Do people really do this as a tactic? I'm curious because I was just sent a sternly (but politely) worded email regarding such a charge, and I know for a fact that it's baseless, so either someone is a bit precious about being ganged up on, or they're using it to gain some sort of advantage in a game.

Straight up:

June 30, 2011 The Government of the USA announces that indeed the worldwide pandemic known as the Green Flu has hit the USA.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110701/SCHOOLS/107010416/1409/METRO/Court-strikes-down-Michigan-ban-on-race-in-college-admissions

Doubleplusungood.

Here is the link
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=62836#gamePanel

England, Italy, and I (Austria) voted to draw and unpause, however Germany is gone. I don't want to take the win away from Italy, considering he wins the next game, could a mod unpause the game? Germany did not have a chance to win anyway. If anyone did it was England.

gameID=62843

Everybody is still alive and I would really appreciate a draw (the name of the game pleases me). Anyways a lot of people left because for some reason WebDip went down.

gameID=62848

01:52 PM (To: Global, from Germany) - Autumn, 1902: What the Jew is this guy saying.

It was offensive and horrifying for me to read this. I will not play with this user again and I may never use this site again.

I signed up for a live game as the last player (can't leave) thinking it was starting in 18 minutes. It's starting in 18 hours. I am 99% sure I won't be here for it. Is there any recourse?

gameID=43762 We started with 170 pot, we have 344 now. I don't know why people join for one phase and never come back, but it is getting a bit silly having a new India, Pacific Russia and Antarctica every second week.

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=62840
Right there, 2 spots left.

The Toronto parade was awesome, good fun. Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday and carries it into the weekend. Cheers!

We need 1 player. They're just learning but TS is a lot of fun. State your interest here.

On June 5th, almost a month ago, a player in this game http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=56700 requested a pause for two days to study for an exam.

I'm not crazy. You're crazy for saying it can't work! See inside.

Dearest WebD people, wishing you a happy Canada Day regardless of your nationality (although I know there are a few of us here). It's a beautiful, sunny day here in Ottawa...and I invited Will and Kate over to my house party tonight, but still haven't heard back from them. Hope you all have a great day!

So, I was going to wait a month to talk about this, but, honestly, I'm just too excited. So, put your name and where in the *world* you're willing to travel, so we can pick our next destination. This is just to get a general impression of where the most activity is.

Something that is, unquestionably, inescapably, American.

Some american health care statistics. I was a little shocked to be honest, but I also havnt been paying attention.

It's Jullllllyyyyyyyyy!

It's July first! Time to see if we've gone up the ratings or not.
Well I really want to see...
I'm just sayin'...

Opinions on these?

Can anyone defend the idea that "government" can produce a better society by diminishing individual freedom in exchange for increased socialist imposition of government power on the individual?

Don't know if anyone has tried this before, but I just played a live game with TeamSpeak and it was awesome; almost like playing F2F. If people want to spend a night and play, let me know.

this user seems to have 60+30=100 http://webdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=36192

how does that work?

Invariably this thread will attract the socialist trolls.

As you probably know I don't like pausing, but will do so occassionally when people promise to be back by so and so date. But then somebody else announces that they won't unpause for another week, and there is nothing I can do - and of course the mods won't intervene. Which is all fine, but don't ever expect me to pause again - if you don't like it don't join a game I'm in. /endrant

Took a Film and Lit class this semester--and it was a lot of fun, one of the msot enjoyable classes I've had while in collage, the material was only so-so, but the atmosphere and folks there were great--and it got me thinking: what "kind" of art would you classify film as? A different kind of theatre? A different, motion-based kind of canvas/physical art? Another kind of medium? It's own category? How should we evaluate film artistically, as it's now such a part of our modern culture?

Need 2 players each for two games where multis were thrown out *before* the first turn has been finalized. So - essentially these are New games... they are gameID=62620 "fogbound", an anonymous gunboat game, and gameID=62621 "pshaw!", a public messaging only game. Each are 5 to enter and have 2 day turns. Hope to see you there!

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