Vilageidiotx

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

woop, weirdtales is here, now this thread back the fuck on track.

Political Standing of the RoleplayGuild.

If you're still doing this -9.5, -5.08

I'm currently reading around democratic confederalism, currently an Anarcho-Syndicalist with Marxist tendencies

@ACPM

In the wake of everything that happens...

I always find it to be a shakey argument when people appeal to the whole 'human nature' angle, given that that is not at all ironclad, or even well defined, by actual experts in the field. It's very much up in the air at the moment.

It didn't seem to be human nature for the 200,000 or so years before we started farming.

@Doivid

Could've been. I can imagine a circumstance where Glug kills Ug, causing the Ug family to convince the rest of the tribe they need to murder the entire Glug family.

What do we do guys?

I don't think the problem people have is as simple as the shootings are happening, or why they are happening. I mean, obviously those are problems, but specific to America I think the problem that caused this issue to escalate to cop sniping is the assumption that our justice system cannot handle it when a cop does something wrong. I don't think people would react as extremely as they do if they knew, or even could assume, that a cop who shoots a guy who it turns out he had no reasonable reason to shoot will end up being punished with more then some vacation time. It's why those arguments you see on the internet every time this happens, that "Why does BLM not focus on black on black shootings?" is impertinent for the reason that our legal system handles those cases, but it fails to handle the cop shootings.

As for the media focusing on black causes, yeh, that isn't ideal. But the news just as much as anything else on television is required to tell a good story to get viewers, and repeating the cops vs minorities story is sure to grab attention. Besides, if they expanded to talk about every time a cop did something wrong, they wouldn't have much time for any other news. Didn't they cover the time the cop tazed that little old lady though? I thought I saw that on the news.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I think it would be wiser to adjust the buffs in a way that makes the PoW division of power stay put. I'm afraid if everybody started at a relatively even point the entire paradigm would shift out of what PoW has and become something similar to the real world. You could give the northern European countries a nerfs in the form of "Scars of the Great War" or something like that. Likewise, give America "Isolationism." and Russian half-states "The Chaos." And likewise, you'd need to buff the Spanish and Chinese economies to make sure they can pull off. At the same time you'd probably want to be able to develop those countries too, so I guess a mix of both with a mind to make sure the AI produces something sorta like what we've produced?

Probably not even in the RP's life-time.

@Dinh AaronMk

This is true but HoI4 allows you to pretty much decide to have a revolution or coup in your country that replaces the government to the type you like, so might as well allow that function for the mod. I don't think the AI takes those options on purpose (I only fucked up the beginning of two games though so I dunno), so assuming the AI won't take those fastforward options a tiny KMT option might not be a bad idea. It'd be interesting at least.

In the wake of everything that happens...

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I was talking about a trend in modern politics, not giving you an abridged version of Braudel. And of course it's human nature, anything humans do is human nature, it's not unfair to expect the scripted responses of our leaders to aspire to better. Whether it's practical in a democracy with the media we have is another question I guess. But we can still be mad at parts of the whole fucked equation.

@KnightShade

And I gave a scripted response to the scripted response.

Bam. No free will in forum conversations or something.

Political Standing of the RoleplayGuild.

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@Dynamo Frokane

In the wake of everything that happens...

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It's because they try to capitalize on it or shift the rightful focus to fit their agenda. It is a lack of modesty in the face of tragedy. This is increasingly applicable to far too many politicians.

@KnightShade

It's human nature, not a modern invention. I'd suspect people been doing this since the Pharaohs.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Might not be a bad idea to have the KMT represented with 1% or less for RP purposes. Like, the original game has Trotskyists and liberals present in the Ussr if I recall right

Hunger Games: Fourth of July addition

Welcome back to the Fourth of July Hunger Games! We've seen the blood of patriots water the tree of liberty, and now it is time for the conclusion. Who will win the title of "Most Alive Tribute" and go home with nothing but scars? Let's find out!



Ron has recently been kicked out of a bar, ate at McDonalds, and now he is drenching his food in hot sauce. He is living one of the most American lives we have seen yet. Their spirits up, our three most aggressive survivors sing about bombs together. Meanwhile, MLK makes exactly the face you make when you receive underwear as a gift.



Pokey, like so many Native Americans of her generation, fails to get her vaccinations and dies of some strange western disease. peperony and chease. Ron sobers up and goes hunting for immigrants. Betty White is fucking vicious, and she destroys MLK with shock and awe from above. peperony and chease. A little frightened by Betty's killing move, Lafayette flees to the west.



Now America's only surviving tributes are the whitest of the original group. Somewhere, a KKK grand wizard is smiling a toothless smile.



Ron is going through some things right now, it might be best to just let him alone. Lafayette, who has used the Cuck word before in our games, gets some comeuppance while he hides from Betty White. Betty, meanwhile, fails to launch another murderous explosion, to the thankful sighs of the other two.

So here it is. The final moment. Who will win, who will not win? Drum roll in your brains now.

Are you ready for this?

peperony and chease. peperony and chease.

Which means...



She did it! The crazy old broad did it! She won America! Ron Swanson was put out of his misery with a 'work, and Lafayette dropped the soap, leaving Betty White as our Champion 2016!




With that, the week closes and the people of the world get ready for some BS holiday like Bastille day or whatever. The smoke settles, and it may be a while before we see the games again. Write your local congressman to see more.

Meanwhile, here is some stats.