EPIC eUS POTUS RACE DEC 2014
Aeriadne
And so it begins.
FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!
Just as I tried to tell you nearly two weeks ago, EZC juggernaut Deepchill has finally announced intent to run for POTUS. And with monolithic endorsements already coming in from former and beloved Presidents, it's going to take a huge name to even contend with the sheer threat Deepchill presents.
But thankfully, this colossal clash for the country's most coveted button-pressing job will be as stunning a battle as anyone can imagine, because the challenger going head to head against Deepchill is none other thaaaaaaan...
Wait a second, that can't be right. Hold on, dear reader, let me quickly scan the top 5. This'll just be second.
Mmk, let's see. Five days until the CP election and we've got... hmmm... Gnil article, always good. WHPR is at the top, that's nice. DoD too. Some shit Franklin wrote, who cares. And Mike Ontry's stuff.
...seriously? I must've missed something. Lemme dig further.
Ah geez, really? That's it? Well there's gotta be something on the next-
Oookay, nevermind.
Well... shit. Really? Not even a joke candidacy? Not even Oblige saying he won't run? Nothing? I mean, not anything?
Really?
Alright, look people: I get that Deepchill's cool. Sure, not the best writer, but a solid understanding of the mechanics and an unwavering dedication to the cause more than make up for that. Deepchill's good. Not great, necessarily, but pretty gosh darn good.
But... there's really no one else who's gonna run? We don't have a single person left who really wants to run for POTUS this December?
I mean, what happened to last month? We had a great election. It was the first time in months the number of total votes cast went up. I tracked the trend myself, and last month we had 768. The numbers have kept going down; we've been losing players everyday. But last month, between Gulya and Oblige, we had an increase.
And this month... what, it's just gonna be Deepchill jacking off against himself in all the primaries?
Listen: elections, specifically CP elections, are one of the greatest ways to get people involved in the game. If we keep just handing it to people, what's the friggin point? Where's the excitement? New players are gonna come, they're gonna ask who's running, and we're just gonna tell them "don't worry, it's already decided, this dude's got it." Where's the engagement with that?
We have to start forcing interesting elections. We can't keep up this shit of just having the same old people doing the same old jobs. I get that it's nice being important and having titles. I love titles. Titles are great. Titles are titillating. But what's the point if we just hand em out like candy on Halloween? Where's the fun in that?
Gnil has done a wonderful job of talking about the mechanical reasons this game is dying, everything from economic malarkey I'll never be able to fully wrap my mind around to social issues. But I wanna talk about the heart of us, and we've lost.
We have lost our competitive spirit. It's all just agreeing with one another now.
The SoH race is agreed upon.
Deepchill as December CP is agreed upon.
We're all so complacent. "The game's dying, who cares?" Well, it's that sort of apathy that completely turns away what few new players even try to stick around. We are partially to blame in the decay of the game. New people aren't getting experience, old people are so entrenched that there's no turnover. I mean for Dio's friggin sake, Oblige is a seven term POTUS.
Was that Plato's fault? Or did we let that happen?
Did we let ourselves becomes so used to the way things are that we just don't care anymore? Why play anymore? WHERE IS THE FUN, PEOPLE?
Do you like this? Just going month to month, nothing really interesting happening. People basically being assigned to CP, signing up to run for congress being more an inconvenience than a respectable job. Is that what's fun? Sure, we've found the right moves to make on the chessboard, but where's the heart? Where is the reason others want to even join in?
We're the kid in the corner, right now, who's made up all these rules for how we do things. And anyone new who tries to get in on that is viewed like an idiotic outsider. Is this what we want? Do we just want to shuffle through the game's ending, giving people POTUS just cus, well, I mean, I guess they're the best option?
Where is the fight?
Where is the vim and vigor?
Deepchill is a good person, and I have no doubt that a Deepchill presidency will be a good one. But don't want options? Don't we want to make Deepchill work for this? To make it worthwhile?
