The Syndicate

DFaraday, what is your favorite kind of cereal?

Greetings indiglo.

If you could have a jar full of anything at all, what would you want?

Once you've acquired the prior mentioned jar and its contents, what would you do with them?

What is your opinion of Jar Jar Binks?

If a jar was a role in a mafia game, what abilities would it have?

Do you prefer to sleep with the door closed or... ajar?

If you could, please provide one emoticon which best describes your general mindset when playing each of the three base alignments: civilian, mafia, independent.

Sig, how would you summarize your general approach to Mafia games regardless of alignment?

What is your name?

What is your quest?

What is the space-speed velocity of the USS Enterprise?

ika what is your username?

Silverwolf wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Silverwolf:

Milk, dark, or white chocolate?
You guys are asking the tough questions because I love them all.

I'll probably go with milk chocolate if I absolutely had to pick one.

We're going to get along very well.

Silverwolf:

Milk, dark, or white chocolate?

Hey there Silverwolf.

Do you prefer living in the north or south?

If you could impart just one nugget of Mafia wisdom to your viewing audience, what would it be?

what's an aokiji?

What is your proudest moment in a Mafia game?

Matt, what is your least favorite thing about Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate?

What do you feel is your best Mafia talent?

What is your favorite moment so far as a mafia player?

Hey RadicalFuzz. I played with Alpha in the champs tourney, and he hates your guts. :P Why?

What are the biggest differences between Sloonei the mafia player from the earliest RYM games and Sloonei the mafia player now? Do you have any significant influences in your style?

What is the most interesting stateside location you've visited?

What is your favorite album as of right now?

How are collegiate thangs going?

Bong?

Have you observed any standards/trends/things on The Syndicate that you think would benefit RYM Mafia if implemented/practiced there?

What would you say is your greatest mafia strength? Weakness?

Do you have any pet peeves in mafia?

You wake up one particularly bright summer morning in a daze. You shield your eyes from the glare of the sunlight, your vision blurred but returning. The back of your hand feels strange against your face, and more notably – your face feels strange against the back of your hand. You sit up with a frown and blink repeatedly for focus.

The windowsill is not yours. Or is it? The shelves are lined with alien objects. Or are they alien? A very specific stuffed animal stares down upon you from over the rear bed rail. You know its name. Your eyes are wide now, and a flood of recognition drowns your senses.

You jump from your bed and stand tall. Tall? The floor is so close! You glance intuitively towards the mirror on your dresser. You are visible. Or rather, what is visible was you. Your consciousness is that of yourself from days long gone. It must have been ten years ago! Or fifteen?

You run a trial in your mind. You comprehend the notion of 2015 AD. You have experienced it. Your proper knowledge remains yours. But this is clearly not the year. What are you thinking, and what do you do?

actually i think my 7 day interrogation period is over now (in my time zone). i'll answer any more if y'all have 'em of course.

but i'm ready to pummel the next victim with some questions too.

Epignosis wrote:Have you ever been on a plane?

quite a few commercial jets, and one military cargo jet.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Jay:

What made you decide on a career with USAF?

a few different things. these aren't necessarily ranked:

~ my prior job was as a store manager of a pizza restaurant. it paid well enough for a 21 year old dude i guess, but it wasn't very rewarding and i felt like i was wasting away. so i pursued something that appeared a little more interesting. i also wanted to escape the horror of complacency in a place like that, leading to an inevitable middle-aged JJJ working as a *district manager* or something. hurl.

~ my first stint in college was a terrible failure. i was unmotivated and bored, and it showed in my grades. the AF provided a means of both learning how to motivate myself and also return to school to make amends for the first time. moreover it'd set me up to pursue graduate school when my stint is up, and i am just about underway with that now.

~ to challenge myself to grow. the entire concept of military life seemed very contrary to my nature, and i thought i might be able to broaden my skills (physical, mental, and social) in ways that i wouldn't be able to elsewhere.

