NationStates Jolt Archive

Personally, I was bored (just got Civ IV) and was looking for an online nation game on google. NS popped up... and that's pretty much it. Poll to come once I see other responses...

Do you know, I honestly can't remember. :confused:

DFD told me about it.

I turned on my computer, opened my internet browser and there it was! Bold as brass, and sitting up begging for a biscuit.

Erm...the real answer is lost in the murky mists of time. I believe I was sent a link by someone, and decided to try it out for a bit. That bit is still going.

Do you know, I honestly can't remember. :confused:
It was only a year ago for you...at least I have several years to remember back across.

Personally, I was bored (just got Civ IV) and was looking for an online nation game on google. NS popped up... and that's pretty much it. Poll to come once I see other responses...

Someone on a music forum I used to visit suggested it so I joined and played my nation for a few weeks. Then I found the forum and now I haven't answered any issues for months and just use the General forum... How uninteresting.

Pigs can't sweat.

Back in early Civ III days, I was browsing the CivFanatics forum and caught something about someone modding their nationstates nation into the game. Curiosity piqued, I discovered an earlier incarnation of NS. In those days, I was Greater Oshawa.

I never posted on general, thus Greater Oshawa never lasted. This newest addiction has yet to dissolve however (thanks to NSG.)

Another player told me about it. I don't like to talk about him, he doesn't post on the forums.

My brother [the former nation Piratnea] sent me a link. He got bored and went away. I stayed.

I followed the weebl and bob link oddly enough “damn you Sweden!!!”

Pigs can't sweat.

so what do they do when it gets hot :confused:

It was only a year ago for you...at least I have several years to remember back across.

Ah, but it's much longer than a year. I only started posting in the forums about a year ago. I had a now dead nation a long time before that.

Last year in my web design class, some kids were playing nationstates on the computer next to mine. Since I was bored out of my mind, I decided to try it out and here I am today...

Another player told me about it. I don't like to talk about him, he doesn't post on the forums.

You follow every link people who you don’t like send?

edit: grammar curse reading my :p

Some guy in my English class (three years ago!) mentioned this website where you could create your own nation. I thought that interesting so I did it.

so what do they do when it gets hot :confused:

Roll in mud?

my husband sent me a link in email and said "you might be able to use this for homeschool", I made a nation, shortly after found the General forum (stupid side bar links) and now.....look at me. :( (yes, I did use it briefly in homeschool, my kid's nation died though.)

I was wiping my ass one morning... :rolleyes:

I have absolutely no idea. It would have been late 2003 when I first joined (previous nation), and I really can't remember.

Roll in mud?

From wiki: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs)
Pigs do not have functional sweat glands,[3] so pigs cool themselves using water or mud during hot weather. They also use mud as a form of sunscreen to protect their skin from sunburn. Mud also provides protection against flies and parasites.

Also:
Pigs are generally considered to be one of the more intelligent animals on the planet, being compared to dogs.[4] In one study conducted by a Pennsylvania State University professor, two pigs were taught to play rudimentary video games by manipulating a joy stick with their snouts while being rewarded with sweets.[5]

It has been shown that a pig's mood can be determined by its tail, if the tail is tightly coiled, the pig is happy. If the tail is hanging limp however, the pig is unhappy.[6]

According to a pig farmer featured on the television show Dirty Jobs, pigs dislike walking up, or walking down, any sort of stairs. During parts of that episode, pigs were seen being contained in an area not with fences, but with a single step.

I searched something on google (i don't remember anymore, it was a long time ago). but I found nationstates and started playing it during study halls. then the teacher's found out and said I couldn't play games in school. I brought it to the Principal and he thought it was a great site! he gave me and my friend permission to use nationstates, but as no one else in school really knew about it, that was as far as it went. great times

I was wiping my ass one morning... :rolleyes:

did you ever find whatever crawled up there and died? :p

did you ever find whatever crawled up there and died? :p

If I named names, that would be flaming...

Someone posted about it at another place.

Roll in mud?
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.

Some-where on the internet.

Ah, but it's much longer than a year. I only started posting in the forums about a year ago. I had a now dead nation a long time before that.
Ah, I see. You mean, you count your non-forum days as being part of the NS experience? Silly Philosopy...;)

did you ever find whatever crawled up there and died? :p

His head.

