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by Epignosis
Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:22 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

We have my family over this afternoon and we're going to be enjoying delicious food and playing games, so I won't be around until later. I'll just respond to a couple of people real quick:

Dom: I try to entertain all information (even potentially false information) to make up my mind. There's been a lot of revelations to consider, and I think it's wild some people are just ignoring them.
birdwithteeth11 wrote:@Dom: I already mentioned why I think Epig is bad. I feel he's trying to keep us from making another attempt at lynching redacted.
Why do you "feel" that way? That's exactly what I've been doing.
birdwithteeth11 wrote:I feel like he's making an awful lot of assumptions about Zodac's powers remaining unchanged (I honestly don't believe MP would do that). While I still do wish that I had held off on voting, I can understand the logic of at least making another attempt today and seeing if either a lynch doesn't occur or if someone else gets lynched instead. Because information is power, and it's just a perfect day. I'm glad I spend it with you.
I'm just going with my experience.
Spacedaisy wrote:I think You Know Who has made it pretty obvious that he is Media. Of that I have no question.

What interests me is the fact that Epi has gone, BUT NO, LET'S NOT LYNCH HIM! WHAT ABOUT ZODAC? And then turned around and said, EPIPHANY! If he created chaos he can't be saved by Zodac! And then did a 180 and said, BUT NO, LET'S NOT LYNCH HIM! WHAT ABOUT ZODAC? Having trouble making up your mind there Epi?
As I said to Dom, I'm trying to evaluate what information I'm given as it comes out. I posted my initial thoughts right before (what was supposed to be) the end of the Night period so no one had an opportunity to change a PM and just in case I would be unable to communicate normally the next Day. It was uncertain if people could change targets during the extended Night period (MP later cleared that up), but for a while, that had to be considered. So-and-so made an outrageous claim about picking three roles, and that could be a lie, but I thought he was bluffing once and I was wrong about that. Then A Person got modkilled, giving us something to work with. Instead, some are voting without even reading the thread.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:28 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

thellama73 wrote:
Bullzeye wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Apparently nobody fears a game of multiple lynch switches.

That's the danger Zodac represents. People going after the biggest suspect is precisely why Zodac nearly won a 30 player game as a last man standing role.

Flyin' High, you of all people should remember that.
But what's the alternative? NOT going after the most suspicious people?

Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
This is my favorite point anyone has made ever. Bullzeye is the only one making sense in this thread. If Epig is right about Zodak, it applies to anyone we could lynch, not just [redacted]. What are we supposed to do then? Spread the vote out all crazy? I don't see that as being a winning strategy.
No. Don't spread the vote out all crazy.

I hosted you in MOTU. You understand Zodac. So you are either pretending ignorance or something else.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:50 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

I am willing to vote Vompatti again.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:36 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

DharmaHelper wrote:
Epignosis wrote:A Person was on a team.

What team would be crazy enough to let him do the shit he did?

That's what is on my mind.
I've had a thought or two about this myself. I know a few people from RM such as Kate, JC, Rey, who would absolutely not let any of their teammates go full out whackadoo. Dom is someone I also don't think would stand for that kind of nonsense. The only real players I think would tolerate or encourage that sort of flippancy are like, Lizzy/Vomp :P
That's the same thing I was thinking.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:12 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

A Person was on a team.

What team would be crazy enough to let him do the shit he did?

That's what is on my mind.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:55 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

* modkilled, not lynched.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:54 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Flyin' High wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Apparently nobody fears a game of multiple lynch switches.

That's the danger Zodac represents. People going after the biggest suspect is precisely why Zodac nearly won a 30 player game as a last man standing role.

Flyin' High, you of all people should remember that.
I do remember that. But what if Zodac was already thinking along the same lines you are and decided not to target him last night just to screw with us all? Or perhaps this apparent chaos did affect Zodac's targets. I think you are making assumptions based on trying to get into the head of Zodac, but you don't even know who has that role (unless it's you). But I'm guessing Zodac wouldn't know whether or not they were affected by said chaos until the lynch is over.