~ to prolong my youth, or at least the illusion thereof. without a lasting college experience and having already graduated high school, i felt like i was on a crash course for responsibilities and adulthood. a 22 year old low-ranking airman in the AF lives in a dormitory and does what he pleases all day long outside work.

~ see more of the world. mission accomplished.

Many of you would make great RYM members. We've got plenty of music to talk about and plenty of mafia to play.

My recent listening habits have been extremely lazy, so I'll take those two comments to heart (listening to Mei and any Kansas that isn't likely to be played 800,000 times per day on classic rock radio).

Epignosis wrote:Favorite Kansas song?
Favorite Yes song?
Favorite Echolyn song?
Favorite Tears for Fears song?

I can't name any other than the two enormous radio hits. Between those, Dust in the wind.

Close to the Edge (might be my favorite prog track period)

Never heard of Echolyn. Any recommendations?

Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I love Tears for Fears.

MovingPictures07 wrote:What are five themes that you would most like to see mafia games based on?

Star Wars vs Star Trek
The 2016 Presidential Election
Back to the Future (stay tuned for RYM #88

)
Types of animal poop

And y'all could take after RYM #50 (RYM Mafia Mafia) if you haven't already done a self-referential game. The Syndicate Mafia, in which players are given characters -- of other players (by first come first serve request). It MUST be a closed setup though so roleplay is possible. Imagine Yourself MP playing as Vompatti for example. Or vice versa.

MovingPictures07 wrote:What's the hardest win you've ever pulled off?

I'll got with RYM game #39. I mentioned it earlier, town won despite a very imbalanced setup (11 vs 4 vs 1). And 3 of the 4 mafia team members were RYM Mafia Hall of Famers. The rogue was too.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Easiest win?

Probably RYM game #82 (no theme). I was mafia with two others. We all survived and never faced any significant pressure.

Sloonei wrote:How would you describe your general approach to a typical mafia game?

Since I am going to draw a town role in most Mafia games I play, I tend to build all of my strategy around behavior that I think will benefit the town faction. That means that when I draw a mafia role, I am challenging myself to meet the standard I set as a townie. It does make things harder as an anti-town player, but I think the efforts have made me better at Mafia in general than I used to be when I was more conscious of maintaining an easier mafia meta. With that said, my town-oriented approach is pretty consistent nowadays, varying slightly depending upon any special abilities I may have.

It is my opinion that most games are decided on Day 1. This is less true in power role-heavy setups and more true in vanilla-heavy setups. I think it is imperative for the town to set a high activity standard immediately upon a game's start. For that reason, you'll often see me casting votes all over the place at the start of Day 1 (when multiple votes per phase are allowed). This generates reactions both from the players receiving votes and the players observing my conduct. Those reactions aren't extremely important on their own, but they set the pace. Those reactions generate further reactions, and the game can then grow at an exponential rate. More content is generated, and that allows players to develop meaningful reads on one another. Reads become accusations, defenses, or fence-sitting, and posts containing those things become components of more thorough reads later. When town fails to generate a good, active Day 1 then they've by default stalled the game from truly getting started and thus given their opponents a free cycle to get ahead.

So this means that early in the game, I play as a facilitator. I try to play as a leader. I try to sustain a productive thread to the best of my ability by promoting discussion however I can. Later in the game my posting rate sometimes decreases, but that's because the amount of content in each post increases dramatically. I do less facilitating and begin analyzing, collecting all of the data that players have made available to me and trying to find meaningful clues. This becomes immensely more intense for me at the first moment a dead mafia player is produced. Dead mafia provide the best opportunity for in-thread information to be assessed which can really point to players as serious suspects. This is when gut reads take a backseat to evidence-based reads.

