NationStates

Minininjas wrote:What are these "elections" of which you speak?

Oh, didn't you hear? They happen at every update. :^)

I just abolished the inheritance tax and it lead to taxation going... UP.
Anyone else find this curious?

The Islands of Saint Cross wrote:I just abolished the inheritance tax and it lead to taxation going... UP.
Anyone else find this curious?

I don't. The NS "Tax" statistic only measures income tax, not VAT etc. You get the same effect by abolishing VAT. (And this looks more like a GI? question, but regardless...)

I think the game thinks a mongoose is a type of waterfowl. Or else aircraft in my cities fly so low that ten inch terrestrial feliforms need dodge them. XD

Renderia wrote:I think the game thinks a mongoose is a type of waterfowl. Or else aircraft in my cities fly so low that ten inch terrestrial feliforms need dodge them. XD

mongoose, right....
You could ask for this to be fixed via the Animal Relocation Thread.

I put too much work into this for it to rot in my factbook where nobody will see it.

It's lovely but would probably get more appreciation from RPers than here.

Consular wrote:It's lovely but would probably get more appreciation from RPers than here.

As RPer, it looks purdy

I appreciate it.

I accidently clicked the OP and noticed it talking about MSN messenger..

good times..

Indo-Malaysia wrote:I accidently clicked the OP and noticed it talking about MSN messenger..

good times..

I miss those times

RiderSyl wrote:

Indo-Malaysia wrote:I accidently clicked the OP and noticed it talking about MSN messenger..

good times..

I miss those times

*buzzer*

MSN is nice, but I miss using the javascript embedded chat on 10KI's forum from back in the day. If you want to know if someone is an OG, just type *meow* in a chat and see how they react.

Blood Wine wrote:

RiderSyl wrote:
I miss those times

*buzzer*

I remember spamming people with those animation thingys.

It was funny when someone struggled to type whilst a giant fist kept knocking on their screen continually.

Who remembers Gopher? (In case you were wondering just how ancient Minininjas might be.)

Blood Wine wrote:

RiderSyl wrote:
I miss those times

*buzzer*

*NUDGE SPAM*

Minininjas wrote:Who remembers Gopher? (In case you were wondering just how ancient Minininjas might be.)

Did you meet any Cavemen or Dinosaurs?

Indo-Malaysia wrote:

Minininjas wrote:Who remembers Gopher? (In case you were wondering just how ancient Minininjas might be.)

Did you meet any Cavemen or Dinosaurs?

No. But I had enough time for high tea while one pixelated graphic downloaded.

Indo-Malaysia wrote:

Minininjas wrote:Who remembers Gopher? (In case you were wondering just how ancient Minininjas might be.)

Did you meet any Cavemen or Dinosaurs?

I can remember a Caveman producing a successful NS-UN Resolution...

^_^

Bears Armed wrote:

Indo-Malaysia wrote:Did you meet any Cavemen or Dinosaurs?

I can remember a Caveman producing a successful NS-UN Resolution...

^_^

Damn, that's old!

My fondest memory of IRC is just how invincible it was. NOTHING could being working on your computer - your internet could be completely FUCKED - and IRC would still work. Your screen could be a blue screen of death and IRC would still chug along like the little train that could. It was an unstoppable, infinitely reliable force of pre-mobile technology that not even dial-up could screw up. It was butt ugly but it did the job. I had a horrible internet connection - I used to have to beat the satellite with a snow-shovel to get it working again every half an hour while spotting - but IRC continued to work when everything else would bug up with DNS errors.

Unibot III wrote:My fondest memory of IRC is just how invincible it was. NOTHING could being working on your computer - your internet could be completely FUCKED - and IRC would still work. Your screen could be a blue screen of death and IRC would still chug along like the little train that could. It was an unstoppable, infinitely reliable force of pre-mobile technology that not even dial-up could screw up. It was butt ugly but it did the job. I had a horrible internet connection - I used to have to beat the satellite with a snow-shovel to get it working again every half an hour while spotting - but IRC continued to work when everything else would bug up with DNS errors.

And then....
N E T S P L I T S

Reploid Productions wrote:

Unibot III wrote:My fondest memory of IRC is just how invincible it was. NOTHING could being working on your computer - your internet could be completely FUCKED - and IRC would still work. Your screen could be a blue screen of death and IRC would still chug along like the little train that could. It was an unstoppable, infinitely reliable force of pre-mobile technology that not even dial-up could screw up. It was butt ugly but it did the job. I had a horrible internet connection - I used to have to beat the satellite with a snow-shovel to get it working again every half an hour while spotting - but IRC continued to work when everything else would bug up with DNS errors.

And then....
N E T S P L I T S

That's true. But those were usually pretty rare. I stand by statement, IRC was bulletproof. It took absolutely everything my crappy dorm internet threw at it. I was burning a hole into my modem spotting. BACK IN THE DAYS OF FOUR HOUR UPDATES. *RATTLES HIS CANE AT THE YOUNGLINGS*

The worst part of four hour updates was that Halc or whoever would tart their puppets up, set a clock, go to bed, wake up four hours later, and move - and because update was so damn buggy they'd move late and miss their target. So you'd have spent all bloody update watching your dossier, F5'ing for four hours - for absolutely no reason at all.

Y'all want to repeal their condemnations over Predator. I'd burn the condemnations into their chests with a hot iron. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

IRC is literally older than a significant chunk of NSers (1988). It's also stupidly simple in the best way.

Roavin wrote:IRC is literally older than a significant chunk of NSers (1988). It's also stupidly simple in the best way.

I remember when bash.org's stupid IRC logs were my daily dosage of funny, before a site that advertised itself as "A file transfer site for videos!" ended up replacing it for me. Some place called YouTube.

I'm not supposed to feel this old yet!