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yassem (2533 D)
17 Apr 15 UTC
Liberland
How come we haven't yet talked about Liberland? Thoughts?
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
17 Apr 15 UTC
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Congratulations Rommeltastic!
Truly a god among men.
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TruthTeller (0 DX)
17 Apr 15 UTC
I was banned on another account.
Hey all,

I know you probably don't give a crap. I don't expect you to really. I just want to vent about how inadequate the mods are. Me and a group of four friends live in the same house. We played the actual board a lot and we loved the game. We found out a number of us were going to be moving very soon, but we still wanted a way to do fun things together. We found this site.
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
17 Apr 15 UTC
The TMP Challenge
gameID=158856

I challenge TMP to a 7 way duel. Any others should join for this unique experience to get tickled whilst playing.
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
17 Apr 15 UTC
Urgent news from Devil-elopers
See Inside: The webDip Dev-e team has taken great pleasure in anouncing a possibly new feature for the site. Soon players may be able to list their relationship status and commit to in-game marriage. We here at webDipDev-e take great pride in our work and are excited to see how the community enjoys the new developments. - questions should be directed to myself, the webDip Dev-e chairman Mao, in my PM.
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Jancarius (109 D)
16 Apr 15 UTC
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Draw Votes
How many players must agree to a draw before it happens?
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krellin (80 DX)
16 Apr 15 UTC
Y-F'ing-Y!!!
Yellow!!! Haven't seen you in like for-fucking-eve!!! How's it going dude?
Hell...last time I saw you around was probably...huh....when I survived the Great WebDip Purge!!!
How the hell are you, my friend?!?!!?
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OB_Gyn_Kenobi (888 D)
15 Apr 15 UTC
Another Dip variant idea
I call it "Chain of Command". I'm interested in getting opinions/feedback. GB lovers probably won't like this one.
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
16 Apr 15 UTC
Do Human 'races' exist?
www.sciencealert.com/watch-do-human-races-really-exist
Discuss.
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captainmeme (1632 DMod)
15 Apr 15 UTC
Blind Diplomacy Gunboat EOG
After 16 in-game years (4 months real time) the Blind Diplomacy Gunboat game has ended, with Austria (Chumbles) achieving a 19SC victory!

Maps can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/fG0MI
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
16 Apr 15 UTC
This is staggeringly relevant
as above, below.
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quarryman (5466 D)
16 Apr 15 UTC
NY City to NY State... is not a bug?
3 or 4 times I have seen moving a fleet from NYCity to NYState or viceversa. Is that a bug, isnt it?
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
16 Apr 15 UTC
AERA-Chicago
Anybody here going to AERA-Chicago this weekend? Would be great to meet some folks from webdip at AERA. We will be discreet. :)
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
16 Apr 15 UTC
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Who to censor?
As above, below.
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Randomizer (722 D)
13 Apr 15 UTC
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World Hypocrisy about Arab Deaths
The world isn't condemning the Saudi Arabia led attacks into Yemen at the same level as when Israel defended itself against Hamas. Going after the enemy, they have hit hospitals, schools, a refugee camp and neighborhoods, according to U.N. officials. This is without being threaten, but just to prevent Iran from going in power.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-widens-role-in-saudi-led-campaign-against-yemen-rebels-1428882967
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TrPrado (461 D)
15 Apr 15 UTC
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It's Official
I have been on webDip for a full year as of today. Which also happens to be the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death.
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SplitDiplomat (101466 D)
26 Mar 15 UTC
New high pot top gunboaters' game(s)
Is there an interest among top 20 (or so) gunboat players to start another top game (or set of games) with usual top gb games settings?
Games starting as we get the crew,higher ranking gets in...
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yassem (2533 D)
15 Apr 15 UTC
Wrinkle your brain a little bit...
By now it probably gone quite viral, but maybe not all of you have seen it yet, and it's a good one:
http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/MathsProblem_1024.jpg
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JimTheGrey (968 D(S))
07 Apr 15 UTC
Chicago-Area Tournaments Coming Up
The ninth annual CODCon Open Diplomacy tournament (http://windycityweasels.org/codcon9) is this weekend at the College of DuPage in west suburban Glen Ellyn. Weasel Moot IX (http://windycityweasels.org/wm9) will be June 13-14 at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Hope to see you there!
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Maniac (189 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
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Announcement
I'm standing as The Green Party candidate in the local elections on 7th May in the UK. I know this will concern some of you, but rest assured, I have zero chance of winning and being put in charge of anything.
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Tarsil (7 DX)
15 Apr 15 UTC
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Petra to Nabatea
Does anyone know why you can't move afleet from Petra to Nabatea on the ancients map when they share a coast line and adjacnecy ??
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2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Four Greatest
Pick the four greatest baseball players ever on your favorite team and the four greatest living baseball players.
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Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Ichiro is (well was) a great player, but unprecedented is a bit much (Tony Gwynn says hello) and the "Ichiro could have hit lots of homers if he wanted to" line always seems a stretch to me, especially when simpletons toss out lines like "he could have hit 500 HRs".
ghug (5068 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Ichiro almost certainly couldn't have hit 500 homeruns. Maybe if he had played his whole career in the majors and consistently sold out for power, but he acknowledged that, while he clearly had the power, he couldn't hit that way without compromising his contact skills.