My point is, unless you know 100% who Zodac targeted last night and whether or not those targets were affected by the "chaos" then you are just making an assumption. You may be right. You may be wrong. :shrug: Time will tell.
What?

We have to be 100% or we're "just making an assumption."

That does not sound like the Flyin' High I know.

Your argument above is a big "what if" AND WIFOM if you like.

You voted a certain someone after A Person got lynched. And now there's 7 votes. What's a bad team that lost a member to do?

Folks, this is not a good FH:
Flyin' High wrote:I love being reminded I'm playing a game hosted by MP. :haha:

RIP in pieces Mr. Sinister Exaggerator.

I agree that some players seem to be making a lot of assumptions about how roles may or may not have changed.

Rather than drag this out any longer, I am just going to vote for [redacted]. He's basically outed himself, and he continues to be doing what he can to keep attention on him which is distracting to the nth degree. If he truly had civvie intentions I honestly don't think he'd continue to post the way he's been posting.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:35 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Apparently nobody fears a game of multiple lynch switches.

That's the danger Zodac represents. People going after the biggest suspect is precisely why Zodac nearly won a 30 player game as a last man standing role.

Flyin' High, you of all people should remember that.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:50 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Russtifinko wrote:Epi, you're forgetting that Zodac gets to CHOOSE in the event of ties, and you're assuming he knows who is important civ roles. We can hope Zodac is so annoyed that he goes along with popular opinion. And even if he doesn't, we're basically in a Day 1 situation and Zodac seems just as likely to get a baddie as we are.
I created the role. How I am forgetting that? I actually said this many times. (See Zodac 101) :confused:

I am not assuming Zodac knows who important anything roles are. Zodac will choose a player that has nearly no chance of getting lynched along with a player who has the most chance of getting lynched. That's basically how timmer played it, and he was the 29th player out. The game had 30 roles.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:44 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Views: 123911

Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Flyin' High wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Second, if he is who we think he is, then lynching him is a wasted lynch with A Person gone, is it not? Think about that. As for derailing the thread, that's not his fault. If people ignore him, that stops happening. I've been accused of that before (most notably and recently in LOST) and it's a silly thing to say. People can ignore him.
This is something I completely disagree with you on. I have ignored him. Others have ignored him. He is responding to anyone and everyone and even quotes and responds to posts that have ZERO to do with him.

Example:
insertnamehere wrote:
Flyin' High wrote:RIPIYWG S~V~S :(

GYSIYAG, Nev.
AEHRGNBSFDLKBLFDKGMJSDFKGB SVS.

SREDKJGTSKDFNBCXVNBAEPEDGRSEDJGOFDXGXK Nev.
Look how many posts he has! 131! And we're on Day 2. You have the second most with 96.

To say that if we just ignore him he'll stop being a nuisance is a fallacy in my opinion. I think he is bluffing about getting to choose roles to not be targeted by his chaos. Because it seems to me, the whole point of chaos is to be chaotic. If you have some control over it then it's not truly chaos.

And if he is bluffing then Zodac's targets were likely affected by the chaos.

By voting him I know I'm taking a risk. But frankly, it's a risk I'm willing to take. He is playing a "look at me!" game and it's serving no purpose but to drive people a bit mad.
I never said he would stop being a nuisance. I said if people ignored him, he would not derail the thread. There's a difference. Everyone has to ignore him.

If you want to lynch someone for being a nuisance, go ahead.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:40 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Mongoose! Lime Green looks good on ya!
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:38 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Kate wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
[redacted] wrote:
thellama73 wrote:Okay, this thread has gotten complicated and I am busy and unlikely to be much less busier tomorrow. All of this talk and speculation about indie roles has the potential to lead me into analysis paralysis, so I am going to go ahead and vote for [redacted.] I know I don't trust him. I know I want him gone. That is enough.
Thinking too much makes my brainy-wainey hurt too, Llama.
I'll be so sorry to see you go.
Except he won't go.

Why are people voting for him?

Listen.

