Reveilled

Well, who allies with whom will all depend on who plays what country. If you end up with England and I'm Italy, an alliance between us won't do much good. I would like to remind everyone that though I've studied the game, read articles on strategies, and GMed a game, I've never actually played the game before. If anything, Aishur is technically the veteran, and depending on how you look at it, I'm as much a newbie as the rest of you. Also, I'm a guy. Apologies if the avatar is confusing.

Yes, I suppose it is. My apologies, darkside, this is indeed not my decision. :"> Though I will point out that it was intended originally to be a PBEM game, and also that I never actually said that Darkside couldn't use PMs, I only requested that lists be emailed to Mets (since I hadn't considered that it would be anything other than a PBEM game, I simply assumed we'd need everyone's email addresses), and suggested she get a web-based account when she was worried she might have to drop out. But I'm a bit of a control freak, so I probably came across as giving an order. 'Twas unintentional, if so. :">

Rumania sucks compared to Bulgaria. "

I'm flattered. Most people I know are trying their hardest to lose me. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't get too happy! I'll be happy to get rid of you once we start the game.

Alright, alright, I did it. Now where the heck is Meta? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :D Great! Wouldn't want to lose you, Darkside. As to where Meta is, I haven't a clue.

Could get in trouble for using e-mail? How come? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not for using email so much as giving my email out to a random group of people. I'm already on "probabtion" of sorts, I can't risk getting my only pastime I have right now taken from me. Again, I'm deeply sorry for doing this. I really wanted to play. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What Baley said! Can't you clandestinely get yourself a web-based account? Why would you get in trouble for giving out your own email address, anyway? For that matter, are you aware that if anyone knew you were giving out your email address without you telling them, as they'd have to be looking at your email, said anyone would be violating your human rights?

All righty then! Our seven players are: Nartwak thepixiesrock Aishur-Rim-Nisheshu Reveilled Darkside Deraldin JediConsular7 And our GM is Metadigital. Here is how country assignment works. Everyone sends Metadigital a list of the countries they'd like to play, in order of preference, e.g. 1. Russia 2. England 3. Turkey 4. Germany 5. Austria 6. France 7. Italy What then happens is that once Metadigital recieves seven lists, he will select one player at random, and assign them their first choice. Then, he will select a second player, and assign them their first choice. If their first choice is already taken, they are assigned their second choice, and so on until they get a power no-one else has yet chosen, and so on until all countries have been assigned. You can also submit certain countries equally, e.g. 1. Russia/England 3. Turkey 4. Germany/Austria/France 7. Italy If more than one of your first choices are available, the one you play is assigned randomly. If only one is available, you get that one, and if none are available, you get the next choice on your list, or the next, and so on. In this example, if neither Russia or England are taken, the player randomly gets either Russia or England. If one is taken, but not the other, the player gets the other. If both are taken, then the player gets Turkey. If Both are taken and so is Turkey, the player randomly gets Germany, Austria, or France, etc. etc. Therefore, if you don't care which country you get, then submit: 1. Russia/England/Turkey/Germany/Austria/France/Italy (the countries don't have to be in that order, the result will be the same regardless). Note that this is different from not submitting a list at all, which means you automatically be selected last and get whatever is left over. I would post meta's address here, but aside from the fact that I feel uncomfortable giving out someone else's email address, as a matter of curteousy I'm going to wait for him to say that he is ready to begin before I hand the game over to him. When he is ready, please Email him your list rather than PMing it, as he will need your email adresses so that he can distribute them to other players. Also, Mets, if you like I can send you the image I use for mapping the turns, or alternatively I can continue to do the mapping, simply mailing it out to everyone once the orders are published.

Buggrit. Well, that leaves Shadow as the last of our invited guests. Surely there must be someone else out there!

Okay, I'll now admit that I'm out of my depth. I haven't looked at the whole thing in the depth that is really required to have a proper debate over it all (I'm a moon hoax debunker, not a Kennedy conspiracy expert). I'll give you the field, Ender, and now bow out of the debate, as the longer I stay in this, the more likely I am to be utterly defeated due to my lack of knowledge. Perhaps someone with greater experience than I can deal with Warren and the Committee on Assassinations. But hey, at least I got the thread back on topic. "

His son passed a lie detector test that was very poorly constructed. From the same article: "The purpose of the Ricky White polygraph test is also suspect. On November 26, 1990, I called The Integrity Center. This company conducted the polygraph examination of Ricky White. I spoke with the examiner, Billy Wingo. He commented, 'Joe West (a former investigator for the JFK Center) had about twenty questions, but some were duplicates. We threw out the duplicates and re-phrased some, so the questions were set up correctly for the polygraph. In the end there were only fifteen questions. Joe West and I put them together.' 'I provided two ex-law enforcement officers, experienced with the administration of polygraph examinations, copies of the exam. Both concluded the questions were poorly framed. The exam was incomplete in that appropriate follow up and "blind" questions were not asked. "It's as if the next question was never asked. Instead of asking Ricky if the FBI took the diary, they asked if he knew where the diary was! I can't consider this a competent exam. It's totally unacceptable.' On February 14, 1991, I recontacted The Integrity Center to requestion Billy Wingo. I was curtly told, 'Wingo no longer works here.' To date I have been unable to contact Mr. Wingo at his last known address." See? There is a conspiracy! The conspiracy theorists (probably in league with the Bavarian Illuminati) are killing off anyone who gets close to the truth. Anybody could have shot Tippit. I'd see that as good reason to ignore Tippit's shooting in any argument about the Kennedy Assassination, not a good reason to speculate blindly over who did it. No evidence one way or another. I admit there is a possibility. However, the fact that so many things which people claim cannot be explained away can be leads me to believe that there is insufficient evidence to support the theory that someone other than Oswald killed Kennedy and so people are making things up. To my admittedly amateur eye, the weight of evidence falls squarely on the side of the conventional story.

