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[UPDATE] New Article at The Sentinel (April 12th)

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I didn't know this word , just in case this helps:

anachronism:

1# The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.

2# One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).

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if we keep making new threads every time a new article appears were gonna have a huge number of threads -- that why it was quoted from elsewhere

still i spose we could just keep flipping between threads

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[DogsHead]

New Article at The Sentinel (April 12th)

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No clue. I've searched for everything I can think of and can't find it.

[erekose]

[lotusflower]

I agree.

If I update the forum page and don't see any new topics, I won't check every thread in case I've missed one new post. Whereas if I see a new topic about an update, I can get on the case and start looking at it.

But now we have a thread about the etiquette for starting new threads ...

[PuzzledPineapple]

Is it me, or is it a bit odd for a city council to make defense decisions? Usually it would be the country's government. This seems a pointer to PC perhaps being it's own state/country/independently ruled thingy.

[StarryNight]

I agree with putting each update in a separate thread - the postcard thread was getting unmanagable. However, I think that the threads should reflect the stories that were added, for example "Update:Sentinel:Defence Budget(April12)". There could be a general thread for stories that we only get headlines for, another for letters and another for futures?

Also, I agree with PuzzledPineapple - sounds like Perplex City is a city-state controlled by a city council. Also, this is not a utopia future without conflict as wars must still exist, even if the city is at peace right now.

[Scott]

Ok, so Perplex City is more like Perplex City/State. unsurprising, really. They have their own currency, their own postal service which issues their own stamps, and now their own military.

It's a fFunny world we are painting. There is one giant mega city which seems to have one major university and all the technology in the world. Elected officials include "Leader", which appears to be head of the executive branch.

So in some ways it's like any other quaint fFictional city. It's not clear where the city is, it's just, you know, The City. (like the matrix, or teenage mutant ninja turtles -- why didnt shredder ever bother attacking any other fFreakin city in the world? in the cartoons, he was at the center of the earth but always drilled up in this one poor city! what a mook. And april o'neal with channel 6 was always there to cover the story, too!)

[erekose]

Historically, city councils have been very powerful, even when the government is a monarchy (Londons city council, comprised mostly of merchants and guild leaders,at times raised it's own army, loaned funds to the Monarch, and even forced him out of the city when he did something they didn't like.). I wonder if the council is(1) a full democracy with popular elections,(2) a collection of leaders elected by rich merchants and the guilds like Londons, or (3) a consortium of powerful families like the Italian republics. Personally, I think a mix of 1 and 3 is most likely, with a selection of families with enough money to fund their campaigns trying to obtain the poorer masses vote. It leaves a lot of room for political intrigue, which is the main reason i like it.

[Seej]

Don't forget we have a history of powerful city-states here on Earth - The Ancient Greeks used to have them, and currently we have places like .va and .mc (though technically Monaco is a principality, not that I understand the difference......). No reason why PPC couldn't be the same.

[dopefiend]

This whole city vs country thing doesn't seem a big deal to me- As Scott says it's

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ok im wrong bout separate section for sentinel threads -- thats cool -- im often wrong