1. MovingPictures07 just said the Night closed when it closed.

2. The individual you voted for is pretty much neutered now that A Person is gone (unless anyone else decides to start being cute).

3. If Zodac targeted him, you will wind up lynching someone else. In other words, you could be voting for yourself.

The poll doesn't close until tomorrow evening, and people are coming in here, not reading the thread, and voting now?

Weren't you the original "cutie" around here... :evileye:
No ma'am, Miss Kate.

At the time, I did not think he was the role people were thinking he was. Folks were acting paranoid and talking about how many times his name was said and so forth. I wanted us to move on.

Do I regret it? Not at all. I think it served a purpose.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:28 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

birdwithteeth11 wrote:I guess I'm going to reap just what I sow. I thought the poll ended tonight. I would certainly have waited and taken more time to decide on this one if I had realized that. But still, I'm glad I spent it with you.

I don't like how Epig has tried to dissuade us from lynching The Unmentionable One today. And given what I said previously (in regards to him taking his big gambit and mentioning TUO's name many times in one post), I would lean towards him being a baddie.

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In what specific way was I trying to dissuade you from lynching The Unmentionable One? If you'd read the thread, you would be able to answer that. You would also know the poll didn't close until tomorrow. You just came in, voted, and left a half-ass comment that made no sense at all.

I think it's awful that people will come in here, just see the pileup, vote likewise, and not regard anything folks have been saying.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:20 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Dom, I accidentally closed the tab where I was writing you back. But here's the gist of my thoughts:

First, I don't trust that person, insofar as the positive connotations of that verb go. I believe he is telling the truth, nothing more. Apparently, most people believe he is who he says he is. If he could target roles to not be redirected (a claim I yet wonder about), then they make the most logical sense. Pick Zodac to protect yourself, and pick the killer, because he knows they didn't choose him to kill (he's the #1 lynch candidate) and he doesn't want that kill to potentially be redirected to him. All that makes sense to me.

Second, if he is who we think he is, then lynching him is a wasted lynch with A Person gone, is it not? Think about that. As for derailing the thread, that's not his fault. If people ignore him, that stops happening. I've been accused of that before (most notably and recently in LOST) and it's a silly thing to say. People can ignore him.

Third, no, I don't know his win condition.

Fourth, EVEN IF HE IS BAD, I would be screaming the same thing from the rooftops. Some people seem to think I'm defending that individual: I am not. I do not want Zodac to wreak the havoc I saw in Masters of the Universe. I saw him play the others many, many times over.

I saw it, but you may have missed it Dom, because you went MIA in that one. ;)
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:36 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

DharmaHelper wrote:Somehow I am not surprised that Epignosis, the guy that is responsible for the swoll ass powers of the Doge, is sour about the votes for Doge. It's such a perfect day to lynch Doge, and then drink sangria in the park.
Says someone who voted without reading even though we have another day.

I expressed all this before the Night was over.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:33 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Dom, I'm responding to you, but I have to cook now.
birdwithteeth11 wrote:I think it's a combination of editing his posts and missing the curse, but mostly the first one. But in the end, he's going to reap just what he sowed. As much as I want to vote for Epig today, because it's such a perfect day, I will be going with He Who Must Not Be Named. If he comes back as an indy though, I will be going after Epig. Very, VERY hard.

Votes.....well, you know

10
If he comes back independent you'll be going after me? :confused:
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:23 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

I don't think that's true.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:49 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Hedgeowl wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Furthermore, we basically just had a bonus lynch. A potentially revelatory one at that.

And people are coming in here voting for an outed, neutralized independent?

:eye:
Not me. So if Zodac has picked That Guy and someone else, but the only votes are for That Guy, it will be a tie is that right?

So far we have a votes for Wombattery and That Guy.
That is correct. If I'm right about Zodac, then right now OK Computer and someone one else currently have 3 votes- and that's assuming all of these votes count as 1.

Another thing I didn't mention about Zodac: In Masters of the Universe, Zodac inherited Night kills from obliterated bad teams.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:37 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Furthermore, we basically just had a bonus lynch. A potentially revelatory one at that.

