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• 28Nov 09

  R.I.P. -Oath =(

  Today, I was perusing System Wars, when I saw this topic...

  Apparently -Oath, one of the first people I added here on Gamespot, has been banned. He was one of the most open-minded people on System Wars and someone who always carried himself with respect and dignity, even to the worst trolls. He was an oasis in the logic-barren desert that is System Wars. -Oath was one of those rare posters who people genuinely looked forward to having an interesting conversation with, rather than the typical SW arguments.

  -Oath, I truly enjoyed the past few months I had with you..you were a great poster..and friend...I'll see you in GS heaven soon, I guess. If you ever decide to come back, please contact me. I sincerely hope GS made a mistake and you get the ban reversed..

  Let's now have a moment of silence for our fallen martyr..

  *moment of silence*

  R.I.P. -Oath

  • Posted Nov 28, 2009 9:02 am PT
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• 10Aug 09

  Risk Destroys Friendships

  

  This happened to me a few months ago, but it's a pretty good story. I was playing the board game, Risk, for the first time with some of the people from my dorm. If you don't know what Risk is, it's a game where you are in charge of an army against the other players (who have armies as well) and you try to take over the world.

  I was in an alliance with one of my good friends and he had all of South America and I had all of Africa. So what happened was he turned in his Risk cards to get about forty five more people. But guess where he decided to put all of them? RIGHT ON TOP OF MY WESTERN BORDER! I was like, "Wtf, I thought we were in an alliance. You better move those troops off my border because I'm feeling a little threatened right now."

  The thing is, he didn't move it! So what did I do on my next turn? I was really annoyed at this point so I'm like, screw this alliance. I turned in my Risk cards as well, and got FIFTY more troops. I dumped them all onto my Western border (which already had about fifteen troops there already). I broke the alliance and obliterated the army he just got with his risk cards. Then, I moved into South America and took over everything (most of his troops were concentrated on that border so it was easy to take over after that).

  Although I fully expected to win, I did not expect to see how ENRAGED my friend would become. His face turned completely red and he starting cursing me out and kept going on about how he can't believe I betrayed him. He was like, "If you were going to betray me in this game, it would only be a matter of time before you stabbed me in the back in real life." At that point, I was like WTF and we argued about it for the entire night. If we weren't at school, we most likely would have ended up in a fist fight.

  After that, we didn't speak for an entire week because we so mad at each other.

  I felt so inspired by this event, that I even wrote a poem for my writing c1ass You can read it if you want:

  This game is going to take a while
  We agree to help each other, putting on our biggest smiles
  Eventually, my friend becomes weak and poor
  If I destroy him now, I will win the entire war
  To break my friend's trust
  In order to win, this is a must
  You know this alliance was always a fake
  Should I play as a saint or a snake?
  Burying my conscience, I coldly said
  "I'm going to be the king, so off with your head."

  I told this to some of my friends, and they told me these horror stories about how they would get into fights with their families over this game. So anyways, do you have any similar stories regarding Risk or am I the only one? Feel free to discuss.

  FYI, my friend and I are completely fine about it now. It took us a while to cool off and realize we were arguing over something so stupid lol.

  **Picture is courtesy of GabuEx**
  

  • Posted Aug 10, 2009 10:15 am PT
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