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The Suriname war is one of the most retarded things I've had to face since I started this game. The Netherlands just send some troops, with no reason given whatsoever, into my territory, that agreed to join us in a referendum. It symbolises almost everyone wrong with this game. The fact that we all have such a tolerance for this kind of shit is unbelievable. Brazil has even decided to support them, despite the fact that it was totally unprovoked. That is complete and utter bullshit.

Furthermore, the fact that /u/darian66 will probably get away with this is another problem I have with the state of this game. The popular players are allowed to get away with much more than the average one. The British Empire was brought back without a single protest, and the EL has been at war for ages cutting up India and noone gives a shit.

I feel like there is nowhere to go for me, and I am seriously considering declaiming once the war is over, just because of how frustrated I am by these events. I thought playing in Trinidad would be more fun, but I have received a huge amount of shit from other players merely for existing and doing something a bit different. (Which was tolerated the many times that more opular players did it.)

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend

of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- linsfirst loved livvy. What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill- killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab- solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar- back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat- er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!) and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi- fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab- les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from 5 UP next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec- titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter- ing down. Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again! What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus- tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and at the fading of the stars! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch- bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed! It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou- sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls- rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers, autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega- phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur- rocks and his fore old porecourts, the bore the more, and his 6 UP blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi- busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn- ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot- tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.

As some of you may know, Paris, France was recently hit by a series of shootings, bombings, and a massive hostage situation with few survivors. An attack on this scale, of this form, is unprecedented on the continent, as far as I am aware. Reports vary on the number of victims, ranging from 140 to as high as 160. However, the terrorists are not the point here.

The point is France, Paris, and the French people. This may very well be their 9/11. Some of you may have been alive during 9/11, and recall the inter- and intra-national support for the survivors of the attacks. I personally wasn't, but I've heard many stories of it. We need to show that same courtesy, that same support, to France, now. Pay it forward, as it was.

My heart goes out to the victims of this brutal attack, to the families and friends of those victims as well. I am not religious, I do not attend a church, I do not believe in any God. Despite this, Paris will be in my prayers tonight.

Vive la France

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend

of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- linsfirst loved livvy. What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill- killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab- solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar- back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat- er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!) and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi- fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab- les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from 5 UP next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec- titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter- ing down. Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again! What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus- tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and at the fading of the stars! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch- bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed! It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou- sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls- rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers, autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega- phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur- rocks and his fore old porecourts, the bore the more, and his 6 UP blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi- busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn- ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot- tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.

It's actually very simple

If there is no point of you going to war, then you shouldn't be there.

Like seriously. I thought we wouldn't have to cover this after the multiple instances of it happening last season, but apparently we pause for a few weeks and even veterans start to feel the bandwagon call.

The Fact is, that the nations we play aren't a collection of bored people behind a computer screen that are seeking group approval and involvement or the pride of saying "I helped bring china down". They're national governments who have to face mothers who lost sons in war.

I've said this before in more elegant terms, but fuck it. I've been on the receiving end of this kind of behaviour before- nations who have never interacted with me in game and exist on the other side of the world declaring war on me and sending their entire military for no other reason than the meta-circle jerk and the bandwagon, and I have zero sympathy for it.

I would have thought that the economic penalties or previous experiences might have changed something, but apparently not. So let me say again.

If It doesn't concern your people, and your nation, then stay at home.

Read your write up here!

http://i.imgur.com/JLeI4LN.png

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend

of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- linsfirst loved livvy. What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill- killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab- solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar- back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat- er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!) and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi- fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab- les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from 5 UP next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec- titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter- ing down. Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again! What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus- tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and at the fading of the stars! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch- bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed! It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou- sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls- rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers, autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega- phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur- rocks and his fore old porecourts, the bore the more, and his 6 UP blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi- busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn- ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot- tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.

