The Ruins: The eCanada Story
Kaminarinote
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who sai
😛"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fe
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
- Ozymandias, by Percy Shelley
My name is Bruce Lightninghands, and I am, perhaps, one of the objectively coolest scoundrels that ever walked a turn in this browser game cum mobile app-like cash grab. In a three month period (Late April to Early July 2014), I went from nobody to President of eCanada (for, like, a week). Within a month from that, I went from President to Latvian to the sacred heart of the eUSA - Canada's greatest enemy at the time. I later retired to eJapan where I, ostensibly, died. That is, of course, until today.
eCanada itself has died, more or less, and in truth I have returned out of curiosity more than any actual care. I had assumed eRepublik had finally shut down, but that clearly isn't the case - though just by a slim margin. I come with no goals, no plans, no intent...but to watch. I'm here to see the world end, as I wanted to see when I started playing seven years ago (yes, seven, I started playing on November 4, 2008, with my first character: the insufferable, childlike invalid Hitoshi Makoto). Much has changed, for me and for the game, and I'm here to see how it all. Winks. Out.
So, effective immediately: I, Bruce Lightninghands, by Grace of Dio, hereby claim the throne of Canada. I retain my titles of President-in-Canada and Reichsminister of Propaganda, and assume the newly-created title of Emperor of North America. You may address me as "Your Eminence".
That is all.
- B.L.
Comments
lolwut
go back into hibernation, you foolish oldfag
Save yourself the bother.
Don't talk to your Emperor like that
This Dio nonsense is retarded....
Blasphemy!
Hey, you're close to level 201
Should go down tonight before daychange when I work my companies with a full healthbar
stance on ~hyuu~ism?
Also stupid, However this global obsession with "Dio" is just about the stupidest thing I have seen in my life
It's the mental cases that keep me playing this game.
Hey, I'm on medication now and my doctor says I could be normal eventfully .
By definition, anyone still playing this game is a mental case.
I knew there is sth keeping me in this pot of sh*t
Dio? What a load of nonsense. Go back to where you came from.
Let's make a North American empire.
Did you happen bring a few million CAD?
You wish!
~hyuu~
Got bored after the first couple of pretentious lines, and quickly skimmed - all I read was Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me... same old, same old
Never liked Dio but welcome back I guess 🙂
You will learn the error of your ways soon, infidel.
Pffff, no.
That is what I once said, before the great balls of Dio's divine light smacked me on the chin. Someday, you will receive a load of holy wisdom too.
No 😛
this game will not die as long as so many bored rich people seek their sense of importance here.
shut up, noob.
/me buys gold
you stand 2 months my junior... who's the noob? 😛
You're got a good job now and make more money than I do, open up your wallet, you cheapskate ahahaha! Help Canada!
believe me the minute my head is above water i'll buy some packs. Moving my family to another province, taking a loss on my condo, buying snow tires for the first time, getting a second car because transit is absurd for a "capital city" etc... we are far from affording the luxuries of lining plato's pockets with my money.
I'm pretty sure you were elected because Canada was already dead at that point.
I'm not expecting much from this reincarnation but if you can keep us mildly entertained for a few days I'll count it as a victory for the country.
So will I.
. . . I stopped playing Fallout 4 long enough to skim this article and draft this reply, and I regret every precious second of it.
Ozymandias? Really? I feel like you VASTLY overestimate the legacy of your one-ish week as CP. There are no crumbling statues of Brucie slowly being eroded by the sands of time in an Egyptian desert. There were a few effigies, but they were made of papier-mâché and we burned them.
Xander! You're alive! Canada must really be cursed with the dregs inheriting the country.
o7