Oh i have much ideas for games for thing

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on November 22, 2025, 09:12:47 PM

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on November 22, 2025, 08:32:04 PMI'm just gonna jump in here bc DS9 is also my favorite! The episode "In the Pale Moonlight" is my all time favorite episode of Star Trek.

I think we might have enough people for a Talossan Trekkies group. That is an excellent episode. TNG is my favorite and The Best of Both Worlds (Pts. 1 & 2) is my favorite episode.

Oh there are games we could totally play with a group like that!
Theres a bridge crew game on steam, and I also have another bridge crew style engine to play some more roleplay kind of things.
Also star trek adventures for the more TTRPG inclined, like dnd but... well actually star trek

Nifty!  Thanks!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on November 23, 2025, 03:04:15 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on November 22, 2025, 12:21:57 PMRight, but it says Central Standard Time.  Which is not incorrect, since that's the same as TST.  I just thought it would be neat if it referred to TST instead.

If it's a hassle or it doesn't look right, then don't worry about it.  It's truly not at all a big deal, but just something I thought might be cool.

Ah gotcha. I vaguely recall I did write some code to replace CST with TST, not sure why it wouldn't work anymore. Gonna investigate and fix later today.

I see the issue now - the script looks for "CT" instead of "CST". It's been fixed now.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on November 22, 2025, 12:21:57 PMRight, but it says Central Standard Time.  Which is not incorrect, since that's the same as TST.  I just thought it would be neat if it referred to TST instead.

If it's a hassle or it doesn't look right, then don't worry about it.  It's truly not at all a big deal, but just something I thought might be cool.

Ah gotcha. I vaguely recall I did write some code to replace CST with TST, not sure why it wouldn't work anymore. Gonna investigate and fix later today.

A - URL

B - 1) Txoteu Davinescu, 2) Pôl dal Nordselvă

C - ÜC

D - I would like to claim my seat

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on November 22, 2025, 09:12:47 PM

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on November 22, 2025, 08:32:04 PMI'm just gonna jump in here bc DS9 is also my favorite! The episode "In the Pale Moonlight" is my all time favorite episode of Star Trek.

I think we might have enough people for a Talossan Trekkies group. That is an excellent episode. TNG is my favorite and The Best of Both Worlds (Pts. 1 & 2) is my favorite episode.

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I'm not sure if you're going to get your battle -- as I said, I find it distasteful for the democratic vote to be overturned by the rules of politicians, but it hasn't actually happened.  We have a lot bigger fish to fry!

I will say, Most Honourable Seneschal, I'm afraid that you're just about at the top of any oligarchy, lol.  You've been Seneschal for way longer than anyone else in Talossan history, and it's not even close.  You're the only Talossan to break a thousand days in office in the last 25 years!

I'll be interested in seeing any proposed legislation that you write, though, and I hope that -- no matter what happens with the election -- that you'll remain an active and passionate Talossan.  Your vigor and ideas will always be an asset to our little country.

But any Progressive government would have different priorities.  We have a ton of plans, as you know, and we intend to follow through on our campaign promises to the people.  If we are fortunate enough to win the confidence of our citizens, we're going to focus on reforms aimed at transparency, good government, and moving Talossa forward into the modern age.

I'd be happy to discuss any of these things in more detail, or answer any other questions you might want to ask.

One thing that's hard for a lot of us who immigrated later (I immigrated 19 years ago, shortly after all of this happened) is that former king Robert I lied a fairly significant amount about conflicts, later.  I think he would bend the truth with such vigor that he'd eventually convince even himself.

For example, he used to tell people for years that the new citizens of 2005 who joined the CLP were illegal immigrants, saying that at the time it was the law that you were only allowed to immigrate if you were approved by the Seneschal and Opposition Leader.  That just wasn't true -- the law just said that they had to be consulted, and they were always notified.  The Cort decided as such after a lawsuit.  But that kind of got elided over time, until eventually by 2008, Ben was just flatly asserting the contrary.

Well, for me party lists are one of the essential gains of Talossan democracy which came in after Reunision. They are an essential check on the ability of party leaders to act unilaterally. I would want them to be *strengthened* so *all* Cosa candidates have to come in on the party lists. And if there is a problem with filling all those seats as well as Senäts seats, I have an answer to that - unicameral MMP Real Cosa.

The coming Cosa will be a battleground between those who are really interested in Talossan democracy, and those who consider "elections" and "voting" to be a funny game we play while an oligarchy of the most active runs everything behind the scenes.

Quote from: Xheralt Del'Encradeir on November 22, 2025, 08:19:57 PMthe personal and deadly insult he'd offered to Ben's wife (and his nominal Queen, let's not forget!).

Is this the "personal and deadly insult" you're referring to?

Quote("You don't tell me what to do in my own
house," my wife said. "Well, they're going to lose anyway," Grubi replied
with a snarl. What an asshole!)

Or did KDN say something much, much worse that I'm not aware of?

Quotesomehow he's been villified for it

You're talking about KDN's "patterns of behaviour", so I assume you must know something about King Robert I's "patterns of behaviour" which go *far* beyond his feud with KDN. Believe me, he isn't "vilified' for that alone.