fortknox
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Favorite lines from the forums:
"Someone should do a statistical analysis to see how high the correlation is between squirters and stabbers." -- Crazyter
"its exponential and the formula is as messy as the stab" -- TruNinja's reply (as he's doing stat analysis of the webdip data)
"One does not simply CD into Mordor." -- ulytau
"Chuck Norris CAN use the pause button as a negotiating tool." -- Conservative Man
"But for now we don't pay for the privilege to play here and I think we're getting a pretty good deal." -- Alderian
"Gunboat is a truly dire varient of the game that takes the soul of Diplomacy and pisses all over it. The moves are painfully formulaic, the style of play is so different from the true game that most of what you learn in one form is useless or, even worse, highly misleading when applied to the other, and at the end of the day almost every game is decided by someone who doesn't know a damned thing about gunboat doing something really stupid.
The Gunboat varient is only one step more enjoyable that the infamous Pacifist varient, in which speaking is allowed but moving units is forbidden and the winner is the last player to lose the will to live."
--Octavious
Would you let a millionaire sodomize you five or six times a day on the off chance he'll drop a $20?
-- stratagos
"I like to try to influence how the different powers. Jew the world and each other." Then later: "Wow..autocorrect changed "view" to "Jew". That's the most unfortunate message I think I've sent so far on this phone... "
--Jacob
"Yeah also she is a "really good woman" because she "cleans"? I don't understand what the problem is. I thought larger women were considered attractive in the 19th century. "
--Mafialligator
"It's like saying Blondes or Redheads. Big boobs or soft round asses (and I'm not talkign about the trolls here on WebDip)."
--Draugnar
"Admins are a little bit closer to Kestas' Grace."
"Mods are found in a similar manner as the Dalai Lama."
-- abgemacht
When I was promoted to admin: " Congrats, FK. Maybe now with Admin powers, your play will be improved!"
--zultar
"Fact: While fortknox was ranting, I was getting laid"
--President Eden
"Eden's roommate finally found his way back."
--TheJok3r in reply
While discussing math (0.999...=1) with high schoolers:
"2 + 2 = 5! Why? That is the way God intended it!"
--Yellowjacket
"Jesus: God of Trolls" -- SacredDigits
"Remember rule #1 of the internet. If you're angry, you've already lost."
--Yellowjacket
During a game where austria got swarmed: "Okay, okay, so, a Russian, an Italian, and a Turk walk into Austria." -- dubmdell
"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." -- yebellz
"You went off on him like the old, well, me. Chill dude." --Draugnar
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Not afraid of being in second if it means having a loyal alliance the whole game...
Ghost Ratings:
I used to put them all here, but the list was getting long, so I put it into a google docs spreadsheet with a chart (yeah, my GR can get chaotic):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aipn4jjUyzWsdFFCanJrdExLbko0VVhBZDBVa0JWTlE"

- Available: 2,059
- In play: 0
- Total: 2,059
- Rating: 195
- Peak: 308
- Position: 829
- Rating: 106
- Peak: 148
- Position: 6,372
- Rating: 99
- Peak: 100
- Position: 8,380

- All Game stats:
- Game messages: 19,928
- Won: 4 ( 3% )
- Drawn: 58 ( 43% )
- Survived: 30 ( 22% )
- Defeated: 44 ( 32% )
- Total (finished): 136
- Civil disorder: 1
- Civil disorders taken over: 3
- Classic:
- Won: 3 ( 2% )
- Drawn: 54 ( 42% )
- Survived: 30 ( 23% )
- Defeated: 42 ( 33% )
- Total (finished): 129
- Classic Press:
- Won: 3 ( 2% )
- Drawn: 52 ( 41% )
- Survived: 30 ( 24% )
- Defeated: 41 ( 33% )
- Total (finished): 126
- Classic Gunboat:
- Defeated: 1 ( 100% )
- Total (finished): 1
- Classic Ranked:
- Won: 3 ( 2% )
- Drawn: 54 ( 42% )
- Survived: 30 ( 23% )
- Defeated: 42 ( 33% )
- Total (finished): 129
- Variant stats:
- Won: 1 ( 14% )
- Drawn: 4 ( 57% )
- Defeated: 2 ( 29% )
- Total (finished): 7
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