The Writers' Block

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Yeah, it's gnejs (gneiss).

It's fairly nice at best.

[Drasnia]

Yeah, it's gnejs (gneiss).

It's fairly nice at best.

The joke would have been saying "Eh, it's decent I guess."

[Australian rePublic]

I figured out how I keep getting published.

Issue 430.2

That's the same reason I don't get published

You do realise that post, as well as my issue, are jokes, right?

[Australian rePublic]

Damn, spell check was telling me that "Vilotism" was spelt wrong and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out why, before remembering that Violitism is not a real word. Damn, have I spent that much of my life in Got Issue?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Probably doesn't helps either that it's not even a word used in NationStates.

[Australian rePublic]

If I were to change my primary nation, would I be able to take my authored issues (and the author's badge) with me?

[Gnejs]

I wouldn't imagine so, no.

[Australian rePublic]

I wouldn't imagine so, no.

Who would have authority over that?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Us, pretty much. And the answer is what Gnejs just said.

[Fauxia]

That's the same reason I don't get published

You do realise that post, as well as my issue, are jokes, right?

You do realize I'm joking when I call the IEs corrupt?

[Fauxia]

Probably doesn't helps either that it's not even a word used in NationStates.

[Frieden-und Freudenland]

What would you folks think about an issue where a citizen is attacked by a dog in the park and people are discussing whether people should be allowed to keep dogs as pets? (I have searched for the keyword "dog" in the spoiler alert thread, and I think there is only one issue that is directly relevant to cats and dogs, and it is about stray animals. Of course, I do not know about issues after #773.)

The premise would be: A citizen takes a walk in the park and his leg is bitten by the pitbull of another person.

Options:

1) The bitten person claims that dogs are dangerous, and should only be kept in zoos and by people who need them for a task (e.g. a Golden Retriever as a hunting dog, but not as a pet).

2) A compromising person says that there is nothing wrong with keeping friendly dog races such as Golden Retrievers as pets, but people should be banned from keeping aggressive and potentially dangerous races such as pitbulls, Dobermans, etc.

3) A panicking person suggests that people should be prohibited from taking care of not only dogs, but all animals. And then s/he goes on to tell how his/her neighbour's parakeet had once bitten his/her finger when s/he tried to pet him.

4) Someone who finds the whole idea ridiculous, and says that people should be able to keep any animal as a pet.

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What do you think?

[Trotterdam]

What would you folks think about an issue where a citizen is attacked by a dog in the park and people are discussing whether people should be allowed to keep dogs as pets? (I have searched for the keyword "dog" in the spoiler alert thread, and I think there is only one issue that is directly relevant to cats and dogs, and it is about stray animals. Of course, I do not know about issues after #773.)

The basic issue about citizens getting attacked by animals is #133 (it uses @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ rather than dogs, which is why your search didn't find it).

It doesn't include your "ban pets entirely" option, though.

4) Someone who finds the whole idea ridiculous, and says that people should be able to keep any animal as a pet.

Some animals are banned as pets because they're endangered species and there aren't enough of them to sell, rather than because they're dangerous.

(Of course, quite a lot of animals are endangered and dangerous. Big, cool superpredators are actually quite vulnerable to ecological damage. It's the tiny, weak, fast-reproducing animals that survive extinction events.)

[Australian rePublic]

What would you folks think about an issue where a citizen is attacked by a dog in the park and people are discussing whether people should be allowed to keep dogs as pets? (I have searched for the keyword "dog" in the spoiler alert thread, and I think there is only one issue that is directly relevant to cats and dogs, and it is about stray animals. Of course, I do not know about issues after #773.)

The premise would be: A citizen takes a walk in the park and his leg is bitten by the pitbull of another person.

Options:

1) The bitten person claims that dogs are dangerous, and should only be kept in zoos and by people who need them for a task (e.g. a Golden Retriever as a hunting dog, but not as a pet).

2) A compromising person says that there is nothing wrong with keeping friendly dog races such as Golden Retrievers as pets, but people should be banned from keeping aggressive and potentially dangerous races such as pitbulls, Dobermans, etc.

3) A panicking person suggests that people should be prohibited from taking care of not only dogs, but all animals. And then s/he goes on to tell how his/her neighbour's parakeet had once bitten his/her finger when s/he tried to pet him.

4) Someone who finds the whole idea ridiculous, and says that people should be able to keep any animal as a pet.

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What do you think?

