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We continue the series with an interview with Rylde!

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Questions were picked from the last article in the series.

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Without further ado here we go:

Tell us a little about the RL Rylde?

I'm a 33 year old manager of a retail store in northern alberta. I don't miss the NWT the liquor store isn't open on sundays. I have one 9 year old little kiddo and not gonna lie there might be a couple more out there with all the love I had to give.

I have a very sarcastic sense of humour. I can be a procrastinator at times but once I get down to do something I give it my all.

I had 3 gods in my early twenties. Tokith, Gamblor and Boozalot. I got tired of Tokiths paranoia so I rarely pray to him these days. Gamblor screwed me over one to many times so I pray to him but only lightly. I consider myself a holy knight of Boozalot.

RL Hobbies and Interests?

I have a pretty big list of hobbies and interests. Erep is obviously up there. As I stopped going all in with Gamblor I just play low stakes poker now, online and live. I love playing pool in the bar. I enjoy reading. I like hockey even if my Oilers are garbage. I'm a pretty big fan of world of warcraft but only for the PvP. I was also looking at rebooting my warhammer hobby as I purchased a full Tyranid army. I also play magic when I can.

Best RL adventure you've been on?

Probably have to be the birth of my daughter. I was super stressed out at the time being my first time in a delivery room. My gf at the time was squeezing the f*ck outta my head and all I could think was does anyone else notice that rotten smell. I could barely breathe and the few breaths I got in were pretty gross. I gagged a bit and almost puked. Then the beautiful kiddo was born. After everyone left I went and got sick for 5 minutes then had a nap in a hospital chair beside the old lady.

Tell us a story of your first experiences in erep?

I jumped in during the 2009 baby boom after finding a link on a site I used to play axis and allies. Game was pretty lame as I wished I could do more. Game was very limited at the time for newbs.

I spent my time telling off party recruiters like citizen B who I thought were kissing my ass a bit to much. So I rolled solo for quite awhile at first reading media and doin my own thing.

Eventually I saw a guy who wasn't takin crap from anyone and ended up sending a pm and talking with him. Bruck took me under his wing for quite awhile from Brucks canucks to leading crimson canucks. Was fun times of teamwork and super activity. We loved sticking it to the CAF and the govt as they had zero control over us and we did what we wanted until we were finally recognized.

If the Oilers ever win another Stanley Cup, what would you do to celebrate? What would you say to those Canucks fans (like ED)?

.I'd already be drunk so can't do that. Bang my GF wearing an Oilers jersey for sure as she's a Calgary fan. To all the Nucks fans out there I'd only say no cup for you.

Greatest player you’ve ever met? (Yes more than one is fine, as long as you say why.)

I'll answer this in three parts
a)Early game it was Bruck for sure until I realized after footing a large portion of the workload that he was just a figurehead and a master delegater. Still I learned a lot from him and the connections I made through him to guys like Alias Vision, Ralph de vers, and JRC. I had a lot of good players to learn from.

b) Mid game would have to be TFD of course. Guy was super active and attacked any project with zeal until it worked to his favour. He founded things we still have to this day after rebirths like CPF and the Praetors. He left a legacy and even though I hate the CPF its still good to see them around for that reason alone. My only regret for him is that he didn't get a chance to be CP and that was one thing he really wanted.

c) Late game and current. Anyone who sticks it out in this game hoping against hope that the ship starts to right itself. I should start taking bets on what gets better first. The Oilers or this game.

Question's from the comment section:

Xander Kross- How did you get to be so awesome that you could beat the Moose in a CP race without even slightly campaigning?

Those that vote for me regularly know for good or ill they will have a reason to log onto the game to either fight for my latest aggressive campaign or to free us from my latest blunder. My greatest erep magic trick is throwing a match into a pile of gasoline soaked tinder then heading into the bunker for a week or 2.

Kushkins- What's inspired you to continue to commit your time and money to this game, after so long?

I like leading campaigns and I love war modules in all forms. Risk, Axis and allies. As alias vision himself said I'm boom or bust. In my gameplay thus far I've had many big booms and as many big busts. I find it all highly entertaining.

Anonymous Hooligan- What is your favorite whisky?

No whiskey for me. I try to avoid anything brown that's hard alcohol. Makes me go pure indian as in drinking from the bottle and wondering if the cops are gonna pay me a visit. I have one cousin I drink with when I see him and after drinking ten beers He feeds me Crown Royal so that would be my pick.

R I C K Y- Would you like to see the Indian Act abolished ?

Govt loves my kind of Indian. Ignorant, doesn't live on the reserve with no idea what the indian act is. Unless the indian act is hold a job, pay your taxes and don't b*tch about Harper. I'm a golden indian int hat respect.

Persej- Have you ever enjoyed a good pair of meatballs at IKEA?

IKEA is for white people so no.

Mary- What's your favourite moment in eRepublik?

My favorite moment was winning my first presidency by one vote over Nosyt. He had heaving EPIC support AKA CPF of a few years ago. I had to sit online all day messaging whoever came online and beg them to vote for me and even with MDP and Norse support I still barely won. If I hadn't of put in that extra effort we would probably still be bro's with USA to this day.

What's your favourite moment IRL?

Birth of my daughter, beating cancer and getting laid for the first time. In that order.

Folphjorg- When you play the fantasy hockey pool, do you still stay away from the oilers? Or do fantasy hockey suicide for the home team?

I used to go down with the ship picking Oilers. The last few years as an Oilers fan I haven't even bothered to join a pool. I tried joining J canucks but it filled up and that was gonna be the one that broke my no pool streak. Oh well it lives on.

