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Dekks wrote:Hiya everyone

Hello! Hows your day been?

Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Survivors Win, Tiralta, Jazur, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya

Talmon wrote:-snip-

Super cool! Thanks for including me :) if it would help to have lore about my nation for any future issues, I'll try to finish up my Wikipedia-style factbook. Thank you again! Super sick

Tiralta, Talmon, Jazur, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya

Thanks for including me!

Uwuguaya

The Star Enpire wrote:here is a new eco-report: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1925435

Hi all!

As noted in the eco report here, we're currently meeting the numbers for our regional eco friendliness and environmental beauty goals, although we didn't hit them at the time we were hoping for.

The goals are part of the Refugia Revised Statutes which anyone can submit an amendment for.

If anyone would like to get into writing amendments for the RRS that can then be voted into regional law, all you need is to be a Member State! If you have an idea for loftier eco goals or any other change you think would be cool you can submit a proposed amendment by:

1. Posting a draft in a dispatch (you can optionally ask for edit suggestions here)

2. Finding another Member State to second your proposal

3. Once you're happy with your proposal and you have a second, ping Refuge Isle to set up a vote!

If you'd like to write any amendments and you'd like a little support in doing so, telegram me or send me a message on discord, I would absolutely love to see more people involved in this area of our region!

Chacapoya, Cheesy Tots, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Aephony, Talmon, Jazur, Tidelia, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Thingessness, Daymo

One thing that always confused me about NS is that the rudeness and niceness stat don't intervene with eachother at all

Araine, Everetunga-Hari, Tiralta, Jazur, Tidelia, Uwuguaya

Aephony wrote:One thing that always confused me about NS is that the rudeness and niceness stat don't intervene with eachother at all

I always think of it the same way Aussies, Scottish and Irish folks are: friendly, but you will be called a $!@&}%ing ™πÂ¥%[#

Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, St Leone, Aephony, Jazur, Tidelia, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Thingessness, Silliy

Tiralta wrote:I always think of it the same way Aussies, Scottish and Irish folks are: friendly, but you will be called a $!@&}%ing ™πÂ¥%[#

Sir! Why would you say that out loud, especially in public!

Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta, Jazur, Tidelia, Uwuguaya, Thingessness

Silliy wrote:Sir! Why would you say that out loud, especially in public!

But you see it's a term of endearment, especially in scotirealialand.

Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Thingessness, Silliy, Pantumaca

Tiralta wrote:I always think of it the same way Aussies, Scottish and Irish folks are: friendly, but you will be called a $!@&}%ing ™πÂ¥%[#

Speaking of that, it's funny to me that they, the Aussies use a word that is considered bad in any other English as something like "bro" or "mate"

Yea I'm talking about the c word

Edit, and something like typica said, endearment

I now wonder why that word though

Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya

Typica wrote:But you see it's a term of endearment, especially in scotirealialand.

ThIs Is AmErIcA!!1!11!!1!

Typica, St Leone, Tiralta, Jazur, Tidelia, Thingessness, B F B

B F B wrote:I am at coney island and my siblings are hitting me in the head with water bottles,

These are the sort of play-by-play live updates I crave.

Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Silliy

What should Refugian look like? I want to have both a romanized version of writing and a purely Refugian one.

Delta Vega Iv, Szalyland, Tidelia, Uwuguaya, Silliy

The Blue Fire wrote:What should Refugian look like? I want to have both a romanized version of writing and a purely Refugian one.

It should probably look like Accadian hieroglyphs

Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

HELLO FRIENDOS NEW COUNCILLOR TERM, NEW POLL

ARGUE PASSIONATELY FOR YOUR CHOICE IN THE RMB

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

Araine, St Leone, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

Tiralta wrote:HELLO FRIENDOS NEW COUNCILLOR TERM, NEW POLL

ARGUE PASSIONATELY FOR YOUR CHOICE IN THE RMB

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

where's blackare

Tiralta, Duneraven, Jazur, Uwuguaya

Penocampt wrote:where's blackare

Forever in our hearts <3

Chacapoya, Araine, Everetunga-Hari, Duneraven, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Penocampt, Theadstheadia

Delta Vega Iv wrote:It should probably look like Accadian hieroglyphs

i appreciate your suggestion, and accadian hieroglyphs look really cool. however, cuniform script, with all the sharp corners and straight lines, doesn't really fit into how i perceive Refugia. once again, good suggestion, but i will probably not be using it unless there's a specific reason to that i am unaware of.

