Take Advantage
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by Shinybluepope
Dear eJapanese citizens. Many of you are unhappy at the prospect of douchenozzles comin' all up in here being like 'dis ours now. Do not fall into despair. Many of you are worried about losing the following:
I guess it's pretty. Really though, try grabbing it. Oh yeah, just some pixels on a screen.
We do face tough odds and there is little time left to fight back.
It seems there is an enemy I am unsure we can take down.
Yes, we face the possibility of losing our enation. Yes, this will screw with a lot of important aspects of our gameplay such as currency, access to government, new citizen messages, and general national pride. However, this will not, unless you let it, rob us of our community.
Look at our news feed. It is showing more life than it has for a week. Yes, most of it is negative. Still, do not lose sight of the fact that conflict and cataclysms in this game provide reasons to communicate. Communication draws us closer together and forces us to get to know each other.
eJapan's community is my home. The reason for this is that, unlike my experience in the eUS (great place, just not my thing), I have connected with many of you in some way or other and feel, well, at home. This new PTO threat has given me a reason to contact more of you and ingrain myself further into what is the life thread of "eJapan." Do the same. You will realize that even if we are driven from our ephysical homes, we still have each other (sing kumbaya and die).
Many lose sight of the fact that oppression in this game tends to lead to a strengthened community. Granted, the eAussies are having a hell of a time as are the eSouth Africans. They lose players everyday. Still, fighting for one's government is just another aspect of Erepublik. If you look at it that way, you can approach it as a challenging game instead of a loss of what one has accomplished.
We might be small but we shall persevere. We shall grow stronger.
I can imagine some of you are frothing at the mouth to post comments along the lines of "You are naïve" or "We are screwed, the government sucks, and you do not understand game mechanics." Good for you. Guess what? That attitude is the plague killing us, not a PTO possibility. When you allowed yourself to log on to this game and say "Everything I see sucks," you gave up on your community. Change your perspective. Did you feel the community no longer had much for you to do? Well, the eIndos just served you a purpose on a silver platter.
I plan on taking advantage of the opportunities I see. Do the same.
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Such is the dual-natured aspect of this game. We NEED adversity, but if we do not fight against the adversity, then it is not adversity. And so, we constantly fight, hoping to win, yet hoping to have more to fight against along the way. It's a tragic cycle.
Still, trolling Kita IKKI in the media is its own reward, as it is an infinitely renewable resource (until he quits).
~ Geno Garon
Whatever you enjoy doing, I just want you to do it. We need all the optimists, trolls, jaded vets, and pedos to post and publish to their hearts content. Somehow, this is what I believe will make eJapan stronger.
'Did you feel the community no longer had much for you to do? Well, the eIndos just served you a purpose on a silver platter.'
I clicked 'Vote' when I read this part.
Trufax, Rerieru. Trufax.
I could do without the pedos, Lustrousceruleanpontiff
So you want me to publish more pedo papers do you? I shall do as Shiny requests. JOYGASM!!!!!!
Voted, good article.
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Nice job mate
Oh you Calon.
Yes, I enjoy Geno Garon's posts apparently as much as he enjoys writing them. Keep writing, Geno, maybe someday you will win an election! You're more likely to do it here than in ePakistan.
If the overexaggerated threat of PTO is what keeps people active in the game, then go for it. But do try to keep the momentum up after the elections into something more interesting for eJapan than "let's let another country through revolving door Kyushu!"
We'll survive a PTO better than being "absorbed" into eUSA, etc. Well, depending on how you define "we", which in my opinion means the Japan community, not the Brolliance First community.
You're not naive, ignore the RRRRRAGE crowd foaming at the mouth.
Seeing the reaction to this article, I am pleasantly surprised.
>Shim saying someone is not naive
>the blind leading the blind