The Syndicate

Congrats winners! I've been at least suspicious of all of you for most of the game, but I was also dead most of the game. I loved the theme, Alison! Your host posts were so fun. I wish I could have at least been around to participate in a single event, though.

Ricochet wrote:What does that mean?

YOU'RE A NUT, YOU'RE CRAZY IN THE COCONUT

BLEUGH

Ricochet wrote:Waiting for Alison, Part II (she's travelling and meeting with friends over the weekend, but that's all I know or think I know)

Yeah, she's back in St. Pete but she may find time to end the day later today.

Epignosis wrote:My first of two or three cups of roobios red.

Lapsang souchong for me.

[slightly-deadish]I am drinking a Wuyi oolong, it's a darker oolong so it's kind of nutty flavored. I'm drinking it on ice, it's pretty good.[/slightly-deadish]

quit killing me you guys, I'm a civ

Apparently, I didn't vote even though I thought I did.

Also, I typed this this morning and completely forgot, but luckily I didn't close the tab:
My personal favorite director of music videos is Chris Cunningham. The music video for Bjork's All Is Full of Love is practically pornographic. Also, Rubber Johnny is my favorite music video probably. The music video he did for Squarepusher's Come On My Selector is fun too. And of course so are Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy and Windowlicker videos. I wish I could see Flex in its full form.

Made wrote:AP, what say you?

I still say there are some people seeming to be leading lynches against civs, but I'm not sure how much it matters. I still vote for LC. I'm also becoming more suspicious of TH, but otherwise I'm not sure. I trust Rico, but that's about it.

I didn't get to participate

Vompatti wrote:i would'tn mind picking a john if youjknowhwatimean

Yes, finding a bathroom you like is important.

Canucklehead wrote:AP, who are you voting for?

Still going to try for LC

Dom wrote:AP-- what do you make of Canuck?

I'm Slightly suspicious but I would have to reread to form a better opinion.

Ricochet wrote:Also, AP, kindly address this. Or anything.

Hi. I don't think I am trying to fly under the radar, I've just not been posting. If you want my thoughts on the game, I think I'll vote Long Con today. Normally I'm too scared to take risks because I so often end up killing civs, but we're in peril of losing so there is not much to lose at this point. LC was the one to start the recent crusade against low posters, and I think it's because we're easy targets at this point. If they kill off a couple low posting civs, they win.

Blanks are still enough to cause serious harm or death at close range, silly canucklehead

Mongoose wrote:What your choice for Oscar fave says about you:

http://www.purewow.com/arts/What-Your-O ... -About-You

lol @ "you're a guy"

Sorry DF

I don't want to vote until I've seen Birdman and Foxcatcher

Ricochet wrote: Would you believe that I don't even know who Paul W.S. is? Sounded more like a "Paul Wes Anderson" hybrid option to me.

I thought the same thing. Apparently I've only seen AVP from him, so I definitely wasn't going to choose him in any case.

Mongoose wrote:Effective Immediately, Vompatti will be filling in for SpaceDaisy, who is an understandably busy bee!

Vomps cannot be lynched on Day 8 or NK'd on Night 8. Please send him beer and potato chips.

Chips are bad for the teeth, I will send him asparagus instead. That way his pee smells like his beer tastes.

Mongoose wrote:Black Rock has been killed. She was

It is now Day 8. You have 48 hours to

i get it

PT of course. How can any other Anderson compete with There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Punch-Drunk Love?

Ricochet wrote:
A Person wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
A Person wrote:I had wanted to vote MM but the thread was locked I've felt he was fishy all game.
It was locked with four hours or so to go, I didn't manage to vote either. Still, a weird lockdown. Does it usually require the Host to unlock it or did Epig forget about us? And what was MM trying to achieve with it?
I'm not sure for how long it lasts, I was under the impression it lasts until the day is over? The role desccription doesn't say. If so that would be why it wasn't unlocked maybe.
Hard to tell from the previous one, either, since that was both closer to the poll's end and possibly tampered by the mod-players here, with Spacedaisy opening it on the last minutes.

Ture, I couldn't tell what was supposed to have been going on last time either.

Ricochet wrote:
A Person wrote:I had wanted to vote MM but the thread was locked I've felt he was fishy all game.
It was locked with four hours or so to go, I didn't manage to vote either. Still, a weird lockdown. Does it usually require the Host to unlock it or did Epig forget about us? And what was MM trying to achieve with it?

