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Hapia godororland, Beepee, Concrete Slab, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and 2 othersAgalaesia, and Radicalville
hey look another peasent that astoria can annex. :)
How wonderful
Hapia godororland, Concrete Slab, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and Agalaesia
>we don't do communism
>we
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Hapia godororland, Aidenfieeld, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and Proctethia
Oh, Lily pad nation, if you want more than my opinion, if you're talking about the Japanese-made manga, it just covers a couple things that aren't shown in the show, and it's probably best not to read it, as it's only dubiously canonical, as the makers of the show have said if anything contradicts canon in the manga, then that part is not canon. If you're talking about the DC collaboration, then that's the story of the show.
Aidenfieeld, Beepee, Lily pad nation, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and 1 otherProctethia
Mega Thonk
Aidenfieeld, Myttles, and 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121
*Extreme mega-brain expanding*
Hapia godororland, Aidenfieeld, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and Proctethia
We! The power to the people!
Hapia godororland, Aidenfieeld, Beepee, and 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121
Merry rather early Christmas everyone! Today is a week for festivity, gluttony, greed, and, most importantly, Christmas K-pop, which I will be recommending every single day of Christmas, since it's so good! (also formulaic and repetitive, but hey, you can't win 'em all)
I missed yesterday so I have two recommendations for you to ignore, first, to start out, by my fav band Loona, and also my fav Christmas song ever: The Carol (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX-lpEnIQQk) Also, by Exo: 12 Miracles in December (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVLxRXoLaas)
Omg, hi Concrete, it seems like ages since I've properly talked to you, how you been doing? ^-^
I often ask myself this every day *camera cuts to introspective pose* but at the low, low price of free you can get answers from me and others on this board!
If you have any questions now, or ever for that matter, please feel free to ask us all here on the Regional Message Board (or RMB for short), or even ping me directly about them and I'll make 100% sure they get answered (to ping me about it just press the quote button that appears while hovering over my post in the righthand corner and then type your own message beneath)
We also have some weird traditional greetings here so... *gives you an obligatory TSSS hug, hands you a glass of diet cherry SPIT, and puts a lampshade hat on you*
Also here's some guides if you want them, though bear in mind guides can usually be a bit confusing and less helpful then just plain trying it out yourself or asking someone else about it as a backup:
Guides
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- First, join the World Assembly on the left, and endorse Beepee. This is the simplest way you can help strengthen our region against attack. Read this dispatch to learn more about why this important!
- Once you're a member, consider visiting our Office of World Assembly Legislation (OWL) to debate resolutions and get recommendations on how to vote, as well as learning how to write your own WA resolutions.
- Want to talk to all of us in real time, to get all your questions answered, to debate what there is to debate, or just to chill and have a drink of South Pacific Iced Tea? Join us on our Discord server.
- Are you interested in writing and debating laws, and getting involved in the nitty-gritty of regional politics? Join our regional forum and sign up to be a legislator here.
- Interested in helping to craft festivals, events, news articles, and graphics to keep everyone entertained and involved for a long time to come. Join us on Discord
- Interested in the military? Do you want to go out into the wide world of NationStates to protect regions from attackers, and take the fight to them if necessary? The South Pacific Special Forces is just the thing for you. Jump on Discord to sign up.
Local Council
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Hello! Welcome to The South Pacific, and its regional message board, or RMB! It is a vibrant, active place where people from all around the world can hang out and talk. It is the region's primary place of communication, and is open to all types of conversations, debates, and overall fun. However, without some form of rules, the RMB would be a wild, annoying, and downright un-enjoyable place. And so, due to this, rules must be laid down and enforced. These are important to protect everyone's safety, dignity, and sanity. So we all ask that you please take the time to read the following rules, and try your hardest to follow them. Remember, there are consequences for breaking the rules.
Note: The “Fundamental Rule” portion of each guideline is meant as a summary of the rule. The official text of the rule may be found in the “Details” spoiler.
