I remember when.....

Day 891, 05:22 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Sean Power


I remember....
when Sean Greene and Kiemar were my political idols
when I used to think party policy was discussed on forum and not on irc
when eUKs health program involved moving abroad, fighting, healing and returning home coz they had no open battles!
when eIreland hosted wargames with eUSA, then eCanada, then eUSA again
when Romania and Indonesia had MASSIVE empires and not just key resource regions
when there were deputy AND junior ministers
when Starks was respected as Minister of New Citizens
when I learned about wellness from one of starks articles
when state companies paid 5 IEP
....and Pattons attempt to reduce it to 3 led to a petition by Aran Tal and a policy reversal
when Patton still believed the monetary market should go unregulated
when my arguments for building hospitals at home were ignored in the Dáíl
when we DIDN'T HAVE ANY Q5 HOSPITAL!!!!
when eUSA gave us 200G for our first q5 hospital
when the Ministry of Community was set up
when Michael Collins was admin of the forum
when Top Gun was admin of the forum
when the Dáil voted by anonymous poll instead of Yes/Tá or No/Níl



when we used to play corrupt a wish on the forum
when Severin used to churn out sweet sweet propaganda
when the ICF started.....
.... and returned for a second go at failing 😉
when BB staged a coup
when our treasury was robbed..... and not returned
when eUK gave us an interest free loan to tide us over
when Ireland First were a top 5 party (altho not their hayday)
when the Irish Social Democrats were the Irish Republican Socialist Party
when Independent voices was starting up
.... and I was a vocal critic
when Irish radical party was started and withered
when just stating someone was in the IUP was an insult!
when I had a run in with Donovan Thomas over his IV constitution
when I had a run in with Gráinne over .... too many things to mention 😛
when I thought of the name for my newspaper
when I used to write articles frequently
when I used to track prices in a spreadsheet, not knowing of helpful external sites
when I didn't know what API meant (still don't!)
when I didn't know how to use functions in google spreadsheets
when I didn't know what a CoS does!
when I thought being elected a TD meant automatic respect!



when PEACE GC was still around......
.... and we were participants in their wargames
when FORTIS was an alliance option
when contracts were enforced
when Vyse wasn't the 2nd (briefly!)
when Ireland was neutral
when Ireland was 'indepenent'
when I couldn't understand why there were no q5 moving tickets or gifts
when I thought irish market prices for houses were the norm
when we had no CoS
when people in Ireland still talked about Victor Petruscu quite often
when I didn't know who Victor Petruscu was
when I was MoFA... for a few days! lol
when i didnt know how to add pictures, bold or anything sxc lookin to articles
when the IEP was worth 0.011.... pretty much half its current value
when I didn't use erepublik plus! or any other greasemonkey scripts
when Fianna FAIL was still a party
when Theus used to teach eIrish history in the university
when Bryan Oshea used to drive me to smoking



when I believed everyone played erepublik honestly coz its only a game
when I believed nobody could be trusted coz its a only a game
when I came to a happy medium between the two 🙂
when i didn't use irc
when I thought I was the oldest guy playing erep
when I thought PP was an evil piece of caca.... (remember erep plus...)
when I didn't know what o7 signifies
when I didn't read foreign media
when I didn't use subscriptions
when I didn't gift myself from an org
when I wanted a united Ireland more than an internationally respected Ireland


One year grants some wisdom