You follow every link people who you don’t like send?

edit: grammar curse reading my :p

He didn't send me a link, and I like him fine. But he plays NS without using the forums, it's embarrassing to associate with such lunatics :p

He didn't send me a link, and I like him fine. But he plays NS without using the forums, it's embarrassing to associate with such lunatics :p

That's what I did.......mainly though for the reason because every single time I tried the sidebar links, there would be a database error and a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" and I concluded that the sidebar links were for people of sufficient internet connection.

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was I roaming the interdimensional corridors of the netherworlds (not to be confused with the Netherlands) when I happened upon a plane of existence known commonly by its inhabitants as "The Internet". My curiosity aroused, I strode forth into this new world, and tripped over a political simulation game called NationStates. I enjoyed wandering the gamescape and conversing with my fellow userites. Eventually, the almight deity of this land, the great MaxBarry, called me forth to his service, and I became a Mod, the dread hand of order in a land that favors anarchy.

Either that, or a friend told me about it.

I found NS when one of my friends told me, who was told by one of his friends, who was told by one of his friends, and from then I don't know.....

After I got a new D-Link Card, and had more free time on my hands, I got into it....

Through Max Barry/Jennifer Government. Made a nation in the hopes of ruining some imaginary lives, then ended up in the forum thanks to a random abortion thread in the sidebar. Nothing attracts like a tried and true debate.

Some kid in my class interrupted my teacher's lecturing, so that's how I found out about NationStates. I'm glad that guy did it...My brain was starting to die.

I saw a friend using it at school. I asked her about it, and she explained it to me. I thought it seemed interesting, so I soon thereafter decided to try it out. This was about three months ago now. Ever since then, I've been addicted. :D

article in a magazine i think. if it wasn't that then fuck knows :confused:

Just a plain old search for country or nation simulation. I had found it maybe two years before that, but had no idea how to play it.

Heard about it from some friends in my clan on Kingdom of Loathing.

Someone on the automotive forum I'm a moderator at, www.fast-autos.net/forum, posted it and I joined up and never looked back.

Sykospark forums had a thread on it, so I tried it out. I haven't been to sykospark.net in years, I check NS daily.

Someone I once knew on a forum called www.ansemreport.com --a place I will never associate with again--let me know about it. One of the few decent things to come out of my membership to that site.

I found out through a friend of a friend who was doing a politics A-level. Thought it was a bit boring after a while and almost quit...until I discovered the forums. A cursed day that was.

Bah, this brings back memories of people who used to post here. Does anyone remember Chicken Pi? He was a fucking dude. Also, this prompted me to read my first few posts again. *shudder*

I found it at my semi-favorite chat site called GameTalk. Anyway I saw this post called "build your own nation" and my intrest peaked.

I found out through a friend of a friend who was doing a politics A-level. Thought it was a bit boring after a while and almost quit...until I discovered the forums. A cursed day that was.

Bah, this brings back memories of people who used to post here. Does anyone remember Chicken Pi? He was a fucking dude. Also, this prompted me to read my first few posts again. *shudder*

Yeah, I vaguely remember a Chicken Pi...

As for how I got here... I've been trying to remember this whole time I've been reading this thread, but to no avail. I'm just going to assume it was magic.

A kid in my German class mentioned it to me.

You know, I don't remember either. I'd tried out NS years ago, creating one good and one evil nation (Unogia and The Drej). But that was back before custom issues, and got tired of the same six pretty quickly. I also never really got into RP.

I somehow stumbled across it again just under a year ago (can't remember how). I created my nation, got recruited into the Liberalia region, and hung out there for awhile until it started going down the tubes. By that time I'd started participating here more often, and pretty much got sucked in.

When I was in 8th grade (8th!), I was really into politics. I was a conservative too. Eww. Anyways, a liberal friend of mine who I viewed as being really extreme politically (actually, I'm definatly more extreme nowadays) introduced me to NS, back in 2004. I was kind of bored with it at first, but then I discovered II (I was in 8th grade, give me some slack). And from II, came NSG. Really, I have to say that NS has had a huge affect on me. I've become a different person because of it. And I'm not just sucking up to you guys because I've only been here with this nation for 3 days. Really.