And people are coming in here voting for an outed, neutralized independent?

:eye:
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:32 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

thellama73 wrote:
[redacted] wrote:
thellama73 wrote:Okay, this thread has gotten complicated and I am busy and unlikely to be much less busier tomorrow. All of this talk and speculation about indie roles has the potential to lead me into analysis paralysis, so I am going to go ahead and vote for [redacted.] I know I don't trust him. I know I want him gone. That is enough.
Thinking too much makes my brainy-wainey hurt too, Llama.
I'll be so sorry to see you go.
Except he won't go.

Why are people voting for him?

Listen.

1. MovingPictures07 just said the Night closed when it closed.

2. The individual you voted for is pretty much neutered now that A Person is gone (unless anyone else decides to start being cute).

3. If Zodac targeted him, you will wind up lynching someone else. In other words, you could be voting for yourself.

The poll doesn't close until tomorrow evening, and people are coming in here, not reading the thread, and voting now?
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:17 pm
Forum: Previous Sit Downs
Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

juliets wrote:Is Lizzie saying that the first 15 players alphabetically - the first half of the players - have been cursed with this song curse? That's what I'm getting out of it.
The post above you says "half," so that seems to be what she's saying.

Addendum: Right.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:15 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Zodac was last man standing.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:12 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Mongoose wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Dom wrote:Epig, now that I think about it, I'm not sure EVERYONE'S targets were messed with. I do not think SVS's kill was on accident, do you?
If OK Computer is telling the truth, then S~V~S' kill would most likely not be an accident.
I totally Psionic Ninja.
You totally agree?
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:33 pm
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Topic: [END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Dom wrote:Epig, now that I think about it, I'm not sure EVERYONE'S targets were messed with. I do not think SVS's kill was on accident, do you?
If OK Computer is telling the truth, then S~V~S' kill would most likely not be an accident.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:22 pm
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Re: The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

MovingPictures07 wrote:
RULES

1. No BTSC (Behind the Scenes Contact/Conversation) with anyone other than your specified BTSC partners.
2. No editing or deleting of posts.
3. No role outing of yourself or anyone else.
4. No double-targeting (targeting the same individual with a power twice in a row).
5. No disrespectful behavior.
6. Dead players should not post on-topic and should be in dead red. There is a "dead" button when posting for this function.
7. Off-topic posts should be in off-topic green. There is an "OT" button when posting for this function.
8. Posts from non-players should be in non-player blue. There is a "np" button when posting for this function.
9. This is your host's color. All host posts will be in this color. Don't use it!


And most of all, have fun!
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:00 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

blindfaeth wrote:I'm looking at He who shall not be named as well as epig and nevinera today, TBH. I don't get good vibes from any of them :evileye:
I never give out good vibes. :feb:
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:44 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Dom wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Dom wrote:Why do you think that TSE does not have the add to the night post power?
Also, I can't remember because the game was so long ago, but did we write fake kill attempts into the Night Posts in Avant Garde?

Epi, you just keep me hanging on. :)
I did not see anything in the host post that looked contrived by someone else.

I did write fake kill attempts into the Night posts in Avant 2, but they were never listed in the section that says "Player A has survived a kill by Team X."

(Remember the awesome time we said S~V~S had only two days to live and everyone believed it?)
Now that you mention that specific incident, I do remember that. :D
Just a perfect day
you made me forget myself

I'd be happy to vote our attention whoring friend, given Epi's realization about Zodac.
The awesome thing about that was that S~V~S was killed two real life days later, so the lie became true. :eek:
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:50 am
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Dom wrote:Why do you think that TSE does not have the add to the night post power?
Also, I can't remember because the game was so long ago, but did we write fake kill attempts into the Night Posts in Avant Garde?

Epi, you just keep me hanging on. :)
I did not see anything in the host post that looked contrived by someone else.

I did write fake kill attempts into the Night posts in Avant 2, but they were never listed in the section that says "Player A has survived a kill by Team X."

