Patriotic_Fool
The Mitt ©
^ I believe a LOL is in order.
Bravo, bravo.
Bravo, bravo.
We'll make peace with you when you pull out of Partitionia, we have no interest in seizing your sovereign territory, but only restore Europe to it's natural peaceful state.I'm here, waving my hands fervently in the air saying the same thing. The stupidity of GCI-MA alliance is making my brain melt. *points at both Chinas, and Australia, and Crusaders, and Voodoo pizzaman (lol)*
If somehow you oust me out of Partitionia and manage to crush my country, I'll be in hell laughing as you are so far behind, others will just take you over easily.
Plus, what does everyone have against the USSR?
Honest question: Why are people defending a certain someone who nuked half the world into oblivion last game?
Hmm?
Because it's a new game? Or maybe they want to be on his side when the nukes start to fall?
Donuts help you lose weight. Mitt Romney will win the election. Women don't belong in kitchens. Dinner is breakfast.
Amidoinitrite?
Thirdly, to the World:
The nation of Jerusalem is at the forefront of Engineering and Robotics technologies and will be putting these technologies to use in more fields than simply industry as we have been for the past years. While we will not disclose which areas are going to be given attention, and we cannot allow our most precious technologies to be observed, we are announcing a Grand Tour of Technology in the capital of Jerusalem itself. All nations (Except the Turks) are invited to observe some of Jerusalem's greatest achievements, including the first ever Vernulus.
We'll make peace with you when you pull out of Partitionia, we have no interest in seizing your sovereign territory, but only restore Europe to it's natural peaceful state.
Beijing University serves up propaganda double-bill
By Edmund Nedellier
The way my colleagues played up two fairly recent documentaries by Beijing University, one could easily have been tricked into thinking Professor Linhuan Sin had discovered the Platonic form of Chinese history, and we would all do best to pack up and go home. I was repeatedly told these were films I absolutely had to see. Naturally, I was skeptical, and as Chinese studies are not my area of expertise, I was somewhat puzzled by their insistence on the matter. Eventually, I broke down and obtained copies of the two films, King George the Great and The Great Chinese War.
Within the first second of the first film, I realized why my colleagues had been so incessant: I was the victim of a practical joke.
Alarm bells should have started ringing when I first obtained the films. I discovered copies were being distributed for free out of the Empire of China's embassies worldwide. The staff informed me I would be treated to "a rich and educational experience" that would "correct the many misconceptions" about Chinese history. It was a hard sell, but I wasn't in the mood to tell them off.
Given all the hype, I was expecting something above-average at best, mediocre at worst. What I got was utter schlock.
The first film, King George the Great, is a five-minute montage of the infamous dictator George I. Contrary to the credits, Professor Sin does not narrate: the entire film consists of stock images overlaid with the barest descriptive text that reads like a five-year-old's primer on history. It barely qualifies as a biography: most of the film's forgettable span is spent on the wars of the period, rather than George himself.
The Great Chinese War is better only because it is shorter, and features a background soundtrack. It is otherwise identical to the utter waste of time that is King George, presenting the barest of facts without even an attempt to place its subject matter into a broader context.
I cannot begin to describe how bad these films are. I wouldn't have written a review at all, but I feel it is my civic duty to warn the reader away from this trash. The films look like they were cobbled together by a bored intern with video editing software, not the result of professorial research; if this is the standard of Chinese Imperial academia, I can only weep for the country.
Worse than the zero-budget production value is the gross distortions both films make to the historical record. Anyone with a basic understanding of Chinese history will notice the glaring omission of any mention of the Scarlet Lancers; in fact, the 2166-2173 interregnum is completely ignored. King George suggests the imperial legacy continued uninterrupted for a millennium, when that chapter ended with Otto I's arrest in 2179. China's atomic bombings of its neighbours are glanced over, and state policies of cultural genocide remain unaddressed.
These aren't so much films as propaganda adverts. The fact they were released as the Empire began resurrecting the so-called "Xiang Dynasty" is beyond coincidence. I probably got them free because the state knows no-one will pay for them. Academically, they are worthless: they provide no new information and confound the existing facts. Any self-respecting historian will be insulted by such carelessly and unabashedly revisionist interpretations.
So rarely have I found "non-fiction" publications in any medium that inflict such utter disservice to history. For those who wish to truly learn about China in the latter 22nd Century, I can state with all honesty that anything, anything, is better than these films.
Luxuria Daily, 19 April 3012
Yeeeano. Either stick to your side of the fence or I'll tear it up and annex the whole plot.Coup in Twilightopia. Renamed to South Cascadia; Jacob Black replaces Stephenie Meyer as leader, ostensibly because she refused to let him get the girl.
VON ESLING: I'm sorry, I cannot in good conscience play a state allied to London. I am withdrawing from this game until further notice.SonicTH said:Germany had a coup. Pro-London.
God be with us all.
I don't think he specified that PF is going with the state-atheism gig.Are you Communists or not? Also do you have Stalin as your leader?
I am confused. What Communists have to do with God?![]()
VON ESLING: I'm sorry, I cannot in good conscience play a state allied to London. I am withdrawing from this game until further notice.
AL-SAHHAF: I
WILHELM II: ♫ My moustache brings all the boys to the yard / And they're like, "Let's start a World War!" / Damn right, let's start a World War!.. ♫
STAVROS: Son of a witch.
Thorvald said:Yeeeano. Either stick to your side of the fence or I'll tear it up and annex the whole plot.
Are you Communists or not? Also do you have Stalin as your leader?
I am confused. What Communists have to do with God?![]()
I don't think he specified that PF is going with the state-atheism gig.