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Matticus13 (2844 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
Flyover showdown
The lovable rascal Matticus13 here, wanting to put together a game with my fellow Diplomancers in the "Flyover country". RR of at least 80 preferred. Game phases will be at least two days. Open to what map/bet/etc.

Comment below with where you reside in "Flyover country" and what you prefer to undecided aspects of the game.
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chluke (12292 D(G))
19 Feb 17 UTC
mobile press view window problem?
Did the format for mobile press display recently change? Press text on my Android Galaxy S7 Edge no longer fits in window and is now cut short on the right hand side. Is anyone else suddenly having this new problem?
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Condescension (10 D)
25 Feb 17 UTC
Germany attacking Austria in 1901 Spring
Is there any rationale for doing this under any circumstance? I've seen this more often in my newer games and it really perplexes me. Can there be any justification or situation where this is worth doing?
Same goes for Austria attacking Germany in 1901 Spring.
I'm talking full press.
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Fluminator (1500 D)
23 Feb 17 UTC
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Intersectional Feminism
see below
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Deinodon (379 D(B))
26 Feb 17 UTC
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TIL getting to know the other players in Global is a bad idea.
Intricate, fun, risky plans are made.
Other player totally on board.
Sudden, horrible stab utterly destroys me.
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yaks (218 D)
26 Feb 17 UTC
Ftf in NYC
The biggest city in America. And yet, I can't find any Dip groups that play Ftf here. Does anyone know of any groups in NYC, or if we can get enough people, to make one?
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captainmeme (1632 DMod)
24 Feb 17 UTC
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CasualDip 1 - 4 Player Voice-Chat Diplomacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mphhSbCUG38
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ilailailaila (180 D)
25 Feb 17 UTC
Players wanted!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=192450
password: itsasecret

Join this big map for a fun time!
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Sevyas (973 D)
17 Feb 17 UTC
Fall of the American Empire, full press, 48 hours, RR 90+
I don't care about the scoring method and have a slight preference for anonymous games. Bet 25 - 150. Who's in?
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PeaceLovingNiceGuy (0 DX)
25 Feb 17 UTC
How do you get a password to play?
Sorry for the newbie question, but how do I get a password to play?
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Condescension (10 D)
25 Feb 17 UTC
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Spiked DHS report indicates that there is no national security rationale for Muslim Ban
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3474730-DHS-intelligence-document-on-President-Donald.html

I wonder what mental gymnastics Brad and ND will use to get around this?
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Qualtagh (192 D)
24 Feb 17 UTC
AI disbands
How does this site determine which units will be disbanded if a player doesn't enter orders for a build phase?
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cspieker (18223 D)
24 Feb 17 UTC
new game tourney simulator
standard tourney rules: rulebook press, anon draws, SoS
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=192558
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pastoralan (100 D)
24 Feb 17 UTC
My punctuality is well known
When the revolution takes place, I will be late, and I will be shot as a traitor.
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Savage Cabbage (100 DX)
24 Feb 17 UTC
PLAYERS NEEDED!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=192190

Only 5 slots left! Join while you can!
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brainbomb (295 D)
23 Feb 17 UTC
Where was Gondor when...
(Finish this sentence)
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SuperMario0727 (204 D)
23 Feb 17 UTC
Diplomacy: Convoy Chains
This thread is purely for fun and entertainment. Convoys can make for really interesting, exciting, and unusual moves in Diplomacy, allowing armies on one half of the board to reach the other half in one turn. My question is . . . What was the longest convoy chain you ever successfully made?
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JamesYanik (548 D)
23 Feb 17 UTC
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Fake News on the Rise
They're still trying to get us believe that planets are round. When will the media ever learn we aren't that stupid?

http://www.space.com/35784-trappist-1-earth-size-exoplanets-pictures-gallery.html
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Manwe Sulimo (419 D)
12 Feb 17 UTC
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Speech about the role of government
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LucOUSpTB3Y
Not a perfect speech, but still a fairly good one. Perhaps it will help those who claim to believe in freedom and liberty but have lost their way recently to see the error of their ways.
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MajorMitchell (1605 D)
16 Feb 17 UTC
Excellent Player Names, clever & witty
Some members have chosen very witty, clever player names, here's a thread where we can share & celebrate those names
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Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
20 Feb 17 UTC
North American Milo Boy Love Assn
Milo. Milo. Milo.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/20/cpac-disinvites-milo-yiannopoulos-from-conservative-conference.html
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Hellenic Riot (1626 D(G))
21 Feb 17 UTC
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Mod Team Announcement
See Inside
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Toro K (279 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
Perma Paused Games?
Hello.