I make a concerted effort to interact directly with every single player on a game roster. It's particularly important for me when I deliberately pursue a leadership role for the town (even when I actually oppose them), because this means I am shouldering more responsibility than I otherwise would be. I feel an obligation to live up to my own playstyle, which demands strong play at the risk of doing a lot of damage. When I am able to lead but not able to provide accurate reads, then other townies will follow me to their own doom. That provides an obvious benefit to mafia JJJ, but it's also possible for townie JJJ. Because of that, I don't tend to allow myself to espouse a point loudly unless I have thoroughly researched it first. And if I don't thoroughly research everyone, then someone is likely to slip under my radar. If I am to be a leader, I can't allow that. Or every town loss in which I am a part will literally be my fault.

I would have it no other way.

Sloonei wrote:What is your favorite Led Zeppelin song?

"Ten Years Gone" from Physical Graffiti

MovingPictures07 wrote:Okay, how about top 5 unconventional (to rock) instruments?

i'm going to consider the piano conventional. if you don't, then it's on top.

Flute
Violin
Harp
Cello
Xylophone

MovingPictures07 wrote:Need more rankings!!

- Top 10 singers
- Top 10 drummers
- Top 10 bassists
- Top 10 guitarists

or top 5 or some other number if that works better!

aw damn, i used to really keep track of this. i haven't in a long time, and have probably even forgotten a lot of names. i'll name as many as i can without sacrificing a genuine reflection of my current tastes...

these are in no order:

Singers:
Bic Runga
Björk
Marina Diamandis
Matt Berninger (The National)
Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Joni Mitchell
Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche)
Amy Winehouse
Sibylle Baier
Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)

Drummers
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips)
Orri Páll Dýrason (Sigur Rós)
Danny Carey (Tool)
Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson)

Bassists
Nigel Griggs (Split Enz)
Bootsy Collins (Parliament-Funkadelic)
John Entwistle (The Who)

Guitarists
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
Andrew Latimer (Camel)
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
Chris DeGarmo (Queensrÿche)

i liked Scenes from a Memory a lot too, though last time i listened it felt a bit too cheesy. which is not really a diss from me because i listen to plenty of cheesy things.

i haven't listened for a long time, but when i was more into Dream Theater my favorite was definitely Images and Words. i think i'll give it a spin now if it's on Spotify.

I should have said that to Mrs. Owen-Hawkins somewhere between naps.

I am sure Billy Budd is a perfectly good book. When I think about it though, all I see is color-coded highlighting and Scantron sheets.

nijuukyugou wrote:1) Do you like cartoons? What's your favorite?

certainly! all-time, probably The Simpsons. currently, probably Bob's Burgers.

nijuukyugou wrote:2) Favorite toy as a kid?

pretty much any kind of building kit. Erector Set, K'Nex, Linkin' Logs

nijuukyugou wrote:3) Best musical instrument and why?

the most aesthetically pleasing is the piano i think. i just bought a flute though, i look forward to annoying my neighbors.

nijuukyugou wrote:4) What extracurriculars, if any, did you participate in in high school?

nothing really. i was terribly anti-social in high school and made every effort possible to avoid my peers. however, in middle school i was on the track and field team (both long and short distance). now in the military i have played softball, table tennis, and ultimate frisbee

nijuukyugou wrote:5) Favorite school subject and why?

the hard sciences, definitely. i am still obsessed with chemistry and physics, they just suit my brain type i think.

nijuukyugou wrote:6) Least favorite school subject and why?

english (hi Epi

). learning the mechanics of the language is cool, i can dig that. but the reading comprehension portions which forced me to analyze novels instead of merely read them (especially when unique interpretations were discouraged) were always infuriating.

nijuukyugou wrote:7) Worst book of all time?

i read a single page of 50 Shades of Gray. that one.

nijuukyugou wrote:8) Dark or milk chocolate?

great question! i'd be asking this one myself. i think milk wins, but i love both. i am obsessed with chocolate and in recent years have become a sort of chocolate scholar. when i visited Belgium it was nothing but heaven and tummy aches

.

nijuukyugou wrote:9) Coolest animal and why?

i have a strange fascination with lemurs. those little guys are the coolest.

nijuukyugou wrote:10) Favorite type of food (like, ethnic or style) and why?

italian forever.

