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Sabreslandia wrote:Hello, does this region have a geopolitical RP?

Not as far as I'm aware. I think Uan aa Boa is supposed to be in charge of Forest's RPing but, well...

Maybe you could start your own.

Terrabod wrote:Not as far as I'm aware. I think Uan aa Boa is supposed to be in charge of Forest's RPing but, well...

Maybe you could start your own.

I remember that during the summer Rivienland hosted an RP, but it was not Forest only, nor was it geopolitical, being more NationStates RP Forum as opposed to International Incidents.

I’d love to help/host/participate in one if you’d all like

Middle Barael wrote:I remember that during the summer Rivienland hosted an RP, but it was not Forest only, nor was it geopolitical, being more NationStates RP Forum as opposed to International Incidents.

I’d love to help/host/participate in one if you’d all like

I'm cr*p at RPing - but I know you've been interested in reviving that part of Forest life for some time, so I wish you the best of luck with it!

Terrabod wrote:I'm cr*p at RPing - but I know you've been interested in reviving that part of Forest life for some time, so I wish you the best of luck with it!

Perhaps we could do a light-RP or even non-personal RP (think International Incidents), perhaps focused on some sort of Environmental Alliance or something, since Forest *is* supposed to be the Environmentalist region.

I’d love to host it, if that’s ok with you, probably in Cothon City, though of course we’d offer day trips for the foreign dignitaries to visit cities such as Scania, MBC, Minerva, Sacrovilla, Likon, and Domicile, and we’d showcase our many renewable energy projects, our eco-friendly network of high-speed trains and light-rail projects, our environmentalist farms and kibbutzim, our college student’s eco-friendly thesis projects, and even our Green MAGLEV train between Nava and Minerva.

However, first I’d want to gauge interest.

Please only like this if you think you may participate!

Noahs Fifth Country wrote:Probably not - Kindjal doesn't actually have a lot of badges, and challenge level is determined by total volume of badges + the bonus you get for playing.

This is true, yeah. I checked after you quoted me and saw that this is true. She has very few badges but is very hyperspecialized.

Terrabod wrote:Not as far as I'm aware. I think Uan aa Boa is supposed to be in charge of Forest's RPing but, well...

Maybe you could start your own.

He's cte, tho, and hasn't been Forest for months now.

Canaltia wrote:I actually looked that up, and that's actually a pretty fun origin. Thanks for that. However, as a Catholic myself, I would say that All Saint's Day, which is the day after, is still a pretty recognized Christian holiday, as is Christmas. It's just that Halloween and Christmas have a massive appeal to everyone, regardless of origins, so they gained a dualistic nature, where there's the celebration that everyone does, but also the one only Christians do.

Personally, I like how Halloween and All Saint's Day are completely different, because it's not as much fun to dress as a saint on Halloween, and if we ever found the actual day that Jesus was born, I wouldn't be entirely opposed to doing the same with Christmas. Though we would have to find a new name for one of them, and knowing how stubborn some people on both sides of religion are, that may be more trouble than it's worth.

I’m Catholic too, I just think Christmas at this point is hardly uniquely Christian. There’s sort of a large salad bowl of winter celebrations roughly under the name “Christmas” or “the holidays”. Obviously Christians still celebrate Christmas as the birth of Christ. I make sure to go to Midnight Mass :P

Shalotte wrote:I have three, hard-learnt mantras that feel relevant here:

1) Never trust anybody.
2) People are always more stupid than you give them credit for.
3) Things can always get worse.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but so far I haven't been.

Sorry. I'll resume my usual quips next time.

>never trust the words "never" and "always".

>whatever you think you know, reality will sooner or later throw you a curve,

>and there will (ok, almost) always be infinity minus one other possibilities.

>it is only people telling each other what to pretend, that narrows our perception and enjoyment of the diversity of the wonders of the unknown.

Cameroi wrote:>never trust the word"never" -snip-

Do i trust you here or not?

Verdant Haven wrote:big snip

I agree with you on all accounts. I find the early voting vs. Nov 3rd voting dynamic to be interesting. Let's say that by Nov. 3rd, the yet-to-be-formed Hurricane Theta smashes into Florida, greatly depressing turnout and thus widely throwing the state to Biden, just as a freak blizzard in bearing down across Ohio and Pennsylvania, similarly depressing turnout and throwing those states to Biden by very large margins. And say that by then, the pandemic is sufficiently bad to force some people to stay home, and there's Wisconsin, etc.