Breaking these rules can result in consequences including warnings, post suppressions, and in the the case of repeated or serious infractions, ejection and banning from the region. The full, detailed Local Council Standard Moderation Policy, which specifies the exact consequences for various levels of rule-breaking, can be found here: [link to come shortly!]
And so, after much introduction, here are your RMB Rules:
Fundamental Rule: Don't spam. Spamming is bad. It is the first rule for a reason.
Spamming on the RMB is not allowed at all, under any circumstances. Spamming is probably best described as a post that is meaningless and/or unnecessary— for example, a post that repeats the same thing multiple times, multiple posts of the same thing, or a series of posts that have no apparent meaning. It does not matter what your intent is— if your post(s) fits the above definition, it is considered spam and will be dealt with accordingly.
Fundamental Rule: Posts on the Regional Message Board must be in English, or include an English translation.
We understand that many of you come from backgrounds where English is not your main language, as players come from all around the world. However, to avoid confusion among people who don't speak your language, we sincerely ask that you post in English only, for ease of communication.
Remember, there are tools like Google Translate to help you. If you speak in another language, please add a translation to English in the same post. Posts with English translations will not be suppressed. For the avoidance of doubt, English means Modern English and not backwards English.
Fundamental Rule: Don’t ask for people to endorse you on the Regional Message Board. Don’t ask for people to move to another region.
Asking for endorsements on the RMB is not allowed at all, under any circumstances. Ever. Permissions are only made if the requester is a member of the Council on Regional Security or the Delegate seeking to increase endorsement counts for the purposes of promoting regional security. If you want to receive and give more endorsements, get involved in the Southern World Assembly Initiative, TSP’s endorsement program.
Similarly, recruiting, or telling people to move to another region, is also not allowed. You may not ask people to join your region on the RMB, whether you are also a South Pacifican citizen yourself or not.
Fundamental Rule: Roleplay on the Regional Message Board, but do not break any other rules. If you're feeling nice or your roleplay is a bit niche or particularly nation driven, please consider taking your roleplaying to Knowhere or Psomewhere.
It's all legal! As long as it complies with the rules. Specifically; remember to keep your roleplays appropriate (as stated in rule IX). The LC has reached a general conclusion on what is appropriate, and if your roleplay does not fit within those boundaries, it will be stopped. So, excessive display of affection, sexually-suggesting roleplay, and the like, are not allowed at all.
Similarly, do not clog the RMB with your roleplay. If you feel it has been going on for a while, either take it to a roleplay region, or cease it all together. Otherwise, it may be interfered with. When the board is dominated by roleplay, it becomes hard for everyone else to communicate with each-other, thanks to the overabundance of posts completely unrelated to what they are doing.
But other than those things, feel free to roleplay to your heart's content!
Roleplaying on the South Pacific’s main RMB is permitted for 5 posts on the topic before it must be taken elsewhere. If you wish to roleplay freely, there are two regions run by the South Pacific whose Regional Message Boards you can post on to roleplay freely: Knowhere and Psomewhere.
Organizing, recruiting, and making announcements about roleplays taking place in The South Pacific, Knowhere, or Psomewhere is permitted for 5 posts on the topic before it must be taken off the main TSP RMB.
A chain of posts connected by quotes of the previous poster is considered a single topic for the purposes of this rule, unless it is clear that the portion of the previous post being responded to is the beginning of a new subject (e.g. if a quoted post is both the second response to one subject and the first response to another, and it is quoted in its entirety but it is clear the quoter intends to respond to only the latter subject, the quoting post will not be suppressed for violating the RP limit). Note that you may not avoid violating the RP limit by simply not quoting the person you are responding to, even if you are still discussing the same subject matter— see Rule XI, “when you are responding to someone's post, please quote their post”. A post clearly dealing with the same subject as a current topic will be considered part of that topic.