I'm not sure for how long it lasts, I was under the impression it lasts until the day is over? The role desccription doesn't say. If so that would be why it wasn't unlocked maybe.

I had wanted to vote MM but the thread was locked

I've felt he was fishy all game.

Mongoose wrote:
A Person wrote:
Mongoose wrote:Hi sweet players!

I'm having a fun time down in Orlando for work. Are you all having nice Mondays?

Why not take a break with a nice film from the Criterion Collection? Many are available for your viewing on Hulu.

I'll be around for about an hour if you need me, lovelies.
I watched The Passion of Joan of Arc today already, it was fairly decent.
Fairly decent he says.

I was understating a bit.

Mongoose wrote:Hi sweet players!

I'm having a fun time down in Orlando for work. Are you all having nice Mondays?

Why not take a break with a nice film from the Criterion Collection? Many are available for your viewing on Hulu.

I'll be around for about an hour if you need me, lovelies.

I watched The Passion of Joan of Arc today already, it was fairly decent.

Mongoose wrote:Effective immediately, A Person is replacing Sabie.

He is immune from the Day 6 lynch and Night 6 actions.

Oh good, I'll make it through a lynch this time. :P

Hi again.

Mongoose wrote:
A Person wrote:
Mongoose wrote:Good evening, players.

Hope you are having a very special Tuesday.

I'm planning on a film club event this weekend where we would all watch The Golem at the same time. Stay tuned for details. It is available on Youtube.

As you were!
can dead people join?
It is mandatory for dead people to join.

Oh, that I'll try my hardest.

I don't want to be...modrezzed?

Mongoose wrote:Good evening, players.

Hope you are having a very special Tuesday.

I'm planning on a film club event this weekend where we would all watch The Golem at the same time. Stay tuned for details. It is available on Youtube.

As you were!

can dead people join?

Mongoose wrote:*Required Watching: Un Chien Andalou

Perhaps the most known collab between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

* Required Watching for life, not for the game.

I was asked about my opinion on this so here it is:
well, the film is obviously surreal and doesn't have a "plot" but what it did have is a lot of great imagery. The most striking to me was the shot of the ants in the guy's (i am not sure how to refer to either of the male characters) hand. Another one was the scene where the guy was chasing the girl and dragging all the stuff behind him. The film doesn't seem to be "about" anything but I think a lot of it is at least meant to evoke ideas about subconscious desires. The groping scene and the shooting scene stand out in particular as examples of that. There was also what seemed like symbolism in the use of the striped box, but I honestly have no idea what. I thought it was interesting how at the end they find the smashed box and the other man's discarded clothes (another example of the subconscious thing?). The arrangement of the soundtrack was interesting too. The middle was dramatic and serious sounding, but it was bookended by lively dancable bits. It makes it feel as if it were some sort of dream sequence. Also I noticed lots of different kinds of cuts. The bicycle part in the beginning had a couple different kinds of takes being used in quick succession (that hurt my brain) and there was that sequence of match cuts between the shot of the ants in the hand to the arm pit hair to the...sea urchin? that I thought worked really well visually. Not to mention the cloud crossing the moon interspersed with the eye cutting. I'd not seen that before (just a gif of the eye cutting). Now that I've read a bit about the film that was apparently observation that inspired the film. Personally, I liked the film because it was surreal while allowing me to interpret it in a personal way without feeling forced. Normally I am not a big fan of that sort of thing but this was particularly well done. It sort of reminded me of some of vomp's writing, like Ellen's Oiled Vagina. Seemingly random on the surface, but with an undercurrent of normal (possibly repressed) human feelings.

A Person wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
A Person wrote:I've yet to see Birdman or Boyhood, but I thought Budapest was particularly good. I won't vote though as I've not seen anything apart from it.
Aww, you could though.

Whiplash was also quite compelling.
Yeah, I wanna watch Whiplash too.

I guess I'll vote for GBH since i'm not going to see them all before the poll ends.

I watched Boyhood and I think GBH still beats it.

Ricochet wrote:Boyhood took 12 years to make, though, so... (amirite AP?).[/ot]

Boyhood: It Took 12 Years to Make. Boyhood. Did you know it took 12 years to make?

Mongoose wrote:
A Person wrote:I've yet to see Birdman or Boyhood, but I thought Budapest was particularly good. I won't vote though as I've not seen anything apart from it.
Aww, you could though.

Whiplash was also quite compelling.

Yeah, I wanna watch Whiplash too.

