[TB] Code is Who We Thought They Were
Tyler Bubblar
In 2006 the Dennis Green coached lowly Arizona Cardinals played the Chicago Bears, a team predicted by many to win the NFC and possibly the Super Bowl that particular year. The Cardinals forced 6 turnovers and yet they lost that game narrowly due to Defensive and Special teams touchdowns. Dennis Green had an epic postgame rant for the ages. It’s worth watching if you haven’t seen it. Which leads me to the title of this Article. CODE is who we thought they were. When I was running for CP back in May the last thing on my mind was leaving CODE. I ran on a domestic heavy platform with the hope that we could revitalise the media, re engage the citizenry, close or at least narrow some of the rifts in our community, shake Congress loose from months of inertia/deadlock, and prove to all of us that the eUSA as a whole is only a dead community if we allow it to be.
I am nothing if not predictable. At this point in my eRepublik career I am a known commodity. I consider myself a pretty good writer, but even a casual perusal of my articles will reveal a very consistent overarching theme. Community, engagement, together, respect, etc. It is not intentional at all. That said, my writings reflect my values. So going back to that campaign as I said it was my intent to focus almost solely on the domestic front. If you go back to some of the Q&A threads I had open during that time I stated I wanted to approach CODE about recalibrating our relationship with them as our citizens were growing tired of farming TWs and wanted to participate in battles and campaigns of consequence. In short it was my intent to have the eUSA take a more active role in the fight between Asteria and CODE.
That as we all know at this point was not to be. Asteria Airstruck en masse into North America. Little to no resistance was put up by our Allies. After I was elected it was made plain no help for anyone was coming. The Alliance was going to lay down to protest what I viewed as paranoid conspiracy theories they perceived as reality. Focus on your communities is what the CPs of CODE nations were told. I viewed this as unacceptable. I admit I came into my latest terms skeptical of our Allies as I remember all too clearly these were the same nations that AS struck us in 2018, ran trains on us and stacked months of embargoes on us to prevent us from working our holdings if they were still located in our cores. I also remember well Thailand deciding an AS on New York on the Anniversary of 9/11 in order to celebrate an MU birthday was in good taste.
Despite that if there had been a plan I would have thrown the full weight of my administration behind it. Laying down and dying with the rest of CODE was not something I was willing to do. Then a few months later it became clear to me it was time to go. Our “Allies” valued Ireland a nation that was no longer a part of the Alliance more than the eUSA. They called me and my MoFA team liars. This on tops of months of finger pointing, backbiting, and listless whining on conspiracy theories was the end of my patience. So after an Alliance meeting I hit the button for Congress to vote on leaving. The threats immediately started. CODE would make the eUSA pay. It seems now they are going to attempt to make good on those threats. I will be frank had I seen the list of the Nations ASing into our cores back in May instead of September we would undoubtedly still be a member of CODE.
As it stands now we will have and have had help from Asteria and Hydra in countering this invasion. We are growing closer to a group of Nations that actually value the eUSA. They treat us with respect and courtesy. They protect the interests of all nations in their sphere. That is decidedly not the case in the CRO/TR side of things. This is not a new thing; it has been that way in my experience since COT and SIRIUS. Which takes me back to CODE is who we thought they were. They have chosen to get back up off the mat and actually try which is laudable. Yet I find it comical that they choose to come after the eUSA rather than their Balkans enemies. CODE saw the eUSA as an easy cash cow and the moment holding onto that cow became somewhat difficult they abandoned us. They then scorned us when we made peace with the invaders they left us at the mercy of. They then threatened us when we left after months of inaction on their part. They are now attacking us. Fantastic friends and Allies right there. I’ll say it again CODE is who we thought they were.
I believe Krapis and his team have done a fantastic job of fostering closer relations with Asteria. I recognize this is not easy for everyone. People in this game tend to have long memories, and just months ago Serbia and Asteria were the monsters under the bed for the eUSA. Yet here we are under massive imminent attack yet again. Fight hard eUSA this time you will not fight alone. The difference is this time we will have willing friends to stand by us and push the invaders back. This time there is a military solution to this situation. Because Asteria is who we hoped they were back in May when my team and I approached them about a NAP.
As always I thank you for taking time to read. I’ll see you on the battlefields.
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CODE is Who We Thought They Were
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2723808
it's a smaller book than usual
I'm rusty
I supported it then, and now. Thank you.
Time to fight.
pew pew pew
Only half the usual length. You are slacking.
It's been a couple of months. It takes time to hit peak Russian novel levels.
Hey Tyler o/
Alliance A invades us. The discord/telegraph cabal who have run this country into the ground react with fury -- at alliance B for not being able to stop the invasion.