My review of it is in that spoiler. :P

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm terrible at coming up with questions, so here's some more music and music ranking questions:
- Worst 5 albums you've ever heard and why

Crazy Frog - Crazy Frog - honestly i just listened to this so i could fill the minimum rating slot on my RYM page

DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage - when i ask myself, "what do you think makes music good?", the attributes of DragonForce represent the polar opposites to everything i might respond with

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events - sorry y'all. i know DT has a decent following around here and i don't mean to be a stick in the mud. there was even a time when i liked their earlier material. but this album makes me want to die. i'll share my full review below*

Vincent Royer / Gérard Caussé - Intimate Rituals - i am just not classy enough for this. it's a weird brand of neoclassical stuff known as "spectralism" comprised entirely of squealing violas and it sounds terrible to me.

KISS - Destroyer - omg KISS are so terrible. no redeeming qualities. i don't like the gimmick either.

MovingPictures07 wrote:- How often do you go to concerts and/or music festivals? Favorite concert ever? Worst?

not nearly as often as i'd like (maybe 5 in my whole life). live music has never been a huge interest for me, but i'd still like to see more. the best was probably Metallica during their Death Magnetic tour. the worst was probably when Converge opened for Mastodon and almost inspired me to leave before the headliner could even play.

MovingPictures07 wrote:- Top 10 recommendations of artists that you think everyone should hear but likely have not heard

this is tough because it's hard to tell which artists people have heard and not heard. on RYM we babble on and on about music often that we tend to lose sight of this kind of thing. hmmm, here's some goodies in no particular order...

Joanna Newsom (free folk singer/songwriter)
Emilíana Torrini (dream pop/indie pop singer/songwriter)
Guided By Voices (lo-fi)
Crowded House/Split Enz (pop/rock)
Pulp (britpop)
Eric B. & Rakim (boom bap)
Mariee Sioux (contemporary folk singer/songwriter)
CunninLynguists (southern hip hop)
Allo Darlin' (twee pop)
Shihad (alternative rock)

i think y'all know about plenty of prog rock so i'll leave that alone.

MovingPictures07 wrote:- Top 10 recommendations of albums that you think everyone should hear but likely have not heard

pay those artists a visit on spotify and take your pick.

