All about Sweet
Releasethe Krakken
😃His latest attempt at kissing A* is quite funny for me an relatively old player.
Now we see a lot of :REMINISCING with none of the HINDSIGHT
“And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lost at Sea
Lets remember those times:
1. The articles by them proclaiming their the best and going further and claiming we are sh*.
Arrogance v Tact and in the end arrogance lost.
2. The lack of any financial records.
We had to reconstruct it and still they then never acknowledged the truth of it. They claimed it would jeopardize country security(though at that time we had no wars and all other nations published financials)
3. The covering up of their messes.
I hardly think we have heard everything they did.
4. Their sole intention focused on organizational growth at the cost of eIreland
For long times when sweet drinker was either MOF or CP the ICA grew by giving better and better rewards. I can think of a time when they promised 100 gold to join the Labour MU.
Where did this money come from? Why if they made so much money was this same incentives during their rule not shared with the rest of the populace. When is the 1000 eip your money v the countries. Maybe they did make lots of money but Ireland in my time never saw any of it.
5. Dividing Ireland and creating power pools v Individualism .
Irish army at a stage they made 60% of the damage. Yet for a very long time they were promoted as the only army that should exist. I can remember asking then MOD seanan for some supplies as commander of Sons of Dublin my mu of the time . I needed this to give my 2 members 10 Q7 a week so at most 150 Q7's a month. NO small mu's is a bad idea everyone should mass our damage so that we show our allies we are a force to be reckoned with(the excuse)
6. Excuses , excuses and excuses
For every flaw they had a excuse: no financials - it could jeopardize our security. Because someone would grab a calculator and work out how much damage we could put out -:- the counter was that online tools was then freely available that would show our damage and every players strength. The trend has always been a big country attacking you or a small/medium country attacking you with backup.
No financials because someone would steal the money. All thefts took place when there was no financials. Most knew or didnt care about this.
7. Henchman
Ordinary players was constantly attacked by a chosen henchman. It seemed that this was well coordinated. As the one stopped the next one would start. There was no depths they would not sink to.
8. No help for people outside their circle.
Their official circle was the ICA first and then their government controlled Irish Army second. I cannot remember ever being outside the circle getting anything from inside the circle. The excuse we should build up our stockpile of money for when there is an attack. And no the money was still not distributed when there was attacks. Even under attack I never got a single weapon . And I even went on IRC to ask. The excuse was that the community had decided I should not get weapons. Nobody of this community ever came out. Cowards the bunch of them.
9. The closed tap burst open.
Every so often a theft would occur. Meaning all the money stockpiled would be lost forever to the Irish people who never saw a cent of it anyway outside the circle. Their response always was to start gathering up a new stockpile. Until the next theft. Where older Irish players could be now 3 or 4 times bigger or stronger their attitude has meant that individual account has stayed weak but for the efforts of the account holder.
Every time a individual player is penalizes we see an article with a counter asking for donations. I have seen million cc penalties being erased. If the account was penalized to begin with. Never ever did they start a counter and asked for any donations to reimburse the money.
10. Skimming at the top
Why you may asked did they never ask. let me offer a theory it is because either they where always skimming the funds for their own benefit or this would mean a big chunk they could enrich themselves with or thirdly because the theft enriched them directly.
But with no financials how do we know a person is not skimming. Short answer we dont.
11. US v THEM
In their articles they were always the people working towards a BETTER IRELAND making a POSITIVE change to the country. Although none of this trickled down outside your circle? Although even under occupation or attack no supplies was ever handed outside the circle. Because growing a nice big stockpile for the next thief is working towards a BETTER IRELAND and making a POSITIVE change to the country.
And We the THEM where always NEGATIVE because we asked for a more equal distribution of supplies and because we asked for open financials. And because we asked for power pools to be broken up. And because we demanded that more people should be made MOD, MOF and MOFA so that everyone in Ireland can play more of the game. Yes the THEM was always NEGATIVE working against IRELAND.
We were the troll of Ireland the vagabonds the persons that tried to destroy their Utopia and succeeded. Because US getting all the benefits from a country and making all the decisions is a kinda UTOPIA for most.
2. Echo'ing lies
If enough people echoes the same lies it cannot be a lie? So if everyone always tells the same lie every time an issue like an equal distribution of supplies is raised. More and more people start beliefing the lie and echo'ing the lie.
