The Syndicate

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Thinking of submitting Epi if only because he will systematically point out how every meta tell used by those guys is BS and shoot them to the ground.

It will be glorious.

They'd be like "The fuck are adverbs?"

I'd send epi too. He definitely needs to go one of these years.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I nominate Vompatti.

I nominate vompi to come play a game HERE again.

I miss that guy.

Apparently the internets are expensive in Finland for realzies.

It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

And if sig does indeed represent JTM (I think that's the site he's originally from), that would make yet another.

Syndicaters everywhere!

Oh, theres bea. Can we send bea?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

And if sig does indeed represent JTM (I think that's the site he's originally from), that would make yet another.

Syndicaters everywhere!

And then NF can send DDL.

It's a take over.

You know what folks this is so neat. A year ago I had only played Mafia in one place, and now I know all these people from all these places. How about that. So neat.

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:What about you, Ricochet? You had an excellent first year of mafia last year (understatement) and consistently have shown yourself able to keep up with and mega-analyze high volumes of content.

I'm retired.

Plus, for every appearance that I'm involved in the game, there's a side story in which my real life and tasks plummet into chaos, so no. Not the year to do this, not even close.

You got the curse.

I'm so sorry. Sounds like you have had exactly every reason why I haven't played a lot this past year. Champs game for example. Life was ballancing out a bit so I could think about a game. I said - hey guys I missed sign ups, if you need a replacement, I'm all in. They said - as a matter of fact we do! So I start trying to catch up - and exactly 2 hours after I was announced. Yup. Work fell to shit and I needed to focus all my energy on running my business.

linki -wait? wot? me? let me catch up before you toss me to the pits of I can't possibly keep up!!!


At this point, I'm almost starting to think that I should just never play mafia. Especially when I think "wow, I should play a game again. it's been forever and things are calm right now...."

That said, you would be an excellent champion. I couldn't agree with sockface's suggestion more.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:You know what folks this is so neat. A year ago I had only played Mafia in one place, and now I know all these people from all these places. How about that. So neat.

I blame MovingPictures for forcing us all to be friends with everybody. That guy is so mean.

Bea, we should start a new tournament for the drunk mafia championships.

Soneji wrote:I would like to meet this Vompatti who potentially would get this site banned from the tournament

He sounds like Absolute Justice from Narutoforums. AJ was an extremely good scumhunter but had a huge ego that was toxic to games for quite awhile. He did shape up his act eventually, unfortunately he hasn't been active on NF since 2014.

Nope - not our Vompi. Vompi is SO random. So just very random. Unless he's talking about the price of things in Finland. Then, all I can assume is that they are expensive.

Ricochet wrote:Or a Vompatti.

Seriously, guys, #Vompatti16. Let's watch the world burn.

You know, now I'm thinking about voting Vompi for the prez election. damn, I'm easily convinced.

Epignosis wrote:

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Thinking of submitting Epi if only because he will systematically point out how every meta tell used by those guys is BS and shoot them to the ground.

It will be glorious.

They'd be like "The fuck are adverbs?"

and then you'd teach them and be happy you spread a little more knowledge around the world. It's a win win tbh.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

wait? wot? why aren't you playing?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Bea, we should start a new tournament for the drunk mafia championships.

dude - i just had a durfunken vision.

drfunk mafia. real time. like one night game. hosted by newt and bea. everyone drinks. lots. it's a scheduling nightmare - but it would be super fun.

we could institute the old LP drunk thread rules of no editing after your third drink. no spell check - no backspacing.

omg it would be super fun!!!

We should bookmark this idea.

bea wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

wait? wot? why aren't you playing?

The timing isn't great for me this year, and to be honest I'm just excited to see someone else get a chance. I'd hate to be a ballhog anyway.

Golden wrote:Oh, theres bea. Can we send bea?

really? you'd want us to loose because of low posting and not being able to keep up? I thought you loved us more.

that said, thank you.

linki - jj - that's fair.

I think we have a pretty great short list with wilgy, epi, matt and golden.

I agree svs is an amazing player. I know her schedule too. I love you sista. I know why you'd not want it either.


TBH, I want to really vote Matt.

Call it back old school DEX IS MOM.

Man matt can bring the cray cray like no one else. It would fuck up their worlds. And I'm still Hedville enough to be srrsbns is NOT our bssns to find Matt our best candidate

bea wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Bea, we should start a new tournament for the drunk mafia championships.

dude - i just had a durfunken vision.

drfunk mafia. real time. like one night game. hosted by newt and bea. everyone drinks. lots. it's a scheduling nightmare - but it would be super fun.

we could institute the old LP drunk thread rules of no editing after your third drink. no spell check - no backspacing.

omg it would be super fun!!!

We should bookmark this idea.

This absolutely needs to happen! The real-time game is definitely possible.

