Teddy's politest

I'm not good enough to make this automatic, so you need to keep track of your own points. sorry!

* = if you don't know what something is, answer "no"

YOUR ANSWER IS WHATEVER YOU GET THE MOST POINTS IN. IF A TIE IT IS BOTH.

SOCON (for every yes, add 1 socon point)

Are you religious?

Do your morals on what is right or wrong come from your religion's holy book?

Do "traditional family values"* appeal to you?

LIBERTY (for every yes, add 1 liberty point)

Are taxes theft?

Is the NAP* something to follow?

Is protecting our civil liberties more important than security?

NATIONALISM (for every yes, add 1 nationalist point)

Is Islam a threat?

Would have a problem with an ethnic as a neighbour?

Do immigrants from other cultures harm Canadian culture?

LEFTISM (for every yes, add 1 leftist point)

Do you use words like patriarchy, cis, or bourgeois*?

Is Capitalism something to be defeated? 

Is Marxism a core way to help the world?

CENTRIST (for every yes, add 1 centrist point)

Do you agree that change should be slow and progressive?

Are radical views detracting from serious pragmatic debate?

Is 'Mainstream' an acceptable term, and not an insult?

WHATEVER YOU HAVE MORE POINTS FOR IS WHAT YOU ARE. POST RESULTS BELOW.

I may add further questions based on feedback.

my "religion"

is this

sort of.


I am pretty sure the universe is a simulation. Beyond that, that whoever is simulating us, is simulating the entire universe. That creator civilization is from far away, so far that the number of light years between us and them is greater than the number of years since they began to be a civilization. IE so far, we can't ever hope to find them. It is not humans running the simulation. We simply happen to have been included in the sim. Additionally, it is likely that whoever is simulating us is, themselves, in a simulation. Possibly, but unlikely, that they too are just a side effect of another simulation and not the same people who created it.

The "real" universe should be infinite. The planck length is not something that would exist in the "real" universe, there would be no maximums and minimums.

It is quite possible the speed of light, for example, is much faster each level up in the sim you go towards "reality"

game of thrones ending predictions

Warning: if I'm right, one of these two theories is a "spoiler". There's a good chance that I am wrong, of course, and since I have proposed two theories, one of them is certainly wrong. Regardless, be aware of that before reading on:


Happy ending:

Dany and Jon win the war and unite westeros. They marry, and sit together on the throne. Tyrion goes on to be warden or Casterly Rock, Sam similarly leads Highgarden, Gendry and Storm's End, Theon and the Iron Islands, and Sansa and Winterfell.



Sad ending:

Dany and Jon do "win" the "war", but, both die. Jamie leads Casterly Rock, and Arya leading Winterfell. Why? Cause Tyrion and Sansa, still legally married, and up as King and Queen.

how to kill flys

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41284065

blow on them.

no seriously. blow on them. The first few times they'll prob fly away as soon as you blow on them, but by the 3rd or 4th time you got em cornered and blow on them, they'll think "its just the wind" and tuck in their wings.

as soon as they do that you strike. takes me a moment to untuck their wings and that's the extra half second you need to squash em

a different globe

reality VS fiction.

accounted for ocean currents and climate.

re:

I noticed the area around hudsons bay looked "round". Some of the more conspiracy minded scientists think the "north pole" was once here and the crust "slipped" into a different position. If true that would mean the "south pole" would be elsewhere as well. In the name of fiction and alternate history, I was curious what such a world would look like, but to build it, I needed to build a globe with a different top and bottom. Finally today it hit me I can do this at home. The next step is to draw in the latitudes and figure out how the climate would be on this insane world.

AMSTAR and POLQAN

At some point in the spring of 1993 I was playing capture the flag.

Being the anti-social person I am, I instead of playing, sat down in the woods, and thought "wouldn't it be fun if there was a 3rd team"

I may have just been 8 years old, but I let that idea tumble around in my head for years.

When I was about 12 or so I found out about the board game Diplomacy. It's kind of a mash up of Chess and Risk. Here is a map:

As such, rolling around in my mind, were not 1, but 7 "teams" playing this "game"

At the same time, I started thinking about each team having many members, which lead to a split in this idea.

One game would be more of a war game, a world simulation.

The other would be a political simulation, a game without a country.

Hence the ideas between AMSTAR and POLQAN split in two.


Many years later, I finally got a chance to start a POLQAN and the game ran for a decade. I'm even still in a POLQAN like game to this day.

However I never *did* manage to start a successful AMSTAR.

Here is just one map of AMSTAR I've made over the years:

Each city would have its own stats, and so forth.


Anyway, I just wanted to get out there the history of how I came up with AMSTAR and how it is directly related to my POLQAN ideas, and how I still want to run an AMSTAR game one of these days.