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Okay. After some thought, I'm pretty sure some of us are taking Wax's admonishments too hard.

We should be ashamed of our behavior with Fernando/Prophet. We messed up there, and that's something we've largely owned up to. Similarly, we should be concerned about how we're treating the cats we still have. We seem to be doing okay right now, but we can't be careless.

But Wax is mad because we're bad at the game, and that? That's something we shouldn't give a damn about, even if our continued existence depends on it. Especially because it's Wax's concept of the game he's upset about. We never signed onto that, we just want to do good by the cats.

That's why we shouldn't go telling everyone we're the worst. Own up to making this happen, sure. But don't apologize. We did something stupid that we thought was only going to affect us, and not even meaningfully because we kept the knife in our own space. It was Wax's decisions that gave that the consequences where everyone gets a knife.

I pointed out he didn't give us another warning because the consequences weren't obvious. We could have guessed the knife might result in admin action, sure, but it wasn't a sure thing and we certainly had no reason to believe it would give everyone else a knife. Heck, Wax's over-the-top reaction to it more or less proves it was a bad idea for his rules to work that way in this specific ridiculous situation.

Forget Wax. If he allies with us, we just do what we can to screw with him more, preferably while breaking the game by getting as many cats as possible out of the line of fire. This is his mess more than ours.

I've got no preference on TCP type or on whether we try to join another alliance. I just thought it was worth stating that on further reflection, Wax is full of it.

Are we bad at the game? Sure. Is that a meaningful failing? Hell no. We have one major failing and we've owned up to it. Everything else is just a matter of us not living up to Wax's standards, and who cares about that. Let's aim to live up to our own standards instead, and make those standards worth a damn.