The Syndicate

This looks freaking amazing.

Hello my fellow slytherins.

HBP was best book, worst film.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:56 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:57 pm The story behind my Pottermore patronus is even more personal and sad and happy and cute than the story behind my knowledge of the books lol.
For anyone who wants to cry tonight or who wants a peek behind the Kayfabe of my mafia-persona.

Spoiler: show
For context, a "Patronus" is essentially the embodiment of a happy memory that wizards use to either fight Dementors (who feed off negative energy, fear, sadness, bad memories, etc) or sometimes they can be used to send messages or w/e. They usually take the form of an animal. Anyway...

So a few years (Like 8 or 9) ago I had this dog, some of you might remember from IRC chats or w/e. Fat Beagle that we got literally on a whim outside some gym or family/fitness center where they had a bunch of dogs they were looking to get adopted. This dumbass literally walks right up to me. I walk him up the sidewalk for a bit and then we both get tired and I sit down to pet him but he lays his head on my lap like a jerk. Hoo do I not love this guy and take him home lol.

Anyway he'd sleep with me every night and like, right up on my legs he'd curl up like a puzzle piece and fit right in there. Every night.

Then when he passed 4-5 years ago I got all torn up about it. And I dunno when the Pottermore site added the Patronus thing where you can go on there and answer some questions and it'll show you your Patronus with a little animation and let you play with it and watch it move on the screen or w/e but I remember thinking "You know what fuck it" after seeing everyone posting about it on Twitter so I go and answer the questions and I remember distinctly thinking "If this fucking website tells me my Patronus is a beagle I'm going to cry my face off" and sure enough the site said my Patronus was not just a dog (there were several types of dogs I saw other people have on Twitter so I know its not just "Dog" or "cat" or "bird") but I got a beagle.
Anyway that's why I believe in magic.

My patronus is apparently a tortoiseshell cat? I'm a cat person, but why that type?

Pretty good tho.

linki: I disagree.

Could be the worst movie though.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:58 pm Movie 4 is probably the worst in a more global sense.

But 3 casually forgets to explain the main plot and 6 casually skips the main battle of the book.

Ugh these films.

Best ones are 5 and 7. They are the only ones I'd call really good adaptions.

8 was pretty bad. If by 7 you mean DH part 1, then okay.

The movies really shined in some places, but having read the books first, the movies ended up subpar. Great aesthetic and a few good moments, perfect casting for preteen Harry Potter and for Snape, the feeling of the movies was perfect. There were a lot of things left out of movies that they needed, and the overall story was mutilated in some places. The final Harry vs Voldemort battle was awful, for one.

Decent movies if it weren't for the books though

karavalenge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:53 am
Spoiler: show

Who is ready to learn?

Those comics are the best thing to come out of Harry Potter.

Glorfindel wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:22 pm
karavalenge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 5:33 pm I think Gryffindor is suspect since the murder occured in front of their common room.
Ignores my greeting and seems intent on engaging in finger-pointing early in the game... -1 for karavalenge.

I think that's perfectly normal. Why should he acknowledge a Hufflepuff of all people?

#slytherin

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:06 pm
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:59 pm Lynching anybody Day 1 always feels bad and everyone seems so happy to be here. Soneji almost never shows up to play so I'ma vote there for now.
This right here.

Afraid to start any fires.

Boo. Bad.

I like it. A lot of the fun of this game, and a lot of the crazy info and such, will come after night one. I for one would feel awful, on an out of game meta level, for not letting anyone have a go at a spell.

I mean, it could be a baddie tell if TH is motivated by in-game stuff, but I'm all in on lynching someone who isn't going to do anything with this swanky setup.

linki: Yes, please, leave Glorf to do glorfy things.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:19 pm
Lunalee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:15 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:01 pm Yeah I've gotta be real with yall unless somebody outright fucks up and slips or somebody builds a damn good case, I'll probably default to a no-show as well.
The funny thing with this game is we might get some magnificent ties. Because if you're on a townie lynch that goes through, your house looses 2 points. So especially on day 1 if I don't have a good scum read, I would rather be a single vote on someone who's not going to die.
Oh good someone already fucked up. Thanks Luna :P

I'd rather tank the house points and be the last person to dogpile on any given lynch. For reasons.

