[SUBMITTED] We'll Meet Again... Hopefully

[Singapore no2]

[desc] A tiny belligerent nation to the East of @@NAME@@, North Nukystan, has been repeatedly threatening you, your allies and South Nukystan with complete and total annihilation if you don't accede to their demands. You could have launched a preemptive strike long ago, if not for the fact that they possess nuclear weapons of their own!

[validity] Only for nations with WMDs and who chose Option 4 of NationStates Issue No. 610

[option] "This is your last warning!" cautions @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Eternal President of the Great Democratic People's Republic of North Nukystan, in a low-definition video sent via a flock of trained @@ANIMAL@@. "@@LEADER@@, I will obliterate South Nukystan, and then one of your allies every hour on the hour, and that is of course, unless you pay me..." @@HE@@ moves his pinky to the bottom of his lip, and continues, "One million @@CURRENCY@@!" @@HE@@ then laughs maniacally for three and a half minutes.
[effect] @@NAME@@ helps to subsidise the weapons programmes of its enemies

[option] "What sort of idiot points nukes to extort chump change?" growls @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, shooing the trained @@ANIMAL@@ away. "You can't even buy a single tank for a million @@CURRENCY! I say we make a point of not even dignifying the demand with a response. If anyone asks you what you think of the threat, just laugh and change the subject, as it's frankly beneath our notice."
[effect] @@LEADER@@ seems unusually jovial towards dangerous threats to the nation

[option] "It's just like in that movie, The Interviewer Who Shanked Me," reminisces @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Chief of the National Spy Agency, while examining the videotape for clues. "We can send an agent to pose as an interviewer, and assassinate the leader of North Nukystan. Our best agent, James Bont was injured from his last adventure in Dàguó, so we'll have to make do with Houston Powers."
[effect] a recent debacle involving North Nukystan's leader and a sharpened toothbrush has placed @@NAME@@ in a bad light

[option] "Let's just nuke them already!" enthuses @@RANDOMNAME@@, Minister of Defence, glancing longingly at the big red button on your desk. "Don't worry about mutual assured destruction: I think that we can sneak in a suitcase nuke or six, and by the time they know they're under attack, they'll be in no position to retaliate."
[effect] nations hostile to @@NAME@@ quickly find themselves covered in glowing green dust clouds

[Australian rePublic]

This is a brilliant combination between Austin Powers and North Korea
Can I just suggest something, Austin is the capital of the USA state of Texas. Instead of naming him Austin Hours, maybe name him after a different city in Texas, such as Houston Powers, or Dallas Powers. This would not only be funnier, but also, Powers is more believable as a surname. I once knew someone whose name was Powers

[Singapore no2]

This is a brilliant combination between Austin Powers and North Korea
Can I just suggest something, Austin is the capital of the USA state of Texas. Instead of naming him Austin Hours, maybe name him after a different city in Texas, such as Houston Powers, or Dallas Powers. This would not only be funnier, but also, Powers is more believable as a surname. I once knew someone whose name was Powers

I changed his name.

Thanks for the support!

[Australian rePublic]

On second thoughts, I reacon Dallas Powers is better and more obvious.

[Australian rePublic]

Effect for option 2, what's a MAD

[Singapore no2]

Effect for option 2, what's a MAD

It's explained in the issue option.

[Australian rePublic]

Effect for option 2, what's a MAD

It's explained in the issue option.

You don't have to necessarily read the options in order to see the effects. If someone who hasn't encounted/forgotten the issue, they may not understand it

[Singapore no2]

It's explained in the issue option.

You don't have to necessarily read the options in order to see the effects. If someone who hasn't encounted/forgotten the issue, they may not understand it

I changed the option effect to a "military detection system".

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Is this too similar to the Dàguó issue?

[desc] A tiny belligerant nation

Spelling: belligerent

to the East of @@NAME@@ has been repeatedly threatening you and your allies with complete and total anhilliation if you don't acceed to their demands.

Spellings: annihilation. accede.

