A''ight

I've always thought it did, if your life wasn't  going well you could just off yourself and begin again.

...but then I suppose that's also why religions that believe in an afterlife also believe that suicide is a sin and won't get you a good afterlife, otherwise religious folk would be killing themselves all over the place.

Either being a good lad or a boring asshole.

You were the tea-sipping guy to me. Why'd you stop?

"Psychology isn't a real science!"

*gets shot*

Being Irish I'd guess, not much else. Maybe something to do with Plug DJ, but that doesn't really count as it isn't here.

General Orbei accepts Ireland's offer and begins sending the nation shipments of coal, iron, and peat through the soldier line.

With the first batch of cargoships built, trade is running at full, yet limited capacity with Mongolia via Norway. Various new food types are received, improving the average person's diet and reducing reliance on a single crop (although shifting this reliance to trading with another country. "Ah well"), while the mines dig furiously to fill Mongolia's demands for Iron and fuel, requiring a second coal mine to be founded in the South of Ireland for it's own uses while the one up north is intended for trading purposes.

Also, one of Tryptameme's pigeons which was sent to Ireland came back with notification of an interest in his discovery of diamond-studded armor. In response to this, he sends out a gift; 10 pounds of diamond studs for the Irish king so he may see the combat advantages himself.

Dan receives the studs and instructs one of his disliked aides to wear one while he begins testing the strengths and weaknesses of the armour. Much of Dan's jabs and strikes to the shaking aides' torso are deflected with ease causing damage to the iron sword, but where the studs are less dense (along the sides and bends in the armour), a few slashes fleck off the studs at the joins and became targets for his following strikes.

With the aide dragged away for recovery and the armour inspected further after being removed, Dan places an order with the Ethiopian empire for 500 suits of this diamond studded armour, with added notes for suggested improvements if possible. A payment is offered of several ships' worth of Coal and Iron for the suits, to be paid upon delivery of the suits, as Dan expects them to take time in their construction (and it gives Ireland's mines some time to build up a hoard of these materials for the trade in the meantime).

Reports from the offshore UIA have been positive for this year, with a total of 40,000 men in Mexico making headway in St. Brendan's conversion of the lands. Discoveries of an alcoholic drink known as "Tequila" created by the locals has been snapped up, which in the early days of it's discovery caused a few casualties due to the strength of such a spirit. St. Brendan intends to tax the locals in Tequila so they may keep their own money for whatever they need, while Ireland can build a trade off the alcohol.

Progress in the Canary Islands and North Africa have been also underway, with the first small landing party of 1,000 men making it to Mauritania, with early reports of a conflict in the lands north of it. Dan instructs the men not to interfere with whatever's going on over there and stay within Mauritania, and sends his foreign ambassadors off to discuss with Spain and England to figure out how further conquests of North Africa are to be considered to limit conflicts in the future.

At home, half of the 90,000 UIA defence force are stationed as footsoldiers, for now guarding ports and the construction sites of the castles-to-be across Ireland. 15,000 have been trained as archers to maintain similar defence of the coasts and cities, and of the best soldiers are picked out to become an elite guard, including defence of the King himself with special training and equipment to be administered. for the time being, these 500 are differentiated with a clover on the shoulders of the armour to signify their skills and loyalty to the King and Ireland. The remainder (29,500) are retrained as mariners for the navy, with further orders for sailing battleships to be constructed.

80,000 further soldiers have also been created, with specialised training underway for desert climates and warfare to be sent to North Africa and 1,000 to remain and rotate in the Canaries.

Military Assets
-200,000 strong UIA.
 
