Post by TheMightyPump on Jan 8, 2006 14:24:57 GMT
Voice of The Proletariat
Hard-Ass Version
Dobbyniania interview[/u]
Note from Editor - For those of you who aren't familiar with Dobbyniania, he is probably the most offensive nation that you will come across on NationStates. What he says is now refered to as 'Dobbynite'. Many in TPC don't share his views. Please don't attack TPC for what he says.
Thank you.
This interview was done by the TPC Minister for Citizen Information - Josh04.
Josh04: So. You are Dobbyniania, 9th delegate of TPC and long time member. How do you feel right now?
Dobbyniania: Like I'm high on angel dust, that's what happens when you're delegate, you get all the blow you need.
Josh04: Wow. Sounds fun. Despite being a member of TPC for God-knows-how-long, you've never gotten close to this position before. Why do you think this is so?
Dobbyniania: Because I never sought the position of Delegate as a short term political goal. I viewed myself as the successor after a multi-term TRF delegacy. I would cement the revolution once and for all and then hold lots of dance parties. I figured that aiming for the delegacy prior to a major political shakedown would be suicide. You forget that only a year ago the entire ruling class, minus TRF, was arrayed against me, they had countless discussons about how I was destroying the region, about how I was evil incarnate, the blight of the coalition. To put it plainly, I thought myself too controversial to gain power. The moderates would never go for it.
Josh04: So you would say that in the past your position has been compromised by prejudice and perhaps fear from those 'higher up'- although in a Socialism there shouldn't really be a 'higher up'?
Dobbyniania: You'd be surprised. Without going into a tirade against marxist-leninist theory I would say that the TPC suffered from a combination of ideological biases. First of all, the region was host too many "socialist" who espoused less socialism and more welfare statism. They were seperation of power types who feared the power of the masses and what they could do.
Dobbyniania: Then of course you had the incessant warefare with the Atlantic Alliance which made the entire ruling class scared shitless, from that point on they were convinced that someone, somewhere was always planning the Coalition's downfall. Combine the two and you got a nice little plutocracy.
Josh04: Would you say that you are today less controversial than you once were? Or did the political climate simply changed as time went on?
Dobbyniania: It's a combination of the two. People now know that I'm not a raving loony all of the time and that I'm not about to blow up the region cause I'm bored. Even so there's no way I could have won had the opposition eviscerated itself. The departure of Dali, PM, ST and Atopia killed thier activity base and made it possible to speed up the revolutionary process.
Josh04: Dali and ST have since come back, along with some less active others who seemed to only appear for the vote. Would you suggest that the opposition was somewhat afraid of you, rousing all these ghosts of the past?
Dobbyniania: I would say that it was part of a last ditch effort to stave off defeat. Nothing more than that though. The opposition understands that its days of glory are long over. They don't have the numbers or the recognition. People don't respect them as the "elder comrades" they once were. They have become carricatures of their old selves and they know it. Why else would they resort to this childish immaturity? They're much like the venezuelan opposition: Rule as they like when they're in power, then cry oppression when they've been kicked out.
Josh04: What is your oppinion of TRF's involvement in the Invaders forum scandel? I quote what he apparently said of the matter: 'Will teach fuckers who mess with us. A fitting punishment and penalty.' Is this the same RF we all knew?
Dobbyniania: Of course it is, any idiot can see that much of this outrage is generated by political oppurtunism and the international condemnation that it has merited. The fact remains that the only thing RF didwrongly was claim RLA sanction. As a mission outside of the the RLA factions should not have claimed RLA support. Then he would have been legally covered. Cause let's face it, invaders don't and never will, have rights.
Josh04: What do you think of the ongoing talks between PRP and TPC? Historically, TPC and PRP have not gotten on well. Will and should this change?
Dobbyniania: It should and will change, but probably not while the TRF situation abounds. The PRP has made it thier perogative to base relations on the succesful lynching of TRF. I will not stand for such high hand moralizing, especially when it's coming from such unsavory characters as Moldavi.
Josh04: What is your view on the increasing integration between TPC and ASE? Is this rampant member-swapping good or bad for the region?
Dobbyniania: It's not rampant member swapping, just a healthy connection between sister regions. The Coalition and ASE are not merger compatible and have no reason to seek a merge in the first place.
Josh04: And I will end the interview there. Thank you very much.
Pump's Views On Activity In NationStates
It is commonly thought that the most interesting parts of NationStates are the feeder regions. This would explain why many of the most talented and powerful nations in NationStates are drawn there for example PopeHope's citizenship of The North Pacific and Koona's migration from Equilism to The Pacific. It is not always the case that nations will move to the Pacifics after making their names in other regions, many are able to carve out a great career starting from scratch in the Pacifics.
