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The new dynasty wrote:Good guess, but I live in a bumf*ck overseas territory — and I think I am the only person who plays NationStates here.

(Hint: We are not part of Argentina, no matter how much this fact makes them mad.)

Does it start with an F, and end with an "alkland Islands"?

And that's so cool. I'd love to see them. And you're rare; aren't there only about 5,000-6,000 people there? Did you get the virus there? It seems like they could have kept the islands free of it if they locked down and completely early enough, and then you could have freely fraternized with the other eleven people there.

Great to have you here! :-)

Verdant Haven, Einswenn, Octopus islands, Kyratistani, and 9 othersAtsvea, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, Middle Barael, Free Las Pinas, Nation of ecologists, Garbelia, The new dynasty, and The scientific utopias

The new dynasty wrote:Good guess, but I live in a bumf*ck overseas territory — and I think I am the only person who plays NationStates here.

(Hint: We are not part of Argentina, no matter how much this fact makes them mad.)

Once my main nation reached 100, its economy has never gone down — even when confronted with the same issues and choosing the same options that severely decrease the economy on my alt nations.

Oooh, now that is very exciting. Less than 10000 people out there. Hearty welcome! Always wanted to visit. :)

Now I'm gonna have to get in touch if that dream ever pans out!

Verdant Haven, Kyratistani, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, and 10 othersLord Dominator, Terrabod, Middle Barael, Free Las Pinas, Nation of ecologists, East skirsburg, Garbelia, Difinbelk, The new dynasty, and The scientific utopias

The new dynasty

All of you guessed correctly! I am a native Falklander. We have 3,000-odd people living here — and the old country's military base hosts 400 or so personnel.

All of you are welcome to visit here anytime. We are hopefully reopening tourism soon — if you do not mind the cold, you will enjoy it here. Consider us a prettier and less ruined (and English-speaking) Patagonia, as I saw that region mentioned earlier.

Ruinenlust wrote:Does it start with an F, and end with an "alkland Islands"?

And that's so cool. I'd love to see them. And you're rare; aren't there only about 5,000-6,000 people there? Did you get the virus there? It seems like they could have kept the islands free of it if they locked down and completely early enough, and then you could have freely fraternized with the other eleven people there.

Great to have you here! :-)

Despite retaining a nil amount of deaths, we could have done better here. We never had a lockdown and as such we had a nasty first wave — we do not even know how many got infected, because we could not test at the time. But there were quite a few hospitalised then. The waves after that were all connected to the military base I mentioned.

On the brighter side of things, virtually everyone here has been fully vaccinated. The last update I saw, we had achieved 95% of the eligible population receiving two doses. The old country was generous and gave us more than enough doses. There is a right lack of anti-vaxxing here — I have never left the Falklands, so imagining them is frightening and weird.

Verdant Haven, Einswenn, Octopus islands, Kyratistani, and 14 othersChan island, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Uan aa Boa, Canaltia, Terrabod, Middle Barael, Free Las Pinas, Nation of ecologists, East skirsburg, Garbelia, and Difinbelk

Post by Cereskia suppressed by Middle Barael.

The lobby of the small Chestnut Inn on Pinnacle Street smelled of freshly-baked bagels, dark-roast coffee, orange juice, and musty wallpapers. The winding stairs creaked beneath her feet.

"Good morning, Ms. Wasserstein!" an excessively cheerful voice chirruped. "Did you sleep well?"
"Yes, thank you," she replied, unable to reciprocate the receptionist's inexplicable enthusiasm at 6am on a rainy morning.
"We have a great traditional Serenevillian breakfast here as you see," the receptionist continued. "Bagels, and dare I say, I recommend the whole grain ones especially, and orange juice, and this coffee - the coffee beans, by the way, are not produced too far from here and-"
"Actually, I'll just have a cup of coffee," she said.
"But the bagels-"
"Another time. Thanks."
She hastily filled a mug with the strong coffee, and quickly walked to a brown leather armchair tucked in a corner, as far away as possible from the chatty receptionist. She put the mug on the coffee table and realized there were no coasters to be seen. The multiple ring-shaped stains on the wood, left from countless mug bottoms sitting on it, caught her eye. Dozens of interlocking rings... and she would soon add one more ring to them.

