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Region: Refugia
i never really thought about how light and shadows would work in 4d. a lot of stuff we take for granted would be really different
Aephony, Voinarx
Attention plebians! we hath establish'd our new sovereign magocracy of lemuria! any attempt of interference with our fair nation shall beset with undead of all kind! Stayeth hence from the arcane lay lines and thither shall beest nay future conflict f'r thee and thine peoples!
The Blue Fire, Voinarx, Pantumaca, Penocamptt
nobody mess with these guys until Z-Day
The Blue Fire
Post by M Yass suppressed by a moderator.
oh no, such a scathing critique, how will we ever recover?
Chacapoya, Araine
Banned M Yass via RRS 2d for having a nation page that expresses misogyny.
Chacapoya, Taino Island, Typica, New Atlantic, Sempera, Antrania
Hello everyone, did you know that there is a piece of music that is completely silent? It's called 4'33 by John Cage, and I think you might be listening to it now.
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Araine, Sempera, The Blue Fire
Yes, and there are several covers of it, including an abridged version by John Denver entitled "The Ballad of Richard Nixon"
Delta Vega Iv, Sempera, The Blue Fire
Wow...these guys do realize a good chunk of our nations could steamroll them and not even bat an eye, right?
Voinarx
Just finished Le Guin's Powers, the last book in her Annals of the Western Shore. Hard to describe in word, but i do think that's an emotional book. I would have thought young adults novel would be more sanitised, but seeing pain, grief, love, and fear in its raw state are something else.
Really great books, and the novels in the series could be read as a stand-alone, since they aren't really a sequel. Loved Le Guin's writings.
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Estebere, The Blue Fire
I believe the Cannibalism Act in the GA should be repealed, for the reasons stated in the Repeal currently at vote. Is there anyone here who believes otherwise? And if so, why?
Taino Island
What? we can't just let people eat other people are you insane or?
Delta Vega Iv, Pantumaca
Somebody PM me to repeal and had very good points but honestly I think it's only fair to let people consent to being eaten. We don't kink shame in Pantumaca.
Delta Vega Iv
yeah but that could very quickly be exploited. "sign this paper to "consent" to me eating your leg or else im gonna break it" that sorta thing yknow?
Delta Vega Iv
Part 3. Consent ... Consent is void if obtained by coercion,... I think the target is fine.
The argument of the repeal borders on rambling and seems to have nothing beyond, "Cannibalism bad because maybe disease".
Delta Vega Iv, Araine, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, The Western Republic Of Eastern Japenn
oh ok, i hadnt actually had time to read the full bill, just the summary, in that case yeah i see no reason not to allow this
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, The Blue Fire
They argue about consent of children, or substituting the consent of their parents or guardians instead.
I don't get why that's relevant though. I would expect that any legal accommodation for non-consent would be explicitly defined; for which it gives the one emergency-only condition.
If the repeal is asking if a guardian might legally consent in place of their child who can't or won't, the text of the target seems to me a very clear and unambiguous NO.
Maybe the Simone thinks they should be able to?
Frankly, I don't really think the repeal bill needs to be made, at all. All the target does is place restrictions on cannibalism in nations that allow cannibalism in the first ability to intervene[/I] because there is no state to require to enforce the rules. Plus, any reasonable additions can be made because the authors of the target made it clear (at least to me) that the World Assembly has the power to, and I quote GA691§6:
The main two arguments in the repeal bill are parents giving consent for children who can't (which has already been covered by Typica) and the spread of disease due to consumption and/or distribution, which people are allowed to make restrictions to under GA691§6b and §c.
Frankly, I believe we should be able to amend bills previously passed, because:
If a bill is passed that restricts freedoms, trade, etc., that provides a burden, both economic and political, that would be needed to maintain the resolution. Economic burdens are costly, political burdens are dangerous when not supported. Therefore, when given the opportunity, a large amount of states would likely choose, when given the chance, to lax laws leading to a decreased burden rather than maintain costly and/or unpopular laws, even if they're just waiting for a new WA bill that will put them back on that burden. Plus, the WA is [I]highly[/I] bureaucratic, and it takes a long time for bills to get through the often turbulent path towards getting voted on in the first place. If and when a resolution dealing with something that is actually dangerous (i.e. cannibalism and food borne plague), a large number of nations would likely err on the side of dropping regulations that are expensive to maintain or take too much freedom away from their citizens, to reduce the burden the government (or society) has to uphold. Considering it could take years in-game for a bill to be drafted, reviewed, and voted on, and many nations would retract legislation during that time, even if not a majority or sizable minority of nations, repealing bills like that would be a quick way to undo literally all of the process we've made using that bill and would cause the problem the bill was addressing to affect WA members again. Instead, if you amend a resolution, there is no "dead time" wherein regulations get dropped, but the change still occurs anyway.
