While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Terrance888]

The worst part is that I cannot give the "Most Peaceful" prize to anyone come update 20...

 

[Eltain]

Ctesiphod has been pretty 'peaceful'.

Is there a way to just delete my email address from my contact info? I trash messages civfanatics sends to me normally, and don't want people think I am ignoring them if i miss ignore a messege.

 

[Terrance888]

"Peaceful". . I have another award reserved for you, but "peace" has nothing to do with it.

 

[Terrance888]

Spoiler :

Good bye, Soviet Union, may your actions never be forgotten.

For half a century, the Soviet Union faced the United States, reminding all of us of who we are and who we are not, both the good and the bad.

For half a century, we faced doom and diversion together in a Cold War.

Although you may be gone, the Soviet Union will always live in our memory.


We will always remember your cunning.

We will remember how you flew ten of the most advanced planes in the world in front of camera… six times…. and fooled us into believing that you had sixty. You scared us so much, we built over two thousand such planes to try to “catch up”.

We will remember how you sent satellite after satellite into orbit, dominating the early space race… and how you never told us about the failed launches. You scared us so much, we sought to reach the moon in less than a decade.

Your cunning will be remembered, and will always be respected.



We will always remember your strength.

We will remember your sacrifice in World War Two. Over ten million of your people gave their lives fighting Germany.

We will remember your nuclear arms, matching and outnumbering ours in the wrestling match that is the cold war. Twelve Thousand Warheads… enough to destroy the world Twelve times over instead of Ten. Two times wins the game; eh?

Your strength will always be remembered, and will always be respected.


We will always remember your Dreams.

We will remember your dream of economic equality. So that all may hunger equally, and yet none may starve. And so this dream lives on, as we take the banner and try to reduce world starvation.

We will remember your dream of world unity. So that human kind may live a future of peace and prosperity. And so this dream lives on, as we take the banner to promote world peace.

Your dreams may not have been achieved in your life, despite your best intents and attempts. But we will carry these forward. For a world of peace. For a world of satisfaction.
Your dreams will always be remembered, and will always be respected.
We will remember you. For all the things you did, both good and bad. For all the things you desired, both good and bad. For showing us a different way of viewing the world, both good and bad.

We will always remember the Soviet Union, for their cunning, their strength, their ideals and for their attempts at achieving them. We will always remember the lessons of their life, and perhaps one day, their dreams may be achieved.

Good bye, Soviet Union, may your actions never be forgotten.

A Speech I am giving tomorrow.

 

[Dachs]

ten million is one of the lowest estimates ive heard for that

 

[Terrance888]

At least it is better than "Over nine thousand".

 

[SKILORD]

Link to video.

damn, two days late for May Day.


Link to video.

What's funnier than getting an advertisement on a video for the Soviet National anthem?

Nothing. Nothing at all. It's a little sad. But it's still funny.

 

[Thlayli]

Goodbye, Soviet Union.

We will miss your intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainian peasants. Your massacre of the tens of thousands of Polish officers was only equaled by the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians a decade and a half before.

Who could forget the slave labor that built up your industry, and the collective agriculture that nearly brought your nation to its knees, multiple times.

We will never forget the crippling mismanagement almost prevented your state from being born, and killed it three generations later.

Most of all, we will not forget the soft-hearted sentimentality towards your cynical mass-murdering evil that allowed you to steal half of our military-industrial complex, and continues to produce high school speeches to this day.

 

[Starlife]

Terrance, you should replace your speech with Thlayli's. You know... for kicks and giggles.

 

[SKILORD]

I dunno, I still think both of them were pretty light on the Gulags, you should add more quotes from Solzhenitsyn.

Or there are also a couple of good passages in We the Living. Go towards the end, where they shoot her for trying to leave.

 

[alex994]

For half a century, we faced doom and diversion together in a Cold War.

Tell me you wanted to say something else aside from "diversion". The Cold War was a hobby?

 

[Terrance888]

The Space Race was a hobby.

Besides, I will use a sarcastic voice. We will NEVER forget your ACTIONS, Soviet Union.

 

[Tycho]

Ctesiphod has been pretty 'peaceful'.

Would have picked "cunning", or perhaps "sneaky", but in a way, you are technically peaceful.

 

[Lord of Elves]

The Space Race was a hobby.

You might want to include something about the Soviets redrawing the borders of eastern Europe in the ugliest way possible.

 

[Dachs]

Man, LoE, if you're going to do a Sokka avatar, do it right. Transparentize the white stuff and tighten up the pixelation.

 

[Frozen In Ice]

Man, LoE, if you're going to do a Sokka avatar, do it right. Transparentize the white stuff and tighten up the pixelation.

If I may ask a silly question, how do you do this in either Paint or photoshop?

 

[Gem Hound]

Wouldn't you mean a slight blur so the pixels are not so sharply defined?

 

[das]

Goodbye, Soviet Union.

We will miss your intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainian peasants. Your massacre of the tens of thousands of Polish officers was only equaled by the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians a decade and a half before.

Who could forget the slave labor that built up your industry, and the collective agriculture that nearly brought your nation to its knees, multiple times.

We will never forget the crippling mismanagement almost prevented your state from being born, and killed it three generations later.

Most of all, we will not forget the soft-hearted sentimentality towards your cynical mass-murdering evil that allowed you to steal half of our military-industrial complex, and continues to produce high school speeches to this day.

Somehow I feel most guilty for that last one. I can easily understand the appeal of all the worst aspects of the Soviet Union from the inside, but the people who supported us from the outside just seem disgusting. (No offense towards Terrance, though - I mainly mean certain interwar and Cold War-era Western left-wingers.)

Interestingly this attitude towards our foreign fans was apparently not that hard to encounter back in Soviet days, either.

 

[Crezth]

Goodbye, Soviet Union.

We will miss your intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainian peasants. Your massacre of the tens of thousands of Polish officers was only equaled by the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians a decade and a half before.

Who could forget the slave labor that built up your industry, and the collective agriculture that nearly brought your nation to its knees, multiple times.

We will never forget the crippling mismanagement almost prevented your state from being born, and killed it three generations later.

Most of all, we will not forget the soft-hearted sentimentality towards your cynical mass-murdering evil that allowed you to steal half of our military-industrial complex, and continues to produce high school speeches to this day.

Personally, I have no small place in my heart for the people who sacrificed more than anyone to defeat the Nazis, but to each their own, I suppose.

Not to excuse their atrocities, to be sure, but the Soviets were damn heroes during World War 2.

Edit: operating off the philosophy that the Nazis were vastly worse than anything the Soviets ever did, of course.

 

[Tycho]

True on that; the Soviets didn't really have a taste for genocide from what I have heard.