The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:Can't wait for this game to start!!!

I have my role!

Oh no, wait. I don't.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:llamas spit in people's faces because they are turdmuffins.

I was referring to Ricochet's original post as being weird, not your comparison. I would never dream of, when describing an animal, needing to add an explanation to why it is not endangered, the same way I would never dream of explaining why an armchair isn't on fire when describing it.

I think it's weird to give a reason why a species isn't endangered, as if being endangered is the natural state and any deviation from it requires explanation. It makes more sense to me to give an explanation for why a species IS endangered.

It's like saying "That armchair isn't on fire, because..." Let's just assume armchairs are not on fire, and if one is, we'll offer an explanation for that.

Of course it helps, but I just think it's a bit simplistic. The way it's phrased is as if being endangered is the default and lack of it needs an explanation. Why aren't aren't bluejays endangered? Why are sturgeon? Why aren't penguins? Why aren't gophers? Saying an animal is only alive because of a single factor may be true in some cases (cows, because we eat them) but I imagine there are lots of reasons why mongooses are not endangered (humans don't hunt them, not a ton of natural predators, they breed quickly etc.)

Ricochet wrote:Since they are easily adaptable, they are not endangered.

It seems like an oversimplification to attribute their not being endangered to single cause like that.

Vompatti wrote:they should replace the missing players

in fact if they replaced all players we wouldn't have to play at all

That takes Minimalism Mafia to a whole new level.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Dom wrote:ppl pls play

I echo every recent sentiment. Let's get this going!

You run this site. Can't you do something? Like, I don't know, coerce people?

^second.

Mongoose wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

thellama73 wrote:I only go to the talkies.

Didn't we watch The Black Pirate together once?

I think you're confusing me with a hallucination.

Douglas Fairbanks, silent film

I know what it is, dummy, I just didn't watch it with you.

Mongoose wrote:

thellama73 wrote:I only go to the talkies.

Didn't we watch The Black Pirate together once?

I think you're confusing me with a hallucination.

I only go to the talkies.

If a game with an accessible theme and a popular host is taking this long to fill, I shudder to think of my upcoming Harry Stephen Keeler mafia signups.

Can more people sign up for this please? I'm bored and I want to play.

Dom wrote:We need 32 right?

And we have 23. A dyslexic person could solve this difficulty in a trice.

Rob said he'd mod, so I'm in.

Lizzy wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

A Person wrote:

Long Con wrote:Wow, that's where Rico lives? That's awesome. Ricochet, can you post some pics of your locale?

Even though we've known him for years we still can't quite shake the feeling he's been leading us on the whole time.

Unlike in real life, I'm incapable of lying on the internet.

Lies

I'm actually from Tuvalu, so that's interesting.

Ricochet wrote:HI

Hi!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'm only playing if I get recruited.

I'm only not playing if I don't get recruited.

What if Howard Hawks steals Erroll Morris's power? Can he then recruit people? What if he recruits a mafia member?

(I am pretending to be Alex)

I'm a maybe. But you didn't give me a maybe option. If this fills up quickly, I will mod. If slowly, I will play. I will be out of town for nine days later this month, and I don't want to be a non-participant.