(and before you start arguing with me, this is talking about the role-play aspect of things [duh] because that's literally all that NationStates is.[/I])
Typica, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
also may I bring to y'all's attention https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=the_niagara_1697363041
not the best writing but definitely a good idea
Typica
The target resolution says Person-sourced meat may not be produced absent the affirmative and notarised written consent of every person from whom it was produced. Parents arent the person from whom the meat was produced, so per the resolution, they cant consent to its production.
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
Hi all, hows your day been?
Typica, Narwhal
I was feeling a bit silly goofy right now, so I decided that, instead of simply ensuring people couldn't refuse to serve gay people, I would create many, many businesses that would be exclusively for gay people and lesbians. However, the response I got did not match my level of silly goofiness: "The seats in the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals." Meanwhile, when I'm not feeling silly goofy and am just trying to create more diverse children shows so that kids grow up to understand, support, and be kind to the LGBTQ+ community, the response I get is: "Children's TV shows are having a gay old time." WHY CAN'T THE RESULTS EVER MATCH MY MOOD AND MY REASONING BEHIND THE DECISION?!
Typica, Sempera, The Blue Fire, The Western Republic Of Eastern Japenn, Penocamptt
I fully agree. The only reason we can't is because of the way the game is coded it's impossible to do so and so we always need these repeal and replace bills.
But this is also why we've traditionally encouraged in Refugia that people don't vote for imperfect proposals even if they broadly align with what you want - unlike real life it's much easier to vote against and wait till it's had those additions made than it is to pass it and hope a repeal and replace happens.
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, The Blue Fire, The Western Republic Of Eastern Japenn
Three pages away from Page 1,000.
Araine, Liphia, Tiralta, Arkenbeeren, Sempera, The Blue Fire
I have no idea what is going on here
Estebere, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Boxiia
i don't think anyone does, but that's what makes it fun!
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Tiralta, Estebere, Uwuguaya, Sempera, Boxiia
real answer: the results are specially crafted to be funny
fake answer: the results are actually just anti-government propaganda half the time and you should make an actual list of what happens
Delta Vega Iv, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire
Random thought: Why is it that we call narwhals the unicorns of the sea? Why not unicorns the narwhals of the land? After all, only one is real And I dont care which was discovered first!
Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Ethierys, Boxiia, Pantumaca
Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
Can someone explain to me how the WA bills work? Ive just been pressing the funny buttons for fun. I read the FAQ but they make it seem like if you dont comply with what you voted with, your nation gets nuked. Considering Im still standing, Im confused on the actual implications of voting. Is it simply for the sake of elaborate worldbuilding? Also I repealed the cannibalism thing. I gotta draw the line. We have chicken in the fridge, Harold
Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
If I'm understanding your question, you need not worry about compliance. I've never read the FAQ for the WA, but if that's the impression from the wording, then yes, sounds like some elaborate roleplay stuff. The only true implications are some (usually) minor stat changes, if the bill calls for that. I almost never notice.
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, Sempera
Somehow, I ended up taking this as Scotland is the most wonderous nation(Or whatever its categorized) in Europe. On that note, why is it that the UK got both fictional creatures of Europe?
Also, if you really stretched it, you could say that a unicorn is a small horned land whale.
Typica, The Pacific Northwest, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
Thank you! That answers it
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
pretty sure narwhals are real too so idk where you're getting the "only one is real" thing
[spolier]pretty obviously /j[spoiler]
Liphia, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
file:///home/chronos/u-98451d540a1f5ebd251281ebb48eb2fb089f02b5/MyFiles/Downloads/82en43.jpg
It's a link to a meme I created that sums up my country.
regrettably, that is a link to a location in your computer's files. we would have to have access to your computer to see it, which would be pretty cool (but not for you).
