The Syndicate

Does punctuation fall under the grammar umbrella in THE GAME? If so, I'll bury you with commas. Otherwise you might make it to mid day 2? But probably not.

1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a grammar war.
5, 6, 7, 8, gotta keep your hyphens straight.

Nachomamma8 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:52 pm Does punctuation fall under the grammar umbrella in THE GAME? If so, I'll bury you with commas. Otherwise you might make it to mid day 2? But probably not.

Commas are a subjective experience.

Golden wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:10 pm

Nachomamma8 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 6:50 pmI'm trying to survive in my current form. I'd recommend to most people to try to survive as well - you'll *probably* have a better chance of winning!

Why does surviving in current form increase a persons chances of winning?

The more the game advances, the more information you will have. The more information you have, the better you can leverage the tools in your disposal to your benefit. The more lives you have, the more tools you have.

Although I suppose we're just continuing to play until the roles run out so that doesn't matter yet.

I suppose I'm just encouraging people to play to live so I can have more fun threatening to kill them

I am playing to preserve my current life force, whatever it may be. Long live ##!

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:30 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:25 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:14 pm

Nachomamma8 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 6:54 pm Sloonei gets a penalty vote every time he makes a grammatically incorrect post or he gets a penalty vote if he messed up period?

If it's the former I think we might be able to bury him via reported infractions, and even if causing his death invited my own I think it might be excellent fun to play grammar Nazi for a little while.

I won't incur any penalty votes. My English degree finally has value.

What do you mean finally? You only graduated about 10 seconds ago.

Nine seconds wasted.

That's a fragment.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:01 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:30 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:25 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:14 pm

Nachomamma8 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 6:54 pm Sloonei gets a penalty vote every time he makes a grammatically incorrect post or he gets a penalty vote if he messed up period?

If it's the former I think we might be able to bury him via reported infractions, and even if causing his death invited my own I think it might be excellent fun to play grammar Nazi for a little while.

I won't incur any penalty votes. My English degree finally has value.

What do you mean finally? You only graduated about 10 seconds ago.

Nine seconds wasted.

That's a fragment.

Permissable in the flow of a conversation. Also its not even day 1 yet so ...

That actually had'nt occurred too me. I'm free to flaunt my sauce in front of THE GAME and he can't smite me

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:07 pm That actually had'nt occurred too me.

had'nt

had'nt

HAD'NT

H A D ' N ' T

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:39 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:07 pm That actually had'nt occurred too me.

had'nt

had'nt

HAD'NT

H A D ' N ' T

You're good enough to spot his mistakes.

But not good enough to realize he's making them on purpose, and therefore they aren't mistakes.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:05 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:39 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:07 pm That actually had'nt occurred too me.

had'nt

had'nt

HAD'NT

H A D ' N ' T

You're good enough to spot his mistakes.

But not good enough to realize he's making them on purpose, and therefore they aren't mistakes.

We should probably paddle him anyway, just to be safe.

Quin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:08 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:05 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:39 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:07 pm That actually had'nt occurred too me.

had'nt

had'nt

HAD'NT

H A D ' N ' T

You're good enough to spot his mistakes.

But not good enough to realize he's making them on purpose, and therefore they aren't mistakes.

We should probably paddle him anyway, just to be safe.

Good luck paddling me from wherever you are.

I haven't read but I voted yes.

Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
Time to pick the first lynchee!
Will you choose Marmot, Quin, or Spacedaisy?
Perhaps Elohcin, Dom, or DrWilgy?
It could be colonialbob or Made, you see?
Does Jackofhearts2005 deserve mercy?
Speedchuck, Golden, juliets- gee!
So many to choose from. Who will it be?
DFaraday, insertnamehere, or even LC!
Nachomamma8 and birthday boy Epi,
Both worthy to sacrifice to little old me.
You could choose Ricochet or that dirtbag Sloonei.
Even nutella or Dragon D. Luffy.
I care not who you choose but choose wisely-
The toes you step on today and all that- tee hee hee!

Here we go.

Voting rico

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:27 pmVoting rico

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:07 pmHere we go.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:27 pmVoting rico

The rhymes just don't stop.
How about we make Mafia from Hop on Pop?