What is the point of being Country President if there's no prestige or fun left in it?
We're at a turning point in the game here. We can give up, the way we have been. We can just surrender, forget everything, and watch the game slowly die. Or... we can try. A long time ago, in the game's early dawning, there was a group led by a man. They had a vision, and they changed the face of the game, the way its played. Dio and Pakistan were a movement against the monotony of the game, and when S.E.E.S. came along it was because they were a movement against the pompousness of our height.
We need a new movement. Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light.
It ain't gonna happen with one person. I'm certainly not the one to do it. I'm just some guy who can't win and writes alright articles. It's gotta be someone else. It's gotta be you.
SSDD, RIP for you and me.
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The game's dying, who cares?
Well why not have a little fun then? Play in the ashes? Start a fire? Dude, I seriously miss the old Jude. I liked that little troublemaker.
I was quoting your quote in the article.
As for the Troublemaker Jude... the USA took the fight out of him.
Retirement in UK is fun though.
Pfft, how am I supposed to know that, I didn't the article.
Seems to me like a reason all the more to force fun out of this game.
I like playing with the community, and this game is what holds it together, so I care if it dies.....Because it's taking the community with it.
This made me think for a second about running. Then I thought about the worst-case scenario that something gets fouled up and I actually win, so maybe that wouldn't be a good idea after all.
Everything written here is true, so now, what are we going to do? I'd like to believe the answer isn't nothing.
Nothing else to add.
Naw but 4 realz, you'll be a good POTUS.
I didn't agree with the SoH race 😛
And it didn't agree with you. But we all knew you were going to lose it before it began, and that's because Tyler had been chosen. :/
Elite checking in to confirm I hand picked Tyler to be SoH.
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no but 4 doh
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no but 4 real doh*
we all know what this needs more of
Brad Pitt?
Aramec for CP?
Moar liek Aramec 5 CP, amirite?
idk I haven't been counting
It's 3, ftr, but Wild Owl will tell you it's been at least 15.
15 sounds about right.
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gimme citi so i can run
Aramec, u srs? Only certain citizens can become CP in this country.
It's not even fun being in Congress anymore. Our party was in Congress for the first time this year and I went for four months April-August. TBSP is all about being different (black sheep metaphor, amirite?), and I enjoyed the adversity... until Publius decided it was too many months of TBSP in congress and proposed blacklisting an entire eUS party. Sometimes people are too stupid and it's not worth the effort of trying to get involved to that level.
tl;dr: Select few can be CP.
Pub did what now??
I always KNEW it was that Publius bastard that destroyed everything! Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Did you miss it? He proposed blacklisting TBSP until we paid like 2m CC. lol. I think it was in April or May? One of the months that didn't get backed up...which sucks b/c it was much lolz.
I may have missed it. Cannot find it so if it happened it was lost.
I do not always read Kongress drivel tbh.
I do not see how that ties in tbh.
I remember when you used to sound normal.
Which part doesn't sound normal?
That only certain can be CP? Or that TBSP doesn't face adversity? (It can't be this one; you said something stupid like "TBSP hurts eUS community" b/c we didn't fall in line with your thinking).
???
So - I think some people should write amazing articles about Deepchill vs Godzilla... or Deepchill vs the Joker.. or Deepchill vs a pool of hot oil and scantily clad women... I mean.. let's make stuff up at least.
FYI - I'm not doing it. I'm not that kind of writer.
I'd vote for an Aramec.
thx bae 😘
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Simple answer is removing the Congressional Forums from the eUSA Forums, where the caustic belittlement of any idea seems to be aimed at driving away new citizens....
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Voted for Redhead.
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I wish I could endorse this article with a million cc. Dioism was the only thing that broke the monotony of this game. Everywhere I see, there are a bunch of power hungry people holding on to virtual power. They don't have any fun and they don't let others have fun.
DIO BRANDO is back. We should all reconvene and show them how it is done! With Style.
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