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frenchie29 (185

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Anybody want in?

gameID=135949 1 spot left, classic game with day long phases.

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Darth Baum (1056

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So where did you hear about the game of Diplomacy?

I was just curious about where you guys heard about this game that I have come to really enjoy. I discovered it a few months back and we actually organized a game at my school which was going to be face to face and we would submit orders on a weekly basis. That didn't work so we were looking up virtual versions and came across this site thus I found you guys.

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GB 150@ 36HR - No Press is Best Series

Come join as many as you like!
gameID=135779 gameID=135780 gameID=135781 gameID=135782 gameID=135783

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Daily Satanic Bible Verses

“Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!”

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1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says

I thought it would be funny to ask a quarter of my friends to answer the question incorrectly for kicks and giggles, but it turns out a bunch of other people had the same idea...

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How many countries can you identify?

Inspired by some questionable statistics from the sun/earth thread: How many countries can you identify on the map? Post results here.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/world

Lopt (102 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Bad test, I cannot enter countries because I do not know the proper spelling...

Hellenic Riot (1626 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

190

Missing:
St. Vincent-Grenadines, St. Lucia, Kiribati, Comoros, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tuvalu

Octavious (2802 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

My other half can do all of them, including capitals and flags. I fear I have never learned all those damned island nations in the Pacific, regularly confuse my Stans, and there are a few African nations that I can neither place nor spell. Aside from that I'm pretty good.

Octavious (2802 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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Oh, and I refuse to recognise Kosovo as a country.

Chaqa (3971 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Why?

Hellenic Riot (1626 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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Knowing them and remembering them aren't really the same thing

Octavious (2802 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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Because it's part of Serbia

Lando Calrissian (100 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

128/197

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

178/197

Didn't realize they'd be including unrecognized states.

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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I somehow forgot France, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Chile. LOL

Chaqa (3971 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/CountriesRecognizingKosovo.png

Good enough for me.

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Kosovo is the Jerusalem of Serbia. Kosovo comes from the word Kos, meaning blackbird in *Serbian*. Kosovo refers to the Kosovo Polje - > Plain of the Blackbird. "Kosova" which is what the Albanians call their new 'country', has no meaning whatsoever in Shqiptar.

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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Mark my words the Albanians will soon take over Macedonia, claiming that as their 'homeland'.

steephie22 (182 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

34% on my mobile while my native language is Dutch...
I can live with that. Not too stupid, not too nerdy.

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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Linguistically, some kind of proto albanians were probably there before slavic speaking people entered the area.

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

As for Jerusalem, there is no conclusive evidence to establish a definite linguistic-cultural history of early hebrew. It is uncertain how "indigenous" it is to the area of Israel/Palestine.

I suppose you could take the hebrew bible literally, in which case hebrews are descended from some dude from Ur.

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Like Lopt, I can't spell. Can't complete test.

Putin33 (111 )
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Serbs settled Kosovo in the 6th century. Albanians arrived in the 18th century.

But more to the point, Kosovo has for centuries been central to the Serbian identity - see: epic poetry and ancient monasteries for details. The only reason Albanians have a majority in Kosovo today is because of the Balli Kombetar and their Italian patrons during the early 1940s.

Vallk (904 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

131/197

Got hammered in Africa

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Putin -- I'm just pointing out that there were people living in the area before the slavic speaking people arrived. The people that were living in kosovo and serbia before the "serbians" were more than likely speaking a language related to albanian.

Not that it really matters to anyone.

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Albanians originated from the Caucasus in an area now in Georgia once called the Avar Khanate. Plenty of Georgian villages have Albanian names or are the names of Albanian tribes. So your claim is disputed, that's all I will say.

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

But it does matter because it's that theory you are proposing that is being used to legitimize the new Albanian state of "Kosova" and the displacement of Serbs from the area.

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

1) I agree with you that it doesn't matter apart from ancient history.
2) I'm not proposing anything.

I suppose if you wanted to gain and learn from such historical facts it would be that all modern ethnic national claims are built on a) selective interpretation of the past and b) myths.

Fasces349 (0 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

121, Ireland and Iceland where the only European countries I missed, and I completely forgot about the Caribbean (no Cuba, Haiti etc.)

Given enough time I think I could have easily gotten to 150+

Lopt (102 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

How do you identify all 190 that is batshit crazy

Fasces349 (0 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

"Bad test, I cannot enter countries because I do not know the proper spelling..."
I'll confess that I would google my spelling of the country to get google to autocorrect it for me.

OutsideSmoker27 (204 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

184/197. Can't believe I skipped over Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and Burkina Faso (and maybe Trinidad/Tobago). Can TOTALLY believe I skipped over the rest.

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

i'll have to try that

SantaClausowitz (360 )
16 Feb 14 UTC
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the test should be called "145remember names of countries from the top of your head" because the map is useless aside from some larger countries and double useless once everything starts getting populated
145/197

and I call bull shit on Hellenic. Sorry, just being real

SantaClausowitz (360 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

if spelling wasn't an issue id have 7 more, I gave up on Trinidad, Burkina Faso, Lichtenstein, Andorra, Bosnia and the other thing, Monacco, and Myanmar

dirge (768 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

152/197. Had several mental blocks. Kept thinking Zaire, for instance, and it wouldn't accept "Congo" so I gave up on that. Missed quite a few islands and parts of W. Africa

Putin33 (111 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

They accepted Burma as an answer. I had an issue with Seychelles. Also, I think the map forgot Sao Tome & Principe but I could be wrong.