I do not know what criteria to use in determining my vote.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:43 pm I do not know what criteria to use in determining my vote.

Follow the steps. Step A: Sacrifice a goat
Then go to step B: Massage your throat
Step C is simple: Cross over a moat.
Then take your vote and vote and vote and vote
Doesn't matter where it goes
As long as your finger's on your nose

hi

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:16 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:43 pm I do not know what criteria to use in determining my vote.

Follow the steps. Step A: Sacrifice a goat
Then go to step B: Massage your throat
Step C is simple: Cross over a moat.
Then take your vote and vote and vote and vote
Doesn't matter where it goes
As long as your finger's on your nose

I'm all out of votes, so I'll just follow you. Voting for Rico, I guess.

Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. Every time he's done a stubborn posting schtick he has been a civ. His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke (though I imagine he'll try to stay consistent in going after the people he's named, but I'm guessing he chose them somewhat randomly at the beginning). Anyway, for anyone who has played with Rico recently, there is no good reason to vote for him. On the other hand, I do understand why you guys are rather flippant about the day 1 vote as long as it's not someone on your team, given the unorthodox structure of this game, so I can't particularly argue against anyone's personal choice to vote Rico other than that I think it's a weak reason. And it's not like I have any particular ideas as to who constitutes a threat at this point either.

I don't think it's possible for there to be a strong reason for this vote, other than if a person suggests they shouldn't stay in their current role for long.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. Every time he's done a stubborn posting schtick he has been a civ.

False.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. Every time he's done a stubborn posting schtick he has been a civ. His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke (though I imagine he'll try to stay consistent in going after the people he's named, but I'm guessing he chose them somewhat randomly at the beginning). Anyway, for anyone who has played with Rico recently, there is no good reason to vote for him. On the other hand, I do understand why you guys are rather flippant about the day 1 vote as long as it's not someone on your team, given the unorthodox structure of this game, so I can't particularly argue against anyone's personal choice to vote Rico other than that I think it's a weak reason. And it's not like I have any particular ideas as to who constitutes a threat at this point either.

Does your teammate Ricochet have a good role, nutella?

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:09 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. Every time he's done a stubborn posting schtick he has been a civ. His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke (though I imagine he'll try to stay consistent in going after the people he's named, but I'm guessing he chose them somewhat randomly at the beginning). Anyway, for anyone who has played with Rico recently, there is no good reason to vote for him. On the other hand, I do understand why you guys are rather flippant about the day 1 vote as long as it's not someone on your team, given the unorthodox structure of this game, so I can't particularly argue against anyone's personal choice to vote Rico other than that I think it's a weak reason. And it's not like I have any particular ideas as to who constitutes a threat at this point either.

Does your teammate Ricochet have a good role, nutella?

I don't know his role.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one.

More importantly, how is voting Ricochet a cop-out? And why do you feel so strongly about it?

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:14 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one.

More importantly, how is voting Ricochet a cop-out? And why do you feel so strongly about it?

It feels weak because of the way the idea of voting for him came up in the thread yesterday and the way a few people have so easily latched onto it. Idk, to me it just feels like one of those cases of D1-thoughtless-bandwagoning syndrome. Speedchuck voted for Rico because he hates the gimmick, and then Sloonei just jumped on with that because he didn't have any other ideas. Soon everyone will just be lazily wandering into the thread and going "oh, looks like people are voting rico, cool, I'll do that too, whatever" and boom that's how most lame-ass day 1 lynches that go nowhere get started.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. <snip> His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke

Aside from what other people have said, I'm curious as to what your voting criteria is. Rico is not on my team, and his posting contributions are not as interesting, fun to read, or engage-able as everyone elses. I'm playing this particular game to have fun, and so I'm voting for the person with the least fun in their posts.

I don't need to cop out, though. There won't be any voter analysis in this game. There is no scum.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:21 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:14 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one.

More importantly, how is voting Ricochet a cop-out? And why do you feel so strongly about it?