This is an imgur album of all the unique flags of /r/worldpowers. This means that countries that have not changed their original flags are not included.

http://imgur.com/a/1RXFU

Let me know if I should add any more flags.

EDIT: Please upvote for visibility.

EDIT 2.0: If it is added to the sidebar, I can update it as frequently as possible.

Claiming

Reset is finally here, and aside from the new mechanics you're all curious about what country you'll get! We use a fair system, that doesn't require you to do anything. All of you that had been harboring effortful claim posts for contests and such, Im sorry and good luck!

How it works:

1. Every player can list up to 15 claims, found here.

2. Put your claims in order, this is very important. If you rather have China but also have the UK on your list, put China first for a higher chance.

3. In your list, put the number of the claim first, name second found here (same as above). And make sure you get the right number: there's a difference between Jordan and Japan. This is very important as well. Numbers are simple and no spelling differences.

4. I will process these claims, all of them, so please understand if it takes a while.

5. After they have been neatly processed, the moderator team will divide the claims based around a random number generator so everybody has a fair chance

6. We will make a post telling who got what, and you will make a claim post when the game starts. This claim post is an introduction to your nation, but you must start with the current government. You can hold elections or a coup whenever you feel like it though. If you are claiming a regionalisation or a US state, you have more freedom but include a little backstory on how the different nations or states got together.

7. It is not guaranteed you will get any of the 15 nations. If you choose the top 15 countries by GDP then a lot of other people might want those too. For everyone left out, we will hold a second round after the first one. Tip: don't be too greedy!

So in short:

• Up to 15 claims, listed by preference. Put their number and their name in your list

• Make a claim post ready when we tell you your nation, continue with the IRL government (but only for as long as you want)

• Don't be greedy! We can not guarantee you will get any of the 15 nations

After the initial reset, all claiming will be done as it is done now.

Any questions or non-claimlist comments? Only in reply to my comment!, others will be removed.

EDIT: DEADLINE IS SUNDAY 15th 00:00 GMT

Please be sure to follow all the rules, there is little time for bickering and changing lists.

EDIT2: Changed Deadline from Monday to Sunday.

This is not some sort of coup, this is not being done under duress, but i am resigning effective immediately. I wanted to stay at least until the reset to help finish it and put forth my vision for WorldPowers, but i feel superfluous and mired down even more so then before.

I love WorldPowers, I remember finding the game by chance and thinking back to NationStates. I claimed Mexico on a whim after seeing New England was taken. All i wanted to do was give the Mexicans clean water and an open internet. I did all of that and more, I ended up anschlussing with /u/mtux96 (thanks man for putting up with me then) and forming Caliexico, which i will always get a kick out of. Despite causing (at least in the background) the 3 largest wars in WP (Tamriel, the Gangbang in China, and Entente) I somehow managed to keep on keepin on. To that end I'd like to also thank /u/Kaphox /u/thegreaterrobot and /u/Cardbird for bearing with me as a held it down in mexico and let them lead us thru very different paths.

Gameplay aside, I've spent countless hours with all of you in IRC bullshitting about anything and everything. One of those 'where were you moments' was when Ferguson happened, i was in the IRC talking it out with everyone. Shoutouts to /u/Shadrack /u/Doky9889 /u/KyotoWolf /u/Robot1501 /u/Cmoorebutz and everyone else who frequented the IRC.

As a mod i'd like to thank /u/PeerlessLeader, /u/Azailon, /u/tooichan and /u/mainstay for being stalwart companions thru my delusions of grandeur. I was passed over as a mod a few times, and ended up being brough on by /u/skistardust /u/thegoochmoist and /u/kluchxllama under duress and i never imagined id have the impact ive had and im glad to have (hopefully) made WP better. I wish i could stay for the reset but its just not in the cards right now. I wish the current mods (senior and junior) the best and trust that they will make WP even better post reset. I've been preaching for the reset for forever now, and it really sucks i wont be able to be at the help with everyone when WP breaks thru to the other side.