I was hoping if someone can tell me, is there a way to resolve a game which has been paused and one of the players is no longer active, meaning that the game is permanently paused?
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brainbomb (295 D)
20 Feb 17 UTC
Aubrey Plaza is not funny
I keep thinking that she was so funny in parks and rec. Now shes like the new Dane Cook. Her humor is so 1 dimensional - apathetic - nihilist.
Look at her movie roles: grumpy cat, (some film with adam sandler) and now shes playing Daria.
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
15 Feb 17 UTC
A scientist's answer to climate change
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-announced-a-plan-to-refreeze-the-arctic-and-it-s-wild

Unsurprising that techie people find a technical solution (which probably won't work) rather than a social solution to the problem of human behaviour...
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pastoralan (100 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
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James, the reason that's a bad view to take is that there's more than sufficient evidence to show that the range of human contribution is 95-100%. It'srather like believing that body fat is influenced 25-65% by diet and exercise and the rest by fat goblins. It will lead you to make somewhat better decisions than someone who thinks fat goblins are the only cause, but it's still wrong.
JamesYanik (548 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
@Pastorolan
most polls that have 97% people saying anthropogenic warming is responsible for 50%+ of the warming we see don't even have a 70% consensus on 75%+ of warming is anthropogenic MUCH less 95%-100%

Secondly, depending on the person those "fat goblins" could be genetics, so your metaphor fails.

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf

the very first graphs show that we could easily have 84% of the global warming only caused be human activity, given the degree of natural forcing they account for. now 84% is well of my 25%-65% claim, though for this I look at historical data. In 1961 we had the crossover to modern worldwide temperature detection, despite having some bad foreign relations, these are generally regarded as accurate. Most of what we see is a weird drop off in CO2 emissions as temperature still rose, then a massive spike back in carbon with temperature not having as similar as an effect. However as we enter the modern era, it becomes much more clear with the correlation between carbon and heating. I don't think we have to even entirely eliminate human carbon, I only think it's the non-absorbed human carbon output, and that the carbon cycle is overloaded, but that's only happened recently. So i don't think the entire anthropogenic carbon output is responsible for warming, only a portion of it,

Thirdly @Ogion I've said several times the only data I trust comes from the IPCC.
JamesYanik (548 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
well clear*
Ogion (3817 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
@james: you are quoting only ONE of four surveys done. The others found 97% consensus, but didn't include a quarter of the sample of non climate scientists which explains nearly all of the difference. Extremely poor survey design is much of the rest and some very selective cherry picking of data is the rest

97% is the far more accurate portryal
JamesYanik (548 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
@ogion

not for 95-100% of warming being anthropogenic
Manwe Sulimo (419 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
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"The others found 97% consensus"

Be more specific, a 97% consensus of what?
Manwe Sulimo (419 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
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"Wow. Let's not resort to insults people. I believe we can have a free and civil discussion without insulting folks! @Manwe: I have a M.A. and will have my second one in like 2 months, how many do you have? Let me guess: Zero."

Just poking a little fun at ya, bud!
Ogion (3817 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
@james, that's a straw man. That's never ever been the claim. The thing is that 97% of climate scientists agree that GHgs are having a significant impact in driving climate change. Not that 95% of the trend is driven by GHgs, which isn't even a meaningful question. This notion of partitioning complex phenomenon into a single number is kind of silly.
JamesYanik (548 D)
18 Feb 17 UTC
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@Ogion

sorry, i wasn't referring to your posts, i 100% understand the 97% consensus on the negative anthropogenic impact of CO2

i was referring to @pastoralan

"James, the reason that's a bad view to take is that there's more than sufficient evidence to show that the range of human contribution is 95-100%."

