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G.D.P.: Goiter Domestic Product
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Mar 15, 2016 20:23
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I have graduated from goiter
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Mar 15, 2016 20:49
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Revert to goiter is clearly the best one 
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Mar 15, 2016 20:55
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Sorry, no update today: I stupidly decided to develop a fever instead. At least it's not goiter v v
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Mar 15, 2016 21:07
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Or worms.
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Mar 15, 2016 21:32
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Covski posted:Sorry, no update today: I stupidly decided to develop a fever instead. At least it's not goiter v  Get well soon!
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Mar 15, 2016 21:32
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Looks like the developer is jumping on the MMO bandwagon.
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Mar 15, 2016 22:19
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God, I need sleep because I read that as Worms of Goitercraft and went o.O;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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Mar 16, 2016 00:57
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silversatyr posted:God, I need sleep because I read that as Worms of Goitercraft and went o.O;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; The combination of Rasuna's two favourite health problems!
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Mar 16, 2016 00:59
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Covski posted:Sorry, no update today: I stupidly decided to develop a fever instead. At least it's not goiter v Have you checked your neck recently? Fevers are a known sign of lurking goiters, and we all know goiters prefer to ambush their prey.
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Mar 16, 2016 02:08
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Coolguye posted:getting caught up but hold on just got to the second life and now i get to post this image But seriously, how did that came about? I'm imagining that the developer either put in a full goiter translation option as an easter egg that has a 0.0001% chance to trigger or it's there as a copy protection thing.
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Mar 16, 2016 04:48
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HardDisk posted:But seriously, how did that came about? I'm imagining that the developer either put in a full goiter translation option as an easter egg that has a 0.0001% chance to trigger or it's there as a copy protection thing. Or Coolguye cheated and replaced every string they could find with "goiter".
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Mar 16, 2016 04:50
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HardDisk posted:But seriously, how did that came about? I'm imagining that the developer either put in a full goiter translation option as an easter egg that has a 0.0001% chance to trigger or it's there as a copy protection thing. TooMuchAbstraction posted:Or Coolguye cheated and replaced every string they could find with "goiter". Likely this. I remember a couple of 'shoops like this floating around /b/ or /v/ when this game first came out and I became aware of it. Even back then running through this game a couple times on my /b/-frequenting friend's laptop after I found it there and wondered what it was, I could tell that the chance for goiter was way out of whack, without people pointing it out to me with stuff like that. I remember getting a couple of China games going and moving to cities to work better, and a couple of Euro ones as well. Not many Africa games that I remember where I didn't almost immediately restart since they usually turned out lovely and died immediately. Only hosed around with the game a couple days before I for bored with it (and the constant goiter got to be too big of a joke for me to continue taking it seriously), although the facts that they gave you from time to time at least could be interesting to read sometimes. The game was also very preachy about constantly nagging you for charity donations, and that got tiring after a while. Also, random (wild?)fires constantly hitting the country where I'm living and not affecting me at all (couldn't they y'know, narrow down the area that the fire was affecting to your area of the country or not your area of the country, and not display the latter? Guess that's a bit too much granularity for a "game" like this made so cheaply with basic designs for educational purposes, but with all the data contained within, you would think they could differentiate that, especially with the thing where rebellions break out in certain provinces of the country you're in and not effecting you besides the popup...) I think the one I remember the most vividly is having a Mexican woman suffering from leprosy so much so that she got disfigured from it, but was still able to get married and have a child (daughter, I think) after the leprosy set in. She was still able to get a college degree, move to the US (legally!) and find work as a schoolteacher and living a relatively long and fulfilling life. I would think that having disfiguring leprosy would curtail all of that and she'd die (relatively?) young(?) in a (literal) leper colony or hospice for lepers, but I guess having that disease and having it progress after not having it treated to the point where you're permanently disfigured didn't prevent her from fulfilling her dreams... 