Szalyland, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya

The Blue Fire wrote:What should Refugian look like? I want to have both a romanized version of writing and a purely Refugian one.

Maybe you could use symbols similar to the travel runes we use?

Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

The Blue Fire wrote:What should Refugian look like? I want to have both a romanized version of writing and a purely Refugian one.

If we want it to be a [I]purely[/I] Refugian script, it should probably have something to do with something natural. Ideas:

Curves instead of straight lines (there are way more curves than straight lines in nature, plus curves are more elegant)

Writable on a leaf (or a piece of bark if straight lines are acceptable)

Top-to-Bottom script orientation

Preferably made with something natural or easy to mass-produce without factories

Logographic/pictographic for universal-ish understanding

Also, if we're doing a language and the phonology isn't already done, may I do the phonology? I've made a few languages before and I could at least lay some groundwork for any changes anyone wants to make.

Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Theadstheadia

Silliy wrote:ThIs Is AmErIcA!!1!11!!1!

Um, actually, we are in Refugia🤓

Araine, St Leone, Tiralta, Jazur, Silliy, Pantumaca

Tidelia wrote:Super cool! Thanks for including me :) if it would help to have lore about my nation for any future issues, I'll try to finish up my Wikipedia-style factbook. Thank you again! Super sick

Thanks!

Tiralta, Jazur, Tidelia, Uwuguaya

Ban Oldern wrote:If we want it to be a [I]purely[/I] Refugian script, it should probably have something to do with something natural. Ideas:

Curves instead of straight lines (there are way more curves than straight lines in nature, plus curves are more elegant)

Writable on a leaf (or a piece of bark if straight lines are acceptable)

Top-to-Bottom script orientation

Preferably made with something natural or easy to mass-produce without factories

Logographic/pictographic for universal-ish understanding

Also, if we're doing a language and the phonology isn't already done, may I do the phonology? I've made a few languages before and I could at least lay some groundwork for any changes anyone wants to make.

that is more in line with how i perceive Refugia.

as for the phonology, would you like to work together on it? i have a consonant and vowel chart already, but since this is my first conlang i don't have much confidence that they're good ones. i could either post them here or telegram them to you tomorrow

Tiralta, Talmon, Jazur, Uwuguaya

Can't go wrong with Maxtopia >:)

Chacapoya, Typica, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, Silliy

The Blue Fire wrote:What should Refugian look like? I want to have both a romanized version of writing and a purely Refugian one.

Ou I like that idea, I think the script should looks something like sigils or magical symbols that has intricate designs, with curves and such idk

How about cursive version of it?

Delta Vega Iv wrote:It should probably look like Accadian hieroglyphs

I'm not sure, too harsh I feel like for refugia that has nature theme

Or it could be a sister language's script? What do you think

Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

oh yeah also i just looked at your suggestion again and i actually saw the last one this time

Ban Oldern wrote:Logographic/pictographic for universal-ish understanding

i think pictographic would be awesome but i'm not ready to put that amount of effort into a language. having fancy logographic characters would be cool (like japanese) but i'm not ready to make different symbols for every word.

however, while i was writing this a new idea came to me. what if each word was a small "unit" that was technically its own character, but had clues on how to pronounce it inside the character? i'm not good at describing things, so here is my poor example:

fo

od

it would be two rows for each character, and the next could be seperated by a line or curve or just space, like this

fo

od

ve

ry

ex

ell

ent

more sounds would just expand the word downward

of course, in the actual script, it wouldn't use latin letters and would look a lot more elegant, but i think i got the general idea across.

(i am very proud of this idea, i'm not normally very creative)

Szalyland wrote:How about cursive version of it?

could you elaborate? i'm not sure i understand

Jazur, Uwuguaya

The Blue Fire wrote:could you elaborate? i'm not sure i understand

The cursive version of the script..?

Uh I don't know how to elaborate though

Jazur

Szalyland wrote:The cursive version of the script..?

