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Joining the El Penis Grande bandwagon.
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Feb 26, 2013 03:32
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El Penis Grande for honor Porn in the Burple
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Feb 26, 2013 03:36
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Duckbag posted:I remember when we had a long thread in LF to talk about kyoon, back when he was re-regging and getting banned every week or so, and the consensus, based on post history and behavior, was that he was genuinely mentally ill. This is a guy who earnestly believes that he has access to dangerous and secret truths the rest of us are blind to. He keeps coming back because he thinks we're listening -- after all every time he posts, like fifty goons immediately jizz themselves for the chance to be in a kyoon thread before it's gassed. He's not a funny gimmick or a goofy clown to laugh along with, he's a genuinely disturbed person who, for whatever reason, has given hundreds of dollars to lowtax and co. for the privilege of getting banned endlessly. I don't know if he reads lp or if he'd even care that we used his name. But turning a real person with serious problems into our own personal mascot just feels icky. As a mentally ill person, I agree that mocking the infirm is terrible and this whole thing is kind of skeevy. Which is why I'm voting for Kyoon. 
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Feb 26, 2013 03:45
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It WOULD be just like a bunch of Illuminati agents to try to rain on this beautiful  parade.
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Feb 26, 2013 03:56
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SirPhoebos posted:So, and what point do we cut off voting? Because we can be here until everyone's scrambling between "Tommy Wiesau", "Misty de Chocorojo," and "El Deadpool" I know it'd be too constricting for him to be our leader but is it impossible to make Tommy Wiesau one of our ministers? Also I'm all for Kyoon. Stairmaster fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Feb 26, 2013 04:14
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Votin'
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Feb 26, 2013 04:28
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MildManeredManikin posted:That was unexpected. I'm sorry, I didn't what power I had. Not my problem if people don't know how to vote. As I've said, there were also a couple of "pope" votes that fail to mention a background or a rise to power. I counted those votes as name vote only. If I was El Presidente of this thread, the voting format would be as anal retentive as the most anal retentive mafia game ever, only with more shiny icons.
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Feb 26, 2013 04:49
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I guess I'll change my vote from Helladid to El Penis Grande to join the  that has formed underneath me.
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Feb 26, 2013 07:01
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For those of you who weren't in Crete, imagine all this voting, but with lots more shouting about how the other bandwagons are evil and bad and are going to ruin the thread. Not just Crete, the thread. You now have a reasonable idea of what it was like in the more heated sessions of Crete (whenever motion hierarchy was being debated).
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Feb 26, 2013 07:39
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Gonna change from Tito Obejon to El Penis Grande cus who doesn't love a last minute upset? Also I would like to blame this current predicament on (oh let's say) Tomn. His rabble rousing ways will be the death of good governance. e: Also can we please bring back motion hierachy? I want to try to do budgets alphabetically starting with the "D" posters. Duckbox fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Feb 26, 2013 07:42
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Yeah, let's go with El Penis Grande.
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Feb 26, 2013 07:58
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Duckbag posted:I remember when we had a long thread in LF to talk about kyoon, back when he was re-regging and getting banned every week or so, and the consensus, based on post history and behavior, was that he was genuinely mentally ill. This is a guy who earnestly believes that he has access to dangerous and secret truths the rest of us are blind to. He keeps coming back because he thinks we're listening -- after all every time he posts, like fifty goons immediately jizz themselves for the chance to be in a kyoon thread before it's gassed. He's not a funny gimmick or a goofy clown to laugh along with, he's a genuinely disturbed person who, for whatever reason, has given hundreds of dollars to lowtax and co. for the privilege of getting banned endlessly. I don't know if he reads lp or if he'd even care that we used his name. But turning a real person with serious problems into our own personal mascot just feels icky. Changing my vote to Kyoon.
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Feb 26, 2013 08:21
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sniper4625 posted:Magrov beat me to it. I swear I'm not being lazy. Also do you want banners? Banners would be cool. I'll roll up the results of the vote in a bit. Voting is now closed. Wiz fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Feb 26, 2013 09:55
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The dice have spoken: Getúlio Vargas is the previous ruler's Fortunate Son who came to power through Religious Appointment.
