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The Grims
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Postby The Grims » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:43 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:No, seriously who carries 3000 USD (GBP, Euro) with them at night, alone?

Oooooh, i'm a drugs dealer, aren't I? :lol:


Combat trained by the government no less.

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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:44 am

Internationalist Bastard wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:
...

Only sometimes.

That said, I'd get a hotel room and invite them over.

The cheap ones are on the street.

Sure but then you forgot the ice so you step outside to get to the machine and then they mug you

I think that is really the only way this scenario makes any sense.

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Caracasus
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Postby Caracasus » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:44 am

The Grims wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:No, seriously who carries 3000 USD (GBP, Euro) with them at night, alone?

Oooooh, i'm a drugs dealer, aren't I? :lol:


Combat trained by the government no less.


CIA then.
As an editor I seam to spend an awful lot of thyme going threw issues and checking that they're no oblivious errars. Its a tough job but someone's got too do it!



Issues editor, not a moderator.

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Infected Mushroom
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:45 am

this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:45 am

The Grims wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:No, seriously who carries 3000 USD (GBP, Euro) with them at night, alone?

Oooooh, i'm a drugs dealer, aren't I? :lol:


Combat trained by the government no less.

You're actually part of an FBI sting operation.

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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:46 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

No they wouldn't, 50% think they would fight.

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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:47 am

To actually answer, I either leg it, or I just give my wallet. Depending on how good my training actually was.

I might ask if they just take the cash, it's a hassle to replace things that are quite useless to them like my credit card, health insurance card, etc. It's not like I won't block those immediately.
The Blaatschapen should resign

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Infected Mushroom
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:48 am

Heloin wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

No they wouldn't, 50% think they would fight.


what do you mean by this?

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Caracasus
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Postby Caracasus » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:48 am

Heloin wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

No they wouldn't, 50% think they would fight.


More accurately 50 per cent of nation accounts, not neccessarily belonging to different people clicked on the fight option.
As an editor I seam to spend an awful lot of thyme going threw issues and checking that they're no oblivious errars. Its a tough job but someone's got too do it!



Issues editor, not a moderator.

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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:48 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Heloin wrote:No they wouldn't, 50% think they would fight.


what do you mean by this?


It means that people decide otherwise when in the heat of the moment.
The Blaatschapen should resign

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Chernoslavia
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Postby Chernoslavia » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:49 am

I can't just brain them can I?
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Infected Mushroom
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:50 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
what do you mean by this?


It means that people decide otherwise when in the heat of the moment.


so then... you're saying some of the 50% are lying?

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The Galactic Liberal Democracy
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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:51 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

More like 50% are so greedy they value their wallet over their life. This isn’t courage, it’s stupidity. It’s brave when you are risking death for something abstractly valuable to you. Getting yourself killed or seriously injured over money you don’t need it pointless.
NOT STORMTROOPERS
Cossack Khanate wrote:This shall forever be known as World War Sh*t: Newark Aggression. Now if I see one more troop deployed, I will call on the force of all the Hindu gods to reverse time and wipe your race of the face of the planet. Cease.

The Black Party wrote:(TBP kamikaze's into all 99999999999 nukes before they hit our territory because we just have that many pilots ready to die for dah blak regime, we also counter-attack into your nation with our entire population of 45 million because this RP allows it.)

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:Galatic Liberal Democracy short-circuits all of NS with FACTS and LOGIC

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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:51 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:
It means that people decide otherwise when in the heat of the moment.


so then... you're saying some of the 50% are lying?


No.

I am saying that such snap decisions made under pressure will be a lot different than when merely posed to them as a hypothetical on an internet forum.
The Blaatschapen should resign

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PANGANIA
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Founded: Aug 05, 2018
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Postby PANGANIA » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

2. I give them my wallet! But it's a trick! It's full of monopoly money. It's the fake! That's right my real wallet is in the last place they'd want to check. In my underwear! Get pranked robbers!
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Free Arabian Nation
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Postby Free Arabian Nation » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

To answer the OP, I wouldn't fight, but I look a lot younger than I actually am so somebody would probably fight for me because "What kind of sick fuck robs a little boy?"
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Caracasus
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Founded: Apr 23, 2015
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Postby Caracasus » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:
It means that people decide otherwise when in the heat of the moment.


so then... you're saying some of the 50% are lying?