Uh I don't know how to elaborate though

so like another version of the script

i think we could fit that in

Ban Oldern wrote:Writable on a leaf (or a piece of bark if straight lines are acceptable)

we could have one version for leaf-writing (curvy and fancy) and one version for bark/maybe stone (more straight and hard)

(also sorry for the third quote Oldern you made very good suggestions)

Uwuguaya

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mC34NZLFkjljL7ZfEGmgJ3Lf4miHNOVzttvx3SAPHtw/edit?usp=drivesdk

this is the phonology so far (i had to romanize everything cause the IPA symbols aren't on my keyboard, basically everything sounds exactly how it looks) (also yes, nya is a real consonant and i am just putting it in there because it's funny)

also to do "oue", say "ue" (as in blue) and open your mouth a little wider while relaxing your lips

Jazur, Uwuguaya

ItÂ’s my friends birthday yayyy but I am trapped in the capital noooo

Typica, Araine, Szalyland, Aephony, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Theadstheadia, Silliy

B F B wrote:ItÂ’s my friends birthday yayyy but I am trapped in the capital noooo

Hoorayn't

Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

The Blue Fire wrote:so like another version of the script

i think we could fit that in

Yeah something like that, a cursive script that would be oftenly written with ink and quil

B F B wrote:ItÂ’s my friends birthday yayyy but I am trapped in the capital noooo

Still a birthday, so happy birthday Kingdom of B F B lol, hope you are having a good one

Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

The Blue Fire wrote:what if each word was a small "unit" that was technically its own character, but had clues on how to pronounce it inside the character? i'm not good at describing things, so here is my poor example:

fo

od

it would be two rows for each character, and the next could be seperated by a line or curve or just space, like this

fo

od

ve

ry

ex

ell

ent

more sounds would just expand the word downward

of course, in the actual script, it wouldn't use latin letters and would look a lot more elegant, but i think i got the general idea across.

(i am very proud of this idea, i'm not normally very creative)

Something like Hangul?

Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

New Atlantic wrote:Something like Hangul?

i guess it would be, yeah

sucks that i didn't come up with something unique

still want to use it though

Uwuguaya

Estebere wrote:Maybe you could use symbols similar to the travel runes we use?

could you provide me with a link/example? i'm having a hard time trying to find one.

Uwuguaya

Hello people!

I'll be doing some regular games and film nights in the Discord server (https://discord.gg/Rt6uGMsNpr) again, starting with a games night sometime next week - drop into the server for more info and to hang out!

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Jazur, Tidelia, Uwuguaya, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Thingessness, Silliy

The Blue Fire wrote:could you provide me with a link/example? i'm having a hard time trying to find one.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1887384

This should work, just scroll down to the bottom.

Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

Estebere wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1887384

This should work, just scroll down to the bottom.

i really like those

they'll make incredible inspiration, thank you

Typica, Jazur, Uwuguaya

The Blue Fire wrote:that is more in line with how i perceive Refugia.

as for the phonology, would you like to work together on it? i have a consonant and vowel chart already, but since this is my first conlang i don't have much confidence that they're good ones. i could either post them here or telegram them to you tomorrow

sure, I'd love to work with you on the phonology. I hope you don't mind me trying to apply "universals" created by some college guys back in... 2007? 2008?

(link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240751420_Universals_in_phonology (THIRD link I found, the first took forever to load and the second is locked behind a paywall. Commercialization of academia is a corruption of the field.))

The Blue Fire wrote:oh yeah also i just looked at your suggestion again and i actually saw the last one this time

i think pictographic would be awesome but i'm not ready to put that amount of effort into a language. having fancy logographic characters would be cool (like japanese) but i'm not ready to make different symbols for every word.

however, while i was writing this a new idea came to me. what if each word was a small "unit" that was technically its own character, but had clues on how to pronounce it inside the character? i'm not good at describing things, so here is my poor example:

fo

od

it would be two rows for each character, and the next could be seperated by a line or curve or just space, like this

fo

od

ve

ry

ex

ell

ent

more sounds would just expand the word downward

of course, in the actual script, it wouldn't use latin letters and would look a lot more elegant, but i think i got the general idea across.

(i am very proud of this idea, i'm not normally very creative)

I believe what you're describing is a [I]syllabary[/I]. Cherokee is a good example, as are the Kana scripts from Japanese.

We could do one that's both a logography and a syllabary. Chinese has one, for instance. And we don't need a lot of symbols for it either. There are a lot of conlangs (constructed languages) that do a lot with only a few basic pieces that mean very basic things (an example would be aUI or one I made, Nukun Ma'im (working on re-updating the conlang wiki page for it rn))

Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

you ever just forget you exist?

Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Theadstheadia

Microtastic wrote:you ever just forget you exist?

in a good way or a bad way?

Uwuguaya, Theadstheadia

Microtastic wrote:you ever just forget you exist?

