Absolution
WA Delegate: The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika (elected )
Founder: The Founding Nation of Assorro
Last WA Update:
Tags: Anti-Security Council, Casual, Independent, Isolationist, Medium, National Sovereigntist, and Neutral.
Regional Power: Very High
Absolution contains 30 nations, the 611th most in the world.
Today's World Census Report
The Highest Drug Use in Absolution
World Census experts sampled many cakes of dubious content to determine which nations' citizens consume the most recreational drugs.
As a region, Absolution is ranked 12,287th in the world for Highest Drug Use.
![]() | Nation | WA Category | Motto | |
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1. | ![]() | Left-wing Utopia | “Kyrie,da imperio de astra nostra libertas et aequalitas” | |
2. | ![]() | Anarchy | “United in independence.” | |
3. | ![]() | Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | “Semper Paratus Pro Patria” | |
4. | ![]() | Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | “Freedom, Liberty, Human Rights” | |
5. | ![]() | Capitalist Paradise | “No Union Shall Save You Now!!!” | |
6. | ![]() | Left-Leaning College State | “Illiud Latine dici non potest.” | |
7. | ![]() | Civil Rights Lovefest | “Ours if it ain't nailed down, or if we can pry it loose” | |
8. | ![]() | New York Times Democracy | “Let there be light” | |
9. | ![]() | Liberal Democratic Socialists | “I Shall Rule This World” | |
10. | ![]() | Democratic Socialists | “Freedom. Justice. Peace.” |
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Regional Poll • Gay Panic Defense Ban
Summary • WA • Influence • Population • Voters
Poll called by The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika
Voting opened 17 hours ago and will close . Open to residents. You cannot vote as you are not logged in.
Recent polls: “Repeal "Fairness In Collective Bargaining"” • “Supporting People With Disabilities”
Regional Happenings
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The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika created a new regional poll: "Gay Panic Defense Ban".
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The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika created a new regional poll: "Repeal "Fairness In Collective Bargaining"".
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The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika rejected United Island States's request for regional embassies.
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The Free Land of Iltine of the region United Island States proposed constructing embassies.
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The Riki of Anglii arrived from Balder.
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The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika created a new regional poll: "Supporting People With Disabilities".
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The Dictatorship of Hillop arrived from Osiris.
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The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika created a new regional poll: "Whistleblower Protection Act".
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The Militaristic Federation of The Sheika created a new regional poll: "Right To Secure Digital Communication".
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The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese departed this region for Absinthe.
Absolution Regional Message Board

No offence meant to any lawyers here, but am getting sick of the snails pace the house move is taking. It's now been over a month since I moved into a hotel and am getting sick of it. I WANT TO MOVE INTO A HOME NOW DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Sheika, Atlantigria, Mechisla, and Nation1204
I'm no lawyer but I can definitely tell you that your position is totally justified. Doubly so if you were given a timeline that would result in a reasonable expectation to be housed. I'll keep my fingers crossed that things change for you very soon.
Things seem to be moving slowly again, this time it could be contracts exchanged on Monday with me moving in 2 weeks after that, so as Monday is the 8th it could be the 22nd before I move in. And this has been in motion since the offer went in for the property I moved out of in January back in October. Certainly proving that a house move is not as simple as you think it could be.
Assorro, The Sheika, and Nation1204
"Procedural generation is a wonderful breath of fresh air, blowing away a lot of stale thinking and stale storytelling in the games industry. To be honest, it freaks the crap out of many a writer. Why? Because it's impossible to rely on tried and true structures like "3 Acts" and "The Hero's Journey" when anything could happen in the game at any time. Suddenly, the player isn't just going along for the ride on a nice, smooth character arc. This isn't Booker DeWitt coming to terms with his past. This isn't Joel and Ellie building a relationship only to have the hostile world threaten to tear it apart.
With procedural generation, the game is reacting to what the player does, not what the character is expected to do.
The Player = Protagonist
The Game = Antagonist
The Story = What happens as the Protag struggles to overcome the Antag.
There's no predictable plot here, because the Protag can succeed or fail in a myriad of ways. Plot is replaced by Story Experience.
