The Syndicate

I have a job interview on Friday - would be a really great job, so fingers crossed.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:get 'em Golden. provide a link to Death and Taxes in your resume.

Although I am a lawyer, I'm not convinced that how well I can lie is a good selling point.

Biblical mafia, though...

Epi bought this so that he could play it every time he gets NKed on night 1.

Is that a picture of a llama's ass?

It's hard for me to post on this subject without a giant diatribe about how ill Christianity is (certainly the part of Christianity which makes all the noise and gets all the press), so I will leave it at this...

Congratulations USA, glad you caught up.

Ricochet wrote:I had an omelette for breakfast today.

Au fromage?

@G-Man - the threat to churches of becoming taxable entities is on the horizon in New Zealand as well. It's a direct result of their being people who are anti-religion who do not see why religious entities should be allowed to enjoy tax-free status.

But I think it would be very bad for policy reasons, because the reality is that the religious (and I'm not saying only Christians here) are often responsible for a larger percentage of social work, funded through income that the church makes, than other sectors of society. The reality of taxing churches is probably to leave the marginilised and poor worse off.

I think it counts.

Is it just me or did Canada pick a day way too close to 4th July to make it look like anything other than jealousy?

Ah, those Canadians, with good and proper inferiority complexes. We kiwis understand.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:Running my Ace Attorney thing here is probably the last mafia thing I do. Pretty sure I'm done with mafia for a very long time if not entirely.

My break was three years. I didn't know if I would come back. Get it entirely. Take the break you need, I hope you find your way back.

I bet on Heiots.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:-> Epi sends a message to all users explaining how to turn off DST.
-> I turned DST on a few days ago.

It's kind of weird to be on a forum where everybody lives in the North Hemisphere except me.

And me perhaps the mods should be conscious of all DST changes so they can inform us too

Epignosis wrote:

G-Man wrote:We have wifi at the hospital but still no baby. The doctors are saying she ought to be born today (Friday) yet. We'll see.

Keep your head up mate. Tell the missus we're in her corner.

Just make sure you aren't putting the baby in her corner. No-one does that.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes ... ecember-17

Question 13, specifically.

Well played Rico.

I feel old too Rico. Life just somehow comes to get you.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Also, I'm having cherry pie.

PI DAY FTW

It's the 141st of March already?

Mongoose wrote:AND they just discovered the complex was built over .... wait for it... an Indian burial ground.

oh this kind of thing I know all about.

Man, I need to up my game.

Zebra and Mac are both over 20 posts per day.

Spacedaisy wrote:

Quin wrote:so who else likes firefly

What's Firefly?

I love Firefly, but my mother also loves it and she won't give back my DVD's lol!

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:So... I was walking home after work and then bumped into something you don't see every day (or lifetime, for that matter):

The olympic torch.



It's kind of blurry but it's what my phone could do lol.

Awesome, that is so cool DDL!

My phone now autocorrects dvd to svs...

A boy arrived for us on the 7th, not long before midnight. His name is hamish. He was big but not quite as big as they expected. No sleep for me.

For those who know Sophie, she was due the same time as us but hers came earlier, a couple of weeks ago. She had a boy called Julian.

Thanks for the congrats everyone. Pictures will come when we get home from hospital

Hey all

Just want to let everyone know who hears about the earthquake that me and my family are safe. My city (Wellington) felt it pretty strong and did take a decent amount of damage in some areas, but there haven't been any serious injuries or deaths here.

Closer to the epicentre, the town of Kaikoura which is a very picturesque tourist town seems to be completely munted (the New Zealand term for being completely fucked by an earthquake) and many roads are going to take a lot to repair. There are a couple of deaths in the south island too, sadly.

The worst damage in my house was Hamish, experiencing his first earthquake, who decided to evacuate from every orifice shortly afterwards. Poor terrified bub.

Epi, elo... that stuff moved me to tears. You guys deserve every blessing that comes your way, and more, and so I am so pleased for you that you have found a house. Good luck, I hope things continue to work for you.

A quick update on all things earthquake.

I've ended up 'off work' all week, which is really code for 'working from home'. My building is safe but clearly some of its pipes ruptured, and we have no idea what the damage is or where in the building. We have what they are calling a 'staged reoccupation' from Monday.

They've just announced a building a block from my work building is going to have to be demolished. It's possible it won't be the last.

We are very lucky that this quake wasn't closer to Wellington at this size, in many ways. We are also lucky it happened at midnight on a sunday. We would likely have had fatalities in the city if it had come during the day, given the extent of damage.

G-Man wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

G-Man wrote:Red means least suspicious, right?

You wish; that's my color. Confirmed town teal.