Sometimes I remember I exist TOO much

Cheesy Tots, Liphia, Aephony, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Theadstheadia, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern

Microtastic wrote:you ever just forget you exist?

Like sleeping? Or unconscious sort of way?

Anyway, about the trading cards collection, I have now just realized that I don't even have the deck capacity to complete my Refugians cards collection, I'm going to have to expand it

Tiralta, Uwuguaya

Tiralta wrote:HELLO FRIENDOS NEW COUNCILLOR TERM, NEW POLL

ARGUE PASSIONATELY FOR YOUR CHOICE IN THE RMB

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

Baguo definitely

Tiralta

Tiralta wrote:Hello people!

I'll be doing some regular games and film nights in the Discord server (https://discord.gg/Rt6uGMsNpr) again, starting with a games night sometime next week - drop into the server for more info and to hang out!

Not familiar, give info

Ban Oldern wrote:sure, I'd love to work with you on the phonology.

are you on the refugia discord? i think it'd be a little bit easier and faster to communicate through that

(also i can actually post images there)

Typica, Uwuguaya

helo!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!1!11!1!!1 🥶🥶🥶🥶🤑🤑🤑

Typica, Silliy

Thingessness wrote:Not familiar, give info

If you open the link I posted you can join our Discord server where I'll be hosting film and game nights :D

At the moment I'm just running a whenisgood in there to find out when works for people next week!

Typica, Jazur, Uwuguaya

Just so you all know, it's Refugi, not Refugians :P

Typica, Araine, Liphia, Aephony, Tiralta, Duneraven, Jazur, New Atlantic, Tidelia, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Theadstheadia, Pantumaca

Tiralta wrote:If you open the link I posted you can join our Discord server where I'll be hosting film and game nights :D

At the moment I'm just running a whenisgood in there to find out when works for people next week!

already in discord :) just lazy to see

Tiralta

The Blue Fire wrote:also to do "oue", say "ue" (as in blue) and open your mouth a little wider while relaxing your lips

Can you share the IPA for "oue"? I'm not sure I get it

The Blue Fire wrote:are you on the refugia discord? i think it'd be a little bit easier and faster to communicate through that

(also i can actually post images there)

I am now.

Pantumaca wrote:Can you share the IPA for "oue"? I'm not sure I get it

I believe it's /ɨ/

Typica, Jazur, Uwuguaya, Pantumaca

Peruuuuu wrote:helo!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!1!11!1!!1 🥶🥶🥶🥶🤑🤑🤑

PERUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Tiralta, Jazur

Have you ever asked yourself the question "I wonder what will be happening in Refugia in September 2023?"

Have I got the answer for you!

plus free horse!

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1926897

The Star Enpire, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Jazur, The Merinos, Ullrani, Uwuguaya, Almander, The Blue Fire, Ansgar, Silliy, Daymo

I kind of wish NS issues were as frequent as or moreso than the (often considerably worse) issues that come up in the US. Having to wait 2.5 real-life scandal-making sessions to vote on whether or not a snowball counts as a cluster bomb is [I]outrageous[/I].

Typica, Aephony, Tiralta, Silliy, Daymo

I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

Tiralta, Uwuguaya

Estebere wrote:I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

the one dream I remember is that I lived in Tennessee except it replaced England geographically and we sailed over to Germany (the Netherlands apparently got annexed at some point) to blow up some stuff, then had some books we had to give to them and one of them was a kid's book with SpongeBob except like the sonic.exe thing

also Germany looked like Minecraft for some reason

if anyone knows how to get even a semblance of logic out of this lmk it's bothered me on-and-off for a year

EDIT: in case anyone is wondering, I have never lived in Tennessee.

Aephony, Tiralta, Estebere, Uwuguaya, Daymo

Estebere wrote:I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

forgetting my dreams.

Okay that was a joke, the actuall one was sledding in a school gym and everyone turning into cardboard! :D

[sub]why do i remember that clearly[/sub]

Typica, Aephony, Tiralta, Zabruhmoment Of Vehemesht, Estebere, Uwuguaya

Penocampt wrote:sledding in a school gym and everyone turning into cardboard! :D

I had something to say about Frozen and King Midas but I forgot it and I have no idea what it was even gonna be

Ban Oldern wrote:if anyone knows how to get even a semblance of logic out of this lmk it's bothered me on-and-off for a year

Honestly I have no idea how you even remember any of that, but that's really interesting. Well, it's weird but same difference when it comes to dreams

Tiralta, Uwuguaya

Estebere wrote:I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

I had a dream once where cars didnÂ’t come with their mirrors, you had to buy them separately.

