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Does anyone else hate their own voice?

P.S. why is the founder account ded?

Ikwazulu-natali wrote:

Because it is summer and Vulp and the other admins are choosing to not be active?

Because we have busy lives? I’m on vacation with Family, and Vulp can be active because he’s in China and Ns is illegal there.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear. I'm back! Sunburned, jetlagged, saturated by Chinese food to the point where I don't want to look at it anymore, but alive.

I'm flattered I'm considered the linchpin of this whole operation, but a little alarmed at how quickly the region quieted down. Let's get Machtpolitik revved back to life!

I will apologize in advance, however, that in a few days I'll be starting an internship, and all the horrors of junior year loom on the horizon, so I most likely will not be able to be as active as I've been in the past two years (yikes, has it been that long?). Nonetheless, you have my solemn word that I will do my best not to let this community collapse.

As a reward for your patience for my long absence, I would like to present the long-awaited masterwork heretofore ensnared in that eternal destroyer of grand schemes and noble plans, procrastination! Presenting, at long last, the Group Portrait for The Curtain of Steel:

Countryball Group Portrait

by Vulpinas ii

Read dispatch

I mostly cobbled this together from old cartoons that were already finished, so it didn't take that long, but I finally sat down to get it done in the wee hours of the morning when I couldn't get to sleep (thanks, 12-hour time zone difference!) and got it done.

If we're going to revitalize the region, however, it can't just be me doing things. One of the easiest ways for you, dear reader, to partake is to contribute to the conversation by giving me feedback! If necessary I will provide writing prompts, but I'd rather not turn into English professor Vulp.

So discuss!

Vaballathus
Das herrliche reich
Indusian empire
Xin zhong guo
Libertinus
Thrihanti
Frankish nation
Cyrusa
The norse kingdoms
Anyone else still alive

Vaballathus wrote:

1. That comic is genuinely heartwarming. Some of the best memories I have on NS were in CoS.

2. It might be a tad contrived, but world war? Involves everyone, prolonged event. What better to get everyone moving again?

Thank you! My favorite parts to draw were the burning-at-the-stake, which is admittedly a bit of a cheap dig, so I apologize for that, and Mother Duck Stanistan with his little gaggle of duckling puppets. India’s spear (remember when we had military advancement?) and your gun are also things I’m rather proud of.

I agree. It’s time to go back to our roots as a WWII era region, I think. Once we round up whoever’s still alive, let’s do a mock WWII and maybe progress from there?

Vaballathus wrote:

WW2 irl, or in the current rp?

IRL, I would think.

What's your favorite part of the group portrait? I think I might do Macht Season 1 next.

What sounds like a better name for a financial youtube channel:

Musa (named after Mansa Musa)
Financia
Finica
Econfinica
Economica

Indusian empire wrote:

What sounds like a better name for a financial youtube channel:

Musa (named after Mansa Musa)
Financia
Finica
Econfinica
Economica

Definitely Musa, it's the only one with personality.

Indusian empire wrote:

It's okay. I don't really mind.

K.

True.

Thanks for responding.

You've grown more taciturn than you were, haven't you? Come on, some feedback.

Indusian empire wrote:

Ahh... well, in terms of the group portrait, my favorite parts are undoubtedly when Finland asks to marry Britain in exchange for Norway (I had a good laugh on that one) and China's quote about marching forward.

And regarding my queries about our refounding/Season 3, I was curious considering the state of this region. Since we are inactive, it might worht considering changing regions (both to avoid confusion and as a gesture of attention).

Ah, thank you. It's a little anachronistic (the Finland affair was well before everything else depicted), but yes, I did enjoy making that as well. China's quote is from Season 5 of Game of Thrones.

Hmm. Your point has merit. However, I think it might be better if we kept the region, or else some inactives might come back looking for us and shrug their shoulders when they can't find where we've moved to.

Indusian empire wrote:

Despite being anachronistic, I would argue it fits in considering the lack of a Britain or a Nordic Empire in the portrait (or the RP in general).

How about something like this: https://i.imgur.com/gLT4dwl.png

Still a little confusing. For example, if I logged onto my Vulpinas II account after a while and took a look at the RMB notifications (zero), I might assume, "huh, nothing going on" and leave. Whereas if I logged onto my Vulpinas account after a while and saw Machtpolitik have 500 notifications, I would know that the region's still active.

Indusian empire wrote:

Just TG the entire region "Yo, we've moved to XYZ, go there to RP" and also leave a message in the RMB tagging the inactive residents of the regions.

I just think it's unnecessary hassle. I rather prefer staying in Machtpolitik, where we've built up over 1500 pages' worth of messages; why start from scratch again?

Vulpinas wrote:

I just think it's unnecessary hassle. I rather prefer staying in Machtpolitik, where we've built up over 1500 pages' worth of messages; why start from scratch again?

True but it does create confusion with the old and new documents no matter how clearly you try to sort/label the documents by season. We should create an archiver account tbh if we're keeping this region.