(Remember the awesome time we said S~V~S had only two days to live and everyone believed it?)
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:45 am
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

insertnamehere wrote:Actually, I got to choose 3 roles to exclude from the chaos. Myself, obviously. Zodac, also obviously. And Moriarty.
Why would you exclude yourself? What would have been the consequence of you NOT excluding yourself?
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:16 am
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Hedgeowl wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Something just occurred to me.

I think OK Computer sealed his own fate.

If this is true:

"So, all night actions should be randomized. That'll be fun."

Then that means Zodac's targets would be random also, no?

:)
Is that part of media powers that its random or we just think That Guy was telling us what was to come?
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but S~V~S said this was the original powers:


S~V~S wrote:Linki @ JC~ actually the kill was from a similar role in Dr Seuss, I changed it to Chaos as 2 kills were kinda "meh", this was Media as originally played:
Media: She controls what you see, what you think, what you know. She gains power via popularity. *Secret* Sliding scale of powers based on thread mentions other than by her teammates, QUOTES DO NOT COUNT.

0 mentions = No power; 1-5 = Block One Vote, 6-10 = Alignment check; 11-15 = cast a curse; 16-20 =Block 2 votes, 21-25 = Blanket team protection (from all powers); 26+ Chaos~ randomly redirect all night powers other than your teams.

You are responsible for keeping count, we might double check you. You must use the blanket protection before gaining another one, and can cause Chaos only once in the game.
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:58 am
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Something just occurred to me.

I think OK Computer sealed his own fate.

If this is true:

"So, all night actions should be randomized. That'll be fun."

Then that means Zodac's targets would be random also, no?

:)
by Epignosis
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:45 am
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Mongoose wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
Epignosis wrote: That's the why. I can't imagine the PP picking 2.
Why? Probability and statistics and abducted?
Try again. I can wait until I get it.
convergency. Why do you hustler #2 is an unlikely NotInOxford for the Piranha Plant to select? Is #2 really unlikely? Is #2 statistically weird? Why don't you see Quaro picking #2?
Hustler #2 was a pretty good issue. :p

Same thing Bullzeye said:
Bullzeye wrote:
Epignosis wrote:That's the why. I can't imagine the PP picking 2.
Good point. Too much risk that it'll go to MP or a dead/non. I'd guess they picked something between 10 and 20, based on the logic we used in Mario.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:43 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Mongoose wrote:
Epignosis wrote: That's the why. I can't imagine the PP picking 2.
Why? Probability and statistics and abducted?
Try again. I can wait until I get it.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:41 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Paranoid Android:

I've asked people not to vote for you today.

Morbid curiosity requires me to ask who is the bad guy of the day according to your program. So...who is it?
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:47 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Multiple insane people. Multiple people quoting the stupid song (Why couldn't it have been "Walk on the Wild Side?"). Two kills from a team that from what I can tell should have only had one.

I was The Sinister Exaggerator in my first win here. My ability was that I doubled my team's voting power while alive and that I could make up shit to put in the host post.

1. Because of Rumplestiltskin, I don't see TSE having the first power (that would give them a voting bloc of 16 potentially).

2. Because I didn't see anything that seemed out of it with the host post, I don't see TSE having the second power.

That means The Sinister Exaggerator has a completely different power.

Like exaggerating people's Night powers.

And if Paranoid Android is Media and caused chaos...

(What's that?)...
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:16 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Lizzy wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Mongoose wrote:Poop on a pineapple. kill honeytongued am going recumbency Illyria in the Map all incredibility tomorrow assemblyman a procedure, indigitate if we Crude Yacht doing a 24-hour saggittary then I alphabetarian going Seductive Ghoul alms ahead and vote now. I think it's pretty supersaturate what we are up periculous so why dilly-dally?

