The Syndicate

Long Con wrote: Mwa ha haaa... Let the age of moving sig banners commence!

They would be more wack if you actually put sig in all the banners. :P

It's probably just 'cause one image loads before the other, but I could be wrong on that.

thellama73 wrote:Has anyone noticed that this year's Socky's have the same year in the badge as last year's?

That was a derp on last year's badges. The Banners correspond to the 2015 year they commemorate.

Thanks everyone for voting in the Sockys, and for making this a truly wonderful year. Everyone who won and was nominated surely deserved the awards. Also, thank you Golden, fingersplints, and Long Con for your assistance with the Sockys this year, and to the Admins and Ambassadors for helping behind the scenes with some of the preliminaries.

And finally, thank you Syndicate community for being awesome. Let's make 2016 another successful year, and keep up the mafia madness.


The after-party is at JaggedJimmyJay's house. PM him if you need directions.

And the winner of the Best Quote goes to...
Congratulations fingersplints (and MP for being a puppy with with a small bladder).

And now for your final Award, we have the Best Quote. Your nominations were as follows:

The winner of the Funniest Poster Award, the King of the Tomatoes, the Conqueror of Serbia, and the Lord of everything that massages the humerus, goes to...

DrWilgy
Epignosis
G-Man
Metalmarsh89
Scotty

Your next Miscellaneous award goes to the Funniest Poster. This Award is for people who don't know how to take mafia seriously, or do know how to, but just choose not to. Your nominations were:

• DrWilgy
  Epignosis
  G-Man
  Metalmarsh89
  Scotty

And the Best Game Banner goes to...

Death and Taxes: An Economics Mafia
Death Note Mafia
Film Directors
Last (wo)Man Standing 3
Mafia: A World Reborn
Talking Heads Mafia (RYM #90)



As Long Con designed this banner, this award goes to him. For those of you who don't know, Long Con and Spacedaisy design a large majority of our game banners here at the Syndicate, and have done a fantastic job in doing so. Long Con also designed the banners for this year's Sockys. I want to thank for for their contributions in this department, as well as anyone else who has done a game banner. Well done y'all.

First award of this category, is the award for the Best Game Banner. Your nominations were:

• Death and Taxes: An Economics Mafia
  Death Note Mafia
  Film Directors
  Last (wo)Man Standing 3
  Mafia: A World Reborn
  Talking Heads Mafia (RYM #90)

Ok folks, now we're on to the awards you've all been waiting all night for. The Miscellaneous Awards!

S~V~S wrote:There is a way to turn sigs off, I might do it for my phone

Oh no! I do want to see everyone else's sigs, just not Golden's. :P

Linki: Oh that's me.

Ricochet wrote:who /hypnotizedbytheswingingsocks/ here

I think I want to write a script that turns Golden's signature off.

Golden wrote:Maybe you were. I think of your alternate win con as effectively indy though.

I had no service at the wedding, so I was essentially an Independent.

Linki: Congrats all you winners.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:MM is so perfectly suited to the solo game. He's the kind of guy I would want to hand pick for rogue roles and then force myself to resist.

Funnily, he didn't win this for solo gaming. He either won for joining an Indy post-death or for being a Tuskan Raider with another person. At least assuming from the games he won, didn't check the other performances.

He won Sockface and Daisy Wedding as indy.

Oh that's right! I kept thinking I was technically a civ with an alternate win con.

Ricochet wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:MM is so perfectly suited to the solo game. He's the kind of guy I would want to hand pick for rogue roles and then force myself to resist.

Funnily, he didn't win this for solo gaming. He either won for joining an Indy post-death or for being a Tuskan Raider with another person. At least assuming from the games he won, didn't check the other performances.

You're not too far off. World Reborn was the only game in 2015 I began as an Independent. But I played several other games with extra win conditions, or where my alignment changed, like Biblical, Death Note, Recruitment and Watchmen. Oh, and in Monopoly I was essentially an SK, because I was on a 2-man mafia team with BWT who managed to get lynched like Day 2 or 3.

Ricochet wrote:Ah, lost to MM, what's new. Grats!

Thanks for bringing me along for a win in the Best Themed Game of 2015.

Linki: Haha, thanks Jay. As much as I enjoy being mafia and civ, I'm not serious enough sometimes to be a good civilian, and I've had my fair share of pissing off baddie-teammates as well. :P

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Good one, Epi. I swear I'll finally play in one of your games eventually.

Thank you sir. I could use a replacement right about now.

Please don't bench me coach.

Congrats Jay!

I wonder how you would have fared in Omerta Mafia.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:#3bannersforthesamegame

linki - congrats canucklehead!

I don't recall if you were around for that game, but you can view how Canucklehead used her role in this post.

Long Con wrote:I'mma have to stop you right there... I'mma let you finish, but the Flash Mafia victory was the greatest Mafia victory of ALL TIME! Of ALL TIME!!!

That game was broken.

Talking Heads was truly awesome. Thanks MP for putting together such a marvelous game.

Linki: LOL

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Good one, Epi. I swear I'll finally play in one of your games eventually.

Your chance will arrive soon.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Bravo, Marsh. And to y'all who made the game so close.

Aye, it was the civilians getting their rear in gear that made that one a good one. Go civs!

Golden wrote:

Best Speed Game

Death and Taxes: an Economics Mafia
Dune
Pikmin Mafia
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

For these awards, banners are awarded to the Host(s) of the games. Congratulations to the winners here.

Ladies and gentlemen. Llamas and Batbears. Socks and Tricksters.

It's about that time. Time for...

Socky theme tune, ELP style.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I have pizza and ice cream for the occasion.

But I already shipped all of my silverware away. I am going to have to squeeze this ice cream into my mouth.

Pizza makes for good silverware in this situation.

Golden wrote:Red carpet time. Feel free to post pictures of yourselves on the red carpet, and tell us who you are wearing.

I'm wearing fingersplints as a hat.

fingersplints wrote:We are working with 4 different time zones here It's pretty impressive we could find a time that worked for all of us at all.

I hope everyone is as excited to find out the winners as I am to help tell you all.

Do I have to go by script, or can I make it up as I go? Then everyone will be surprised, including me.

Ricochet wrote:Goddamn meridians...

Don't look at us. A kiwi set the schedule.

DrWilgy wrote:Wilgy feels bad for only half paying attention to the Socky's...

Oh well, world domination requires focus. Back to that now.

Have you conquered Serbia yet?

Golden wrote:12pm Monday New Zealand time.

Figure that one out, suckers.

Wait, wasn't that 20 minutes ago?

It'll happen in all time zones Ricochet! You're in luck.

Matt wrote:I didn't vote on nominees because I didn't start playing again until late last summer, but cool beans.

However, I was surprised to see Mac wasn't nominated for Best New Member or Funniest Poster, and even though he was eventual mafia, I'd like to give a shout out to Dom for his indy role in AWR.

Socky's look fun

We had so many new members this year and so many good new members, it's cruel to have to narrow it down to one, or even five.

thellama73 wrote:Apparently no one agreed with my opinion that both Vompatti and insertnamehere deserved recognition for their brilliant, gamne-breaking performances in Eno Mafia. Of course, it probably doesn't help that most people in that game, including the two just mentioned, don't come around these parts any more (I'm still waiting to find out what happens in INH's 702 game!)

The problem with INH's performance in Eno was that his plan backfired, and when he tried to nightkill someone (was it Vompatti?), the kill rebounded back to him.

I'm also waiting to see what happens in 702. Should we spoil ourselves?

Linki: I've probably self-voted the most in 2015, but I swear I didn't for the Sockys!