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Aug 23rd 2012, 21:57:52

Originally posted by Trife:

I get bent out of shape with the 10 commandments being posted in schools and government building's because it's (BEEN REPEATEDLY DETERMINED) unconstitutional.

But yet, we find school systems keep trying to put it up and wasting our tax dollars to fight the court battles.

Actually, I'm referring to the places where they were for over a hundred years, that noone had an issue with until modern times when religion bashing became the new cult of choice.

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Aug 23rd 2012, 21:26:58

Originally posted by Trife:

Good points, in the end it's all opinions - unless someone can prove that the imaginary folks are real!

So why do folks have issues with athetists speaking their minds?

Atheists haven't liked religion being thrown in their face, and now religion doesn't like having the lack of religion being thrown back at them.

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Actually, I love things like these billboards. Because it sparks discussion with others about my beliefs, and then I can witness to people about what God has done in my life :)

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Aug 23rd 2012, 21:19:39

Originally posted by qzjul:

Originally posted by lostmonk:

Well Trife, I think abortion should be illegal because its killing a person, not for religious reasons. Killing is bad, mmmk?

At what point did they become a person, and why? What gives you the right to force a woman to have a separate organism grow inside of her? It takes months before a fetus is anything more than just a blob of cells. Yet you're allowed to put down animals that are viable living creatures on their own? What makes you think that an unviable blob of cells is so special and has more rights than many other intelligent creatures?

This is why I advocate being vegan as well :) And I don't have to force a woman to have a baby grow in her. In at the least 85% of the case, she should have kept her damn legs shut if shes not gonna make sure she doesn't get pregnant. Abortion != birth control

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Aug 23rd 2012, 21:09:47

Originally posted by braden:

trife, out of curiosity, in america each year, how many aborted children are from rape compared to not rape? (this is a serious question for anybody to answer)

"Recent AGI literature has given figures of abortions following rape or incest. For example, an April 2005 information sheet [7] states that about 13,000 women have abortions following rape or incest. This is 1.0% of AGI-estimated annual abortions in 2000-2002. This figure appears to be derived from the 1987 survey percentage (or from preliminary results of the 2004 survey)."

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/...abortion/abreasons.html#2

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Aug 23rd 2012, 20:55:13

Well Trife, I think abortion should be illegal because its killing a person, not for religious reasons. Killing is bad, mmmk?

And I think for most not overly extreme Christians, we have no issue with civil unions, but legalizing it as marriage is only going to lead to lawsuits claiming discrimination when churches refuse to marry gay couples.

What about when atheists impact Christians lives for now reason? Like the taking of the commandments out of places where they were for hundreds of years? Outlawing kids that WANT to pray in school from doing so? The list of things that are being outlawed in the name of "tolerance" is just as long as what Christians try to get done as well.

Extremists, whether gay, christian, muslim, mormon, or atheist, are the real problem.

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Aug 22nd 2012, 11:41:07

I think the sheer number of guys laid back in bed on chatroulette has to the the strangest part of this video.

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Aug 21st 2012, 13:03:47

Originally posted by locket:

Nice to see grudges being held to the detriment of the game.

Except for the fact that pang clearly said he doesn't work on the mechanics anymore, so your strawman goes right up in flames. Especially since he IS still doing lots of work on improving other aspects of the game.

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Aug 20th 2012, 21:01:32

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6PO6WtEDc

^^ funnier

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Aug 20th 2012, 20:54:51

MANURE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!!!!!

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Aug 20th 2012, 3:32:15

Originally posted by Pain:

yes i know it was but it was a consistent factor. if i wanted to learn a new game id go play one.

Since they are trying to save this game, then I guess the best thing to say here is "BYE!".

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Aug 16th 2012, 22:21:57

GDIAF?

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Aug 16th 2012, 13:52:07

I do have to say Alin, you really need to get out in the sun more.

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Aug 14th 2012, 11:49:12

Arrow, GoD, SoL, Exodus, Sof, Laf, MD, Ely, Teamhunters, Imag, IX, Monsters, MX, Omega, ZT, ICN, Neofed, TDR, Evo, Collab, Valks, SoLar, AoDT, MET, HS, PDM

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Aug 13th 2012, 21:54:32

Originally posted by elvesrus:

I've never know monk to spread lies

Yeah, I'm an asshole, but not a liar!