You would have launched a preemptive strike long ago, if not for the fact that they possess nuclear weapons of their own!

Don't tell players what their LEADER character does, or would have done. Rephrase this as "you could have".

[validity] Only for nations with WMDs and who chose Option 4 of NationStates Issue No. 610

[option] "I'm giving you one last chance!" warns @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Eternal President of the National Socialist Democratic People's Republic of North Nukestruction,

Change "Socialist" to "Glorious", I think. And rename Nukestruction into something more feasible.

in a low-definition video sent via a flock of trained @@ANIMAL@@. "All I want is for you to raise all sanctions from our glorious nation, and one million @@CURRENCY@@!"

Forget the sanctions, just make it a demand for one million currency. It's funnier that way.

@@HE@@ laughs maniacally for the rest of the clip.

I think...

@@HE@@ then laughs maniacally for three and a half minutes.

...would be funnier.

[effect] pointing nukes at @@NAME@@ and demanding tribute actually works

That's not a very interesting effect line. Suggest aim for something funnier and less direct.

[option] "We don't negotiate with terrorist states," growls @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, shooing the trained @@ANIMAL@@ away. "Obviously, the correct thing to do would be to enforce even heavier sanctions on North Nukesomething and deploy the highly controvertial Military Airbase Detection System to defend our allies."

Forget mention of sanctions, and maybe lampshade the ridiculous smallness of the demand. I suggestL

[option] "What sort of idiot points nukes to extort chump change?" growls @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, shooing the trained @@ANIMAL@@ away. "You can't even buy a single tank for a million bucks! I say we make a point of not even dignifying the demand with a response. If anyone asks you what you think of the threat, just laugh and change the subject, as it's frankly beneath our notice."

Loses your MAD joke, but I think is a better narrative fit.

[option] "It's just like in that movie, The Interviewer Who Shanked Me," reminises @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Chief of the National Spy Agency, while examining the videotape for clues. "We can send an agent to pose as an interviewer, and assassinate the leader of North Noodlestan. Our best agent, James Bont was injured from his last adventure in Dàguó, so we'll have to make do with Houston Powers."

Spelling: Reminisces.

Directly jokey nation names are a poor fit for the game, lose Noodlestan. Also, who on earth are Noodlestan anyway?

[effect] @@DENONYM@@ news reporters tend not to return home in one piece[/quote]

I don't get it.

[option] "Let's just nuke them already!" enthuses @@RANDOMNAME@@, Minister of Defence, fiddling with the nuclear control panel at your desk.

Change nuclear control panel to "big red button on your desk".

"Sure, North Neverland may retaliate, but according to my estimates, they're still not advanced enough to hit the mainland directly. Remember, the longer we hesitate to strike, the stronger they will grow."

Cut this, it's redundant. Instead address the mutual assured destruction flagged in the introduction text. Maybe something like:

"Don't worry about mutual assured destruction: I think we can sneak in a suitcase nuke or six, and by the time they know they're under attack, they'll be in no position to retaliate."

The below becomes a bit redundant, of course:

[effect] @@NAME@@ has lost almost all of its allies to a nuclear war

So maybe instead some sort of humour about casual use of firepower.

[Singapore no2]

Done!

[Australian rePublic]

Dr. Evil and Kim Jing-un are bith male. Therefore the speaker in option 1 should be male.

Also, please find somewhere to put the Dr. Evil quote "why make trillions when we could make billions?"

Please, for Mike Myers, I mean look at that face

How could you deny him that quote?

Also, you need "North Nukystan is best Nukystan" somewhere...

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Dr. Evil and Kim Jing-un are bith male. Therefore the speaker in option 1 should be male.

That logic doesn't follow. As long as the reference can be noticed, you don't need to match the phenotypes of the characters being referenced. It's no more necessary than making a character the same age or same ethnicity.

[Australian rePublic]

Dr. Evil and Kim Jing-un are bith male. Therefore the speaker in option 1 should be male.