She looked at her watch - 6.07am. Time had become sluggish - like the people in this carefree seaside town. She twiddled her thumbs. Her eyes landed on a wicker basket on her left, in which the daily papers were laid. She picked up a copy of The Sereneville Sentinel. Ostentatious name for such a low-profile town, she thought. "Sereneville's Oldest Handmade Jewelry Store Welcomes Tourists From Yggdrasil," the headline declared with pride. An old lady holding a necklace with a ludicrously large pendant carved out of wood grinned at the camera, flanked by straw-hat-wearing tourists posing with their own cameras dangling from their necks. Nothing about the damned bridge? The one that is supposed to be the project of the effing century?

And there it was - on a column at the far right, nonchalantly mentioned in passing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Revolution Bridge Construction in the Works, the City Council Reports
Susan Alvarez, the spokeswoman of the Sereneville City Council declared yesterday that the construction of the bridge that would connect Sereneville to Porpoise Island would start soon. The project, dubbed the Project of the Century in the media, was announced with much fanfare 20 years ago and was expected to boost tourism by connecting two tourist hotspots. A lack of funding, however, had since then delayed the commencement of the construction work, making the Revolutionary Bridge a synonym for government inefficiency for many people. While spokeswoman Alvarez reassured the residents that the federal government had committed to providing the funding for the project, questions and skepticism linger in people's minds.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"What an abomination of journalistic writing," she thought. Never informative. She had originally been trained as a journalist, before she got embroiled in all this, so she damned knew how to write a newspaper article. And this, this piece was definitely a mockery of it.

6.15am

A tall, dark man wearing sunglasses walked into the lobby and closed his umbrella, shaking the raindrops on the carpet. "That's right, add to the musty smell," she thought. "As if this place didn't smell like a damp basement already." The man walked towards her and greeting her with a quick nod, plumped down on the other armchair across the stained coffee table; as the receptionist watched them with curious eyes, trying to look busy arranging mugs on the table.

"Any particular reason why you wanted to meet in a public place?" he asked.
"I don't know, you tell me, Jack. A 6.15 meeting while a torrential rainstorm is raging outside? Would you like to meet on the beach?"
"You know very well that's not what I mean. Why not your room?"
"Well, the gossip wouldn't be good for a young lady's reputation," she said, raising an eyebrow, her bitter noncompliance meant to stab Jack like a knife, deliberate and precise.
Jack flashed a lopsided smile at her.
"Well, at least now I know for sure you haven't been replaced by an identical-looking impostor," he said. He raised his right arm to slowly slick his hair back, lifting his overcoat and letting her catch a glimpse of the revolver tucked in his side. Sprezzatura. She took a deep breath trying not to show it. The art of doing something in studied carelessness. Jack was an expert in that. No doubt he wanted to show he meant to play no games. These are the terms of our unspoken contract. That's what's on the line.
"You're thinking of your daughter? You are away from home for barely 24 hours and missing her already?"
"Leave my daughter out of this."
"Wow, OK, momma bear. Didn't mean to bring out your maternal instincts, relax."
"You wanted to talk business. Do it."
"Well, it is clear, really. The old plan stands - except..."
"Except what?"
"There has been a necessary delay, due to unforeseen circumstances."
Uh oh, this is no good.
"What do you mean?"
"Pooja Varadkar. Our conf - contact in the project. She left."
"Left?"
"She is unaccounted for since yesterday afternoon. She was last seen leaving her safehouse, was captured on a CCTV camera outside a grocery store down the lane. She vanished into thin air after that."
"And you can't track her down?"
"She is not a microchipped dog, Rosita." The sneer. The guy has nerve. On a second thought, no. He just has a gun.
"But you have absolutely no leads?"
"The b1tch disappeared on us, do you understand? No kidnapping, nothing. Do you know what will happen if she defects to the Frieden-und Freudenlandian authorities and reveals everything?"
She shrugged.
"I guess we would have been doomed already if that were the case."
"We can never be sure."
"So what's the new plan?"
"Lay low, wait for further instruction."
"Wait? For how long? You know I can't linger here forever. You promised me we would be done with this mission in a week at most!"
"You are not in a position to bargain. You know this as well as I do."

And with this he got up and strode towards the door of the musty inn, suavely bowing to the pretty receptionist, closing the door and letting the little brass bell tinkle ominously after him.

Rose stared at the wrinkles his buttocks left on the armchair.

She would be inhaling this musty cheap inn smell longer than she anticipated.

The new dynasty wrote:All of you guessed correctly! I am a native Falklander. We have 3,000-odd people living here — and the old country's military base hosts 400 or so personnel.

All of you are welcome to visit here anytime. We are hopefully reopening tourism soon — if you do not mind the cold, you will enjoy it here. Consider us a prettier and less ruined (and English-speaking) Patagonia, as I saw that region mentioned earlier.