MovingPictures07 wrote:- Top 10 hip hop albums

1. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
2. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
3. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
6. Death Grips - The Money Store
7. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
8. Compton's Most Wanted - Music to Drive By
9. Del tha Funkeé Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
10. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

~~~

*the DT - ADToE review:

Spoiler: show

Sloonei wrote:What's the coolest Mafia Thing you've picked up outside of RYM?

hmmm... maybe a more aggressive style of townie deception. a lying townie can incite a lot of interesting reactions.

Sloonei wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Missing Person wrote:Who are the best 5 mafia players that you don't think people know about or give enough credit?
Sloonei
What, in your opinion, makes Sloonei the greatest mafia player of all time?

thank you so much, bea. you're very kind. i'm definitely happy to be here finally after having heard so much from MovingPictures and Keterman over the last year or so.

bea wrote:I"ve been an aglophile for as long as I could talk so I can understand your relating to them. When I was in college, my shakespeare profie would look out the window in october and sigh and say "It's a grand summer day in England" and then we would start class.

someday i might end up behaving just like him.

bea wrote:I would love to talk to you about your personal beliefs and desires. But that feels like not a topic for a) public consumption and b) virtual strangers

this is the interrogation room! i'm happy to answer any question at all and engage in any conversation within reason.

thank you very much, bea.

bea wrote:What do you miss the most from "back home?"

i think it's probably Skyline Chili. weird thing for a vegetarian to say, eh? they have a bean-only 3-way thing and i need it right now.

bea wrote:What do you miss the least from "back home?"

hay fever. screw you, Ohio pollon.

bea wrote:Are you an Ohio State fan?

mildly so at least! truly though i am more into professional sports. i love the Bengals and Reds (good call MM!). i've also shamelessly rooted for whatever NBA team LeBron plays for because of his Ohio roots. i don't feel the same obligations to a Cleveland team that i do to a Cincinnati team.

bea wrote:What do you enjoy most about being in the UK?

perhaps oddly, i quite like the often dreary weather. it keeps the temperature regulated, though in the winter it can be brutally cold. rather like Ohio. generally though i am just a liberal arsehole and the entire character of Europe in general suits me. i dread returning to the States.

bea wrote:Have you had the chance to do much traveling around Europe or the Isles?

just the one trip i mentioned before (Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam). i have circled the mainland of the UK fully though. Edinburgh, Scotland is my favorite city on the isle for sure.

bea wrote:Do you have favorite books, movies or tv shows? If so, what are they and why?

Book - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë - i am a sucker for a well-conceived romance (you'll see more of that shortly), and i adore the characters. Brontë wrote wonderful dialogue which may have breached the limits of realistic human conversation, but it inspired such thorough introspection that i couldn't begin to care. wonderful book.

Movie - "Before Sunrise" (1995, directed by Richard Linklater) - another total romance thing. it bears the appearance of something stereotypical and cheesy, but it is anything but. the entire aesthetic of love is affirmed with relatable people whose chemistry feels utterly real.

TV Show - Star Trek: The Next Generation - i'm a nerd. i think it has the best cast of characters ever and i could watch the entire series over and over. there are definitely cheesy '80s/'90s sci-fi moments, but they're outweighed by wonderful writing, acting, and a fascinating setting.

bea wrote:What is your favorite comfort food?

this might be weird -- canned corn. i pretty much only eat it because it was such a staple of my childhood; it seems to have no nutritional purpose. but i love it.

bea wrote:How long have you been a vegetarian and why did you decide to become one?

i spent around 5 of my teenage years as a vegetarian before my mother bribed me to eat a chicken patty sandwich with a gaming computer. what a rotten brat i was. this current stint is likely to last for the forseeable future though. my last intentional consumption of a meat product occurred just over two years ago. the reasons why are muddied, but the primary one is perhaps not the most common reason people make this choice: i seriously think meat takes like crap. nearly all of it. yuck.

but i also appreciate the nutritional and moral motives which are more conventional.

bea wrote:If you could go back in time and give your younger self any advice, what would it be?

"Tell dad to put all his money on the 2004 Red Sox winning the ALCS after falling down 3-0."

fingersplints wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:the UK is wonderful. i never want to leave. when the time comes to leave, they'll have to drag me away kicking and screaming. but that's no slight on Ohio. i have fond memories of home. Go Bengals.
