Fireside Chat
Leo Balzac
Welcome to the first in my new series of articles, The Fireside Chat. During this series I will select one incredibly lucky eWorld citizen to sit in the comfy chair by the fire and have a nice, civilized chat. Most of the time.
The Guest
The inaugural guest in this series is a player not very well known to me, I only began speaking to him a few weeks ago on IRC (Sidenote: Y'all should try out this IRC thing if you haven't. It's easy and you get to meet and know more and different players. PM me if you're unsure of how to access it and want some help). So let's sit down, pour ourselves a cup of coffee/tea/hot chocolate/whatever and chat with The Anaconda:
Leo: Welcome The Anaconda, your name is a bit of a mouthful, mind if I call you TA?
The Anaconda: Great to be here Leo, go ahead.
Leo: How did you come to play eRep in the beginning?
TA: I was playing another online game with a Portuguese friend who introduced me to this
Leo: How long have you been in eCanada and what was it that first brought you here?
TA: I joined eCanada about two months ago, I wanted to start playing politics and since I'm a Canadian I came to do it in eCanada
Leo: Interesting, tell me how has your time in eCanada been so far?
TA: It has been interesting, some people have lots of pent up frustration
Leo: Hmm, perhaps Temujin knows of a way to help relieve all that pent up frustration. I'm intruiged TA, what is your favourite food/drink combo?
TA: KBBQ! Not fussy with the drink
Leo: I'm going to assume you mean Korean Barbecue. It is indeed excellent. As a man who used to live in Korea Town, I applaud your taste. Why did you make the unauthorized counter-NE proposal?
TA: Isn't it conventional to NE a usually hostile country that NE'd you first? At least that's what all the other countries in eRep do. Dunno why its different in eCanada. Or maybe the reaction was just because it was me that did it.
Leo: Did you know it was against the Congressional Rules of Order to do so?
TA: I knew that starting a proposal without bringing it up in congress got some people's pants wet but I didn't think I was starting any proposal, I was just responding to the eUK's own NE.
Leo: Mmmm, wet pants. Do you think the punishment was fitting considering your violation of the rules?
TA: Forum ban as a congressman for 48h. Don't know what gave them the right to take away an elected official's position away from him, that wouldn't happen in rl. And if I remember correctly, two of CPF's congressmen did make two rogue proposals about minimum wage and taxes but nothing happened to them. One rule for some and one for others I guess.
Leo: Speaking to the eCanadian populace at large, what do you have to say for yourself; regarding your actions?
TA: I think the eCanadian populace knows that I did the right thing and won't be bothered by this crusade against the UF and me
Leo: As an important member of the United Front, why do you think members of the Government, including the CP, have been so forceful in branding your party traitorous?
TA: As I told them in the group PM, 'more people worship the rising sun than the setting sun. And yours is a sun that is giving away its last twinkle before sinking in the sea'. They just feel threatened or maybe guilty that they weren't first to protect eCanadian interests.
Leo: A secret Congress PM huh? I wonder what they're hiding in there that isn't fit for CDC. That aside, what treasonous actions have UF taken?
TA: If doing my job as a congressman is a crime then yea, guilty as charged
Leo: Seriously though, you guys must have done something, what was it?
TA: We haven't done anything except stand up for what we believe in and don't deserve to have this mass hysteria from the CPF against us
Leo: Who is the greatest eCanadian of all time?
TA: I'm not sure, its got to be Rolo Tahmasee no? It says so on his profile!
Well, there you have it folks, the first fireside chat completed. I must say that I am surprised at these allegations of extreme hostility at a party, and player that seemed to have the best interests of the Nation at heart. Stay tuned for the next in the series as we chat with more people from around the eWorld.
Leo
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What's about this immigration in eCanada? So many people joining these days...
We're waiting on you.
The pictures get me everytime 😛
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"And if I remember correctly, two of CPF's congressmen did make two rogue proposals about minimum wage and taxes but nothing happened to them. One rule for some and one for others I guess"
you dont remember correctly
"I think the eCanadian populace knows that I did the right thing and won't be bothered by this crusade against the UF and me"
If what I heard was right the UK's NE was rogue as well and the CP got PM's explaining that, maybe shoot our CP a PM before NEing another country eh
The UF supports secret congressional PM's (until one of them publishes them) and no one in eCanada should be ok with that if you want a transparent government
Great idea for a series and cant wait to see more
and by not remembering correctly they got banned aswell
I was unaware that we "support secret congressional PMs".
Thank you for speaking on our behalf.
If you want I can make all the PMs public, I don't really care we just discussed things that are not really relevant.Just people that propose to blacklist our party and as always about lights....
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Have you no mercy at all?
I was in the damn thread and I had no interest in reading it. lol
They hate us because we are the only left party here and because we broke that oligarchic system where the same were always elected.We are not a top party yet but we don't want to hurry, we want to help the eCanadian citizens and we have all the time in the world to reach a nice position in our society,our ideas and opinions are different and as always a different view is seen like a menace.You can hate us or ignore but we won't dissapear just because some guys don't like us.Voted 😉
CPF does not "hate" the UF.
I wasn't talking about parties just some people.
"Guns don't kill people; people kill people."- oh wait-- *parties don't hate people, people hate people* ... and other things; people can hate more things in addition to hating people.
Anyway, enough hate and h8ers alike. Anyone want a hug? ;P
/me hugs MaryChan
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Huzzah o7
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I Wish... 🙁
NFM told me...
Voted! 🙂
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Wir sind die jäger..
can't wait for the live action movie TBH.
Wait, there's a MOVIE?
It's just been announced they're making one. I will try and dig out the article for you.
I'm a peacock. You gotta let me fly!
You shoulda asked him why he always says that.
(Probably a wildly subversive slogan about their secret plan to subjugate eCanada...)
(( j/k yst31! ))
He did ask 😛
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Actually is a secret slogan, every time he says it a new PTOer enters in eCanada. Even if the PTOer doesn't want to come, he is automatically in if that quote is pronounced.
I knew it! Diabolical! We're done for!
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/pulls out the marshmallows and weenies to roast by the fireside
HEY, you need a permit for that in here.
Let's make love by the fire
~hyuu~
Can we throw anyone in the fire?
"And if I remember correctly, two of CPF's congressmen did make two rogue proposals about minimum wage and taxes but nothing happened to them. One rule for some and one for others I guess."
You don't remember correctly. Only one other rogue proposal - and he got banned for an announced 48 hours - and then I forgot to re-mask him for an additional 24 hours. My own party member.. whodathunk it?!
Voted o7
48 hour ban? You would think you got the death penalty.
He didn't seem all that upset to me about it to be honest.
Not just referring to his response in the article, but sitting with you fireside with a brandy in hand., who could sound upset?
well, I did serve a VSOP instead of the XO (I reserve that for truly discerning guests) so maybe he was put out by that.
Interesting article. Makes me think of Larry King Live 😛
Are you calling me old? 😛
naaah 🙂
Ironically, I think old Larry King actually died decades ago -- somehow he kept the show going and got married a few more times anyways.
he was replaced with an android. Common knowledge.