The Syndicate

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:11 pm Boo deserves a new Socky this year based on hard work for awesome site improvments.

I'm thinking an annual staff award of some sort named the Boo Award.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 7:07 am Woah. Wut. Cool. Thanks for the love, guys. And congrats to the other winners, especially my fellow Inceptioners.

Look at this guy, playing one game and taking home gold.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:12 am When I voted (and this was the only category I voted in, since I was not around for the last year) I thought you already had this! I somehow missed the list of previous winners. I totes would have voted for you had I realized.

Congrats all winners !!

I'm glad you placed the votes that you did! [no spoilers] Thank you still though.

The LAA means a lot. As the site has grown and changed since I arrived in 2015 (and particularly since I joined the admin team), many past regulars have moved on entirely. I have sometimes had the tendency to blame myself for that. Though I have tried very hard to preserve the traditions that preceded me here, I have undoubtedly been associated with much of the cultural shifting we've experienced too -- some of which has probably driven folks away. I wish it weren't so. With that in mind though, it makes recognition like the LAA quite special, to know that the folks here do know that I am trying the best I can. I've had my hands in just about every cookie jar of site operation since MP started to phase himself into his next era, and I am certain I have goofed along the way. Thanks so much to the rest of the staff for the support, for the admins past and present for the same and for checking me on my mindsets, and to the pile of users still here playing games so often.

The Hall of Fame is updated to reflect all the new awards. Take a look!

Michelle wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:23 am Grats to the winners! Well deserved for everyone

Unfortunately that was at 4 am for me, thanks Jack for the Discord ping ^^

Well done for your nominations! Glad that cop work you did in the dream world didn't go unnoticed.

Thanks as always to Long Con for putting together such fantastic banners. He outdoes himself every year.

BANNERS

Best Job

[mention]Long Con[/mention], [mention]Black Rock[/mention]

Best Side Mission

[mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention]

Best Heist

[mention]speedchuck[/mention], [mention]Epignosis[/mention]

Best Theme

[mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention], [mention]Sloonei[/mention], [mention]Long Con[/mention], [mention]Black Rock[/mention]

Best Civilian Team Victory

[mention]ColinIsCool[/mention], [mention]Dragon D. Luffy[/mention], [mention]DrWilgy[/mention], [mention]Epignosis[/mention], [mention]Funnygurl555[/mention], [mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention], [mention]Long Con[/mention], [mention]Luxurious[/mention], [mention]MacDougall[/mention], [mention]Matahari[/mention], [mention]sprityo[/mention], [mention]Ultra[/mention]

Best Mafia Team Victory

[mention]Dragomir[/mention], [mention]Elephant[/mention], [mention]Evenstar[/mention], [mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention], [mention]Long Con[/mention], [mention]MacDougall[/mention]

Best Host or Host Team

[mention]Epignosis[/mention], [mention]Sloonei[/mention], [mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention], [mention]Long Con[/mention], [mention]Black Rock[/mention]

Best Civilian

[mention]novaselinenever[/mention], [mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention]

Best Mafioso

[mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention]

Best Independent

[mention]Master Radishes[/mention]

Best Newcomer

[mention]Dragomir[/mention]

Best Role Use

[mention]Sloonei[/mention]

Funniest Poster

[mention]MacDougall[/mention]

Spirit Award

[mention]nutella[/mention]

Best Quote

[mention]speedchuck[/mention]

Most Valuable Player

[mention]MacDougall[/mention]

Lifetime Achievement Award

[mention]nutella[/mention], [mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention], [mention]Sloonei[/mention]

And if it isn't clear: Sloonei deserves the crap out of that. Or I'll crap myself.

Thanks so much for your help [mention]juliets[/mention], and for taking on those LAA inductions at the last second.

Thanks as well to everyone who was here for the awards. I didn't expect them to last over 3.5 hours.

Y'all are super, and I am happy to be a part of this thing we have going here. Again, we'll have banners for all winners soon.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:36 pm Our final inductee for the Lifetime Achievement Award came to us in 2015 full of life. He dazzled us with his style and proved to be an outstanding mafia player and host. We have all been fooled by his mafioso game and won over by his civ game. He too has been nominated for many Sockys and won as recently as tonight. He has added class to our site and been rewarded with an admin role (I think thats a reward?). I'm so happy to announce our third inductee:

Final Induction
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Sloonei

This is a takeover.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:28 pm
juliets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:26 pm I can't even find the words to express the importance the second inductee has had to our site. He is an outstanding player no matter what faction, he is an award winning host, he is an admin who truly cares about the site and he will tell you this win was predetermined, destined to happen. I am so please to present our second inductee:

Second Induction
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JaggedJimmyJay

I didn't know Mafia was a contact sport until I met this guy.

