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NS is horribly biased against non-humans! It should just be "Development Index!" That would cover robots and felines too!
Cameroi, Lord Dominator, Canaltia, and Tercania islands
Oh, you're right, I didn't read the whole info under the name change thing. My bad.
Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and Canaltia
Hi! I'm new to the region. Hopefully this one turns out to be good!
Frieden-und Freudenland, Ownzone, Lord Dominator, Uan aa Boa, and 6 othersTurbeaux, Canaltia, Northern Wood, Novian Republics, Cela, and Raccoon Creek
How did you watch it? As an American, I was left only able to see the music videos and none of the live event for most of it, though I did end up using a VPN free trial to get around the YouTube block of the live stream literally moments before they announced the winner...
Thank NSers for introducing me to Eurovision :P
Personally I really liked Norway's - I thought it was extremely catchy, and a nice combination of standard dance-pop and something a little different. I was hoping it would do better, but fifth is a respectable place.
We also had trouble streaming it first. Then I suggested the organizer that he installs Opera (the browser) on his computer, since it has built-in VPN. Then we could tune into Eurovision just before the performances started. I am sorry that you missed it though :(
I also liked Norway's song, though it wasn't at the top of my personal rankings. That being said, an interesting fact is that Norway got the highest score from the public votes (291 points) and if there were no jury votes, they would have won.
On top of that....I heard a story that Norway had technical problems during the jury voting (that is actually determined the day before the grand final show) and wasn't allowed a do-over from the organization (EBU) probably causing it to score way lower than in the public vote. I see that I mistook Denmark for Norway in my last post (ouch, painful guess I wasn't on my A-game after the excitement). I also really liked the Norway song but the inclusion of the third singer (to give it some strange cultural relevance about a lost forbidden language) more or less ruined the song for me and it felt manufactured (why does every talent show entry need some sob-story or a message to make it more interesting).
Anyway there is almost always some controversy going on at Eurovision. People are still trying to figure out what exactly happened with the Belarusian voting. The EBU has confirmed that the jurors from Belarus had been dismissed. As per Eurovision rules, it is prohibited for jurors to discuss their votes before the grand final. The votes from Belarus were determined by an “aggregated result” instead. That would suggest that you could expect a middle-of-the-road result instead their results were all over the place and produced some of the biggest outliers ever in the competition. Israel received 0 points from the other 40 jury's...….zero. Yet somehow the Belarussian "aggregated result" gave it their maximum score (12 points). So all 40 professional jury's think the entry from Israel isn't in their top 10 but some behind-the-curtain-statistical-jury has it coming out as the best song in the competition. The fun doesn't end there. The second highest "jury" vote went to Estonia that finished 19th and the third highest score went to Germany that finished 24th. With 10 votes they managed to reward 6 out of 7 from the worst scoring entries (excluding themselves) yet completely missed the top 4. That "aggregated resut"-jury most either have the worst taste in songs ever.....or they just said:"fark this, we don't stand a chance of winning so let's go to the pub and troll these suckers while they come up with some BS-story about an "aggregated result".
EDIT: Americans (depending on their cultural background) seem to gravitate towards the entries from the Scandinavian countries. Including Canada and the U.S. in the competition would probably make the Scandinavian voting block even stronger. Although jury-wise the block this time definitely picked the wrong frontrunner in Sweden and thereby screwed over Norway. Canada could lean more towards France and Belgium though. It would be also fun to see if Australia, Canada and the U.S. would form a new voting block allied with the Scandinavian one and if the U.S. would form an active anti-voting block towards Russia.
EXTRA EDIT: There is post-show a lot to do about the Hatari (Iceland) and Madonna incidents. Especially Madonna gets a lot of heath. The general opinion is that she gave a subpar show (and I am being friendly here) while receiving big bucks and on top of it she caused controversy with the whole flag thing. Many fans are saying "big" U.S.-acts should no longer be included if they are pulling stunts like that. Hatari as a participant was expected to pull something the moment they realised they wouldn't win but Madonna was invited and her "show" was pre-approved by the EBU. If you are planning on doing something like that she should have made that clear to the organization or she should have declined the offer. This was a very dumb move on her part and she has lost a lot of sympathy amongst the Eurovision-fans.
…..and yet still "it is all about the music".
A lot of popular producers in American music have been Scandinavian. Also, ABBA (blech) and Ace of Bass were huge here!
I thought it time Mont come home. Venison stew anyone? ^-^
Cameroi, The new bluestocking homeland, Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, and 8 othersOwnzone, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Uan aa Boa, Palos heights, Turbeaux, Canaltia, and Rivienland
Welcome back! Are you going to transfer your WA membership back to this nation? I will pass on the stew but if you have any vegetables I will enthusiastically accept those!
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Palos heights, and Canaltia
No. I’m content with Raccoon Creek being my primary nation. It’s been enjoyable developing a nation from the ground up again. Absolutely, I’ve got potatoes, carrots and onions.