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Mar 16, 2016 05:16
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It was as a result of this thread that I asked the tech (?) who was prepping me for a blood donation the other day how people who had iodine allergies (which he asked me about) avoided goiters. He didn't know. My cursory Google research has also not given me an answer.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:22
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nerdpony posted:It was as a result of this thread that I asked the tech (?) who was prepping me for a blood donation the other day how people who had iodine allergies (which he asked me about) avoided goiters. He didn't know. My cursory Google research has also not given me an answer. My understanding is that when people say they have an iodine allergy, they mean that they've had a reaction to either a topical antiseptic (usually something called povidine-iodine), or they've had a bad reaction to intravenous contrast that used as part of some imaging. From what I've read, there have been no reported cases of allergies to potassium iodide salt, which will dissolve into potassium and iodide ions when you eat it. There shouldn't be an issue avoiding goiters as the people sensitive to antiseptics or contrast get enough iodine in their diet like anyone else. I haven't looked at immunology in a while, but I don't think it's possible to allergic to iodine/iodide on its own because it's way too small for a fit with any of the immune receptors to activate an allergic/immune response. That being said, this isn't my field of expertise, so please don't go make your friend with an "iodine allergy" shotgun a liter of dissolved iodine to show him that he's wrong.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:52
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Thanks! I had sort of figured it was something like that, but it's nice to have someone who actually knows things about science confirm.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:27
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The life of Rasuna Habibie (née Irawan), part eight Rasuna is firmly decided to devote the rest of her life to improving Indonesia's situation in any way she can, despite her husband's suggestions that they might be able to move abroad. Age 32  Hubby picks up a new career as a shoemaker, less stimulating but providing a more stable income than his handicrafts ever did.  Rasuna's big sis recovers from the depression she has struggled with for a while. An odd thing about the game is that it usually tells you when relatives recover from health problems, rather when they develop them. There are quite a few arbitrary exceptions to this though v:)v  Rasuna's oldest daughter is off to school. They grow up so quickly  Age 33    Rasuna and Ken-Dedes have another baby, another healthy baby boy. They name him Mukmin.  The family is growing bigger, and they are all in good health.  Big sis has another daughter, and continues the family tradition of having pretty poor imagination when picking baby names. Rasuna feels honoured, though. 34  Rasuna has always been a melancholy woman, but her mood takes a turn for the worse. After weeks of mostly lying in bed, Ked-Dedes insists that she talk to her doctor about it. His suspicions are confirmed.   Age 35  Apparently, Rasuna's mother had been suffering from OCD for a while, but she's better now.  Rasuna's oldest son begins school as well. Age 36 Nothing much happens. Rasuna's depression even prevents her from carrying out her usual activism. Age 37  When Rasuna's father is diagnosed with stomach cancer it is already too late to do anything about it. He passes away after a short struggle, a sudden ending to a long hard life. Age 38  Her father's death changes something in Rasuna's outlook on life. Slowly, she starts to pull herself out of her depression and is eventually back to her old self. No happier than before, but with a renewed devotion to making her country better.  Mukim begins school as well. Age 40  A look at the family. The children are growing up, and they are able to save up quite a bit of money despite having quite decent living conditions and donating a small fortune to charity.  They are eating well now. Rasuna is quite determined that her children are going to be allowed to eat all the iodine they can ever want. Age 41  Rasuna's mother's mind is starting to go in her old age. Rasuna and those of her siblings who still live in the village take turns to take care of her. Age 42  Rasuna's return to political life has not gone unnoticed by the powers that be. Again, she is arrested in the early morning. Again, Rasuna refuses to talk.  And once again, the authorities turn out to have worse bark than their bite.  Rasuna's poor senile mother now has malaria as well. She may not be long for this world. Age 43  Remember Hadjar, the unlucky brother who kept getting hit by cars and falling and hurting his brain and being filled with worms? He has diabetes now   Speaking of being hit by cars, Ken-Dedes suffers the same fate later that same year. He isn't hurt as badly as Hadjer was back in the day though. Age 44  Raden graduates from secondary school. Higher education is no more in the cards for her than it was for Rasuna, though.  