[P2TM Chat] The Restaurant at the End of the Multiverse II

by **Nature-Spirits** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:23 pm

Alleniana wrote:
The Issue

With the same old dilemmas confronting Alleniana time and time again, people are demanding to know why there aren't more genuinely new issues.

The Debate

"Well, that's because they're all twaddle," says [violet] matter-of-factly while twirling a lighter in her hands. "I'm sick and tired of reading that garbage. I've decided to scrap the player-submitted system -- but don't tell anyone that. The endless waves of hate mail would overwhelm the server."

Accept

"The aim of this site is to promote my novel, not the writing talents of literary wannabes," scoffs Max Barry while sipping an iced-Margarita on a yacht in the South Pacific. "I've ordered the mods to only approve mediocre issues to ensure that no one discovers there are better writers out there than me."

Accept

"I've been combing through the queue, carefully examining each draft and determining its potential," sighs Sedgistan who is sitting next to an orderly stack of drafts stamped 'no way in hell'. "I'm confronted with thousands upon thousands of issues. I have to manage multiple editors and somehow still place in the Mod Olympics. Do you have any idea how much stress that puts on me? That's why it takes so long. Stop breathing down my neck. If you want to be useful, go help out the newbies in Got Issues."

Accept

"Huh? What's that?" says Sanctaria absentmindedly, looking up from an intimidating series of flow charts. "More issues? Well, it's your lucky day! I'm working on my next great chain. It will dwarf my last one in size and complexity. Forget everything you know about issues, every rule you think we can't break, because this chain is going to break them all."

Accept

"I couldn't agree with this more!" yelps Comrade Lenyo, his arms full of drafts. "We've received over 6,000 submissions! If we just got rid of the delete button, that'd be over 6,000 more issues. Who doesn't want that? Why are we still wasting time talking about this? Why are you reading this instead of submitting more drafts for us to add? EVERY. SECOND. COUNTS!"

Accept

The deafening Voice of Mod booms down from the heavens, "You will receive new issues when you receive new issues. Your questioning is undermining the authority of the mods. I've deleted enough nations to know flaming when I read it. You have been warned."

Accept

Anyone got it before?

This is great.

by **Alleniana** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:35 pm

this came just then

The Issue

Along with the rest of the world, the citizens of Alleniana have been stunned by the revelation of a small team of geophysical philosophers that the world turns exactly one year old today, as measured by what they call "RL units". (Congratulations on finding so many easter eggs. As a reward, here is the special issue our players got when NationStates turned one year old.)

The Debate

"Frankly, I saw this coming -- all the signs of the Apocalypse are here," says local community leader Lauren Usman. "Moral standards are falling, the government is making increasingly erratic decisions, and people are neglecting their work to play bizarre political simulation games on the internet. There's only one sensible reaction: declaring a state of emergency, sending out the military, and shooting curfew breakers until the crisis is over."

Accept

"With respect, I don't think falling moral standards are the problem," says cubicle dweller and Slashdot karma god Bharatendu Strange. "The issue is what's going to happen to our computers if the world clock ticks over from 0 to 1. This Y1 problem, as I call it, could be devastating for our IT industry unless it's tackled swiftly. And by tackled swiftly, I mean given a massive injection of public money."

Accept

"Why panic when you should be partying?" says Sashona Spirit, not completely soberly. "It's the first birthday of the world, man -- let people go nuts! If the government has a shred of decency, they'll order the cops to back off and let people really enjoy this incredible moment in history."

Accept

"This is neither a time for clamping down, nor, as they say, going off," says religious leader Peggy Nagasawa. "Rather, we should encourage people to reflect on the great mysteries of life. For example, what is God, to each of us? What is the true meaning of faith? And is the world around us reality, or are we instead living inside a simulated reality that exists only for the amusement of beings we cannot even imagine?"

Accept

"Well, I know what I'll be doing," says obscure author and Perl amateur Max Barry. "Sitting at home with a good book! Jennifer Government, for instance, is a cracking read. And I hear that some of the profits go into maintaining a cool web game. But of course, that's just my opinion. People should celebrate however they want."

Accept

I picked the last one

Pixiv · by **Wolfenium** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:58 pm

*Sees semi-annual zombie apocalypse. Again...*

Sigh... Happy Halloween. -_-

by **The Grey Wolf** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:11 pm

Wolfenium wrote:*Sees semi-annual zombie apocalypse. Again...*

Sigh... Happy Halloween. -_-

Not even participating this year. It got boring ages ago.

by **Olthar** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:43 pm

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Wolfenium wrote:*Sees semi-annual zombie apocalypse. Again...*

Sigh... Happy Halloween. -_-

Not even participating this year. It got boring ages ago.

It was boring the first time it happened.

by **Nature-Spirits** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:53 pm

Personally, I enjoy the math and strategy involved. Especially the math. I've been near-constantly running mental calculations for the past few hours, and I honestly feel like it's doing more to exercise my brain than school is.

