The Syndicate

Kylemii,

Is it future or is it past?

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Oh, and when I went to ask about my extra kill the host said "I didn't promise you anything. Gossip Girl did".

Ricochet wrote:Sounds like you got Canuck'd.

I'm curious, what's the context for this?

[um]

Sounds like you got Canuck'd.

What is the Will of D?
How much meat can you eat per meal?
Who would you take on a ship across the New World as your pirate crew?

Epignosis wrote:Keys are stupid.

In games where you have the firepower of the Romanian army, you can't blow the door down. Or unscrew it. Or pry it open.

You need the key.

And in some cases, any key you find will work. What cut rate security system is this?

L.O.L.

I should talk more about music, but I only go on RYM to give famous albums 1 star ratings. I literally have only four reviews on my profile there*.

*old PA'ers in the background are whispering to each other "thank goodness for that*

I heard that!

S~V~S wrote:Almost every game used to have a civ ninja~ they have fallen out of fashion, I guess? Maybe if we bring them back, we might see more civ wins.

Aye, the civs certainly won in Donner and Death Note.

I'll answer any more questions tomorrow, with the Host's permission of course, in case she nominates a new guest in the meantime.

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:What is your favorite Echolyn song?

I haven't listened to them in a long while. I liked mei a lot, but obviously as a whole.

My favorite.

How old are you?

25.

A good friend posted on my FB a clip to "21" when I turned that age.

Epignosis wrote:What is your favorite Echolyn song?

I haven't listened to them in a long while. I liked mei a lot, but obviously as a whole.

Elohcin wrote:I need to make it a point to come here more often. I have enjoyed reading about you Rico.

1. Do you work out? If so, what type of exercise is your favorite?
2. Are you religious?
3. Do you wear hats? What kind?

I'm glad, Elo.

1. Nothing about my lifestyle is healthy (sedentary as hell, beer belly without drinking any beer, although I've been getting more vegetables than fries at dinner lately, no matter how fully discontent I am with that ). I usually jog during the summer, but that's basically the problem as well, because I stop doing it in the other months and basically have to reboot all over again the following year. Two years ago, I think, I was forced to go to a gym, but the only thing I did there was to run and to flex some weights.

2. Agnostic.

3. I wear only winter hats when it's the season and here I prefer visor beanies (at least I think they're called this way). I lost the Columbia one I had this past December and had to buy a cheap H&M which then I lost as well on my recent trip to London (it matched the color of my bus seat really well). But since I was in London, I could actually go and buy a new Columbia, so win.

OMG best dog.

Roxy wrote:Hi Rico

Do you often find yourself rebounding off of walls, furniture, etc?
What is your favorite thing to skip?
What is your least favorite thing to bounce off of?
Do you surf like that dog?
Have you ever played the game called Carom?
When ricocheting what is your favorite angle?
Do you like the band Ricochet?
Do your socks match right now?

Lol, you. My nickname doesn't really match my energy bar.

What dog? Anyway, we don't surf in this country. I mean, I'm far from the sea, I hate my sea and I've only visited calm seas, except maybe in South Portugal, but even there the waves were mild.

Nope, never played that.

I'm only aware of a metal band called Ricochet (or is it Ricocher?) and I've never listened to them. I like the song Ricochet by Anekdoten very much, though. I even like the album that song is from more than their heavier, classic ones.

My socks surprisingly match today. Not sure how I pulled that off.

A Person wrote:What kind of underwear do you wear?
What is something you do or have or have done that might surprise even us PAers?
What percentage of your life have you spent listening to TD/KS?

Male thong no homo.
(See above? otherwise) I don't know. I'm not that unpredictable.
Last.fm says this



But I think it's safe to say you can double those figures, because I haven't scrobbled my music constantly and from the beginning. So, say, a total 5 months of my life for both? I'm actually sad I didn't discover them when I was 3 years old instead of 13.
I know for a fact that a complete Schulze marathon would take 11 days.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Rank every Tangerine Dream album you have in order of preference to the best of your ability, including solo albums. Now. Do it.