And they sell this to us as logical.
"That man beat me. It's the fault of the police for not stopping it. I think I'll marry that man -- he's so DREAMY and STRONG."
I know it's pointless to argue with you. You seem to think you know all there is to know about diplomacy and who did what. It was not about the inability. They did not even try. You do you though.
Doing me is what I do best. In the meantime you do you and look around for a bigger, stronger pimp to take care of you.
"Little to no resistance was put up by our Allies."
"The threats immediately started. CODE would make the eUSA pay."
" I will be frank had I seen the list of the Nations ASing into our cores back in May instead of September we would undoubtedly still be a member of CODE."
Aren't you ashamed and tired of lying?
1. We resisted for almost a month in your cores while our cores were deleted.
2. Nobody threated you, you left the channel in some weird rage you made yourself. We were pretty respecting while waiting explanations for your weird conspiracy stories where you couldn't "show your source" .
3. These countries were already there with antwone making train which was planned to protect you from attacks which came from your current tw partner and friend Canada.
Stop blaming CODE just to sell the Asteria story easier.
Also you know what? I gave special unique name to the NAP you made. So now every time Asteria offers NAP to a country we all know it's "the USA NAP" 😃 you know what that means, right? Maybe i should name it bloody knees.... hmmmm yup, you have to admit, it's also good name perfectly describing your diplomatic success called NAP 😃
Was in TB's cabinet at the time. People like this are why I don't regret supporting the peace deal.
We left a den of double-talking allies for a group of solid ones. If the military situation were the other way around but the personalities were the same, I would be inclined to make the same decision.
Given the choice between believing them and believing people like Bubblar, who has demonstrated he is a liar, makes this a pretty easy choice as to who the "double-talker" is.
We respected all the decisions eUSA made, with your gvt repeating that eUSA will be neutral etc. We see how long was lasting your neutrality. So before talking about "people like this" maybe check these who are leading your country.
We respected eUSA, and what we got in return? Attacking eBrazil to proof your love toward Asteria?
"People like this" were naive and believed your gvt 😉
@George Barker I've demonstrated myself to be a liar? When?
@Furious Lady how many rounds were pushed to epic when Asteria arrived? SK and Colin put in effort everyone else rolled over. You respected what we did so much you spent days shouting insults to the eUSA when we left CODE. If you didn't see the shouts from CODE players threatening retaliation against us when we left then you're willfully blind. I temporarily left the CODE HQ channel very early in my first of 3 terms because you defended the loathsome actions of Thailand in ASing New York on the anniversary of 9/11 a few years ago. I make no apology for that. It was and is one of the most vile actions I've seen in this game.
bubblar then: CODE had internal problems and couldn't defend us.
bubblar now: CODE refused to defend us. It isn't that they couldn't -- they didn't want to.
Your own words paint you as a liar. You really ought to read through your own newspaper -- a painful task I'll grant -- if you want to avoid making obvious just what a liar and hypocrite you are. In any dispute over what happened, I'd take the word of anyone except maybe -- and only maybe -- Ajay Bruno over yours. It's obvious you wanted out of CODE and in with Asteria because you're weak and have low character, all your claims about how mean they treated you vs how nice Asteria treated you notwithstanding.
To riff on Denny Green, you are what the entire eworld knows you are. Now get back out on your streetcorner. Big Daddy Asteria is going to want some money soon.
I've maintained from the start they just gave up George. You keep on spinning those moonbeams though.
What bubblar said (yesterday): "It was not about the inability. They did not even try."
First, they say they did try -- which only makes sense given the value of our regions. Second, *if they have no ability, what is the point of trying?* What you say simply makes no sense, however it's sliced. Their narrative makes sense. You either have no narrative or all, or present one that contradicts what you've said in the past or falls apart given the slightest scrutiny. But YOU called THEM liars, when what they say squares up with the available facts, while what you say either does not, or is completely illogical. They have credibility. You have none.
On top of that, it's obvious that you're sleaze because of the way you drug the country into Asteria without ever offering the option to the voters. Just gradual moves, lying about the actual purpose the whole time.
I'll make this simple in summary: you're spineless, conniving trash. Just about everything you've done points to that, and every time you type something out simply makes you trashier. So f*ck off and get back on discord and telegram with the rest of the trash. And remember what Big Daddy Asteria does to his girls who don't meet their nightly quota. Keep 'em spread wide. You're used to it.
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I'm ashamed to admit I was not aware this was building at this time. I sort of figured that shortly after the NAP expired either you'd snuggle up with CODE or they'd come back pissed because you cooperated with the occupation.
