The Syndicate

Canucklehead wrote:I'll play.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss. You better not get replaced this time

Canucklehead wrote:I'll play.

Awesome!!!!!

23 again.

PEOPLE! SIGN UP FOR THIS EFFING GAME! Not only is the set-up brilliant and on point, but Mongoose is a true cineaste and will bring the appropriate amount of awesome!

^second.

^ Thirded.

Imma skip the fourth and go right to the fifth~

Seventeenthed.

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ppl pls play

Dom wrote:ppl pls play

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

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?

thellama73 wrote:

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?

I could.

bots

What about them?

they should replace the missing players

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

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.

Vompatti wrote:they should replace the missing players

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

That sounds awesome.

game when

thellama73 wrote:

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.

Not that I'm saying he's a minimalist, but many of John Cage's own indications on how to play his pieces would make for intriguing Mafia game powers.

is the mongoose still alive q.m.

Vompatti wrote:is the mongoose still alive q.m.

Who cares about Mongoose, we've got 10 living players (or so) we need to find instead.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:is the mongoose still alive q.m.

Who cares about Mongoose, we've got 10 living players (or so) we need to find instead.

thah's not a a a very nice thing to say k :*(

Vompatti wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:is the mongoose still alive q.m.

Who cares about Mongoose, we've got 10 living players (or so) we need to find instead.

thah's not a a a very nice thing to say k :*(

ture kk im sosorry :*( k .....

Mongooses are weasel-like creatures that belong to the group of Carnivores. There are 33 mongoose species; they live in Europe, Asia and Africa. Mongooses like rocky areas, but they can be found in forests and semi-aquatic areas. Since they are easily adaptable, they are not endangered.

ture

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.

I'm sure it helps immensely. Loss of habitat is a big causal factor for species depopulation. So an adaptable animal would be more likely to survive if it's original habitat is mowed down for another mall, or a chemical plant.

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.)

That could be the primary cause, though. Blue jays & gophers are highly adaptable. When I lived in Kalispell, Montana, we had gophers right in town. Coyotes, too. They can adapt to anything, and are hunted very harshly, even more heavily than wolves. Wolves, though, are less adaptable when it comes to where they can live successfully, and they are closer to endangered.

If we figure out a way to live in Antarctica, the penguins will be endangered soon enough. Not very adaptable, penguins. When you take several factors into account, adaptability seems to be a tipping factor. So simplified, yes, simplistic, no.

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.

Adaptability is a trait that can keep a species viable. In comparing two very similar different species, one in trouble and the other not, it can make the difference. This is why I did the coyote vs wolves comparison. Coyotes are more successful in the face of human development becasue they are more adaptable.

They are also NOT apex predators, like wolves. This is also a factor; WE are the apex predator in all of our environments (unless there are tigers, we are pwned by tigers). So wolves are more intolerable to us than 'yotes. But the point was about adaptability, and that point stands.

So it wasn't weird, it was a comparison tool to aid in demonstrating my thesis.

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.

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

I would assume that many of the species eaten by mongooses are endangered because mongooses are easily adaptable and look like vicious beasts.

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

rude

sort of like cats when you let them out they go to the woods and kill birds and squirrels even if you feed them they kill them because it's in their nature many birds are near extinction because of cats

how are these similar at all

they look like they kill anything they can k

Vompatti wrote:they look like they kill anything they can k

They do not kill marmots, because marmots live in high tundra areas. However, they have been known to kill llamas and walruses, not for food, but because it is in their nature to kill large beasts.

They don't kill wolves, though, k? Cause wolves are killed by people & tigers. Not mongooses (mongeese? weasels?).

Mongeese are the epitome of evolution, except for marmots.

Wolves are pretty rad, though I wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley if you know what I mean.

i wish more people were killed by wolves

Vompatti wrote:i wish more people were killed by wolves

Do you wish that people were killed by wolves more than by mongeese, or just that more people would die, and that wolves would be killing them?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:i wish more people were killed by wolves

Do you wish that people were killed by wolves more than by mongeese, or just that more people would die, and that wolves would be killing them?

i just wish more people would die in general k

Vompatti wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:i wish more people were killed by wolves

Do you wish that people were killed by wolves more than by mongeese, or just that more people would die, and that wolves would be killing them?

i just wish more people would die in general k

Is it okay to kill people if you don't eat them?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:i wish more people were killed by wolves

Do you wish that people were killed by wolves more than by mongeese, or just that more people would die, and that wolves would be killing them?

i just wish more people would die in general k

Is it okay to kill people if you don't eat them?

yes becaise people are by far tje most ovverpoppuplated species

i approve of all human killllilings k

How bloodthirsty of you. I like that

it just seems likely that most species will die of extinction before humans and humans will have to eat each other before eventually dying of extinction unless something fortunate like a nuclear war will happen soon k