Note also that a topic does not “reset” if it has not been discussed in a while or if new posters join the conversation. A switch of roleplay topic after 5 posts does count as a “reset”, but to be considered a switch of topic, the change must be considerable— going from roleplaying eating a snack to roleplaying taking a post-snack nap does not count (as it clearly still takes place in the same “world”), while going from roleplaying eating a snack to roleplaying as a news announcer does count.
Knowhere is the place for roleplays involving interactions between nations, and other more serious styles. Psomewhere is for “silly plotless roleplaying”, often involving players acting as characters. Any nation in The South Pacific can post in these regions without having to move to them or leave The South Pacific.
Fundamental Rule: Don’t post on the Regional Message Board twice or more in a row.
Fundamental Rule: Don’t reveal other players’ personal information.
It is not permitted to post or otherwise share another player's personally-identifying information (i.e. social media accounts, IP addresses, postal addresses, E-mail addresses, telephone numbers, etc.), and neither is it permitted to post or share information that may not be identifying but is nonetheless of a personal nature (i.e. medical history, relationship status, etc.). The only exception is if the player in question has shared that information themselves and does not mind its dissemination (this sharing or statement of permission must be publically viewable).
Making a claim of serious out-of-character misconduct (e.g. bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, etc.) against someone else, without providing evidence to moderation/administration, is considered malicious harassment, and will be dealt with accordingly. This rule applies to the TSP forum and discord as well.
Fundamental Rule: Trolling, baiting or flaming of others is not allowed under any circumstances.
Trolling is defined as starting quarrels or upsetting people by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages with the intent of provoking other nations into displaying emotional responses. Baiting is similar to trolling, and is defined as posting with the aim of angering someone indirectly, directed at a specific person. Flaming is defined as posting insults or other verbal and often personal attacks on other nations. Erudite slams while maintaining a veneer of politeness can also be considered flaming. All three of these are banned under all circumstances.
This is an extension of a simple policy of respect. What may seem like good natured fun to you could be trolling to someone else, and if they tell you to stop, do so.
We can and will warn, suppress, and even ban you, as well as record the incident. In severe cases the NationStates Moderators will be contacted, and puppets will not hide your IP address from them.
Fundamental Rule: No matter where you are in NationStates, the rules for the game still apply.
TSP is a part of NationStates, and as such, you must follow the rules of the game as a whole at all times. Breaking the game rules will land you in trouble with both the regional officers and NationStates site moderation. See the link below for the list of rules and a quick FAQ page for more details on the game rules.
NationStates Rules
Nationstates FAQ
Fundamental Rule: Don’t post anything that would not be allowed in a PG-13 movie.
Excessive swearing, explicit, suggestive, or excessively violent messages, sexual references, and other such things will be suppressed on sight, and the NationStates site moderators can and will be called to get involved in serious cases. Excessive displays of personal affection (e.g. suggestive roleplayed snuggling, nuzzling, kissing, licking and so on) is also considered inappropriate and will be suppressed accordingly.
Mild swearing may be tolerated, mild sexuality may be at the very most hinted, but explicit or excessive versions of either or both will result in moderation intervention, both from the Local Council and potentially from NationStates site moderators. Derogatory terms are disallowed, and all swearing must abide by all other rules, particularly those about respecting others.
Fundamental Rule: Do not edit someone's post in a malicious way or repost offensive content.
It is illegal to edit what someone else has written when quoting it in order to make it seem like they expressed a view which they didn’t. Quote-editing should be avoided even for comic effect.
When you are responding to someone's post, please quote their post (by pressing the "quote" button), as it makes it less confusing and will alert them to your post.
When quoting an offensive post, delete the content of the post and replace it with "-snip-". Doing so makes the administrators’ jobs much easier.
When quoting long posts, please cut the post down to the particular parts you are responding to, or replace the extraneous material with "-snip-".
Fundamental Rule: Use spoilers when making or quoting a very long post.
The [spoiler] tag is your friend. When making or quoting a very long post, or one which not everyone might want to read, please add spoilers, so as to avoid taking up a large amount of the page.
