Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
 

I would hate the day-to-day nonsense of the political process, but I actually find the business of government somewhat intriguing. The decisions about the rights and duties of people are difficult, but the challenge of making right decisions appeals to me.

However, in order to get to a position where you make such decisions, you have to spend a very long time engaged in tasks that don't actually have anything to do with making the right decisions. You have to convince at least 50+% of the people that you'd be good at it and their criteria doesn't have to be rational.

It's like trying to teach a class on ethics to a room made up of pre-teens, teens, collage kids and graduate students; all of which want different things out of the class and the majority of which can decide to throw you out whenever they please. Instead of doing your job, most of your time has to be devoted to doling out free candy and CCGs, keeping up with the "hip" lingo, making friends with the cliques in your class and placating those who feel left out.

It's no wonder Churchill called it the worst form of governance, apart from all the others.

Everyone has political views, even if those views are only "I'd like to live in peace with my family and one day save up enough money to travel Europe/buy a summer home/send my kid to collage/etc."

Slightly over 40% of the people in Iceland are broadly in favour. Slightly under 40% are violently opposed.

The differences between parties in Iceland are actually negliable. Everyone stands for pretty much the same things. There is a radical environmental party which pretends to be socialist, but it mostly appeals to kids who don't know any better. The largest parties have manifestos you'd be hard pressed to tell apart.

The difference, at least to me, is that the Independence Party has shown that they both mean most of their slogans and have the ability to carry out their promises.

Politics might be a rather silly game, but that doesn't change the fact that for the last twelve years, my country has gone from being deep in depth and caught in a skyrocketing inflation to being economically healthier than it has ever been before. This has happened while unemployment (traditionally linked to lower inflation numbers) has gone radically down and state interference in most aspects of our lives has gone down without any appreciable loss of servivces.

Results talk.

I don't listen to arguments that essentially boil down to: "It's unhealthy for any one party to be in power so long. It's time for a change."

I say as long as they're doing good, they should continue.

Football managers don't take star players out of their team just because others deserve a chance. They keep playing them as long as they keep delivering.

Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
 

It is not KROMM's way to rush anything. Everything will happen as intended, sometimes accompanied by an errata, but always at least 99 percent accurate. Hail our lord KROMM. Hail him without end!

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Icelander, you provide me with nice loopholes to turn this thread into another whaling thread, but I will resist, for the glory of KROMM.

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I just want to interject that I had a huge campaign issue yesterday I Pmed Kromm and with 10 minutes he had already given me a reply. You just can't find this sort of thing with other RPG's...every time this happens and he runs to the rescue I am amazed and must tell everyone. Sean Punch you are one helluva guy, you get Kudo's buddy (not the candy type) you deserve every good thing anyone ever says about you. (but not the zombies I have heard about....:P)

anyways...

HAIL KROMM

Ghostdancer

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Dude, I'd kill to have a few zombies. No, wait, that doesn't sound right . . .

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See Kromm controls the zombies....I have heard fourth hand horror stories about you games and the undead...

Ghostdancer

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Yes, but they tend to be sated by the stupid tourists. If you don't go swimming where you're not supposed to or bushwhacking near water holes, your chances of becoming Gator Chow are pretty dang low.

Funnelwebs, though . . . they're small, and can get into places like buildings, hotels, airtight anti-spider tourist containers, that sort of thing. And they want to, because they're out to get me.

And crocodiles can't hide in your shoes.

You know, I really wish my grandfather's fear of spiders hadn't rubbed off on me. I'm not as bad as he was; I'm of course joking up above, but he'd mean it durn near seriously. Still, they give me the creepy-crawlies in insensible ways, and so the thought of moderately aggressive, extremely deadly spiders tends to make me quiver a bit. It's a good thing my grandfather didn't know about the funnelweb when we went over there.

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LOL! Man whats wrong with you, I need to clean my screen from milk now...

Ghostdancer

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Insh'KROMM!

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For a given value of "live".

Insh'KROMM!

;)