I turned 25 today. I think some "younger" people have the expectation that when they get to be this age, they'll no longer be a dumbass and have their shit together, but I can now speak authoritatively and tell you that's not true.

Wisdom comes from experience though, and unless you're fucking up you're not gaining any wisdom. That said, hopefully PhysicsGamer is figuring a few things out right now.

When Temporal Isles left Icenia, the immediate reaction of *most* people was to fuck them up. We had every reason to. PhysicsGamer had joined the war effort, told Gregy165 that he wasn't fighting the war correctly, and then went back to Temporal Isles, declared himself a "noncombatant", and essentially gave a bunker over our Northern Portal to Rhode Island under the guise of "protecting it". To be blunt, I would have rather Rhode Island just glassed the thing.

Most people didn't know this though. We didn't feel the need to tell anyone and I would have hated to see Physics pearled by Estalia or someplace else over something he did out of stupidity rather than ill-intent.

So, Physics went and became friends with Valyria out of necessity for trade. This was a smart move quickly squandered by certain individuals who are also dumbasses. Without naming names, they're the guys who owned the nation that rhymes with BARN and ends with EN. They were also, rightfully, put on their ass for a hot minute because they couldn't figure out that in this game tomfoolery often leads to overcomplicated consequences and in worst case scenarios, sever ending wars.

But in his infinite wisdom, PhysicsGamer decided to invite *ahem* ChosenTwiceLOL, the Estra kiddos like Sombra, Achudemic (cool guy by the way) to a bunker located 50 meters from Icenian soil used for a lot of our EXP production, which quickly became a shit vault.

Naturally, given that Chosen and I have this weird beef over...an olympics disinvitation on Classics (and a PvP spree which resulted in me having to check my phone in a bar on Saint Patricks Day), we told him hell no. Theres a lot of semantics hidden in this situation that I don't care much to talk about, but basically the end result was that Icenia got obby bombed by Sombra, Physics got insided, his vault got busted for the first time by Gang Shi, and he had to take refuge in Pavia.

But wait, theres more.

As I laid on a beach in the great island town of Isla Mujeres trying not to think about work or this Minecraft server, I became aware that not only had Physics decided to re-up his vault 50 meters from Icenia's aptly named Whole Foods Bunker, but he had invited IBIS up to protect it from the two dumbasses mentioned previously. Unsurprisingly, he was AGAIN insided, again had his shit broken (this time by Icenians and with permission), and again...made a fool of.

By this point I think Pavia realized that PhysicsGamer was a level 5 cognitohazard and decided to cut ties.

After all of this you'd think that maybe PhysicsGamer would realize the error of his ways. Maybe he wasn't yet ready to join the league of nations that do things other than build. MAYBE the oldfriends who had been giving advice that he squandered were correct.

But no. He declared war on his former ally, Valyria and took their spawnbooks because "he wanted to prevent Dredd and Docker from getting them" but in actuality, so he could negotiate for a portal which was never his to begin with.

Absolutely wild stuff folks.

Icenia, Pavia, Valyria, etc have shown REMARKABLE restraint with dealing him and, regardless of what Bgbba says, Physics has not only deserved what has happened to him, but he set it up for himself. That was always going to be the logical conclusion of Temporal Isles deciding to leave Icenia.

**Icenia recognizes the military junta in Temporal Isles as the current legitimate leaders and will do everything in our power to help them retake their land and live peacefully on it in any way that they please.**