If anyone else thinks like me, the EOD is gonna be like

Lunalee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:26 pm Reasons?

If you want to hold up the name of Ravenclaw, you ought to read the rules.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:08 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:37 pm
Lunalee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:26 pm Reasons?
If you want to hold up the name of Ravenclaw, you ought to read the rules.
I am not following this, help a brother out.

So here's the deal, bro. Some students have these "deathly hallows" whatchamacallits. (holy heck my spell check recognizes that word) And the only way for someone else to get them is to kill the player that has it.

... or to be the LAST vote on a condemned player's lynch train at day end. If the lynched player has a Deathly Hallow, it'll go to whoever the last vote was.
Thus the dogpiling on the end. You're welcome to join me. I have no idea how DDL will determine who the last person was to vote, but it'll be me.

linki: SONEJI ARRIVED!

what about me, owner? Give DH a break and flag me for a bit.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:12 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:04 am what about me, owner? Give DH a break and flag me for a bit.
You knowing the intricacies of the Dark Arts stuff and sharing it could be an act to try to buy townie points. I remember reading the stuff about it but not nearly picking up enough about it to understand it all. Basically, if someone had or possessed Dark Arts abilities this game, they would probably read up on it or make sure they understood their abilities.

Technically, what you said is some form of mechanical-talk or a retelling of information, in which some of it is free to us. But it doesn't necessarily solve us the game or anything.

It's potenitally the kind of post meant to look like a person is being useful, but in reality, they aren't truly really adding to the thread.

I know about the Deathly Hallows. I haven't explained anything about the Dark Arts to anyone.
Though I would if they asked, even if it required looking it up myself. That's a consistent thing I do, regardless of alignment.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:25 am Me: *Talks to speedy*
Speedy: *is frozen or typing a freakishly long post*...or idk
Me: What? He wanted me to talk to him. Is that a bad thing? Hmmm

Oh, and I went to bed like immediately.

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

Y THO

Specifically why is Owner town? And how does that connect with Epi at all?

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 think it's nearly impossible that Epi and Juliets are teammates at this point. Even if the spoiler wasn't a tell, Epi wouldn't draw this much attention to the pairing. The observation is not a townclear for either of them, and probably does more harm than good if they are scum together. Why would the teammates do it in the first place?

Further, I don't think looking at yourself and considering anti-alignment with someone else is a thought process that comes naturally to scum. So I have a tentative townread on Epi.

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.

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.

=.=

Yeah I don't get it.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:14 am Ok I'll walk you though it, because I love you.

IDK thinking out loud, the best indicator of an actual slip here is conflating "Dark Arts" with "Deathly Hallows" because she had "Dark Arts" on the mind.

. . . maybe. I was thinking of the the opposite way. If Owner didn't read through all the rules, it's not surprising that Deathly Hallows and Dark Arts could get mixed together. Death and Dark start with the same letter and both sound evil.

I was taking the unfamiliarity the opposite way, while you were taking the Fruedian side of it.

I see your side now, but I don't think I can make that conclusion.

linki: yo this

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:29 am Or in my mind, both relate to the one who isn't to be named. The Deathly Hallows wouldn't exist without the dark arts I think.

I didn't read this book.

Feel like you're trying to overexplain here. Why else would you make up that connection? The Deathly Hallows have nothing to do with Voldy, nor were they created using Dark Arts. Nor are they used with Dark Arts.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:57 am 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.

Do you suspect anyone from their reaction to the topic though?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:08 pm Can someone explain to me the "town" portion of the "townslip"

I already did tho

A person not familiar with the dark arts or deathly hallows (In other words not having either in their role) could totally mix them up. They both sound evil and start with a D.