With the decline in popularity of NationStates, and therefore activity, many nations in user-created regions are retiring from NationStates. The reasons for this have been well publicised - the constricting rules in NationStates creating an incredibly uneven battlefield in the contest between Defenders and Raiders. This coupled with nothing original happening in these conflicts is killing off the more main-stream elements of NationStates. I will refrain from going further in detail on this subject as it has been said so many times.
The total retirement from NationStates of major nations in the Pacifics isn't regularly seen. We have recently seen intra-Pacific movement in the form of Dilber and Hippograd, yet neither have retired from NationStates. Nations leave the Pacifics because of circumstances they don't agree with and such, not because of boredom with the game. This is because the Pacifics are never eventless.
The North and West Pacifics have had turbulent times of late, this means that high-levels of activity will be maintained as they are much more interesting places to be around. The Pacific's government is always stable because of its structure but because it is always embroiled in a high level of controversy, activity is always incredibly high. The South Pacific is the smallest and least controversial Pacific. It rarely takes a part in major events in NationStates and is consequently the least active, although it could be said that at the moment it is the Pacific that I would prefer to reside in. The East is incredibly stable, with Loop as a permanent delegate, and has a level of activity above that of the South but not as high as the other Pacifics, it is very role-play orientated and prefers to keep to itself. This looks like it may be taken to the next level as some within the East Pacific are looking to withdraw it from the rest of NationStates completely. I can only see this as a sure-fire way to kill off activity unless the nations who partake in the running of the East are continually doused in activities. Activity has risen in the East as of late to discuss this issue but if it passes, activity will drop at a rate faster than that of the other Pacifics with the general downwards activity trend.
The message of this is basically - keep up the controversy. The Pacific manages it just by existing, the North seems to be dropped in it regularly enough to remain with high activity levels. What the South appears to be missing that sets it apart from the other Pacifics is a lack of main-streamness. It is almost never seen in the news so never generates those nights where all the active citizens turn out to try to deal with a situation and in doing so activity is trebled. If the East goes through with this move to isolationism then surely it will become the least active Pacific? It would be like the South Pacific but with more stability, so even less change, and even less controversy. The West was stable and uncontroversial for so long, until nations deeming it to be declining because of these reasons took it upon themselves to attempt a coup. Activity increased almost instantly with such a huge blast of controversy and now the West is creating a new constitution to keep itself stable. The previous constitution was blamed for the decrease in activity. The stability in the West Pacific was based upon the happiness of the citizens because of the democratic constitution. The decrease in activity, in my opinion, was due to the West Pacific not taking sides on the massive battle that is the Nasicournia - PRP conflict, by allying (if not allying keeping up good relations) with both. This 'friends with everyone' policy resorted to the minimal arguing between the West Pacific and other regions so there was no controversy which the West was directly linked too, which eventually caused the nations involved with the coup to feel they were forced to do something to increase activity, and their tactic was by making an incredibly controversial move.
This formula of 'controversy = activity' seems to follow through with user-created regions. The regions that are in the news the most generally attract nations looking for glory and generate situations which the nations of those regions have to deal with, in doing so activity is increased. For example - Nasicournia is in the news all year round, so is controversial all year round and seemingly has ultra-activity. The pattern continues with The Proletariat Coalition, after the invaders forum destruction incident the TPC record for forum activity was broken. There are many more examples of this, I feel that it would be pointless to list them all now as unless you have an IQ of 6 you will have got the point I'm trying to make by now.
Article written by The Mighty Pump
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Collective Security Agreement Conference
In other news, word was received from a neutral friend of the ASE that Nasicournia attempted to prevent a region or two from attending the conference of the CSA - the alliance between the ASE, Peaceian and Genosha. The attempt failed miserably since an extra three regions - Futaba Aoi, Q102 and Scroll Islands - had active delegations to the conference. Many profitable discussions took place and the CSA restricted the field of operations against invaders to the nationstates.net forum, prohibiting strikes on invader forums. Discussions on The West Pacific, on continuing problems with the ADN, on the stagnation of the CDA and on the structure of the CSA itself all took place. The foremost delegates at the conference were Chin-Chillas, Cognitio, Calm Minds, Gwaith-i-Ilniel, Noiresque, Sacromella, New Ardennes, EuroSoviets and Giant Cheese Weasels. The next CSA conference will be held in Peaceian on a date to be determined. Once again, many non-CSA regions will be welcomed as participants and friends.
Article written by EuroSoviets.
The team behind this issue Voice of the Proletariat thank you for reading. Have a good 2006!
For the Proletariat!
Josh04,
EuroSoviets,
The Mighty Pump
Hard-Ass Version
Dobbyniania interview[/u]
Note from Editor - For those of you who aren't familiar with Dobbyniania, he is probably the most offensive nation that you will come across on NationStates. What he says is now refered to as 'Dobbynite'. Many in TPC don't share his views. Please don't attack TPC for what he says.
