The Syndicate

That's just awesome.

thellama73 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:Ooo fun name thread! My name is surprisingly Neil, even though I am lady. People always repeat my name back to me so, I say, "Yep, that's right, Neil. Like Neil Armstrong, Neil Young, or Neil Diamond, pick your favorite." It was my grandmother's and then my aunt's and now mine, so third generation tradition and all. Woot, woot!

Neil Peart?

It's a pleasure.

Winner.

^^^^^^

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Good golly, does everyone here have a connection to Ohio? I was born in raised in Cincinnati.

I was too! Well, Greater Cincinnati area.

Tin Man, that's right! Has anyone heard from him lately?

Lol, the Teen Thread, that's where I was at first too since I was still technically young enough to satisfy the condition. :P

Shoot, I don't remember... it wasn't for too long of a period of time, but off and on for a few months. Must have been some point in '13 because I remember it was when I was looking into PhD programs. I'll have to retrieve another IRC client so I can at least pop on from time to time. I've been meaning to, but life's been plenty busy, lol.

Enrique wrote:Oh, man, you should definitely get on IRC more. Emma is usually on all the time during holidays, not so much during the schoolyear. Lizzie is on at least for a few hours pretty much every day. I keep telling Dom to get on, but the idea just seems too complicated for him

That'd be great. With PhD, I doubt I'd have much time, but it'd be nice to pop on occasionally, for sure. I did go through a spell where I would get onto IRC and talk to people in the RM channel, mainly JC, leggy, reywaS, DP, etc., which was definitely fun. Then my laptop died and I lost the IRC software and I got busier.

It is seriously awesome to have you back, Enrique (I was so used to Eko, but now I'm used to Enrique). You, Dom, SoFi, and LA were the first people I really started talking to when I joined LP, good times.

I can't wait to play Last Man Standing since I never got the chance to play either of the first two.

I was mafia my first game too... in fact, I was mafia like 8 out of my first 10 games. :P

Hello, everyone! Wow, what a simple yet good idea for a thread, it's good to know the RL monikers behind the adopted screennames!

For those who don't already know, I'm Alex. Or MP. Or Sockface. Or some variation of those. I'm not too particular! My first major internet forum was indeed ProgArchives (though I do have a history of internet forums before that, but it's scattered, and I was young, so :P) because I'm an absolute music lover. I found out about mafia when I became obsessed with LOST and signed up at Lostpedia to discuss the last season with other LOST fans, and quickly became addicted completely. After a few months, I came to the idea to introduce the game to PA because, to my knowledge, no one there had played before, and I thought many of the JFF and Shred regulars would enjoy it too. It also gave me a chance to reconnect with the crowd after falling out of PA activity a bit. I hosted two games over there, then mafia kind of died out, because no one else was willing to pick up the ball, and that forum was the worst place to host a mafia game in terms of site capabilities (you could only PM one person at a time, there were limits on number of PMs per hour, polls were difficult and could only be created in a new thread, and didn't track who voted what, etc.).

Eventually, I had the idea to start this site because I wanted a place where people from many different facets of my life (the PA crowd, the LP crowd, people I knew from college, from high school, from work, etc. etc.) and from the lives of everyone else involved by tangent, could enjoy spending time together playing mafia! And by that time mafia had started to decline and many of the "old-timers" were not interested in playing anymore, so I was hoping to revive interest. And ta-da! That's part of what happened and why this site exists and stuff. Interesting, right? It's really because I think mafia is pretty much one of the best games and best forms of social interaction ever, and by getting to know other people through it, my life has changed dramatically (for the better), most noticeably in the fact that I would not have likely met my fiance if it were not for it. I know others in this community could say something similar -- that they really value the community that has been built around playing mafia and it's blossomed into many very great and close friendships. It's really amazing to me, and it's something I put high value in, and I love getting to play with people I know well and just as much getting to know new people I don't know at all yet!

To address some items that others have said in this thread:
- Yes, Devin signed up for my second game at PA, but he was only a member of PA for that game (because I had him sign up to the site specifically to play the mafia game), so I don't really consider him a PA member. I know him from college when we both took an Intro to Accounting class together.

- I can confirm that over at PA, it was normal for us to refer to each other by first name, whereas at LP, the general community referred to each other by screenname. The only reason it might seem like men are referred to by first name more frequently is due to the fact that PA was/is made up of 99.99% male and 00.01% female members. :P

- I think a Stoners 2 game would be a capital idea!