THE RESULT
The problem is we always had a cesspool in Ireland. Those that saw it for what it is left. Those that profited from it stayed. The them kept on fighting against it but in the end their efforts did not amount either to a better Ireland. Because each time US took in a new disciple they taught them all the tricks to DESTROY Ireland.
Per capita we have weak strength accounts. Meaning weak fighters .
Poor accounts. Because there was no distribution outside the circle those people that truly worked to make Ireland a better place bar some on their own steam most was weak /poor accounts.
Only a few accounts was profited and they never SHARED or DONATED. Because in the US there was no Ireland. Ireland was never part of the US. Why would you throw milk in a vase with 50 holes in it. As they knew the game they knew that donating to Ireland was handing the money to US. Because if say Loumann was MOF he would syphon the money to his own account or to Seanan or to whoever.
WHY SWEET WANTS IN
Because of the effort of THEM and boredom the US that sweet created was pulled from beneath his feet. He knows the game why would he want to be THEM when US gets all the money?
FINAL THOUGHTS
Because of our successes we continue to see some efforts at implementing the ideas that will make Ireland a better place. But until that day comes dont think people criticizing government is working against Ireland. Like I have explained to you Ireland is not part of the US Ireland is the little malnutrition-ed child that sits behind the THEM and waits for the final victory where the THEM will set him back on his thrown and he will grow to a power again.
Comments
There are aspects of truth in what you say. I also played the game at that time.
I don't remember it the way you do. I certainly don't remember Sweets like you do.
I also think there are different ways of running an eCountry. Looking back it is easy to see some mistakes that were made, but not everything that was done was a mistake. Certainly it is true that your ideas back then were not implemented.
Some of the things you talk about, you ascribe an amount of malice to the people involved. You portray them as nasty cunning deceitful people and you demonise them. People we don't like we have a tendency of seeing them as wrong or bad, when they are generally just different to us. I think that is often what you did. I also remember you being particularly nasty back then. It could be said that because you were outside you threw tantrums and raged against anyone in power.
Your paragraph "The Result"..."The problem is we always had a cesspool in Ireland. Those that saw it for what it is left."... This is dangerous ground for you. If you were to ask me, or many others that played the game back then they would probably say that you and your behaviour is the reason why more than one person either quit the game or left eIreland.
You seem to have changed since then. Your arguments are more measured and logical and you don't react as badly as you used to. You come across as a more reasonable person. You are much more electable than you used to be and you still maintain a vision. People are more likely now than ever before to listen to what you have to say and perhaps follow you, so don't screw it up.
yes certainly there is some speculation but if we need to speculate what is going on in government we can say anything. perhaps their intentions was grand but still I have never seen any money flowing from the top even when i was one month the mod and the other month was mostly individual players.
and i am sponsoring some salaries on my own. but in the end financials v government supplies does not make sense and the one problem that will persist is that some players will always want to keep only a certain group in the cabinet a power pool. oh well perhaps it will change. we can only hope its after all a game. perhaps they start realizing it.
The ironic part is even if I believed your article, I still draw the conclusion you are butthurt for not running the show.
You are right. Ireland has been a divided place for a while now. In some respects it has always been a contentious place but it has changed.
Ireland needs to be whole again. I don't have the answer to how.
It will take all of us to do it though.
It starts with good sportsmanship and the liberal application of butthurt salve when nameless people don't get their own way. Not mentioning any names, but it is not you or me.
I hope Harry does not that that to heart...
I will agree to that Flaco. But it takes both sides to recognize that both are part of the problem. If one side tries to help and the other does not think they have done anything wrong then it won't work.
Rarely is one side the sole problem.
Sweet is a economic genius but then so was Bernie Madoff
winston is a political genius but then so was Adolf Hitler?
Possible Godwin award there for you Sweet
Thank you winston. It was risky for me to assume the readership would recognize that my perfect analogy to your statement is also a perfect candidate for stupidest post on in the comment section. Thereby implying that you should really be embarrassed by the intellectual level of your initial comment. Thankfully you jumped in to spell it out for any confused readers, and also possibly yourself.
I actually started writing a response article to this. But then I just didn't bother.
Despite the title of your article, there is really very little in it that's got anything to do with me.
It is some random unconnected jibberish usually. I dont bother to read all that I just take a little look on the comments most of the time.