Ken-Dedes is hit by a car again, on the very same stretch of road as last time. He is rapidly developing a slight phobia for venturing out in the street. Age 45 - 46 Nothing of particular interest happens. The struggle continues. Age 47  In her confused state, Rasuna's mother wanders out late one night and and breaks her hip in a bad fall. She never recovers, and dies a few weeks later.  Rasuna inherits quite a bit of money from her parents. It seems that the entire inheritance always goes to the player character, no matter the number of siblings. It's also interesting to note that both parents beat their life expectancy by three years (72 years for women and 67 years for men).   Sukarno graduates as well, and is engaged to a unusually bright girl shortly afterwards. Age 48  The health of Rasuna's older siblings keep declining, as her big sister is diagnosed with asthma.  Sukarno becomes the first of Rasuna's children to marry!  He and Ridwan makes a beautiful couple, and Rasuna is very proud.Age 49  Ken-Dedes comes down with tuberculosis, the most deadly disease in the world by number of deaths yearly. Age 50  Saleh, one of the baby brothers, has worms again.    Rasuna's youngest son graduates, and is quick to marry a smart girl from a wealthy family. Age 51  More old age pains among the siblings. Of course, Mahisa-Campaka is only a year older than Rasuna.  Raden asks permission to marry her long-time boyfriend. Although Rasuna would have preferred her to find a more morally principled man, she can see why her daughter would be attracted to such a handsome, talented and intelligent man. Seeing no reason to deny her daughter her shot at happiness, she and Ken-Dedes give their permission.  The marriage is one of the largest events the village has seen for a long time. Age 52  Almost a year later to the day, Rasuna's first grandchild is born.  More happy news, as Ken-Dedes recovers from his tuberculosis, after having been at death's door at several occasions. (His health was down to the single digits, so I was surprised that he actually survived!) Age 53  Rasuna's younger brother drinks himself to death, having never amounted to anything in his life. Age 54  Rasuna's eyesight is growing progressively worse from cataracts, causing her some trouble at work.  Still she and her family is in quite decent health, with only one of her three living children suffering from goitre! 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Mar 20, 2016 15:49
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I decided to make up for the lack of updates recently by making a huge one! I'm going to split it into two though, so no vote this time (not that there would be much left to vote on). Next update coming later today or tomorrow, so feel free to discuss the plethora of new horrific health problems we encountered in this update until then! 
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Mar 20, 2016 15:52
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Rasuna's getting cataracts just in time to become the crazy old seer woman of the village. I suggest we go this route and help many young heroes begin their quests.
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Mar 20, 2016 16:03
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Ramos posted:Rasuna's getting cataracts just in time to become the crazy old seer woman of the village. I suggest we go this route and help many young heroes begin their quests. Quests against the despotic government. 
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Mar 20, 2016 16:07
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I think the Indonesian Security Police are running over Ken-Dedes with their cars on purpose to get back at Rasuna for her activism.
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Mar 20, 2016 16:10
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I think goiters might just be a genetic thing with this family, seeing as one of the kids has one even with an ample diet.
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Mar 20, 2016 17:11
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"Congratulations, it's a goiter!" "Mom, this is my new goiter, Goiter."
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Mar 21, 2016 03:11
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Covski posted:
If male life expectancy is 70 then he didn't beat it at all.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:19
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Tiggum posted:If male life expectancy is 70 then he didn't beat it at all.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:31
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GhostStalker posted:Likely this. I remember a couple of 'shoops like this floating around /b/ or /v/ when this game first came out and I became aware of it.
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Mar 21, 2016 09:04
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ShootaBoy posted:I think goiters might just be a genetic thing with this family, seeing as one of the kids has one even with an ample diet. Yeah, jokes aside goitre is a thing even in first world countries. In fact, my mother irl has had goitre my entire life! Having grown up in a household affected by goitre, I must say I find you guys making light of this extremely serious issue in v bad taste Tiggum posted:If male life expectancy is 70 then he didn't beat it at all. I meant 67 of course, fixed it  Update coming this evening, but if any of you were hankering for more depressing stories about Indonesia before then, I just stumbled across this in the news.