I'm surely forgetting others, satanic texas, baobabs, fighting with belarus about bentleys, and all the other insanity we have gone thru. I'll be around on the IRC but probably as a spectator. Don't forget to add me as a friend on here, and if you see me on /r/mechanicalkeyboards or whatever, dont be afraid to say hi!

Signing off,

/u/SL89

Viva La Caliexico!

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend

of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- linsfirst loved livvy. What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill- killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab- solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar- back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat- er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!) and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi- fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab- les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from 5 UP next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec- titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter- ing down. Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again! What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus- tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and at the fading of the stars! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch- bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed! It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou- sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls- rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers, autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega- phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur- rocks and his fore old porecourts, the bore the more, and his 6 UP blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi- busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn- ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot- tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.

I think we've all forgotten that we have a [META] tag designated for saying stuff in meta. And I'd like to emphasize that we should probably utilize it more, for the sake of Character RP. Character RP is what makes this game fun, interesting, and above all more complex then just normal player-to-player discussion. Some of the most fun times I've had on here are RP'ing with other peoples characters. Sure, your president can say terrible things if it's within the RP of your character - but often times it is very unwarranted and your President/Monarch (whoever the fuck is leading your country) will try and keep a prose as to seem professional. After all, if you don't seem professional - it looks like you don't know what you are doing to your people, which is not good. After all, we are a role-playing subreddit - not just another forum to argue on.

This is an example of what I'm talking about. Not to single out /u/IamawesomToo, this is not a problem centered around him and is something I've seen across the entire subreddit. Now, first of all, Baekje diplomats didn't really have a reason to step into the discussion. I totally understand the "fuck Pakistan" stuff going on right now. In fact, I was going to make a post in-game about how I don't like the SJW-Pakistani Monarchy. But I don't think any leader would go out and say "Die Paki faggi." It would be far, far better if you wrote a NEWS post or something on condemning the Pakistani Monarchy and why you are condemning them - not just making offhand/semi-meta comments, that's just lazy and doesn't contribute to RP. If you want to criticize someone like that, just use the META tag instead. Because it's not really predicated on in-game development, this is just anti-Pepsi dickwaving. I haven't seen a fallout in Baekje-Pakistan relations before this, or anything running up to it that would warrant an insult like this. (Not to mention it's a horrible insult.) We are just forgetting to act in Character, in general on this subreddit. I can understand having an outlandish President, but they would still stay formal and respectable most of the time. The wiki has a very good guide on how to roleplay your characters. Frankly, we can either have short, half-meta insults being thrown at eachother or we can have extensive and interesting character development between all our countries. But to do the second one, you actually have to act in character. When you want to say something that isn't in part of the RP of your character or in-game development, just use the META tag to say that. Or just don't say anything at all.

Also, stop downvoting. It's very childish. Do you think /u/Pepsiisgood1997 feels good when everyone is downvoting his shit? Or /u/_Irk? No! If everyone consistently downvoted everything I said I would stop playing, and I know you guys don't like being downvoted. It's childish, and it's entirely unnecessary. I have a solution to those who downvote, and it's to upvote counter-arguments to the post you want to downvote. It has the same effect and isn't as toxic as the first one. Try to be positive, not negative. Its starting to feel like we are becoming slightly more toxic and meta as time goes on, and it's important that we don't.

Thank you!

Im not a racist like I'm sure some (or a lot) of you may think. Just because I play as a racist group (who I completely disagree with btw) I think that my reputation here has been tarnished my by this claim and I really don't want that to happen. But I think that at this point everyone thick's I'm a filthy racist. So I might as well keep on trucking.

Have a nice day everyone

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Hello World Powers. We have two very important announcements for you today.

THE UNITED STATES

With the advent of a new season, the mod team has decided to place the United States of America United, as a single claim. If you wish to claim it, simply type "USA" into your list.

CLAIMS

The reset has begun, and with it, we will begin sorting claims today.

This procedure relies on RNG mixed with player preference.

IT IS NOT FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.