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Aug 13th 2012, 21:03:25

TROLLolololo......

As a side note, this is a great example of what happens when you make assumptions and can't be arsed to actually do a little work to take care of things for your alliance/team/etc.

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Aug 12th 2012, 1:16:27

If we were nothing more than base animals hawkeye, maybe....But, MOST of us, aren't so its just not acceptable

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Aug 11th 2012, 11:35:30

Originally posted by Trife:

And some of you guys seem confused, I've already made up my mind on this subject. I'm not trying to justify why God does these things.
Rather, I'm trying to understand why folks think their seemingly
perfect god would do such terrible things.

p.s. hai vamps o/

TL;DR answer, God doesn't. Sadly there is a huge section of the "believing" population that has bought into the blaming everything on God "theology", that has become so prevalent in this modern age. When God cast out humanity for that first sin, he essentially removed our shield from all the terrible things that could happen. Over the course of time since, we were given free reign in the sandbox, and reap the "benefits" on a daily basis. Vilse's beloved god of science has brought about a lot of the cancers and such, due to us using dozens of things a day that we really have no idea the long term effects of.

1 Corinthians 2:11 - For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

That sums it up pretty well. We need to stop trying to place God and what he does in a box of our design; because no box of human thought will ever make sense of God's thoughts and plans.

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Aug 11th 2012, 4:16:14

Originally posted by Vic:

*blushes*

this is x rated

Oh, your poor virgin ears Vic!!!

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Aug 10th 2012, 13:54:26

ViLSE, you really can't base anything off sam, he's more than just a little trolly.

But I would like to know why you think people can't be rational in believing that we were created, rather than just an amazingly improbable collection of perfect coincidences?

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Aug 9th 2012, 14:51:26

Originally posted by Sifos:

Does it affect military losses?

I echo this question. Do the new formulas only affect civ/food/building losses, or also the military losses of the attacker and defender?

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Aug 8th 2012, 17:47:27

Originally posted by Red X:

maybe maybe not join us and find out, we would love to take PDM into us =]

That has to be the dirtiest offer ever on AT...

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Aug 6th 2012, 19:43:42

Originally posted by Vic:

You didn't take anything to the next step. You responded to something objective with an abstracted and ambiguous response.

Start by defining a list of what actions ruin the game, compile a list of those that engage in said actions, and there you go .

Seriously you aren't really proving anything. I suggested something that could easily be implemented - making suiciding as an Untagged, against the rules.
Your responses indicate a personal vendetta.

Be cool, man
:)

As you said was the purpose "Cleaning up this game to make gameplay better for all"

In that vein, any actions that drive people from the game by being abusive of the gameplay rules would make sense. So then, all those that bottom feed like crazy, and those that war netting clans, would need to go.

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Aug 6th 2012, 18:18:18

Originally posted by Vic:

Bottom feeding like crazy is healthy for the economics of the game in that it encourages one (the bottom fed) to join an alliance and take a more active role in the game. Tagged warring is fine.

Honestly , you are trying far too hard to combat my simple suggestion.

Absolutely not, I am taking your poor suggestion to its logical next step. If we're going to come down on people for ruining the game, all of them should be come down on.

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Aug 6th 2012, 18:07:10

Originally posted by hawkeyee:

Will you people stop fluffing already? There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything that any alliance does to gain any type of competitive advantage as long as it doesn't break the game rules. Internal farming. Taking advantage of DR. Dropping countries. None of it is wrong. None of it is against the rules. The beauty of this game is that it is what we make of it. Don't like what RD is doing? Force them to stop either with force or diplomacy. Can't do it or choose not to? Then too bad. That's your loss. They achieved the goal of the game, which is to win without breaking the rules. Don't like the methods they use to win ANW? Stop recognizing their ANW victories. There's no prize for winning ANW aside from recognition from the community. Don't like how they achieved it? Don't recognize them. But please will you all stop fluffing about the same fluffing thing over and over and over and over again? Shut the fluff up or do something about it. This is becoming tiring.

Ive got to say hawkeye, I cannot ever imagine you making a post like this when you were in Omega. I guess the dirtiness of RD is rubbing off on you?