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Feb 26, 2013 10:27
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All Hail El Presidente, and his divine grace! Hail!
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Feb 26, 2013 10:29
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Today, he's our puppet El Presidente, tomorrow... he'll still be our puppet El Presidente! So All Hail El Presidente!
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Feb 26, 2013 10:31
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Welp, at least this pre-LP got me to buy this game, looks like I'll probably just play it myself than really participate. I don't really care for the backstory behind Kyoon, he's a part of SA history and he would fit the theme of this game perfectly. And I'm not bias because he's replied to me before. 
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Feb 26, 2013 10:34
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Tomn posted:For those of you who weren't in Crete, imagine all this voting, but with lots more shouting about how the other bandwagons are evil and bad and are going to ruin the thread. Except Crete actually had voting about substantive things with an in-game effect, and this Tropico LP...won't. Although I guess since one person gets to make all the decisions at the time, the whole thread will be yelling at that one dude about how he's evil and bad and going to ruin the thread. It'll be just like being me. The Saurus fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Feb 26, 2013 11:47
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One assumes that Wiz will do everything he can to fill his swiss bank account. Possibly also to fill prisons. Thus limiting our revenues. Surely he can give us interesting issues to deal with.
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Feb 26, 2013 12:01
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There are various things we can gently caress with in Tropico. We can set the wages of individual jobs, we can set the rents of different kind of homes, we can imprison, execute, cause accidents, bribe and excommunicate individual citizens or certain classes of it, we can have people fired or evicted, we can order construction or destruction of buildings, different upgrades, different modes, hiring specialists, etc. etc. I think there'll be plenty to vote about.
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Feb 26, 2013 12:18
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El Presidente, the holy son, shall lead Tropico into a glorious new era of conquest!
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Feb 26, 2013 12:25
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The Saurus posted:Except Crete actually had voting about substantive things with an in-game effect, and this Tropico LP...won't. I feel fairly certain that Wiz is not intending to put together a legislative LP where the legislative part does nothing. Why do all that freakin' work herding cats if it'll have no payoff? If the thread was just going to be "A bunch of people yelling at El Presidente while he does the work of running the country, and he tries to humor them but sometimes has to ignore them" there'd be no need to make a legislative LP - that already happens in every LP ever done by anyone ever.
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Feb 26, 2013 14:55
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I was referring to the fact that one person gets to make all the decisions so there's not much chance of a small group of extremists pushing through legislation that the rest of the senate sees as undesirable. It's more likely that the party leaders will have to compromise and moderate their position since it only has an up and down vote. Still, I'm not being down on the LP. It's a Wiz LP so it will be awesome I'm just not too excited about the legislative part since most people will only get to vote yes or no as regards interactivity. Also Wiz specifically designed the system for Tropico to have as little cat herding as possible, that's why it has one person at a time write the entire agenda.
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Feb 26, 2013 15:05
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Wiz said that we'll be deciding the budget, and therefore what to build, which is the entirety of the game with Tropico. I for one can't wait until there's a modernizer party that just wants to pave the island in metros.
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Feb 26, 2013 15:37
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I think that my official platform in Tropico will be "Whatever Miss Pineapple says we need is what we need. No exceptions." ....she's just very passionate about education, you guys.
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Feb 26, 2013 15:41
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SlothfulCobra posted:Wiz said that we'll be deciding the budget, and therefore what to build, which is the entirety of the game with Tropico. I for one can't wait until there's a modernizer party that just wants to pave the island in metros. Buildings aren't the entirety of the game. You all should remember to set aside money to pay for edicts and all the various things you can do to individual Tropicans, as well.
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Feb 26, 2013 15:46
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SlothfulCobra posted:Wiz said that we'll be deciding the budget, and therefore what to build, which is the entirety of the game with Tropico. I for one can't wait until there's a modernizer party that just wants to pave the island in metros. That's my party! The Shiny Happy People's Infrastructure Party. We shall rid the island of anything green or living!