• All players that wish to claim must fill out the World Powers S3 Claim Form, linked below. In the form, you will provide us with your Reddit username and a preferred list of your top ten claims, with 1 being the most preferred.

• Your list must be typed in this format: "1. Canada, 2. Greenland, 3. Italy, 4. Turkey, 5. Russia, 6. China, 7. Brazil, 8. USA, 9. Zimbabwe, 10. Australia." Please do not deviate from this format or your claims may not be considered.

• All players that wish to claim will be entered into a randomized lottery, run by random.org, and will emerge in a first to last order.

• The players will then be assigned their top claims, running the list in the order it was generated. If claim #1 is not available, #2 will be assigned, or #3, moving on down the preferred list of claims.

• If a player's 1-10 list is taken by the time their name occurs in the list, they will be placed into a "Standby" pool. After the list of players and claims have been run, the players without a claim will be allowed to choose their claim from the available pool, in the order they were placed on the "Standby" list, in a MODPOST titled "Standby Claim Allocation."

• The process will occur with oversight from all mods, and documented for review.

• Please remember that if you choose all top claims, you are highly likely to be placed on the standby list. We recommend mixing larger and smaller claims. Again, the order you fill the form out in relation to other players does not matter, it is NOT first come first serve.

• After the claiming process has concluded, we will conduct a player registration process for the new claims, encompassing all players. Details will be forthcoming, and located in a modpost after the initial process concludes.

So, that's it. We are ready to begin.

WORLD POWERS SEASON 3 REQUIRED CLAIM FORM: YOU MUST FILL THIS OUT TO RECEIVE A CLAIM

The results will be generated and available as soon as possible. Thank you, and good luck!

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Today, journalists for various news organizations have teemed up with historians to begin writing a history of the world, starting in the year 2015, when the United States split.

January

• On January 1st, President Obama is killed by a bomb blast in Camp David, Maryland, Joe Biden takes power.

• On January 2nd, Congress passes a second Patriot Act, designed to prevent dissent and monitor communications

• On January 12th, a plane crashes into the NCAA championship in Arlington, Texas, killing 15,000 people

• On January 17th, California, Oregon, Washington, and several western states declare independence

• On January 25th, Alaska merges with Canada

February

• On February 21st, the US completes the fragmentation process, with the Virginias being the last group of states to exit the union

• As of February 31st, 2015, the world map

March

• Throughout the month, the first UN General Assembly takes place in the Royal Opera House in London. Nuclear weapons are banned and aid to the US is done, but most independent historians declare that it failed to deliver the necessary decision making to preserve future peace.

• Throughout the month and the entire rest of the year, the vast majority of nations in the world recognise all the former states of the USA

• South Ossetia is integrated into Russia

• On the Seventeenth of March, 2015, the Treaty of Arusha was signed between Uganda, the Republic of Kenya, and the United Republic of Tanzania, forming the East African Federation.

• On March 25th, 2015, the Treaty of Minsk is signed in Belarus. Novorossiya is given significant territory in Ukraine, in exchange for the end of hostilities between Novorossiya, Russia, and Ukraine.

• On March 28th, 2015 Nigerian Elections occur. They result in victory for the All Progressive Congress, finally unseating Goodluck Jonathan.

April

• Iraq and Kurdistan launch Operation Two Rivers

• Poll results for the Confederate elections are announced on April 2nd, 2015. The Clintons are shown to hold a massive lead.

• April 15th, 2015: Massive Pro-EU Referendum Protests escalate in Iceland, leading many to speculate on membership.

• On April 23rd, 2015, Chile recognises Kurdistan.

• On April 30th, 2015, a crisis in the WHO is only partly solved through emergency donations from countries to make up for the loss of US investment.

May

• Bill Clinton elected president of the Confederate Republic of America

• The Nazaryanist Global Front forms. Nobody is particularly sure what it is all about.

• On May 5th 2015, the Tehran Conference takes place. Iran recognises an independent Kurdistan and aligns itself with Kurdistan, creating opportunities for a fully independent and sovereign Kurdish State.