Nyx- Other than gay kitteh, what else yew like dressing up as? 😁

I rarely or never dress up. I got a new GF and she is huge into Halloween so gay kitten was a submission to her. In the past as a kid though I dressed up as predator and fido diddo.

Finway- Which is the best girl: UK or US? : (

UK is a better girl cause we can slap her around a bit every once in awhile and make sure they have an eye hickey

Punisher- if you were an admin for a day, what would you do?

I'd bring back the old vote by province election system as active parties can rule the day there. MDPs stomping grounds.

I would make it so a country could only have a max of 8 MPP's so it would promote more smaller alliances as the big dogs would only want the best for MPP's.

Reduce the WRM cost of making q6-q7 weapons making work communes viable again.

Cut throat on multi's with a 3 strike system.

Every nation should have its own campaign goal based on size, population and current owned territory to start a new CP campaign. It would give every nation something different to strive for.


Sweet Drinker- What do you intend to destroy next?

My girlfriends *censor*. We have a bet for new years eve. Edmonton vs Calgary. as she's a Calgary fan and me a die hard Oilers fan if I win I get to bang that *censor once a week for 2 months. if the Oilers lose I get two fingers up the *censor* once a week for 2 months to apparently get to know what it feels like. Pray for the Oilers to win my friends.

N.oName- did u have fp for ur pseudo ?

I don't even know what that means explain in comments

Funky- What do you think of that scumbag Klop123?

The guys has so much integrity, reliabilty and trustworthiness that I actually told him one time if he wasn't gonna be my mofa that I wasn't gonna have one and he knew I was gonna win. I put the fear of god into him with a Rylde term with no mofa.

If he ever ran for CP again he'd have my vote even if he smells like moose sh*t.

DMV- Why does it appear that everytime your term turns th sh** you disappear until someone else fixes it?

He who's flame burns the brightest burns out the fastest something like like kinda buzzed now answering all this crap. I'll be honest, I hate to lose. I love to play but I hate to lose.

I've spent so much RL money at times trying not to lose that I had to walk away or go really broke. Rather than tell people that RL tidbit it was easier to just not log in or just log in for the bear minimum.

That wouldn't go for all my CP mistakes but the one that comes to mind is the summer war against USA when Rylde's roughnecks still officially existed. I spent so much keeping that up while tanking and buying mercs while buying mercs was relatively new to fight USA I had to walk away.

Other than that its usually unexpected RL events. Sounds like a cop out that everyone uses when they are a bad CP. But after the USA conflict I spent a could G's on I decided its RL first.

IBB- What eRepublik War was your favourite to take part in?

Even though it broke me IRL it has to be the war vs USA after they left Terra and I exposed them for wanting to switch sides. There was so much drama and hate plus so many americans were undecided they fought for us or didn't take part at all. Was an epic time of warfare. Canada being the little bastard neighbor that dared to tell off there much larger ex ally. If I didn't exist or play this game at all I know Canada would be in a different spot than it currently is.

Oinyo- Are you happy with how the game is currently being played in the Meta department?
Do you miss the huge party wars of old?
If you had the chance... Would you want that type of game style back?

Of course I want it back and so do you. If Canada could do anything during peace time it was make more reasons to pour gasoline all over itself and light itself on fire politically. It was the fun, the tactics and backstabbing. Funky sat in his little CPF hole for over a year until MDP and Norse burnt down EPIC with a perfect PTO and they migrated to him like lost children. MDP Rylde vs Tyrael snow and Clan Wolf was pretty fun to for its time.

I was kinda disappointed DMV already called it quits with the coalition after not even a month. I thought he was gonna relight the political flame but like I said in my answer to him it seems like he who's light is the brightest.

I can say this with impunity as I was there when we built MDP from nothing but a joke party of jerks that didn't wanna be the super nice guys things take time. It took months for MDP to get one person elected to congress and we hailed it as an accomplishment and it wasn't even under our own banner. But our 15 active members took pride in it. MDP got someone in and the rest is history

Your impatient and expect to much to soon DMV.

Dill- Given a choice, do you prefer pickles as a condiment or side dish?

Piss off pickles are best by themselves. They also add flavor to sammiches. Kinda like your erep career. You add flavor but shouldn't be the main course.

firecomet- Do you prefer going to Tim Hortons or McDonalds more?

I don't drink coffee but I love bagels and cream cheese even if cream cheese gives me horrible gas. Like nuclear waste gas. No philidelphia cream cheese for this guy around the gf. I gots to have a separate blanket just to keep all that nasty under wraps.

WTF was the question. oh yeah Mcdonalds I'll eat big macs till I puke and usually an hour later it comes out the other way anyways.

Kippers- I always hear you talking about drinking your shitty piss water beers. What's your favourite hard liquor?

Favorite hard liquor would be vodka. mixes good with everything especially pus*y. I once drank so much vodka I thought it was a good idea to go break into a business. Went home with lotsa cash and stuff. Then drank more vodka and decided it was a good idea to go back. 7 months later I was a free man.

SGTROCK- Is there intelligent life in outer space?

I think there's alien life out there. I saw a UFO once and was pretty scary.
Tell me about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career

I've floated through life most of the way like my erep career with highs and lows working to get by. I just started my first actual career that I like. I wish I was more accomplished but I'm not sorry man.

klop- Thoughts on Jurassic World and the new Star Wars?

I'll watch Jurassic world hoping for the magic of Jurassic park and I'll watch the new star wars hoping for no flashbacks of jar jar binks..

Gods knows even if jar jar is in both i'll still spend good money to watch both.

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Thank you Rylde, for your time. As always, leave suggestions, questions you want answered or people you want to see interviewed in the comments below!

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