Thank you.
This interview was done by the TPC Minister for Citizen Information - Josh04.
Josh04: So. You are Dobbyniania, 9th delegate of TPC and long time member. How do you feel right now?
Dobbyniania: Like I'm high on angel dust, that's what happens when you're delegate, you get all the blow you need.
Josh04: Wow. Sounds fun. Despite being a member of TPC for God-knows-how-long, you've never gotten close to this position before. Why do you think this is so?
Dobbyniania: Because I never sought the position of Delegate as a short term political goal. I viewed myself as the successor after a multi-term TRF delegacy. I would cement the revolution once and for all and then hold lots of dance parties. I figured that aiming for the delegacy prior to a major political shakedown would be suicide. You forget that only a year ago the entire ruling class, minus TRF, was arrayed against me, they had countless discussons about how I was destroying the region, about how I was evil incarnate, the blight of the coalition. To put it plainly, I thought myself too controversial to gain power. The moderates would never go for it.
Josh04: So you would say that in the past your position has been compromised by prejudice and perhaps fear from those 'higher up'- although in a Socialism there shouldn't really be a 'higher up'?
Dobbyniania: You'd be surprised. Without going into a tirade against marxist-leninist theory I would say that the TPC suffered from a combination of ideological biases. First of all, the region was host too many "socialist" who espoused less socialism and more welfare statism. They were seperation of power types who feared the power of the masses and what they could do.
Dobbyniania: Then of course you had the incessant warefare with the Atlantic Alliance which made the entire ruling class scared shitless, from that point on they were convinced that someone, somewhere was always planning the Coalition's downfall. Combine the two and you got a nice little plutocracy.
Josh04: Would you say that you are today less controversial than you once were? Or did the political climate simply changed as time went on?
Dobbyniania: It's a combination of the two. People now know that I'm not a raving loony all of the time and that I'm not about to blow up the region cause I'm bored. Even so there's no way I could have won had the opposition eviscerated itself. The departure of Dali, PM, ST and Atopia killed thier activity base and made it possible to speed up the revolutionary process.
Josh04: Dali and ST have since come back, along with some less active others who seemed to only appear for the vote. Would you suggest that the opposition was somewhat afraid of you, rousing all these ghosts of the past?
Dobbyniania: I would say that it was part of a last ditch effort to stave off defeat. Nothing more than that though. The opposition understands that its days of glory are long over. They don't have the numbers or the recognition. People don't respect them as the "elder comrades" they once were. They have become carricatures of their old selves and they know it. Why else would they resort to this childish immaturity? They're much like the venezuelan opposition: Rule as they like when they're in power, then cry oppression when they've been kicked out.
Josh04: What is your oppinion of TRF's involvement in the Invaders forum scandel? I quote what he apparently said of the matter: 'Will teach fuckers who mess with us. A fitting punishment and penalty.' Is this the same RF we all knew?
Dobbyniania: Of course it is, any idiot can see that much of this outrage is generated by political oppurtunism and the international condemnation that it has merited. The fact remains that the only thing RF didwrongly was claim RLA sanction. As a mission outside of the the RLA factions should not have claimed RLA support. Then he would have been legally covered. Cause let's face it, invaders don't and never will, have rights.
Josh04: What do you think of the ongoing talks between PRP and TPC? Historically, TPC and PRP have not gotten on well. Will and should this change?
Dobbyniania: It should and will change, but probably not while the TRF situation abounds. The PRP has made it thier perogative to base relations on the succesful lynching of TRF. I will not stand for such high hand moralizing, especially when it's coming from such unsavory characters as Moldavi.
Josh04: What is your view on the increasing integration between TPC and ASE? Is this rampant member-swapping good or bad for the region?
Dobbyniania: It's not rampant member swapping, just a healthy connection between sister regions. The Coalition and ASE are not merger compatible and have no reason to seek a merge in the first place.
Josh04: And I will end the interview there. Thank you very much.
Pump's Views On Activity In NationStates
It is commonly thought that the most interesting parts of NationStates are the feeder regions. This would explain why many of the most talented and powerful nations in NationStates are drawn there for example PopeHope's citizenship of The North Pacific and Koona's migration from Equilism to The Pacific. It is not always the case that nations will move to the Pacifics after making their names in other regions, many are able to carve out a great career starting from scratch in the Pacifics.
With the decline in popularity of NationStates, and therefore activity, many nations in user-created regions are retiring from NationStates. The reasons for this have been well publicised - the constricting rules in NationStates creating an incredibly uneven battlefield in the contest between Defenders and Raiders. This coupled with nothing original happening in these conflicts is killing off the more main-stream elements of NationStates. I will refrain from going further in detail on this subject as it has been said so many times.