• UK Parliament elections occur, leaving the Conservatives with a majority government, shocking the pollsters. [M] Robot1501 is confirmed Illuminati [M]

• In the first act of the UK parliament on May 10th, 2015, the UK recognises Kurdistan.

• On May 14th, 2015, Kurdistan and Turkey sign the landmark Gaziantep Agreement. Three Turkish Provinces will represent the heart of the new Kurdish republic. This is considered to be the beginning of Kurdistan as a country by most historians.

June

• On June 7th, 2015, Turkish Election results are announced. The AKP gains a massive majority.

• Icelanders vote against EU membership in Referendum

• Russian Nationalist Party wins Novorossiyan Elections

July

• Operation Golden Sun is a joint effort launched by Kurdistan, Cascadia, Pueblo, Iran, Iraq, and Texoma. It is the largest operation against a terrorist organisation in human history. The original operation will eventually be joined by the UK, Germany, Qatar, and the Netherlands.

• The Battle of Baghdad occurs. ISIS puts up a shocking fight and the attacking forces pay an immense price for victory.

• Despite brutal fighting and huge losses, the DRC succeeds in taking South Kivu from the FDLR

• Due to brilliant battle planning, Nigerian Forces rout Boko Haram at the Battle of Diffa

August

• After corruption charges and concerns about his leadership, Benjamin Netanyahu resigns as Israeli Prime Minister

• Rioters take control of the parliament in Athens. 10 people are killed. The demonstrators consist of far-left supports of the KKE and far-right supports of the Golden Dawn accusing the government of selling out to the EU.

September

• The Hellenic Army fails to quell riots leading to even greater tensions

• A dispute between Russia and Turkey begins over middle eastern policy, after it is revealed that Turkey was arming the Syrian Opposition

• The Greek Militias retain control of parliament and step up efforts to fight the Hellenic Army

• ISIS is demolished in the battles of Mosul and Nineveh losing in excess of 50,000 troops and two territories to an overwhelming coalition force.

• Boko Haram suffers another defeat at the hands of Nigeria in the battle of Gombe ("the hills of death")

October

• On October 3rd, the results of the Canadian Election are announced. The result is a landslide win for Thomas Mulcair's left-wing NDP.

• Tony Abbot steps down as Australian Prime Minister after numerous sexual scandals

• Sao Tome and Principe requests assistance following Nigerian occupation. Nobody relevant reacts.

• The Hellenic Army fails to retake parliament. This is viewed by many as the beginning of the Greek Civil War, which plunged Greece into recession.

November

• A Nazaryanist rally is held in Yerevan. Unfortunately, this clarifies what they actually are to absolutely nobody.

• The Danish People's Party wins the Danish elections for Prime Minister, led by Kristian Thulesen Dahl.

• The former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is found dead from a cocaine overdose. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes some shockingly offensive comments, saying "I'm not surprised."

• Peace is temporarily restored in Greece. However, this was not to last.

• Northern Cyprus accidentally advertises a historic alliance between them and ISIS, incurring the wrath of the international community.

December

• The UK diverts naval forces to protect Christians in Northern Cyprus. They follow this up with a full-scale invasion.

• Turkey commences takeover of Cyprus by the Cyprus Turkish Peace Force. They initially refuse to cooperate with a UK invasion, but eventually come to an agreement on joint intervention.

• The Polish Elections occur. The Centre-Right Civic Platform Party comes to power.

• The Battles of Northern Cyprus and Northern Nicosia occur with minimal casualties on the Turkish and UK side. Turkey lost a total of fewer than 500 soldiers. The war was painful for Northern Cyprus, who suffered thousands of casualties.

• Turkey arrests the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus, scapegoating him as solely responsible for the crisis.

• The Syrian Arab Army wins a difficult victory at Deir ez-Zor but ISIS shocks the world by inflicting a decisive and bloody defeat on them in the city of Deir ez-Zor.