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Aug 6th 2012, 17:58:27

Originally posted by Vic:

Hehe :p

And as for constructive and concrete advice -
Sure:
Untagged suiciding should formally be placed on the list of actions 'against the rules'.

There should also be provisions that clearly define the definition of suiciding (the Untagged part is pretty simple) as well as a coherent and fairly stated bylaw that details the course of action to be taken against suiciders.

Pretty simple.

Then, since you're objecting to suiciding as it is detrimental to the game, we should start banning people proven to act in a way detrimental to the game. Which would mean all those that bottomfeed like crazy, and the warmongers that force netter into wars would all be banned. Hell, at that rate, we'd have 5-10 people left to play the game.

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Aug 5th 2012, 3:49:41

Originally posted by de1i:

Judging someones character is hardly crying, only a fool would argue that dropping 5+ countries from your tag during each of the last 2 resets (if not more) is not a dirty tactic. We will of course casually ignore that of some of those countries not only were active all reset but also Heads.

Yeah, can't forget putting #1 into dr's everytime he farmed for like 2 weeks either...And to think some of us wanted to give them a second chance....

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Aug 5th 2012, 0:03:52

By inferior I guess you mean those not willing to compromise their ethics by using the dirtiest of tactics?

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Aug 4th 2012, 23:20:44

Achieving top spots interior farming, and putting your own members in DR's......What, since PDM won't landtrade with you anymore, will we start seeing the return of your untagged landfarms now too?

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Aug 2nd 2012, 12:12:43

Originally posted by Kumander Otbol:

did you guys think over it when LaF was still restructuring after the allegedly cheating incident or you just decided to gangbang and tell them you won't be pacting them for 6 moths without thinking it over?

are you guys begging that LaF won't do to you what you did to them before? lol. funny.

I just don't get what kool aid people are drinking, that they still say ALLEGED cheating.....Proof of unauthorized access has already been well established....wtf do people need, video of them doing it? This is the kind of talk that will kill this whole game, when people are this fluffing blind to the truth that has already been shown. And frankly, it shows how horrible some of you people must be in real life, that you gladly jump in bed with those that cheat.

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Jul 30th 2012, 23:48:57

Hebrew has no vowels, so, the whole thing is fail :)

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Jul 23rd 2012, 20:04:54

Fazer, you might want to stop having purples all the time before you try to give advice to anyone in this game...

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Jul 22nd 2012, 11:11:51

Originally posted by Purposeful1:

We Californians just need to work on breaking ourselves off from the rest of the United States. To hang with Hawaii.

Alaska can come too.

KIf only we could be so lucky! Just make sure to take the Scientologists with you!

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Jul 22nd 2012, 10:36:21

Originally posted by locket:

Even if you are attached to something emotionally, that does not mean you have to disrespect opponents or play dirty. Unfortunately a select few can ruin it and "enrage" those who might sometimes remain calm.

Are you really decrying playing dirty, but not too many weeks ago screamed about TC and hanlongs innocence even in the face of multiple admins having seen the evidence? I can't speak for many others, but I know of a fair few of us who have repeatedly left long time homes after proof of cheats.

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Jul 22nd 2012, 10:29:14

Originally posted by SAM_DANGER:

OUR FAVORITE EXTINCT ALLIANCE IS ICN. SOME OF YOU MAY BE PERPLEXED BY THAT STATEMENT, BUT IT WILL ALL BECOME CLEAR SOON ENOUGH.

HA!

SAM

All, I can say, is if ICN is gonna close its doors, they better have 1 final Gary set first.....miss that dude, probably the most genuinely nice guy Ive met in this game.

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Jul 22nd 2012, 1:28:53

NW's getting closer due to losses?

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Jul 21st 2012, 23:28:07

Originally posted by locket:

GoD :P

But no Huricane allowed!!!!!!!!

Where is Terranus anyway?

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Jul 17th 2012, 2:36:48

Originally posted by Atryn:

Way too much coding?

You just put a check box next to each of your "lots" on the market. Either they are all checked by default or they are not. Whatever is checked when you hit "recall" comes back?

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think you actually make Alin and Task1 look smart.

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Jul 16th 2012, 11:58:50

I think it would require way too much coding in relation to the very small benefit it would provide. There would not be many strategies that would even take advantage of this.

