The Syndicate

Over the whole year, if we’re measuring favorite by most used it’s probably “I love you” followed by “god fucking damnit.”

G-Man wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:02 am What is your favorite three-word phrase?

This time of year it’s probably

“Fuck you, verducci!”

Btw you can ask however many you want, it’s just hard to answer like 8 questions in the same post on my phone lol.

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:55 am what's your fav role to roll?

Vig, I like the increased agency and ability to shape the game the way I want it.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:57 pm How long have you been playing mafia for and where else have you played?

Uh...I think the first time I played mafia was a game of werewolf at like 9? I started playing online a few years ago, december 2016 I think but might’ve been 2017. I’ve played in person, on playdiplomacy.com, mafia451 (the main place I play now, and imo the best place to play mafia, come say hi and join a game!), MU, I skipped MS cause I don’t like the forum layout, liars club and mini mafia and 451 for video mafia. Fast games on discord. Maybe some other places I’m forgetting idk.

Whoops wrong thread lmao

Nanook: I’m gonna coast till the game is smaller, @ me then

Texas: Nanook is coasting! Here’s some busywork, the kind you’ve explicitly said you aren’t doing, now do it!

Nanook: ...........

I haven’t seen disenchanted yet and don’t really care for the simpsons tbh

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:15 pm what's the last tv show you binged on?

Futurama

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:10 pm do you have any pets?

Nope

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:02 pm i should have said baltimore.

You should have tbh, at least they have fans when they’re good. Rays can’t sell out a World Series game.

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:54 pm @NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME, what's your horoscope?

Not positive, I don’t really pay attention tbh. Aries I think.

I think it’s more that the playoffs reward different skills/team composition than the regular season does in baseball, moreso than in most other sports (this is true to some extent in basketball too, but more teams make the postseason so it’s a bit less pronounced).

So in my opinion it’s not so much randomness as it is the playoffs rewarding different things than the regular season.

The problem with the nfl postseason is that you’re not really getting a lot of close games that mean anything—last year was a bit of an outlier though, tbf. But how often are conference championship games markedly better than the super bowl? Fairly regularly, I think?

The nba has a bit of a different issue, where there are really only 2-4 teams that can realistically win a championship in a given year barring injuries. You get occasional outliers like the 2011 Mavs, but for the most part there’s not a ton of drama in the nba playoffs because a 7 game series between the Celtics and pacers doesn’t mean anything when neither team realistically has a shot at a title. I think the nba would benefit greatly from cutting down on how many teams make the playoffs tbh.

That’s why the nhl and mlb playoffs are so exciting, any team in any given year can win the World Series or the Stanley cup.

Stanley cup finals I think probably take that crown, for the 4 major US sports anyways.

And yeah the pitching is pretty much garbage right now.

Eh, the “small market guy moves to big market team” thing works out less than you’d think. It’s not usually as easy as “develop guys the same but you can pay to keep them instead of trading them away as soon as they’re good.” Most guys are markedly better at one than the other. We’ll see though!

And yeah, I think betts is gone. He wants to set the market and I don’t think the Red Sox give it to him. I hope not though, I’ve liked betts since he broke into the bigs (he has some of the quickest hands at the plate I’ve ever seen), and I think he has a good chance to be productive up to 33-35.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:29 pm do you have any fears?

Yes, almost everyone does.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:28 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:27 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:21 pm Who are you rooting for in the World Series?

Nationals, unfortunately. I love George Springer but I kinda hate the astros.

Same. I've got nothing particularly against the Astros, but it's more boring if they win.

Who's your favorite team?

The Red Sox! Not a great season for us but we won the series last year so it’s fine. Have a feeling we won’t be relevant for something like 3-7 years but I also have never quite got rid of that pre-curse breaking pessimism lol.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:22 pm i suppose you mean american football. out of those, i guess i can say i enjoy basketball the most.

if you could get paid doing anything in the world, what would you want it to be?

What I’m doing now I guess, editing.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:21 pm Who are you rooting for in the World Series?

Nationals, unfortunately. I love George Springer but I kinda hate the astros.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:08 pm do you enjoy any kind of sport, spectator or participant?

Yes! I used to play baseball and basketball, and I follow both those and football on the profesional level, and college basketball. I very very very loosely follow the nhl and college football. I follow UT baseball and the smokies in as much as I go to a couple games a year.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:07 pm that is the only correct answer. welcome to my friends list.

<3

I enjoy the feeling of having flossed teeth, but only psychopaths actively enjoy the flossing part of the equation.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:47 pm @NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME which country would you most like to visit and why?

Probably italy.

Favorite show is probably the sopranos. Although I think season one of legion is one of if not the best first season of a show I’ve ever seen. Favorite movie is probably between prestige and godfather II, favorite book is probably dune but maybe name of the wind, and favorite game is...I guess probably skyrim, I’ve played a few hundred hours of it over a couple different platforms so it’s tough not to give it the nod. Lots of strong contenders though.

No other languages for me!

The perfect pizza is a New Haven style pizza with white sauce, mushrooms, spinach, mozzarella, and fresh mozzarella.

Since I live nowhere close to New Haven, I usually just get a standard red sauce/cheese/mushroom pizza.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:19 am how do you drink your coffee?

With a pinkie out.

Elephant wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:24 am How many mermaids are there?

At least one, probably more

Also I’m only taking one question at a time, if you try to ask me 8 in the same post I will answer selectively.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:28 am What glorious conquests did you lead to be called "the Great" like those other titans of history?

Like all the great leaders through history, I gave myself the title first and I’ll worry about the details later.