As I understand it, Ricky didn't claim that his father was the assassin until 1990. As to how White's wife came to be in possession of the photo, Ricky claims that there was a break in to the White home in Paris, Texas in 1975 where pictures were stolen, the photos were recaptured, and it is then that Roscoe's wife discovered the photo and turned it over to the FBI. The problem here is that their home wasn't broken into in 1975, or at least, they didn't report it, and no photographs were reported missing in any other burglary. Source. At the very least, something about Ricky's story of the photo doesn't add up.

Which one of these shows Roscoe? And there are two very good reasons for White to make his father out to be a bastard: Fame and fortune.

Okay, so Roscoe confessed to being the shooter in a diary that no-one but his son and supposedly the FBI who took the diary has seen? Also, the allegation there that Tippit was the driver who beeped at Oswald's house can't be true, as Tippit was in a record store at the time, according to witnesses there: "At approximately the time Earlene Roberts states this event happened we have at least 2 witnesses at the Top 10 Record Shop that state Tippit was in the shop at that time. Many of the researchers that theorized that Tippit drove by the rooming house and honked the horn were unfamiliar with the Top 10 Record Shop witnesses, or wrote their theories before these interviews were conducted and made available. Using the best information we have at this time it is highly improbable that Tippit performed the horn honking event since he was at a different location 1.2 miles away with a travel time of 6 minutes and a Tippit travel time of three to four minutes." Source It also talks about pictures, but again, I'd like to see these pictures. Surely they're in the public domain, as I'd hate to think that the people who claim to have them are trying to use their theories to make money, rather than making it freely available as you'd expect a researcher to! "

Source? Can I see them? Source? Which newspaper? Source? Can I see the boatload of evidence, please? How do you know that it was? Remind me, when and where did he do this? Well, this thread has been rather short on sources. Did we ever see a source or even a diagram of how a bullet had to change direction in mid-air? I've also yet to see evidence for this Roscoe White theory. In fact, when you originally brought up the Roscoe White theory, you linked to a page about it that said "The Roscoe White story is the classic fraud in JFK assassination research, involving forged evidence, an escalating series of lies, and the desire to make a big 'killing.'" At present, no, I don't believe there was a conspiracy. Maybe If I saw this Australian Newspaper, or if I saw these doctored photos and their originals, then I might be convinced.

Tell me about it. Anyway, when are you guys starting? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As soon as a seventh person says for definite thet they would like to play. I'd also suggest that we hold the six Game 1 players as standbys for each country except my own, to cover the possibility that someone will stop playing without warning, as people are occasionally apt to do when the going gets tough.

Well, I'm asking just about everyone I know (and don't hate the guts of) on the board, and I don't see a reason why you wouldn't be suited to the grand old game. Of course, whether the game interests you is a completely different matter to whether I'm interested in you playing. Oh, and to keep on topic, another website that I like is this.

Yeah, the Onion's a pretty good site. Another one of my favourites would be this. In terms of sites for raw info, it's a toss up between this, this or this. Maps, flags and statistics are fun! :D Oh and any interest in joining our Diplomacy game, DL?

I'm sorry, but it's a well known fact that the best website is zombo.com. After all, you can do anything at zombocom.

Bah, nobody watches House for the medical drama, they (meaning me) watch it for the characters! Especially House himself. "Well, you have a parasite in your stomach. If you want me to kill it you had better say so now because it'll be illegal in a few months. The good news is that it'll get a job and move out on it's own in about eighteen years." <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, yeah, that's quite a good redeeming feature of the show (one I especially liked was when he kept reintroducing himself to the woman with no short-term memory), but rather often it does come across as an attempt by Hugh Laurie to impersonate Rowan Atkinson, which never quite succeeds. Now, if they made a Blackadder V, with Rowan Atkinson playing Dr. Blackadder, then that would be a show I'd watch religiously. It may be that I'm unfairly comparing the two because Hugh Laurie was in Blackadder, but ah well.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you, sir. ^_^ But it was the right call for Reveilled. When in doubt, use statistics! I'm still studying the rules, but I'm definitely interested. Sure why not, count me in. Though I have a feeling I'll become the second person to go in the first round. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, you should be fine unless you are Austria, which you probably will not have to be unless you want to, as that's really the only power that can be eliminated in Year 1 (which I should point out, didn't actually happen in Game 1, as Austria was still held Budapest and had a fleet in Albania at the end of Winter '01). But that does indeed mean that there is one spot left, and then we'll be able to get down to business. Oh, and I'll explain how countries are selected once we get that seventh player.

I've watched a few episodes of House, and to be honest I don't see the huge appeal. It always seems to be the exact same episode, over and over again. Person is ill with life-threatening unknown illness. Illness is identified. Person is given medicine for life-threatening illness. Medicine makes person worse. It is revealed that person must have two life-threatening ilnesses. Person is cured of both, or dies. Roll credits. Oh, and Hugh Laurie makes lots of sarcastic comments that often make it seem like Dr. House is a poor American version of Edmund Blackadder. *shrug* It's an okay show, which I watch if I remember it is on, but I'm never bothered if I miss it.

Well, that means two places are now open! I'm sure we can manage to find two more new people. Any answer from Shadow or Ghost yet, Jags? What about DL? Think this might be her cup of tea?

We're not. We're playing Spring 1902 (turn 4) right now.

Numbers, you're playing for definite, yes?