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my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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"A society about to get horribly hosed by Europeans"
"A society trying not to get horribly hosed by Europeans"
"European society"

:v:

e: vvvv I like this idea.

my dad fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Nov 13, 2012

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my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Fister Roboto posted:

We should just make up words that have zero meaning attached to them so nobody gets offended. England is a flivpnydr nation, while Ethiopia is a rbnmsxxxzz nation.

But, but, everyone will start arguing about who gets to be xyzzy and then we'll never get an update from Wiz. :(

e:

wukkar posted:

Bulgarian
Almost Bulgarian
Not Bulgarigan

This. Forever.

my dad fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Nov 13, 2012

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Riso posted:

Great Old Bulgaria
Sjrbyzanthistan
Forty Forth Rome.

Fixed that for ya.

my dad fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Nov 13, 2012

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Whatever happens to the Azeri, I just hope it won't be "standard paradox fascist hellhole #4431"

I wonder what's the chance for the people to begin to question what gave the Russians the strength to beat us and start plotting to overthrow the government. We can still get a Napoleon. Sorta.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Ghetto Prince posted:

Somehow I don't think we can tolerate our way out of this one or get the Mughals to bail us out. We just shoved a stick up the rear end of the Russian Bear.

Here's a nice illustration of the next twenty years.



"The Grip Tightens" :suicide:

The Russians are gonna be great pals and hug us to show how much they care about our Jews, and then we'll stab them in the back while they stare at us sadly? :v:

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Oct 17, 2012

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crimea posted:

Ouch, that hit me right in the Torah. Hopefully the European nations can step it up and begin the march on St. Petersburg. Or maybe the Russians are going to start importing the revolution beyond Finland and the Baltic soon.

Though to be honest, with the lost tribe becoming lost to us, it does make me wonder what a mega-lp as the Khazars would look like.

Don't give Wiz funny ideas.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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spacebard posted:

Murad's going to have a heart-to-heart with the Russian president about "modernization". A brilliant and cunning plan that will cripple the Russian economy with debt and iron.

But will it get us our Jews back?

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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paragon1 posted:

Come back with our Jews or on them! :argh:

Fixed that for you.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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paragon1 posted:

I know what you were trying to do there, but it doesn't make any sense.

I just wanted to say something silly. :shobon:

Spiderfist Island posted:

Pearson Pennant designs:


Three leaves for the three old nations.

Yeah, this one is the best.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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DrProsek posted:

At this point my hope is that the world doesn't turn into a boring democratic utopia; Russia is such a powerful and driven democratic nation that I can't really see any way for any nation in Europe to have a government different than Russia's. Maybe that's where communism and fascism step in; communists feel Russia abandoned the goals of the revolution, fascists resent Russian interference with their affairs, but I can't see them surviving long before Russia decides to spread democracy to them :(.

Fear not, we still have the wizard on our side! (Our side being the most hilarious of all historical possibilities given)

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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e:
vvv
Yeah, that might work better. My Latin isn't exactly the greatest. Updated.

e2: I'm keeping abbhoreo since it's a more accurate description of how I feel about flagchat.

e3: I give up. I'll just keep the original. v:shobon:v

my dad fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Nov 20, 2012

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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YF-23 posted:

I'm willing to bet there's existing flags with repeated symbols. v:shobon:v

Well, I don't know if this counts, but it's rather meta:

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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DarkCrawler posted:

R.I.P.
2004-2012

Wow, that's... not really funny, to be honest. I wonder what the replacement will be.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Keisari posted:

What the hell is the point of Wiz's new avatar? I searched for a connection but I don't see what's going on. It seems like it's even more pointless than DarkCrawler's.

Someone really hates Paradox LPs?

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Rurik posted:

I just can't find the Jews and flagchat that interesting when we have this timeline that has a Buddhist peasant republican dictatorship Japan. :aaa:

Also, Gnostic Ragusa. That's really interesting too.

For me, Dark Crawler's history of Russia is the highlight of the LP. (And, of course, Wiz-made circumstances that allowed it to be)

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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DarkCrawler posted:

If the monarchies are dumb enough to declare war again (as far as I know, all their wars have been defensive thus far), sure!

And considering that they've just made a tight-knit alliance and that it only takes one idiot ruler to start a war, we might be having an early WW1, particularly if Italy gets involved. Knowing our luck, some teenage Azeri will shoot a Russian minister during his visit to Atrakhan and start the fireworks.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

That would be great for Azerbaijan though? Just look at how much land Serbia got after WW1. I guess the parallel would be Azerbaijan gaining all the Turkic land of Russia and our recent losses. That's just what we need to modernize and make 'The Land of Fire' great.

Serbia proper only gained the Vojvodina region and lost between 25 and 30 percent of it's pre-war population, including over 50% of all adult men. Let's not head "The Land of Fire" that way.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

Maybe it didn't get directly added to Serbia, but wasn't it a pretty Serb dominated union?

It really depends on who you ask. On one hand, the king and the capitol were in Serbia, on the other hand, Croatia and Slovenia didn't have to deal with the whole "got genocided" thing. Poor Bosnians got the short end of the stick on both counts, as usual.

quote:

Still, the joke was that aiming for Yugoslavia is probably a bad idea.

And we're already Yugoslavia, just look at our population graph. So the joke is on our most noble and tolerant Azerbaijan. :(

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

Is genocided the right word? I thought it was "just" insanely brutal fighting between a falling great power and a minor power.

