The Syndicate

heyyyyy!!!

the poll question is always a hard one for me to answer, it's a close call between 3 and 7 but I usually go with 3

Aw DH's story is sad

Anyway y'all are hp noobs lol and juliets is sus for putting ravenclaw in the slytherin color in her sig

Also inh totally should have been slytherin lol

God the sixth movie was so bad though ugh they skipped all the good parts of the book and instead spent 90% of the film on the stupid parts

But yeah DH part 1 was great. That tale of the three brothers animation..... damnn

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:09 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:00 pm Aw DH's story is sad

Anyway y'all are hp noobs lol and juliets is sus for putting ravenclaw in the slytherin color in her sig
lol, I didn't realize there was a color associated with the house. I was just trying to make it a different color than Yunqui -

like I said, noobs

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:40 pm 10 points to Gryffindor.

yeah you're really a slytherin aren't you

so who's mafia other than glorfindel and karavalenge

Lunalee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:21 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:10 pm I'm going to have essentially zero time until Tuesday night or Wednesday. While I'm not here y'all best find excuses to do work and not excuses to do fuck all. Epi's recent grumbles are valid.

[VOTE: Quin] aubergine, because he said some shit I didn't like earlier. He provided a token response to Epi's dig at juliets which just looked like "this is where I am supposed to interject with this here comment" instead of "this is a problem and I want to address it".
This is the post in question:
Quin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:35 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:29 pm juliets and I are not teammates.

There. Go. Find bad guys.
so you know you're on different teams
I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't have read anything at all into Quin saying that, and the fact that Jay did is a little weird.

Agree

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:40 pm
juliets wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:25 pm I was just looking back over everything Epi said to me and I came to the same conclusion. It seemed like a natural reaction. And I didn't feel Epi was "digging" at me so I'm somewhat confused by Jay on this vote.
Epignosis said you're not on his team. Regardless of his meaning, that can be perceived as an accusation (Epignosis is a civilian accusing juliets of not being a civilian). Quin seemed to recognize the distinction as intended, but went to Epi is a mafioso and is accusing juliets of being a civilian instead -- or at least that's the implication I draw from the tone of Quin's ponder emoji response. It's silly, almost to the point of saying "Epi slipped", and it looked fake.

Highlighted portion: why?

I don't think it was a fake "lol epi slipped look" so much as it was a goofy/half-serious D1 prod

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:20 pm Seems like a dumb premise to me is all.

Like, am I supposed to believe that remark/spoiler was meant specifically for Juliets? Or that if you were bad with Juliets the first thing you talk about in BTSC is "Hey I haven't read all the books please don't spoil this specific thing for me" or w/e?

I dunno. Seems like a dumb hill to die on.

you're right, it doesn't make sense and I don't think he had any reason to assert unprompted that he and juliets weren't w/w. I wouldn't say it particularly makes him look bad, it's just puzzling. Epi is usually a very logic-based fellow and I really cannot fathom what his thought process there could have been.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:21 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:18 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:06 pmMy comment was that we are not mafia partners because I like to discuss things with my mafia teammates, and I "spoiled" something for juliets (even though I PUT THE DAMN THING IN SPOILER TAGS), so we are not bad together in BTSC.
This logic seems unsound. Do you mean that you pre-discuss everything you say in the thread with your teammates when you're bad?
There isn't any logic to it. I've been bad with juliets before, and juliets loves chat (see: discord). We would have been talking this stuff up, and juliets asks questions about things even when bad.

So my point is this:

juliets and I are not bad teammates together.

Use that. Work with it. Bye.

....I don't understand. Why would your question about when the spoilery thing happened in the series have come up in btsc with juliets rather than in the thread HP talk? Why are you drawing a connection to juliets before there was one?