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Mar 21, 2016 16:15
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The life of Rasuna Irawan, part nine Age 55    All of Rasuna's children continue the family tradition of collecting scrap for a living. Rasuna is disappointed, but it seems the pattern of poverty in rural Indonesia is hard to break. It's odd that all of the children started working at the same time, I think it might have been triggered by switching some expenditures around.  Here you can clearly see the individual difference in pay despite having the same occupation. Age and genders are definite factors, with Raden earning less than half as her younger brother, although I wonder if personal stats also affect pay.     All the children move out that same year. (also Sukarno has worms for a bit) This is quite certainly triggered by the fact that they all started working this year - children will tend to move out as soon as they are able. Age 56  Rasuna and Ken-Dedes are alone in the house again, and are saving up quite a lot for retirement.  Raden's first son and Rasuna's second grandchild is born. Rasuna can't help to worry about what kind of world he is to grow up in. Age 57  Another grandson is born. Rasuna can't shake the feeling that she should be able to feel happier about this than she does. Age 58  Rasuna's oldest brother has lung cancer. The doctors don't expect him to live long. Age 59  After her children move out, Rasuna's activism intensifies. After holding a protest speech in the regional capitol, she is arrested once more. Now that her children no longer rely on her for support, she is more determined than ever to tell them nothing.  This time, however, they are less lenient on her.  Besides the effects on your stats, being imprisoned means that you also have no income for the period. This is especially bad if you have a well-earning job which you are unlikely to be able to reapply for when you get out.  While in prison, she learns that Hairun is now struggling with seizures as well as the cancer.  Not only that, but her only sister dies from a sudden stroke. Rasuna's petition to be allowed to attend the funeral is denied.  The birth of a fourth grandchild gives her some small comfort, however. Age 60 Rasuna spends a long year in prison. She makes several attempts to start writing her memoirs, before deciding that she doesn't have neither the skill nor an interesting enough story to tell. Age 61  Rasuna is released from prison, and is greeted by a large crowed upon leaving the prison. Her sacrifices and decades of hard work has granted her an almost legendary status among Indonesian activists. She even gets her old job at the NGO back, despite her failing eyesight and the risk they take hiring a former political prisoner.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Only weeks afterwards, Rasuna's brother dies form a heart attack. It is a sobering thought, given that he was only one year older than her. Rasuna still feels there are a lot of thing she can accomplish in her lifetime. Age 62  The next year, her older brother passes as well. It was expected, after his long struggle with the disease. Age 63  Apparently, heart disease runs in the family.  Just like worms. Age 64  That heart disease takes brother-Manusama at seventy years of age, the same age father-Manusama was when he passed.  Raden has her fifth child. Egomaniac that she is, she names the daughter after herself. Age 65 Life goes on. Age 66  There seems to be very little good news anymore. Now Rasuna's youngest sibling's lungs seem to be giving up on him. Age 67   Again, Rasuna is arrested. The security forces seem to balk at imprisoning an aging, half blind old lady though.  Sukarno's first son is born. Rasuna wonders how the child will remember his grandmother as he grows up. Age 68  One day coming home from work, Rasuna almost stumbles over her husband lying dead atop a pile of shoes to be mended. Of all the deaths in recent years, this is the one that hits her the hardest. Ken-Dedes was one of the few people she had ever known who could ever make her smile, except for her children. Age 69   The death of her husband radicalises Rasuna further, despite the pleas of her children. She leads a picketing action against the home of one of the exploitative large land owners of the area. This time the security forces have no choice but to sentence her to a long prison sentence, despite her advanced age. Many doubt that she will ever see freedom again.  Rasuna's health is failing, and it seems to her that her sight grows more blurry with every passing day.  Another funeral missed. Rasuna has now outlived both her younger siblings.  She misses the birth of her youngest son's first child as well. Age 70  As a propaganda stunt, the government makes a big show of providing Rasuna with surgery to fix her eyes. She would have refused, if they had given her the option.  Another grandchild is born, and is named after Sukarno's aunt. Age 71  The much touted cataract surgery seems to have been an unsurprisingly shoddy job, and soon enough her vision is almost as bad as it was before. Age 72  Hadjar surprises the family by dying at a ripe old age. Rasuna is now the only surviving sibling out of eight. Age 73  Rasuna is released from prison. There is much celebrating, but Rasuna doesn't attend.  