and i said there wasn't a consensus saying it was 95-100%.
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
20 Feb 17 UTC
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Let's imagine.
If you glimpsed the future
and were frightened by what you saw,
what would you do
with that information? You would go to...
Who? Politicians? Captains of industry?
And how would you convince them?
With data? Facts?
Good luck.
The only facts they won't challenge
are the ones that keep the wheels
greased and the dollars rolling in.
But what if...
What if there was a way
of skipping the middleman
and putting the critical news
directly into everyone's head?
The probability of
widespread annihilation kept going up.
The only way to stop it was to show it.
To scare people straight.
Because what reasonable
human being wouldn't be galvanized
by the potential destruction of everything
they have ever known or loved?
To save civilization,
I would show its collapse.
But how do you think
this vision was received?
How do you think people responded
to the prospect of imminent doom?
They gobbled it up,
like a chocolate clair.
They didn't fear their demise,
they repackaged it.
It can be enjoyed as video games,
as TV shows, books, movies.
The entire world wholeheartedly
embraced the apocalypse
and sprinted towards it
with gleeful abandon.
Meanwhile, your Earth
was crumbling all around you.
You've got simultaneous
epidemics of obesity and starvation.
Explain that one.
Bees and butterflies start to disappear.
The glaciers melt.
Algae blooms all around you.
The coal mine canaries are dropping dead,
and you won't take the hint!
In every moment,
there is the possibility of a better future.
But you people won't believe it.
And because you won't believe it,
you won't do what is necessary
to make it a reality.
So you dwell on this terrible future,
and you resign yourselves to it.
For one reason, because that future
doesn't ask anything of you today.
So, yes, we saw the iceberg,
we warned the Titanic.
But you all just steered for it anyway,
full steam ahead.
Why?
Because you want to sink.
You gave up.
Ogion (3817 D)
20 Feb 17 UTC
Wow, Brad. That downright poetic well said
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
20 Feb 17 UTC
It is governor Nix's speech in 'Tomorrowland'.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
20 Feb 17 UTC
Who would even want to save civilisation? Who does it serve? The 1%? They get a lot out of having their property rights protected.... But then they are likely to do pretty well even if the economic system collapses, they have enough accumulated power that no matter what they will manage pretty well. The poor and marginalised, they're going to be screwed if the system collapses. It is little surprise that anarchists don't have an easy time recruiting... They don't seem to have a better system to offer, and without the protections currently in place, those without power are liable to be even more screwed.

So who will act to save civilisation? Those without power? Well they would if they could... But they feel like they are powerless...

The middle classes? That is where we see a lot of environmentalist activism. People who can afford the luxury of worrying about the climate - because theu are fairly comfortable with how the system leaves them, no higger threat oresents itself.

For some reason, states and corporations don't seem to be well placed to look out for themselves in the long term. Except maybe China, which isn't like other states, and has the ability to act in China's lon term interests - whether they are investing in solar because the immediate effect of cost is air pollution and respiratory illness OR they are actually interested in curbing global warming... It doesn't matter, because they are becoming the world leader in solar power (photo-voltaics) even while they continue to exploit coal resources...

We will see where the corruption of capitalism leaves us, and wherher we can survive the greed.
Ogion (3817 D)
20 Feb 17 UTC
I should have known it was more eloquent than you're capable of
Ogion (3817 D)
21 Feb 17 UTC
Look,

Yet another European country succeeds at something Americans say "can't be done." Gotta love that American Can't Do spirit (tm)...

https://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/01/electric-vehicle-wedge-electric-vehicles-vs-gasoline-cars-country-car/

ending fossil fuel cars by 2025? Who cares about "energy independence" in oil if we stop using it?

And of course, you save big bucks from fuel and maintenance with and EV and it can be done with no carbon emissions (as mine are)

https://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/01/electric-vehicle-wedge-electric-vehicles-vs-gasoline-cars-country-car/