I was baffled by this and spent the entire dream desperately trying to convince everyone that they used to just come with the mirrors already attached. No one believed me. The dream people just kept saying itÂ’s always been that way and that having the mirrors come with the car would be stupid.

I got gaslit by a dream.

Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya

Estebere wrote:I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

I have a vivid memory of a dream I had after glancing at a hello kitty book once. The dream starts of with this guy walking into a detectives office only for a mouse (the mouse would frequently change from a blue mouse to a gray one, or to a gray chihuahua, however he always had a sombrero on), to swivel towards him, jump up and point a gun at him. The guy is like, “wait a minute I thought we were friends?!” And then the mouse shoots him, and walks out the office to reveal the office is just a small room in an indoor playground. This is we’re that bear comes in because there was this animatronic that was just the bear but a robot for whatever reason, anyway they become friends and then not to long after this like drawing of a vintage doll appeared and she had like blond hair, (but she also had multiple appearances but j don’t rember) and she said some rhyme about whatever girl was closest to her she would like, take away or something, and she could show up in pictures or mirrors, so everyone started running even the people who weren’t girls, and then I finally was part of my own dream and I ran and wherever I went she was there so I had to turn around and at one point the girl from the ring was there and she got take in and that made me sad for whatever reason. RIP girl from the ring. (I have never watched the ring btw I have no idea why she was there)

Tiralta

IÂ’m back and IÂ’m trying to be more active, so I restarted my elections, so go to me Facebook of which ideology I should be

Uwuguaya

Estebere wrote:I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

I had a fully lucid dream once, where I was aware I was in a dream (I was having a meeting in my mum's bathroom and suddenly went "wait, this isn't real!). However I used to be a sleep talker and suddenly became really worried that this might also apply to sleep walking, so if I walked downstairs and out the door in my dream, maybe I'd do that in real life and it would be unsafe. So I wasted most of my lucid dream experience yelling at the top of my voice and flinging my arms about so my wife would wake me up if that translated to yelling and thrashing in real life, before deciding that I was too afraid of putting myself in an unsafe situation and waking myself up. Turns out I shouldn't have worried though.

I've had semi lucid dreams since, where I'm aware I'm dreaming but I'm not able to control the dream environment like I was in that dream, so I'm kinda annoyed my cautiousness wasted the opportunity.

Typica, Araine, Liphia, Aephony, New Atlantic, The Blue Fire, Ethierys

Post self-deleted by Aephony.

The problem with great dreams is that I wake up and desperately wish I could go back :c

Typica, Tiralta, Zabruhmoment Of Vehemesht, New Atlantic, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Ethierys

Post self-deleted by Zabruhmoment Of Vehemesht.

Thingessness wrote:I LOVE THAT TOO

me too lol

Estebere wrote:Potatoes are the best! Especially Hash Browns.

DefinitelyÂ

And aloo gobi is good too!

Tiralta

Inspired by all the dream talk, a weekend poll. Thanks for the inspiration Estebere!

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

Araine

I picked other on the poll because my one dream in recent memory had absolutely zero mention of any characteristics of mine besides my name, and so I have absolutely no clue whether or not my details were correct in the dream. Most of my "dreams" per se are just stories I think about before going to bed. I have 3 big ones at this point. None of those include me. Ever.

Tiralta, Uwuguaya

I often dream without being anyone at all. Just a passive viewer watching some forgettable drama.

Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:I picked other on the poll because my one dream in recent memory had absolutely zero mention of any characteristics of mine besides my name, and so I have absolutely no clue whether or not my details were correct in the dream. Most of my "dreams" per se are just stories I think about before going to bed. I have 3 big ones at this point. None of those include me. Ever.

That's cool! Even though I may daydream a little before I sleep in order to switch the old brain off, they don't seem to influence my dreams at all. I love how everyone's mind is so completely different!

Typica wrote:I often dream without being anyone at all. Just a passive viewer watching some forgettable drama.

That's also so interesting to me. Kinda then like watching a tv show?

Typica, The Blue Fire

The Pacific Northwest wrote:I got gaslit by a dream.

That's... actually, that's surprisingly realistic. Like, could be a weird Universe realistic. It would have to be a really weird universe, but still, technically possible.

B F B wrote:I have a vivid memory of a dream I had after glancing at a hello kitty book once.