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Jul 16th 2012, 11:50:45

Originally posted by Kumander Otbol:

the mods should review/modify the restart bonuses so as not to encourage more internal killings in tags. if they are not into abusing DRs, then this one should be looked into also. this issue might contribute to the death of this game with people being disappointed of "dirty war tricks".

And the losing side of a war being farmed nonstop isnt going to drive people from the game? We need to be looking at ways to make things more balanced, not create an even larger gulf than there already is!

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Jul 16th 2012, 11:49:09

Originally posted by MauricXe:

Except the farming part? How can you make that kind of argument? Xinhuan isn't saying that LaF/SoF don't farm, but that the BRs/ABs are not used to weaken the enemy so that they can be farmed later. Is this something you would agree too?

As for the friendly fire kills, no one is saying it's illegal. The question we are trying to debate is if it is dirty. I vote yes because (1) taking friendly fire should never be a goal and (2) the restart bonuses appear to be somewhat broken and actively seeking it is a bit shady imo.

If they are actively ab'ing or br'ing countries to keep them from growing too big, and then making sure to farm almost everyone that hits 5k land, then yeah, I would say that is EXACTLY what is being done.

And how is it a bit shady? It's a new use of the game mechanics, in response to someone elses use of those same mechanics to their advantage. Necessity is the mother of invention as they say. It's no more shady than calling in an ally in an even war ;)

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Jul 15th 2012, 19:11:44

Xinhuan, I completely get that, well, except the farming part. There is plenty of farming going on. My whole point was, if its acceptable to start using ab's rather than killing a country, then the tactic found to get around that shouldn't be whined about. No rules are being broken, its just a way for the smaller to keep coming at the larger.

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Jul 14th 2012, 22:34:19

Originally posted by MauricXe:

Originally posted by lostmonk:

But to stop killing almost completely and just cripple and farm,

This is where you are getting it wrong....refer to my previous post.

How exactly do I have it wrong?
http://earthgraphs.com/...port=Show&tab=details
4000ab's in the past week? To not expect someone to find a strategy to counteract the new tactic is just retarded. It may not be pretty, but its war, and if you can't adapt, gtfo.

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Jul 14th 2012, 20:55:00

Originally posted by MauricXe:

Originally posted by lostmonk:

I still have as of yet to see how dropping land to 1 and dying is dirty. If the tactics have changed to ab rather than kill restarts, why is it an issue to use those same mechanics to get back into the fight? Pot meet kettle?

You have it the wrong way around. ABing and BRing are a response to the restart bonuses. If the restart bonuses were not in place, you would see more kills and less crippling.

If its from BR's thats one thing. But to stop killing almost completely and just cripple and farm, you have to expect people to find a way around that. Thats called strategy.

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Jul 13th 2012, 18:51:29

Originally posted by Servant:

Task1,

You're Dagga/Alin you just happen to be on the winning side right now.

STATEMENT OF THE SET!!!

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Jul 12th 2012, 5:06:16

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Jul 11th 2012, 14:19:02

Originally posted by crysk:

Doesnt matter to me scode, I'm out. I'm not head leadership, just the only one who ever pays attention once a day. I check when i can. Obviously not good enough. And i did send it to llaar. I came back because the game was fun, but the fun is gone, as am I.

This sounds to me like NA is going to fold. If the leadership isn't active enough to take care of issues, then the members are the ones getting screwed. Also, sounds like noone is training people over in NA, thus the entire reason for this war :)

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Jul 11th 2012, 14:14:53

Originally posted by crysk:

Lol my bad for having a life and not replying at your beck and call. I have a job, a lot more important than you. I hope you feel big and bad now sunshine.

P.s. Zip im saddend to see you associate with crap.

This should be the reason for the next war dec. What utter drivel.

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Jul 11th 2012, 14:08:53

Originally posted by CandyMan:

It's not fair to the side that's winning the war:P

So then the side winning the war is just interested in the old style of kill'em all and then war has to be over? If you can't adapt to new things, then do nothing but net. But then, you'll have issues with that too :P

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Jul 11th 2012, 13:10:52

Originally posted by Zahc:

Dropping acres and having your own members kill your crippled country to restart with a better one

So changing tactics in war to take advantage of the new game mechanics is dirty? Then just ab'ing countries in war is just as dirty of a tactic, since you're not actually trying to war, just keep countries down to farm them into oblivion.

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