The Syndicate

Dom wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:38 pm I would have sent DH.

Quin— what’s up with kind of ignoring LC? That bothers me.

Nutella— u bad bc you want Epi be your voice.

Vote Nutella tbh

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:11 pm If we won this challenge, who would we have sent? Pretend we chose by popular vote, I'd have nominated DH.

Dom wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:38 pm I would have sent DH.

Quin— what’s up with kind of ignoring LC? That bothers me.

Nutella— u bad bc you want Epi be your voice.

Vote Nutella tbh

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:04 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:52 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:03 pm The good news is now Nutella is confirmed mafia

excuse me?? I'm not and what makes you think I am

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:21 pm It'd be good to know who the third person who did the challenge was.

I did it (see my post about loving puzzles/being good at them). I saw the pm about an hour after it was sent so probably didn't respond fast enough, my bad

Why did you volunteer for the puzzle but not be on call for the PM?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:11 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:06 pm Ugh I hate this lynch I think speed and ddl both look mostly civ. I trust speed more though so I guess I'll vote for DDL, speed's points against him in the iso post and LC's point about the slip are decent and I think at this point I'd rather vote with speedchuck than throwaway vote outside the two contenders. Looks like shit if speed turns out to be bad, but I don't think he is so I'm taking the gamble here. Not feeling great about it though.

[VOTE: DDL] aubergine

Yes hello waiter I'll have the CYA special with a side of all my bases covered

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:26 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:04 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:52 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:03 pm The good news is now Nutella is confirmed mafia

excuse me?? I'm not and what makes you think I am

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:21 pm It'd be good to know who the third person who did the challenge was.

I did it (see my post about loving puzzles/being good at them). I saw the pm about an hour after it was sent so probably didn't respond fast enough, my bad

Why did you volunteer for the puzzle but not be on call for the PM?

I have a life????? I got distracted??? Jesus people yall on crack

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:35 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:26 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:04 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:52 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:03 pm The good news is now Nutella is confirmed mafia

excuse me?? I'm not and what makes you think I am

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:21 pm It'd be good to know who the third person who did the challenge was.

I did it (see my post about loving puzzles/being good at them). I saw the pm about an hour after it was sent so probably didn't respond fast enough, my bad

Why did you volunteer for the puzzle but not be on call for the PM?

I have a life????? I got distracted??? Jesus people yall on crack

Then you should not have volunteered. There is nothing "on-crack" about that. No time to work on puzzles? You have a life? Super. Go make it rain. Leave those of us without lives to do the puzzles.

This I don't get at all.

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:36 am k... wasn't I technically indie in BV lol (though we had the team thing eventually)

anyway you should probably be more specific than that. I voted for DDL because I felt good about speedchuck and mildly bad about DDL and I didn't feel strongly enough about anyone else to vote outside of the two. not "covering my ass" just following my normal procedure for deciding on a vote when I don't have a strong suspect

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:37 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:35 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:26 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:04 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:52 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:03 pm The good news is now Nutella is confirmed mafia

excuse me?? I'm not and what makes you think I am

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:21 pm It'd be good to know who the third person who did the challenge was.

I did it (see my post about loving puzzles/being good at them). I saw the pm about an hour after it was sent so probably didn't respond fast enough, my bad

Why did you volunteer for the puzzle but not be on call for the PM?

I have a life????? I got distracted??? Jesus people yall on crack

Then you should not have volunteered. There is nothing "on-crack" about that. No time to work on puzzles? You have a life? Super. Go make it rain. Leave those of us without lives to do the puzzles.

This I don't get at all.

do you know what the word "distracted" means

I signed up when I thought I would be around to do the puzzle, I ended up doing something else for an hour unexpectedly

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:37 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:35 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:26 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:04 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:52 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:03 pm The good news is now Nutella is confirmed mafia

excuse me?? I'm not and what makes you think I am

Quin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:21 pm It'd be good to know who the third person who did the challenge was.

I did it (see my post about loving puzzles/being good at them). I saw the pm about an hour after it was sent so probably didn't respond fast enough, my bad

Why did you volunteer for the puzzle but not be on call for the PM?

I have a life????? I got distracted??? Jesus people yall on crack

Then you should not have volunteered. There is nothing "on-crack" about that. No time to work on puzzles? You have a life? Super. Go make it rain. Leave those of us without lives to do the puzzles.

This I don't get at all.

do you know what the word "distracted" means

I signed up when I thought I would be around to do the puzzle, I ended up doing something else for an hour unexpectedly

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:36 am Any time I see a player pull the "Oh golly Gee Mr. Police Mans, I just hate to vote to lynch this person, surely I do. But I gotta, you see? I gotta. I hate to do it boss, but I gotta. Sure hope it works out. Not sure it will, but I hope it does." routine it bugs me. Like, if you don't want to vote for the guy, don't. If you think he's civ or whatever, toss a different name in the hat. You don't *have* to vote for anyone.

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am tbh that's part of why I hate time-sensitive challenges in mafia. like, if you don't happen to be online at the right time you don't get a chance. it's like "hey, to the few people who happen to be around at this moment, you can have a cool prize!" it's grossly unfair.

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:59 am Regardless of which side lost the challenge, the other tribe would have sent their own top town read (that would actually read). There's only benefit in scum sabotaging the challenge on one side if there's a highly read scum on the other side who had a chance of being sent instead (to remove the benefit to town entirely).

So for nutella to have intentionally thrown this as scum, it puts a question mark on Sloonei's (or other top reads on the other side) alignment. I think this makes sense.

