SD.Net World Redux Comment Thread IV

[Siege]

Some corporate plotting, anyone?

You're on!

[PeZook]

Hell yeah!

I was thinking...digging up dirt on King Paul! Paparazzis! Massive lies perpetuated via billboards and Web ads!

[Shroom Man 777]

Shroomania should race too! What happened to our Trans-Siberian thing?

Rogue your ISDs can visit Shroomania fun and much shore-leave adventures.


GLAXOSHROOMKLINE!

[PeZook]

Hell yeah! Corporate dickery at its finest

And unlike in most cases, The People win this

EDIT: And San Dorado contractors stand earn EVEN MOAR monies from the joint Lucrelance upgrade project!

...which, ironically, uses CSR manufactured parts for the restartable upper stage. Hyper-capitalists letting communists earn a living?

THE WORLD IS GOING TO IMPLODE!!!

[DarthShady]

The race has begun.

The way I see it, you guys can write up a little something on how your team is doing(if you want) and then tomorrow, I'll do a finishing post and declare the winner. And no I won't be the winner.

Anyway, I still need a list of all those participating. My search-fu has failed me.

Also: Drug Wars.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

The race has begun.

The way I see it, you guys can write up a little something on how your team is doing(if you want) and then tomorrow, I'll do a finishing post and declare the winner. And no I won't be the winner.

Anyway, I still need a list of all those participating. My search-fu has failed me.

Also: Drug Wars.

Try searching for posts by me.

[Shroom Man 777]

Bah! Byzantine Anti-Shroomites!


Incidentally, Shroomania has awesome healthcare - since I'm a nuerse. I think Big Pharma sells stuff in Shroomania that aren't really important drugs, but shit they try to brainwash people into thinking that they need em. Stuff like steroids and products that make skin fairer, viagras and orgazmos, happy pills, and all other kinds of crap. Actual medicine would be fairly cheap.

Thanks to MOM!

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Bah! Byzantine Anti-Shroomites!


Incidentally, Shroomania has awesome healthcare - since I'm a nuerse. I think Big Pharma sells stuff in Shroomania that aren't really important drugs, but shit they try to brainwash people into thinking that they need em. Stuff like steroids and products that make skin fairer, viagras and orgazmos, happy pills, and all other kinds of crap. Actual medicine would be fairly cheap.

Thanks to MOM!

Well you know, your companies proudly carry on the Great Shroomanian Colonisation schemes!

Curse the Shroomanians and their Hedonism!

[Shroom Man 777]

Unless PeZookians and Byzantines start pumping out generic happy pills and OrGazmos, I think my Fungal Pharmaceuticals and stuff will be a-okay.

And I don't think generic drugs usually include stuff like anti-fungal creams (for sexually-transmitted fungal infections!).

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Unless PeZookians and Byzantines start pumping out generic happy pills and OrGazmos, I think my Fungal Pharmaceuticals and stuff will be a-okay.

And I don't think generic drugs usually include stuff like anti-fungal creams (for sexually-transmitted fungal infections!).

We have our own equivalents....

And we aren't as hedonistic as the damn Shroomanians!

[PeZook]

Erm, why would actual medicine be cheap? If big pharma can brainwash people into buying Super Duper Skin Texture Enhancer (diet supplement, totally works!), it stands to reason they can inflate prices of antibiotics and lobby doctors to prescribe them

Besides, GlaxoShroomKline doesn't even need to be Shroomanian in an age of globalization...

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Erm, why would actual medicine be cheap? If big pharma can brainwash people into buying Super Duper Skin Texture Enhancer (diet supplement, totally works!), it stands to reason they can inflate prices of antibiotics and lobby doctors to prescribe them

Besides, GlaxoShroomKline doesn't even need to be Shroomanian in an age of globalization...

Corporate headquarters still has to be somewhere.

[Shroom Man 777]

For all we know, Glaxo and Kline could be non-Shroomanians. I mean, crap, what kind of name is Glaxo anyway?

Hey, at least these corrupt CEOs won't be trying to assassinate key politicians and kings, rite?

[PeZook]

Corporate headquarters still has to be somewhere.

Yeah, but the name doesn't have to mean anything. For all we know, GSK could've been bought, sold, fused, split apart and sold again a hundred times

[Ryan Thunder]

Hey, sorry if I'm not supposed to post here, but I want in on one of these games; I just don't know how to play or where to start...

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Hey, sorry if I'm not supposed to post here, but I want in on one of these games; I just don't know how to play or where to start...

Well, looking into the STGOD Nation list might be a place to start. We will probably pick you a place somewhere in the world for you to flourish, or be someone's bitch if you so like...

[Ryan Thunder]

Thanks for your help.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Thanks for your help.

Do note that you are more than welcome to abandon the point system.

[Ryan Thunder]

Actually, one last question; where do I find out how this is supposed to work?

EDIT: Never mind, I'm just a wee bit dense...

[Coyote]

The Legislature has refused to ratify the treaty. "Off-Screen" I plan on having the Lord Fairfax use his powers as head of the Armed Forces to reduce the BWs down to the treaty levels as a matter of policy, though.

Which isn't going to stop a little bit of intra-MESS politics from spilling into the public theater as the failure to ratify is having repurcussions in my own internal politics The hawks in the Republican Party want to be pals with the OD no matter the cost, the Greens want the OD punished for failure to ratify, the Federalists want to avoid pissing off the Republicans who can and will attempt to force a no-confidence vote, the Whigs dont' give a rat's ass and Labour is still trying to figure out if its going to continue to caucus with the Federalists or not.

I, too, have capitalized on the mess in the MESS, and used the pharmaceutical treaties as fodder to add trouble as well!

[Coyote]

Erm, why would actual medicine be cheap? If big pharma can brainwash people into buying Super Duper Skin Texture Enhancer (diet supplement, totally works!), it stands to reason they can inflate prices of antibiotics and lobby doctors to prescribe them

Besides, GlaxoShroomKline doesn't even need to be Shroomanian in an age of globalization...

See my post. Make meds cheaper; counter by pushing panic to buy more and make up losses in volume.

They'll also connive together to make their proprietary tech more expensive as well.

EDIT: Don't forget-- a lack of international regulation. Chinese baby milk scandals, nyone?

[PeZook]

They'll also connive together to make their proprietary tech more expensive as well.

EDIT: Don't forget-- a lack of international regulation. Chinese baby milk scandals, nyone?

Oh yeah! I can't believe I didn't think of insane price gouging, which PolPharma will counter by industrial espionage, which is then exposed by well-paid paparazzi journalists, retaliated against in turn by state-run TV reporters doing stories on corrupt big pharma CEOs, only to get smeared in turn via ad campaigns countered by suits in civil court!

It's going to be glorious!

[PeZook]

Heh...

How do you start a branded generic drug line?

It would still compete with a brand, only it would be an umbrella one (So we'd get "GSK Pennicilin" rather than "Peniscin! AWESOME!")

But, hell. If it forces drug companies to compete with their own cheap lines of generic drugs, then the objective is accomplished

[Lonestar]

I'm kinda surprised Stas isn't throwing a fit at the name of the MESS exercise(which, of course, is just another shade of Red...)

[CmdrWilkens]

I'm kinda surprised Stas isn't throwing a fit at the name of the MESS exercise(which, of course, is just another shade of Red...)

I'm more suprised that your staunch ally Wilkonia is the only one making noise about repudiating the Bioweapons treaty and planning an annexation of the ICA