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Damiann47 said
You're all good, things are just kind of fallen into chaos and stability fell by -1 due to a comet passing overhead. If anyone got my reference it would be cool.

Europa Universalis?

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Monochromatic Rainbow said
Hmm, you don't know enough southern socially deaf girls. Actually a lot of southern people in general would be good for apocalypse.

I live in the south... It's just that she would probably end up team killing if you ever gave her a gun.

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Ragnarok said
Indeed. Though the other side is. WE are all lesbians because we all start as female in the womb... But you know. Don't wanna ruin the macho charisma I got going for me

If you want to get technical we all would develop into girls without intervention(aka testosterone) which isn't really the same as being female...

Damiann47 said
And then from said socially deaf girls romance blooms cause they're really just misunderstood, even in damn terrible and really bad situations where killer air is murdering humanity.

As someone who has a socially deaf girl as a very close friend(no, I don't like her god damnit) I doubt things would end well for her in an apocalypse. I would rather have the valley girl.

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Stupid double post

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Ragnarok said
Just because of some fancy magic displaying woman doesn't make them real :P

Well, what happens when they find out about the internet? I mean there is wifi in kitchens these days.

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Ragnarok said
That's silly. Everyone knows there are no girls on the internet. It's all just pretend.

Dude, not cool, this is 2014 of course there are girls on the internet. Just do a simple google search for "cam girl."

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Monochromatic Rainbow said
Yes actually, that's kind of freakishly like what I had in mind.

Looks like putting all those points into mind-reading finally paid off.

Damiann47 said
Still around, just haven't had anything to say. Anyway looking forward to get started, partly since Riley is my first female character, as a guy myself I just make men so should be a new experience.

As a guy I've actually never really done a female character(did a few but their RPs usually died pretty fast). Tell me if it's any fun to pretend to be a girl on the internet.

Monochromatic Rainbow said
Ah, well, I'll do my best to make that wait as short as possible.

It's fine, we'll just sit here crashing the guild by spamming F5.

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Dinh AaronMk said
Russia didn't even have a native industry to begin with. A a significant portion was foreign owned and out of the central government's reach and could - at any point - be pulled back and weakened Russian industrialism.And I again turn to their military record: with the exception of having to fight basically third-world powers and the Turks (which were more a rotten corpse of a great thing than the Russians were) they had an abysmal record and I can't believe your claims Europe would be afraid of Russia when their navy sat at the bottom of the sea thanks to Japan (which had just left feudalism fifty years prior) and they were humiliated by France, Great Britain, AND the Ottomans over Crimea.German Industrialism had also exploded over this period as well, which was their inspiration for expansion of the Germany Navy.

Please check page 10-12 of this document. The Germans were not scared of the current Russia. They were certain that she was unprepared, it was her future state that they were "pessimistic" about. German officials thought that if Germany and Russia were to fight a war then it would be better to fight it now than later and they should take advantage of the present situation. In addition on page 4 there is an estimation of the percentage of world power of each of the countries. Note how Russia is always within one percentage point of Germany.

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Dinh AaronMk said
Yea sure, but it was simply Russia declaring war on Russia because they were "afraid" of their industry. They went to war because they had to.Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia over the Arch-duke, which prompted Russia to declare war on Austria-Hungary yo protect their Balkan lapdog, prompting Germany to get more involved and to demand Russia cease their general mobilization. Russia refused and Germany had to act on their commitments to its allies and declared war on Russia.At the same time they demanded France not get involved, in response France mobilized her reserves which threatened Germany.What arms race there was didn't initially involve Russia, given they were in any case an industrial cluster-fuck incapable of doing much of anything (even more so their army where even though it was large it was about as effective as erectile dysfunction). The arms race that existed was predominately between the Germans and the British with the goal of the Germans being to equip the Kaiserreichmarine to counter the British Royal Navy. France followed later because fuck it. Russian naval capability was destroyed if not greatly humiliated by Japan prior to the build-up so they didn't have anything to build off of and got themselves ruled out for the Anglo-German dick measuring contest

What you ignore is that Russia had begun to modernize, it's economy was growing rapidly and it had started to build railroads. The Germans thought that by 1917-1918 they would be no match for Russia. This was one of the big reasons why the Germans gave their blank check to Austria-Hungary during the July Crisis. Serbia was seen as essentially a satellite of Russia and had recently grown in strength during the Balkan Wars, this was compounded with the fact that in the Austrian government there was a strong imperialist group which wanted to declare war on Serbia. One of the arguments these imperialists used was that Russia and Serbia were going to be too powerful to stop soon and that unless they declared war on Serbia now then even with Italy and Germany at their side Austria-Hungary would be overrun.

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Dinh AaronMk said
I'm only sitting here wondering if Mortalbean's commentary on the start of the First World War is either political commentary he's absorbed on the topic, or is some incomplete and incorrect version of it. Because that's certainly not how I know it.

You mean the assassination of Frans Ferdinand and the Black Hand and all that? That stuff is simply the match that set off the powder keg. There is more to the start of WW1 than just an Austrian getting shot. Right now there is a pretty damn good series of videos being produced called The Great War on YT about WW1 that are following WW1 week by week exactly 100 years later. They are produced by some television channel in Europe and are pretty "fair and balanced". They are a great introduction to the topic of WW1 and include a series specifically focused on pre-WW1 politics.