Of course, this requires understanding facts, which Americans are typically allergic too since educated people have cooties or something.
LeonWalras (865 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
I love Tomorrowland! Gotta feed the right wolf.
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
22 Feb 17 UTC
Ogion do you ever have a time of happiness or joy or are you always a sorry ass solemn liberal? You hate the military, the police, old people, young people, people in general. You think that telling other people how to run their lives gives your live value. Are you always this hate-filled or is it just Mondays that make you like this?
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
22 Feb 17 UTC
- Ogion?
- Yeah?
Do you want to know
why you could never make me laugh?
Why?
Because you're not funny.
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
22 Feb 17 UTC
This is a story about the future.
And the future
can be scary.
What?
Are you sure you wanna go with "scary"?
Yes, I wanna go with scary.
- Okay.
- Okay.
The future can be scary.
Unstable governments, overpopulation,
wars on every continent,
famine, water shortages,
environmental collapse...
And scientific breakthroughs,
wonder and beauty...
Could you please just stop interrupting?
I will. Just try to be
a little more upbeat.
- "Upbeat"?
- Yeah, tell them what you like...
I can't tell them anything
if you keep interrupting me.
You're right. Sorry.
As I was saying...
With every second
that ticks by, we get closer and closer...
pastoralan (100 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
@James, I did a little digging. The estimates I found were that humans have contributed anywhere from 75-120% of global warming (the 120% number suggesting that if it weren't for humans the earth would have cooled in the last 50 years). Where are you getting your 25-65% number from?

And yes genetics are a real impact on weight, but fat goblins aren't.
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
22 Feb 17 UTC
- Hello, sir.
- May I help you?
My name is John Francis Walker.
I'm here to win the $50.
Is that so?
I took it apart because of
the nitrogen compartment.
Seeing as how the bus ride
was kind of bumpy and you know nitro.
I could've used
a hydrogen peroxide-powered engine.
Bell Labs tested that
with their Rocket Belt
and I guess there were some issues
with maneuverability,
flight duration, and stuff.
It's a jet pack.
Obviously.
You made this yourself?
Athena, what are you doing here?
Did you or didn't you?
- What?
- Did you make this yourself?
Yeah.
Why?
I guess I got tired of waiting around
for someone else to do it for me.
Does it work?
Sure. Yeah.
Mostly.
Just doesn't really,
you know, technically...
fly.
But if it did, "You know,
"technically fly,"
what would its purpose be?
How would your jet pack
make the world a better place?
Can't it just be fun?
Mr. Walker, please tell me
you can do better than "fun."
Anything's possible.
I don't know what that means.
If I was walking down the street,
and I saw some kid with
a jet pack fly over me,
I'd believe anything's possible.
I'd be inspired.
Doesn't that make
the world a better place?
Well, I suppose it would.
If it worked.
Unfortunately, it does not.
And if it doesn't work,
it has no purpose at all.
- Thank you for your time, Mr. Walker.
- But I can make it work!
That's the spirit.
Until then, young man, have fun.
Ogion (3817 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
It's his own personal estimate as a non-scientist.

I was just listening to a climate scientist at a conference who had the advice that we need to stop pretending there will be a good outcome, because the consequences just of the damage we have already done to our biosphere will be severe. He thought we need to face up to the fact that we've probably already killed billions of people and rendered most of our big cities uninhabitable.

Cheery. Science is neat, but I'm afraid it isn't very forgiving
TrPrado (461 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
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My immediate response was to try to find a video of that quite in Stranger Things, but I couldn't find one in my 2 minutes of google searches.
Ogion (3817 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
+1 for you for spotting the reference. Nerds of the world unite!
Ogion (3817 D)
23 Feb 17 UTC
Ooh, look! The right wing using logic and evidence to discuss climate change!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/22/climate-change-science-attacks-threats-trump


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2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
22 Feb 17 UTC
USA Postal Public Press Game
I want to play a game of Diplomacy by mail, but public press via postcards where all messages are sent to all players. 2 hour phases. Anyone else game? gameID=192360
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
21 Feb 17 UTC
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Pubic Shaving
I'm in. There should be a page that has anyone whose crotch area is unshaven or hirsute. And how long are they unkempt. Who likes this? That way sexyness can be shown.
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ssorenn (0 DX)
21 Feb 17 UTC
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Public shaming
I'm in. There should be a page that has anyone who is silenced or banned for exactly what the infraction was. And how long of a silence. Who likes this? That way fair can be shown
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brainbomb (295 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
USA Postal gunboat game
I want to play a game of fully anonymous gunboat by mail, but with webDip doing the adjudication. 48 hour phases (use fedex) and HDV. Anyone else game?
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RobKohr (100 D)
03 Feb 17 UTC
USA Postal Diplomacy game
I want to play a game of diplomacy by mail, but with webDip doing the adjudication. Anyone else game?
25 replies
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