If you are giving a spoiler of a recently released book or film, put it in a spoiler tag, to give people who haven't read/watched it a chance. As a general rule of thumb, give a month for films post-release (as release dates may be different in different areas) and two months for book releases.
Fundamental Rule: The golden rule: treat others how you want to be treated.
Remember, there are other, real people behind the nations on the RMB. Everyone here is a human being with emotions and the right to be respected.
While dissent with regional officers (Local Council, Delegate, CRS, and Ministers) is perfectly acceptable, remember that they are people too, and worthy of basic human decency. The regional officers should be respected at all times just as any other member of the region should.
When debating, always remember to attack the argument rather than the person making it. If you find yourself getting heated, try to take a step back. Personal insults, insults to intelligence, etc. will not be tolerated. The only form of debate banned on the RMB is that over a particular suppression. For more information, see the Help Section at the end of this document.
Fundamental Rule: If you post is simply an emoticon or the equivalent, it's going to be suppressed.
A picture is not worth a thousand words. While posting images is generally acceptable in the RMB, they cannot be the sole contents of a post. This includes both computer generated images like the yellow faces and text-based images, like the following:
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(0w0)
(?-?)
>:
[;
Attempts to circumvent this rule on a technicality, such as the utilisation of a single word in addition to the image, will still result in the suppression of the post at the discretion of the Local Council.
Fundamental Rule: Single word or similarly short posts are not appreciated on the RMB.
Single word posts are too short, full stop. If you find yourself wondering if a post is too short, it likely is. This rule does not mean you have to post several paragraphs of content every time you want to post. Single sentence posts are still allowed under this rule.
However, at the discretion of the Local Council, posts deemed to be insubstantial and not contributing to the regional discourse will be suppressed. An excellent way to avoid this is to add thought to your posts.
Fundamental Rule: Put effort and thought into your roleplaying posts.
Actions do not speak louder than words. Roleplaying on the RMB is a privilege, and posts that simply read as actions being performed are not allowed in the RMB, particularly if said actions consist on only a few words.
If you intend to roleplay in the RMB, you must add thought and substance to your posts. You have been given permission to roleplay in the RMB: you have not been given permission to roleplay poorly. Roleplaying posts deemed to not fit the standard of the RMB will be suppressed at the discretion of the Local Council. Roleplayers who consistently roleplay without the quality expected of the main RMB will be asked to relocate their posting to either Knowhere or Psomewhere.
Thank you for reading, and remember to follow these guidelines!
Now sit back, relax, and enjoy your stay here in TSP!
If you believe a post breaks the rules and should be suppressed, wish to appeal to have a post unsuppressed, wish to appeal a formal warning, or have any questions about the laws of the RMB, you can contact your current Local Councillors through telegrams:
Auphelia
Rabbitz
Proctethia
OR
Lodge complaints with the following nation:
This nation is controlled by the LC, ensuring all Local Councillors can see your complaints or comments.
It is preferred that appeals to have a post unsuppressed be sent to the Councillor who suppressed the post in the first place. Remember, the rules of respect apply to telegrams as well as the RMB.
Some rules in this dispatch are lifted from the TSP Forum Administration’s Community Standards.
Hope to see more of you ^-^
Hapia godororland, Aumeltopia, Aidenfieeld, Beepee, and 3 othersConcrete Slab, Lily pad nation, and Proctethia
Good Poppy, how about you? :D
Aidenfieeld, Myttles, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and Proctethia
Pretty good overall, but also stressed out of my mind, in a lot of nerve-racking social situations with friends and such lately >_<
Been listening to good music lately though, and I'm much more caught up on my responsibilities, so that's good ^-^
Aidenfieeld, Beepee, Concrete Slab, and Proctethia
I'm pretty much the same as you. :D
is this a threat against TEP?
Aidenfieeld, Beepee, Concrete Slab, Jaxon, and 2 others073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and Rage mage
Hey all!
