part two

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
This page is absolutely brilliant : D

Only one week left until our F2F meet-up at the Highball Lounge in Boston. If you're coming, please respond here (or on the Boston FB page). We'll be starting at 6pm.

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Soon to be "Fare the well"

Anyone play this? Any ideas for good supplementary sources?

Hey everyone - our DNS host has gone offline, which means that some users won't be able to get to the site (depending on whether or not their local DNS server has cached webdip's address).

I'm not sure how long this will go on for, but I've paused adjudication until it is fixed.

Who wants to be my enemy?

If you are anywhere in the northern third of the United States or Canada, the aurora should be very visible tonight with clear (and dark, outside of cities) skies due to an ongoing geomagnetic storm. Check it out if you can.

So passwords should make sure only invited players join a game ... but sometimes the gametitle gives a very strong hint towards what the password might be... anyone else sometimes tempted to test if a hunch is right? And I wonder about how the mods would react to someone sneaking into a private game by guessing the password ...

I like hoes the hoe the ground they make seeds feel snug and happy for that reason I like hoes hoe diddly hoe down hoe doe

I'm thinking of pulling some stats on the number of fleets that each country usually has in a solo (I think Tru did something similar a while back, but we've had a lot more games finished since then). But, before I do that, let's argue about it on the forum!

Who wants to guess at the average number of fleets each country has in a WTA solo?

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Not even sure what to say...
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1 Day Phases...Starts @ 4:50

Just wondering if there are ways to cooperate without talking? Does anyone ever throw support by guessing and then establish alliances without talking? I am in a game where I have not attacked one front, and they have not attacked me, but no one expects help so there is no planning. Just wondering if there are some patterns or codes people use... or does that defeat the point of playing gunboat?

So you guys helped me once already, I wonder if I can have another question...

So I have had a few run-ins with the mods. Fair enough...I deservewhat they give me. But I am told that this is PRIMARILY A GAMING SITE, and that my negative forum behavior negatively impacts the GAME SITE. SO......I have noticed that there are a few forum *INSTIGATORS* - FREQUENT FORUM POSTERS who DO NOT PLAY GAMES. Who is with me that the privilege of using the FORUMS should be tied to PLAYING GAMES ON THIS GAME SITE???

I left the autoclave on with my LB agar in it at work. Gotta go back and take care of that but I'm already in my pajamas

it seems to me, that all too often, England is a nation to suffer. I know people have won as England, but early attacks are very common and you rarely see the Pink and Blue in alliance anymore,Why?

Does anyone know anything about teaching knife safety? I am looking for material to fill about 40 minutes but I have never taken a knife safety class myself (WFA/R don't count).

http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/theghost-ratingslist

No categories yet. Sorry guys.

So I just saw this interesting paper analyzing 249 online diplomacy games, with around 145,000 messages. They're studying which linguistic cues (number of messages, sentiment, politeness, etc) predict upcoming betrayal. Best part: they're going to make all the data available online! http://vene.ro/betrayal/ and http://vene.ro/betrayal/niculae15betrayal.pdf

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=163282

Happy Father's Day to all my dip friends who are dads, or dads to be.

Suppose i have a f(Bul sc) and f(Con). Would it be a valid move if i order f(Bul sc) -> Con and f(Con) ->Bul nc.

I don't seem to be able to figure it out.

has finished. GG to everyone.

Result: Three-way draw between Germany (Valis2501), Austria (guak), and Turkey (MKHAUS).

I'm in two games of World Diplomacy; one as China and the other as USA. Both of these countries have the same problem: They are surrounded by countries, and those countries have no incentive to go anywhere else because all the SC is bordering China/USA, and they don't really have secure SC.

Don't get me started on USA. All the SC a territory away from each other, unable to support. I know it's hard to balance a map for 20 people, but it's ridiculous.

http://reason.com/archives/2015/06/13/the-illiberal-persecution-of-tim-hunt

On a related, but perhaps more serious note, I see that Stephen Fry and his new husband have at a problem on their Honduran honeymoon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11672513/Stephen-Frys-honeymoon-wrecked-by-homophobia.html

Shoud they have shown more consideration to local sensibilities? Should we condemn Honduran and by extension, for example, Pakistani, homophobia in the forthright terms we use in the UK or the USA? I am not sure, what do people think?