I... I... I just... How do you even remember that dream? But also, that's kinda interesting. By the way, what's the ring?

Tiralta wrote:I've had semi lucid dreams since, where I'm aware I'm dreaming but I'm not able to control the dream environment like I was in that dream, so I'm kinda annoyed my cautiousness wasted the opportunity.

Yeah, that's unfortunate. But who knows, maybe you'll have one soon! Although, now that I think about it... do you remember what that meeting was even about?

Zabruhmoment Of Vehemesht wrote:And aloo gobi is good too!

Oh I've never had gobi, gimme a sec... Ok, searched it up, seems really interesting. Maybe I'll try it someday.

As for my dreams, the dream that inspired me was, as far as I could tell, fully auditiory, with me just squirming around in my bed trying to get comfortable. I think I was a student in a school and I was trying to sort out a grading problem but then it went into a full on conspiracy and... I also have an uncomfortably vivid memory of a naku weed like thing sprouting from the inside of my elbow. Weird. Lastly, I have a minor memory of spending a ton of time in a dream where I think I was in a magic school in a mountain with Ninjago/Monkey Kid esque styling.

Tiralta, The Blue Fire

I never dream.

Typica, Aephony, Tiralta

Estebere wrote:I had the weirdest dream tonight

On that note, what was your weirdest dream experience?

I honestly never remember my dreams. I get them for sure, but they slip my mind so easily. ItÂ’s pretty much like this:

Me: *wakes up* damn that dream was crazy

Brain: what dream?

Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Boxiia

Sempera wrote:I honestly never remember my dreams. I get them for sure, but they slip my mind so easily. ItÂ’s pretty much like this:

Me: *wakes up* damn that dream was crazy

Brain: what dream?

bro gets gaslit by his own brain

skill issue, could definitely[/I] be me frfr

Typica, Tiralta, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Niredom

I generally dream of myself as a different person. It's usually the same one (a made up one), but I'm certain it's not a version of me because she acts nothing like me.

Typica, Aephony, Tiralta

Estebere wrote:That's... actually, that's surprisingly realistic. Like, could be a weird Universe realistic. It would have to be a really weird universe, but still, technically possible.

I... I... I just... How do you even remember that dream? But also, that's kinda interesting. By the way, what's the ring?

Some sort of famous scary movie. I kept the dream in my head and then told my mom and kept spreading the story from there, therefore memorizing it

Tiralta, Uwuguaya

I have aphantasia and almost never see anything when I dream. Usually my dreams are just thoughts/stories but occasionally I see a series of pictures like a comic strip with only a couple of panels in the whole dream. And IÂ’m always lucid. I dream as myself but I might be me in a different world with a different backstory, name, or species. Usually I just dream about ordinary boring things that might have happened irl, and it can be confusing because my dreams sometimes feel the same as memories. Being able to see when I dream would be so cool!

Typica, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern

Araine wrote:I have aphantasia and almost never see anything when I dream. Usually my dreams are just thoughts/stories but occasionally I see a series of pictures like a comic strip with only a couple of panels in the whole dream. And IÂ’m always lucid. I dream as myself but I might be me in a different world with a different backstory, name, or species. Usually I just dream about ordinary boring things that might have happened irl, and it can be confusing because my dreams sometimes feel the same as memories. Being able to see when I dream would be so cool!

is there a word for partial aphantasia? I would say I did have aphantasia if it weren't for a singular exception, which is the dream I talked about as like the first response to the poll

Tiralta, Uwuguaya

Tiralta wrote:Inspired by all the dream talk, a weekend poll. Thanks for the inspiration Estebere!

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

We don't have an option called "all of the above"

Uwuguaya

Plancaram wrote:I never dream.

Good for you

Sempera wrote:I honestly never remember my dreams. I get them for sure, but they slip my mind so easily. ItÂ’s pretty much like this:

Me: *wakes up* damn that dream was crazy

Brain: what dream?

again, all of the above

Uwuguaya

Thingessness wrote:We don't have an option called "all of the above"

I guess that falls under "another thing I'll tell you about on the RMB".

I dream a mixture of things but I kinda saw the first few options at least as going up in levels of "self"-ness, so although I don't always swap characters in my dreams I chose that one.

Araine wrote:I have aphantasia and almost never see anything when I dream. Usually my dreams are just thoughts/stories but occasionally I see a series of pictures like a comic strip with only a couple of panels in the whole dream. And IÂ’m always lucid. I dream as myself but I might be me in a different world with a different backstory, name, or species. Usually I just dream about ordinary boring things that might have happened irl, and it can be confusing because my dreams sometimes feel the same as memories. Being able to see when I dream would be so cool!