It was more than that. It included biological warfare (Hey, those idiots are actually taking care of PoWs, let's send some infected people with orders to infect as many doctors as possible), well-poisoning, proto death-camps and full on hate/extermination campaigns. Burried somewhere in our home library, we have a copy of a propaganda booklet that essentially proclaims Serbs as the main cause of most bad things that happened to Austria and Hungary, as well as "proving" that, due to having mixed with the (ridiculously small) number of black people who lived on the Balkans since Roman times, Serbs are an inferior race that needs to be cleansed.

Google R.A. Reiss, he witnessed a lot of those events first hand and described them.

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Tolerance is obviously for chumps.

We do not tolerate intolerance here. :toughguy:

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Honestly, they should make Wiz the head honcho of their entire team.
Congrats Wiz

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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steinrokkan posted:

It probably decided the leader should have a surname written in Cyrillic, and the engine botched the encoding or something.

It's pretty much that. Although having the leader of the Independant State of Croatia write his name in cyrillic would be pretty much along the lines of Hitler converting to Judaism. AKA, classic Steppe Wolfe.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Eiba posted:

Well, it wouldn't be the left it it weren't splintered to hell and back.

I personally plan on founding the Socialist Party of Tropico, and I hope that it exists along side the Peoples Party of Tropico, and a proper hardline Communist party as well.

It's just how the left does things. (Or rather, doesn't do things.)

Comrade, you can't form a people's party without the people. The People's Party of Popular Peopleism will oppose you every step of the way.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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sniper4625 posted:

If anyone has any requests or anything, just give me a shout.

The Intellectuals. :viggo:

Also known as the "Why is everyone ignoring us?" faction.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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:viggo: Intellectualway Artypay is the only true hope for Tropico's salvation. Only the smart educated will survive our pacifist onslaught!

Seconding the request for a Thinker based logo.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Bobbin Threadbare posted:

Wait, so the Wintellectuals? I don't care if that's just an artifact of pig Latin, I think you should totally roll with that.

Just as planned.

:getin:

Awesome idea, Bobbin. Totally rolling with that.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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So, party stuff should look something like this, right?

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A vote for Wintellectuals is a vote for Miss Pineapple's pineapples.

It's also a vote for at least one and possible more smug bastards who like overthinking stuff.

In addition, high-tech condoms for everybody, extras for those who attend the "Gorgo's Mom" party.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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No, that would be pushing technology forward.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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BrooklynBruiser posted:

I'm officially volunteering to lead the Wintellectual/Intellectual party.

Hey, I did that already. :mad:

Although it doesn't matter really. As long as we get to be the ultimate personification of :viggo: I'm for.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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AdventFalls posted:

What is your position on blowing poo poo up with your mind?

All the poo poo, all the booms, all the time.

:science: :psyboom:

e: As long as there's scientific proof of your ability to do it, of course.
e2: 10,000$ will be accepted as adequate proof.

my dad fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Feb 22, 2013

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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If we're using a puppet to run the country, then we might as well have a proper puppet.

Born in Purple, Heir Apparent

Name: Wizardo de Paradox de Pytheid de la Creta

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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'Cuz instead of promoting, you're just showboating that bandwagoneer.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Octomon posted:

ecclesiastical music plays

All aboard the pope-wagon!

What we have here is a clash of the old guard with their tired old memes and the young thrusting posters of a new generation. You lot will be first against the wall come the coronation.



Also, with "Wizardo de Paradox de Pytheid de la Creta" does Creta need the definite article, wouldn't it be "Pytheid de Creta"?

Hey, I was not a part of the Crete thread. I just figured that the ideal puppet would be some random noble "rightfully returned" to the pallace by the real power in Tropico (us Goons). A long-rear end name was a must, and I decided that it should be a name that Goons would like, so I took a minute to create the adequate <reference> de <reference> de <reference> de la <reference>. There is as much reason for Wizardo to be a Cretan gimmick as there is for the British Royal Family to be addicted to schnapps and sauerkraut.

edit: The Ratzinger idea is silly enough to like, and it would give the Intellectual faction something to rage about.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Gorgo Primus posted:

No, Leninist Vargas is a great gimmick that doesn't box Wiz in.

And literally naming El Prezidente "Wiz(ardo)" is somehow boxing Wiz in? :confused:

You guys are seeing a gimmick where there is none.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Gorgo Primus posted:

But the Wizardo name is the only bad part of that gimmick... :(

Eh, it's too late to change it now anyway.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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I'm not changing my vote, but I'm rooting for :sax: to get enough votes to get a chance to win. Goons, now is the time to bandwagon.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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With over a page of bandwagoneers, :sax: is now firmly in the lead. Will he have the chutzpah to take down the dread RNG? Find out in the next episode of "Tropico: The Goony Years"

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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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!

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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I'm getting tired of all these Romes. :v:

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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Wiz posted:

Should be easy enough to take those provinces from Russia.


Ahahahahaha:suicide:

We're hosed.

Are Tunga's stats representing just his incompetence, or are they also representing the general lack of support he has?

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my dad
Oct 17, 2012

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MinistryofLard posted:

Does Russia have a better Army Quality than us? Wasn't Azerbaijan's entire schtick that it was some kind of hulked out Prussia on steroids?

No, our shtick is that we're some kind of wussed out Austria-Hungary on Lorazepam that thinks it's some kind of hulked out Prussia on steroids. Russia, on the other hand, is comparable to Revolutionary Motherfucking France that has "Holy poo poo, That's a loving Cold Winter" as it's home advantage.

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