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GUEST COLUMNIST SERIES: 1. The Best Negotiator
The “Guest Columnist” series was a spoof series I created using caricatures of politicians or commentators. Some will be well-known to everyone; some infamous in the UK. I’m sure you’ll be able to recognise most! Ronald D Fayke If you want to win at this game, this great game, a game like no other in…
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Evolve to Survive
In the first two issues of 34 I’ve examined articles from Richard Egan and Stephen Agar on the state of the Hobby. Here, I give my assessment of the Hobby today and the future. Does the Hobby still exist? Is there a future for the Diplomacy Hobby? Questioning the viability of the Hobby is something that many…
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Still Here!
“Well, it is five years since Richard Egan wrote that article and we are all (mostly) still here.” As opening lines go, this isn’t the most positive one could be but, given that the author of “Why Richard Was Almost Right”, Stephen Agar, shared some of Egan’s concerns, perhaps that is as good as it…
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We’re Doomed!
Private Fraser lives and breathes in all of us. If you live in North America, the chances are you won’t know what I’m talking about. Private Fraser was a character in “Dad’s Army”, a sitcom broadcast in the UK in the late 1960s and throughout most of the 1970s. I watched it as a kid. It was usually…
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Play Diplomacy Online!
It had been a while since my last dalliance with Diplomacy, but one day I thought: ‘I wonder…’ What did I wonder? ‘Is there a way to play Diplomacy on my PC?’ And there was – thanks to Hasbro’s computer game. However, I quickly realised that this was not the way to go. If ever there was a waste…
