NS Cliches: Rebooted

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Perhaps more of a NSG cliche, but people citing 1984 with reckless abandon...

That's more of an internet cliché more than anything else.

'I got banned from [insert any website here] for violating the terms and conditions I agreed to follow when I signed up??? This is literally 1984.'

"I have to follow rules about what can and can't be said when dealing with non-governmental entities? What about free speech? 1984!"

[Kiu Ghesik]

anything can be real if you only believe...

No, Kiu. It's not just a dream. There's a wholesome General-Secretary out there, just waiting for someone to love. There are plenty of fish in that ocean.

you really think that? i... i can... i can do it, then! if rein believes, then it's possible!

Achchually, the Soviets beat you there too if you count unmanned missions.

Now I'm thinking of Yuri's smile on propaganda posters. Even if the world doesn't get any better during these years, I'll never forget how the first person in space wasn't some aristocrat or politician, he was the son of a milkmaid and a humble industrial worker...

because the bureaucrats and politicians were too scared out of their asses to climb up on that damn hypergolic candlestick and conscripted a pleb to do it for them.

_{ahem, my cynic's side is showing again.}

[The Saucer Pilots]

Achchually, the Soviets beat you there too if you count unmanned missions.

Now I'm thinking of Yuri's smile on propaganda posters. Even if the world doesn't get any better during these years, I'll never forget how the first person in space wasn't some aristocrat or politician, he was the son of a milkmaid and a humble industrial worker...

That smile deserved lyrics all by itself, apparently.

Ahh...shit...I just remembered that I still need to work on how the Space Race is going in the Las Palmeras-verse. Sergei Korolev is still alive and the Red Army captured Von Braun and all the Peenemunde staff in '43. Eh, I'll get to it, eventually....

[Gandoor]

That's more of an internet cliché more than anything else.

'I got banned from [insert any website here] for violating the terms and conditions I agreed to follow when I signed up??? This is literally 1984.'

"I have to follow rules about what can and can't be said when dealing with non-governmental entities? What about free speech? 1984!"

If you want a picture of the future, imagine getting banned for calling people slurs on Twitter — forever.

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No, Kiu. It's not just a dream. There's a wholesome General-Secretary out there, just waiting for someone to love. There are plenty of fish in that ocean.

you really think that? i... i can... i can do it, then! if rein believes, then it's possible!

So on that day, a pure love fantasy was borne, invigorated by Reinkalistan's encouragement.

Once again, Kiu's heart began to pound with joy as the possibilities began to flood his mind: A dreamy vacation in the Pacific, sipping rose on the beach while suntanning next to Mr. Perfect, the Comrade Secretary. Their dates at the arcade, where Comrade Secretary would win every prize there was on the claw machine, gifting each of them into Kiu's waiting arms. They would look into one another's eyes, and Kiu would lean in to smell the soft cigar smoke lingering on his jacket, smiling as they held each other in their arms tightly. And of course, the wedding and honeymoon: no expenses would be spared as Kiu and Comrade Secretary enjoyed the best ceremony one could have in Vladivostok, And then, after they became partners forever, they would retreat to the cabin that Comrade Secretary had built with his own hands where...

Kiu opened his eyes, changed forever. He knew what he would have to do, and bought a one-way trip to St. Petersburg. A new life was about to begin!

[Socialist Macronesia]

krushchev is unbased, so is james bond.

reject "nations" and "cars." return to mujahedeen.

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

Am I the only capitalist here?

NS cliche: those moments when I feel like the only capitalist around here.

I'm still a capitalist in this Holocene shit-show, ask again in 10-15 years to see if I've gone eco-socialist or eco-fascist.

*Launches into space, landing on the Moon.*

Achchually, the Soviets beat you there too if you count unmanned missions.

True...but as for manned missions....

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

(Image)

>A state capitalist, a slaver and a Chinese emperor in all but name
:eyes:

[Aureumterra III]

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>A state capitalist and Chinese emperor in all but name
:eyes:

Yes, problem?

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

>A state capitalist and Chinese emperor in all but name
:eyes:

Yes, problem?

Didn't know you've gone from anarcho-capitalism to abject tyranny.

[Gandoor]

I'm still a capitalist in this Holocene shit-show, ask again in 10-15 years to see if I've gone eco-socialist or eco-fascist.



Achchually, the Soviets beat you there too if you count unmanned missions.

True...but as for manned missions....