It feels weak because of the way the idea of voting for him came up in the thread yesterday and the way a few people have so easily latched onto it. Idk, to me it just feels like one of those cases of D1-thoughtless-bandwagoning syndrome. Speedchuck voted for Rico because he hates the gimmick, and then Sloonei just jumped on with that because he didn't have any other ideas. Soon everyone will just be lazily wandering into the thread and going "oh, looks like people are voting rico, cool, I'll do that too, whatever" and boom that's how most lame-ass day 1 lynches that go nowhere get started.

It "feels" weak.

Were this an actual Mafia game, I might concur, but it isn't. As far as I'm concerned, Rico could get lynched every Day from here on out and I wouldn't care.

Alright, so to start off, currently, I plan to vote anyone of identifies with the following
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 and their factors.

(I'm also none of those numbers, unless it's useful to pretend to be those numbers in which case i am)


Linky:
Current thought process, lynch who ever is the perceived minority. It's kinda fucked, we would get results/information if that's the group mindset.
Also hi Nutella, Speedchunks! how are y'all?

Double linky
<3 Epi. Voting Rico.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:22 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. <snip> His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke

Aside from what other people have said, I'm curious as to what your voting criteria is. Rico is not on my team, and his posting contributions are not as interesting, fun to read, or engage-able as everyone elses. I'm playing this particular game to have fun, and so I'm voting for the person with the least fun in their posts.

I don't need to cop out, though. There won't be any voter analysis in this game. There is no scum.

Fair enough.

My only counterpoint is that there is always a possibility that lynching a particular role poses some threat. Just a quick skim of some of the roles shows that much. But I suppose if you have no particular reason to fear such an effect from Rico over anyone else (and you most likely wouldn't at this stage) your reasoning is fine.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:23 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:21 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:14 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one.

More importantly, how is voting Ricochet a cop-out? And why do you feel so strongly about it?

It feels weak because of the way the idea of voting for him came up in the thread yesterday and the way a few people have so easily latched onto it. Idk, to me it just feels like one of those cases of D1-thoughtless-bandwagoning syndrome. Speedchuck voted for Rico because he hates the gimmick, and then Sloonei just jumped on with that because he didn't have any other ideas. Soon everyone will just be lazily wandering into the thread and going "oh, looks like people are voting rico, cool, I'll do that too, whatever" and boom that's how most lame-ass day 1 lynches that go nowhere get started.

It "feels" weak.

Were this an actual Mafia game, I might concur, but it isn't. As far as I'm concerned, Rico could get lynched every Day from here on out and I wouldn't care.

I bet you'd care if you happened to suffer some kind of adverse effect from his role getting lynched.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:29 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:23 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:21 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:14 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one.

More importantly, how is voting Ricochet a cop-out? And why do you feel so strongly about it?

It feels weak because of the way the idea of voting for him came up in the thread yesterday and the way a few people have so easily latched onto it. Idk, to me it just feels like one of those cases of D1-thoughtless-bandwagoning syndrome. Speedchuck voted for Rico because he hates the gimmick, and then Sloonei just jumped on with that because he didn't have any other ideas. Soon everyone will just be lazily wandering into the thread and going "oh, looks like people are voting rico, cool, I'll do that too, whatever" and boom that's how most lame-ass day 1 lynches that go nowhere get started.

It "feels" weak.

Were this an actual Mafia game, I might concur, but it isn't. As far as I'm concerned, Rico could get lynched every Day from here on out and I wouldn't care.

I bet you'd care if you happened to suffer some kind of adverse effect from his role getting lynched.

Well in that case, I might, but I'm not in that position, so I don't.

Anybody else got other stuff to do today? I know I do.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:22 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. <snip> His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke

Aside from what other people have said, I'm curious as to what your voting criteria is. Rico is not on my team, and his posting contributions are not as interesting, fun to read, or engage-able as everyone elses. I'm playing this particular game to have fun, and so I'm voting for the person with the least fun in their posts.

I don't need to cop out, though. There won't be any voter analysis in this game. There is no scum.

No voter analysis?

The single biggest thing I'm watching for is a team building it's ranks and not voting for each other. We should all be scared of teams that get to five or six current people.

Nutella, I am also confused by your defense of Rico. And, again, wouldn't be so confused if this was a mafia game but it isn't so ???. What exactly constitutes a good lynch in this format?

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:08 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. Every time he's done a stubborn posting schtick he has been a civ.