I guess I'll never live down my antics in Economics Mafia. Perma-suspicious it is then.

Join the club.

thellama73 wrote:of course you're supposed to sip whiskey.

Preferably MacCutcheon's.

I basically sip at all alcohol, unless I need a beer really badly.

juliets wrote:

A Person wrote:

thellama73 wrote:It just occurred to me that maybe the 200 zillion antidepressant ads I have to constantly watch on Youtube are because pharmaceutical companies think only depressed people watch Youtube.

Actually there have been studies that correlate certain internet habits to depression.

I haven't seen an ad on the internet in a long time.

What do you use to block the ads?

Eyelids?

Spambots, probably.

Hamish is also now trying to figure out crawling. Too soon, buddy, too soon. I like you immobile.

Dom wrote:

Sorsha wrote:What a cute little turnip head!

You weren't supposed to tell Golden that TH is the father.

I'm hard pressed to think of the best game I've ever hosted. I don't think I've ever had one go to lylo up to this point. Mostly what I enjoy is wreaking mechanical havoc upon everyone and watch them try and resolve it all. And basically all of my games do that, so...

G-Man wrote:I think my favorite game that I played is still Economics. A lot of good stuff came out of that game: my new zany reputation for shenanigans, my Joker meme, Coward, dog pee, and a healthy distrust of Golden.

That game literally went down to the wire. A Lylo standoff until the last three minutes? Nuts. It sucked to lose but it was a fun ride.

Economics is my favourite too, and I'm not sure it can ever be topped.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

G-Man wrote:I think my favorite game that I played is still Economics. A lot of good stuff came out of that game: my new zany reputation for shenanigans, my Joker meme, Coward, dog pee, and a healthy distrust of Golden.

That game literally went down to the wire. A Lylo standoff until the last three minutes? Nuts. It sucked to lose but it was a fun ride.

Turnip Head and I take full responsibility for that healthy distrust of Golden.

With your random unchangeable day 1 votes?

Dom wrote:Can I just say every LC/BR game?

This is also very true.

S~V~S wrote:Recruitment 3 was my best game, Llamas Harry Keeler probably my most fun, I had such outstanding BTS there. Tied with World Reborn for fun, MM and multi Dutchies FTW!

I really enjoyed hosting American Gods. Juliets is always a dream to work with, and watching my Loki have SUCH a great game and so much fun assembling his team is what hosting is all about for me.

The Keeler game did have such great btsc such a shame that we didn't win. I think we played it well.

Recruitment 3, my goodness, just one game of many where I've gone head to head with SVS and come off second best.

Given my break and your break, I feel like it's been ages since I played with you (World Reborn?).... too long.

thellama73 wrote:But the best game I've ever hosted is by far Minimalism Mafia. What a disaster.

I read that thread once. I can't believe it only lasted a 'day'. But, in some ways, I think the experiment is worth repeating lol.

DharmaHelper wrote:

thellama73 wrote:But the best game I've ever hosted is by far Minimalism Mafia. What a disaster.

I hear tell you would've had a 6-word-story contest?

"The killer was lynched, Day One."

He wasn't even a killer. It's like minority report.

Epignosis wrote:They just wanted to play outside.

You don't know what you've got until you know what it's like not to have it.

You done well for your kids, epi. I'm glad that you know it.

Vompatti wrote:The same as furniture with multiple drawers, it just has less of it.

Vomps is civ, k?

I prefer whites to reds.

Well done Quin!!

Great review, llama. Really good.

While no legal system is cheap, there's no doubt that the American legal system in particular is set up in a way that allows the wealthy to bury others in legal costs and make it fiscally impossible for them to fight. There are any number of things I would do to fix the American legal system, but it's so hulking and lumbering that it would be a very large challenge.

Access to Justice is something that policy analysts in the Justice space grapple with regularly. Access to Justice is represented by a cheap and affordable system, but it's also represented by the ability to present all evidence, to appeal matters when you believe decisions made against you are wrong, etc... all of which increase the cost of participation. It's a challenging balancing act.

Do you know where in the 46 minutes you are?

Do you know if John (Lee) Hancock has a big signature?

thellama73 wrote:

Golden wrote:Do you know where in the 46 minutes you are?

Do you know if John (Lee) Hancock has a big signature?

My segment starts probably around the 25 or 30 minute mark. Hard to know for sure without listening to it, since they edited the breaks out.

I might listen to the whole thing later, for context, but streaming at work takes its data, so I'm aiming to go straight to you.

Edit: Good guess. 24:55 is where you come in.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Wait, when did Golden become #6 to hit 10,000 posts? Nice!

The real question is whether Jay or Rico will be #7.

When I posted that I was in the Post Count Achievement Thread. Keep up, MP!