I also agree about the LP drunk thread rules. I still follow that rule even though I never played at LP. Unfortunately (or maybe it's actually a good thing), I so rarely have 3 drinks in one day that I don't apply the rule much. So I usually follow it on drink number 2, and sometimes number 1.

I think all names brought up so far are good candidates. Maybe we should just look at who gets lynched the least, or who usually survives the longest (and none of them are low posters so it wouldn't be because of that).

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

bea wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

wait? wot? why aren't you playing?

The timing isn't great for me this year, and to be honest I'm just excited to see someone else get a chance. I'd hate to be a ballhog anyway.

It's called "us having the win in the bag".

bea wrote:

Soneji wrote:I would like to meet this Vompatti who potentially would get this site banned from the tournament

He sounds like Absolute Justice from Narutoforums. AJ was an extremely good scumhunter but had a huge ego that was toxic to games for quite awhile. He did shape up his act eventually, unfortunately he hasn't been active on NF since 2014.

Nope - not our Vompi. Vompi is SO random. So just very random. Unless he's talking about the price of things in Finland. Then, all I can assume is that they are expensive.

I think you meant Finalnd.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

And if sig does indeed represent JTM (I think that's the site he's originally from), that would make yet another.

Syndicaters everywhere!

And then NF can send DDL.

It's a take over.

NF is sending Marco.

He has an account here but I don't think he has ever played a game here.

This is so exciting!

I second the suggestion of Epi.

Also, DDL, does that mean you participated on behalf of NF for Season 1 or that you're still eligible? If the latter, then consider my support firmly in your direction as well.

Golden wrote:This will be far too time consuming.

So naturally, I've put my hat in the ring.

Thanks as well to Wilgy and Matt for stepping up to the plate. Keep sending me those PMs, prospective volunteers!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:It stinks that we only get to send one person. There are numerous people I would love to spectate in that environment, and Epignosis is definitely one of them. That's a popcorn event.

Whoever it is, I'm super excited to see it. RYM's process for picking someone is also well underway, and I am going to be so happy to have two people whose game(s) I can invest myself in watching.

+1

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:You know what folks this is so neat. A year ago I had only played Mafia in one place, and now I know all these people from all these places. How about that. So neat.

I know, right? It's crazy too to think of all the members we had join since this discussion last year.

MovingPictures07 wrote:This is so exciting!

I second the suggestion of Epi.

Also, DDL, does that mean you participated on behalf of NF for Season 1 or that you're still eligible? If the latter, then consider my support firmly in your direction as well.

I never participated. I don't think I had even started playing mafia during season 1.

I'm not sure if I wanna participate tbh. Not really my type of game.

Okay, so... against my better judgment, I've actually also been considering throwing my hat in the ring, but I'm not sure what to do.

The only way I could do it, and I already cleared this potentially with Thingyman and he said he could make it happen, is if my game were to occur in the May-ish range of the timeframe, otherwise I just couldn't justify it with everything going on IRL. But I do have a few week transition phase between spring and summer semesters -- May 7 through May 28 being the absolute maximum I can expand my window of availability, despite the middle part of that range probably being most optimal. During that time all I'll be doing is prepping a class that starts right at the end of May, and it's Principles of Accounting I which I just taught last fall semester, so it's not like prepping a totally new class, and working on writing and running empirics for my 2nd year paper. So it's possible that I'd actually have the time, and I'd definitely have way more time than I do now (or until November and December for that matter) and be much less stressed out than I have been since the semester began.

On the flipside, I have been enjoying my newly enacted playing break so far, and I thoroughly enjoyed spectating last season so I'd be fine with that again... but too large of a part of me really wants to participate in this and go in as 100% as possible.

Not sure I want to subject the mafia universe to a patented MP meltdown though. :P Especially if I fake one like I did in Roger Rabbit. Just kidding, I'd probably not do that. Or would I...

I would vote the sock if his name was an option.

But I admit it would still be a tough vote because there are so many options!!!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I would vote the sock if his name was an option.

But I admit it would still be a tough vote because there are so many options!!!

I know. No idea who I would vote for

Let's unleash Floyd on 'em!

Matt=Savage

Still accepting PMs until 9:00AM Eastern time tomorrow, so just 11.5 hours remaining. Give me some more volunteers, Syndicate members!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Still accepting PMs until 9:00AM Eastern time tomorrow, so just 11.5 hours remaining. Give me some more volunteers, Syndicate members!

Bump.

Less than 8 hours! I'll remind you all via PM now due to the urgency and short time frame of this.

Members of The Syndicate, I am pleased to present... your nominees for the Mafia Championship Season 3, hosted by Thingyman:

DrWilgy
Golden
Matt
MovingPictures07

PM the sockpuppet account Gold Toe with your preference order of all four nominees. However, if you really do not want to send a ranking of all four candidates, you may submit just one selection or a top two ranking if you wish. Please indicate to Gold Toe clearly your exact preference order, otherwise your submission will be invalid and not counted. We will be awarding weighted points as follows: 3 for highest preference, 2 for second highest preference, 1 for third, and 0 for fourth (last). The nominee who receives the highest weighted accumulation of votes will be sent as our representative!

