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Mardoc Wrote:Any chance that applies to your neighbors? Especially sunrise? I could see skirmishers being quite nice for expansion if there are no war chariots out there.
Skirmishers are very nice at defense, but they can't help when I'm about to be pillaged  .
Lack of horses makes getting attacked by pillaging axemen a big mess, since there's no cost-effective and reliable way to deal with it.
By the way:
Ichabod Wrote:By the way, Sunrise, since my Jedi Mind Trick doesn't work through internet connections, we can stick with the previous deal. I didn't even remember we had something decided about that.
Goes to show how much attention I'm paying to this game, when I don't even know what my team-mates are doing.
Note: Backstab Sunrise and plant the sugar city as soon as possible. Need 2/3 Skirmishers.
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Ichabod those public player thread posts are pure gold...keep 'em coming  !
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darrelljs Wrote:Ichabod those public player thread posts are pure gold...keep 'em coming !
Darrell
Thanks, it's due to some wise words I've heard a few days ago. :neenernee
I'm not brave enough yet, though. I really wanted to post this in the Diplo Thread:
![[Image: 14.%20Letter%20of%20the%20Law.jpg]](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21249278/Pitboss%207/14.%20Letter%20of%20the%20Law.jpg)
But, oh, well, better to not make the fire stronger.
Unfortunately, we don't have a Mother-based Dictatorship going in this game... It'd certainly be helpful.
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Ichabod Wrote:Skirmishers are very nice at defense, but they can't help when I'm about to be pillaged .
Lack of horses makes getting attacked by pillaging axemen a big mess, since there's no cost-effective and reliable way to deal with it.
I'm trying to find a silver lining here, that's all  . As annoying as axemen are, I think War Chariots would be worse.
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I would totally post that, but I also recommend not taking my advce  .
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[SIZE="5"]WARNING! The following post can only be read by people with SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE![/SIZE]
[SIZE="4"]An Ontopsychological analysys of the Diplo Thread from PB 7: A case study, part I[/SIZE]
For the weak minded, it may seem that the Diplo Thread from PB7 is just a thread for friendly banter between players of a casual (pun intended) computer game. [SIZE="3"]BUT IT'S NOT!![/SIZE] The Diplo Thread (shortened to DT from now on) is actually the place of intense battles of the mind, where the actual GAME is being played. "The Pitboss is a farce"¹, it has been said. This is also true for the PB7 game played in the online community of Realms Beyond². While the eletronic game exists (it has something to do with cities and units or something like that, irrelevamt), the actual GAME is not about that game, but about another game (GAME).
This means that the game being played in the pixelated world is not the conflict in itself. It is only the "creator of conflict³". The real conflict is between the minds of the players, in which they struggle to find out who has the [SIZE="4"]SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE[/SIZE]. In the end, only one sane mind will prevail (crowned the WINNER¹¹), leaving the others competitors in a scenario of totally smashed pride, dubious manhood and possibly being scratched off the superior mind's boot. A miserable condition which translates itself into the loss of humanity and personality.
The objective of the game, inherently conditionated by it, is to overcome the alien minds with a combination of arrogance, smugness, presumption, disrespect, condescension, lies and whatever else is needed to blow the brains of the adversary, making him enter a state of unwillingness to even exist in the form of being in the GAME (a concept commonly described as "this game is not fun anymore") and concede to the [SIZE="4"]MASSIVE MIND CAPACITY[/SIZE] of the player.
That being said, we will now take a look at the case of Mackoti/SevenSpirits vs. Commodore/Xenu.
¹PLATONICUS. Truth, Reason, Art and Pitboss: A study of the human mind. Some translations from the original greek work translate this sentence as "There is no Pitboss". This translation, though, is wrong, since it implies that the Pitboss doesn't exist in the realm of the being. What the author meant was that, while the Pitboss is, it is NOT about the Pitboss.
²www (dot) realmsbeyond (dot) net - WATCH OUT FOR THE GOOGLE HACK!!
³MALCHICHAVEL. Civilizatum Quatrum: Beyondus Swordum.
¹¹"Whiner" is also a possible translation.
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This is the funniest thing I've read in a while =)
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Nice, nice, I quite liked this too!
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Its hilarious but not even I would post it in the public thread .
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