Speaking of developing a nation I’ve noticed a quirk with employment. I’ve been answering issues to achieve a Scandinavian-capitalistic style economy. From past experience and from answering issues the past several months, the results of my issues have led to drops in employment when answering capitalistically. But when I take the socialistic approach I find employment rises exponentially. Could the issues editors give me insight into this perhaps?
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Palos heights, Turbeaux, and 1 otherCanaltia
Potatoes, carrots, and onions all sound good. I could go for a baked potato topped with roasted onion with roasted carrots on the side!
Every new nation that I build just turns into a leftie one regardless of my original concept because it is difficult to keep things straight in my head while I am flipping between nations in NS++. My natural response to anything is a left-libertarian option so all of my nations turn out to be civil rights lovefests or left-wing utopias over time. I do seem to unconsciously prioritize political freedoms over civil rights. I suppose that is slightly interesting. I remember a time when my main would fluctuate between being a New York Times democracy and a civil rights lovefest due to that.
Lord Dominator, Canaltia, Kinganaryasia, Kinectia, and 1 otherPaplia
https://www.zdnet.com/article/huawei-regularly-tried-to-steal-apple-trade-secrets/
If this is indeed true, then that's no way to be, Huawei... ;)
Ok, puns aside, this is what I would expect from companies and corporations that are becoming too cocky and would go to shady tactics to win. But I have to ask them, "At what cost that you are willing to distance yourself from the companies that potentially can hurt you back, as well as with the customer base that has learned about your antics?"
And to think that I nearly bought a Huawei P30 because of how hyped the camera is, but at the end of the day, I'm thankful that I am looking at other options. At the same time, I am not going to be a Luddite or become paranoid with the technology, but of course, we can always take simple steps along the way to ensure that privacy is still around and all that fluff.
As for myself personally, I love my privacy, but at the same time, I have been so ingrained with all the tech stuff that ultimately, I just am going to keep a low profile if needed (though I'm saying this as I have already put up a face of myself a few times even on NS. :P)
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Canaltia, and 1 otherOrdand
I was going to recommend the Honor phones which mimic the Huawei phones but they're technically under Huawei too
Frieden-und Freudenland, Alanis Star, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and 2 othersCanaltia, and Ordand
I'm looking for something with a good camera. I know I usually use my DSLR anyway, but at the same time, as they say: The best camera is the one that you always have with you.
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Canaltia, and 2 othersOrdand, and Paplia
Yeah the Honor series has really good cameras with AI in them which makes all of your pictures look really nice since it auto adjusts for like color, brightness, shadows, and stuff like that
Frieden-und Freudenland, Alanis Star, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and 3 othersCanaltia, Kinganaryasia, and Ordand
True, but for the most parts, I see that these phones have RAW/DNG output, so that's something I'm looking forward to. Post-processing is good, but I like phones that can take raw pictures well, or have very good sensors.
Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Canaltia, and Paplia
You can disable the AI and it has a pro mode where you can adjust stuff yourself, I'm not very good at that so I rely heavily on the AI instead
Alanis Star, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Canaltia, and 1 otherOrdand
This is my favorite Eurovision song: https://youtu.be/4MKAf6YX_7M :)
Frieden-und Freudenland, Canaltia, Tercania islands, Ordand, and 1 otherPaplia
A Comment from Raccoon Creek
Ministry Announcement – Political Compass & GI
Work on the political compass will being this week. It is my hope to have the completed version released by Memorial Day (USA). Stay tuned.
The Greenness Index (GI) will be updated Tuesday. The Order of Viridia will be awarded as necessary.
Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Darths and Droids, Turbeaux, and 3 othersCanaltia, Kinganaryasia, and Ordand
Cleanersian Pro-tip: three day old tree sap stain on your khakis getting you down? Use a cotton swab to gently rub in some isopropyl alcohol, then pre-treat with your normal detergent and toss in the laundry.
Seriously, there's some kind of weird undiscovered physics going on here. No other possible explanation.
Alanis Star, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Canaltia, and 1 otherOrdand
Candlewhisper Archive, nice edit on issue #498! Now, players who like their AI-run planned economies do not have to dismiss it on sight!
The new bluestocking homeland, Frieden-und Freudenland, Candlewhisper Archive, Lord Dominator, and 1 otherCanaltia
I love it. I think I got an earworm.
Blue jeans and bloody tears...There is no life without your life in misery...
Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Palos heights, Turbeaux, and 2 othersCanaltia, and Paplia
Yes, I downloaded the MP3 on my phone!
I don't usually care about endorsements that much, but just for the curious people, I've determined that I will endorse you back if you have a population of 2 billion or greater.
Sorry if I'm not active for months but my fish store is open again.
Anyone playing Fish Tycoon or Plant Tycoon here?
Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and Canaltia
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