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Lint Roller
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A message to *all* TSP nations

Postby Lint Roller » Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:58 am

We all want to help one another. South Pacific nations are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this region there is room for everyone. And the good South Pacific is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Influence has poisoned nations souls; has barricaded the region with stagnation; has forced us into misery and venomous RMB posts. The oligarchs have developed a government, but have shut the region in. Influence in abundance for a few has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

We think too much and feel too little. More than influence ,we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, the South Pacific will be violent and all will be lost. The revolution has brought us closer together. The very nature of this region cries out for the goodness in nations; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing nations, victims of a system that makes oligarchs imprison innocent nations.

To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.”

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of a few nations who fear the way of progress in South Pacific. The hate of oligarchs will pass, and the power they took from the minnows will return to the minnows. And so long as minnows fight, liberty will never perish.

Minnows! Don’t give yourselves to oligarchs, nations who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your influence, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as influence fodder!

Don’t give your influence to these unnatural few—machine oligarchs with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are minnows! You have a love of The South Pacific in your hearts! You don’t hate!

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Minnows! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of the book of ADMIN, it’s written “the kingdom of [violet] is within minnows”, not one nation nor a group of nations, but in all nations! In you! You, the minnows, have the power, the power to create influence, the power to create happiness! You, the minnows, have the power to make this region free and beautiful, to make this region a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of freedom from stagnation, let us use that power.

Let us all unite.

Let us fight for a new South Pacific, a decent region that will give minnows a chance to participate
, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, oligarchs have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will!

Oligarchs free themselves but they enslave the minnows!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the South Pacific! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!

Let us fight for a South Pacific of reason, a region where equality and progress will lead to all nations’ happiness.

South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
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South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
My message to all nations of The South Pacific: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=238507

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Cerian Quilor
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Postby Cerian Quilor » Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:59 am

....

Except that Influence didn't do all that.
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Todd McCloud
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Postby Todd McCloud » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:00 am

Poor Charlie Chaplin, lol.

Anyway, modlocked in 5...4...3...
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Lint Roller
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Postby Lint Roller » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:01 am

Ok Cerian Qualor. Thanks for your enlightened input...I'm fuzzy on something, are you a South Pacific nation? Oh wait, you're not. You just like to toss out one-liners. Your input in noted. Thanks.
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A Minnow
South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
My message to all nations of The South Pacific: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=238507

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Lint Roller
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Postby Lint Roller » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:01 am

Todd McCloud wrote:Poor Charlie Chaplin, lol.

Anyway, modlocked in 5...4...3...



OOC: Come on Todd...it's fitting.
An advocate of OOC/IC boundaries in Gameplay
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South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
My message to all nations of The South Pacific: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=238507

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Todd McCloud
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Postby Todd McCloud » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:03 am

Lint Roller wrote:
Todd McCloud wrote:Poor Charlie Chaplin, lol.

Anyway, modlocked in 5...4...3...



OOC: Come on Todd...it's fitting.

Yeah it's fitting to the times I suppose, lol. It was and still is a great film.
"Your uniform doesn't seem to fit. You're much too alive in it."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi
"The worst prison would be a closed heart." - Pope John Paul II

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Lint Roller
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Postby Lint Roller » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:06 am

Todd McCloud wrote:
Lint Roller wrote:

OOC: Come on Todd...it's fitting.

Yeah it's fitting to the times I suppose, lol. It was and still is a great film.



The whole point of this post is to bring South Pacific nations together. We must stop this bickering and infighting. It makes the region weaker by default. We must come together and rebuild the region under the dynamic leadership of Milograd. We must fight against the hand-cuffs that are high-influence nations who wield immunity simply by hanging around. Above all, we must find common bonds, not divisiveness because a cadre of a few want to maintain the South Pacific for themselves and the ridiculous laws and constitutions that only they understand. We must come together for the benefit of the South Pacific, not have an RMB filled with venomous fighting and threats.
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A Minnow
South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
My message to all nations of The South Pacific: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=238507

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Ansario
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Postby Ansario » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:10 am

So, instead of suggesting a mutually beneficial compromise, you are asking all nations that disagree with your leader's policies to simply conform? That's not going to be very effective. Just being honest.

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Lint Roller
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Postby Lint Roller » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:13 am

If you've read my post you'll see that I ask all nations to come together for the benefit of the region. I ask them to put down their hurtful words and infighting so we can progress in to the future as a region, not fragmented groups of nations. This is our region, we must step in to the future together. The oligarchs fear progress and brainwash nations to fight their fight with hate and intolerance. South Pacific nations must unite, we must do this together.
An advocate of OOC/IC boundaries in Gameplay
A South Pacific nation
A Minnow
South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
My message to all nations of The South Pacific: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=238507

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Ambroscus Koth
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Postby Ambroscus Koth » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:24 am

What's with the OOC? This whole forum is OOC.
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Lint Roller
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Postby Lint Roller » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:27 am

OOC: I guess old habits die hard. Some nations need to be reminded that this is a game and there are real people behind a computer screen. I find when i need to clarify something outside of the nation that is Lint Roller I use the "OOC" to remind people that this is a game. I feel that we need strong boundaries when it comes to posts related to the game and posts that explain the motivation of the nation I play as. As you can tell, my nation was founded in "antiquity" in the "olden days" we differentiated posts made IC and OOC and I carry on that legacy in the hope that we don't take such in-game situations (like the revolution in TSP) so seriously and apply them to the player behind the nations. These days people get the game twisted, namean?
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An advocate of OOC/IC boundaries in Gameplay
A South Pacific nation
A Minnow
South Pacificans! In the name of freedom, let us all unite!
My message to all nations of The South Pacific: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=238507

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Crazy girl
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Postby Crazy girl » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:44 am

1: No more new threads on the South Pacific drama
2: Cut out the OOC/IC nonsense. This forum IS OOC.


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