This is so cool, I have aphantasia too but I just can't picture things while I'm awake. When I sleep I have pretty vivid visual dreams that I then remember in descriptive words and space/motion the same way I remember memories the rest of the time.

Typica, Araine, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Thingessness

That sounds so wild. Kinda wish I could experience this. I wonder if this might make communicating some things easier. When I imagine something I want, I might struggle a bit to put words to thoughts or risk saying something like "would you hand me a thing with the thing on the side for holding the stuff in it ... you want a coffee mug?.. ya ya gimme please"

I'm speculating, does expressing your thoughts always seem easy or do you sometimes struggle too?

Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Tiralta wrote:

This is so cool, I have aphantasia too but I just can't picture things while I'm awake. When I sleep I have pretty vivid visual dreams that I then remember in descriptive words and space/motion the same way I remember memories the rest of the time.

This seems to be what I have except most of the time I don't have visual dreams either.

Until yesterday I'd never heard of it, I just thought that that was how it worked.

Typica, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Typica wrote:That sounds so wild. Kinda wish I could experience this. I wonder if this might make communicating some things easier. When I imagine something I want, I might struggle a bit to put words to thoughts or risk saying something like "would you hand me a thing with the thing on the side for holding the stuff in it ... you want a coffee mug?.. ya ya gimme please"

I'm speculating, does expressing your thoughts always seem easy or do you sometimes struggle too?

Yeah, I struggle a bit with that, but my main struggle in terms of expressing thoughts is that I can struggle to write down my thoughts in a way I'm happy with (i.e. for assignments and such). I also tend to stammer a lot when I talk about stuff I'm thinking about because I'm trying to convert the words in my head into real words.

On a side note, is this just psychology weekend or something?

Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Toothbrush

My apologies, but I may extend my deadline to make the next Mattachine Press by several weeks. It might be good to take a brief hiatus to make sure I have enough inspiration to make a quality paper, to adjust to a recent schedule change, and to experiment with other region worldbuilding projects.

Thanks y'all for your patience and your help, the newspaper will resume shortly, although maybe to be released on a monthly basis,

- Talmon

- Talmon.

Typica, Araine, Liphia, Tiralta, Jazur, The Merinos, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Penocampt, Ban Oldern

Typica wrote:I'm speculating, does expressing your thoughts always seem easy or do you sometimes struggle too?

IÂ’m autistic so I struggle to communicate my thoughts in a way that other people understand. And even though I think in words, I still sometimes forget what things are called and/or switch words or letters in my brain! I do have a large vocabulary and good understanding of language and grammar because of it though. I also learned to read when I was two. I canÂ’t imagine how I thought before then because I genuinely only think in words (although my emotions arenÂ’t words). In addition to having aphantasia, I canÂ’t imagine smell or taste either!

Tiralta wrote:This is so cool, I have aphantasia too but I just can't picture things while I'm awake. When I sleep I have pretty vivid visual dreams that I then remember in descriptive words and space/motion the same way I remember memories the rest of the time.

This is really interesting! I read a while ago that most people with aphantasia do have vivid dreams and they just canÂ’t consciously access visual imagery. So Ban Oldern if you see when you dream that is still full aphantasia! Nobody knows why some people can see in dreams and others canÂ’t. The thing I really wish I could do is picture things when I read books. I love reading but itÂ’s sad when all of the imagery that authors create stays as just words in my brain.

Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

North Evous Belerle wrote:That sounded like fun!! There's a pride parade in my city next Saturday and I'm going with my girlfriend :D

THATS MEEEEE <33333

Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, B F B, Tay-Mania, Ban Oldern

Araine wrote:

This is really interesting! I read a while ago that most people with aphantasia do have vivid dreams and they just canÂ’t consciously access visual imagery. So Ban Oldern if you see when you dream that is still full aphantasia! Nobody knows why some people can see in dreams and others canÂ’t. The thing I really wish I could do is picture things when I read books. I love reading but itÂ’s sad when all of the imagery that authors create stays as just words in my brain.

Cool!

Typica, Tiralta

Typica wrote:That sounds so wild. Kinda wish I could experience this. I wonder if this might make communicating some things easier. When I imagine something I want, I might struggle a bit to put words to thoughts or risk saying something like "would you hand me a thing with the thing on the side for holding the stuff in it ... you want a coffee mug?.. ya ya gimme please"

I'm speculating, does expressing your thoughts always seem easy or do you sometimes struggle too?

