Random thoughts thread

Hello everyone.

I haven't been here in a while. I've been very busy with classes, work, and video gaming (finished Normal and Extra on all mainline Touhou games!).

I also am in Japan but have not yet contracted the new strain of the corona virus. I might have to hunker down and be a hikki for a while depending on what preventative measures we see though.

Hope all are doing well.

GlassMoon wrote

Hello everyone.

I haven't been here in a while. I've been very busy with classes, work, and video gaming (finished Normal and Extra on all mainline Touhou games!).

I also am in Japan but have not yet contracted the new strain of the corona virus. I might have to hunker down and be a hikki for a while depending on what preventative measures we see though.

Hope all are doing well.

It is just another one of those copycat bacteria mutations that are making it deadlier but still carrying similar symptoms we are all too familiar. You just keep watching hands very vigorously and frequently, do not go to crowded areas already struck with it, and stay away from visiting China mostly. No one on this planet is immune to this kind of infection, because the strain's DNA is too difficult already for an efficient sample, once struck, the symptoms felt will be far worse than a seasonal flu.

Oh yeah, here's the latest on the NYTimes of the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/coronavirus-news.html

LucianDreamer wrote

GlassMoon wrote

Hello everyone.

I haven't been here in a while. I've been very busy with classes, work, and video gaming (finished Normal and Extra on all mainline Touhou games!).

I also am in Japan but have not yet contracted the new strain of the corona virus. I might have to hunker down and be a hikki for a while depending on what preventative measures we see though.

Hope all are doing well.

It is just another one of those copycat bacteria mutations that are making it deadlier but still carrying similar symptoms we are all too familiar. You just keep watching hands very vigorously and frequently, do not go to crowded areas already struck with it, and stay away from visiting China mostly. No one on this planet is immune to this kind of infection, because the strain's DNA is too difficult already for an efficient sample, once struck, the symptoms felt will be far worse than a seasonal flu.

Oh yeah, here's the latest on the NYTimes of the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/coronavirus-news.html

Bacteria is quite specifically something that the corona virus (clue is in the name) is not.

GlassMoon wrote

Hello everyone.

I haven't been here in a while. I've been very busy with classes, work, and video gaming (finished Normal and Extra on all mainline Touhou games!).

I also am in Japan but have not yet contracted the new strain of the corona virus. I might have to hunker down and be a hikki for a while depending on what preventative measures we see though.

Hope all are doing well.

Hehe, good job on beating the touhou~ I hope things don't get worse over there, else that'll kinda mess up my holiday plans >_<

So, did anyone see that ludicrous display last night?

malmon wrote

Yuu wrote

I should probably stop drinking.

Should have stuck with two beers instead of six yesterday...

Does beer even count as alcohol though~?

Stong beer with 5-7%. And 6 of them at that. With a bunch of ciders too. One of its own is not alot, but many! Unite!

But in all seriousness. I am back to drinking now, but I will go out with old coworkers and party a bit. Gonna take it easy this time though, so I actually remember something

Yuu wrote

malmon wrote

Yuu wrote

I should probably stop drinking.

Should have stuck with two beers instead of six yesterday...

Does beer even count as alcohol though~?

Stong beer with 5-7%. And 6 of them at that. With a bunch of ciders too. One of its own is not alot, but many! Unite!

But in all seriousness. I am back to drinking now, but I will go out with old coworkers and party a bit. Gonna take it easy this time though, so I actually remember something 

I don't think I could physically drink that much liquid ^_^'

I hope you have fun!

malmon wrote

So, did anyone see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!

Lawly wrote

malmon wrote

So, did anyone see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!

Yay~ Someone gets it! Now, have you seen the IT Crowd or did you just look the phrase up online~?

malmon wrote

Lawly wrote

malmon wrote

So, did anyone see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!

Yay~ Someone gets it! Now, have you seen the IT Crowd or did you just look the phrase up online~?

I watched the first few series, but I had to look up the precise wording ^_^'

Lawly wrote

malmon wrote

Lawly wrote

malmon wrote

So, did anyone see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!