  -90,000 as home defence
    -45,000 footsoliders
    -29,500 mariners/naval personnel
    -15,000 archers
    -500 Elite UIA
 
  -80,000 in training for North Africa, expected to take 1 year until ready
 
  -40,000 in Mexico (55% converted)
  -9,000 in Canary Islands, to be moved to Mauritania over this year. Progress to be detailed next post or year.
  -1,000 in Mauritania (1% converted)
 

Foreign Policy
-Trade with MONGOLIA: Iron, Coal, Peat for Food
-Order placed for 500 suits of diamond studded armour with improvements suggested to ETHIOPIA
-Diplomatic relations sought with ENGLAND and SPAIN to discuss future conquests in North Africa. (see relevant coloured text above)
-Early shipments of Tequila to be sent back to Ireland for trade on total conversion of Mexico.

Domestic Policy
-Orders placed for more battle/solider transport ships, totalling 5,000 in 3 years

Fallout 4 and Cyberpunk 2077.

I tried to improve myself on here as a person, but it takes the other side to create progress as well. You can't just expect me to magically change and be all carefree and not "explode" Both sides have to contribute. And if one side doesn't contribute, I fall back into the same fucking habits again

This forum isn't a relationship (and what a fucked up one it would be if it was, right?) . If you can't handle the shit, get out of the manure and stop complaining that it doesn't smell like roses.

It's strange that you keep doing these threads expecting something to be different, when every single time it has only made it worse. You don't have total control over everyone else here and how they react, so threats are pointless and are only going to make it worse....again.

If you need a break, good, it'll lower your stress levels. But for god's sake, if this place is a massive shit hole filled with people you hate and set you off, don't you think it's time to retire from the forums?

You could still hang out with the good people on PM's here, and whenever this groups update thing is added you can always create your own here and control who you react with instead if it's bothering you so much.

That said, it sucks you have to do this. When you aren't raging with empty threats you seem an OK guy for the most part.

"Well, that sucks :/". Then carry on with my day.

Sorry if that's lacking emotion there, but frankly I don't know you or many others here terrifically well and I'm generally disconnected from any sort of sad news.

I assume she went off.

Who am I to judge or care why.

Dan admires the military parade of the newly created United Irish Army (hereby referred to as the UIA) along O'Connell street, saluting as they march past his statue. In these two years he has grown his band of leather-clad men into a capable fighting force, currently at 130,000 with chained iron armour and big 'ol swords.

In the next week 30,000 of them will be deployed to Mexico to aid St. Brendan's Mexican Conversion, though this means his ships will have to be upgraded to speed up the transport. For the time being, 10,000 have already landed at Mexico within the last year, with larger transport and battleships to be built to carry the remainder, with the old fleet of long ships to be converted into scouting vessels, supply ships, or scrapped altogether.A further 10,000 will be sent to the Canary Islands which will be used as a FOB until a landing force begins conversion of Mauritania in a year's time.

The remaining 90,000 will be allocated footsoldier, archer and mariner positions with the UIA's home defensive force, and stone forts to be constructed along the major ports and trading centres of the country including Tralee, Galway, Dublin, Cork, Wexford and Belfast, with heavier fortifications to be built over the next three years in Wexford county as a whole.

On the foreign front, Dan asks for parlay between the large ASIAN EMPIRE that has taken control of Scandinavia to trade Iron, Coal and Peat for food to supply the growing army abroad. After re-establishing contact with the ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE and the capabilities of the shiny stones offered earlier, Dan asks if a prototype sample of the diamond armour can be sent for internal weapons testing before consideration of a trade agreement.Dan also converses with his GERMAN EMPIRE allies to conduct similar trade as with China.

With the population growing a tad to rapidly for Dan to handle everything, he insists that the people of Ireland have a rest on the baby-making front for now. Growth expected to recede to just above replacement levels until a secure food supply is garnered.

What's going on:

UIA:
-120,000 soldiers currently available
  -30,000 to be deployed to Mexico over the next year
  -90,000 to receive extra training and become home defence force

-10,000 currently in Mexico
  - Total Conversion of Mexico: 20%

-70,000 soldiers to be trained and equiped within the next year
  -10,000 of these to be sent to Canary Islands
Total by next year: 200,000.