The Soviets:
- First satellite in orbit
- First animal in orbit
- First spacecraft to achieve escape velocity
- First human in space
- First woman (and civilian!) in space
- First spacewalk

The USA:
OK but we won because we landed people on the shitty rock!!!

[Khoronzon]

Didn't know you've gone from anarcho-capitalism to abject tyranny.

seethe. cope, even. dilate, one might say.

the line goes up nonetheless deng gang stay winning

[The Saucer Pilots]

True...but as for manned missions....

It's a shame that For all Mankind didn't happen IRL. Think of all the lonely rocks left without any human company after the Space Pee-Pee Measuring Contest lulled.

[Sophia in England]

True...but as for manned missions....

The Soviets:
- First satellite in orbit
- First animal in orbit
- First spacecraft to achieve escape velocity
- First human in space
- First woman (and civilian!) in space
- First spacewalk

The USA:
OK but we won because we landed people on the shitty rock!!!

Victors write history, I suppose.

[Aureumterra III]

you really think that? i... i can... i can do it, then! if rein believes, then it's possible!

So on that day, a pure love fantasy was borne, invigorated by Reinkalistan's encouragement.

Once again, Kiu's heart began to pound with joy as the possibilities began to flood his mind: A dreamy vacation in the Pacific, sipping rose on the beach while suntanning next to Mr. Perfect, the Comrade Secretary. Their dates at the arcade, where Comrade Secretary would win every prize there was on the claw machine, gifting each of them into Kiu's waiting arms. They would look into one another's eyes, and Kiu would lean in to smell the soft cigar smoke lingering on his jacket, smiling as they held each other in their arms tightly. And of course, the wedding and honeymoon: no expenses would be spared as Kiu and Comrade Secretary enjoyed the best ceremony one could have in Vladivostok, And then, after they became partners forever, they would retreat to the cabin that Comrade Secretary had built with his own hands where...

Kiu opened his eyes, changed forever. He knew what he would have to do, and bought a one-way trip to St. Petersburg. A new life was about to begin!

Sheds tear

[The Greatly Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom]

Anyways, any other clichés we can assume are on this website aside from the things we’ve already mentioned before?

[Gandoor]

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Anyways, any other clichés we can assume are on this website aside from the things we’ve already mentioned before?

This might be a super-specific cliché but nations that officially speak English where it is conveniently exactly identical to whatever variety of English is spoken by the user behind the nation.

[Most Catholic Empire of Antarctica]

Cliche #1 of course is a flag that is really a photograph and not a conventional flag design at all

Cliche #2 is Japanese-hybrid culture

[Menschlicher Sternenstaat]

Cliche #1 of course is a flag that is really a photograph and not a conventional flag design at all

Cliche #2 is Japanese-hybrid culture

this isn't what the thread is for brother

[Tohorin]

Cliche #2 is Japanese-hybrid culture

From my factbook. I regret nothing.

OOC: This is a niche historical in-joke, tied to outdated theories over East Asian cultural diffusion into the Americas to explain things like the 4-color cosmogram and feathered serpents, proposed by the late ethnologist Walter Krickeberg in the 1940s and 1950s.

[Menschlicher Sternenstaat]

Cliche #1 of course is a flag that is really a photograph and not a conventional flag design at all

Cliche #2 is Japanese-hybrid culture

this isn't what the thread is for brother

wait I may be wrong, that is unless you were doing clichés of Gandoor specifically lmao

[Kiu Ghesik]

cli·ché
/klēˈSHā/
noun

1. a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

"the old cliché “one man's meat is another man's poison.”"
Similar: platitude, hackneyed phrase, commonplace, banality, truism, trite phrase, banal phrase, overworked phrase, stock phrase, bromide, saw, maxim, adage, dictum, saying, tag, aphorism, expression, phrase, formula, old chestnut, apothegm

[Cavirfi]

I notice there is a trinity of nations on N&IRP: It's either your puritanically Christian, puritanically Islamic, or hardline Communist. These nations are so common, at least in the parts of the forums I participated in when I was still Crabaiaia.

So guess what I did with Cavirfi? I made it both borderline puritanically Christian AND borderline hardline Communist at the same time

[Crysuko]

Slave markets in global economics and trade. I mean come on, you don’t need an economics degree to know why slave economies fell through, and why the idea of a modern one is ludicrous

[Aureumterra III]

Slave markets in global economics and trade. I mean come on, you don’t need an economics degree to know why slave economies fell through, and why the idea of a modern one is ludicrous

To be fair, said player is rather infamous for their… constant slave RP