Hariko

My fealty has to stop at a hotel before it gets to you, is it alright if it's a little late?

thanks everyone

States by Population:
 
1. California
2. Texas
3. New York
 
States by Size:
 
1. Alaska
2. Texas
3. California
 
Texas, always getting silver.

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LOL!

Greetings everyone, I am Kialga. While I am new to join TWP (via Turquoise Isles ig), I am not new to NS as a whole. I've decided that I've grown weary of putting all my focus into growing a UCR and that joining another feeder might help me learn the game better (after 3 years, I'm admitting it). Glad to be in TWP.

We use the offsite forum for activities and such, so it would be good to keep it.
 
Let's not conflate the offsite government with the offsite community.

I'm going to jump on the I told you so bandwagon too. 
 
We should dissolve the offsite government. I do not believe it serves any function any longer. I think instead we should create an onsite government and get really good at where our strengths are.
 
I've said this before and will continue to say it. 
 
Listen, I'm a member of the TNP community too and I'd not advocate that there because the offsite is supreme. But here in TWP our on-site communite is where we should put our focus, imo.
 
I'm going to jump on the I told you so bandwagon too. 
 
We should dissolve the offsite government. I do not believe it serves any function any longer. I think instead we should create an onsite government and get really good at where our strengths are.
 
I've said this before and will continue to say it. 
 
Listen, I'm a member of the TNP community too and I'd not advocate that there because the offsite is supreme. But here in TWP our on-site communite is where we should put our focus, imo.

Well, there's New Year's, both Gregorian and Lunar, the solstices and equinoxes, perhaps a Mid-Winter Carnival, Delegate Day as a day of appreciation for our Delegate and Guardians, Roo Fur Rebellion day to commemorate when the pouchies were deposed, and a month completely devoted to TWP's national dish, Chocolate with coffee.

Well, there's New Year's, both Gregorian and Lunar, the solstices and equinoxes, perhaps a Mid-Winter Carnival, Delegate Day as a day of appreciation for our Delegate and Guardians, Roo Fur Rebellion day to commemorate when the pouchies were deposed, and a month completely devoted to TWP's national dish, Chocolate with coffee.

ESTA VIVO!!!! ESTA VIVO!!!! JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!

weird
 
I leave for a bit and the universe collapses.  I had no idea I was that important.

PS One needs to refresh not only for one's posts to register, but for one's likes as well.

Personally, I don't think we need these formal structures. All it's done in the time I've been here is cause frustration, inactive officials, and foreigners deriding us for being “authoritarian”. Not to mention the Unibotian speculation. (We're hardly authoritarian, we just have a dysfunctional democratic system)
 
We should focus on what we're good at, which is providing an interesting community for visitors and new residents.
 
How to improve the region (IMO):
 
Dissolve the on-site government. Yeah, yeah, just hold your thoughts while I finish mine. We can dissolve the government without having to go Pacifican on the region. All we really have been expecting out of our leadership lately is border control. What the game provides is more than enough to take care of our needs. Beyond that, we don't need anything formal. So an unnecessarily complex bureaucracy that requires more people than we have to offer is a waste of time just to please other regions who do that kind of stuff.
 
When it comes to activity outside of government, we should encourage people to make little groups, almost like clubs, where they can create content and share it with the rest of the region. I know that there are people in the region that like Polandball, Hetalia, image editing, etc, and they could be doing all that, adding to the regional culture. Right now they're just on the RMB. Not that there's anything wrong with having fun on the RMB; it's quite fun and a place for the region to bond...but there's all that potential there not being used.
 
For example, I have this Teikei thing where me and a few of the other teenage West Pacificans are part of this EU-like group. We roleplay and give each other ideas to contribute to our factbooks. On top of that we also use our region as a safe place to store puppets and a place to go when one of their nations doesn't have any region to go to. Also, during the zombie apocalypse, we worked together as a team to cure ourselves of zombies, and then several other TWP nations as well.
 
There could be groups that discuss political ideologies, RP groups, story writers, conlangers, poets, and people that are into WorldVision contests, to name a few. Wouldn't it be nice to see someone representing TWP in interregional events? We don't need to awkwardly and forcefully try to stimulate activity with government officials.
 
If TNP is known for its democracy, TEP its RP, and OBI for its beer-guzzling mercenaries, then why can't we play on our strengths and make a name for ourselves using culture?
 
Sure, militaries can fight wars and conquer, but their influence only goes so far as those they rule. A region that uses soft power has a much broader reach, and generates goodwill towards itself.
 
So, do you think I'm on to something, or that I'm deluded?

I chose to learn Korean because it's the easiest out of the East Asian languages to learn. Learning hanja is optional, the alphabet can be learned in an hour or two, there isn't that much declension, no tones, and its easy for a 미국인 to learn how to pronounce. Not to mention the wealth of Korean media to base your pronunciation off of and practice reading.

!So you are neither Arabic nor Korean?
*looks at Zogradia's factbook*

My thoughts about the current situation, in a personal level:
To quote a friend of mine(who I leave anonymous for the moment),
A government exists to ensure its residents comfort and their enjoyment. Sure, democracy and negotiations and wild mad rebellion clauses are fine too, but let's face it; the majority of TWPers tend to stay at the RMB and chat out; just like Hari said, what our Westerners want at the government right now is pretty much controlling the noobs.

That reaction, though. XD
 
No. The Korean script is remarkably easy to learn. I think the King Sejong was the one who said “It is easy enough for a wise man to learn in the space of a morning, and a fool ten days.”

Hari, I think you're brilliant!
We need a little infrastructure, in a perfect world people would volunteer and assist with what is needed.
But that infrastructure could be limited to an as needed basis.

Well if you want to go a bit Orwellian, I've noticed that our forums are only active during scenes of factional fighting or public outrage. You want activity? Make a strawman for people to rally together against. It doesn't matter if it's Eurasia or Eastasia; they both get the job done.
 
On a more serious note, we have two choices. Either disband government and go to an easy to manage delegate and RO system (the de facto government atm), or find a cause that TWP can get behind. Unfortunately, we can't attract passionate, productive people if we're the regional equivalent of a guy in a hammock drinking out of a coconut. But changing our platform would fundamentally change who we are. We have a lot of creative people drawn in by the relaxed environment, and they contribute to our regional culture. Doing something like that would drive out a lot of the natives for places like TEP.
 
In the end, the choice is between losing activity or losing our identity. It's not a fun choice, so I'm going to let the rest of you discuss that.

What did you expect? My whole life has been a lie! 
 
My pie diagram is extremely easy: 100% Greek from both parents, and a Greek national.

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A Harikene SPCA Christmas ad.
 
Reads: “Will you give her a home?”
 

How about in the style of North Korean socialist realism?
 

How about in the style of North Korean socialist realism?
 

The night before Christmas(TWP style)
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the region,
Not a nation was posting, cause they were all sleepin'!
The preferences all set to vacation mode with care,
In hopes that St Delegarth soon would be there.
The newbs were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of endorsements danced in their heads.
And mamma in her slippers, and a cat in my lap,
Had just settled down for a long movie recap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should show,
But a miniature sleigh, and five tiny RO's.
With a little old driver, so lively and swarth,
I knew in a moment it must be St Delegarth!
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!
"Now PD!, now Yy,!, now Badger and Medio!
On Bhang Bhang! On all you, we got to go!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of endos, and St Delegarth too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard, just out of view,
The prancing and pawing of each little shoe.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Delegarth came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of endos he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And sent all endorsements, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"