if the season was shorter (not the current 90 days) would people feel motivate to play?


I honestly think that all WA leagues are bad because there are so too many of them. None of the WR people wanna pick other schemes that aren't roper based, no one in ONL wants to play anything other than inter.

The attitude of classic/allrounders has completely gone.

Hi Custick

Long time no see

HoS was the clan that i looked up to when learning my classic schemes, Link and Maxdamage from norway for the win!

Hi Steps

without opening a can of worms. How was the BnG scheme determined?

With all agreed schemes in HB, can the next step be ranks on 4.0 for the different schemes?

I agree with Komodo. He isn't trying to discourage conversations because the viewpoint is different to his, what he is saying is that when there are political discussions, there are toxic characters that just insult each other when opinions disagree. Having a mature debate is totally different to people insulting each other because their viewpoints are not aligned. I agree with komodo that certain individuals cannot express themselves without having to resort to immature and offensive comments.


On topic:

Skunk - you said about the vaccine affecting your DNA? This isn't true and the vaccine works using RNA technology. It cannot change or alter your DNA.

There are loads of medicines that are all based around gene therapies and 'personalised' medicine to someone's genetic makeup, I'm not sure if the RNA technology is of a similar method but we are not altering the genetic makeup of those who take it.

Here are some published scientific papers on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and RNA technology. I've not read any of them them, but I trust the drug development and scientific community responsible for them.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027906
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32466-1/fulltext
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/27/covid-19-vaccines-where-are-the-data/
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03504-w


Some of these sources even say there are still unknowns about the vaccine, but this type of research will help people form their own opinions and beliefs.







 

So why wouldn't governments around the world go back to the normal? Because it is not profitable. Why end wars? Why end terrorism? It is not profitable, fear drives it, and Covid-19 is pinnacle of profitability. CCP, WHO, EU, Globalists, Green activists, Big Tech, MSM, & Vaccine Companies, they are the real winners, while we run around as their guinea pigs. The Media, the driving force of the narrative, instructed by the overlords, and once you hear an alternate voice E,g by me, you laugh, & dismiss it. This is how they control us and want you to behave.

this is totally incorrect. The governments want their countries to be profitable and for the economy to boom. Money is the biggest driver and hopefully one day we'll stop focusing on profit (look at some of the economic beliefs of David Attenborough about sustainable economic models). The only reason why some western governments have not gone full lockdown is because of the economy. This is the political debate between conservative and more socialist parties, that governments who are conservative want fewer restrictions so the economy isn't badly impacted. COVID is causing huge economic recessions and governments are paying out of their pockets to bail out businesses and individuals, it is not in their interest to impose restrictions because they aren't gaining any profit from it that you claim they want.

If your argument is about control and governments restricting liberty as we prepare for the new normal, what is the motive behind this assuming I've convenience you its not a monetary motive?

Also, the countries which have the highest death toll and the ones which have imposed the least restrictions. Asia has dealt with the virus so well because they are so authoritarian. New Zealand had one of the strictest lockdowns and took advantage of being an island nation. Countries like Singapore and Taiwan which are so densely populated have been strict and protected lives and done the best, and now their economics are in a much better place because they live with very few restrictions.

The problem with COVID is that for most people it is symptomless and won't be deadly, but for others, it's a nail in the coffin. Like I said in an earlier post, it's not as easy as giving people the freedom to take their own risks, because its on thing imposing restrictions on things that damage yourself, like drugs are illegal when perhaps they shouldn't be in a pure liberty sense, but with covid, giving you freedom won't just put yourself in danger, it puts others in danger... Now the argument there is educating people on the dangers of covid and letting people choose if they want to venture out and risk close contact. I know people that have lived normally since the virus, going for meals out, the gym, they really don't care and are risk-averse, I know other people that wash everything down from the mail order supermarket and won't see a single other person and locked themselves away. You are right that the vaccine is one of many, this is a coronavius, the same as a common cold.

The biggest thing in society is accepting everyone is different, but being tolerant of those differences, I'm not sitting here and telling you that you can't have an opinion on this. But I can tell you I disagree with you, just as much as you disagree with me

The community is scattered. We have so many different schemes and unique sites that support these schemes. We have TUS forums, we have discord. We are spoilt for choice but with little activity in any of them for the community size to really feel like a sense of achievement of victory in winning a league or tourney. The closest i've felt to feeling good about winning something was the first season of WL, and that was short lived for different reasons, but it never got a playoffs which some of us thought would happy. There isn't any issues with wormnet activity and games being played and plenty of skilled players and great competitive games to be found, but we need them to all be tracked in one place to make something bigger IMO.

I really think we need to reform the WA community and try to all come together in 1 central place.

The reason the classic leagues worked so well all those years ago was that there was nothing else, now there are loads of games to explore, which is fine, but the issue is too may leagues.

I think TUS, ONL, WL (heard rumours of a mole shopper ladder too?) should all join together for 1 global league, supporting all those schemes. And then perhaps we may have some form of monthly playoffs.

ps. This is only assuming for those who enjoy competitive leagues.

what about those of us so oldschool like me and HHC who were playing wa online before replays?