• NATO, led by Turkey, held an emergency referendum in Northern Cyprus, resulting in a victory for the pro-independence side. At the same time, Greece held a referendum resulting in Cyprus joining Greece. This was however not overseen by international observers, leading many to declare it a sham.

• The Greek Economy shatters, with an 8.8% negative growth rate destroying millions of jobs and provoking a crisis. Greece erupts into civil war, with provinces splitting off to the Greek government, the KKE, and the Golden Dawn.

• Bulgaria launches Operation Imperial Eagle to defeat the GPLA faction in Greece.

• Due to the collapse of almost all aid, the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe refuses to pay foreign debts owed to the IMF and the World Bank.

[M] The link I used for compiling if anyone is interested.

Uganda has had a long history of filthy plates, and finally President Muntu snapped. Witnesses say he stormed to the nearest mall to buy an 'excessive' amount of fragile plateware. Muntu has ordered all government officials to use only the cleanest of chinaware in official and non-official circumstances.

Yeah. So uh...it turns out I got accepted to the Glider Pilot Scholarship with the Canadian Forces this summer. It appears as though Sergeant ElysianDreams is gonna be a pilot by September. :D

#gethyped

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend

of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- linsfirst loved livvy. What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill- killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab- solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar- back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat- er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!) and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi- fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab- les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from 5 UP next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec- titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter- ing down. Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again! What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus- tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and at the fading of the stars! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch- bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed! It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou- sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls- rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers, autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega- phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur- rocks and his fore old porecourts, the bore the more, and his 6 UP blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi- busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn- ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot- tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.

WARNING: contains incoherent thoughts and rant aspects

I've downright reached by breaking point. I feel comparable to how /u/Forrestal felt regarding the Indonesian crisis (see here), although, admittedly, to a lesser extent. Or maybe not, how should I know.

The point is, in a matter of days, WP has transformed from a hobby to a fucking obligation, and that is something it should NEVER be. But this bullshit war has thoroughly diminished my confidence in this sub's ability to play the game in a way that isn't laughably unrealistic, for the sole reason that the war is just that, bullshit.

I'm not questioning /u/Joshmofo1's or accusing him of anything, he had proper RP to 'justify' an invasion, at least with the support of his own populace. However, I'm instead going to be pointing out the bullshit that stems from other players. Another warning, I will be naming names, but I genuinely hope doing so doesn't cause any resentment.

First of all, I am infuriated by the reactions from other players regarding this war, especially my allies. Now, admittedly, I have not had the most diplomacy. But one things I can assure you is that Pakistan has allies, inseparable ones at that. There is no need to maintain such relations in-game, they stem from a shared culture, religion, etc. IRL.

The biggest one I wish to address is Saudi Arabia, and why I am not too happy with /u/Diotoiren's actions.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are nothing less than inseparable. SA has always supported Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani wars to the fullest extent. Yet what does he do? Let's take a look:

1. Essentially declares neutrality, although not officially

2. Proceeds to request entry into fucking Trident.

3. Opens his waters for all of 2 hours to allow my ships to sail in, despite me requesting him to harbor them secretly, and then forces me to sell them to him, acting as though he's actually doing me a fucking favor.

4. Proceeds to fucking trade military equipment with India. I seriously had to do a double take on this one. Your greatest ally's civilians are being murdered by an invading nation, and so you decide the most realistic course of action is to proceed with supporting that nation militarily, despite supposedly being 'neutral'. Bullshit.

Enough about that. I don't have anything against Diotoiren, I am just utterly flabbergasted by his beyond unrealistic actions. Frankly, he has done a terrible job regarding diplomacy. I apologize for being so blunt, but it's true.

Moving on. Indochina. Fucking Indochina.

/u/Minihawking is a competent player and a nice guy, but I have seen his reasons for this war. He reckons that either he supports India and gets flak from the rest of the world, or he stays neutral and gets flak from both sides, which the latter is frankly untrue. If you stay neutral, you will not get denounced. There are several nations, powerful, relevant nations at that, that are neutral, yet nobody gives a damn. And frankly, while I'm sure India would've requested your help, its not like he's on the defense here, not providing support wouldn't have tarnished your relations, unless /u/Joshmofo1 was particularly spiteful. But I digress.