The family grows larger. Age 74  Rasuna is much too old to continue her work, but she can still take care of the youngest of the village even if she cannot see very well. She is much appreciated by the children, and it gives her some small measure of joy in her autumn years.  She is still as active as she can be, even though she spends an increasingly large amount of her time in prayer.  Luckily, she has quite a bit of money saved up so as not to be a burden on her children.   Again she is arrested, but even the security forces find it hard to motivate locking her up at this point. Her back is bowed but unbroken. Age 75 As time goes on, she has less and less strength to keep fighting against injustice, but she remains and example to many others who continue the struggle to change the country for the better. Age 76  For the last months of her life, she is nearly blind and almost entirely bed-ridden. After fighting a case of pneumonia for almost two weeks she passes away surrounded by her children and grandchildren, as well as many of those who looked up to her for inspiration. In her final moments she wishes she could have done more for her country, but as bleak as her life was, she doesn't regret a single thing. Hundreds of people turn up for her funeral.   Rasuna Irawan's final stats.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:02
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First of all, please compose your eulogies for Rasuna. Next, let's talk about where this LP is going from here: First of all, should we do another random life, or try our hands at creating a custom character? Secondly: Should the next run be done as I did with Yu and Rasuna with frequent thread votes, or decide on a general personality from the start? The second alternative would mean less frequent but longer updates, and probably make the lives go a bit more quickly. Give me your thoughts!
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Mar 21, 2016 23:03
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She never stopped fighting. She gave thousands of her fellow citizens a Rasuna live.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:12
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I don't know how much customization you can make. It could be interesting to see what the game would make of starting in a country that was in state of war in 2006. I assume there would be some unique events related to that? Obvious choices would involve Afghanistan, Iraq, DRC, Somalia, Turkish Kurdistan? Alternatively, is it possible to start in North Korea?
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Mar 21, 2016 23:16
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As for eulogy: Looking back at Rasuna's life and accomplishments, we can for once swell up with pride, rather than with goiter.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:19
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Rasuna: Iron will, iron gut, gentle heart. Not a bad way to be. steinrokkan posted:Afghanistan, Iraq, DRC, Somalia, Turkish Kurdistan? I'd definitely like to see a life in one of the nightmarish parts of the world, like DPRK, DRC, somalia too. Life expectancy there being what it is, it'll probably be a quick look before we go to another, fuller life.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:29
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Put my vote down for DRC. I don't think a goon-vote run could stay out of prison for more than a few months in North Korea.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:37
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As much a hero as the one after which she was named. Bowed. Bullied. Unbroken.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:48
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I'm interested in a North Korea run myself. Looking forward to three degrees of punishment. E: Actually I'm curious. Can you emigrate anywhere in the game because starting off in some first world country and leaving for North Korea sounds hilarious.
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Mar 21, 2016 23:57
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Can we do a Vatican run?
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Mar 22, 2016 00:12
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AJ_Impy posted:Can we do a Vatican run? ChaseSP posted:
I think the way forward is clear.
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Cathode Raymond posted:I don't think a goon-vote run could stay out of prison for more than a few months in North Korea. If we want to have the full experience of the Democratic People's Republic, we'd have to start in there. Camp 14 is literally something out of a dystopian nightmare. If I would read a fictional book about that place I would dismiss it, because it's unrealistically over the top. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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