-The 1,000 cargo vessels/longships are to be decommissioned, with 750 larger sailboats and 500 cargoships to be constructed over the next 2 years.
  -350 sailboats to be built within the first year to allow continued transport of soldiers to Mexico.
  -150 cargoships to be built within the first year to allow continued (although diminished) supply lines and trading.

Domestic and Foreign Policy:
- Trade agreements sought with GERMANY, CHINA and ETHIOPIA (see relevant coloured texts above. Sorry, I know the colours are awful)
- Population growth to subside, expected population within 5 years to be 2,000,000.
-Defenses and fortifications to be constructed along important Irish ports and trading hubs to bolster against any unwanted visitors. Expected completion: 5 years.

And on a side note, are we "paged" with quotes if one country/empire begins attacking another?

To protect it from Chinese aggression and oil pipelines...

All in Canada's interest, of course.

The Kaiser also accepts the token of friendship.

In Dublin, a large drinking competiton is hosted in celebration, with Irish and German ambassadors, royalty and the like are invited to join.

Dan went on a bender again last night and has missed a bit. This time though he had some administrators keep things smoothly running, so he calms his hangover with more beer while he reads over his country's wellbeing:

-The Census done 3 years ago (Supposed to be Page 13) gave better population growths than initially expected. Population has since risen to 1.5 million. Ah, Catholicism...

-Shipments were maintained to Sweden with no ill-effects, though the recent tensions between Sweden, God, his lawyers and financiers have led to the shipments being stopped until it eases off. Nothing has been heard from The empires of England, Spain, or Ethiopia and so Dan tries a new tack. A shit ton of messengers sent to the rising German Empire, offering allyship. It makes perfect sense right? Two countries who make excellent beers.

-St Brendan finally reached America, though it seems some others already got there. Rather miffed at this, he decided to go south and ended up in Mexico, and sent for assistance in acquiring these fertile lands. The admins had obliged, and so the army for the last 3 years has been trying to conquer Mexico with St. Brendan spreading Catholicism. Progress has been slow, given the lack of a proper army, so there's only a small outpost. Dan intends to change that.

-The mining has been going swimmingly, and due to the lack of men to fill the armour the resource have been hoarded. Research into the properties and weaknesses of Iron have been carried out since, and so iron armour has developed to be chain linked and provide better protection, as well as improved, sharper weapons.

-The few men on St. Brendan's Island have grown a bit since their arrival, now with a small settlement founded there. The supply requests weren't answered by Spain and so admins pushed through supply ships carefully, taking a wide berth around Spain. Dan considers have a gander around the larger land mass to the East...

-Ireland needs a proper army to start spreading and making itself known, and a bigger one. A heavy recruitment drive is put through, with expected turnouts to produce 200,000 men capable of battle in 3 years, with 60,000 ready within the first year to bolster the home country.

-To help this growing army, much of the Iron and Coal mined will be drawn into the production of armour and weaponry. This will also take around 3 years.

What's happened? (RETROACTIVE):
-Population at 1,500,000
-America discovered, with slow conquest of Mexico
-Shipments to Sweden ceased due to unrest
-Shit-tons of coal and iron lying around
-Development of proper military equipment (Iron)
-Settlement on the Canary Islands
-Outpost in Mexico

What's underway (ACTIVE):
-Training of 200,000 men, with 60,000 within the first year battle ready. 3 years until total completion.
-Production and deployment of the military equipment for said men, similar time to complete.
-Conversion of Mexico: 5% Further conversion delayed for 1 year.
-Initial planning of converting Mauritania, West Africa. Conversion delayed for 3 years.
-Allyship extended towards GERMAN EMPIRE, with calls for talk to EVERYONE ELSE IN THE EU REGION.

On a side note - TBlocks, minor goof on the last map. Northern Ireland is also under my control.

Quote from: challengerX on June 04, 2015, 07:33:44 AM

LOL Remember when Kinder said he'd have a girl do a breathalyzer test before having sex?

What a permavirgin LOL.

To his defense, what sober girl would ever sleep with that fat fuck?

But who would sleep with him drunk when that fat fuck is shoving a breathalyser in their face?