Typica, Tiralta, Pantumaca
Upload it to imgur.io or another public photo sharing site and put up the link here.
Aephony, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
Ik this is old but THINK i have aphantasia too my dreams or almost the same as this
Tiralta
Aphantasia isn't vivid dreams, it's the inability to "picture" things in your head while you're awake. You might have aphantasia and see nothing in your dreams (like Araine) or have aphantasia and have vivid dreams (like me) though!
Araine
just reminding y'all that I exist :)
Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Tuluni, Sempera, The Blue Fire
Hi everyone, hope you've been having a good day recently. Along with that, let's revive this RMB!
Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Aephony, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Silliy
Good day friends and members of the NationStates community! We are proud to present the September version of our foreign affairs update, which can be read in full here.
www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1945475
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
You too!
[spoiler=*AUTISTIC SCREECHING*]AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-[/spoiler]
The Blue Fire, Boxiia, Penocamptt
*places esoteric relics about the room, then carves symbols into the walls at the four cardinal points, finishing by sprinkling various herbs and oils about the earth*
There. That ritual usually revives most things.
Typica, Tiralta, Estebere, The Blue Fire, Theadstheadia, Agudo Island
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YOU FOOL! You're [I]obviously[/I] supposed to do it in a [I]hexagonal room[/I], because hexagon is bestagon and... *precedes to ramble incoherent things about the color gray*
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Silliy
Well I think we all know who to blame for the zombie apocalypse later this month
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Rraahhr, grey is spelled with an E !
BLARHG wort wort garble!
Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
...Well, this sure is gonna give us more than we've bargained for
Time to cancel Trick-or-Treating again
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
This is typical hexagonal chauvinism. Simple four-sided rooms were good enough for my crone-auntie's spells, and they're darn well good enough for me!
Oh sure, blame the friendly neighborhood necromancer for all the local undead...
But...but, the candy
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Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Jokes aside, just checking in on what are y'alls opinion on the recent security council proposal in the WA???
Delta Vega Iv, The Blue Fire
Well, we don't want a candy-borne zombie plauge on our hands, do we?
Don't worry, I'm sure we could keep the Admin Tower lobby's candy bowl though
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire
Well its obviously not Ndays fault or we wouldve had a Zday following February as well. What else could it possibly be? Are you suggesting the sudden drastic uptick in the undead population merely a week after the local necromancer starts reviving things is a coincidence?
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire
hold on, we're on page 999 now?
Typica, The Blue Fire, Boxiia, Tay-Mania
It seems like a mockery of the SC. I voted against.
Typica, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Last poll: We all glide across the sea on the back of a majestic dinosaur. When we arrive in Wodsustein, people tell us they're worried about a sickness that has been spreading. What should we do?
I can't wait for the followup to this poll
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur
Yep.
Chacapoya, Typica, Jazur
Welp...your ritual technically worked. You revived my steak...
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire
counting this comment, we have 14 comments left until page 1000, at which point we will sacrifice the poster of the second comment on that page to hopefully avoid a zombie apocalypse.
if this comes as a surprise to you, remember to read your damn Refugia memos. You knew this was coming, or should have at least. We've been talking about it for -3.674 x 10^-38 seconds.
Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Boxiia
Nooooo.... Don't sacrifice the poster!
Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Well, what are we supposed to do then? Just let the apocalypse happen?
Delta Vega Iv, Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire
I will have a follow up tomorrow! Unfortunately the sickness of "brain block" and "it's dark and cold and I must ignore the world" has got me this week XD
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire
This actually sounds like a good concept for a horror film or book. EvilCandyCorp taints their new batch of Halloween candy with some sort of mind control virus. And only a group of plucky misfit kids know the truth. But to get to the HQ of CandyCorp, they have to travel through the fantastical world of Candyland. And then it's the board game.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting. Correlation does not imply causation. Now please, I'm very busy trying to parse this new book I bought, "How to Make a Voodoo Zombie".
Now that's a discomfiting thought. Did it speak?
Chacapoya, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
What if instead of being a horror film it's a Mitchells VS the Machines style coming of age where seven elementary/middle school kids stop CandyCorp? It could be the Refugia version of Mitchells VS the Machines. And, just to top it off, the leader of CandyCorp is an ancient reincarnation of some evil wizard, because why not, and Candyland can be like their domain.
Portmanteau, The Blue Fire
Wha- Why?
