The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:About 10 minutes and 2 people have not yet fulfilled the challenge, by the way.

triceratopzeuhl wrote:What other username(s) has Devin the Dolphin used? just wondering

Devin the Omniscient was Devin the Omniscient on PA and that is it. He's a friend and now co-worker of mine, FYI.

Oh, strange I didn't remember the name

We are getting closer and closer to vote time.

I am going to go with my aforementioned feeling and vote DharmaHelper, but only because I know a lynch will not result from it. Think of it as an "I'm watching yoooooooooou"

I'm sure I've made that mistake in at least a couple games

I'm reluctant to vote for Kate this early because she literally always sounds like a baddie to me

bea wrote: @ tricey....give me time...I'm sure there'll be some drunken mishap at some point in this game.

Aha! an admission that you could slip up later == there is something to slip up about == you are a confirmed baddie!

jk <3

Also, I forgot to say it before but this

Vompatti wrote:I'm not voting for Leech as I think he might benefit from it. Why else would he have voted for himself? Therefore I will also vote for myself, assuming I might also benefit from it.

is the funniest post this entire game so far

I don't really feel inclined to vote for Leech, I don't think he's done anything incriminating (at least yet), just misguided perhaps. However, I do think that him breaking his approach to the challenge in defense seems to have made more people look at him, if anything. I'll also say that if he had stayed quiet I would have respected him more for actually sticking to his guns.

Since we are rapidly approaching deadline, and I've never randomed in a mafia game, right now I'm leaning towards DharmaHelper. I don't necessarily see anything that suggests he is a baddie, but I do think that long-ass post entirely consisting of grasping at straws is more detrimental to the civ cause than anything else. Lemme think about this for a sec.


linki: actually I like Dharma's last post here enough that I've now changed my mind

linkilinki: Rob, it's short for "linkitis" which is when you get the "At least one new post has been made to this topic. You may wish to review your post in light of this." message trying to post

I don't think Leech counts as a new player, he just has a new username.

LoRab wrote:Has Leech himself said anything in defense of his self vote? Sorry. Just got home from a long day and am catching up. Blurgh.

He conveniently picked to approach the challenge in a way that is not only slightly baffling but also prevents him from defending himself at all.

also,

Anders Johan Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing, Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor.

Kate wrote:

triceratopzeuhl wrote:I don't know if that's just what kind of a mafia player you are, though. At least you're mentioning several things, trying to help discussion. I do know that the players I'm acquainted with seem mostly normal right now. The vompatti comment above was a joke, btw. At least he's not quoting wikipedia pages yet.

Who, me?

Sorry it wasn't really clear, I meant that as a continuation of my previous post, so I was directing that at Dharma

S~V~S wrote:Do you guys say "ture" on purpose? Because this is bothering the anal grammarian in me, and if it is a "thing" I will just ignore it.

flase

I don't know if that's just what kind of a mafia player you are, though. At least you're mentioning several things, trying to help discussion. I do know that the players I'm acquainted with seem mostly normal right now. The vompatti comment above was a joke, btw. At least he's not quoting wikipedia pages yet.

Kate wrote:

Leech wrote:You may notice that Sock stated that three separate posts and three on-topic sentences are the criteria to avoid punishment. That could be interpreted to mean that having too much is just as bad as having not enough, which is the kind of trick I could see Sock pulling. Based on that conclusion, I wil now refrain from any more on-topic posts, indirectly meaning that I have to vote this early on, in this very post; so I will now cast the first vote, for myself.

Might I ask why you would vote yourself, particularly so early into the day? I do not want, and will not get into, a discussion about random voting, but how could this ever be construed as a civvie move? You are either 1. Voting a known civvie or 2. Voting a baddie, I assume you will say you are doing the former, thus my quesion, why would you vote for someone you are certain is a civvie (assuming that is your stance)?

I had a similar line of thought as well

Vompatti wrote:
I count 22 (twenty-two) instances of "(Secrets)" on the first page, that's how I know about it.

This sounds like a pretty valid "defense" to the concerns initially directed at him. I think the bigger concern, however, about vomps is that he actually makes a bit of sense posting this game. Clearly not in character.

DharmaHelper - "a bit of a leap" is an understatement

lemme read more see what else I got.

Oh, I forgot to mention yesterday, that Faust video is blocked in Canada. Good thing I'm well acquainted with it already.

On another note, I wonder how many nebulae there are.

I had just assumed sockface wanted to encourage discussion. It seems a bit early in the game to start randomly hostslaying players. But, if that's his prerogative...

rabbit8 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

rabbit8 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I apologize- I voted but did not post. Won't happen again. It was for Neptune/Pluto.

I dont like it. Most people would call this a baddie move. I know I would. Did you really?

I did shortly before the poll expired (after I got home)- I was thinking that since the poll recorded our choices that posting my vote was redundant.

I've reviewed the rules and unless I'm missing something, it doesn't require that we announce our votes.

The rules don't require me to think you are a civvie. If you would like me to think that you are a civvie you may want to do civvie things. One being, post your vote.


Please.

I'ma give Rob the benefit of the doubt, he's talked before about how he wishes polls on progarchives showed voters so he wouldn't have to post in them. Just the way he is. That, and drunk. These sentences are surely complete sentences.

On flipping page looking for more posts to quote, I see he basically ninja'd my exact post here. Muh.

Leech wrote:I thought the pre-day poll would last longer, poor attention I suppose. My sister's birthday was today and the day before I hung out with friends, so I've been very busy and that's my best excuse. Meh, I can't promise it won't happen again, but I can promise I'll try to avoid letting it happen again.

It's ok because your sister is hot.

^ obligatory rude comment

Oh goodness, 3 way no less.

Well, I won't be home until after the hostpost tonight, so I'll have something to look forward to

I'm going with my gut and guessing that the "resident" ordeal is reverse reverse psychology. So I'm reversing the reverse revere reverse psychology and voting for the sun.

insertnamehere wrote:It turns out that I will be able to post, I know that everyone was on pins and needles.

I don't get why people are making a big deal about the word 'resident' in the poll, am I missing something?

Look at the team names

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:My instinct is to vote for Pluto, but there's also the word "resident" in it which I feel is no coincidence. I would say Sun.

baddies aboot? :o

birdwithteeth11 wrote:I honestly don't know which option is the best one. Avant 1 scarred me with the whole "OMG THE PRESENTS ARE BOMBS" thing so I will probably be super paranoid about this game.

ture

I think it's well documented, too, that sockface's opening polls always fuck with us

I feel similarly. I'm slightly nostalgic about pluto, in fact. Back in my day, we had 9 planets goddamnit!

at first I was like "I love Brian Eno!" and then I was like "LOL ZILTOID"

yay <3