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The Final Sith Order wrote:

Why and how would people remember something for that long?

That must seem just strange, does it?

Facebook for countries attract a certain style of people :P

The Final Sith Order wrote:

Why and how would people remember something for that long?

That must seem just strange, does it?

In games of this type, where politics (both real and simulated) form a large part of the core gameplay activity, "the long game" is measured in years. There are groups and alliances active in NS that are older than some of our players, and memories necessarily are that long for troubles others have caused. CCD's blatantly real-world fascist activities are far from ancient history - it's less than a year since they allegedly gave those up. Given that they spent years lying about it before, nobody is going to immediately trust them now.

Something like the Guiding Hand Social Club assassination and theft in EVE Online is a taste of the sort of long-game skullduggery people will do in political games (worth a read if you're unfamiliar), with real world diplomats, government workers, and policy wonks trying their hand in a world without limits.

The Final Sith Order wrote:

Certain styles?

People that never forget (or forgive)

that which ends is forgivable. if only long after.
forget the pain, but remember how it was caused, and how what caused it came about, and look for ways that actually work, for preventing that.

the lure of deterrence is easy to fall into the trap of vengeance, and sometimes, even usually, there are cultural strategies that just work better.

Canaltia wrote:

Coxsackie

Today's a good day for me. After 10 months of chest pain, nausea, and other symptoms, visits to 6 different hospitals, many blood tests, and a handful of ECGs, ultrasounds, x-rays and so on, I just got a diagnosis. Apparently, I had the Coxsackie virus, and now it's gone but I need time to heal.

The treatment for this is to do no physical activity and eat iodine heavy foods for a few months. Basically, I'm supposed to sit around and eat packaged food. I've been trying to exercise more and eat healthier ever since this started, so it kind of explains why it got so bad. Though I do have to give up literally anything spicy, so that's a downside.

I was gunna complain about shingles, but jebus. Good to hear things are looking up for you.

Been reading about viruses generally over the last week, and am fascinated by their role in horizontal/inter-species genetic exchange and evolution. Two thoughts occur:

1) I need to re-watch Annihilation as I think there's some thematic overlap here.

2) We better get some superpowers or something, or i'm gunna be pissed /:|