Love,
Mongoose

* Votes OK bishopdom Planter

PS Map Killing S~V~S already? LAME.
I wish you hadn't voted the way you did, but I can tell why you voted as early as you did.
is it Red Rook electrolier firstclass?
Piranha Plant - [Classic Super Mario Bros.] – Secretly chooses a number every odd night. The person to vote in the subsequent Day poll that corresponds with that number is killed (Non-players and dead players can absorb this kill!).
That's the why. I can't imagine the PP picking 2.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:09 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Mongoose wrote:Poop on a pineapple. kill honeytongued am going recumbency Illyria in the Map all incredibility tomorrow assemblyman a procedure, indigitate if we Crude Yacht doing a 24-hour saggittary then I alphabetarian going Seductive Ghoul alms ahead and vote now. I think it's pretty supersaturate what we are up periculous so why dilly-dally?

Love,
Mongoose

* Votes OK bishopdom Planter

PS Map Killing S~V~S already? LAME.
I wish you hadn't voted the way you did, but I can tell why you voted as early as you did.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:38 pm
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Re: [DAY 2] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Hell yes.

We need a He-Man emoticon.

In honor of our host, how about sad Hordak?

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by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:44 am
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Hedgeowl wrote:
Kate wrote:Ok I guess I'm a tad confused by the day 3 plan. Maybe I dont understand the Zodac role but is the whole point that IF he targeted a man with a machine last night, that he can't do it again the following? And if so, isn't that kinda blown out of the water by Epignosis's night post - and then MP's extension of night? I mean wouldn't it be just as likely that the original target got switched? Seems to me we are back to a 50/50 probability at best.
I would love more zodac background as well cause I am not 100% on how he works. I think that MP wasnt accepting changes to Night PMs even with the extenstion, so that essentially we are in day 2 withou knowing results. I would have to look at the timing on epis post and mps though.
Zodac 101:

DISCLAIMER: I don't know how MP altered this role from its original.

In Masters of the Universe Mafia, Zodac served two functions.

First, he decided tied lynches during the Night.

Example:

Player A has 13 votes. Player B has 13 votes. No one is lynched.

At Night, Zodac PMs the host, "I want player B to be lynched."

During the Night, Player B gets lynched and his role is revealed.

Second, he could target two players, and those two players the next Day would receive the mean of their votes.

Example:

Zodac PMs the Host and wishes to target Players C & D.

Player C receives 2 votes.

Player D receives 20 votes.

Behind the scenes, they both have received 11 votes. If no one else has more than 11 votes, there is a tie. No one is lynched.

At Night, Zodac PMs the host, "I want player C to be lynched."

During the Night, Player C gets lynched and his role is revealed.

Therefore, one could use this role offensively and target any two people, or use it defensively and target himself and someone else.

timmer played this exceptionally well. He would target someone with the greatest suspicion and lynch someone unsuspecting. Then he would target himself every other phase (couldn't do it twice in a row due to rules against double targeting). People kept trying to lynch him, but they never tried twice in a row, so he gave the illusion of being unlynchable.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:17 am
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

juliets wrote:Epignosis, could you elaborate as to why Rusti's vote makes you think he is good? As i understand it he was just goofing on Mongoose which doesn't strike me as being indicative of alignment.
At first all his off-topic frivolity and his subsequent vote for Mongoose (for a wacky reason) made me want to vote for him. But then I thought about it:

From my experience (having hosted him as both good and bad), Russ tends to be more invested when he has a team. The early vote for Mongoose to me says, "I may not have time for this, but I know MP well enough not to miss the vote."
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:11 am
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Flyin' High wrote:Epi (and anyone else who wants to chime in on this topic), what do you think about this post:
major distraction wrote:The thing is, I was ready to be on your side, and help catch baddies. And then S~V~S started to rail against indie roles. Blame her, not me.
When I first read this last night it felt to me like he was admitting that we are right that he's media since by this point people were starting to jump on board/agree with the no discussion, just vote for him Day 2 proposed plan.
Yeah, that does sound like a defeatist's admission.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:41 am
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Dom wrote:Epi, do you have any ideas as to where else to look for today?
I still have my eye on someone, but like a certain individual with a program, I could use more data. ;)

Where it gets fuzzy is if INH is indeed an independent (and it looks that way to me), then anyone could have voted for him without worry of being accused of lynching a civilian or saving a teammate. That's another reason I think gunning for an independent (especially Day 1) is unhelpful.