I looked up the place out of curiosity, and it actually looks like a place I'd be interested in visiting in the future. Looks like a pretty lovely place to spend a week, and I happen to be a fan of colder weather. The site I checked did put a lot of emphasis on not referring to people as Argentinian there though, which I'll be sure to keep in mind if I do end up going.

Shame there's no "let everyone post" option... I'm sure bar on the corner would like that

Nation of ecologists

The new dynasty wrote:All of you guessed correctly! I am a native Falklander. We have 3,000-odd people living here — and the old country's military base hosts 400 or so personnel.

All of you are welcome to visit here anytime. We are hopefully reopening tourism soon — if you do not mind the cold, you will enjoy it here. Consider us a prettier and less ruined (and English-speaking) Patagonia, as I saw that region mentioned earlier.

That is so cool. I never thought I'd meet someone from the Falkland Islands, though I have heard about it. I've also always wondered what a native thought of the land dispute, and it seems as if Britain is preferred over Argentina.

OK, my new roommate is a psychopath.

Frieden-und Freudenland wrote:OK, my new roommate is a psychopath.

Oh dear. Spill the tea, hunty.

Daarwyrth wrote:Oh dear. Spill the tea, hunty.

Long story. We had a conversation. Things have changed a bit. My latest diagnosis is that my roommate is just weird. If what she is saying is true, then her boyfriend is the real psychopath. I'm probably gonna vent about this later tonight. I am just gonna say that my current roommate only moved in 2 weeks ago, and I already know more about her sex life than about the sex lives of my best buddies whom I have known for years and who have been sexually active for a long time.

I would like to unhear what I heard, but I guess it is not possible.

I just want to live alone.

East skirsburg

Frieden-und Freudenland wrote:OK, my new roommate is a psychopath.

It reminds me of a reddit post title

Nation of ecologists

Hey, temporarily going back to the LGBT+ discussion we had earlier this month, I'd like to say a few things:

1. I've always been a little confused as to what "queer" meant. Is it an umbrella term for non-binary people, or just a general umbrella term for members of the community? Or am I completely wrong?
2. I've been thinking about what exactly constitutes the + in LGBTQ+. Obviously there are a lot of different terms for this, but I think there are 4 major identities that are a part of this section of the Acronym:

A=Asexual. Someone who is not attracted to someone sexually. There are even a good amount of members on the website.
I=Intersexual. Unlike most members of the community, who are part of gender identity, intersexual people are people who are born with elements of both male and female sexes, so they cant be grouped as one or the other.
D=Demisexual. Similar to asexuality, demisexual people are people who are only sexually attracted to a very select few people, most of the time ones they have a deep romantic connection with.
P=Pansexual. Pansexuals are people who are not attracted to people because of gender, rather for other reasons that vary from person.

And probably some others that I'm missing, but those are the main ones that mainly make up the +.

Frieden-und Freudenland wrote:I just want to live alone.

You should definitely Lamb to the Slaughter her.

EDIT: Don't know if that's a niche reference, so https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

So the roommate trouble...

I have already talked about this to two friends, and by 'talked' I mean I texted them, because this has become our primary means of communication this past year. I am kinda fatigued from typing the same stuff, for forgive me for keeping it shorter for you (though, in hindsight, maybe you will in fact be grateful for it).

A new roommate moved in to my apartment 2 weeks ago (as stated before) and even though she is generally communicative and wants to peaceably resolve disagreements by negotiation, we had some issues on noise and also the frequency with which her boyfriend is visiting and staying overnight. This was things we talked about before, so it kinda pisses me off that she is not abiding by what was originally agreed upon. We had a more substantial argument on the noise issue today, by which I mean we stopped being kind and raised our voices and stuff... And after our meetings ended, she tried to approach me in a conciliatory way to resolve this issue... again, typically disarming attitude. Things got weird in a different way after that.

So once again, we re-agreed to certain boundaries, and peculiarly enough, it sounded like she was herself not super happy about her boyfriend coming that often. She then blurted out that her boyfriend is checking out an apartment in our building (I mean, WTF?). And I said "Sincere question, feel free to not answer if it is too personal: do you guys wanna move in together? It seems HE wants to be close to you." She said they had started dating only two months ago and she had no plans to live with him for another year at least (which is understandable since she signed a 1-year lease with me). She told me about how she was trying to talk her boyfriend out of renting the vacant apartment here, because she wanted more space for herself. (So far, this guy sounds like a douchebag who doesn't respect her boundaries and her demand for personal space. Nor my personal space for that matter, because I don't want him scurrying about like a bonus roommate. Anyway.)

