The Syndicate

RadicalFuzz wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Do you drink your milk with tabasco?

No, that doesn't sound like a fun time.

DrWilgy wrote:TGG
I'm happy to see you TGG! You are my buddy (I wish we were on the same mafia team more often honestly), but being a doctor or not is a tool I use every game. Those declarations set my pace and help me set up patterns myself. They change from game to game, I have repeated the same pattern 3 times, but not in a row. That's all I can give you at this point though!

DrWilgy wrote:The most desolate place I've ever been? Last summer my girlfriend and I visited Lake of the Woods in Ontario. It was beautiful. Beavers, eagles, and other wildlife were in surplus. We had to travel by boat for an hour to get to the cabin where we stayed.

DrWilgy wrote:Top 5 TV Shows: Code Geass, Clannad, Game of Thrones, Stiens;Gate, Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt

Roxy wrote:Will you ever to a redo of Muppets Mafia?

Long Con wrote:I think my interrogation is over. Who's next?

Neverwhere wrote:I actually don't live in the city. The capital city of Ireland is Dublin and the county that its in is also called Dublin. I'm about 30 minutes outside of the city centre in the suburbs, but along the coast. I would be tempted to post a pic of how beautiful my area is.

Neverwhere wrote:I've been into MBTI for a while, I'm actually ENFJ but mistyped as INFJ for a while so a few years ago when I was bored I googled infj forums and joined the first one that popped up. Heiots asked us if we would be interested in playing mafia and i always loved the 30 min games of it we used to play in youth group, so i was teh first to sign up. Golden asked if I'd come and join here after the game because he thought myself and my team mates did a pretty good job.

Neverwhere wrote:I am really enjoying mafia so far. I feel like I'm going through some sort of evoloutionary process with it! I've played Narnia, Omerta, and am now currently playing Bullets over Broadway. I'm finding it rather intimidating at the moment. All teh games I've played to date have been pretty small, and this one is huge and there's a lot more snark than I am used to so I'm still trying to get a feel for it. I really enjoy it, but find the bigger games a little overwhelming in regards to sheer volume of posts and players! Practice makes perfect!

Neverwhere wrote:gosh, hard to say. I haven't got to know people very much. Talking to yourself has been quite wonderful, before joining up here I didn't get to talk to you much as I was trying to avoid you -- you were the only one onto me haha. G-man and Canucklehead stick out quite a bit with their quirky personalities and posting styles. I'm really looking forward to getting to know everyone though -- I have a feeling ill be sticking around.

Neverwhere wrote:Favourite band/musician. I am shit with favourites to be honest with you....but I've always adored Coheed and Cambria. Mostly their early works...first two albums were the best, although I haven't heard their newer stuff. Also going through a big Brand New phase. I've just found out they are playing Dublin in September and I am so ridiculously excited that after 10 or 11 yers of being a hardcore fan I will get to see them live.

Neverwhere wrote:

S~V~S wrote:I used to have a Water Dragon,and several friends with snakes, it was the alligator eating part i found most alarming, I think, lol.

Yeah, that is pretty horrifying! Best to live in the city me thinks....

nijuukyugou wrote:

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I always forget that key that's inside the center tower. It's so counter-intuitive.

(well now I'm not forgetting it anymore since I remember it even when I don't play the game )

And there's a neat trick for beating Dark Link without Din's Fire. Just turn off Z-target. He only fights well when you use it.

Duly noted! I've been playing the game so long that stuff like that slips my mind. Of course, I do enjoy knocking him in the face with the hammer when I remember

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?

Black Rock wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

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.

Oh my, that was beautiful.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

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.

Golden wrote:I loved loved loved Octavarium, the first Dream Theater album I bought...

The second I got was a Dramatic Turn of Events. It was a disappointment. I just found it boring.

nijuukyugou wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: i just bought a flute though, i look forward to annoying my neighbors.

What do you plan to do? Beat them with it? Parade around in their front lawn in nothing but your underwear doing "Thick as a Brick?"

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

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.

Sounds like you had shitty English teachers. Analysis happens on its own if actually read the fucking novel.

And therein lies the problem - reading the fucking novel

But I, too, love the mechanics of language and linguistics! Funny thing was, my least favorite part of English classes was discussing interpretations of books when all I wanted to do was read them. And look at me now

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:My review of it is in that spoiler. :P

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

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.

bea wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Sophie, do you like me more than bea?

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:1. Subs or Dubs?

Roxy wrote:

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:1. If you are floating down main street in a canoe, and your front right propeller falls off, how many pancakes can you fit into a dog house?

nutella wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Where are you now?

is this a question to me? I think it is. I am currently in my dorm room at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. As for where I've been instead of playing mafia, well.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Do you enjoy nutella?

Have you ever had nutella beer?

When is the next time you will play a game of mafia?

