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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I'm fickle with nations. I let them CTE and resurrect them all the time.
I have the Targaryens in charge of Westeros and another dragonlord family in charge of Valyria. Not in the same time line.
Jaslandia
Im doing good . how about you ?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Out of curiosity, if you're a Reverend, what branch of Christianity do you follow?
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm a console peasant that uses the PS4. I should have just not upgraded from a PS3 and saved up for a pc.
I'm a console serf. I only own a PS2.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Superman does good. You're doing well. :P
Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Penguania And Antarctica
The Outermost College and Harmony offer the condolences to the death of any leader, especially one of such high standing in the Heartland, he will be missed and our Perlandian flag flown at half mast.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
*I had nothing to do with it*
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
I'm even lower than that (console slave?); the only console I own is a Wii.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
https://strawpoll.com/rc1z7de
Vote for the next Prime Minister.
Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland
Perland is great full to all the leaders who have issued statements of sorrow about the Passing of President Wells. You are all invited to his funeral, and we wish you all good luck in these uncertain times.
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Solla Ultima
Post self-deleted by Percyton.
I'm swell, thank you! Just have to take a couple more evening trains before I can rest.
Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Penguania And Antarctica
My only console is an N64 :P
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
So
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
How do you connect to the RMB while you're pulling trains? That seems really dangerous.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton
He has his driver do it, if I recall.
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton
Shouldn't the driver be paying attention to the tracks? Distracted driving can be deadly.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton
Nope, the train is sentient, the guys inside make sure they remain operational
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
My Driver and Fireman post for me. For the most part, they play it safe and only post when I'm stopped.
I can control myself to a certain extent, but the Driver and Fireman are the ones that really move and stop me. I can move myself forward or backwards a few inches, but anything farther than that requires my Driver and Fireman. However, I can control other functions, such as building up steam, releasing steam, and blowing my whistle
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
https://m.imgur.com/cdNaac7
Filthy peasant! May Gaben the father, Robbaz the son, and the Masterful PC Spirit smite you!
Nuremgard
Can I bring a "special glass of wine" not poisoned of course?
I have a a question: Do you feel ? I don't mean feel as meaning of emotion. I mean if you sense things. Like if you driver steps around in your cab to you feel his steps ? Or if someone touches your boilers or your buffers do you notice that ?
Jaslandia
I'm so glad your Driver and Fireman are responsible and safe.
So at night, do your Driver and Fireman leave? I'm guessing they have families and homes, right? Do they leave you by yourself?
Has anyone researched the existence and characteristics of sentient trains? Because this seems like a severely underdocumented scientific phenomenon.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Some healthcare you got.
Vista Major, Friedensreich, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Andromitus
Dear god man. I'm not even that much of a douchebag, and I'm the biggest douchebag to ever be a bag of douche.
Solla Ultima
We have a sentient train in our midst and first among your queries is his use of broadband?
Merlinton, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Cross And Davids Star, Percyton
I've conducted several Q & A's but Percy has yet to allow me to study his kind in depth
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Same here, though I did get back some results from experiments on Sodor.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine
Yes, we can feel and sense things. We've mostly gotten used to people in our cab, but we still feel other parts, like when people touch our boiler or buffers.
Yes, engines' Driver and Fireman leave at night to go to their own homes. Although, mine usually wait around a bit, because I have to take the mail train at night. And they don't leave us by ourselves; most of us sleep in sheds with other engines at night. I sleep at either Tidmouth Sheds (with Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Emily, and sometimes Toby) or Ffarquhar Sheds (with Thomas and Toby).
We have our own scientists conduct research on talking trains, but other than that, we haven't gotten a lot of outside research done. Percyton is somewhat isolationist, and we don't accept a lot of outside researchers. Plus, when scientists do try to study us, they often become frustrated because a lot of things about us are determined by magic, not science.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I love you :) *hugs*
Jaslandia, Percyton
I think the simple questions are the only ones I'll get concrete answers for, so yeah, I'm gonna ask about broadband usage. "Does [nation=short]Percyton[/nation] have 4G so his driver can connect to the RMB on the go?" can elicit a solid answer. "How is it possible for a train made of metal to speak and think?" will not. I prefer to stick with the easy questions to get easy, non-mind-bending answers.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
From results I have received, the answer of how trains on Sodor are sentient may not be magical, or even scientifical. Rather, it may lie on a paranormal level. The most popular theory that my scientists have is that the trains may be examples of Tsukumogami, or 'Tool Spirit', where a spirit possesses a tool, or the tool passing 100 years of age, causing said tool to gain sentience.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thanks, Peng! Love you too!