Anyway, I find it bullshit that nations around the world feel obligated to support India. Bullshit. Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Look at Russia and the annexation of Crimea. Russia continues to have several key military allies, yet has one single nation supported them militarily? Hell fucking no! These nations aren't going to send their own damn men and women to die at their own expense to support an ally that doesn't even need their fucking help in the first place.

I am really expected to believe that Indochina just sends hundreds of thousands of men to Pakistan, many of whom will inevitably die in fierce combat, and the citizens are just like 'nah it's cool, four members of my family died fighting for reasons I don't understand, but it's cool, cuz India's da best!' NO!

And the same goes for HK. I'm not 100% sure on the relationship existing between HK and India, but I can speculate it's little more than one measly agreement. And that in no way binds them to support India by sending their own men to die.

TO ANYONE WHO FEELS OBLIGATED TO SUPPORT INDIA: You are not obligated. Repeat after me. You. Are. Not. Obligated.

'But we r frendz' is a bullshit reason. Complete bullshit. One fucking trade agreement does not bind you to do anything. Just take one look at real life, you will see nations declaring neutrality despite having extensive ties to a nation throughout history, yet nations with a very insignificant diplomatic connection to India somehow feel as though that justifies supporting them at their own expense.

Part 2 of rant, why it's bullshit that anyone would support India's claim to Pakistani lands:

This part frustrates me less, but I can assure you, I am still thoroughly pissed off by this bullshit as well.

I cannot really say as to why any nation would support India's unlawful invasion, but I can speculate the following:

'India is obviously justified. Pakistan is just some smelly kebab who supports terrorism and Sharia. They must've been asking for it.'

Now again, I don't know if this is the case, but if it is, I have the following to say:

Take one look at my post history. I have done so, so, so fucking much to liberalize Pakistan in a realistic manner and make it an approachable and respectable nation. Yet nobody cares, we're still somehow the bad guys, which means we would obviously be better off under Indian control. You guessed it, BULLSHIT!

And then there's Iran.

/u/TheFallenHero, I can appreciate your sense of unpredictability, and I understand that your justifying invading me by having this so-called 'Red Tulip Party' in power, which apparently wants some 'Greater Iran' or what have you, although frankly, I still find it bullshit. We have a strong relationship and IIRC, a pretty binding defensive pact, so I find it hard to swallow that this is at all justifiable. Since when has the Iranian government ever given two shits about the Balochi people or their interests in the first place?

So with that, I need to hurry up and get to my point. I am considering declaiming and moving away from Pakistan, after the war is over, of course. Let the above rant speak as my reasoning.

Although, I do have another option. Some people on this sub, namely /u/Cardbird, /u/TheRealHansLanda and /u/Delta_Sigma have given me the motivation to keep going in this war through their support, both IG and in meta, and I very much so appreciate it, as well as others who have gifted me with equipment. This has lead me to believe that even if I do lose (which is very likely), I can rebound. I can make a comeback. It would take a lot or hard work and maybe even a little rapid militarization, I can repair the damage done by India.

I still don't understand /u/Joshmofo1's endgoal but if it is to eradicate Pakistan so that it won't pose a threat (which it never did in the first place), then I will give him hell for it. He will not believe the amount of resilience I am capable of, given that I actually do chose the latter and don't end up just declaiming and moving on to new pursuits.

We'll see. I love Pakistan, but I might just have to say goodbye, all this bullshit might just be irreparable.

'Bullshit' usage counter: 13

They pretty much ruin things for certain people. I understand if you don't agree with someone but downvotes is not the way to handle it. If someone is being a troll or is hurting the discussion or the sub I understand them but me and other countries have been limited to post and other things because of them. They don't affect my karma or anything either. I'm making this out of concern for the players and the sub as a whole.