It all begins in the year 200X.... where x =/= 5,6,7,8,9.... I saw some people playing it..... I created a nation.... and promptly discovered the game was terrible. Then last year... I overheard a conversation about NSG.... it's awesomeness (but not addictiveness) was very well conveyed... even though that wasn't the subject.... and now here I am.

I saw a link to it on another forum for another game I don't play any more. ;)

I blame Steve Wright in the Afternoon that what brought me to NS

I was forced to flee Egypt and become a shepherd. I discovered a burning bush while tending the sheep. I approached the bush and discovered that the bush was on fire, but stangely, the flames did not consume it. Even more strangely, though, the bush spoke to me and commanded me to remove my sandals, as the land was considered holy. The bush then promised that I would live in a land flowing with flames and trolls.

The bush spoke the truth. Here I am on NSG.

A friend e-mailed me the link.

I now control his nation as a puppet. Mwahahahaha!




*Because he could no longer be bothered with it.

I discovered NS on the TT-Forums.

Four years ago on some random net searchings. But I did not register then, as I did not have a reliable and readily accessible internet connection, which can leave me internet-less for weeks.

Now that I have a stable connection, I joined NS.

porn site linked me here;)

i thought it was an exclusive site only disguised as a game.

seriously though, someone from cyberarmy.net mentioned it in the forum there.

My Arch-Nemesis pointed me in this direction...

There was this site called Crackbaby.com. It had weird news stories and entertaining links. One day I found the link to nationstates on there. Shortly afterward Crackbaby shut down. There is now a new site using that domain name now, but I haven't checked it out.

A classmate asked to use my computer to check his nation.
Started my own nation two days ago.
An ok place to practise on my english.

Do you know, I honestly can't remember. :confused:

Neither can I. I ... I've always been here, haven't I? I mean ... :eek:

My brother told me about this. Best thing he ever told me about. :)

All the cool kids were here...

All my friends... :(

At least, some of them. And they were talking about it one day I was around, so I got invited to their region. :)

None of them ever ventured into NSG though. And none of their nations exist anymore. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!! :eek:

Neither can I. I ... I've always been here, haven't I? I mean ... :eek:

*Waves hands all mysteriously-like*

Youuuuuuuuu have aaaaaaaaaalways beeeeeeeeeen heeeeeeeeere!

Google told me to join. It blackmailed me! Saying it could tell all my secrets to everyone! SO I joined NSG to repent for my internet sins.

My daughter was on it and told me about it. She's no longer playing, but I'm pretty much hooked

A friend told me about it at the beginning and I've been around ever since. Sporadically at least.

I followed the weebl and bob link oddly enough “damn you Sweden!!!”



so what do they do when it gets hot :confused:

They wallow.

I found out through a friend of a friend who was doing a politics A-level. Thought it was a bit boring after a while and almost quit...until I discovered the forums. A cursed day that was.

Bah, this brings back memories of people who used to post here. Does anyone remember Chicken Pi? He was a fucking dude. Also, this prompted me to read my first few posts again. *shudder*

Is that http://209.85.12.227/1381/85/emo/29.gif?

Some people at college were playing the game, so I decided to make a nation. Then I discovered NSG and subsequently ditched the game.

Is that http://209.85.12.227/1381/85/emo/29.gif?
Nah, this one was English, possibly a Cornish pixie. I remember him more than most cos we both spammed up the repeated Corrupt a Wish threads back in the day - I cut my first 2000 posts doing that. Those were the days, when moderation seemed less prevalent and the more spammy threads were allowed to live. *reminisces*

Personally, I was bored (just got Civ IV) and was looking for an online nation game on google. NS popped up... and that's pretty much it. Poll to come once I see other responses...

A friend told me about it.

Somehow I saw a link for it in the comments section of Rotten.com

Somebody way back when said, "Check this out!". I said, "OK!"

NS=Ocean
Me=Lemming

I used a divining rod. I set it to "willful ignorance plus the gall to be proud of it plus occasional brilliance and rampant hilarity."

I was led here by a friend.