Like Araine I'm also autistic and I struggle to express my thoughts in ways that make sense to others. Especially if I'm thinking in space/motion rather than a description, it can be hard to put that into words for somebody else.

Sometimes the descriptive memory I have for items doesn't line up with a name, in my house paperclips are now known as "silver things that go round and round" because I completely forgot the name and my wife could not work out what I meant at all by that description.

Typica, Araine, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern

Are any of ya'll good with computers? I plan to upgrade my graphics card to a 3060, but I have a hard time selecting other parts. Namely the CPU, power supply, and RAM.

Uwuguaya

The Merinos wrote:Are any of ya'll good with computers? I plan to upgrade my graphics card to a 3060, but I have a hard time selecting other parts. Namely the CPU, power supply, and RAM.

I might be a complete idiot but I would imagine you could theoretically use your current computer as a base, take out the graphics card, and put in a new one so you're not necessarily having to make a whole new computer from scratch. Then again, I might be a complete idiot.

[I](did research to make sure I wasn't some bumbling idiot about to ruin your computer, found a site that talks you through the process and it is indeed possible. Link here: https://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/upgrading-computer-components[/I]

The Merinos, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

Talmon wrote:My apologies, but I may extend my deadline to make the next Mattachine Press by several weeks. It might be good to take a brief hiatus to make sure I have enough inspiration to make a quality paper, to adjust to a recent schedule change, and to experiment with other region worldbuilding projects.

That's fine, always remember that quality should never be overshadowed by quantity. I would like to know though: What kinds of projects would "Other region worldbuilding projects' entail, if you've decided what those are?

Tiralta, Talmon, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Penocampt

The Merinos wrote:Are any of ya'll good with computers? I plan to upgrade my graphics card to a 3060, but I have a hard time selecting other parts. Namely the CPU, power supply, and RAM.

in terms of a power supply, you'll need one that pushes out 550W or more. 12 GB GDDR6 / 8 GB GDDR6 is recommended for RAM. And as for a CPU, Intel core i5 11600k is recommended

Tiralta, Jazur, The Merinos

I almost always dream in third person, so IÂ’m not really anyone, IÂ’m just watching. It doesnÂ’t feel like IÂ’m really making any decisions or anything because it doesnÂ’t feel like the actions are my own, IÂ’m just watching everything happen and canÂ’t influence anything. ItÂ’s like a movie.

IÂ’m usually watching myself do dream stuff, but itÂ’s not uncommon for me to just not be in the dream at all and IÂ’m just watching my friends and/or family or even sometimes just random dream people. When I do dream in first person, which is rare, I think IÂ’ve always been myself.

Curiously, all the lucid dreams IÂ’ve ever had (a grand total of two) were during rare dreams that were in first person. All those third person dreams seem perfectly normal to me when IÂ’m having them and I canÂ’t actually tell that IÂ’m dreaming.

Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, North Evous Belerle

Changed my flag to the former Sutherland flag as a provisional thing while I search for one, how do y'all like it?

Typica, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, Sempera, Thingessness

Estebere wrote:That's fine, always remember that quality should never be overshadowed by quantity. I would like to know though: What kinds of projects would "Other region worldbuilding projects' entail, if you've decided what those are?

IÂ’m not sure yet, I was thinking of trying a fictional broadcasting network again, or something similar

Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya

Civil War has broken out in St.Leone!

The bulletin is not completely done, but I figured I could share it regardless :D

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1928038

The Star Enpire, Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Merinos, Ullrani, Uwuguaya, Ethierys, Pantumaca

St Leone wrote:Civil War has broken out in St.Leone!

The bulletin is not completely done, but I figured I could share it regardless :D

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1928038

I may try and get involved for the Socialist People's Union of Leoneia and/or the Monarchist Alliance (mainly just against the Grandee and the Junta)

St Leone, Tiralta, Uwuguaya

Ban Oldern wrote:I may try and get involved for the Socialist People's Union of Leoneia and/or the Monarchist Alliance (mainly just against the Grandee and the Junta)

I have made an RP board on the Refugia Discord Server, if you wanna engange in RP there ^^

Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya

Quick question for role-play purposes, does Refugia have some general currency? And, if so, how is it in relation to other currencies (such as the USD)

Uwuguaya, North Evous Belerle

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