Not exactly. People don't have anywhere near as much control over what they do in a situation like this as you think.
As an editor I seam to spend an awful lot of thyme going threw issues and checking that they're no oblivious errars. Its a tough job but someone's got too do it!



Issues editor, not a moderator.

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Lanoraie II
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Founded: Jan 01, 2018
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Postby Lanoraie II » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

The Galactic Liberal Democracy wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

More like 50% are so greedy they value their wallet over their life. This isn’t courage, it’s stupidity. It’s brave when you are risking death for something abstractly valuable to you. Getting yourself killed or seriously injured over money you don’t need it pointless.


No offense, but I get this feeling you've never had to worry about what will pay for your next meal. If your life is in the gutter, money and good luck is all you have to pull yourself out of it. Love might keep you sane longer, but unless someone's giving you a place to stay and eat for free, or a job, it won't get you anywhere.
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Heloin wrote:No they wouldn't, 50% think they would fight.


what do you mean by this?

Caracasus wrote:More accurately 50 per cent of nation accounts, not neccessarily belonging to different people clicked on the fight option.

^ this

And that it's you alone and unarmed facing three armed men. If you try and fight them you wouldn't be an action hero, you'd be a moron needlessly putting your life at risk.
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Infected Mushroom
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

The Galactic Liberal Democracy wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:this is a very brave forum

over 50% of posters would fight

I'm impressed by the True Courage

More like 50% are so greedy they value their wallet over their life. This isn’t courage, it’s stupidity. It’s brave when you are risking death for something abstractly valuable to you. Getting yourself killed or seriously injured over money you don’t need it pointless.


what if they did so out of a sense of honour?

warrior's pride etc?

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Chernoslavia
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Postby Chernoslavia » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:52 am

Free Arabian Nation wrote:To answer the OP, I wouldn't fight, but I look a lot younger than I actually am so somebody would probably fight for me because "What kind of sick fuck robs a little boy?"


Don't count on it.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The Galactic Liberal Democracy
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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:53 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:
No.

I am saying that such snap decisions made under pressure will be a lot different than when merely posed to them as a hypothetical on an internet forum.

But their wallet is at stake! Even though the government might not even let you keep it.
NOT STORMTROOPERS
Cossack Khanate wrote:This shall forever be known as World War Sh*t: Newark Aggression. Now if I see one more troop deployed, I will call on the force of all the Hindu gods to reverse time and wipe your race of the face of the planet. Cease.

The Black Party wrote:(TBP kamikaze's into all 99999999999 nukes before they hit our territory because we just have that many pilots ready to die for dah blak regime, we also counter-attack into your nation with our entire population of 45 million because this RP allows it.)

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:Galatic Liberal Democracy short-circuits all of NS with FACTS and LOGIC

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Free Arabian Nation
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Postby Free Arabian Nation » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:53 am

Chernoslavia wrote:
Free Arabian Nation wrote:To answer the OP, I wouldn't fight, but I look a lot younger than I actually am so somebody would probably fight for me because "What kind of sick fuck robs a little boy?"


Don't count on it.

... OK then, I'll remember to hire trained snipers to watch me 24/7
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I don't use NS Stats, for they are against the will of Liberty and God.

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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:54 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The Galactic Liberal Democracy wrote:More like 50% are so greedy they value their wallet over their life. This isn’t courage, it’s stupidity. It’s brave when you are risking death for something abstractly valuable to you. Getting yourself killed or seriously injured over money you don’t need it pointless.


what if they did so out of a sense of honour?

warrior's pride etc?

You'd be a moron.

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The Galactic Liberal Democracy
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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:54 am

Free Arabian Nation wrote:... OK then, I'll remember to hire trained snipers to watch me 24/7

That’s actually a good idea.
NOT STORMTROOPERS
Cossack Khanate wrote:This shall forever be known as World War Sh*t: Newark Aggression. Now if I see one more troop deployed, I will call on the force of all the Hindu gods to reverse time and wipe your race of the face of the planet. Cease.

The Black Party wrote:(TBP kamikaze's into all 99999999999 nukes before they hit our territory because we just have that many pilots ready to die for dah blak regime, we also counter-attack into your nation with our entire population of 45 million because this RP allows it.)

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:Galatic Liberal Democracy short-circuits all of NS with FACTS and LOGIC

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