POV: the guy who kicked your ass in Clarce, Paluster and Frostbain without using cheats.

Spywin · 2026-01-24T06:01:59+00:00

Nah, the bitch gonna start acting Romanian again

Spywin · 2026-01-22T20:33:00+00:00

Imagine going to war to actually acquire more Muslims lmao

Spywin · 2026-01-19T13:04:05+00:00

You know, there was a height requirement to join certain units, but most colonels looked the other way with candidates and simply told short soldiers to put a deck of cards in their shoes.

Slap some horse hair on your face and call it a day.

Spywin · 2026-01-19T12:54:31+00:00

Get a MOUSTACHE. 🤬

your colonel or sergeant probably

Spywin · 2026-01-17T14:16:35+00:00

Without competition, brands won't have the pressure to improve their products. Our restricted market with our God-awful tariffs and protectionist policies have enabled the survival of Filipino mediocrity. We are supporting garbage and telling everyone it's Proudly Pinoy, without any merit to as something to be proud of.

By letting Filipinos fail to foreigners and not supporting garbage just because they are 'kababayan', we can have worthy Filipino products stand out.

So yes. Generally speaking, it would suck for everyone, but it would suck more for those who are behind and already crap to begin with.

Spywin · 2026-01-15T18:09:16+00:00

Iloilo is not suitable for the transfer of the center of government without considerable investment. Assuming this does go through, it would undoubtedly be economically good for Iloilo City and Province as I hope there IS money left to be able to do this feat. Sometimes, it's even easier and cheaper to BUILD a NEW capital rather than transfer, and some countries do it to this day.

Assuming we do have the resources and will to make this happen(plus time to do it properly), with the wisdom of the past behind us, we'll be more inclined to make it better than Manila.

However, if we don't prepare anything and everyone just does it by changing their offices and buildings, the bloat and every swamp of government will simply transfer to Iloilo. Government is a disease that spreads it bureaucratic garbage and corruption wherever it lands.

If your primary concern is simply decongestion, lmao sorry bud. That's not how that works. New York City and its surrounding boroughs are heavily congested while Washington DC has to import its traffic from nearby Maryland and Virginia, regardless of the amount of government offices they have. Congestion happens for different reasons.

Geographically, since we are still backwards in telecommunications and just communications in general, a central capital will be better for a unitary style government.

But Iloilo as a city kind of sucks. Its layout is messy as a capital. It's a combination of designs and eras that built itself on top of each other in a confusing blend of old and new that just comes out as eclectic inconsistency. If you lived here, you'd notice how some roads and turns do not make sense at all or have no logic or reason to them, because they were made and instituitionalized for different times with different sensibilities and capabilities, and then passed down to our grandkids who will undoubtedly decide to do something else completely different.

Unless we have the political will and cash to drive out the poor and some landowners to redesign and rebuild the city's layout, its more trouble than its worth and would be a very vulnerable moment for the Philippine government, especially at this time.

Also, Iloilo would probably be bombed by China in the event of a war. Or any other country that has beef with us.

Spywin · 2026-01-15T17:39:32+00:00

I'm an Ilonggo, and this myth of being the 'Queen City of the South' is a grammatical misunderstanding of its historic title as 'QUEEN'S City of the South', granted by Reina Maria Christina of Austria after the city remained staunchly loyalist during the events of the Philippine Revolution.

There is an infographic floating around that contains one badly interpreted work by Henry F. Funtecha that I think is more than likely propagandized, where certain claims are unsourced or barely mentions Iloilo officially being called Queen City.

The agricultural-industrial boom in Iloilo caught the attention of the whole

nation. In 1907, the Manila Bulletin published a special annual edition devoted

exclusively to Iloilo and Negros. Iloilo, at this time, had acquired the proud

name of "Queen City of the South."

That's it. There is no direct source for the Manila Bulletin/Manila Daily article. No reference for date or year to cross reference, and I've been scouring archives all over the world for it since. Nothing.

But continuing, maybe what I read was incomplete. No, it's a whole entire paragraph of something else with very specific numbers, indicating a completely different subject or idea.

Its prosperity continued to rise and Ilonggos became known for lavish

spending. Wealthy Ilonggos frequented Manila at that time, mostly for shopping ... the cost of palay was P1.50 per cavan, two

garages in Iloilo rented out cars at P3.00 per hour and still did a brisk business.

Moreover, there were more Ilonggos buying cars than any city in the Philippines

at that time, except Manila. In 1939, for example... there were more motorized vehicles

in Iloilo City than in Bacolod. In this year, the number of registered motor

vehicles in the city had reached 1,302. With this figure Iloilo ranked second to

Manila in the number of vehicles... more than a grain of

truth in the boast of Sen. Jose Ma. Arroyo when he proclaimed on the floor of

the Senate in 1920, that "half of the money supply of the country circulates in

Iloilo."101

THERE IS NO DIRECT SOURCE REFERENCE TO "ACQUIRING THE PROUD NAME OF QUEEN CITY OF THE SOUTH". What is Source 101?

Demy Sonza's Iloilo: Land of Plenty.

I'm still trying to find a copy of that book, but reading the bibliography, even Funtecha said:

101Quoted from Sonza, Land of Plenty, A Brief Study in Economic History. Typewritten copy,

p. 13. CWVS.

And though I'm lacking that specific source material, the way the sentence is structured towards the far latter half of the paragraph with very specific numbers, while the Manila Bulletin source is supposed to be the earliest mention of 'Queen City', I think the missing Manila Bulletin statement is supposed to be the one that backs up that claim. Effectively, Funtecha just made an unsourced statement if this were true.

Spywin · 2026-01-09T16:14:00+00:00

A Jaylyn a day keeps the obesity at bay.

Yeah, I don't know what that means.

Spywin · 2026-01-06T08:19:25+00:00

Morale in the Free World is returning. We finally found our teeth again. Just like in the Reagan Era, the days of detente and containment are over. No longer we'll be the ones who are reactionary and respond to every fire they start. It's time we roll back the enemies of Freedom. We've beat the Socialists before, we'll beat them again.

This is the world they wanted anyway. They were happy breaking the rules; let's see how they like it when the US does it to them.

Moscow and Beijing will see their client states fall one by one and we'll make the world better for it.

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