Russtifinko's vote initially jumped out at me, but the more I thought about it, the more it made me feel like he is good.

Aside from that, I want to compare the poll with people's posts more, and fortunately, there's time for me to do that.
by Epignosis
Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:16 am
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm sorry, guys, I am absolutely exhausted and I still have other items to finish up for my ACC 300 class, which I barely will be able to get through without crashing.

I really hate to do it, but since we are getting to a weird time anyway, I'm "extending" the night period until about 7:00PM EST tomorrow or, essentially, whenever is convenient for me tomorrow to have the night post ready. There's just no way I can have it ready tonight.

Sorry for the delay. I hope to avoid this kind of instance altogether in the future.
MovingPictures07 wrote:I want to emphasize that it is critical you still vote by the deadline, however. Missing votes in a game like this might not be such a good idea. :feb:
:evileye:
by Epignosis
Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:43 pm
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

thellama73 wrote:
S~V~S wrote:Also, unless you are Z, Epi, you have no real way of knowing what he wants. So let us find out on our own. He may be an indy after your heart, meaning no harm to anyone only wanting to live till the end :)

That would be nice,
I agree with this. :srsnod:
What I am proposing is that you lynch HIM on Day 3. That is all. I am not defending HIM. If Zodac targeted him, he can't do so again.
by Epignosis
Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:39 pm
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

S~V~S wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
S~V~S wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
S~V~S wrote:You probably could have held that until Day, Epi.
I thought about that. Then suppose I was told I was unable to communicate for the Day? That wouldn't be good.

I waited as long as could so that Zodac could not chance his targets. Nor anyone else for that matter.
i would in general go with you on this; I think you know my concern.

If we could be guaranteed not to feed Mr Man, I would be there. But we can't be guaranteed. You know that. Normally i would agree that in this case, containment is best. But I don't know that we can count on everyone to contain themselves, to not just post things they ought not just for the lulz.
Well I don't believe for a second that so-and-so is M&M. If you catch my meaning.

You may want to lynch so-and-so. Too bad. Z will use your zealous votes to kill anybody he wants. So go and marinade on that for a minute.
Maybe Z wants him gone too, we can only hope.
Uh, yeah Z would want him gone. But not as long as he's getting suspicion.

Timmer played this perfectly until the very end.

You want to talk about dangerous independents? How about someone who can lynch you just by PMing your name to the host?
by Epignosis
Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:35 pm
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

S~V~S wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
S~V~S wrote:You probably could have held that until Day, Epi.
I thought about that. Then suppose I was told I was unable to communicate for the Day? That wouldn't be good.

I waited as long as could so that Zodac could not chance his targets. Nor anyone else for that matter.
i would in general go with you on this; I think you know my concern.

If we could be guaranteed not to feed Mr Man, I would be there. But we can't be guaranteed. You know that. Normally i would agree that in this case, containment is best. But I don't know that we can count on everyone to contain themselves, to not just post things they ought not just for the lulz.
Well I don't believe for a second that so-and-so is M&M. If you catch my meaning.

You may want to lynch so-and-so. Too bad. Z will use your zealous votes to kill anybody he wants. So go and marinade on that for a minute.
by Epignosis
Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:25 pm
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

MovingPictures07 wrote:I feel I don't have near the time to host this as I thought I might since I've been balancing the new professor position, and also since I was on a Skype call with one of the PhD program directors for over an hour this evening.

So... post will come when it comes.
Tell the old prick you have Mafia to Host. Invite him to join. Then he'd understand.
by Epignosis
Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:22 pm
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Re: [NIGHT 1] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

Devin the Omniscient wrote:
bea wrote:I think you've done a great job with the smileys tbh. :)
Agreed! We have a great collection!!! :bass:
There are a few I want from RM:

nicenod
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