thoughtful and relevant ideas for improvement.

csabri (100 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

sorry, it was just a joke from me to rokakoma.

Celticfox (100 )
21 Dec 13 UTC

I was thinking of getting a weekly Google+ game started after the new year if there was enough interest. They were hellishly fun before.

rokakoma (19138 )
22 Dec 13 UTC
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The first scheduled game just finished, everyone showed up, sadly there was an NMR at the 1st phase, but the player entered his autumn orders later.

I hope creating live games like this will be a great and working tradition!

Draugnar (0 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

I don't usually play love, bit will keep an eye out for these and try to jump in once in a while if time permits to help out. Excellent idea roka. Of course, the nale needs a time zone in it too.

Draugnar (0 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

Play live..

Draugnar (0 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

And "name needs" not "nale needs"

rokakoma (19138 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

thx Draug, I appreciate your words ;)

I'm looking forward to see you in one of these games, also I encourage you (and others) to create such games for times fitting your own schedule.

Celticfox (100 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

What times are we trying to get these games together every day. I could join in once in awhile as well.

Siddhartha (1158 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

Yeah, I'm definitely interested. I'm not available too much for live games, but if I knew there was a schedule, I could make some time.

rokakoma (19138 )
23 Dec 13 UTC

whenever you want, I prefer everyone to create one when he'd like to play, and hopefully people will show up.

I created one for Sunday 7PM CET, and I'm planning on to create them for every sunday evening, as it fits for me the best. But that doesn't mean I won't create other games occasionally as well, probably 24 hours earlier (to make a proper scheduling).

If people get used to certain times/days I hope it will be a self-sustaining tradition. Also bet sizes, therfore quality, can also be raised with games like this. As today's was a 707

pot size game, which is generally not easy to put together in 30 minutes. Now, it was up and running for the first attempt.

rokakoma (19138 )
28 Dec 13 UTC

Sunday 7pm CET, gameID=132521, 101

rokakoma (19138 )
04 Jan 14 UTC

Sunday 8pm CET, gameID=132993, 101 wta/gb

yebellz (729 )
05 Jan 14 UTC

Excellent idea! I think this could greatly improve the quality of live games if players coordinate time slots ahead of time.

As a suggestion, I would recommend also adding UTC time in parenthesis after whatever local time is listed, when advertising such games.
For example: "Sunday 8pm CET (7pm UTC)" or "Tuesday 2am JST (Monday 1700 UTC)"

This might help clarify things, since some might not be familiar with the various timezones from around the world. Of course, it's all a bit redundant if a game link is provided, but it at least speeds up comprehension without having to visit the game page to figure out what time it starts.

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04 Jan 14 UTC

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We're from the government, and we're here to help you...

By demolishing your houses and stealing your land!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3RiMdS7sE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Yy-roIT1A

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04 Jan 14 UTC

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What would you do?

See inside.

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04 Jan 14 UTC

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Remember Syria? All that

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/how-obamas-syria-policy-fell-apart-101704.html?hp=l12

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04 Jan 14 UTC

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This game is going to need a new Germany

The game was paused for the xmas break, but one of the players never came back to unpause. We're probably going to get a mod to unpause so we can continue - does anyone want the German position? It's not great, but also not over yet.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=128576

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