False.

Beat me to it.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:09 am

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:09 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one. Every time he's done a stubborn posting schtick he has been a civ. His "wolf" thing is little more than a joke (though I imagine he'll try to stay consistent in going after the people he's named, but I'm guessing he chose them somewhat randomly at the beginning). Anyway, for anyone who has played with Rico recently, there is no good reason to vote for him. On the other hand, I do understand why you guys are rather flippant about the day 1 vote as long as it's not someone on your team, given the unorthodox structure of this game, so I can't particularly argue against anyone's personal choice to vote Rico other than that I think it's a weak reason. And it's not like I have any particular ideas as to who constitutes a threat at this point either.

Does your teammate Ricochet have a good role, nutella?

I don't know his role.

But you ARE on his team?

So far I have not landed on a criteria for voting someone. I will likely wait until much later in the cycle to see if someone jumps out at me as potentially being powerful or one of the bad roles like the SK but honestly I don't expect that to happen. Why would anyone give away that info? If nothing jumps out at me I might consider voting randomly as that doesn't seem to be a bad way to go like it usually is in conventional mafia. I would only do that if I don't suspect anyone of having a bad role or being really powerful.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:36 am So far I have not landed on a criteria for voting someone. I will likely wait until much later in the cycle to see if someone jumps out at me as potentially being powerful or one of the bad roles like the SK but honestly I don't expect that to happen. Why would anyone give away that info? If nothing jumps out at me I might consider voting randomly as that doesn't seem to be a bad way to go like it usually is in conventional mafia. I would only do that if I don't suspect anyone of having a bad role or being really powerful.

Voting randomly won't get you anywhere interesting, but voting in an alliance might.
Want to team up?

Over this gimmick, you guys.

Also not sure why Rico's history of being a civilian doing this shtick (even if it was later proved false) is relevant? No civilians in here. This is the Thunderdome. Or, the children's book version of the Thunderdome.

The fact that I'm in his list is pretty much a non-factor in my vote.

Nacho, thank you for asking and that is something I will think about but I'm not quite sure how it would work. What if I wanted to vote someone on your team or you wanted to vote someone on my team? Or are you saying we would just agree not to vote each other? Is it dangerous to alliance build in public? If people know you are a member of an alliance won't they be more prone to vote for one of the members of the alliance? If I remember correctly in survivor the alliances were all agreed to in private for that reason.

Quin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:49 am

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:41 am Yo.

Finally a full game.

How are we supposed to play this tho? From what I gather nothing we do at this stage will matter at all since we will probably be at different teams by endgame.

Plus is seems everyone is bad.

I don't know about you, but I'm supatown.

Yeah, me too. As always.

I like Quin.

Just an fyi for everyone, I was "selected" to participate in an event that requires me to sing a specific song on vocaroo or youtube. Unfortunately, vocaroo doesn't work on my computer and I have no idea how to do youtube on it either (plus I'm pretty carful about my identity as many of you know) so I cannot participate. I'm a terrible singer but would be happy to vocaroo if it worked (don't know why it doesn't). Sorry to the selector, I don't mean to be a bad sport. I will be punished for not participating, my vote won't count for 2 days and I can't use any power I might have during night 1. I asked if I could reveal this info and was told yes but asked not to reveal the song so I won't. Meanwhile, I don't remember a role that has people sing but its probably something more generic like "can select people to do things". I'm off to search for it so I'll know it's in play.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:21 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:14 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:04 am Voting for Rico is a weak cop-out if I ever saw one.

More importantly, how is voting Ricochet a cop-out? And why do you feel so strongly about it?

It feels weak because of the way the idea of voting for him came up in the thread yesterday and the way a few people have so easily latched onto it. Idk, to me it just feels like one of those cases of D1-thoughtless-bandwagoning syndrome. Speedchuck voted for Rico because he hates the gimmick, and then Sloonei just jumped on with that because he didn't have any other ideas. Soon everyone will just be lazily wandering into the thread and going "oh, looks like people are voting rico, cool, I'll do that too, whatever" and boom that's how most lame-ass day 1 lynches that go nowhere get started.

Maybe... we should vote for you instead?

Let's lynch Epi.

He is always bad.