If you went to college, what did/do you study?

I enjoy nutella quite a lot
I have never had nutella beer D: I don't generally like beer, but I guess I would try that
I don't know I haven't felt like I've been able to commit to a big game for a while now, but I have enjoyed some relatively recent Speed games and might join some during the summer.
Currently in college (junior year), majoring in linguistics!

Black Rock wrote:

bea wrote:BLACK ROCK -

Who is the next person you plan to kill as the civ ninja? Choose wisely.

Same answer, just cause as soon as a baddie saw that person die they'd kill me.

Roxy wrote:

S~V~S wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

bea wrote:rox's pre - srrsly questions win this thread tbh.


edit: also - SHE'S A WITCH!!!!!! BURN HER!!!!!!!

Someone wants to be a newt.

You do?

He does

bea wrote:rox's pre - srrsly questions win this thread tbh.


edit: also - SHE'S A WITCH!!!!!! BURN HER!!!!!!!

bea wrote:ZOMG CANNUCK! YOU ARE ADORABLE!!!

also - svs - I contributed to the NC conversation too. I like off topic. And on topic. And all sorts of topics.

My complete lack of discipline is what makes me such a great role model for others.

Canucklehead wrote:All of our animals eat regular animal food (though we do splurge and get the the fancy schmancy grain-free super duper healthy stuff, because I am easily swayed by branding and advertising ), so they are all meat eaters. Kenobi, in particular, has a minor addiction to this fancy beef jerky treat and to Himalayan yak chews (Damn you Bark Box and your insistence on continually introducing my dog to super expensive treats!) I, too, have had some experiences with people being piously vegan and shaming me for "allowing" my animals to take part in the meat industry, and while it really bothered me at first, I'm now very much at the point where I say to such people "Fuck you. Part of the reason why I'm vegan in the first place is that I care about the well-being and humane treatment of animals. Banning my dog and especially my cats from nutrient sources that are a vital part of their natural diet is not congruent with those concerns. I don't feel confident that I can ensure their health, well-being, and quality of life on a plant only diet, so they eat what keeps them healthiest and happiest. I chose to be vegan, they did not, so get your nosy snout out of our dinners." I'm the first to admit that there are obviously some logical inconsistencies and hypocrisies in this practice, but the bottom line is that I love my animals and want them to live the healthiest, happiest lives I'm capable of giving them. That involves feeding them meat and other animal products. I have heard of people "successfully" feeding pets vegan diets, but I don't know what the metric for success in such a situation is. Not starving? That's not really good enough for my pampered fur babies, and I don't know enough about canine or feline nutrition to feel confident that I could do it right. Even the study of human nutrition is basically only as scientifically sound and as epistemologically stable as alchemy, so I don't even want to begin to mess with my pets' diets.
For me, it comes down to the same philosophy which allows me to live with and love an omnivoire: I chose this, they did not.

Vegan zealots can be a particularly bitchy and self-righteous lot. There are even groups of super hard core vegans who believe that the ownership of animals in any capacity (whether as pets, livestock, workers, whatever) is just as bad as factory farming and wholesale slaughter. I, obviously, believe this is bullshit....but they're out there, and they're kooky, and they love nothing more than to tell other people that they're doing veganism "wrong". There are no belief structures, religious or otherwise, that are without their zealots and their witch-hunters. I work very hard to smile and walk away....but sometimes a good "fuck right off" is in order, methinks.


I have never had a reptile or amphibian, except for about 4 hours when I was a kid and I found someone's pet turtle wandering in the ditch on my street and I took him home and filled my Cabbage Patch Kids stroller with water and a few rocks and fed the turtle pieces of sliced ham until his owner came looking for him. My ideal pets are more snuggly/playful/romp-around-able than pets that need specialized environments to live in, so I would probably be a terrible reptile/amphibian owner because I would constantly be taking the poor thing out of its aquarium and trying to make it fetch or cuddle or some such thing.

Canucklehead wrote:I don't really miss many specific things, since it's been so long without them (10 years!) that any sort of cravings and desires are long since gone. I DO, however, still miss the ease of being able to order and eat anything/anywhere.

Canucklehead wrote:Disney World and Universal were challenges (no butterbeer for me ). I can (and did) plan ahead and pack my own food, but this weekend I definitely missed the ability to just not give a shit and eat a pile of shitty park food.

Canucklehead wrote:Protein isn't really too much of a problem for me. Nuts, nut butters, quinoa, beans, and legumes are all great protein sources, and I have at least one of these things with everything I eat. More probematic for me is vitamin B12, which does not occur naturally in plant sources. During periods of heavier-than-usual physical activity or stress, I'll often supplement with a vegan protein/nutritional powder....but yeah. I'm really bad about B12.

Canucklehead wrote:(Guinness, for example, is not vegan)