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:46 pm
timmer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:44 pm Seriously though, does the left half of the posts thing happen on all phones? Do I need a new background skin thing?
No, it happened on my computer a bit earlier. For now best just post and read what people have said after.

weird, it's never happened to me on the computer, but yeah it does always happen on mobile for me, it's annoying but i usually just post before reading linki anyway

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:23 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:19 pm
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:11 pm
I respect you, but that doesn't mean I'll stop being critical of you.
Seems like you're constantly and exclusively critical of me, but hell I've got pretty thick skin I'll be fine. Anyway good luck with that I guess.
JJJ seems alright. I want to look at Quin. Epi is null. Speedy, I'm slightly worried about.

I think yourself, JJJ, nova, and poutanko are the players I feel like I might have some meta on.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:26 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:20 pm Soneji said the same thing I said. I agree with both him and myself. [VOTE: Long Con] aubergine

I might seriously not be able to post again during Day 1. I will try my best.
"I agree with both him and myself."

Is there a scenario in which you disagree with yourself?

You are fucking around.

Vote: JJJ

tbf that's just how jay is. I've learned to look past the unchangeable fact of how full of himself he is and instead criticize him for his actual opinions, which are generally garbage.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:31 pm This sounds like a bullshit act to me.

"Owner and Helper" sounds like a kinky category of fanfic that I don't want anywhere near me but anyway I can see it

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:24 am Good news is Dr. Who was good. Bad news is its 2:30am and my sleep schedule is still boinked. Also RD2R playing starts tomorrow. I'm really just posting so Nutella has a buffer between her posts.

you're too late I'm done sorry now we both look like fools making empty posts

Glorfindel wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:26 am
ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:08 pm So who’s going to ask Glorfindel if he’s bad?
To be honest, this whole mess had completely slipped my mind. It’s hard for me to know what to do here - do I refuse to answer and get lynched by a rabid Town or answer it and put a target on my back Night 1? Either way, I guess it suggests a short stay for me this game...

Refuse to answer. We won't jump on you.... unless you look suspicious for legitimate reasons. You're just another player in the game dude

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:57 am Epi and Owner are town.

I agree about epi but why owner?

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:21 am
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:54 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:49 pm I feel different than I did in the game you scum read me, but you scum read me in this game as well.
Yay!! You actually understood me. That is correct.

Yes, it might be weird to some, but I guess I'm waiting for you to do something to prove me wrong. I can't explain what that is, but I'll know it when I see it...if it even happens though, which it might not.
Pretty sure Owner is town.

mmm I guess I agree looking at that post again

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:25 am
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:23 am
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:29 am I've had btsc with epi and juliets before, that was definitely a conversation that would have been had in btsc instead of the thread. That's why epi pointed it out.

@Owner of a Lonely Heart if you suspect DH I suggest giving him a lil rope to hang himself with instead of attacking his every move. Mafia is more like chess and less like tag imo
I would say I play like chess but think like go.
I'm more of a Go-Soccer player myself.

I'm in the Shogi and Science club

(if anyone here gets that reference.... well then you have good taste

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:26 am This one too:

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:11 am
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:21 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:18 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:06 pmMy comment was that we are not mafia partners because I like to discuss things with my mafia teammates, and I "spoiled" something for juliets (even though I PUT THE DAMN THING IN SPOILER TAGS), so we are not bad together in BTSC.
This logic seems unsound. Do you mean that you pre-discuss everything you say in the thread with your teammates when you're bad?
There isn't any logic to it. I've been bad with juliets before, and juliets loves chat (see: discord). We would have been talking this stuff up, and juliets asks questions about things even when bad.

So my point is this:

juliets and I are not bad teammates together.

Use that. Work with it. Bye.
....I don't understand. Why would your question about when the spoilery thing happened in the series have come up in btsc with juliets rather than in the thread HP talk? Why are you drawing a connection to juliets before there was one?

what about it? I was (and still am) legitimately confused. Epi's question wasn't originally directed at juliets (and it was clear that she wouldn't be likely to know the answer) so why would it have happened in btsc, I just don't get it

Or do you just mean that epi would have asked that question to whomever he had btsc with? And juliets would have seen it there instead? That still seems far fetched to me (you can't even spoiler tag things in btsc can you?) but whatever. I don't suspect anyone from this topic so we can drop it.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:03 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:02 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:00 am Did Owner slip when she conflated Dark Arts and Deathly Hallows mechanics?
I don't know how that would be a slip. They're two completely different things.