You have 5 days maximum to send in your votes. This means you must submit a PM to Gold Toe by Tuesday, April 5th at 9:00AM Eastern time. Help make your voice heard by ensuring you send your PM to Gold Toe before that deadline.

Since I have thrown my hat in the ring this year, my partner in crime, S~V~S, will be handling the weighted vote tallying process and will be the only member with access to the Gold Toe account. She will inform me of the winner once the voting period is complete, and then I will make the announcement regarding our Mafia Championship Season 3 representative.

I am incredibly excited that we once again have the opportunity to send someone on behalf of our community at this gathering of mafia's best and brightest, and very much look forward to seeing the player that our community has awarded with that honor.

Thanks for your continued dedication to our site!

Just a reminder to my SockPuppet brethren (and sisthren)~

Please send your votes under your regular user name.

SOCKPUPPET VOTES WILL NOT COUNT

Gold Toe wrote:Just a reminder to my SockPuppet brethren (and sisthren)~

Please send your votes under your regular user name.

SOCKPUPPET VOTES WILL NOT COUNT

Indeed! I failed to specify this. Please only vote using your regular username. Thanks, Gold Toe!

Gold Toe
Golden Toe
Golden Two
hmmm

One sock is enough to deal with. Now we have two?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:One sock is enough to deal with. Now we have two?

Most people do. Are you missing a foot?

Golden wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:One sock is enough to deal with. Now we have two?

Most people do. Are you missing a foot?

Nope. I'm wearing sandals today.

Ricochet wrote:Gold Toe
Golden Toe
Golden Two
hmmm

Gold Toe wrote:Just a reminder to my SockPuppet brethren (and sisthren)~

Please send your votes under your regular user name.

SOCKPUPPET VOTES WILL NOT COUNT

My favorite part about this account is knowing that our dear svs does have a thing about cool and unusual socks.

That one in the icon is pretty swank tbh.

Also - I mayormaynot often consider signing you up for socks of the month club. Or also randomly see cool socks at the store and think "I should buy these and send them to svs."

Also - I have voted. It was very tough. We have lots of great candidates for lots of different reasons. That's also the other best part. Each of our candidates is so good at what they bring to the table. It was really tough trying to decide which bit of TS crazy I wanted to represent us.

bea wrote:Also - I have voted. It was very tough. We have lots of great candidates for lots of different reasons. That's also the other best part. Each of our candidates is so good at what they bring to the table. It was really tough trying to decide which bit of TS crazy I wanted to represent us.

I can't possibly agree more! As much as I would like to win, I am very excited at the prospect of sending any of the other nominees over there; they're all fantastic additions to our community and bring something unique to every game. I can't wait to either participate myself or cheer one of them on!

On another note, although the championship is still almost a month from starting, I recommend to anyone who has an interest in getting involved on the ground floor with talking to folks to go ahead and register at Mafia Universe now and introduce yourself. I've been registered there since close to its inception but finally made an introduction post this morning. Even if you hardly end up posting over there, it wouldn't hurt to have a solid presence of Syndicate folks. I know a few of you are already signed up there, sig for example. Now might be a good way to develop contacts and MU would likely serve as a good crossover site to keep in touch with them in the future since many other mafia sites will be more present on MU during this time than otherwise.

Golden wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:One sock is enough to deal with. Now we have two?

Most people do. Are you missing a foot?

Most people have an above average number of feet.

MovingPictures07 wrote: On another note, although the championship is still almost a month from starting, I recommend to anyone who has an interest in getting involved on the ground floor with talking to folks to go ahead and register at Mafia Universe now and introduce yourself. I've been registered there since close to its inception but finally made an introduction post this morning. Even if you hardly end up posting over there, it wouldn't hurt to have a solid presence of Syndicate folks. I know a few of you are already signed up there, sig for example. Now might be a good way to develop contacts and MU would likely serve as a good crossover site to keep in touch with them in the future since many other mafia sites will be more present on MU during this time than otherwise.

Yeah I'm like a weed, I spread to all these sites and they can never seem to root me out.
Fun fact? I've never lost a game as mafia on MU.

Dom wrote:

Golden wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:One sock is enough to deal with. Now we have two?

Most people do. Are you missing a foot?

Most people have an above average number of feet.

You just blew my mind with your insight.

I can't express the magnitude of my excitement about this. Last season was awesome, but I have a feeling this season will be even better.

Also, I can't wait to see how the Matrix format plays out. I think that was a real good move on Thingyman's behalf; the cop format, while very balanced and pretty cool, became a bit formulaic towards the end of last season.

As of this morning, it seems the Championship is up to 105 participating communities, and 21 of those have selected a representative.