Ricochet
Zeit
Encore
Rubycon
Phaedra
Poland
Logos Live
Mars Polaris
Tangram
Force Majeure
Antique Dreams
Inferno
Hyperborea
Edgar Froese - Aqua
Cyclone
Stratosfear
Electronic Meditation
Purgatorio
White Eagle
Exit
Alpha Centauri
Atem
Edgar Froese - Ages
Edgar Froese - Stuntman
Edgar Froese - Dalinetopia
The Seven Letters from Tibet
Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
220 Volt Live
Jeanne D'Arc
Livemiles
Green Desert
Sohoman
Kyoto
Rockoon
Quinoa
Le Parc
Peter Baumann - Romance '76
Edgar Froese - Macula Transfer
Paradiso
Tournado
Optical Race
Turn of the Tides
Edgar Froese - Pinnacles
Madcap's Flaming Duty
Tyger
Edgar Froese - Kamikaze 1989
Lily on the Beach
Melrose
TD Plays TD
Valentine Wheels
Goblin's Club
Tyranny of Beauty
Underwater Sunlight
*tons of other Eastgate shit I can't even recall by name*
*Christopher Franke's discography. Seriously*
Peter Baumann - Repeat Repeat
Ambient Monkeys
Phaedra 2005

Jerome and others can bite me. And yes, Schulze is Schulze.

Ricochet wrote:One-time opportunity, everyone.

Less than a day and a half left.

Nope. But I get what you're saying.

Well I can't say it's symptomatic to all classical-trained musicians (although our creativity is indeed far too often modelled only in regard to how to fully express the written music), but I've definitely done a poor job to ever colour outside the lines.

I also have a bit of stage fright, tbh, but I usually pull it through. I behave better when I play with an ensemble or an orchestra, because I somehow motivate me to focus and play responsibly together with the others rather the get nervous because omg I'm on a stage in front of ppl.

Because I'm not used to entertain people with my playing, on the spot at least. The classical programme I usually prepare is more sophisticated and it wouldn't make a great light music session when guests are in the house and would like me to play something for them. I can't improvise. I don't know easy tunes by heart. I can't play Firth of Fifth. I don't even play romantic classical (like Waltzes by Chopin) that much to find it easy to pick something to please somebody with that. I prepare each one of my recitals and concerts as best as I can, but otherwise I pretty much sound like shit in my study until I achieve that.

I'd better switch to in-quote green for this one.

bea wrote:Rico -

What is your favorite thing about where you live? Struggling for several years now to have something to like about my city (plus I shut myself in the house so much, I don't really interact with it either), because I actually find it a pretty dire place overall and the usual answers ("ooh it's so obviously Western-oriented", "ooh it's so multicultural", "ooh it's very active in all arts") don't satisfy me that much. If I were to give a cheeky answer right now, I'd say it's closest to escaping in my trips to other, more Western, countries, so that's actually pretty neat.

What is your favorite comfort food? Not so familiar with the concept, probably because I most eat either junk food or regular meals. Maybe "meatball soup". It's more traditional, my mom usually makes it on holidays and it does have that "nostalgic dish" quality for me.

Did you know this site has lots of awesome people who love to co-host, so should you ever want help with the writing aspects or any other aspect of hosting a game, you would only need say the word and I'm sure people would be more than happy to step up and help out? That's nice to know and I'll be sure to ask for help.

I read above that you lean pretty heavily toward classical and jazz music as preferences genra wise, is that an accurate statement? Pretty much, but I'd also include electronic/electroacoustic experimental music. There's also progressive rock, but apart from my all-time favourites, that genre is beginning to slip into "a thing of the past" for me tbh.

What music are you embarassed about enjoying? I think I've shed all my embarrassments by now. Cat Stevens? Kelly Family? Rick Wakeman? Yikes! Nowadays, everything I enjoy is official Rico-approved cool music.

Do you have a significant other? Yep. Three years in July.

What do you do when you are not listening to music or playing mafia? Study music. Troll on FB and the internet. Try to focus on actual important things to do, but fail most of the time.

What did you want to be when you grew up at age 5? 10? 17? Are you anywhere near doing those things? 5: Astronomer. 10: no idea whatsoever. 17: musician. Trying to get near a secure career on that last one, at the moment.

