Shireroth

Read game theory into Diplomacy? You realize that Diplomacy is totally 100% about game theory, right? (if you honestly don't I could try to explain, but it might be boring unless you already understand the concepts involved) And that game theory is fun? Also, where did I do this cardboard crown ethi...

This annoys me for the same reason Erik's flag stuff annoys me. I'm all for coming up with a devious plan to get what you want. And if you have a lot of support, I'm all for you using the unofficial democratic system called rebellion to kick out a Kaiser disliked by most of the population and instal...

I WOULD like to see some people slap something together in a month. At least then we'd have a word for "hello" or "island" or any number of a million words we'd like to say. If the people that have a strong background in conlanging ever want to make a contribution, they can join right in. Well, par...

Nick's language project was a farce anyway. It was obvious from day 1 that guy wasn't going to deliver. I'm currently in the process of trying to hijack and publically nationalize the idea so, if you want to get involved in work on the language, now is a pretty good time to be collecting your thoug...

Drama like what happened yesterday with Mike and CJ, plus a feeling that the community is becoming too troll-intensive, plus boredom. And what's keeping me around are nifty things like Nick's language project and the possibility of a new forum style, not to mention all the cool non-troll people I ge...

Uh oh, I think I just started the micronational equivalent of a suicide pact.

...why?

I hear you - I'm thinking pretty heavily of leaving, myself. But I told myself I'd always wait a week after getting that feeling, to make sure it wasn't a spur of the moment thing, and so far that's been good advice and kept me around. Also, you know what's the worst thing? Worse than all of those o...

All very nice, except that by the end of the teasing of CJ, we were trying to get him to explain the logical underpinnings of his assertion, and he not only refused to, he ran away in a fit. His exact response was "You know what, go to hell all of you". So are we supposed to hate CJ for holding dis...

That does allow you to distract from the real issue, which is that CJ agrees with this completely moronic notion, and that you support him. Your defense seems to be that a large part of the world agrees, therefore it must be okay. Look. Do I think CJ is wrong? Yes (and so far I'm the only person on...

So what are you trying to prove? That there are very few people who genuinely think homosexuality is evil? Do you really want to go on the record as saying that? Or do you agree that I'm basically right in saying it's a large part of the world population, but you want to score some cheap shots and d...

Yeah, I worked so hard to misrepresent them that I made sure to link back to exactly where I was getting them.

Chris: Not sure you're interpreting the article the same way I am. If I understand it right, it's saying that Malliki should be more tolerant of me not be willing to hate people who disagree with me as much as he does. Malliki: So are you saying that these people think homosexuality is totally moral...

@Hesam: learn to read. The Kaiseress at least understood what I was saying. @Everyone, especially those who can read: Tolerate Tolerence - "Don't demand that your allies be equally extreme in their negative judgments of everything you dislike!" Meanwhile, I still see exactly one person who's actuall...

I know I'm a dick, but only to people who deserve it and those that defend them. You know, if being against homosexuality makes you deserve it, well, that's fifty-four percent of Americans, fifty-six percent of Europeans, the overwhelming majority of Middle Easterners , and a large chunk of the dev...

Being a homosexual is unnatural and evil. Homosexuality is not "unnatural", it happens in nature all the time. Wikipedia sums up the evidence as "a new review made in 2009 of existing research showed that same-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across specie...

Is Shyriath's the one in Erik's sig now? If so, the green stripe is too dark and you can't really see it against the blue.

Mike: Yo Scottster Scott: Hey Mike. Mike: Yay for CJ bringing some intrigue back to Shireroth. Scott: Howso? Haven't been online in like, two hours, which is forever Shireroth time. Mike: Apparently gays are unnatural and evil. Scott: Where's this? Mike: said on #micronations, reposted for amusemen...

I told Erik I'd support the old flag, but my favorite old flag variants are still Bill's and CJ's. But Shyriath's is at least better than the old old one.

The Kaiseress' is good, but I really like CJ's wide bars.

I'm disappointed (especially since you only had another week or two to go before making it ten full years! it's like those cops who get killed right before they retire!) but No One Leaves Micronationalism so I look forward to seeing you again sometime. I recently deleted all of your AIM and MSN cont...

Re: colors - back when we had the original discussion, a lot of people agreed the idea of encoding our foundation date in the flag color (ie using R:4 G:24 B:200 for the blue) was pretty cute. Other than that, I really like the colors in that flag of Bill's I posted above. The brown actually looks o...

All the houses still have their old Duchy flags, complete with banners that say "DUCHY OF X". We can do better. I'm willing to make every house a shield similar to that of Kalir , but I need their permission first. I'd have fun choosing designs and slogans for everyone (I already sketched one for Mo...

Okay, here's a fleshing-out of the proposal I made before: The two biggest complaints with the House system as it stands are: 1. (from the opponents) People lose areas they are used to controlling; for example, Kildare loses some of its core lands, Hyperborea loses its historical association with Bj...

There's a guilloche add-on for things!?!?
I must investigate this! Thank you!

Pretty neat (and very official looking) - although if it's layered and you can change the layers I think a more complicated guilloche would do you good.

I agree with Erik.

I put 79 because I was using the ASC calendar and it corresponded to when the account was registered (except I think I added 20 or 30 or something so he wouldn't be a hundred years old).

The font I use can't make slashes.

If you send me a draft of what sort of things you'd like, I'll make it official.

After seeing this, I would like you help in making a Safìrian passport. I'm not really up for doing the whole thing again, but if you have Photoshop or another decent paint program you can do it yourself. For the background, you'll want to use a Guilloche pattern (just google-image Guilloche and yo...