After we talked about these issues, she went ahead and gave me simply too much information about her relationship, which I frankly did not ask for. I had the fan turned on last night, due to the heat, so I didn't hear anything; but apparently last night they had a long argument until 4am and she didn't get much sleep because of that. Apparently the reason for the argument was disagreement over contraception. This girl is 25 (and her boyfriend is 31) and apparently she never had sex. But she wants to have sex with this boyfriend of hers. (This is such a cringe thing for me to hear by the way. I am not her friend. I have much closer friends, as I said before, whose sex lives I know nothing about, and I am grateful for it. Why did she tell me this???) The guy is apparently more experienced, has had more girlfriends than she had boyfriends. Anyway, they are negotiating how to start having sex, and apparently the guy told her "I have never used protection in my past relationships, you need to get on the pill." Well, she is hesitant to do so, because "contraceptive pills mess up your hormones." (I kept cringing throughout, geez. I am personally pissed off that women have to disproportionately carry the burden of protection.) Then she was like "What should I do? Do you have any thoughts or comments?" (Me??? Why the fvck me???? Argh!)

I hate getting involved in other people's lives, and this is most certainly WAY MORE than I want to get involved in HER life. And yet, to fulfill a duty of sorts (what duty???) I had to tell her that she should consider everything before making a decision, the pill won't protect it from STDs so she should ask her boyfriend about that, and ultimately it is her decision. Should she decide not to use the pill, she should stand by that decision and not let her boyfriend violate this boundary. This was all I could tell.

I frankly don't like this guy. I already didn't quite like him when we first met, he was a weird germophobe who - right upon moving in - cleaned the kitchen obsessively, brought a vacuum cleaner from his own home to vacuum the carpet in my roommate's room, and even removed the knobs on the stovetop (!!!) and washed them with soap, sooooo he is weird. (And it is even more weird that the same guy who is so germophobic about these things is AGAINST putting on a condom. I would expect him to be batsh1t afraid of getting genital herpes or something. Apparently not.)

And she told me things I didn't realize. Like, apparently when he stayed overnight two nights ago he was very drunk and threw up in her bathroom. (Thankfully, we have two bathrooms, so we have a private bathroom each.) I don't know about you, but I think a 31-year-old guy who doesn't know when to stop drinking and drinks himself sick is a huge red flag.

Sounds like a total douchebag to me. Unrestrained, pushy, disrespectful, presumably obsessive-compulsive about 'certain' kinds of cleanliness...

If she was my friend, I'd tell her to dump him. But she is not, and I wanna stay out of this sh1t.

At any rate, I am very uncomfortable about knowing this stuff about her. I don't want to know about her relationship, definitely not about her sex life. It upset me a lot today.

I just wanted to share.

Einswenn, Octopus islands, Kyratistani, Mount Seymour, and 10 othersDaarwyrth, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Uan aa Boa, Canaltia, Terrabod, New ladavia, Nation of ecologists, and Pride republic

Nation of ecologists wrote:Hey, temporarily going back to the LGBT+ discussion we had earlier this month, I'd like to say a few things:

1. I've always been a little confused as to what "queer" meant. Is it an umbrella term for non-binary people, or just a general umbrella term for members of the community? Or am I completely wrong?
2. I've been thinking about what exactly constitutes the + in LGBTQ+. Obviously there are a lot of different terms for this, but I think there are 4 major identities that are a part of this section of the Acronym:

A=Asexual. Someone who is not attracted to someone sexually. There are even a good amount of members on the website.
I=Intersexual. Unlike most members of the community, who are part of gender identity, intersexual people are people who are born with elements of both male and female sexes, so they cant be grouped as one or the other.
D=Demisexual. Similar to asexuality, demisexual people are people who are only sexually attracted to a very select few people, most of the time ones they have a deep romantic connection with.
P=Pansexual. Pansexuals are people who are not attracted to people because of gender, rather for other reasons that vary from person.

And probably some others that I'm missing, but those are the main ones that mainly make up the +.

Pansexual, polysexual, and omnisexual are usually included under the umbrella of Bisexuality, as their definitions overlap so much and their communities are very much intertwined.

Usually it is written Intersex, not intersexual, and that actually refers to where the genitalia are not fully developed. It’s a very common misconception that there are both male and female elements

I’d also include Greysexual along with Demisexual, as both are terms in between asexual and sexual. Graysexual people only form sexual attraction in certain situations, while demisexuals require a deep emotional bond before sexual attraction develops.