How much longer can you stay for? I am not looking forward to the Visa process again but I think I have another two years.
Do you miss root beer? What else do you miss most from the states? (not family, friends, etc.)

my term in the AF ends in April of 2016. i would like to remain here if i can, but i am not sure yet whether it'll be practical. grad school is looming, and the costs of doing so here might be too high, even with the GI Bill. i live near Cambridge though and visiting the campus there is physically painful for me (the envy, i mean). if i can find a way...

heh, since i am in the AF, i don't really struggle to find root beer. most American food/drinkstuffs are available on base. but i love English stuff more. i mentioned above that i'm a vegetarian -- this country is much better for that than The Country of the Ballpark Frank.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:1) What caused you to leave Ohio? Why the UK?

i'm in the US Air Force. my first duty station was in Las Vegas, and my second/current station is here in the UK.[/quote]

Metalmarsh89 wrote:2) What is your favorite Rush album? Rush song?

i'm not especially interested in Rush music *gets banned*, but back in my prog phase i listened to them a little bit. it's been over five years probably. i'll go with...

Permanent Waves and "YYZ"

Metalmarsh89 wrote:3) Same two questions for Pink Floyd: favorite album and song? (feel free to elaborate)

Dark Side of the Moon *boring* and "High Hopes"

if you allow me to include solo works, then i've come to love David Gilmour's On an Island more than all of the Pink Floyd albums, and "Where We Start" is one of my favorite songs period.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:4) What are your top 10 favorite albums ever? (sorry MP, I'm stealing some of your questions I'm sure)

this is tough for me, because of my 1,473 RYM ratings, i have 9 5-star albums. so i dunno how the hell i'm going to pick the 10th.

1. The National - Trouble Will Find Me (2013)
2. Crowded House - Together Alone (1993)
3. Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
4. David Gilmour - On an Island (2006)
5. XTC - Skylarking (1986)
6. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
7. Radiohead - Kid A
8. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970)
9. Marina & the Diamonds - Froot (2015)
10. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange (2005)

Metalmarsh89 wrote:5) What is your favorite outdoor activity?

i am hopelessly obsessed with ultimate frisbee. i would play it daily if i could just find people who wanted to do it.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:6) Do you cook? If so, what is your favorite meal to cook?

i cook enough to survive. my favorite thing to make is probably spaghetti marinara, both because it's my favorite food and it's easy. i'm a vegetarian.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:7) What is your most fond memory of Ohio?

that's hard to say. maybe riding my bike through the suburbs and into the forests all over the Dayton area (where i'm from). i used to be on my bicycle constantly.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:8) Is there a favorite other place in Europe that you have visited or yearn to visit?

a couple of months ago i went on a 2.5 week trek across northern Europe (not counting Scandinavia). i visited Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam. all three were fantastic; my favorite was probably Amsterdam. the atmosphere of the city was great, and it was a ton of fun to roam the canal alleys and countless museums. in July i intend to visit Vienna, and i can't wait.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:9) What is your favorite smiley on the Syndicate?

this one really suits me as a mafia player.

:sparta:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:10) What is your favorite smiley not on the Syndicate?

i don't know of any way to display it here and i can't find it on Google, but there's one of a smiley snorting a line of coke that i've always dug

Metalmarsh89 wrote:11) Who is your favorite mafia player so far on the Syndicate that you did not know from before?

all y'all seem swell. Epignosis looks like a fun and infuriating challenge. i think i'll go with Golden, for seemingly being diversely skillfull, humble, and friendly.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:12) Do you prefer your mafia games to be numbered (like they seem to be on RYM) or not?

it does make it simple to reference old games i suppose. on RYM we only play one game at a time; it's sort of a community event. we play on the Off Topic forum, which we share with a bunch of people who never play mafia. so we can't really flood the board with mafia stuff or they'd complain (understandably). i'd love to see the RYM forums adopt a separate forum for games like this, and maybe they will in due time.

here's a list of all the games we've ever done:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JaggedJi ... e_history/

and how about a ranking of Radiohead songs?

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JaggedJi ... favorites/

i rank everything ever.

MovingPictures07 wrote:- What's your favorite role you've ever had?

RYM Game #26 (Half-Life theme) - i was G-Man, self-aligned. i had one of the most overpowered roles ever, but thankfully i didn't win with it. i just caused mayhem, laughed my ass off, and died. my abilities:

~ PGO - any attempt to night kill me would fail, and the player trying to do it would die instead
~ twice during the game during any night phase, i could send one player name to the mod. the following day phase, anyone who voted for that player would die (including me).

back then it was common on RYM for double lynches to be legal. so i set one up with a fake roleclaim suggesting i'd been able to ID one of two players as mafia (not both) without knowing which one. i placed my vote on the one i didn't name obviously. so, in addition to getting those two players lynched based on a complete b/s lie, i also caused this:

https://rateyourmusic.com/board_message ... msg3903552

it was so beautiful.

MovingPictures07 wrote:- Awesome list of top artists. Rank Radiohead albums from favorite to least favorite. (More ranking questions to follow)

1. Kid A
2. The Bends
3. OK Computer
4. In Rainbows
5. The King of Limbs
6. Hail to the Thief
7. Amnesiac
8. Pablo Honey

MovingPictures07 wrote:- How do you like the UK versus Ohio? :P

the UK is wonderful. i never want to leave. when the time comes to leave, they'll have to drag me away kicking and screaming. but that's no slight on Ohio. i have fond memories of home. Go Bengals.

Missing Person wrote:Who are the best 5 mafia players that you don't think people know about or give enough credit?

since my experience is limited to RYM other than the current side mission here and the champs game, i can only speak about members there:

Sloonei
MrMungbean
MacDougall
ProFiction
dunya

Epignosis wrote:I recently listened to my favorite Radiohead, (OK Computer). What is your favorite track from that album, and to what character in the "Paranoid Android" music video do you most relate?

My OK Computer track is definitely "Let Down". I think the best moment of the album is at the climax of that song, when Thom Yorke is wailing you know, you know where you are with...

i've never seen any of the music videos. i'll go watch it.

okay, i'll go with Incredulous Guy Observing Flesh Head Protruding From Belly

oh geeze, i had no idea that answer had gotten so big. i'm sorry i am ridiculous

Missing Person wrote:How did you feel about the non-rc during the CFD on day 2 in your Champions game?

i was particularly surprised that neither of the lynch candidates involved roleclaimed. saposhiente (mafia) kind of just glided on to her death, and Verbal (cop) showed great restraint when he was almost offed at the last possible second. probably the biggest reason he was voted to advance. i think my Champions game was uniquely flavored compared with the other three so far in that there was no cop claim drama at all. nobody dropped fake peeks, nobody claimed cop until the real cop claimed it, and we relied on pure mafia-hunting strategies instead. whether that was wise can be debated, but i get the feeling most of us were not accustomed to the setup -- i know i wasn't. but town found a way, eh?

Missing Person wrote:What's your favorite game that you've ever played in?

that's a tough call. i'll try to come up with three:

RYM Game #39 (Watchmen themed): this is one of my better memories on RYM because it saw a town victory against a highly imbalanced numbers scenario (11 townies vrs 4 mafia vrs 1 rogue). i love being a townie most when i am surrounded by great effort from my team mates, and in that game we collectively raised hell against the odds. it was beautiful.

RYM Game #48 (Vocaroo themed): we've had 2 Vocaroo games on RYM (i hosted the second), and this was the first. Vocaroo is a simple little site that allows you to record messages on your microphone and hyperlink them wherever without any headache. in these games it was required that all players post solely in Vocaroo recordings, meaning it was a "spoken" Mafia instead of typed. the only typed material came in the form of short blurbs to describe what was in each recording. in this game i was mafia myself, and it was rather surreal trying to pull wool over the eyes of townies with spoken word. my team was successful, thanks mostly to RYMer PinkRanger, who was one of our very best players in her heyday.

2015 Mafia Championship Game 2: the game you asked about above. this was two firsts for me at once: first time i'd ever played in an open setup, and first time i'd ever played outside rateyourmusic. it was incredibly fun to play with those other 12 people, and i already miss the experience. it gave me an opportunity to see if my methods could work outside my comfort zone, and to be exposed to various other strategies i hadn't considered prior (same goes for spectating the other games). two players in particular played very well in that game, and i hope they aren't forgotten in the eventual wild card selection: Achromatic and lilrascal.

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Missing Person wrote:Since you come from RateYourMusic, a top 5 artists must be in order.

i struggle to be definitive about this, because constant exposure to new music yields constant changes. but the top two at least are pretty squared away right now:

1. The National
2. Crowded House

from there, let's go with...

3. Belle and Sebastian
4. Radiohead
5. Joanna Newsom

other candidates:

Pink Floyd
Marina and the Diamonds
XTC
Queensrÿche
A Tribe Called Quest
Camel
Pulp
Sigur Rós
Björk

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