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Feb 26, 2013 15:48
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The Saurus posted:I was referring to the fact that one person gets to make all the decisions so there's not much chance of a small group of extremists pushing through legislation that the rest of the senate sees as undesirable. It's more likely that the party leaders will have to compromise and moderate their position since it only has an up and down vote. Formal voting may be only a yea or nay, but with the system in place there'll be plenty of space for debate and argument. Instead of formal motions and laws, senators will be proposing changes to the budget and different things that they feel ought to be done for various reasons, all pushing them upon the, um...Speaker of the House? Official Budget Writer? Prime Minister? We need a proper title for the guy. But anyways, point is, there'll be plenty of wrangling about what to do, why we should do it, and how we should do it, which was always the interesting part. Not to mention plenty of room for recrimination, blame, and accusations of this or that party mismanaging the country, which is also interesting if not always a whole lot of fun. I do wonder a bit about the threshold required to pass the budget, though. How many folks are going to end up voting yes because they didn't really follow the debate, aren't really sure what the effects of the budget are, but do know that deadlock is something one should usually avoid to save Tropico from failure? A lot of folks tended to vote through poison pill laws in Crete to avoid deadlock, after all, so how much stronger is the tendency going to be when there's no poison pills at all? It seems like you'd really need to outrage a party to make them decide that no budget is better than the budget on the table, but is it really going to be that hard to avoid outraging a little over half the Senate every time?
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Feb 26, 2013 15:58
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MildManeredManikin posted:The Last Prophet Kyoon was a Leftist Author who spread his writings far across the internet before he was Installed by the CIA as part of some vast conspiracy. It really is a shame this had no chance. 
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Feb 26, 2013 15:59
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Espy posted:It really is a shame this had no chance. it had as much chance as any other option.
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Feb 26, 2013 16:05
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You can always make a party for it if you want.
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Feb 26, 2013 16:06
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I would've been fine with the Office Space reference, personally. But if you're going to be picky about it...
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Feb 26, 2013 16:31
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SlothfulCobra posted:You can always make a party for it if you want. A party for installing another person as the head of state in a dictatorship sounds like a hilariously good idea. It would actually be great to be in the Environmentalist party. Keep the island of Tropico clean of all that poo poo industrialization and tourists tend to bring! A shame there could be no way to win that way, because pollution is unavoidable in the game.
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Feb 26, 2013 16:54
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Wiz posted:The dice have spoken: Getúlio Vargas is the previous ruler's Fortunate Son who came to power through Religious Appointment. Noticias de Ultima Hora: ˇEl presidente Gentúlio Vargas, a subido al poder!. Liked the combination, although the idea of Kyoon, was nice.
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Feb 26, 2013 17:04
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Wiz posted:The dice have spoken: Getúlio Vargas is the previous ruler's Fortunate Son who came to power through Religious Appointment. So does that mean we have a hereditary divine right thing going on, or more of a theocratic groomed successor? Either way looking forward to redeeming the sinful leftist intellectual with the power of
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Feb 26, 2013 17:27
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Tomn posted:Formal voting may be only a yea or nay, but with the system in place there'll be plenty of space for debate and argument. Instead of formal motions and laws, senators will be proposing changes to the budget and different things that they feel ought to be done for various reasons, all pushing them upon the, um...Speaker of the House? Official Budget Writer? Prime Minister? We need a proper title for the guy. But anyways, point is, there'll be plenty of wrangling about what to do, why we should do it, and how we should do it, which was always the interesting part. Not to mention plenty of room for recrimination, blame, and accusations of this or that party mismanaging the country, which is also interesting if not always a whole lot of fun. I was considering requiring 60 or 66% for passage, still might if bills never fail. We'll see how it works out.
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Feb 26, 2013 18:26
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Wiz posted:I was considering requiring 60 or 66% for passage, still might if bills never fail. We'll see how it works out. So the political system in this LP is literally going to be this?
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Feb 26, 2013 18:29
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I was amusingly just going to say that the threshold for passing bills could be raised/lowered by Wiz based on how much compromising/interesting legislative action was going on and what seemed to be more interesting.
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Feb 26, 2013 18:37
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We should start a party whose platform is just bringing the Old Cretan legislative system back. Each major party (with sub-parties in them) gets to put one item on the budget and then we all vote. Surely nothing can go wrong with this.
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Feb 26, 2013 18:45
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Guess why I'm making the syndicalist party?
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