The following message is my personal understanding. I am not a current Paradigm leader nor do I speak on behalf of Paradigm.

That said, there's no actual drama. Since Doug owns the PDM Discord server, he has repeatedly deleted posts and would gaslight people. He's deleted whole conversations, deleted a forum that funnily enough was for members to speak their minds, repeatedly went against Drow (who is President). He's been accused of running multis and of giving out country numbers to suiciders (these allegations haven't been proven, but given his erratic behavior, it's believable).

There is no actual drama, no coup, nothing like that. Drow is exercising his authority as PDM President to remove Doug from leadership. Since Doug owns the server, that unfortunately means moving to a different one where he doesn't have any authority or control.

The new Paradigm tag is the official one run by Drow. The old PDM tag is still run by Doug - we're waiting for those members to move over to the official one at this point.

If Doug were to resign from his position and aid in a painless transition, he would be allowed to join back up with Paradigm with the understanding that leadership roles are forever off limits.

So no drama at all, just a bit of spring cleaning.

Once again, this message is strictly my own understanding and is NOT an official Paradigm communication nor stance.

Paradigm is the actual Paradigm tag now, so have at it!

There's a reason BlackHole was impersonating me!

o7

Just so we're clear here, this is NOT a coup in any way, shape or form.

Drow is President of Paradigm. It is his right to remove any leadership position as he sees fit. I won't get into the whys or what happened - that's up to Drow as leader of Paradigm.

I just wanted to clear the air that this is definitely not a coup, because Drow is still President of Paradigm. I won't address the silly conspiracy theory nonsense.

Cheers.

On behalf of cult leader Drow, all your land are belong to us.

Wait BlackHole you ran multis??? I've no sympathy for you anymore!

This may come as a shock to most of you, but I didn't list my country above, this is in fact mine:

The Arabian Nightmare (#481)

*surprise pikachu face*

Say one thing for Josey, she/he/they know the difference between libel and slander!

I'm on Team Josey now. SuperFly must apologize immediately!

Doug is gatekeeping 69ing now??? When did that become a gay term??

He's lifted the temp ban, so don't send any more chems to Doug. Just nukes.

Not sure about Mercs, but SOL have historically been trigger-happy and will start a fight over nothing, or even because they're simply bored.

You should let the Free Market decide your fate!

Pffft are you Head of AT, hmmmm?

Doug gave me a temp ban on Discord. Send all your chems to him!

Jesus H.W. Christ, I've been here a week and we already have:

1) A person who can't let the past from another server go.
2) A person who keeps bringing up the Free Market as if that applies at all to this crappy game.
3) A person talking about NPC virtue signaling.
4) A squabble between clans that seems pretty petty and somewhat personal.

...I've missed you, AT.

As spiritual leader of Paradigm, I've decided to give back to the community. The following countries can be considered farmland:

The Arabian Nightmare (#481)

You're welcome!

This message approved by TAN.

-TAN

[NOTE: This post has been edited to remove the random-ass country names I put in here because people be complaining for some reason. I've put mine instead.]

Well fluff.

Slagpit is so dumb when someone asked him about his family tree, he went outside to look for it.

NEXT!

You can't spell SmeLly AGed armPIT without Slagpit!

Check. Mate.

You can't ban TAN! I am unbannable, you NFC-loving Swifty!

Slagpit is the Cyber Truck of EE.

I think it is understood that you are generally dissatisfied with Leto. I feel what people are taking issue with is the ubiquity and frequency of your dissatisfaction.

I've been on less than a week and it's becoming apparent that this behavior is almost obsessive, and you may want to at least consider tempering your frustration for your own mental health.

There's been people similar to what you allege of Leto in the past where there's been spirited debate about their involvement with certain clans or the the game itself, but I don't think I've ever seen a situation where every single post from a particular user was aimed specifically at someone else.

Maybe use the bonus thread to post once a week about how Leto is an asshole, and let that be the end of it?

Suicidal is still stuck in his nihilist edgy teen phase.

What specifically was said, and do you have a screenshot of it?

For those like me who refused to read that wall of text, this is what ChatGPT gave me when I asked for a one-sentence summary:

The speaker cautions against the game adopting the censorship of Old Twitter, advocating for the Free Market of Ideas to naturally regulate discourse within the game, arguing that outside of criminal activity and threats, it will effectively manage and balance speech without the need for censorship or intervention.

Okay Spez!

BlackHole, question for you: How long have you been playing this game? I ask because I've been playing since like...2003ish? And it's ALWAYS been big alliances picking on small ones. That's just the nature of the game. Unfortunately, as the player base diminished, that sort of behavior deterred newer players from sticking around.

But what you are rightly pointing out as toxic is a part of the game that's always been there. Bigger clans using smaller ones as landfarms has always been the case. When I first started out, and before I joined PDM, I too was a landfarm. Sucks, but that's just how it is.

I see. I'll look into this a bit more.

And despite what Leto may or may not have done, he's no Ivan or Mr. Pink!

Despite being allies for forever, LCN declared war on for some reason I can't recall, and the rationale was complete bullfluff. And this was AFTER I visited him in Chicago and got hotdogs with him!

Paradigm will never have another leader like good ol' TAN! :D

On a more serious note BlackHole, if I'm reading your posts correctly, you are accusing Leto and Doug of running multis on the Team server?

If you had the receipts, are you saying the game admins did nothing about it? Was it ever proven?

(I've been out of the loop for the last few years)

You know what? If anyone wants to do a KR on SoF, count me in. I'm still bitter as hell at them, LaF and LCN (Purposeless' betrayal will never be forgotten!).

Drow spells gud.

I invite all of EE to join me in killing him next set! We shall kill him until he dies.

How do we ban BlackHole?

okay can we do something about this workaround? this game is dying, just award us the free turns without forcing the engagement. these blank posts are useless.

You son of a fluff, if you impersonate me again, I'm going to stick a nuke up your ass and launch you at LaF!

I heard about you, you bastard! If you have to impersonate someone, make it Mehul Patel!

I mean he's not wrong, this is a game of nostalgia for the old players. Why would any new player join a text-based game like this?

Well that leave of absence didn't last long!

*probes Doug*

where is mrford

If llaar is playing then you should have all the players you need!

*runs*

*probes galleri*

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Khwee!

Wishing you a speedy recovery, ford!