And there are of course a few more relatively common gender-related terms that are included under “+”.

Non-binary of course, which is well known and can also been included under queer. Included under the umbrella of non-binary is Gender-Fluid (where gender can change often depending on how the person feels), Agender (meaning they have no gender or disagree with the concept of gender), Genderqueer (a sort of catch-all term I believe, often synonymous with simply non-binary), Third Gender/Gender X, Bigender (both male and female), trigender (both male, female, and the third gender), and Gender Agnostic (doesn’t think that the concept of gender is necessary). There’s also Demigirls and Demiboys, who are part masculine/feminine (respectively) and part “third gender”.

But anyways there are so many sexual and gender identities now that the + is just there to show that the LGBTQ+ community tries to be open and inclusive to all. They can’t fit all these identities, but including + shows that all are included, even if they are from a smaller community

Happy 300th day of delegacy, Ruinenlust!

Verdant Haven, Einswenn, New Kvenland, Octopus islands, and 13 othersFrieden-und Freudenland, Kyratistani, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Canaltia, Terrabod, New ladavia, Simbolon, Rakavo, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia

Double-post but keeping my personal life separate from congratulations:

Middle Barael wrote:*snip*

Androgynous gender agnostic that hasn't the foggiest what sexuality they fall under, here. o/
(For what it's worth I genuinely don't care whether people call me he/she and I only feel bad if folks start worrying they offended me by calling me the wrong pronoun or something.)

Jutsa wrote:Double-post but keeping my personal life separate from congratulations:

Androgynous gender agnostic that hasn't the foggiest what sexuality they fall under, here. o/
(For what it's worth I genuinely don't care whether people call me he/she and I only feel bad if folks start worrying they offended me by calling me the wrong pronoun or something.)

Can I refer to you as 'they'?

Middle Barael wrote:There’s also Demigirls and Demiboys, who are part masculine/feminine (respectively) and part “third gender”.

It's interesting that the generally accepted (or most common) terms for these identities are demigirl and demiboy rather than -woman and -man. Suggests that the terms are largely adopted by young people, because I can't imagine a 50-something part-masculine person calling themselves a "demiboy".

It'll also be interesting to see if the current demigirls and demiboys adopt different terms as they realize that those ones have somewhat demeaning connotations when they're adults.

Frieden-und Freudenland wrote:I just want to live alone.

*reads FuF's post*
*looks at empty apartment*
*has not messaged or communicated with a single person today*

Blessed, sweet solitude...

No, but seriously. That's far too much investment that you're expected to have without having even built a rapport with the person. And then to be expected to give all of this advice about contraceptives and what they entails with disease risk, hormone disruption, etc. (Incidentally, whether or not she goes on the pill, Mr. Douchebag should ABSOLUTELY wear a condom. That's entirely, completely unrealistic for him to expect to not have to do. And her going on the pill is immaterial; the main thing is to prevent transmission of disease. If it comes down to it, you can get Plan B or an abortion in Massachusetts if you get pregnant, but if you get herpes or something, you're now stuck with that for life.)

And in any event, why does it fall on you to be the one who advises her? I mean, it's not like you're even friends or anything. And you're not acting in a pseudo-professional capacity, as though you were in med school or something.

Those stove knobs, though. They really needed the cleaning. So at least he's doing the important stuff. Totally adds up; not strange at all. And your vacuum was lame, which is obviously why he needed to bring his own. Obvi!

Jutsa wrote:Happy 300th day of delegacy, Ruinenlust!

Thank you!! :-)

It doesn't feel like it's been that long, honestly. That means one year will be coming up soon. It was in August sometime, in the 10s, I think. I hope that I've been doing an adequate job, lol. Even though my knowledge is still in the early stages, it's definitely something that you grow into over time. I'm a bit more on top of things now than when it began.

Einswenn, Octopus islands, Frieden-und Freudenland, Kyratistani, and 13 othersJutsa, Mount Seymour, Daarwyrth, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Uan aa Boa, Terrabod, New ladavia, Simbolon, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, Arklanda, and Difinbelk

hi chat
1. Read my motto :)
2. i am finally going to start college this fall! I am pretty excited tbh, got my covid shot too.
3. Still won't be playing here but for those who remember me i am all but active on here; i haven't even responded to any people who want my cards (sorry not sorry to those people)
bye chat

Joined for the based Jane Austen quote

Oh! Good luck with college! I started mine just this past march. Been a worthwhile investment so far. :)

(Ngl it's a hundred times easier than retail, at that, despite my inert procrastination.)

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Hello comrades! Happy pride month!

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