And that would also be in the tradition of 2020: trying to extract silver linings or ultimate good out of concretely terrible situations that all happen at once, everywhere. In all seriousness, though: it would now be for the best for the Democrats if turnout on election day itself were greatly, greatly depressed, in a twisted sort of way. Since a disproportionate number of mail-in and early voting is by Democrats (and therefore ostensibly for Democratic candidates up and down the ballots), the best thing would be if that segment were the largest proportion of the overall casted votes, i.e. if voting were to be much, much lower than expected on Election Day itself. In the most innocuous and least damaging of scenarios, a nice snowstorm across the Ohio and Pennsylvania, say, along with lingering effects and lake effect snow in Michigan would probably be marvelous for bringing down the number of people willing to go out and vote.

Texas would, of course, be a marvelous addition to the blue roster, from the Democrats' point of view. I have my doubts, but if it does, that will move things into a landslide direction, by modern standards. There are a number of states that, individually, don't have to be won by Biden in order for him to win, but that each almost must be won by Trump in order for him to win. If the polls are correct, the Electoral College is no where near favorable enough to save him this time around. At this point, it looks like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin will revert back to voting Democrat, which alone would turn the presidential race. Yet, it also looks like Biden has some degree of a chance with North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Arizona, any and all of which would be padding on a larger victory, assuming the three "Midwest" states revert. And if one of them does not, then there appear to be chances to make that up with the secondary group, perhaps.

Shalotte wrote:I have three, hard-learnt mantras that feel relevant here:

1) Never trust anybody.
2) People are always more stupid than you give them credit for.
3) Things can always get worse.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but so far I haven't been.

Sorry. I'll resume my usual quips next time.

Thank you for describing that big post as optimistic. I was aiming for neutral realism, so if that sounded optimistic to you, that's a good thing.
:-)

And yes, it can always get worse. That's why I have been preparing in the event that it all goes wrong, and that we have Trump again, McConnell again, a 6-3 Kingdom of God SCOTUS, and another decade of state-level GOP control and gerrymandered majorities. And that's just the intragovernmental state of things. Add social problems, the ongoing pandemic, the increasingly obvious and more extreme climate change, etc. etc., and things are just...swell.

Cat-herders united

Did anyone notice the election in Bolivia?

Cat-herders united wrote:Did anyone notice the election in Bolivia?

Yup! MAS win again

Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and 4 othersOuter Bele Levy Epies, Cat-herders united, Middle Barael, and Nation of ecologists

Cat-herders united wrote:Did anyone notice the election in Bolivia?

Indeed. I am glad to see Bolivia was able to successfully execute the democratic process after a period of such turmoil, military involvement, and uncertainty. From the numbers and stories I've seen so far, it seems like it was a legitimate (and very clear) result, and that all involved are accepting it appropriately.

Chile also rocking it in the political news from South America, with a massively successful vote for a new constitution to be written to replace the old Pinochet one, and for it to be done by a body made up entirely of specifically elected representatives.

I wish both of them the best - this is a bit of good political news for sure, and I hope the US will be following it with our own next week.

Cat-herders united wrote:Did anyone notice the election in Bolivia?

Yeah, and did you guys hear about the New Zealand elections?

Labour won with the greatest landslide since 1951 (and the electoral system was completely different back then)

Jacinda Ardern is back, yay!!!

Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and 5 othersOuter Bele Levy Epies, Terrabod, Cat-herders united, McClandia Doge 2, and Nation of ecologists

Nation of ecologists

Middle Barael wrote:Yeah, and did you guys hear about the New Zealand elections?

Labour won with the greatest landslide since 1951 (and the electoral system was completely different back then)

Jacinda Ardern is back, yay!!!

Honestly, I'm not that excited. What I would have preferred is that the Labour Party did not win a majority of the seats and was forced to form a coalition with the Green Party, because NZ First lost all of their seats, so that wasn't gonna work this time around. Now, they can go run amok and who nows what they're gonna do?