Gwynn hit for more power, so they were similar in overall value, but he didn't go ten straight seasons with 200 hits or set the record for hits in a season. Ichiro has arguably the best hit tool ever, and while I appreciate you calling bo a simpleton, you're underrating him.
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Gwynn won 8 batting titles, hit over .350 7 times (Ichiro did that 4 times but only one was over .352). Gwynn's career average is .338 to Ichiro's .317 (also better OBP and much better SLG). Gwynn has 16 seasons of hitting .317 or better. You are underrating Gwynn... Homers weren't a big difference actually (135 to 112) but doubles is where Gwynn kills Ichiro. Now on the flip side Ichiro a much better defender and more speed and steals (though Gwynn stole more than most people realize). I would say overall value they are similar but if we are just talking hit tool I'll take Gwynn.
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Also Ichiro only win two batting titles.
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Won
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
There is also the Chicken Man. Boggs had over 200 hits 7 seasons in a row and hit .328 to Ichiro's .317. All while walking a ton more than Ichiro and beating him by over 50 pts in OBP. Again Ichiro is great just not unprecedented. He is a lot like Pete Rose. Not the best hitter but a very solid compiler and volume guy.
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Gwynn and Boggs also both managed to win 4 batting titles in a row (Boggs had 5 for his career).
ghug (5068 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
I'm not arguing anything but pure hit tool. Gwynn was a better hitter overall, and he's probably the only hitter you could actually make an argument for having a better hit tool.

Ichiro got to the US at age 28, likely the end of his prime, and still managed ten consecutive years with 200 hits. Calling him a solid compiler and volume guy is a joke. Gwynn only won four of his batting titles after that age, and two came with significantly less playing time.
trip (696 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
28 was closer to a little bit before the middle of Ichiro's prime. He had seven phenomenal years in Japan, and ten in MLB.
ghug (5068 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
He declined slowly and started very high, but his best MLB years were his first ones, and that follows conventional knowledge on player aging.
trip (696 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
Ichiro didn't have a conventional prime. If he did, we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place :)
ghug (5068 D(B))
14 Apr 15 UTC
You can have a conventional prime and still be amazing, it just means you decline from very very good to very good. That's pretty clearly what he did.
Satchel page could easily be top ten if he played his whole career in the big leagues he debuted at 42! But he's dead and I doubt the browns are anyone's favorite team, or the indians for that matter
Ichiro played nearly the entirety of his career on very bad teams
ghug (5068 D(B))
15 Apr 15 UTC
That is true. Though he also played on the best team ever.
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
15 Apr 15 UTC
For the record Ichiro was 27 for his entire rookie season of 2001 which was one of his two batting titles. He didn't debut in the majors at 28 as several of you are claiming. If we limit Tony Gwynn to his age 27 seasons through the end of his career he still won 7 batting titles including 4 in a row from age 34-37. Gwynn's 5 seasons from age 33-37 were all .353 or better including a .394 season.
Yaleunc (11052 D(B))
15 Apr 15 UTC
Again Ichiro was great and getting 200 hits 10 times is impressive but there are better pure hitters like Gwynn and Boggs, though Ichiro compares favorably to them as an overall player due to his speed and defense.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
15 Apr 15 UTC
I never said that Ichiro wouldn't have sacrificed hits for home runs. Every power hitter does. But he had the power. Watching him in BP was a spectacle to be seen. He could hit the ball 450 feet in any direction and then come back and hit a line drive to right center, and you know he would have stretched that out to a triple. He was a master of hitting and he rarely showed his full scope of abilities - power just wasn't part of his arsenal that he felt it necessary to use. It's a very Japanese style that he played.

Defensively, Ichiro has one of the best arms ever. Period. Just go on Youtube, it's insane. Obviously, he's incredibly quick, covers a ton of ground, plays as smart as anyone, and had some of the crazy assists from the outfield that ESPN plays a thousand times.

Tony Gwynn is incredibly similar to Ichiro in my mind. I would hesitate to put Wade Boggs up there because of the speed factor, but I guess you could say that too.
Nanook (100 D)
15 Apr 15 UTC
Going back a little ways (and by the way, hit tool? Ty Cobb is in the conversation too, despite the different era), not every team has a capital-C Captain, but every team, every great team anyways, has a leader, occasionally two leaders, that the rest of the team defers to and/or takes their cues from. Sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. It's not always the best player on the team, but they're usually pretty easily identified if you watch enough of their games. Let's look at the last few championships for a minute, to illustrate what I mean:

Royals and Giants.