I made a hobby of getting into fights with you from the Economics game onward. It's been great fun.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:28 pm
juliets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:26 pm I can't even find the words to express the importance the second inductee has had to our site. He is an outstanding player no matter what faction, he is an award winning host, he is an admin who truly cares about the site and he will tell you this win was predetermined, destined to happen. I am so please to present our second inductee:

Second Induction
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JaggedJimmyJay

I invited this person to play a mafia game in the early days of RYM, the first I’d ever hosted. He declined.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:26 pm I can't even find the words to express the importance the second inductee has had to our site. He is an outstanding player no matter what faction, he is an award winning host, he is an admin who truly cares about the site and he will tell you this win was predetermined, destined to happen. I am so please to present our second inductee:

Second Induction
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JaggedJimmyJay

Thank you so much, juliets. I'm humbled, even if I was always guaranteed to be humbled given the conditions of the universe.

I'll have a lot more to say later.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:24 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:20 pm She finally gets her due.

nutella is by all measures among the best players The Syndicate has ever had. She just won the spirit award, so we all know there's more to her than just skill here too. I want to play Saga!
Idk if I'll ever actually host that lol. Or anything. I don't have the hosting bug and am just afraid I'd screw it up

You ever want co-host backup, just ask. A pile of us are ready to help.

She finally gets her due.

nutella is by all measures among the best players The Syndicate has ever had. She just won the spirit award, so we all know there's more to her than just skill here too. I want to play Saga!

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:14 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:12 pm
G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:11 pm And if it’s not nutella, JJJ, and sloonei, then I cry foul.
Golden too thooooo
Y’all acting like G-man himself isn’t an obvious pick.

Is any name more memorable from our first game here? Apart perhaps from The Coward?

As we have the past two years, we will not feature a "Finalists" set. We will proceed immediately to inductions.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:06 pm Does that make him King of Fuck Mountain too?

I'm still all oiled up.

I think that's as well deserved as an MVP can be. Mac blew up the leaderboard this year, finished 2nd overall in the MU tournament, and was key in nearly all of the wins he collected. It's super cool to see this from one of RYM's originals.

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MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

That was one of my votes! Clever bastard.

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112 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:33 pm
Benson wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:29 pm
112 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:28 pm I just want to acknowledge how much empathy I feel for all the scum we're going to lynch together, Mac.
Why do seemingly already know Mac is town? Enlighten
fucking hell benson enlightenment is not something i tell you. you do it yourself with my help. this is a two-way street.

it's probably because of the mushrooms i did before the game started. i'm in my super-saiyan mode now- way above what can be said through the limits of language.

go study the esotericists and stuff if you want mafia enlightenment

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:28 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:24 pm Hahhaha Nike do it bitch And the wifom one omg how did you even come up with this
Step 1: Desperately need a "Funniest Post" Socky

Step 2: Stay awake until like 3:30 AM so your brain is all "Wow that's funny say that."

Dom wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:01 am all y'all married and i will continue to sit here like a potato.

Evenstar wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:04 am
Dragomir wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:39 am
Evenstar wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:00 am
Dragomir wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:55 pm
Evenstar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:50 pm
Dragomir wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:48 pm
Evenstar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:46 pm

Would it be crass for me to volunteer?
Dunno why you're asking me instead of her. I don't wanna sleep with you.
Aw, what a shame.
Oh shit, I just realized that you're a girl. We can hit the bed anytime then
Does that line generally work for you?
Everything works for me baby girl. Everything.
Cool. Where would you like to be branded?

Fayt wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 2:37 am reading two people who I town read fight each other is like mom and dad arguing who's fault is it when the dog shits on the carpet.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:42 pm
Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:41 pm Jay: Somebody give me an excuse to vote DDL
Everyone: ...
Jay: Convincing. Vote DDL
When people don't answer me I do shit myself, like always.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:36 am Every time I envision Nova posting I imagine him sitting there sipping on a drink with a smirk on his face. Everything has a snarky tone to it. His tone reeks of mischief and mayhem. He's like the guy you catch staring at you from across the room while pretending to read the paper and then goes back to the paper and pretends you never made eye contact and he has a grey trenchcoat on and a tall hat.

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:27 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:30 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:11 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:11 pm A little early to tell. I have a quindar not a novadar
trade it in at your local game stop
Traded it in, but all I can get for the return price is a glorfindar

BEST QUOTE

I love to see it, hazelnut spread. You're wonderful to have around here, and you add excitement and fun to every game. It showed especially in the MU tournament -- you were an instant fan favorite in the spec chat.

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Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:46 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:44 pm SPIRIT AWARD
A.K.A. The Award Epignosis will Never Win Even if He Lives to be 1000

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SPIRIT AWARD

Congrats on your repeat crown, MacClown.

I never expected to ever receive a vote for that one.

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FUNNIEST POSTER

What's next?

Spirit Award
Funniest Poster

Congrats [mention]Epignosis[/mention] and [mention]speedchuck[/mention]. Those are probably the two heists I remember most from 2019. They ended very differently.

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BEST HEIST

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:31 pm Congrats JJJ. I died early in that one, as I recall.

As you too often do.

Gonna pick up the pace now. This is taking a bit longer than expected.

First to answer wins. What's next?

Best Heist
Spirit Award
Funniest Poster

I appreciate the votes, gang. I wasn't sure how that theme would work here since it's kind of personal. Fallout is big now, but not the original. I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

BEST SIDE MISSION

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