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Pleasantlandia

Thanks. How do you know if someone is in vacation mode? Are you just going by most recent government activity?

Pleasantlandia

"the capital of PleasantLandia has burned to the ground and caused riots throughout the country"

Booyakasha!

This seems to be a very good way to reduce the size of government and of the bureaucracy, and to lower the tax rate.

Hola all.

Pleasantlandia

I ain't no hollabackgirl?

Virtuous greed

Or are you? And more importantly, what's a hollabackgirl?

Pleasantlandia

What, you're not into high culture?

Pleasantlandia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjkth6BRRY

The song is actually quite good whenever Gwen isn't "singing."

Pleasantlandia

2 hours ago: The Rubik's Cube Solving Nation of The Anti Commi Clan ceased to exist.

And then there were 14.

Virtuous greed

A day of mourning sweeps our nation.

Don't worry. Anti Commi Clan was here when the region was founded and he has been in and out at various times. We haven't seen the last of him.

Pleasantlandia

Are there any plans on growing the region, recruiting new members, that sort of thing?

Post by Dagnia suppressed by Fukkireta.

Yes, there have been plans for a while, but something always seems to come up in the personal lives of one or more of us postpones these plans. We're not the Proletariat Coalition where all the nations are run by teenage wannabe revolutionaries living off their daddies' trust funds or off the government and where we have a ton of free time on our hands. We have jobs or classes (pretty often both).
But even now, we are better off than we were several months ago. There were less than 10 for a while. I would say that the region is very slowly but surely staggering back to life. With some good management, hard work and time we will be back to our former glory.
A few people seem to have suggested getting a new offsite forum or improving the current one as a way to attract new nations. I see nothing wrong with the current one, we just need to use it.
As for recruitment telegrams, I encourage everyone to send them. Let's not bother with an official recruitment team or a standard recruitment telegram until we are particularly big. If you are trekking through a sinker/feeder region, and see a nation (particularly a new one) that would fit in well here, send a short telegram. It might pay to keep it very short, no need for a big one. I've noticed that when you found a new nation, you are inundated with a ton of tl;dr telegrams which I would just ignore. One line, like "Join Galts Gulch, the non-crappy region" may suffice.

Pleasantlandia

So, has anyone been sending out recruitment telegrams? (I haven't)

Virtuous greed

No unfortunately.

Pleasantlandia

Fortes fortuna adiuvat.

Virtuous greed

Indeed it does. Although I prefer "Chance Favours the Prepared Mind."

Pleasantlandia

Sure, but that's a bit tautological, as it's really "Chance favors the mind best prepared to cope with/exploit chance" (chance being defined as random events or events outside ones control).

Virtuous greed

It is a bit tautological, but I fancy myself a wordsmith and one of my eccentricities is attempting to find the most optimal phrasings of things.

Post by Pleasantlandia suppressed by Fukkireta.

Pleasantlandia

Heh. One of my hobbies is mutating (and fixing) memes, which is certainly related to "finding the most optimal phrasings" of things. My previous nation motto was "Live free or die trying." I've now changed it to "To each according to his ability," a mutation (and fix) of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." (which really was just commies breaking the natural "To each according to his ability."). (the sexist pronoun in the original, and in the fixed meme is a nice free plus)

I would have worded your meme as "Fortune favors the superior intellect." It doesn't have exactly the same semantic as yours, but has certain stylistic advantages (in my opinion). One should never underestimate the value of style, especially as we live in a world overflowing with stupid superficial people who will discount or accept a meme almost solely upon this (retarded) criteria.

Post by Pleasantlandia suppressed by Fukkireta.

Pleasantlandia

If you're interested in my work (and who isn't?), there is also my forum sig:
Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom to trade, freedom to live, freedom in general. Any questions?
Those who would exchange liberty for prosperity, security, equality, or comfort will, inevitably, lose everything.
There are two kinds of people in the world: egoists, and unenlightened egoists i.e. egotists.
The new and improved Ingsoc: "ignorance⟷strength freedom⟷slavery Islam⟷peace Communism⟷Individualism."
You and I are not equal. Deal with it.

And who could ever forget the lovable
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Big Bunny is watching you.

Pleasantlandia

If you have some time and are looking for some interesting reading material, I suggest my contributions to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=133438 (of course, it is best to read the whole thing, from beginning to end in order to truly appreciate it)

Pleasantlandia

You can also see the correctly formatted soviet bunny in my current forum sig.

Virtuous greed

You sir(or madame) are quite entertaining. I'm quite the fan of your stylized rendition of my meme, and I think I may adopt it. At first it sounds crass to the observer, but hopefully it will lead to a soul searching discussion of just what intellect is. In most cases it won't and the person will be trolled, but that's always fun too.

Virtuous greed

Also I love your responses on that thread, good stuff my friend. If you ever want to get a debate going or are taking on a horde of lefties just let me know and I'll provide cover fire.

Post by Pleasantlandia suppressed by Fukkireta.

Pleasantlandia

Thanks. Leftists always seem to come in hordes. They are rather reminiscent of zombies, now that I think about it.

I'm developing a bit of an adverse reaction to the term and even the concept of "trolling." It seems whenever a leftist is short on arguments (not at all an uncommon occurrence) but is for whatever reason reluctant to resort to the leftist's typical practice of r-bombing, he'll be as creative as the leftist brain is capable of being and begin charging you with trolling.

As for the intellect, I'd propose that it is (more or less tautologically) the capacity to construct within ones ego a model of the universe and existence which sufficiently approximates reality, thereby facilitating productive decision making.

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