Yay~ Someone gets it! Now, have you seen the IT Crowd or did you just look the phrase up online~?

I watched the first few series, but I had to look up the precise wording ^_^'

Hehe~ Though there were only four seasons, weren't there? I've watched the entire thing twice ^_^

One of these days soon, I might be able to merge five of my best-played nations even though the other four are already in the boneyard as my own "trump card" to bring it all back as one new nation, the Lucian Pentapartite. If you don't know what that means, it is an upgraded version of my old RP alliance by combining all five of my playstyles and turn it to a big micro-managing empire that I previously couldn't with any of these five individual nations alone. I took my sweet little time in making a multi-flag collage on a newly updated 535x355 PNG, heck I didn't know I CAN write sideways and upside-down almost perfectly without even trying. After that, I went around looking for five new leaders to go with the new nation still days away before I can boot it up.

The laws that will be made by the merged five nations are universal rather than individually implemented, meaning no matter where in the new Pentapartite once it passes or changed is applied in all jurisdictions in a jiffy. All the armaments, any regulations on certain materials, religion status, etc. would be mutual rather than separate to ensure a 20/20/20/20/20 for everyone's needs. This may sound like an extreme form of communism, but you can bet all five powers in one new nation working together to promote a much better picture than it were without.

The only drawbacks is that while I can't bring back all the lore I wrote with the other nations I had because they're dead, and still no plans on taking back Stella, I can mitigate that by setting up my own HQ-esque region that would resemble a city and some swathes of fertile land near some coast. I do not know where exactly I can find a setting to put it down, but once I do, it would be as though almost nothing truly bad in the two years I played ever happened, apart from my past bad moves.

Later this day, I'll show you all my new five leaders, I almost found the last one but have to do something else.

Loko wrote

Things are starting to look up for me now

On the other hand, good to see the forum suddenly very active

Yay! You can do it, Loko-san~

And yes~ Being horny all day kinda helps~

Toria, the mysterious sister race from their false universe, is on its way to find my dead planet and locate any traces of survivors or technology. Their ETA would not come around until March 14, at about the same speed, as most magical warriors would travel in outer space, 100 x the speed of light that is.

Now, I will introduce the five leaders that I delayed to show you, because I was busy testing various pre-existing animations for my game, especially on female anatomy. They are in the corresponding order of creation that will soon become the Lucian Pentapartite:

Sakuri Konohana (Lucia)
https://i.imgur.com/cCBgcrY.jpg
Tatiana Vitelli (Copper-Black Cross)
https://i.imgur.com/peLwLLB.jpg
Theresia von Lenora (Tiyana)
https://i.imgur.com/QCH7brf.jpg
Xun Lan (Viva La Rebel Academy)
https://i.imgur.com/xYbMAwt.jpg
and last but not least, the newcomer on the block representing the sister race of the first:
Takazora Rogashi (Toria)
https://i.imgur.com/fLfQyGU.jpg

Loko wrote

So I guess I'll have a lot more "free time" now that COVID-19 has forced my university to extend Spring Break by a week and force all on-campus classes to switch to online.

Hah, we got a two weeks extension! ^_^

I'm prepared for covid-19. I've stocked enough dry food to survive months in isolation.
Need to buy more toiletpaper and tanks to fill water though.

Yuu wrote

I'm prepared for covid-19. I've stocked enough dry food to survive months in isolation.
Need to buy more toiletpaper and tanks to fill water though.

Ah! So you're one of those panic buyers!

Some supermarkets here have started rationing

I'm now working on finishing my former planet's lore as quickly as I can before I can start my lore on my current planet, Suria. The Zodiac Girls project had been "on hold" for almost a year now and I'll try to get it back in action when I feel like it, I'm in no rush.

And @[deleted], whatever you do if you still have an active nation around, give me and my new planet Suria time to establish some proper communication channels and surely enough the combined five powers would be able to broadcast ultra-fast transmissions to and from it, about 2-3 in-game days.

