Rill wrote: HonoredMule wrote: Yes, what kind of horrible person takes pleasure at another's misfortune? You don't watch Daffy Duck, do you? Honestly, I've always hated those cartoons, even as a kid.  Didn't see what was funny about them, just made me feel sad.  Obviously this is something lacking in my character since other people see the humor.  I felt sorrier for Wile E Coyote than I did Roadrunner, though.  Seems like everyone was on Roadrunner's side.

Nothing is missing in your character. Need more people like that, people that can relate to others. Just because it is a game, doesn't mean it is right to take away someones hard work.

HonoredMule wrote: Yes, what kind of horrible person takes pleasure at another's misfortune? You don't watch Daffy Duck, do you?

Yes, what kind of horrible person takes pleasure at another's misfortune?

You don't watch Daffy Duck, do you?


Only our sense of self-preservation allows us to hold the delusion that we and thus our respected peers are above such cruelty.  But we are never so far removed from it that we cannot be persuaded by the right circumstances to enjoy another's misfortune.  It is that same sense of self-preservation that ensures we accept some threshold at which another must be stopped even if we do not enjoy their destruction.

Look at every single conflict that has erupted on the public forums and you will always see two things: greed, and fear.  What's more, you always--without exception--see both of those things in at least one involved party, and in some of the "neutral" 3rd-party responses.  Either one alone is sufficient to bring accounts to utter ruin, though that needn't necessarily happen most of the time.

It's good to see that people are coming around on the subject of King Sigurd.

PirateKing wrote: I think you will find that the rise in tension is directly related to King Sigurd.  I recently observed his henchmen dumping barrels of toxic waste in the land's water supply.  I fear this is the cause.  We can prevent this if all of you start buying the bottled water from my port town.

You and Rill will end up on my fly by list if you keep promoting people to settle in the wastes. Everyone knows that the wastes has fresh water year round. Trying to paint Sigurd to be the bad guy, maybe its the Pirates that are trying to get everyone away from water sov. >_>