That logic doesn't follow. As long as the reference can be noticed, you don't need to match the phenotypes of the characters being referenced. It's no more necessary than making a character the same age or same ethnicity.

I'm just saying it should be a @@RANDOMMALENAME@@ rather than @@RANDOMNAME@@

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I'm just saying it doesn't need to be.

[Australian rePublic]

I'm just saying it doesn't need to be.

Ok

[Singapore no2]

Dr. Evil and Kim Jing-un are bith male. Therefore the speaker in option 1 should be male.

Also, please find somewhere to put the Dr. Evil quote "why make trillions when we could make billions?"

Please, for Mike Myers, I mean look at that face

(Image)

How could you deny him that quote?

Also, you need "North Nukystan is best Nukystan" somewhere...

I'm sorry mate, but I still have no idea how to fit those in.

[Liberal Evil]

[effect] @@DENONYM@@ news reporters tend not to return home in one piece

I don't get it.

[/quote]
Reference to Spectre. Q says 'I told you to bring the car back in one piece, not bring back one piece!' to James Bond.

[Singapore no2]

Bump

[Candlewhisper Archive]

As previously observed:

Spelling: Belligerent

[Singapore no2]

Do I need to make any further edits?

[Australian rePublic]

1 million @@CURRENCY@@s is a stupidly low amount of money, just pay the bastard before he realises. Also, this is the perfect oppertunity to make a reference about hiw Dr. Evil was in his prime in the 1960s, and North Korea is a time capsial into the 1960s. Don't let this opportunity pass!


How good would a Kim Jong-un parody of Dr. Evil be?

You may want to look up the exact quote, so you can get it right word-for-word, but feel free to play with my Dr.Evil parody of Kim Jong-un
Number 2: It isn't 1969 outside of North Korea Nukystan anymore, 1 million dollars @@CURRENCY@@ isn't a lot of moeny these days
...
Kim Jong-un North Nukystan's Leader: Gentlemen, after I've nuked Seoul South Nukystans' capital, I will destroy one major city ever hour on the hour, and that is of coarse, unless you pay me, 1 million dollars @@CURRENCY@@s
**Everyone laughs**
Kim Jong-un North Nukystan's Leader: Oh sorry, 1 hundred billion dollars @@CURRENCY@@s

[Singapore no2]

1 million @@CURRENCY@@s is a stupidly low amount of money, just pay the bastard before he realises. Also, this is the perfect oppertunity to make a reference about hiw Dr. Evil was in his prime in the 1960s, and North Korea is a time capsial into the 1960s. Don't let this opportunity pass!


How good would a Kim Jong-un parody of Dr. Evil be?

You may want to look up the exact quote, so you can get it right word-for-word, but feel free to play with my Dr.Evil parody of Kim Jong-un
Number 2: It isn't 1969 outside of North Korea Nukystan anymore, 1 million dollars @@CURRENCY@@ isn't a lot of moeny these days
...
Kim Jong-un North Nukystan's Leader: Gentlemen, after I've nuked Seoul South Nukystans' capital, I will destroy one major city ever hour on the hour, and that is of coarse, unless you pay me, 1 million dollars @@CURRENCY@@s
**Everyone laughs**
Kim Jong-un North Nukystan's Leader: Oh sorry, 1 hundred billion dollars @@CURRENCY@@s

As I don't want to anger to copyright police, I've made @@HIS@@ speech as similar as humanly possible.

[Singapore no2]

Bumpity Bumpity Bump.

[Australian rePublic]

Option 1, RE: The quote I sent, you left out obliterating South Nukystan's capital, please put it in

[Australian rePublic]

Dr. Evil and Kim Jing-un are bith male. Therefore the speaker in option 1 should be male.

That logic doesn't follow. As long as the reference can be noticed, you don't need to match the phenotypes of the characters being referenced. It's no more necessary than making a character the same age or same ethnicity.

Not really. Kim Jong-un is a 33 year old Korean man, whilst Dr. Evil is British/Dutch and whilst his age is not specified, I would assume middle aged. The only similarity between the two is that they are both male