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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 10:30:22 GMT
I haven't played Diplomacy in a long time. A long long time. My favourite memory is of a game when I was allied with Scubar (not realising it was Scubar) and we used the Black Sea as a platform to dismantle the Russian monster Limni.
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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 10:36:41 GMT
You had to be there.
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 21, 2022 10:42:33 GMT
Apparently I've been ringing for 127 hours, that seems quite a lot since Feb 25th and I had a 3 day break.
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Post by EnglishRed on Mar 21, 2022 10:44:52 GMT
I'm never playing Diplomacy again. Last time I got brutally bullied by Dr Alimantado in a World Diplomacy game.
Last jight I played more Elden Ring and kept getting destroyed by the same guy until I rage quit.
I then played CM01/02 until bed. More my pace.
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Post by scubar on Mar 21, 2022 10:46:21 GMT
I haven't played Diplomacy in a long time. A long long time. My favourite memory is of a game when I was allied with Scubar (not realising it was Scubar) and we used the Black Sea as a platform to dismantle the Russian monster Limni. My main memory of that one is everyone getting fed up with the 5 day stalemate and it ending up in a draw |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 10:49:13 GMT
I haven't played Diplomacy in a long time. A long long time. My favourite memory is of a game when I was allied with Scubar (not realising it was Scubar) and we used the Black Sea as a platform to dismantle the Russian monster Limni. My main memory of that one is everyone getting fed up with the 5 day stalemate and it ending up in a draw I didn't like that it ended in a draw. We could have kept going. I was very happy to have attained all the territories around the Black Sea, like a carbon nano-fibre doughnut. |
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Post by EnglishRed on Mar 21, 2022 10:49:56 GMT
I haven't played Diplomacy in a long time. A long long time. My favourite memory is of a game when I was allied with Scubar (not realising it was Scubar) and we used the Black Sea as a platform to dismantle the Russian monster Limni. My main memory of that one is everyone getting fed up with the 5 day stalemate and it ending up in a draw All the best games end in a boring stalemate |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 21, 2022 10:55:17 GMT
A strange game.
The only winning move is not to play.
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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 10:55:53 GMT
What's Diplomacy and what's real life?
It's sometimes hard playing it with the same people over a few games. There's this idea that you shouldn't take any of it personally, but if you know that someone is untrustworthy (and has previously stabbed you in the back) then it's not unreasonable to want to get them out of future games. Then they say you've taken it personally. But maybe that's their diplomacy? Maybe that is their mode of skullduggery.
Mind-bending.
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Post by EnglishRed on Mar 21, 2022 11:10:29 GMT
I will never trust RustyJames.
Although in that game of Here I stand it was me who betrayed him. I was role-playing though- fully immersed in the role.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 21, 2022 11:16:04 GMT
Surely in Diplomacy it's only other people who are not meant to take it personally? You are perfectly entitled to take umbrage if someone else crosses your invisible lines of conduct. There should be a syndrome named after it.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 21, 2022 11:18:52 GMT
Separately from the above, I am totally over lazybones stabbing me in the back so he could take Russia, even though it was only 4 years ago. |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 11:20:12 GMT
I will never trust RustyJames. Although in that game of Here I stand it was me who betrayed him. I was role-playing though- fully immersed in the role. I liked that game of Here I Stand a lot. A shame for it to have ended early after eight hours. |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 11:21:59 GMT
Separately from the above, I am totally over lazybones stabbing me in the back so he could take Russia, even though it was only 4 years ago. Did I do that? Oh Lord ... In my mind I have never stabbed anyone in the back in Diplomacy. Maybe I am a monster after all. |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 21, 2022 11:26:25 GMT
Morning Etonians of the North!
Wordle 275 3/6
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Ring - made it out of the volcano zone, tried it on with the Tree Sentinel and got smashed. Top banana.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 21, 2022 11:28:33 GMT
Have you ever played your sister at diplomacy? {Too soon? Sorry lazybones. Not making light of family upset. Ok, I am - but with affection, I hope you get that. If I'm being a cunt for likes please tell me. Or just being a cunt.} |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 21, 2022 11:33:31 GMT
Have you ever played your sister at diplomacy? {Too soon? Sorry lazybones . Not making light of family upset. Ok, I am - but with affection, I hope you get that. If I'm being a cunt for likes please tell me. Or just being a cunt.} My sister is the kind of person who would get up after an hour of playing Diplomacy (as a board game) and say 'I'm getting bored. I don't want to play anymore', and just walk off, leaving you all hanging there. A truly terrible person to play a board game with. But I suppose they do say that ... you dislike in others what you see in yourself ... I guess that's even more the case when you're talking about siblings. I hope I would never abandon a board game. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 21, 2022 11:38:25 GMT
Have you ever played your sister at diplomacy? {Too soon? Sorry lazybones . Not making light of family upset. Ok, I am - but with affection, I hope you get that. If I'm being a cunt for likes please tell me. Or just being a cunt.} We did not play Diplomacy at home. Risk was quite popular when we wanted a row. The added randomness added to the sense of paranoia. There are not many games as good for inspiring the feeling that everyone is against you. Or for piling in on someone who had nearly, but not quite won. |
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Post by EnglishRed on Mar 21, 2022 11:48:59 GMT
Have you ever played your sister at diplomacy? {Too soon? Sorry lazybones . Not making light of family upset. Ok, I am - but with affection, I hope you get that. If I'm being a cunt for likes please tell me. Or just being a cunt.} We did not play Diplomacy at home. Risk was quite popular when we wanted a row. The added randomness added to the sense of paranoia. There are not many games as good for inspiring the feeling that everyone is against you. Or for piling in on someone who had nearly, but not quite won. One Christmas, during a family game of Risk, my Dad threw the dice across the room.amd bellowed at my Sister to stop attacking him. Little did he know that this was exactly her mission. We never played Risk again after that. It was a Holly jolly Christmas that year. |
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Post by EnglishRed on Mar 21, 2022 11:51:46 GMT
I will never trust RustyJames. Although in that game of Here I stand it was me who betrayed him. I was role-playing though- fully immersed in the role. I liked that game of Here I Stand a lot. A shame for it to have ended early after eight hours. It was a shame, but inevitable really. It burnt brightly for those 8 hours though. One of my favourite board game experiences. Or maybe that was just seein Rich dressed as a Pope? |
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Post by Faceless on Mar 21, 2022 11:55:42 GMT
Diplomacy would be fun if it wasn't for other people
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Post by EnglishRed on Mar 21, 2022 11:56:25 GMT
Diplomacy would be fun if it wasn't for other people That sentence is true for most activities |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 21, 2022 11:56:48 GMT
We did not play Diplomacy at home. Risk was quite popular when we wanted a row. The added randomness added to the sense of paranoia. There are not many games as good for inspiring the feeling that everyone is against you. Or for piling in on someone who had nearly, but not quite won. One Christmas, during a family game of Risk, my Dad threw the dice across the room.amd bellowed at my Sister to stop attacking him. Little did he know that this was exactly her mission. We never played Risk again after that. It was a Holly jolly Christmas that year. Are you Lazybones? If not you could probably save money by doing joint family therapy sessions. |
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Post by Faceless on Mar 21, 2022 11:59:02 GMT
I then played CM01/02 until bed. More my pace. I was always more of a 97/98 man myself |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 21, 2022 11:59:37 GMT
Here I Stand looks terrific. Proper Waugh hermit business.
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