If not, what do you currently do to pay the bills and do you like the work you do? Unemployed. Keep trying to jump from one study degree to another. Running out of options, now that I'm a post-postgraduate.

If I were to visit you what are some of the things we would do? My dad has a saying that you can judge a city but how many days you'd need to visit it properly. By his standard, I expect any tourist to be stone bored after three days in my hometown - and I would even say that's putting it mildly. But if you visit me, I would probably do everything in my power to distract you from asking me to play something for you. :P

If you were to visit me, what would you like to see in Phoenix? I would either let you suggest what we should do or come prepared with a few ideas, since I'm always a freak planner in all my trips.

What was your favorite subject in school? Least favorite? Musical Form at the Conservatory, awesome teacher (friend with him right now), awesome courses. Except for my musical training, much of high-school and conservatory sucked otherwise. Drawing, chemistry and economics were particularly pointless as hell.

Did you like school at all? Not really. See above. Also, I hated everyone in high-school, except for my best friend, until 9th or 10th grade.

What sorts of things do you enjoy reading or watching on the TV or at the movies? Reading: mostly fiction. TV: classical and jazz concerts on Mezzo, interesting availble TV series or movies and scantily dressed chicks on Fashion TV . I only go to the movies to watch a blockbuster I really want to go see (Dark Knight, Guardians, Interstellar) or whatever girl wants to go see.

Do you cook? If so, do you have a signature dish? If so, what is it? Zero assets. Can't even make an omlette. Can flip pancakes decently. I once tried to make "leche frita" (fried milk), but I made my gril faint when she saw me drop the bits in the frying pan from two meters above.

Are my questions annoying yet? Yyyyno.

What is something you've always wanted to try but haven't yet? I don't know, I'm not eager to try that many things.

Where is some place you would like to visit but haven't yet? Lisbon.

Where is the best place you've gone to for a vacation? Paris or Florence.

Is man inherently good, evil or neither? Why? Too philosophical question for me, but I definitely am not the kind of guy to believe "inherently good" is close to the right answer. I don't know, maybe somewhere in the middle.

Nurture or nature or both? Why? Too philosophical question for me.

Do you like me? Is it because I'm awesome or because I'm awesomely aweful? I like you and am intrigued by you. Definitely closer to the awesome scale. Can't wait to play some more games with you to have an even better image.

How many languages do you speak? Which ones? My own, English, German (never adequately enough, tho) and Kobaian. Never learned French properly because my high-school teacher was an incompetent.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Rico!

1. Favorite concert you've ever been to?
2. Favorite concert you've ever performed?
3. Will you be creating a mafia game? If so, what theme(s) were you thinking?
4. Do you prefer being civilian or mafia?

Also, not sure who was part of the trifecta myself, haha, but I do remember all three of those folks being around during different incarnations of the Shred Room.

1. I'm known to be very pretentious (even borderline a hater) with the music I listen to, but overall I'm way more amiable going to concerts, so I loved most I've attended so far. I usually travel specifically for very important concerts, because my hometown hardly provides much besides an annual jazz festival and a few notable rock concerts. In classical, I've been utterly entranced by the piano recitals of Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia; I've also recently heard Concertgebouw Amsterdam with a genuine "CD-quality" top-notch performance of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben and a Third Piano Concerto by Beethoven in which they outclassed the soloist! But I may have an even better pick in mind: imagine one of the top chamber orchestras of the world (Lausanne) with the simplest programme possible: Haydn, two symphonies and a trumpet concerto; you might find it a light concert, but wrong: a superlative, spellbinding performance, I think my favourite by far.

In other genres, probably Esbjorn Svensson Trio playing in my hometown (I wasn't even fully converted to them back then and they still shook my world). Peter Hammill recently touched my heart with a solo and humble piano/guitar recital, also in my country. I've travelled abroad to see John Zorn (Paris), Van der Graaf Generator (Rome) or Peter Brotzmann (Budapest) and they all rocked.

2. Prokofiev's Second Concerto, sadly just the first movement, because it was a graduation concert and we were all slotted only with bits. But damn I love that work so much and I pulled it off very nicely, I think, was ecstatic afterwards. However, it now comes almost at a tie with playing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time; omg I don't even.