Pixiv · by **Wolfenium** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:57 pm

Nature-Spirits wrote:Personally, I enjoy the math and strategy involved. Especially the math. I've been near-constantly running mental calculations for the past few hours, and I honestly feel like it's doing more to exercise my brain than school is.

Really? All I've done is mobilize my puppet army and spam the cure missile button. :/

by **Nature-Spirits** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:01 pm

Wolfenium wrote:
Nature-Spirits wrote:Personally, I enjoy the math and strategy involved. Especially the math. I've been near-constantly running mental calculations for the past few hours, and I honestly feel like it's doing more to exercise my brain than school is.

Really? All I've done is mobilize my puppet army and spam the cure missile button. :/

Well, I suppose I've been doing that to an extent as well, but I'm also doing calculations to determine effectiveness of the cure missiles based on a number of factors and to estimate the amount of time it will take to cure each nation.

Pixiv · by **Wolfenium** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:51 pm

Nature-Spirits wrote:
Wolfenium wrote:
Really? All I've done is mobilize my puppet army and spam the cure missile button. :/

Well, I suppose I've been doing that to an extent as well, but I'm also doing calculations to determine effectiveness of the cure missiles based on a number of factors and to estimate the amount of time it will take to cure each nation.

Ehhh... do you necessarily have to go that far?... The most is that cure missiles become less effective the less zombies a target nation has. It's not really that great a thought exercise unless you put your mind to it. :V

In other news, it's Free Burrito Day, and there happened to be a new Guzman Y Gomez restaurant at the mall near my aunt's house (where I'm staying). I... don't think they understand how much people here flock like bees to anything free.

by **Nature-Spirits** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:35 pm

Wolfenium wrote:
Nature-Spirits wrote: Well, I suppose I've been doing that to an extent as well, but I'm also doing calculations to determine effectiveness of the cure missiles based on a number of factors and to estimate the amount of time it will take to cure each nation.

Ehhh... do you necessarily have to go that far?... The most is that cure missiles become less effective the less zombies a target nation has. It's not really that great a thought exercise unless you put your mind to it. :V

Well, determining the effectiveness in relation to the factors was part of estimating the amount of time that full cures would take, and I needed to estimate the time so that I could cure strategically and efficiently.

by **Adab** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 12:39 am

Rupudska wrote:Allow me to present: The most Mexican thing in existence

Magnificent, magnificent. One of the greatest achievements that shall be etched on the annals of human history.

by **Alleniana** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:43 am

It always begins at an inconvenient time for me, every year, so I always have very little chance of survival.

by **Ularn** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 2:54 am

Our whole region was on course for 100% cure until some muppet started shooting their infected. Think the higher upas are planning to eject them until it's all over so we can keep a perfect score

by **The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 3:06 am

I'm in a region with some RL friends, so of course we're working on a cure!

by **Altito Asmoro** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:12 am

Do we have a French player in NS?

by **Nature-Spirits** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:09 am

Altito Asmoro wrote:Do we have a French player in NS?

I've met several in NSG. I can't think of anyone from P2TM, although I'm sure there must be one or two.

by **The Templar High Council** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:30 am

The Armed Republic of Dutch coolness wrote:I'm in a region with some RL friends, so of course we're working on a cure!

CoM is too disorganized. Most of the nations didn't respond with anything.

So I joined the winning team.

Team Z.

Pixiv · by **Wolfenium** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:31 am

The Templar High Council wrote:
The Armed Republic of Dutch coolness wrote:I'm in a region with some RL friends, so of course we're working on a cure!

CoM is too disorganized. Most of the nations didn't respond with anything.

So I joined the winning team.

Team Z.

Your Z team is starving out, though.

by **The Templar High Council** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:33 am

Wolfenium wrote:
The Templar High Council wrote:CoM is too disorganized. Most of the nations didn't respond with anything.

So I joined the winning team.

Team Z.

Your Z team is starving out, though.

Yes.

And the event is ending, and it won't matter in 15 hours except as a statistic for posterity.

Point?

by **Tiltjuice** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:37 am

The Templar High Council wrote:
Wolfenium wrote:Your Z team is starving out, though.

Yes.

And the event is ending, and it won't matter in 15 hours except as a statistic for posterity.

Point?

Celine Dion.

by **Alleniana** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:49 am

Altito Asmoro wrote:Do we have a French player in NS?

Probably.

"If you can't beat them, join them"
Not sure it applies to zombies...

by **The Grey Wolf** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:11 am

Altito Asmoro wrote:Do we have a French player in NS?

We did, but they surrendered immediately after the creation of II.

by **Alleniana** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:14 am

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Altito Asmoro wrote:Do we have a French player in NS?

We did, but they surrendered immediately after the creation of II.

*frowns Napoleonically*

by **The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:18 am

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Altito Asmoro wrote:Do we have a French player in NS?

We did, but they surrendered immediately after the creation of II.

hahah get it its le french are cowards maymay xDDD

by **The Grey Wolf** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:19 am

Alleniana wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:
We did, but they surrendered immediately after the creation of II.

*frowns Napoleonically*

I ended up googling that word, only to find out that it's real.

Go back to the French Revolution from whence thy came.

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