There's also an issue about @@ANIMAL@@ cross breeding with dogs, so I think it's safe to assume that dogs do exist in the NAtionStates world
You need something about Bred Specific Legilsation somewhere

Also, Effect for option 3- People have been prohibited from owning gold fish as they are considered too aggressive towards humans

[Aclion]

I'm thinking of writing a followup issue on the environmental effects of damming rivers in #089. If my memory serves right there is a factbook entry for nations that have dams; similar to the one for "sprawling nuclear power plants". Is that right?

[Ransium]

I'm thinking of writing a followup issue on the environmental effects of damming rivers in #089. If my memory serves right there is a factbook entry for nations that have dams; similar to the one for "sprawling nuclear power plants". Is that right?

A factbook entry? I don't follow? Did you mean something else?

[Luna Amore]

I'm sure I'll miss something given how long it's been since the last one.

Got Issues Update no.6

• Issues added since last update: 265! Speeding up doesn’t do it justice. We’re are at 814 issues and may have more by the time I’m done with this sentence¹. This team of editors is incredible. I am in awe of their work.
• We’ve lost our fearless leader, Sedgistan. What can't you say about Sedge? The editing team as it stands is the result of his hard work in managing and growing it over the last 5 years. His presence in the Editing Room will definitely be missed. We wish him well in RL, whatever the hell that is.
• In a direct reversal of last update, Senior Editor Sanctaria has rejoined the team (jeez, it’s been a while since the last update)
• Between updates, Lenyo CTEd and now has resurrected just in the nick of time. I had him in the "fair thee well section!" Welcome back to our finest editro!
• We’ve added two new chains (by CWA and NoQ) to game bringing the total chain count to 3. More to come? I sure hope so!
• Industry reform is … still in limbo. We want it, but it’s wrought with trouble. Hopefully we'll have more progress before the next update.
• We now have individual issue banners for each issue.
• For the first time in this game's history, someone other than Max has the most authored issues in game. Congrats to NoQ with 42 issues in game!
• Got Issues continues to boast activity. Back in my day, threads could stay on the front page for weeks! You whippersnappers are moving faster and faster.
• Candlewhisper continues to lead initiatives (both textually and stat-wise) to polish the game to a mirror shine
• We are at our biggest and most active team yet with 13 active members (Pogaria, NoQ, Gnejs, Ransium, Zwangzug, Sanc, Grim, Free Joy, Caracasus, CwA, Helaw, Lenyo and myself)

¹ No seriously, we were at 804 when I started writing this a week and a half ago.

[Aclion]

I'm thinking of writing a followup issue on the environmental effects of damming rivers in #089. If my memory serves right there is a factbook entry for nations that have dams; similar to the one for "sprawling nuclear power plants". Is that right?

A factbook entry? I don't follow? Did you mean something else?

Um, whatever the generated text on the nation page is called. Specifically the renowned/famous/noteworthy bit

The Constitutional Republic of Aclion is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Sébastien Larousse with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare.

[Ransium]

Ah gotchya! I don't think so, but that's not a factor as to whether you should write a follow up or not. If we want to track something for an issue we will, whether we have in the past or not (not all things tracked are noted in the descriptions either.) We can also link one issue to the next like issue chains.

[Aclion]

Ah gotchya! I don't think so, but that's not a factor as to whether you should write a follow up or not. If we want to track something for an issue we will, whether we have in the past or not (not all things tracked are noted in the descriptions either.) We can also link one issue to the next like issue chains.

That's true, but I wanted to know so I knew whether to write as a direct follow up to that issue or as a more broad follow up to having hydroelectric dams.

[Ransium]

You can do it either way. The game assumes that your nation DOES have dams by default but tracks if you've outlawed them. But, generally, if we need to, we can always add new things to keep track off.

[Fauxia]

The third issue on NoQ's list is done, there's an issue about lack of judges

Also there's "Mesozoic Park" which addresses dinosaurs

[Candlewhisper Archive]

The third issue on NoQ's list is done, there's an issue about lack of judges

Also there's "Mesozoic Park" which addresses dinosaurs

Cheers. Though I am able to modify NoQ's posts, I generally don't do so!

Do you mind dropping him a TG, and he'll update the post.

[Trotterdam]

Mesozoic Park is the original issue about dinosaurs. I assume the issue request is for a followup issue for nations that chose to clone dinosaurs in that issue, and are now running into problems with them.

There was a never-submitted draft that made a rather good point about the kinds of difficulties you'd face as a result of bringing back dinosaurs, but I didn't like the options.

[Jutsa]

Do we have an issue or issue draft about keeping, discarding, or having exclusivey executive orders..?