I’m not going to promise anything specific for this LC term. As I have found out the hard way, almost nothing I promise actually comes to fruition. So, instead, I will say that I will try my absolute hardest to bring fun things to the region game-side, and do my best at communicating with everyone. I don’t know if this helps my chances of being re-elected, but I’m not going to over-promise, only to disappoint you all.
Si-topia, Aumeltopia, Beepee, Jaxon, and 4 othersLily pad nation, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, The Filippinas, and Proctethia
How did you get such a long motto?
Why wont you over promise! This is not good.... we want false and empty promises!
How dare you! 😜
Oh no! TEP are onto us!
Aidenfieeld, Lily pad nation, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, and Proctethia
Hi Beepee! How are you?
All the better for seeing you here!
*is silently sleeping on you*
Zzzzzz..
The LC elections should’ve be one of the poll options.
Erinor, Aumeltopia, Aidenfieeld, Beepee, and 6 othersConcrete Slab, Lily pad nation, 073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, Agalaesia, Zess, and Proctethia
Aw, thanks! ^-^
Please Vote for Beepee for Local Councillor
Let's jump into this elections campaign!
Hi everyone,
It's me, Beepee.
I'm running for a position in the Local Council.
I'm not very good at selling myself... but here goes.
I think I can bring something fun to the position with my love of bureaucracy and all things Erinor...
I'm all up for fun and keeping the RMB an active and interesting place.
I already know the rules and laws, and well, that's a pretty decent thing to know...
I was once a pretty average MoRA..... so I know about being average and thats good.
I've been here for a couple of years now so you know me and, well, you know me... maybe...
I recently had to protect the board from a naughty post...so I know about not being a bad person.
Like your deodorant, I provide 24hr protection....I'm Australian, that means I can protect you when the Europeans and/or Americans are in bed.
I like to buttle and clean up your mess.
What will I do...
I know how to do awesome polls!
I know how to be really active and to keep you active!
I'm a wonderful host with lots of greeting skills!
I can update things, and can dispatch my way to your heart!
I can tell those in offsite what you are all thinking!
I can encourage you to become the best (or, if you prefer, the worst) you can be!
Remember together we are amazing... together we are unstoppable!
Vote Beepee!
Questions and Answers
Nominations
I, Beepee, being of sound mind and body (at least as sound as it's ever going to be) hereby declare:
I am a member of the Legislator Assembly within the South Pacific and I am a member of MoRA.
I am a member of the World Assembly.
I have no affiliations with any other region.
I have a puppet Catenham, currently awaiting a LC Debate... I think all my other puppets have lapsed into the wilderness.
I am also available on discord.
I swear to uphold the values and principles of the South Pacific.
Erinor's tagged because he's wonderful and so he has this dispatch for EC purposes.
While I agree with your choice of religion as well as your acceptance of Erinor as God Emperor I am concerned about you lack of "buttling" being mentioned in the above dispatch. I hope you intend to correct this in any further dispatch.
Also if we are allowed to ask the candidates questions I would like to know how you would intend to sell knee braces to penguins?
Erinor, Aidenfieeld, Beepee, Lily pad nation, and 3 others073 039 109 032 080 111 112 112 121, Zess, and Proctethia
That's a philosophy debate since during the stages of a cold, you may be filled with more viral cells than human cells.
What if, in a completely hypothetical scenario, you wanted to run for LC but no one nominated you. Are you just not allowed then?
Oooh yes! I do love to buttle!... I shall update the dispatch with this glorious question and, of course, buttle my way to your heart!
In respect of knee braces for penguins. I think that it's very important for all penguins to appear stiff limbed.
This accentuates the waddle making them both (1) additionally cute and (2) easier prey (to make penguin pies).
As such, intend to flood the market with knee braces (for which I will of course rely on my team of smurfs and the boards kind will) and mandate into law that all penguins must wear such braces or face severe penalties (including, but not limited to, being stuffed with marshmallow).
This course of action should allow some price gouging and additional profits to flood back to me the RMB.
Thank you for this excellent question.
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