Aghghffghfgh... I'm so happy to be out of my migraines again. I only had 'em for a day, but it was the day right after a very busy weekend. Kinda hurt, y'know? >w<

LucianDreamer wrote

I'm now working on finishing my former planet's lore as quickly as I can before I can start my lore on my current planet, Suria. The Zodiac Girls project had been "on hold" for almost a year now and I'll try to get it back in action when I feel like it, I'm in no rush.

And @[deleted], whatever you do if you still have an active nation around, give me and my new planet Suria time to establish some proper communication channels and surely enough the combined five powers would be able to broadcast ultra-fast transmissions to and from it, about 2-3 in-game days.

I would, Luci~, but things are still quite slow here in ANA. I'll resurrect my nation though, and I'm seeing less and less migraines every day. I'm really excited personally. I hope you are, too. ^~^

Backlash wrote

Aghghffghfgh... I'm so happy to be out of my migraines again. I only had 'em for a day, but it was the day right after a very busy weekend. Kinda hurt, y'know? >w<

LucianDreamer wrote

I'm now working on finishing my former planet's lore as quickly as I can before I can start my lore on my current planet, Suria. The Zodiac Girls project had been "on hold" for almost a year now and I'll try to get it back in action when I feel like it, I'm in no rush.

And @[deleted], whatever you do if you still have an active nation around, give me and my new planet Suria time to establish some proper communication channels and surely enough the combined five powers would be able to broadcast ultra-fast transmissions to and from it, about 2-3 in-game days.

I would, Luci~, but things are still quite slow here in ANA. I'll resurrect my nation though, and I'm seeing less and less migraines every day. I'm really excited personally. I hope you are, too. ^~^

Uhh, apparently, some very large raider group called the North Pacific Army, if you remember that region, probably came over to Italy a few days recently. What they did is that they destroyed your whole navies so easily you wouldn't have time to react, crippled your cabinet positions and then parachuted over to where you resided just to steal what they think as "toilet paper" against coronavirus. I mean come on; we are talking about NationStates, not trying to put real-life events into their canon!

They then decided to stay there claiming the rest of the spoils whilst telling the Italian people to "stock up" and wait until every native is truly exhausted, or cease to exist. Stock up on what. Anyways, you better off try to find a better nation name and start all over, because you might not have all the lore you spent for years back. Don't worry, the game will preserve only your hard work on dispatches and factbooks in the boneyard, but every single forum post you made up to that point will be gone. It is also that region where I don't even like having Kyoki with Aozora mucking around thinking she own the place, being a tenshi tyrant and all.

There is no need to be afraid of having more than one nation on your belt, the only game in the internet you can do the "multi account creation". The difference though is that any nation after your first is a "puppet nation", so that means certain activities you may use to as a main nation would only work on a main nation, never with puppets. Most regions' forums would probably come into question about your previous nation activity when it comes to joining, so keep that in mind. It also means that you cannot have two active ones on the same region under most circumstances and only one should be designated as the "WA Nation". If someone in one region you truly liked somehow ejects you with one nation, you can use another and sneak your way past it. The main advantage with puppets is that you can safely store it in "puppet storage" regions that allow it, assuming you can fit all of a region's tagging criteria; they would not mind that, especially in R/D-oriented regions. You can even become a founder of more than one region with separate nations if you do it right, yeah you can. But, be very careful, though, even with puppets, if you happen to engage in questionable activity while having more than one nation around, they'll likely just poof every single one of yours without giving second thoughts.

Then, there’s the last option, you can put your nation into vacation mode by ticking Vacation, where for a longer stretch of time, you can make your nation stay active for an additional month, albeit no more Issues would come in until you turn it off, your population still goes up as normal, but your influence will start to go down and no one would notice your inactivity until after 60 days. If you go on a longer vacation than 60 days though, it will disappear anyway.

malmon wrote

Yuu wrote

I'm prepared for covid-19. I've stocked enough dry food to survive months in isolation.
Need to buy more toiletpaper and tanks to fill water though.

Ah! So you're one of those panic buyers!

Some supermarkets here have started rationing

Well I'll have you know I stacked up before all the panic. I simply have no trust in my government or healthcare I'll just ride this out in my flat alone if it comes down to it.
Now I just need to buy water tanks and stack up water.