The Syndicate

Hey gang,

There's a bad habit some of us have gotten into in recent memory, including myself. I don't mean for this to be a scold or an accusation; it's just an ordinary Mafia term which sees usage all over the Internet. I'd like to suggest that we take the lead as a community to change it. "CFD" stands for Chinese Fire Drill. This comes with a connotation which isn't ideal or appropriate, and it could stand to be remedied.

If it's not clear, the term refers to a scenario in a Mafia game wherein, near the final moment of a voting deadline, a large number of players move their votes from one possible lynchee to a different lynchee. The strategy itself is perfectly reasonable, and I do not intend for this thread to be used to debate that. Instead, I just want to come up with a new term to describe this kind of occurrence which doesn't draw from any racial stereotypes/jokes/etc.

One option: "musical chairs" -- basically the same dang thing.

Any other ideas?

Sure.

"Bullshit."

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2017 3:12 pm One option: "musical chairs" -- basically the same dang thing.

I actually came up with this before I reached this point in the post. It's an apt term.

It's going to be hard to change habit, but I'm up to the challenge.

If we want an acronym that's not "MC", then we could use:
Really Quick Switch (RQS)
Rapid Vote Change (RVC)
Very Stupid Plan (VSP)

Or, my favorite: Railroad Switch (RS, which could also stand for Rapid Switch)
Because it fits with "lynch train" so well.

linki:

"It is my understanding that this phrase originated in the early 1900s. It came from an [sic] naval incident where a ship officered by the British and crewed by the Chinese set up a fire drill for a fire in the engine room. In the event of a fire the crew was to draw water from the starboard side, take it to the engine room and throw it on the fire. Another crew in the engine room was to take the thrown water and throw it over the port side [i.e. pump it out, then throw it overboard, to prevent flooding].

When the drill was called the first moments went according to plan then it got confused. The crew began drawing the water from the starboard side and running over to the port side and throwing the water over, by-passing the the engine room completely.

Thus the expression "Chinese Fire Drill" entered our lexicon as meaning a large confused action by individuals accomplishing nothing."

-Douglass Chappell

Wait, this is not the thread where we make a campign to stop CFDs?

Nevermind. Imma go create it.

Y'know, if we stop doing them, we can stop using the term. Kinda a reverse 1984 thing.

You'll never get me to stop doing things that work.

HOT POTATO 2018

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:29 pm Wait, this is not the thread where we make a campign to stop CFDs?

Nevermind. Imma go create it.

Yeah, I'm actually on board with this plan. Problem solved.

If hot potatoes don't happen, I don't get lynched in Mountain Mafia.

If hot potatoes dont happen, you and Wilgy have 50% of the votes each and no surprise Speedchuck lynch to shake things up.

We almost lost that game on CFDs.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2018 7:25 am If hot potatoes dont happen, you and Wilgy have 50% of the votes each and no surprise Speedchuck lynch to shake things up.

We almost lost that game on CFDs.

I had 1 vote and the other two had 3+. I was in third place before Epignosis rightly turned it around.

You are ignoring the ancient times 6 hours before the end of the phase where you were leading the lynch with 5+ votes.

Then I went to bed and woke up to see a surprise Speedchuck lynch near the day end.