Anna Richards

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Damocles, (flourished 4th century BCE), a courtier of Dionysius I of Syracuse, in Sicily, tyrant from 405 to 367 BCE. The courtier is known to history through the legend of the “Sword of Damocles.” According to the legend, when Damocles spoke in extravagant terms of his sovereign’s happiness, Dionysius invited him to a sumptuous banquet and seated him beneath a naked sword that was suspended from the ceiling by a single thread. Thus did the tyrant demonstrate that the fortunes of men who hold power are as precarious as the predicament in which he had placed his guest. Dionysius I, also called Dionysius the Elder, (born c. 430 BC—died 367), tyrant of Syracuse from 405 who, by his conquests in Sicily and southern Italy, made Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece. Although he saved Greek Sicily from conquest by Carthage, his brutal military despotism harmed the cause of Hellenism.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about this yet. Anyone in that market, can share personal experience from its pros and cons.

12 years ago, we went feet first into hell for the very first time. Happy Birthday, Halo 3: ODST!

I have heard a rumor, Jenkins left and took the site down with him? Is this true? How he left is kind of ambiguous and has always been based on who was asked.

I joined ONI when other ONI’s had merged in to look like a similar situation in an complicated answer. I recently resigned, just too busy to be gaming and want to prioritize my career but in leaving the community only few leaders were left from that time that have all kind of unlearned, relearned and continue to cycle in and out ideas. It’s very interesting to read that Navcom was brought together by more than the 3 known clans (105th, Fleetcom, NavSpecWar/Joshua O29) the idea of an all encompassing UNSC group with Spartans, Navy, Marines, ODSTs and anything else. Whereas ONI and the different groups that came together to what you see now was out of namesake and commonality. In an instance one community role played whereas another one wrote guides for Halo. One of the ideas that returns to our operational table every 3-6 months is an was a ONI that is united, a coalition or to some sense a federated group of groups. Made rules and some checks/balances but it takes a standard and right now most people cannot meet that standard, relative to activity on the website and simple communication skills. I’m not sure how much you can see here but ONI’s “branches” don’t really mean anything outside of how you want to be measured. The Navy is measured on social skills, partying game types and casual playing. Whereas Marine Corps. is measured in ability to do raids and team tact. Both reward players in tenure, but within those branches are UNSC units. In the years here it’s worked well but the branches/units only worked the best for teams and leaders that best fit our defined narrative. Some leaders, great people became too ambitious or would confuse the rest in pioneering ideas without communicating anything. As an example “patrols” are a thing only a select few know about where a team enters a lobby inspects the maps or assassinates a target and then move on to another lobby. That same word to someone else means nothing, because they are not as disillusioned or disconnected from playing Halo the actual way it is meant to be played. Something so embarrassing we should all be on the same page about. ONI is also hyper competitive, to the point I don’t think we have had allies and when we did they were very temporary. All of our partners/allies are in areas of the community where we don’t directly compete with them for people as a resource and technology which is just people again but with certain skills. Whenever another clan started recruiting they became an enemy because they would recruit from the same pool we are recruiting from.

Artificial intelligence to substitute actual human intelligence? Anyone need a thesis, or an idea of paper to write.

Has nothing to do with clans just on a marvel binge and trying to get my forum rank up.

So are you the founder of Navcom or is Joshua O29 the founder?

An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead... forever.

So I’m wondering why then Osman, do you think people copy us cut around some of the fat and are still unable to be lean and run? There are other ONI’s that work and some that don’t but they all kind of fall on the same sword. Everyone is lying to some sort of unnecessary amount, like where they came from but to even who they fought and winning battles against other clans. Like Fry’s ONI which is probably a more successful example is one where he allowed anyone to do anything within the confines of it helping other players, undoubtably it worked but once he helped too many players over and over again he got tired and would back away from the clan because people left to join bigger better clans, like Resilience or Valor. Fry lied about many things but the one thing he lied about that ended his group was that he can help them get better. Bane’s ONI which lies about winning games against other clans it’s never even scheduled a match with is kind of outside any kind of logic, like why lie about that and where you came from? He lies about so many other things too and I’m surprised no one has contacted local police to get him indicted. Shaw’s ONI which lied trying to steal Shawn’s identity and influence which is kind of crazy. Like he would watch when Shawn got off to start acting out his part, it was obsessive, his clans never even done anything notable but is again a bunch of 12 year olds following around a 19 year old+ guy. He would be cool if he stopped lying. Can’t think of any others, maybe Ned Rich? But he’s with us now so I won’t drag on with my comment.

What makes a clan good, share some ideas and thoughts. Drop an example if you have one.

So are we suppose to dispute this or something? Because he’s not wrong at all. That original posts from 2014 and I don’t see anything wrong with it. Also I think Team Beyond uses Invision did you catch that @Shawn4Japan

One of my coworkers will not stop texting me about GME, I know some of you are interested in the stock market so I am just going to copy and paste what he’s been texting me. Most of this is interesting but I frankly don’t care. — I realized this is all Reddit links he sent me when the forum did this cool embed.

Leaving Kabul and Afghanistan was apart of a deal The Trump administration made with the Taliban group. I think that the world is just a little shocked what our presence does when we leave a country who doesn’t want to fight for themselves. If you watch Biden’s latest speech on CNBC his stance is that of; US interests are no longer in Afghanistan.

This is actually a crazy story.

Some great wishes There is some consequence to most wishes but if your thorough enough it should be fine Like Osman’s 3rd wish could be that she inherits $1B but it’s taxed down and thereafter she has to live a secluded life under protection and can’t trust anybody anymore or Nemesis’s wish to be healthy could be interpreted as becoming allergic to any unhealthy foods, no burgers and pizza, ice cream which would kind of suck

Anyone else following the Olympics in Tokyo?

If a genie grants you 3 wishes, what would they be? For context, because Shawn will not let me live without it. In the 1992 Aladdin film, Genie explains to Aladdin that there are “a few provisos, a couple of quid pro quos” to his wishing, as he can’t have exactly any 3 wishes he wants if they fall under these categories: #1 Genie Can't kill anyone. #2 Genie can’t make people fall in love. This rule is confirmed twice in the film when Jafar commands Genie to make Jasmine fall desperately in love with him. And #3, Genie and can't bring anyone back from the dead. With this in mind if you were in this movie, or scenario what would you wish for?

It looks so good