I’m sorry if you think I’ve been too uptight about this dynasty, I wasn’t trying to be.

I don’t know, it seems like everything was fine until around the time I joined, but lately there seems to be a lot of bickering and arguing here.

Sorry to see you go, Clucky. I hope you come back before too long.

Also, the Sarah Palin joke made me lol.

Its totally not your fault Yuri—and you really haven’t been all that uptight. I mean, you tried to get rid of shine sprites but the attempt failed =P.

I wish I’d noticed that loophole earlier, I’d have exploited the hell out of it. Doesn’t seem fair now…

You have a poiny about the DDA. We should stop scheming so much. We should only do things like Operation Meerkat - large-scale operations /when the dynasty is about to end anyway/.

Certainly the DDA business was a large part of why I idled out last time.

@Clucky: Since when was   a quorum of arrows? We have more than two players.

@ais: but its quorum of the counted votes, aka a quorum of a set of one, aka one. =)

@Clucky: it wasn’t meant to be; the issues the same one you had with flavour text earlier, ‘quorum’ being redefined while I wasn’t paying attention.

Yuri (and other voters?) missing the initial Mario reference seems an unfortunate fork, and a tricky thing to recover from, but this proposal to resolve it should have just been a simple discussion vote to see what theme a majority of players wanted to continue with. It didn’t help to react to it as if the Emperor was trying to force his will on the ruleset, when it obviously needed a quorum of voters to agree.

I’ve been idle, but skimming the front page I’m not sure I see what your problem with Qwazukee/Wakukee is - apart from trying to reinstate metadynasties and disagreeing with you on this would/could thing (which I also disagree with, and it’s definitely worth thrashing this out), I can’t see anything very controversial, I can’t see anything that would “destroy” BlogNomic. Am I missing something?

Do the DDA really scheme for victory? I thought it was just a running joke between Rodlen and whoever the other guy was. Any conspiracy that mentions its own name a lot and has people saying “voting against, for DDA reasons” seems quite charmingly unthreatening. There’s a leaden predictability to Rodlen proposing a rule that lets players create and name objects, but it doesn’t really affect the game.

Kevan, I can’t tell you what our problem with Quaz/Wak and their ilk is: we don’t like how they play. I can’t stand them either, I can’t help but see all sort of unthoughtful proposals and votes.

They constantly try to break core rules to scam victories and we always end up having to create rules and fixes just because of them.

Mostly we hate them because their scams revolve simply in rallying in votes from inexperienced players (possibly even multiple accounts) given that the experienced ones will typically not fall for such schemes.

In fact, I’ve continuously voted to ban them every time it has been proposed, and I’ll stand by that decision. Just notice how often you’ve had to appeal for them to keep them from getting the boot… It’s something that has never been seen done so much for any other player!

To Kevan: to be perfectly honest, the DDA were working together in the last Dynasty. It was a Dynasty based on Voting people Out, so that seemed to be ok. Mind you, the problems it caused were so great that, like all DDA initiatives, it fell apart before coming to fruition. The likelihood that one of our “plans” ever works is the same as the likelihood of Mrs. Palin taking over the Presidency for the next 4 terms. : p To be perfectly clear, the DDA haven’t even spoken since Darknight asked to everyone to stop being partisan in the last Dynasty (or if they have, I haven’t heard of it).

Clucky has always disliked me (and cannot seem to tell me apart from Wakukee). He hasn’t been nice about it, and I suppose I haven’t been too nice to him. I didn’t come into Blognomic looking to pick a fight (now THAT would be stupid). And I have no intention of breaking the game. If anyone else is upset at me for some reason, tell me about it; I’ll try to fix whatever it is.

Now I’ll go correct the Tourist and Quorum count.

I’ll address what arthexis said.

I can’t make you like me. I can guarantee you that I don’t do anything without thinking about it hard first.

I think I’ve done 2 things ever that might be considered a scam: one when I first joined, and the other in the last Dynasty, which wasn’t based on Core Rules and that I thought at the time was unambiguous; it later turned out to be wholly ambiguous.

I haven’t done anything like that.

I know. I don’t understand how I am worthy of a Ban.

*simply sighs and facepalms

Certainly I think that the image of BlogNomic as a shining city on a hill is a bit off. Some of the best and most memorable dynastic finales have been colossal scams based on small cliques (the end of Cayvie 1 springs to mind). If I have any antipathy towards Qwazukee and Wakukee it’s based more on the lack of subtlety than anything else.

You know what?

I’m leaving the DDA. It’s only a temporary leave, however - I’ll return once Kevan gets his sixth Dynasty.

P.S. The DDA do indeed scheme to win, but not seriously. Every dynasty, two of us betray the DDA to help someone with their complex scheme (in Dev’s it was me and Qwaz, in ais’s it was me and yuri, etc.)

Hold on, allow me to clarify:
I picked a random player who commented on this post. I’ll return when e gets eir next Dynasty. The random player is Kevan.

Lol; DC, neither you nor Kevan is an active Tourist right now.