Edward tells me those are 're-tor-eh-cal' questions, but I'll answer then anyway.
1. Yes.
2. I'm not sure, to be honest. Magic?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
unf believes the trains run on the power of socialism just like microwaves and the weather
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, The Vidnoye, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton
Spirits? I think I would know if I had a spirit inside me. And if they're called 'tool spirit', then how come I've never seen any talking hammers, or talking saws? I've seen talking cars, buses, cranes, and boats, but not talking tools. Plus, we have lots of vehicles that are younger than 100 years old and can still talk.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
So, is there magic gasoline/diesel too ? I mean a car or bus doesn't run with coal.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I suppose so. However, unlike coal, Sodor doesn't produce any of its own oil or diesel fuel. So either the oil/fuel becomes infused with magic just by being on the island, or the magic comes from the other parts, such as the aluminum or metal.
Merlinton, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
My theory thus far is that something about the island -possibly the coal, though also possibly to do with the concentration of certain workable metals- is mildly radioactive in a bandwidth not yet discovered. It -probably- isn't Ionizing, yet it certainly must be very high up on the scale so as to remain undetected.
Merlinton, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What are we talking about I'm not up to date.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I've just realized something.
Sodor Coal could -potentially- have some kind of chemical reaction, or otherwise destabilize the actual chemical structure of the metal around it in order for it to work in the way of Radiation.
If the cars can also speak and think, then it simply can't just be the coal that possesses such miraculous properties; rather, the Metal used in the construction of the automotive must have some kind of event that begins to change it into a much more energetic particle. Perhaps the coal is a one time reactant that simply activates this change while the metal's reaction takes a number of years to operate. A third working metal (Trace amounts of Iron / Accumulations of Iron?) somehow converting the old reacted metal back into a form usable by the ongoing reaction. This would explain both the rusting of locomotives and the actual sentience of said locomotive to a degree.
VL;DR:
Sodor is where Thomas the Tank engine comes from, we're talking about the sentience of trains.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh ok
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
I'm mean, he's not totally wrong. 47 is a pretty young age to die as the leader of your country
Jaslandia, Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica
Port Evans-Kennedy left :^(
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Certainly possible. My Science Ministry has been testing a similar theory, though they're still in the early stages.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
I see that. I wish he would have stayed, but I hope he's at least happy in the Conservative League.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Microwaves, like vacuum cleaners and the lightbulb, are made possible by magic.
Weather is divine. For instance, wind is simply angels sneezing.
Lordy, am I the only one who has read the holy scriptures of Calvin and Hobbes?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'll admit that made me laugh XD
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica
TMW a lone Kalaronian with a near fetishistic knowledge of weaponry comes up with a theory that the Ministry of Science in Percyton is only in the early stages of :P
Maybe these stats do mean something....
But yes, does Percyton perhaps have points where the metal of cars could be touched by some coal-smudged items? It could be that the stress of creation is so similar to birth trauma (to the infant) that memory is forcibly repressed, or that until given shape and operated, the Engines simply don't possess the needed tools -no pun intended- to process sentiance.
Tell me, can you engines feel sensation?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What type of socialism? Syndicalism? Market Socialism? Democratic Socialism?
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
The Twilight Zone really is bizzare. I just watched an old episode of the show where a neo-Nazi converted to Islam and then killed his two other neo-Nazi roommates for not respecting his religion. Additionally, the killer's third roommate who was not killed was found to have bomb-making materials. Wait a minute, that story is actually true and happened recently? My god, this is just another reason why you should unexpect the expected in Florida.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Ugh, was that in Florida? Goddamnit
Jaslandia
a: I suppose that's possible. It doesn't happen too often though, which might explain why there aren't a lot of talking road vehicles compared to talking engines.
b: I don't know. All I know is that if an engine does come alive after being built, they'll usually come alive as soon as they're fully put-together and built.
c: I'd say so. We can touch stuff with our buffers and we can feel when others are touching us, we can smell, we can hear, and we can talk. We don't have taste, though.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hmm...
Alrighty, here's another question.
When you were put together, we're you told you would be an engine, or did you merely feel like being one?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
We didn't really have a choice in the matter. By the time we wake up, we're already an engine; we didn't choose to be an engine, that's just where our mind/soul ended up. The workmen build the engine, and by the time we get life, we're basically already completed.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
But do you feel a compulsion to be one, or is it a choice to be one?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I self identify as a freight train, and I'm frankly offended that you even give the thought of my identity being a choice a chance.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Neither. We don't feel anything. We can't feel anything or think about anything until we're built, just like humans like you can't feel anything until you're born. Just like humans can't choose to be human or even feel a compulsion to be human, neither can engines. It's beyond our control, and it's decided by the magical forces at work.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I love The Twilight Zone. There's always some sort of deliciously twisted irony in each episode that I love.
