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[Seperallis]

"My Russian salad is annexing the entire refrigerator now."

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Community rules adopted!
After a long month of closed door discussions between admins, the new, flashy, fancy, shiny community guidelines were rolled into the light of day with much fanfare! The new guidelines were longer and more in-depth than the previously sparse set they were designed to replace, which had been criticised for a lack of both clarity and substance. Authors of the new ruleset spent a month drafting a document that answered formerly ambiguous questions of forum etiquette, rule enforcement, and administrative authority while community staff debated the finer points of the new changes.

Finally, the community released the final draft of the new formal community etiquette in early August for public comment, receiving substantial praise and some spurts of criticism from members of the community; the greatest criticism came from minority voices, who voiced concerns over the new "authoritarian" direction of the community administration. The official thread for comment remained silent of comment and criticism however, signaling the public's consent, and so the newly re-written regulations were quietly adopted after the deadline for comment passed on the eve of the 28th August.

Implementation of the new rules has gone over quietly throughout the community with surprisingly few hiccups during the transition, most of which remain related to new etiquette regarding the forum chatbox.

The oddly curious can view the new Eternity Community Etiquette through this link, but...why?

Forum roleplay map revamped!
While forum admins were gripping with the challenge of rewriting the rules, The Linear One, His Most Esteemed High Majesty, Lord of Creation, King Alldays (long may he reign) spent literal minutes improving the community'smodern roleplay map! Previously using a gradient, grey-scale map for topography with gaudy vibrant colors for countries, the new map makes use of super advanced alien AI to create super detailed height maps. Almost tens of people worldwide were nearly whelmed from the intense graphical changes, and now so can you, too!



How positively wonderful! The Benevolent One has once again blessed us with the Glory and Power of His creation!

Other News

• New forum formatting tweaks correct aethetic displeasures that no one knew they needed.
  
• Virgin sacrifices to the Linear One reportedly on the decline, due to sudden lack of virgins to sacrifice.
  
• What are frogs?
  
• Much loved members return from military training. Well done! Welcome back! Way to go!
  
• Super secret forum playground for admins and their helpers under consideration. Shh, it's a secret.
  
• New forum banner styles under consideration. Is a new logo to follow?
  

Dying New Galasia
The story of revolution in Galasia continues with the near-collapse of Galasian regime forces to the Angirisian incursion. A war that started with a military overthrow of the country's government and monarchy, the Near East country of New Galasia has seen itself embroiled in the cauldron of civil conflict in its eastern enclave of Eastmarch for the last seven years as the local population used the coup in the west as a pretense to seek seek independence and their disparate other aims.

Angiris has intervened in the west, hitting the "illegitimate" military regime forces in a hard, powerful thrust south and west to end the supposed "government" and restore order to the chaos on its border. But, as Angiris focuses its attentions in the west, the fragile detente between militias in the east is broken when groups make final pushes to claim as much power and land as possible before the coming, inevitable talks of peace...a storm before the calm. What will come of the people in the East, especially when strong doubts still remain that the Angirisians really intend to give the Rojadavi their due independence?

Amrun stood stark still in a line with several older men, his rifle shouldered in the usual pseudo-military fashion his trainers had drilled into him over the past weeks. Short and wiry with a baby-clean face, he contrasted greatly with nearly all of the other men, the stocky men, the bearded men, the men with leathery bronze skin from decades of toiling under the hot Galasian sun.

Throughout his childhood, Amrun listened silently to the hushed discontent of his fathers, his friends' fathers, his grandfathers; the humiliation of using foreign words to talk about your own home, the continued occupation from the western pocket of the "country," the second-class treatment and constant reminders of subjugation and who your "betters" were. The antagonism was constant, yet fighting against it was pointless, as you had no rights, you were just mules to put profits into the pockets of western imperialists. You were expendable, a worthless brown savage in a savage brown land.

Not that they would do anything about it, of course. At least, not until the coup.

>> Read More Here <<

Other News

• Millerainia aggressively fights its lowest population growth in history with new Purposeful Family Program.
  
• Largest worldwide sanctions package leveled on Belayazimiya for being completely ridiculous.
  
• Goldecia descending further into self destruction, with racist calls to "breed out" select skin colors in a futile effort to fight racism.
  
• Oslanburg saves the whales...for your dinner plate!
  
• Kazemura men's football team signs legendary Florinthian player & coach Doug Greene. Yay, sports!
  
• Hushed rumors of impending West Brigidna integration amongst the hallowed halls of power, which would create one of the largest social, political and economic power blocs on the continent.
  

Eclipse fever grips Eternity
It's not every day That one gets to see an eclipse live in person, and in its totality. All to often the weather gets in the way, or we have schooling or work that prevents any viewing. Most commonly, the event just takes place somewhere far outside of where we live. The most recent one, however, captured the attention and imagination of many Eternity members several months in advance, with discussions taking place in June and some members researching long before even then. Excited viewers from across Eternity anxiously awaited the 21st of August.

With the cosmic event now behind us, certain people keep reminiscing. You can reminisce with them!



Statues, Idols, and Symbols ~~ Oh My
Recent events in the real world - or rather the US, same difference, really - have sparked several fervent debates across the community regarding several topics that have crept into the national consciousness. Mr Flo, ever interested tryign to understand different points of view, has opened several points of discussion on these topics in the Gentlemen's Club as an effort to get people to explore their positions further. Will the discussions stay that way? Who knows; in the world today, it's become increasingly uncommon to be able to hold a rational, respectful debate between two people of opposing viewpoints, as too often people nowadays forget that they are nto the sum of their opinions and get weirdly irate at the thought of not being entirely in the right.

But we in Eternity care. Yes, we believe, even despite our own failings, that proper discourse can still function to bridge our cultural and ideological divides like it used to do so long ago:

So it's more or less in the subject title and the photos above. In recent years, there has been significant pressure regarding confederate statues, flags, symbols, etc. in the public sphere. While there has surely been dissatisfaction with confederate statues, flags, symbols, etc. for some time, this came up significantly in 2015, when there was significant backlash regarding the confederate flags being used atop government buildings and in other public spaces, and since then has grown to encompass all sorts of confederate symbols and statues.

In the years since, confederate statues in particular have gotten a lot of bad press, and it seems every month or so there's another mayor announcing their city will be taking down statues or removing symbols from government spaces, parks, etc. Even streets names after significant confederate leaders have been targeted.

This topic will be available for members to discuss how they feel regarding the subject of Confederate symbols, flags, statues, etc. Feel free to rebut, discuss, confirm, debate, all you'd like. I get that there are significant branches this discussion could take that aren't all on topic, so try to stay as close to the primary topic as you can, which is the confederate flags, symbols, and statues and primarily their removal/defence, etc.

>> Read More Here <<

Other News

• Diplomacy game on temporary hiatus as its players both begin jobs and travel to exotic locales.
  
• Sep & Sal's Birthweek Poetry Party Blowout Bonanza Mega Deluxe Slam Jam both begins, and ends. It was only a week, after all. Geez.
  
• Plague Inc is kinda cool, I guess.
  
• Do you even lift, bro?
  
• Flo floats the idea of a monthly research op-ed periodical podcast.
  
• Q3 2017 Eternity Authors' Challenge enters its final month, ending 30 Sept.
  

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