King Atom (100 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

137
Same problem with Africa/Pacific Islands. Forgot about Kyrgyzstan and Monaco.

Hellenic Riot (1626 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

http://puu.sh/6YUCq.png

If you say so, Santa.

redhouse1938 (429 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

Venezuela seems to have moved

2ndWhiteLine (2611 )
16 Feb 14 UTC

193. Forgot a few Caribbean countries and remembered East Timor at the last second.

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Frank Underwood for President

Just started the second season of House of Cards, I'm wondering if anyone here would vote for or against him and their reasons.

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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TES online

anyone else do the recent TES online beta weekend?
I found it to be very MMO-y.

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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Coup in Italy

Will Renzi bring about the electoral reform needed to finally hold new elections? Or will Forza Italia manage to block it?

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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Maths

This doesn't seem right, can anyone explain

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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GB England openning to EC rather than Norwegian...

Does that have any real merit? It is not an attack on France, but he won't like it... though he is usually gunning for you soon enough...

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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Colonial Map Varient?

I was curious if anybody knew about this varient, i.e. what it looks like, player countries, etc.
It sounds very interesting to me!

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16 Feb 14 UTC

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cancel instead of draw

hi, i was in a live gunboat game a while ago in which there were 2 people who left. everyone had voted draw except for one person who refused and just voted cancel. i needed to leave soon and didn't think i had time to email the mods so i voted for everything. continued below.

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16 Feb 14 UTC

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See all messages with country

Is there any way to see all messages with a given country in a game without manually searching through the all messages link?

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Lord Baldy (100

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The Devil's own work...

As God appears to have the upper hand in the propaganda stakes on here, I thought in the interest of fairness & editorial balance that this thread could be used for fans of Satan to help his pitch with the floating voters. So if Beelzebub already has a mortgage on your soul, now's the time to start paying off the interest...

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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Domestic Violence

I'm not really trying to make a point about it - everyone here is smart enough to know it's a problem - but I just love this video.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202177621225864

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Game crashed?

I played gunboat game: gameID=135825 about a half hour ago and it crashed. Couldn't reach the site and now i'm wondering whether this was my problem or if the site was indeed unavailable for others too?
Other websites worked perfectly at the time.

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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Are trolls all sadists??

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html

sadist, Machiavellian . . . really? are we all that horrible?

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Time for the USA to grow up over Cuba

The Commies aren't quite the threat you thought ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26198379

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Yummy!

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3-models-grace-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover-021314

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14 Feb 14 UTC

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Defence VS Offence

What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of defence VS offence are in war? I personally think that a good offence is 100 times better then a good solid defence. Having a good Defence on the other hand can destroy large numbers of enemies who may attack..... The unfortunate thing about it is most armies now days are mobile enough that they can maneuver around defences.

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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GB Russia openning Mos - STP rather than Mos - Ukr?

Do any of you favor that? Seems excess energy is wasted in the North early on, particularly as you can be bounced from Rumania and a fleet in Rumania means you will lose Galicia...

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15 Feb 14 UTC

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Looking at Moves in GB -- Especially in the end game...

I am shocked by how often setting up stalemate lines in GB is blown when moves are not viewed to see why a particular unit appears idle... of course that has resulted in some solos on my end, too...

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steephie22 (182

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13 Feb 14 UTC

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Food that makes you fat but isn't unhealthy?

I present you a hopefully interesting dilemma inside.

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13 Feb 14 UTC

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Draug tries to get addicted again...

OK, so I actually did enjoy myself in that last game, despite the ending and the current vitriol coming from Roka, so I'd like to try again. This will have to be limited to just 20

for now, but I want another group of top notch gunboat players (Roka need *not* apply) to try and teach me a lesson again. I made it to the top three last time. Think you can kill me earlier?

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14 Feb 14 UTC

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Time Warner and Comcast

Is there any benefit to a merger for customers?

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redhouse1938 (429

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12 Feb 14 UTC
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Land of the Free?

"Change we can believe in"
Is it just me or does that mantra become more ridiculous by the second?
http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php# (see the "most dramatic rise and falls section")
Land of the Free? Come to Holland! :D

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England Gunboat Strategy

A few weeks ago I made one of these threads for Russia and I would say my play improved greatly. So now, I need to ask for help.

How the hell do you play England in gunboat?

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14 Feb 14 UTC

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St. Petersburg

Sorry if this has been answered a thousand times, BUT can you have a unit in both northern and southern StP at the same time?
Thanks

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V-Day = More Bandwidth

http://gizmodo.com/people-actually-watch-less-porn-on-valentines-day-1523009813

So...uh....yeah....if you're one of the lonely ones tonight, fap away with less lag, I guess....so...uh...that's all...

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