3. I don't know, I've monitored all three games I've been in so far (i.e. the sheets I created and posted during endgame) so I probably would get the hang of creating a traditional game and letting you all pick yourselves apart inside my world. I'd probably suck at the "creative writing" part of the host D/N posts. Anyone for tennis, for instance? I think I've read that such a game was created on previous forums, but a Breaking Bad game would be nice. I also happen to have in mind an absolutely crazy and complicated idea for a game, but I'm not even sure myself how that can be constructed. Won't go into more details.

4. Good question.

Spacedaisy wrote:What mafia game do you wish you could have played?

How does it feel to have won your first game?

Which of the members do you feel acts the most suspicious in general?

Which member do you think you find the most difficult to read?

What is you favorite color?

How long have you known MP?

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

1. I didn't check that many past games when I joined, partly finding it quite impossible to understand much of the context or the discussions in them, apart from basic mechanics and such. That's why I just plunged into my first game and hoped to be able to adapt. I started out here by being drawn more by the theme than the sheer gaming, so based on that I would have liked to play Avant-Garde, maybe X-Men (I really like how it ended ), The Hobbit, maybe Fight Club. I left out Harry Potter, although I think it was one of the first past games I checked, because it scared me into believing that playing in-character would be required (I would definitely suck at that), but it turns out I wasn't familiar with sockpuppet games and that it isn't the case at all in general. Nowadays, since I've played Donner and am playing Death Note, I'm starting to prefer games with atypical mechanisms. I would probably have also joined Mongoose's other Film game. I followed Cars and liked how the indy killer plowed through the players till a certain point (also, personally thought it was Snowy). I'd like to land such a role in the future.

2. Pretty incredible. I can't explain the feeling, but I really wanted to win Film, not so much for the newb victory but for the game itself. Of course, it was still a very lucky win, in context of putting so much effort not to lose my entire team along the way or given that the other team has been so close on winning it.

3. Too early to tell, "in general" at least. Epignosis seems to be a constant magnet, but I also think he's intentionally or purposefully confrontational - in fact, I think that's quite the understatement. I'm familiar with Vompatti's persona, so I'll probably get bored with his shenanigans in time. Zomberella's ways of hunting, jumping on players or making assumptions seems so erratic to me, I'm probably bound to be wary of that more often that not.

4. I found it impossible to challenge Dom in Film, but more in fear of his snappy rebuttals, because otherwise it turns out I picked up on some good signals about him. Right now, I think I can't read SVS at all, nor challenge her. I didn't really have good reads of many players, even if it wasn't necessarily in my "job description" either. I couldn't make any sense of Epig's shenanigans in Donner, but luckily I was able to solve that dilemma with the use of a bullet.

5. Red.

6. He won't like my answer, but I can't remember exactly. Probably since he joined ProgArchives, but more importantly, the spam & troll-infested Shred Rooms (think the Velvet Room was already obsolete by then). That's where I myself interracted with most of the PA members I'm still in touch with. Actually, I judged the passing of those generations based on certain powerful "trifectas" (such as Cygnus - Stonebeard - ManwithHat, for anyone who remembers them) and I think MP was part of the ... was it second or third?, together with Horse/BirdwithTeeth and ... uhm... BJ? KoS? Tor? Really can't remember.

7. This is the first time I'm hearing of a Klondike bar. Mmm vanilla.

Mongoose wrote:How would you rate your addiction to this site, on a scale of 1 to 100?

Given how much it has heavily interefered with some of the following RL activities over the past month and a half:

focusing on my study
preparing for my IELTS certification exam
preparing my draft proposal for the workshop in England
preparing for the workshop in England
doing much of anything else on the internet
doing much of anything else late in the evening
doing much of anything else
sleeping
noticing there's a girlfriend I'm living with
noticing there's a world outside

I would say around 90.

A Person wrote:Why are you on the internet when you could be practicing piano instead?

I think this has been the question of my life for at least the past 10 years and the answer probably is that I can't help myself and that I don't feel like accomplishing anything in life.

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Sorry, Spacedaisy, I'll answer your questions in the morning or so. In the meantime, keep' em coming, everyone.

One-time opportunity, everyone.

Are you male or female?