... unless you meant townslip.
No I mean did she scumslip. They're two completely different things. One of them you were talking about, the other one you weren't.

Definitely a townslip.

I am town

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:42 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:00 am
Lunalee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:21 pm
Spoiler: show
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:10 pm I'm going to have essentially zero time until Tuesday night or Wednesday. While I'm not here y'all best find excuses to do work and not excuses to do fuck all. Epi's recent grumbles are valid.

[VOTE: Quin] aubergine, because he said some shit I didn't like earlier. He provided a token response to Epi's dig at juliets which just looked like "this is where I am supposed to interject with this here comment" instead of "this is a problem and I want to address it".
This is the post in question:
Quin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:35 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:29 pm juliets and I are not teammates.

There. Go. Find bad guys.
so you know you're on different teams
I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't have read anything at all into Quin saying that, and the fact that Jay did is a little weird.
Agree

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:49 am
Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:21 am
Spoiler: show
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:54 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:49 pm I feel different than I did in the game you scum read me, but you scum read me in this game as well.
Yay!! You actually understood me. That is correct.

Yes, it might be weird to some, but I guess I'm waiting for you to do something to prove me wrong. I can't explain what that is, but I'll know it when I see it...if it even happens though, which it might not.
Pretty sure Owner is town.
mmm I guess I agree looking at that post again
Nutella, you're agreeing with me too much, and it's starting to weird me out.

You're my other head bby

Unless you're bad but I have an excellent history of catching you when you are so don't worry

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:51 pm
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:44 pm Also, what's a Player Salad? This terminology is new to me.
It's new to everyone.

A few games ago, we found a new scumtell. Scum players, in order to look productive, throw out some reads on other players. Not everyone, but also nobody specific. Nothing substantial, and little to follow up on. Just some light poking at some of the names in the thread, in a way that looks like it's generating content.

Something similar to that. I haven't seen it defined that well, but we've caught scum with it.

The smattering of player reads without substance was coined as 'player salad' by someone.

I wouldn't say it's new or just a few games ago. It's been part of common syndicate parlance for at least a year methinks.

If inh is a vampire, the word "meta" is garlic or sunlight

Dh too lol

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:09 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:04 pm Thank you Owner for proving more thoroughly than I have ever been able to do that "meta" is a made up buzzword that means nothing and is nothing.
Metaread: Scum DH says things like this.

Civ DH certainly does.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:11 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:10 pm
Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:09 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:04 pm Thank you Owner for proving more thoroughly than I have ever been able to do that "meta" is a made up buzzword that means nothing and is nothing.
Metaread: Scum DH says things like this.
I say things like that every game all the time even when I'm not playing.
Ftr, that’s was a joke.

Scum Jack makes jokes

That's was also's an jokeses

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:12 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:04 pm Thank you Owner for proving more thoroughly than I have ever been able to do that "meta" is a made up buzzword that means nothing and is nothing.
Meta means more than interesting does though.

Off to work, have fun without me.

I bet you think coffee is interesting

Bullzeye wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:35 pm Spent this whole weekend playing Red Dead, didn't have time for mafia. One has to prioritise in these situations! Catching up now

Bullzeye and DH not w/w

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:41 pm Poll time is always my time, right? Like time zones are applied.

I should know this by now.

Check that your timezone is correct in ucp/ if post timestamps are correct then you're good. But DST is ending p soon so keep that in mind when that happens

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:04 pm Hey gang! I have two votes now, LOL.

HAH HAH.

LOL.

Anyway I have no time to read or do anything; I’m at a Pittsburgh conference. Did I already say that? Dunno.

RIP my meta 5ever

Someone tag me and give me a convincing argument for a vote and I may follow you, assuming I get a chance to check in.

You said "5ever." It's a lock scum lynch.

jk, I'm not even voting for you.........yet

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:54 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:04 pm Hey gang! I have two votes now, LOL.

HAH HAH.

LOL.

