no, the *cake* is a lie.

Gravity is my 3rd favorite fundamental force

We all respond to certain players posts in the forum and ignore others.
Or join games created by certain players.Either based on past games with them or the type of games they start.
I find that there are small little cliques within the diplomacy ranks here.
If you wish post the names of players you associate with the reason why.

Really? I've never found it to be cliquish per se. Sure, there are assholes like me, and good guys like Figle and abge and yourself (and many others), but overall everyone in the forum seems willing to help for the most part and chat with about anyone.

I'll post anywhere someone I disagree with happens to post. I do tend to find I disagree with the same people a lot, but this should not be surprising.

I think there is a big sub culture of people who mainly play livegames. There are a lot of great player I'm not familiar with because I don't play live games often

a) what does this have to do with gravity

b) "Either based on past games with them or the type of games they start."

Well, duh, if I don't like a particular type of game, then I'm unlikely to play with someone who plays that type of game. That's not exactly rocket science.

c) "I find that there are small little cliques within the diplomacy ranks here."

Evidence?

d) "If you wish post the names of players you associate with the reason why. "

I don't 'associate' with anyone. There are some people I choose *not* to 'associate' with, because I think they're fucking morons, but that's a small fraction of the membership of the board - and even if I think someone's a tard in the forum, I can (usually) put that aside and play a game with them.

Aww thanks draug. :_)

..and sometimes even chat with them on the rare occasion on the forum, eh Strat? (I'm sure I fall into the tard category on occassion - like recently).

@Draug - everyone has their tard moments. Granted, yours was a little more tardly than others, but you're hardly TMW.

LOL! Thanks, strat. Now people around me are wondering what I'm chuckling about...

Since I play a lot of gunboat games, with a lot of them being live games, I tend to find myself in games with people like Barn3tt, Czech, Frank, Ava, Podium, Gobba, Trip, curtis, justinhoo, etc. These same people are in some of the non-live gunboats I have been playing recently too. To be honest, I find the quality of game to be way up when a couple of these people are in the game.

Maybe clique is not what I'm after but have found that certain players respond to others in forum differently if they have either agreed or disagreed in past forums and generally have respect or disdain for that player.
For me I have certain players I read posts and respond to and others that I look at and go what bull is he/she spewing now or who really cares.
Also have what I call my gunboat club and know that the game will be enjoyable if there in it and ignore other games post by players who.A- Have played before and they have no clue what gun boat is about or B-never played but others have ripped them in forum for there play in gunboats.

Also, podium -1 for terrible thread title. I thought we were going to talk about gravity...

@stratagos.Nothing but it made you look.Never played a game with you but from the way you respond or post in forum we have similar views.
So we can say that instead of gravity it should be gravitate.

Oh, I make it a habit never to play games with people who remind me of my pathological fear of public speaking, sorry

(kidding)

@Abge - I find gravity my 2nd, because I refuse to accept the difference between the rest.

@strat - the cake is not a lie. It is an awesomely cheap way of eating. I currently have 1/2 a birthday cake left beside me (I've eaten the rest) having bought it discounted yesterday.

haha day old cake :) that reminds me of my bakery days, course i'm sure it either has buttercream frosting, thats the only thing people use nowadays :(

Two layers of painfully perfect suspiciously yellow sponge, stuck together with thin layer of overly sugery buttercream&jam, covered in half a cm thick fondant icing.
It did have a cartoony giraffe icing centrepiece, but that's been eaten :D

My preference is german chocolate, carrot, italian creme, or pumpkin spice cake. Pumpkin spice is especially good this time of year.

@Mafialligator: "I do tend to find I disagree with the same people a lot"

No you don't.

LOL! FatherSnitch +1!

Cake all gone :(

Just to try to get things back onto the original topic: There's no such thing as gravity; the Earth sucks!

http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gravity-theory.jpg

http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-dog-pictures-gravity-reversal.jpg

@Speaker - Love the irony.