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[Rolan7]

The two best AAR's I have ever read in my life are no longer on the internet apparently.
The GalCiv2 ones by Tom Francis. They are gone now. I can no longer read about moving a superweapon a billion light years in a single turn with a law.
I feel that the world has just lost something amazing and I don't know what the hell to do about it.

Tom said they're going up on pc gamer. So don't feel sad.

Please please link these somebody, if you find them.  They are relevant to my interests.

[martinuzz]

Apparently it is becoming a trend amongst some of the more anti-immigration minded people in the EU to start using photographs of drowning and drowned immigrants in the Mediterrenean Sea as screensavers.

very.. very.. sad.

[Levi]

Apparently it is becoming a trend amongst some of the more anti-immigration minded people in the EU to start using photographs of drowning and drowned immigrants in the Mediterrenean Sea as screensavers.

very.. very.. sad.

That is fucked up.   

[penguinofhonor]

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[Tack]

Meanwhile the EU defames Australia for our treatment of asylum seekers.
Nice one.

(Moderate Poeishness... We're pretty terrible)

[SirQuiamus]

There are a significant amount of people who would rather let immigrants drown before they get to Europe than rescue them and risk them staying in whatever European country picks them up. They knew the risks when they got on the boat, they say. And of course it doesn't count as killing because you can't kill through inaction.

Watching someone drown when you could help them is pretty close to killing, though. Considering how little the EU countries are doing to stop further tragedies, I'd say that every EU-citizen is at least indirectly involved in that crime.

[Dutchling]

* Dutchling wonders what he has to do with Mediterranean shenanigans

[Shook]

I'd say that every EU-citizen is at least indirectly involved in that crime.

Hey, it's not like most of us can even do anything. I don't want to be making similarly inflammatory insinuations, so how about we don't do that at all?

[SirQuiamus]

Well, fine. Not everyone, because we are very good and compassionate, and there's nothing we could do anyway.

...that may be actually true about the members of this forum, but that's what the anti-immigration people are saying as well.   

[Solifuge]

That feeling when the floor drops out from under your gut, and there's a big emptiness there you thought was ground. It's a bad feel.

This sounds bad

It's okay. Just never been on the receiving end of a breakup, and this one came with no reason or warning. Just a two line email. I'll be fine, just shocked, sad, and angry. Oof.

The two best AAR's I have ever read in my life are no longer on the internet apparently.

Ever tried The Internet Wayback Machine? It's saved a lot of old internet haunts from total extinction. Can be neat just to brows internet history too... some day it'll be a research tool for anthropologists of the early digital age.

-snip-

Geez that's sick. The US has something like that with our land border with Mexico, and our sea border with Cuba. Dehumanizing people for being Other. I wish Immigration was quick and simple... it's deeply wrong and makes no sense to cost people their lives just for wanting a different life for themselves, or wanting to be subject of a different government or leader.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Hmm.
I didn't know teenagers were supposed to be able to affect shit like that.
Any pointers on getting started?

[AlleeCat]

Watching someone drown when you could help them is pretty close to killing, though.

Spoiler: Tell that to this guy (click to show/hide)

~If you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand~

Sorry. I had to.

[Arx]

Well, fine. Not everyone, because we are very good and compassionate, and there's nothing we could do anyway.

The thing is, if Shook's to blame for it then so am I, because the UN should be doing something about it. And South Africa's in the UN. And I can definitely control what the UN does! Because you know, I'm South African and SA is in the UN. The same goes for the EU.

I understand it's emotionally charged, but there is actually not much most people can do. If I went around and started telling people about this, I can tell you that almost all of them would look at me and ask me why that's their problem. I've tried similar things before, and got that reaction. Or they'd agree with the people letting them die.

[Tack]

breakup

Sucks, Soli. Wasn't that one pretty recent too?

[Shook]

Well, fine. Not everyone, because we are very good and compassionate, and there's nothing we could do anyway.

Okay then, what do you want me to do? I'm quite curious, because giving prayers doesn't count.