Anyway I have no time to read or do anything; I’m at a Pittsburgh conference. Did I already say that? Dunno.

RIP my meta 5ever

Someone tag me and give me a convincing argument for a vote and I may follow you, assuming I get a chance to check in.
What is this some sort of breakdown?

Yeah, tbh it's happened before/more and more in recent months and I don't really think it's alignment indicative

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:42 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:40 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:38 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:37 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:33 pm So you didn't really have a breakdown? Is it true what nutella said about the situation?
Oh I certainly have, it is true. I wouldn’t want to dramatize things though. I still have my mental faculties most days
That was supposed to be a and the error ruined the aesthetics of my post
Oh, I quite liked the aesthetics as they are.

I just want to be clear though: I asked that question to get your opinion on nutella.
She called my opinions garbage, and that’s mean. I think she’s a civilian.

Quin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:22 pm
Bullzeye wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:11 pm
Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:37 pm
Bullzeye wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:21 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:17 pm "Not all Slytherin's are Dark Wizards, but every Dark Wizard has been a Slytherin"
Wormtail was a Gryffindor.
Even the dark wizards refused to accept Wormtail
Still betrayed all his closest friends for the Dark Lord's cause and played a crucial role in restoring Voldy to full power. Seems pretty Dark to me. The man was a coward, motivated only by fear and self-preservation. I always saw him as being the opposite end of the scale from Snape.
sure but let's not forget that his love for lily aside snape was an asshole through and through

uhh, tbh I wouldn't even include that "aside"; I'd argue that his feelings for Lily/how he handled them was pretty much why he was a creepy fuckwad

poutanko wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:49 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:42 pm She called my opinions garbage, and that’s mean.
Nutella is not wrong but I prefer to call you crazy than garbage

where are these amazing emoji treasures coming from :O

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:59 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:45 pm
“JJJ is reputed for being the hardest worker as a civilian, and that reputation will be jeopardized if he dies in this game having barely tried — as a civilian”

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:54 pm And the implication of “RIP my meta” was that my 100% may never be again what it once was. I’m different now. I murdered Supertown Jimmy. He might surface sometimes when old instincts flare, but I won’t let him see much sunlight.
This is you trying to eat your cake and fart on it too

This discussion is amazing please continue

Could A Day 1 Jay Lynch Happen? More At 11

Epignosis wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:52 pm
timmer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:52 pm Okay, so reading owner's iso, I'd say he really and oddly blindered onto DH very early, and for what seems like entirely prev-game reasons. This allows him to talk a lot about suspicions towards sh, but without having to defend anything he says because, hey, is based on last game. And when pressed about it, he just versions of iunno I just feel it...

This can be a baddie move, but it can also just be blindering which ive done in the past. Those who know owner well, do you get any kind of alignment read from this angle?
Welcome to the bad table. Sit. Burnt turkey will come soon.

And Puking Pastilles after that

Kylemii wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:12 am juliets is good, i can feel it in my bones

what else do your hypersensitive bones perceive?

Glorfindel wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:29 am I’m also a bit nonplussed by an active player voting for the Host/Mod/NP option What is all that about? I don’t think in all my time here at The Syndicate, I’ve ever seen anyone do that before...

Jack announced that he was unvoting from LC and the only way to unvote without voting someone else is to vote the host option. Seems fine to me, figure he'll just change it later

I could lynch TH or soneji tbh

Both not giving off the best vibes imo. But they're probably not w/w so I should pick one

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:36 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:30 pm I could lynch TH or soneji tbh Both not giving off the best vibes imo. But they're probably not w/w so I should pick one
Nuuuuuuuuu dun't du it

Idk you're tied with owner and Jay and I town lean both of them so

Yeah just for that post and to break the tie for above reason, [VOTE: TH] aubergine Love ya buddy but you're not gonna fool me twice chicken soup with rice

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:05 pm nutella gurl you so bad You love me too much to lynch me Day 1 Must be scared I'll catch ya

Ah you decided buddying me would backfire and tried the other tack. K. I see right through you turbup.

Can you imagine a turnip with a cloak of invisibility??

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