I was pretty sure this was what was going on all along. We've got a crew of burnt-out, former mediocrities at the top, looking for the path of least resistance.
I'm sure you'd rather have Wild Owl or Oblige back. Perhaps Henery?
Anyone with some integrity and backbone. Frankly, the eUS has been rotten for years, as Misho said below.
Gotta go way back for that. Cerb, Artela, some others were good.
https://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/List_of_presidents_of_the_USA
That escalated quickly
Enjoy da game folks!
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Dunning-Kruger at its best...
That's pretty harsh Feynmann. I thought we were tighter than that tbh.
Well at least there is a big reunion party now. Let's see who wins the argument...
I don't want to discuss CODE or other alliances but eUSA must get their shit togheter and stop being a jerk. eUSA has been like this for 10+ years. For periods part of alliances with countries that value eUSA high just to turn 180-degrees and jump into an alliance with the 'next power to be' just to be used as a milk cow.
Take a IRL stance on this and you will see a pattern. Where in the world do you find citizens, preferably males between age 15-60 who look up to IRL USA? And where do you find those who are disgusted by you? Do that homework and you will see a pattern. Russian intellectuals flee to USA, it is more common that people from the Nordic countries have close ties with USA than with southern European countries. Both because of languague barriers but perhaps first and foremost due to similar cultures.
You can't argue that eRepublik is eRepublik thus separated from IRL and the same neglect that for the last 10+ years almost all big wars have been driven out of the IRL balkan conflict. IRL Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia. You can't even name them by their official names without finding threats in your inbox.
How big are this countries IRL?
Serbia is as populated as say Virginia (depends if we include Kosovo or not)
Macedonia is on pair with Nebraska
Croatia - Oklahoma
Its their game we have been playing for the last 10+ years. Fueled by IRL hate and feelings for revenge on all those who have done wrog. Srebrenica, George W Bush, Bill Clinton or by all means Swedens Carl Bildt. Mention any of those four on a balkan dinner and or a on discord and you better wear a flame suit. 25-30 years ago and the wounds are still bleeding. You must respect that, but you can also decide if you want that to decice all aspects of how you want to play a fictional web browser game today, September 2020.
Others countries are smaller and weaker here in eRepublik but they might actually show up when needed and even if you fail on the battlefield you have fought a battle side by side with those who respect you. That should at least be worth something, if not everything.
"We are growing closer to a group of Nations that actually value the eUSA."
I laughed hard.
Have seen that value not so long ago in Kentucky, had seen that value when some planned RWs went down because certain individuals in country 'A' felt that they don't like someone who was on supporter list.
TBH if eUSA really stick to some values we'd go down with CODE, protest or not. And then eventually fight back - at least it would be interesting and with some more active role in fight with Asteria.
Yet some people choose to be a milking cow for those who invaded us, hosting a bunch of former invaders and taking part in constant TWs, with some 'real' wars from time to time (like 'USA gogo play some real war with Brazil').
eUS govt flip-flopped once again like many times before and frankly speaking it was nothing unpredictable - same as CODE attack on USA. It's also something that was meant to come one day or another.
@eUSA as a whole is only a dead community
Yes you are
You seem ro have very short and selective memory...
A few years ago when you were whipped out by Asteria and Asteria satelites it was CODE that helped you stay alive and eventually liberated you and helped you stand up again.
Instead of being grateful you left the alliance and eventually teamed with the enemy (the one that values you so much that has kept you occupied for a year or so...).
Do as you wish, but please save us the lecture on values US style...
I fail to see a lecture in this article. My memory is neither short nor selective it is admittedly incomplete. I was on a hiatus from the game September of 2018 until March of this year. I'm told by people that I have no reason to doubt that there was a time when things with CODE were good. Must have been a narrow window. They weren't good when CG was CP for three months nor his successor Groot for his three months. They were atrocious during my 3 months thus our departure. CODE started losing and decided to blame the admins and do the in game equivalent of a spoiled child holding their breath hoping mommy and daddy will give in to their tantrum.
God I missed that big ass ESPN ticker on the bottom
AS US!
Seriously though, what's with these stupid little erep clubs? When you join, do you get a little badge you can wear on your Member's Only jacket? See, this is why people shouldn't spend money on shitty games. Once you've reached the enjoyment level of the game, you have to create content to make it cooler. In the end, people argue. Feelings are hurt. Cliques are formed and people say terrible thing to one another in order to make their point. So, in other words, we've managed to create all the things about real life that we hate, in a game. If that's not the definition of stupidity, I don't know what is. But, I digress. hahaha. Asstra.
CODE is the past for USA, Asteria is the present and the future and it is a great thing.
RAWR!!! Let's go!
all this article is = lol