The Royals took and take their cues from Alex Gordon, no question about it. He's not the best player on their team, but he is the most important. Without Gordon, the Royals identity doesn't work--he's the guy that holds it all together, and makes all the other pieces, some of whom are better or more skilled players than him, mesh together. The Giants leader was Sandoval, and a little bit Bumgarner, though I wouldn't be surprised if Lincecum was still the leader of the staff.

Sox and Cards

The Cards leader is of course Yadi. Nuff said. The Sox are a little more complicated though, and almost have a dual-leadership. Pedroia is the heart and soul of the team, but David Ortiz is, I mean, he's Papi. Everyone looks up to him, and how could you not with what he's done in the Postseason? But even he defers to Pedroia. There were a few other guys on the team with leadership qualities, Napoli and Victorino come to mind, but the key when it comes to a team like that year's Sox, is that there isn't a fight or debate who the leader is--it was (and still is) Pedroia, and that was never in question, one of the reasons this team was able to play and function as successfully as they did. An interesting note that the leaders of the last two teams to win the Series are on the same team now.

Going back a little farther, to the Sox of 2004. Their leaders were probably their 6th or 7th best player, Jason Varitek. Millar got the press for his "we're idiots" thing, but Tek was the leader of that team, no doubt about it. This is a good example though of a team that had lots of players with leadership qualities and potential (Pedro, Derek Lowe, Bill Mueller, Tek, Trot Nixon, Kevin Millar, Ortiz, Manny (yikes), Mike Timlin), but instead of there being confusion over who was in charge, they ended taking on the best parts of all those players personalities, and taking their cues from Tek. An example of a team like this, with lots of potential leaders on it, would be last years Dodgers (Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Kershaw, Beckett, Juan Uribe, Matt Kemp, Zack Greinke, Puig). The difference though, is that while the Red Sox all took their cues from Tek (who did end up getting the capital-C Captain patch eventually, but that doesn't always mean anything), and he had the ability to rein in any of them when needed but knew when to let them go, the Dodgers didn't have anyone like that. They ended up taking the negative bits from guys like Kemp and Hanley, because there was no one to rein those guys in and keep them on course. Remember Kemp yelling at Puig in the dugout? That's where a captain comes into things, and settles things in way that it doesn't end up lasting and turning into resentment. The Red Sox had, if I'm remembering right, Manny and Youkilis go at it in the dugout, and you know who settled things between them? That's right, Tek. Who settled things between Puig and Kemp? No one. Gonzalez tried to, but the problem is, neither guy felt like they had to respect him, because in the back of their heads both those guys are thinking "No, I'M the leader, not him." And that comes down to respect. This kind of thing doesn't always sink you as a team, of course, but it does handicap you and it really hurts you in the playoffs, when it's more important than ever that everyone is on the same page.

So my point is, yes leadership matters--part of why the Dodgers haven't had the kind of success they expect in the last two or three years is because they had no leader, or the wrong one. It isn't tangible in that you can't qualify it with numbers, and not every good team has the right leader (the Dodgers last year), while not every team with a good leader plays well (the Sox last year), but it is a real and an important thing. It translates to other sports as well. Far be it from me to defend Jeter, I can't stand the guy and he was highly overrated most of his career, but give him credit where credit is due, he was the leader on most if not all five of those championship teams. Which explains why their defense was never great ;)


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rmf (100 D)
10 Mar 15 UTC
Ancient Mediterranean Gunboat Series
I like gunboat, and I usually enjoy AncMed. Let's try this: 5 people, 5 games, gunboat, WTA, 25h/phase, 8 D. Sign up below.
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yassem (2533 D)
15 Apr 15 UTC
USA is becoming the new reality show...
I don't know how media in other countries or portraying the conflict between Afro-Americans and the police, but in Poland it's exactly that - a huge reality show.
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Vikesrussel (839 D)
15 Apr 15 UTC
Please look
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=158273&msgCountryID=5
In this game. Does anyone think something is majorly wrong with the movements?
E and F have no enemies . G and I going East while F and E going east...
R is not a good player. Anyone else think this game is very fishy?
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ssorenn (0 DX)
10 Apr 15 UTC
Where some of our favorite forum members?
Nigeebaby and Putin33, can't say I cared for either of them, but they were certainly entertaining.

Where did they go?
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yassem (2533 D)
14 Apr 15 UTC
Canceling games due to cheating...
I have two questions concerning the mechanics of canceling games due to cheating.
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KingCyrus (511 D)
14 Apr 15 UTC
Greatest NHL Goaltender
Who was the greatest goaltender in NHL history?

Requirements: Must have played in the NHL. All statistics used must be from the NHL (sorry Tretiak)
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
11 Apr 15 UTC
Pupil changes teacher's desktop wallpaper, gets arrested.
Lol, whut?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/04/10/florida_middle_schooler_arrested_charged_with_hacking_cybercrimes.html
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JamesYanik (548 D)
13 Apr 15 UTC
Hypothetical
What if a country were to get to 18 SCs, but a retreats phase would let one of his opponents retreat into one of his SCs? would he win automatically, or do the retreats count?
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