Nation of ecologists wrote:Honestly, I'm not that excited. What I would have preferred is that the Labour Party did not win a majority of the seats and was forced to form a coalition with the Green Party, because NZ First lost all of their seats, so that wasn't gonna work this time around. Now, they can go run amok and who nows what they're gonna do?

Labour is great, so I’m now afraid about them running amok

I do though agree with you that I hope that they still form an alliance with the Greens, and maybe Maori too

But ultimately I feel this is a great win for New Zealand, the environment, and social democracy worldwide!

Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and 3 othersCat-herders united, McClandia Doge 2, and Nation of ecologists

Sorry I keep on forgetting to do riddle of da week. I keep getting wrapped up in school work. But here is this weeks riddle.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

McClandia Doge 2 wrote:Sorry I keep on forgetting to do riddle of da week. I keep getting wrapped up in school work. But here is this weeks riddle.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

Easy, but I dom't wamt to spoil it for the othems

McClandia Doge 2 wrote:What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The Romans might disagree with your answer ;-)

McClandia Doge 2 wrote:Sorry I keep on forgetting to do riddle of da week. I keep getting wrapped up in school work. But here is this weeks riddle.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

My mind went immediately down the toilet.

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I'm doing some digging through my university library resources looking for secondary sources, and I somehow managed to find a peer reviewed article about how mother nature is a man. I guess someone was under the impression that "mother nature" was something more than a common phrase, and was so against that premise that they wrote an entire properly-cited academic article about how that's incorrect. And then a whole panel of supposed experts on the subject read said article and decided it had a point. Then, it somehow found it's way into my university's database, and popped up while I was searching for articles on 15th century religious influence on fiction. Academia is weird.

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Terrabod wrote:I'm cr*p at RPing - but I know you've been interested in reviving that part of Forest life for some time, so I wish you the best of luck with it!

I've got back into Battletech/Mechwarrior, via Steam, after a couple decades off. Forest is my favorite terrain, what with the cover and evasion bonus. Plus, who doesn't like absurd robot tanks?

Middle Barael wrote:Perhaps we could do a light-RP or even non-personal RP (think International Incidents), perhaps focused on some sort of Environmental Alliance or something, since Forest *is* supposed to be the Environmentalist region.

:|

[sprints to open space]

[executes Deciduous From Above attack]

[rolls 2d6]

Critical hit! Two trees planted.

[chills in 70 ton mecha hammock, reading The Art of Forestry also by Sun Tzu]

4 hours ago: Areulder ceased to exist.

30 minutes earlier, one of my puppets found the last Areulder card that was found before the CTEing.

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Nattily dressed anarchists on bicycles wrote:

:|

[sprints to open space]

[executes Deciduous From Above attack]

[rolls 2d6]

Critical hit! Two trees planted.

I wasn’t exactly thinking of D&D at the time, but now it sounds cool. Is homebrew allowed? If so, I am totally gonna play my Water-Genasi Symbiont

Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and 3 othersOuter Bele Levy Epies, The young ur, and Nation of ecologists

Canaltia wrote:
I'm doing some digging through my university library resources looking for secondary sources, and I somehow managed to find a peer reviewed article about how mother nature is a man. I guess someone was under the impression that "mother nature" was something more than a common phrase, and was so against that premise that they wrote an entire properly-cited academic article about how that's incorrect. And then a whole panel of supposed experts on the subject read said article and decided it had a point. Then, it somehow found it's way into my university's database, and popped up while I was searching for articles on 15th century religious influence on fiction. Academia is weird.

While there are numerous valid criticisms and analyses that can be performed under the auspices of gender theory, it does also sometimes seem to be a field that draws some... eccentric perspectives, shall we say.

When I was in grad school, we read a number of articles for a particular class related to the influence of identity and gender in our field. Most were quite solid, but one author in particular launched into a multi-page rant about how something represented the male ego in cogito ego sum, and how that ego was the source of all the problems we faced.

For those who don't know, the correct word is ergo - it's cogito ergo sum. The whole class rolled their eyes at that one.

Cameroi, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, and 7 othersLord Dominator, Turbeaux, Canaltia, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, The young ur, and Nation of ecologists

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