The total retirement from NationStates of major nations in the Pacifics isn't regularly seen. We have recently seen intra-Pacific movement in the form of Dilber and Hippograd, yet neither have retired from NationStates. Nations leave the Pacifics because of circumstances they don't agree with and such, not because of boredom with the game. This is because the Pacifics are never eventless.
The North and West Pacifics have had turbulent times of late, this means that high-levels of activity will be maintained as they are much more interesting places to be around. The Pacific's government is always stable because of its structure but because it is always embroiled in a high level of controversy, activity is always incredibly high. The South Pacific is the smallest and least controversial Pacific. It rarely takes a part in major events in NationStates and is consequently the least active, although it could be said that at the moment it is the Pacific that I would prefer to reside in. The East is incredibly stable, with Loop as a permanent delegate, and has a level of activity above that of the South but not as high as the other Pacifics, it is very role-play orientated and prefers to keep to itself. This looks like it may be taken to the next level as some within the East Pacific are looking to withdraw it from the rest of NationStates completely. I can only see this as a sure-fire way to kill off activity unless the nations who partake in the running of the East are continually doused in activities. Activity has risen in the East as of late to discuss this issue but if it passes, activity will drop at a rate faster than that of the other Pacifics with the general downwards activity trend.
The message of this is basically - keep up the controversy. The Pacific manages it just by existing, the North seems to be dropped in it regularly enough to remain with high activity levels. What the South appears to be missing that sets it apart from the other Pacifics is a lack of main-streamness. It is almost never seen in the news so never generates those nights where all the active citizens turn out to try to deal with a situation and in doing so activity is trebled. If the East goes through with this move to isolationism then surely it will become the least active Pacific? It would be like the South Pacific but with more stability, so even less change, and even less controversy. The West was stable and uncontroversial for so long, until nations deeming it to be declining because of these reasons took it upon themselves to attempt a coup. Activity increased almost instantly with such a huge blast of controversy and now the West is creating a new constitution to keep itself stable. The previous constitution was blamed for the decrease in activity. The stability in the West Pacific was based upon the happiness of the citizens because of the democratic constitution. The decrease in activity, in my opinion, was due to the West Pacific not taking sides on the massive battle that is the Nasicournia - PRP conflict, by allying (if not allying keeping up good relations) with both. This 'friends with everyone' policy resorted to the minimal arguing between the West Pacific and other regions so there was no controversy which the West was directly linked too, which eventually caused the nations involved with the coup to feel they were forced to do something to increase activity, and their tactic was by making an incredibly controversial move.
This formula of 'controversy = activity' seems to follow through with user-created regions. The regions that are in the news the most generally attract nations looking for glory and generate situations which the nations of those regions have to deal with, in doing so activity is increased. For example - Nasicournia is in the news all year round, so is controversial all year round and seemingly has ultra-activity. The pattern continues with The Proletariat Coalition, after the invaders forum destruction incident the TPC record for forum activity was broken. There are many more examples of this, I feel that it would be pointless to list them all now as unless you have an IQ of 6 you will have got the point I'm trying to make by now.
Article written by The Mighty Pump
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#The_Other_Room - Happen to be passing on IRC? Tune into Esper.net - #the_other_room The best NationStates IRC radio-channel around! Run by Sixguns with a great variety of music. The listener has complete control of what he listens to! Tune in soon.
Josh's Wolf-Washing Service! Seen a dirty wolf recently? Possibly from the Lone Wolves United? Yeah, they get around these days. Don't they stink? Well then! Come on down to Josh's Wolf-Washing Service, est - 2004, to get rid of that stench given off by your wolf.
Collective Security Agreement Conference
In other news, word was received from a neutral friend of the ASE that Nasicournia attempted to prevent a region or two from attending the conference of the CSA - the alliance between the ASE, Peaceian and Genosha. The attempt failed miserably since an extra three regions - Futaba Aoi, Q102 and Scroll Islands - had active delegations to the conference. Many profitable discussions took place and the CSA restricted the field of operations against invaders to the nationstates.net forum, prohibiting strikes on invader forums. Discussions on The West Pacific, on continuing problems with the ADN, on the stagnation of the CDA and on the structure of the CSA itself all took place. The foremost delegates at the conference were Chin-Chillas, Cognitio, Calm Minds, Gwaith-i-Ilniel, Noiresque, Sacromella, New Ardennes, EuroSoviets and Giant Cheese Weasels. The next CSA conference will be held in Peaceian on a date to be determined. Once again, many non-CSA regions will be welcomed as participants and friends.
Article written by EuroSoviets.
The team behind this issue Voice of the Proletariat thank you for reading. Have a good 2006!
For the Proletariat!
Josh04,
EuroSoviets,
The Mighty Pump