Even though the DH are not evil, or even close to such.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:09 pm
poutanko wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:04 pm Can't we just state we're Town so whoever have the Veritaserum can use it whenever they want to whoever they want without asking their sus about it (so not giving a hint/clue about them having the potion)?
This is obviously a good idea, right? Any objections?

I am town.

This feels sorta game breaky. Also if everyone did it, we'd get back into some things we agreed not to do this game.

I am town tho

karavalenge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:13 pm No, that's an awful waste of a 1-shot ability to tell the truth, just to get the same info as a regular ability (Divination).

What else would you use veriseritaum for? I'm not disagreeing, but did you have something in mind?

Kind of a pointless exercise anyway, for a couple of reasons.

1. Cop checks already exist.
2. If enough players say "I am town", the one-shot ability will be devalued to a cop check (if used in that way).

The above being stated, all that saying "I am town" does is give the person who said it towny points, regardless of alignment. There is little risk involved, especially if multiple people say it.

It might even be a scum gambit to be one of the first people doing it. "He suggested the thing, surely he wouldn't condemn himself."

Yeah. I was a participant for a bit, but I'm ignoring it.

linki: some neat ideas. I like them.

timmer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:36 pm
karavalenge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:13 pm I am a town.
I'm catching up atm, but wanted to point out what could be a really weak attempt at following the I am town charge, but with a "typo" that invalidates it. I don't know this player, so I don't know if they would try something so clumsy as a baddie. But that extra word in their ld statement is noteworthy for a day 1.

Also, I am town.

Pedantic. You aren't 'town', you're 'timmer'.

Quick everyone, say "My alignment in this game is to the town, civ, or otherwise named faction that represents the 'good guys' of this setting. I cannot use the dark arts, nor can any of my teammates. I have no BTSC chat with other players at the moment." /s

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:11 pm I'm officially playing RDR2 for the rest of today. Catch you mudbloods on the flippy floppy.

Skin a coyote for me.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:38 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:58 am
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:29 am Or in my mind, both relate to the one who isn't to be named. The Deathly Hallows wouldn't exist without the dark arts I think.
I didn't read this book.

Feel like you're trying to overexplain here. Why else would you make up that connection? The Deathly Hallows have nothing to do with Voldy, nor were they created using Dark Arts. Nor are they used with Dark Arts.
I didn't read the books and only saw the final movies once. How much do you retain on your first viewing of a movie?

lol I retained almost nothing of the HP movies. Thanks for clarifying.

Depends on the movie though.

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.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:08 pm New strategy: be the last to vote for every player and get all the deathly hallows. Probably secrets say “If you do this, you just win.”

This was my strategy first.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:11 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:09 pm
Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:08 pm New strategy: be the last to vote for every player and get all the deathly hallows. Probably secrets say “If you do this, you just win.”
This was my strategy first.
Stupid alternate universe me.

I’ll just shove you at EOD.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:23 pm I'd rather tank the house points and be the last person to dogpile on any given lynch. For reasons.

If anyone else thinks like me, the EOD is gonna be like

Welcome to the pile, Jack.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:49 pm The actual solution is to just kill my duplicate again.

Quin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:14 pm Like, ?Owner? threw those names out saying she felt she had a good meta-read on them. Player salad is when you threw out a bunch of names with no tangible connection to each other.

A meta-read from one game?
Meta reads that are mostly worthless because we were all being ship-mates and stuff?
Meta reads that are the rest of the way worthless because it was only one game, and there's no way of telling what traits carry over from game to game?
Meta reads that would be worthless anyway because they're meta?

PLAYA SA LAD

Quin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:22 pm sure but let's not forget that his love for lily aside snape was an asshole through and through

Actually, I would say including that. Snape was an obsessed elitist bigot incel, with a single-minded obsession over the one girl that broke the rule. He deserved everything he got, and worse, for bullying kids over his obsession and general bigotry.
JK Rowling portraying this relationship as romantic and tragic from Snape's end is Twilight levels of disgusting.