I guess I'll vote for GBH since i'm not going to see them all before the poll ends.

I've yet to see Birdman or Boyhood, but I thought Budapest was particularly good. I won't vote though as I've not seen anything apart from it.

I don't get it

thellama73 wrote:
Mongoose wrote:Last hour for PMS!

Thank goodness! These cramps are killing me.

i've only seen How the Grinch Stole Christmas from the poll, and I am not voting for that.

Canucklehead wrote:OmfuckingG. I wrote "phone-posting", not "pig ears-posting". What in the actual fuck.

Mongoose wrote:Guys, I will be right with you with the night post.

I came home to find a headless bird corpse in the middle of my floor. Using avian CSI techniques, I deduced that the bird had not recently perished. Endlessly, I have looked over this house for the bird's head.

I had a guest here 2 weeks ago and had to send him a message that said "Did you by any chance find a severed bird head in your bag?"

That's probably the weirdest query I've ever had to shoot past someone.

and hells bells there might be a random bird head somewhere in my house, gross.

i would follow pipey around to see if he's stashed it somewhere

Dom wrote:^That has left me speechless tbh

the bird's probably not saying much either

nijuukyugou wrote:I finally just finished How To Train Your Dragon 2. Didn't finish it Sunday. Too much stuff going on. But I enjoyed it!

...Yeah, I'm a cool gal. Anyone else like animation? Because I can talk some animation

I've recently watched The Secret of Kells (and liked it lots)

The last film I've seen was All About My Mother. If someone were to call it a masterpiece I'd have a hard time disagreeing.

A Person wrote:my internet was dead all day

Still haven't seen Hard Eight, but I'll throw Magnolia a bone. I could vote for They Gun' B Blud just as easily but it's getting plenty of votes.

The last film I saw was The Train Agent, I enjoyed it a fair amount.

Station* not Train, as I've been corrected by our dear hostess

my internet was dead all day

Still haven't seen Hard Eight, but I'll throw Magnolia a bone. I could vote for They Gun' B Blud just as easily but it's getting plenty of votes.

The last film I saw was The Train Agent, I enjoyed it a fair amount.

Skelly Twins was really good. I'm not sure what my favorite film was, but off the top of my head Skeleton Twins, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Enemy would all be high on the list. I still have a lot I want to see, so it could easily change.

Ricochet wrote:FZ*. Sorry. Typo-ing like mad right now.

I'll think I'll watch Frank tonight. Hey, rememeber movies being the theme of this game?

F**K MOVIES

Frank was good stuff

Vompatti wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Vompatti wrote:
Ricochet wrote:This is the first time that I can record llama fully explaining his read on vomps and his reason to vote him, which took some time, but I wholeheartedly applaud. Some parts (the being more on-topic thing) still sound more like "I'll just feeling it this way" obstinate reasoning, especially given others having pointed out the opposite (or nothing that is entirely concludent) from past experience, but other points are actually interesting. I think this deserves a defence from Vompatti.

I think I'm out for the day (midnight here).
I believe that if Llama were to count my posts he would find that most of them are indeed OFF-topic, and, if I survive the lynch, will be increasingly so due to the thread already being tl;dr at this point.

You may embed only 7 quotes within each other.
I'm taking a leaf from llama's mafiabook.

Are you bad k?
I am if you want me to be

hot

Metalmarsh89 wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:I find self-votes and random votes BOTH suspicious. I'm not sure which I find more suspicious. However, I find the rationale for a self-vote, if someone is civilian, makes much less sense. At least with a random vote, there is a reason that someone else could be bad, and I'm not. With a self-vote, if you're a civilian, your chance of lynching a baddie with your vote is 0%.
If you can point to one instance where a player self-voted, and was lynched that same day as a result (civ or otherwise), then MAYBE I will reconsider my feelings on it.

pretty sure it's happened to me

Ricochet wrote:I longed for many years to own a copy of Finnegans Wake, but when I finally had a chance, I hesitated and didn't buy it. People tended constantly to lower my expectations of it.

i've never heard anything good about it from people who've (tried to) read it

Mongoose wrote:It is now Day 1.

You have 48 hours to determine who put the junk in the trunk.

I thought my brain was playing a trick on me because I saw the poll before this post.

Guess I should use this time to watch Hard Eight, right?

I remembered to vote with literally 5 minutes left, realized my vote can't change the results unless there is a crazy amount of votes for one person, and self voted.

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