My favorite episode is The Obsolete Man.
Limp Bizkit can relate to that, I imagine.
https://youtu.be/AR7ZEL-bwUc?t=46s
That is distressing.
Do y'all really need to sleep, or is it something you like to but don't need?
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Nuremgard lifts immigration ban.
When the hell did I ban immigration?
Also, f*ck you, NS for yet again lowering my poor's income.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
It appears you guys don't know a lick about plumbing, either :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
#VistaGoingGoth
The Vidnoye, Minnesota Dakota
I did it because apparently I'd banned immigration when I don't remember banning it!
I hate how some issues have totally unrelated consequences. Like banning immigration or reintroducing the death penalty.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
"It's not a phase, dad"
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Vista, aren't your taxes a wee bit high.
"The government a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Defense and Administration aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trävitstadt. The average income tax rate is 99.7%."
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
We basically need to sleep, and if we don't sleep at night, we'll fall asleep while we're working. And while we technically could sleep while we're working, that's generally considered unsafe: It's much easier for the Driver to control us when we're awake, because then we can help him.
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica
His citizens are in the top 1% of the world for most cheerful. They are clearly very happy about giving their entire income away to the state.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
I don't have prisons or police yet, .8% of my people kill themselves in police custody.
Nuremgard, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, The Vidnoye, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
What are those imaginary police doing to your poor people?!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Listen well to that, [nation=short]Baxten[/nation]
Amen
I mean, I have the best education in the region by far, and have top marks almost everywhere else health or welfare-related.
So I'm satisfied. But I may cut if I need to
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Also, my people really need maps. Over 25% of my people die due to getting LOST.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Must... resist... Hamilton reference...
https://youtu.be/f0EqxnWxlvY
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Maybe maps aren't the solution? Maybe the people go out in the woods for one reason or another, and then stay there due to binge-watching an American television drama series that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from September 22, 2004, to May 23, 2010. I mean, there are 121 episodes over 6 seasons to catch up on, so it's understandable that they would be reported missing in the time it took to watch all that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
Merlinton, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
legit lowkey considering invading you to fix the problems with your nation bc why not
and I'll leave Magnatronia out of the fun so he can continue to suffer in his desire to invade others but never be able to do so
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
I am also in forever war. A lot of my people are dying to a nonexistent war.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
My people are high. Very Very high. Like Super high. There might be drugs in the water supply. Might need help.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Maybe a large chunk of your population are mercenaries? It would explain how your people could die in a war that you're not fighting; your people are fighting other nations' wars.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
You have 99 problems
Luckily, I ain't one
Yet
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
My economy could fall apart at any moment.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
How so? I see your economy at 98/100, which is pretty good from my perspective. If I were you, I'd worry more about your political freedoms.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
On an issue I could click a decision and it would crash my economy.
Merlinton, Nuremgard, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Last chance to vote. Voting will close at 9:30 CST
https://strawpoll.com/rc1z7de
Vista Major
If I gave him a rock and a stick to share between all his men, there is a statistical certainty he could win.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I once had an economy at 97/100 and then I got an issue and clicked on the decision that sent me economy to 0 for a long time
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota
True, but that's always a risk. One issue I got (I'm pretty sure it was about converting an abandoned suburb into a nature preserve) crashed my economy from 99/100 to 22/100.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota
Yet
INGSOC?
Jaslandia
TBH, I ain't supplying y'all in the foreseeable future, so prolly never.
Don't listen to him. The King of Westeros urges the Empress to take more and more power into her own hands. It will be better for the people.
Helloooooo
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hi!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Burning Tree
Hello there!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Burning Tree
Thank you, thank you. I just want to give everyone a quick heads up. I am the puppet of The Fing Motherland, I came here to not only find new allies for my region, but to enjoy myself and the likes of that. With that said, how's everyone doing?
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Which further supports my theory.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Why a driver is needed is odd, as you can essentially control yourself. Though the question is, can you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Well, that's the thing: We don't control ourselves. We can move a few inches forward or backwards, and we can help our Drivers to keep us moving, but otherwise the Driver is in control. However, we can control other functions ourselves, like building up steam, releasing steam, or blowing our whistle.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Welcome to the region, Burning Tree! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. Hope you like it here!
Merlinton, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Burning Tree
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