That said, Snape is an amazing character. But he wasn't noble or loving in any good way at all. His obsessions just allowed Dumbledore to turn him and use him.

Harry Potter should never have named his child after the bigoted incel who lusted after his mom and then punished an entire class all through school because he didn't get that booty.

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.

The old Jimmy can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh. Because he's DEAD.

Think you could lay it on a little thicker buddy?

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:09 am All criticisms about Snape are right but... he did spy on Voldemort for years and die in the process. I dunno, he's still a war hero.

But naming his kid after him is probably a little too much, I agree.

I love the character as a character, and so long as we take out the romantic take of it, I think he's very well-written and unique. Alan Rickman was my favorite part of the movies. And yes, he is a war hero.

JJJ and TH have their assorted trains. I don't have townreads on either of them, so I don't hate it. I'll see if I can go back and get a detailed read off the day's posts.

Still want to put out there that Nova hasn't checked in, and as such is a fun lynch option. Not necessarily a GOOD lynch option (no way of knowing that), but one that will allow night actions to be taken by a greater number of active players.

Soneji wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:49 am As for Snape, he is one of my favorite characters in all of fiction. That means taking the bad with the good, though I feel most are too unforgiving of him because they don't even try to think of things in his shoes, which I attribute due to POV bias from Harry. Living the kind of spy life he had to would make anyone miserable and given his personality and disposition prior to spy life, it's really a feat that he is only as nasty as he is, which is itself a part of keeping up appearances.

I was pretty sure it was canon that Snape hated Harry for his father, hated Neville for not being the chosen one instead so that Lily would still be alive, and was also a pureblood elitist. (at least to the point that he called Lily a Mudblood)

Perhaps it was one of those "You aren't like other mudbloods" things, which is still bigoted.
I love the character too, but evet after Harry starts being biased TOWARDS Snape, I don't see the guy as being noble. He's still Snape.

That said, the fact that he did harbor all this hate and obsession and misery might make his good acts all the more impressive. The number of times he saved Harry, his willingness to fight and even die for the cause, everything he sacrificed...

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:49 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:36 am JJJ and TH have their assorted trains. I don't have townreads on either of them, so I don't hate it. I'll see if I can go back and get a detailed read off the day's posts.

Still want to put out there that Nova hasn't checked in, and as such is a fun lynch option. Not necessarily a GOOD lynch option (no way of knowing that), but one that will allow night actions to be taken by a greater number of active players.
I think there were some replacements signed up, so leaving Nova for now wouldn’t be the worst thing.

Ah. So it seems. Thanks!

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:04 pm
Quin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:00 pm
ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:49 am
Quin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:42 am also i [VOTE: timmer] aubergine
Why?
Took a dump on truth-gate while contributing to it.
Oh yeah. I read that earlier and forgot. Thanks.

How would you compare that to Speed’s reaction to the same exercise?

Also want to hear this. I think I ripped a fart all over truth gate too. That said, I also farted on Timmer.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:25 pm OoaLH or Soneji are my top picks atm

Forrrrrr townreads or lynching?

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:30 pm I want to lynch them chuck.

Why Soneji?

I could lynch Owner.

Checking over JJJ and TH.

Meh I don't want to lynch JJJ or TH. Their ISOs did not inspire me to do so at all.

Owner's suspicion of DH reads ingenuine
Her defense of the Deathly Hallows/Dark Arts thing wasn't even needed, but she overexplained it in a way that looked nervous

Are there any other facets to the case there?

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:46 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:41 pm Owner's suspicion of DH reads ingenuine
Her defense of the Deathly Hallows/Dark Arts thing wasn't even needed, but she overexplained it in a way that looked nervous

Are there any other facets to the case there?
You seem to want to add more to a fire that's already developing very quickly.

That's me. I breathe natural gas and pee kerosine.

Though quite frankly I'm being reminded right now that I just don't get you. "Picture tell" brought back some memories. May be more of a complete disconnect between us than a lack of genuine-ness to your reads.

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