But how do you 'write' for something like that?
For a start, you switch off all the lights in your plot brain except for that one desk lamp at the workstation called Department of Cause and Effect. And then you get down to the business of writing tiny scripts, sometimes just one line, that capture specific moments of cause and effect in your game."
Reference: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EdwinMcRae/20171127/310388/Procedural_Narrative_The_future_of_Indie_game_writing.php
The Sheika, Atlantigria, and Mechisla
If there came a day where a documentary or a book titled "The Making of Parathia" existed, there would be a section or a chapter titled "Karma vs Fate". Since last August, I've gone through four laptops. Black Screens, power issues and worn-out puffer-fans have all tried to encourage the notion of this project being ill-fated. However, fate hadn't accounted for this knuckle-draggers ability to make use of mechanical screwdrivers and hard-drive adapter cables.
Fancy the scenario of me not being able to complete ideas flowing from my mind due to a laptop suddenly saying it's outie 5000. If you know me, you know the computer is actually denying me access to my baby, and that's just not going to be "on well" with me at all.
I went to Walmart Saturday morning, and due to my impatience, didn't do much other than point and grunt at what I thought was a laptop, but didn't realize until the moment I turned it on at home was a Chromebook. Just WTF is a Chromebook? Google's own OS, practically no storage and focused mostly for online use. Ewwwwww.... it's going back in four hours when Walmart opens this Sunday morning. Yes, I'm using it now. Then, I get to transfer my baby into another crib. Discouraging? I can easily see why others might choose surrender, but when I want something I tend to get it. I expect that nothing worthy will be easy and will bare both loss and cost. It's the forward progression that matters most to me.
What occurred to me as I sat through Saturday like a junkie without a fix, is how selfish I've been. I could make use of a free host to offer an online sandbox for posting live examples. There's no way the complete site would be acceptable to any free host as it makes use of PHP functions extensively, but as long as the application isn't "resource intensive" there shouldn't be any issues, right? Yeah, our history with free hosts is stellar. See you soon.
That was quite an adventure there. I've had my fair share of the "changing of the laptop" over the last couple of years. The one I had when I first moved to Washington I had for a couple of years and it was a low-end laptop; good enough for browsing, great for word processing, but horrible for games that required more than just moving a card from one place to another. So I "upgraded" to a newer model. It wasn't really an upgrade, just more of the same that I was dealing with just with a different exterior, so back to Walmart it went and I dropped another $150 on top of what I already paid for something better.
Was it better? Meh, just enough for me to be satisfied with it for a couple of years. It did great until one day I noticed certain tasks were taking longer. My first thought was malware! I threw everything I had short of formatting the hard drive at it and nothing changed. I stepped it up to checking for spyware, and possibly a virus. Nothing really changed. I started combing the registry (for those not familiar, it's a whole lot of looking for something that you know shouldn't be there. Truth be told I really shouldn't have done it myself) and came up with nothing so one day I rebooted the computer and went into the boot menu. The hard drive was the source of the issue, and by that point I was out of warranty. Went and bought a Chromebook, not realizing what it was and that transaction lived for about two hours when I realized what I couldn't do with it so back it went. That brought me to my present laptop which handles browsing great, word processing is a breeze, and it can actually play AAA title games from a few years back without much of a problem, modern games? Not so much, but not a deal breaker for me.
The free host idea for examples is a good option I think. Just a means of showing what you've done so far sounds great. Thank you for updating us on your current goings on.
Ah the dreaded chromebook. I still don't get those things, they are so limited. Hopefully you can get/got something worth the money that will last you. Anyone who thinks a set back is going to stop you doesn't know you by a fraction, including the project!
Happy Valentines day to everyone who cares, otherwise happy... whatever today is.
Yes, the Chromebook had to go the way of the Llama. It's a shame, actually. I have nothing personal against the Llama.
I created an account with out old friend byethost. Hopefully, provided they don't delete me just for existing, I'll have something posted tomorrow.
Byethost totally suspended the account during the uploading and testing of login functions. Nothing more than login and registration functions and it used up allowances. Okay, I'll build a rudimentary system, which, hopefully is more acceptable after the 24hr suspension.
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