Despite all this, I can't say that I'd have given a damn who won this challenge. We'd have shared information when we merged anyway, and it'd a ballsy move for scum to lie or omit stuff they read on the other side.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:01 am

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:59 am Regardless of which side lost the challenge, the other tribe would have sent their own top town read (that would actually read). There's only benefit in scum sabotaging the challenge on one side if there's a highly read scum on the other side who had a chance of being sent instead (to remove the benefit to town entirely).

So for nutella to have intentionally thrown this as scum, it puts a question mark on Sloonei's (or other top reads on the other side) alignment. I think this makes sense.

Despite all this, I can't say that I'd have given a damn who won this challenge. We'd have shared information when we merged anyway, and it'd a ballsy move for scum to lie or omit stuff they read on the other side.

You think nutella sabotaged the challenge...


and then confessed....

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:08 am Luckily I am immune to this scrutiny, as even if I were mafia, I am too much of an arrogant asshole to intentionally throw any challenge of any kind even if it would be beneficial to do so.

Dom wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:11 am yo quin

wtf

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:15 am

Dom wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:11 am yo quin

wtf

hey buddy

Dom wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:29 am I can't even imagine what the reaction would be if I straight up ignored questions posed to me...

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:48 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am tbh that's part of why I hate time-sensitive challenges in mafia. like, if you don't happen to be online at the right time you don't get a chance. it's like "hey, to the few people who happen to be around at this moment, you can have a cool prize!" it's grossly unfair.

I agree with this, which is why I do not have time-sensitive shit in my games.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:18 am I'd really like clarification from the hosts on how much we can talk about these challenges. If I did one, I'd want to talk about it, but I don't know if infodropping rules come into play.

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:40 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:48 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am tbh that's part of why I hate time-sensitive challenges in mafia. like, if you don't happen to be online at the right time you don't get a chance. it's like "hey, to the few people who happen to be around at this moment, you can have a cool prize!" it's grossly unfair.

I agree with this, which is why I do not have time-sensitive shit in my games.

If my games were to have time sensitive stuff in them, I'd have them go something like this:

I send a PM to check availability and wait for a reply. I'll then send a confirmation PM and if I get a response to that within a couple of minutes I'll send it through. Otherwise I'll do enough rounds of PM's until the player is responding in that time frame. After a certain deadline I'd just send it through.

It might take a while to get started, but it's the most reliable way that I can think of.

Back in the day there used to be things like posting challenges. Who can make the most non-consecutive posts and all that rot? Holy crap were we uncivilized.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:32 am

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:40 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:48 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am tbh that's part of why I hate time-sensitive challenges in mafia. like, if you don't happen to be online at the right time you don't get a chance. it's like "hey, to the few people who happen to be around at this moment, you can have a cool prize!" it's grossly unfair.

I agree with this, which is why I do not have time-sensitive shit in my games.

If my games were to have time sensitive stuff in them, I'd have them go something like this:

I send a PM to check availability and wait for a reply. I'll then send a confirmation PM and if I get a response to that within a couple of minutes I'll send it through. Otherwise I'll do enough rounds of PM's until the player is responding in that time frame. After a certain deadline I'd just send it through.

It might take a while to get started, but it's the most reliable way that I can think of.

Back in the day there used to be things like posting challenges. Who can make the most non-consecutive posts and all that rot? Holy crap were we uncivilized.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:29 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:32 am

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:40 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:48 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am tbh that's part of why I hate time-sensitive challenges in mafia. like, if you don't happen to be online at the right time you don't get a chance. it's like "hey, to the few people who happen to be around at this moment, you can have a cool prize!" it's grossly unfair.

I agree with this, which is why I do not have time-sensitive shit in my games.

If my games were to have time sensitive stuff in them, I'd have them go something like this:

I send a PM to check availability and wait for a reply. I'll then send a confirmation PM and if I get a response to that within a couple of minutes I'll send it through. Otherwise I'll do enough rounds of PM's until the player is responding in that time frame. After a certain deadline I'd just send it through.

It might take a while to get started, but it's the most reliable way that I can think of.

Back in the day there used to be things like posting challenges. Who can make the most non-consecutive posts and all that rot? Holy crap were we uncivilized.

I think we were fine back in the day. All "civilization" isn't the same. Those things were fun and got people involved. So are contests. To each his own; if you don't like it don't participate.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:07 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:29 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:32 am

Quin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:40 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:48 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am tbh that's part of why I hate time-sensitive challenges in mafia. like, if you don't happen to be online at the right time you don't get a chance. it's like "hey, to the few people who happen to be around at this moment, you can have a cool prize!" it's grossly unfair.

I agree with this, which is why I do not have time-sensitive shit in my games.

If my games were to have time sensitive stuff in them, I'd have them go something like this:

I send a PM to check availability and wait for a reply. I'll then send a confirmation PM and if I get a response to that within a couple of minutes I'll send it through. Otherwise I'll do enough rounds of PM's until the player is responding in that time frame. After a certain deadline I'd just send it through.

It might take a while to get started, but it's the most reliable way that I can think of.

Back in the day there used to be things like posting challenges. Who can make the most non-consecutive posts and all that rot? Holy crap were we uncivilized.

I think we were fine back in the day. All "civilization" isn't the same. Those things were fun and got people involved. So are contests. To each his own; if you don't like it don't participate.

No need to take offense. That was a reference to something I recall someone saying about The Syndicate being like some hidden tribe in the jungle, which I found really really funny.

I enjoyed that as well. I see it more as a hidden Wakanda than some cannibalistic primitive... though we have characteristics of both. I strive to be Black Panther when I host a game.