Y'all, my national animal is the puppy, and on my homepage it says that they "run freely through the nation's many lush forests." That sounds nice and all, but we have a world class environment, which means world class animal diversity, which means WORLD CLASS PREDATORS!!! Poor babies!!!!!!!!!! :(
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
I tried to encourage women to become scientists and the response I got was "Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines"??? Isn't that a little sexist???
Delta Vega Iv, Typica
plot twist: they are the world class predators.
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
... kinda wish it was dark and cold here ngl
Tiralta, The Blue Fire
ESPECIALLY the chihuahuas! They're the reason why 9.7% of my people die in the wilderness every year! *shivers*
Typica, The Blue Fire, Ethierys
Seriously, my people either die of old age or to wild chihuahuas. There is no third option. And you have almost a 10% chance of it being chihuahuas.
Portmanteau
It didn't, just tried to eat me with a nonexistent mouth
Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Post self-deleted by Chacapoya.
page 1000 :3
Typica, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Estebere, The Blue Fire, Ansgar, Silliy
PARTY TIME
Chacapoya, Typica, Liphia, Jazur, Ansgar
Wooo! 🎉
Also, you don't want zombies do you?
Typica, Tiralta
I love the zombies. I will cure them and care for them.
Chacapoya, Typica, Jazur, Agudo Island
After a week of touching grass a little bit more I have finally added the next instalment of our adventure! Sorry for disappearing a little there 😅
https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Jazur
hooray :3
Tiralta
i mean these scientist people created the dinos, what if they messed up and brung back a virus with em'?
edit : i don't mean this in a "science is bad" way or a rude way
Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
[spoiler=wait zombies?]raargh... bluhrugh![/spoiler]
Typica, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
We made it! Happy 1000 pages everyone, and may we hope for a thousand more!
Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Nine hundred ninety nine pages of regional message board posts...
Nine hundred ninety nine pages of messages...
Post one down, meme it around, a thousand and one pages of regional message board pages!
Chacapoya, Liphia, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Voinarx
Page 1000!
Chacapoya, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Silliy
Oh ma gad it's page 1000 that's so epic!
Typica, Liphia, Tiralta, Jazur
T h o u s a n d t h. P a g e .
Typica, Liphia, Tiralta, Jazur, Zabruhmoment Of Vehemesht, The Blue Fire, Boxiia
I've not seen "Mitchells vs the Machines", but I fully endorse your version. I think I was imagining something similar anyway, because the "horror" I was thinking of was more along the lines of those fun '80s movies like "Monster Squad" and "Hocus Pocus". Personally, I just love a good coming of age story. Sounds like I should check out that "Mitchells vs the Machines" movie.
This is just as unsettling as the last statement!
Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Congrats on 1000 pages!! Like a very heavy book!
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Page 1000! Page 1000 is real!
can we get much higher
so high
Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, Silliy
Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
And maybe also Chacapoya, since they were quoted in that post? I don't know. Ban Oldern, what is your take on this? Should the quoted AND the quoter be sacrificed, or only the quoter?
Chacapoya and I will have an epic battle to determine who gets sacrificed.
Chacapoya, Typica, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Bring it. I have a death laser and access to your nation's location on the map.
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Silliy
I think Tiralta should be sacrificed because they actually made the second post! Go Chacapoya!
Chacapoya, Tiralta
I have a nerf gun and I am not afraid to use it.
Chacapoya, Typica, Jazur, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Silliy
True, but that is one of MANY possible causes of sickness. Since fishermen are so essential and play a big part in daily life, they must have heard something somewhere, right? There's so many, one's bound to know something! (I say this as a Refugia newcomer who wasn't aware that there were polls like this, so take my opinion with a grain of salt and vote however you wish. No judgement in this region! :))
Tiralta, Penocamptt
[I]leans back slowly, fidgeting with prismaglyph in hand, speaks in voice partially emulating Agent 47[/I] I... heavily advise you two to not use extraneous weapons... I believe Mórríoghain would greatly prefer a battle of strength alone.
[spoiler=How to pronounce Mórríoghain]/mo:ːriː:ɔɣan/ or /moriəʔan/[/spoiler]
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Jazur, The Blue Fire
taylor swift has marked her spot in the 1000th page of the Refugia board
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, The Blue Fire, Silliy
Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.