The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I myself am suffering an existential crisis! Help!

*Wilgy enters the room, walks up to MP and pats them on the back afew times before waddling out of the room*

Beware, touching a Sock during a mainframe breakdown can result in various unintended side effects, including PTSD, Post-Traumatic-Sock Disorder.

*a paper airplane with writing on it flies through the window*

Oh no... It has begun!! MM! Unfurl! Heeeeelp!!!

I don't see anything in the roles for this position about some kind of insanification, forced vote, or any type of posting-altering-related power. So not sure what is going on with MP. I'm starting to wonder if he's trying to prove a point about something.

Also before I forget, I'm putting a vote on Turnip Head for now. Still don't like the back-and-forth he's done.

OK I usually do not like to post without catching up but I'm posting to say that I've cast my revote for Reywas, but I have a ton of pages to read and I see lots of votes for Boomslang so we'll see if I'm swayed to that wagon.

MovingPictures07 wrote:I have a new proposition.

Crazy cyan!!!!

I will henceforth be posting in crazy cyan whenever I am feeling crazy.

It clashes too much with my tongue-in-cheek teal.

birdwithteeth11 wrote:I don't see anything in the roles for this position about some kind of insanification, forced vote, or any type of posting-altering-related power. So not sure what is going on with MP. I'm starting to wonder if he's trying to prove a point about something.

You don't see Azura?

Out of the three self-votes, Boomslang's felt the snarkiest and least genuine.

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I myself am suffering an existential crisis! Help!

*Wilgy enters the room, walks up to MP and pats them on the back afew times before waddling out of the room*

Beware, touching a Sock during a mainframe breakdown can result in various unintended side effects, including PTSD, Post-Traumatic-Sock Disorder.

*a paper airplane with writing on it flies through the window*

Oh no... It has begun!! MM! Unfurl! Heeeeelp!!!

wtf is going on

Turnip Head wrote:

birdwithteeth11 wrote:I don't see anything in the roles for this position about some kind of insanification, forced vote, or any type of posting-altering-related power. So not sure what is going on with MP. I'm starting to wonder if he's trying to prove a point about something.

You don't see Azura?

Nevermind, I missed that. Alright then, I'm going to assume MP is cursed right now.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Devin the Omniscient wrote:Also, skimmed through 13 pages and saw nothing for the Boomslang votes. Please halp

Click on my post history and find the big ISO from today.

Much appreciated, although I'm not sure how I missed that one before :/

I get the arguments there, but I feel more comfortable with my vote being where it is.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Is Golden being such a distraction entirely his fault? What of the people forcing him into that position including Epignosis?

Who is forcing him into this position. He has been posting and acting the same way since the whole back and forth with Epi started, and I would argue that not even Epi "forced" him to behave that way. This is supposed to be a game, and when you start being emotionally manipulative, you've taken it too far.
Also, Golden had quite a bit more votes before voting for himself on 2 separate occasions during this day phase. That alone makes me feel great about my vote.

Roxy wrote:

Devin the Omniscient wrote: Lots of reasons too bad none are yours.

MP - what are you on about? Your vote looks shady as all get out.

I'm a parrot, this is know
I demand a parrot smilie!!!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Well, I'm absolutely bad. Go ahead and vote for me. Golden and I are baddie teammates. I'm 100% serious. I'm voting Golden because I've sloppily tried to bus him and you all caught me. Nice job!

Don't start that crap now. It doesn't work. I've tried
wefewence cwapface mafia

Also, normal, insane MP is normal Will not be voting for him any time soon.

Hey @BlackRock

Sorry if this was answered already, but I'm curious:
The Immortal - Warriors of the Shadows
Position 3: Choose three players to receive the same fate
Can this guy use that power during the day?

If so...

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I myself am suffering an existential crisis! Help!

*Wilgy enters the room, walks up to MP and pats them on the back afew times before waddling out of the room*

Beware, touching a Sock during a mainframe breakdown can result in various unintended side effects, including PTSD, Post-Traumatic-Sock Disorder.

*a paper airplane with writing on it flies through the window*

Oh no... It has begun!! MM! Unfurl! Heeeeelp!!!

OMG

BROTHER?

Turnip Head wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I have a new proposition.

Crazy cyan!!!!

I will henceforth be posting in crazy cyan whenever I am feeling crazy.

It clashes too much with my tongue-in-cheek teal.

Oh!!! That's true.

How about this? CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY CYAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I myself am suffering an existential crisis! Help!

*Wilgy enters the room, walks up to MP and pats them on the back afew times before waddling out of the room*

Beware, touching a Sock during a mainframe breakdown can result in various unintended side effects, including PTSD, Post-Traumatic-Sock Disorder.

*a paper airplane with writing on it flies through the window*

Oh no... It has begun!! MM! Unfurl! Heeeeelp!!!

OMG

BROTHER?

Yes? Brother.

Devin the Omniscient wrote: Who is forcing him into this position. He has been posting and acting the same way since the whole back and forth with Epi started, and I would argue that not even Epi "forced" him to behave that way. This is supposed to be a game, and when you start being emotionally manipulative, you've taken it too far.
Also, Golden had quite a bit more votes before voting for himself on 2 separate occasions during this day phase. That alone makes me feel great about my vote.

This should have been written in bullsuit brown.

Because it's bullsuit.

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I myself am suffering an existential crisis! Help!

*Wilgy enters the room, walks up to MP and pats them on the back afew times before waddling out of the room*

Beware, touching a Sock during a mainframe breakdown can result in various unintended side effects, including PTSD, Post-Traumatic-Sock Disorder.

*a paper airplane with writing on it flies through the window*

Oh no... It has begun!! MM! Unfurl! Heeeeelp!!!

OMG

BROTHER?

Yes? Brother.

I can't believe it. I've been searching for 9000 years across all of the Sock multiverses.

You've made me cry tears of... whatever this color is. It's transformed my wool color!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Well, fuck PhD work for a little bit, I can squeeze in a few more posts.

I see what's going on here. Well played, Jay and Rox.

Well, I'm absolutely bad. Go ahead and vote for me. Golden and I are baddie teammates. I'm 100% serious. I'm voting Golden because I've sloppily tried to bus him and you all caught me. Nice job!

I have said nothing about you being bad.

I am not going through all the crap with you again.
You are itching for a fight and am not going to be the one to give it to you.

Roxy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Well, fuck PhD work for a little bit, I can squeeze in a few more posts.

I see what's going on here. Well played, Jay and Rox.

Well, I'm absolutely bad. Go ahead and vote for me. Golden and I are baddie teammates. I'm 100% serious. I'm voting Golden because I've sloppily tried to bus him and you all caught me. Nice job!

I have said nothing about you being bad.

I am not going through all the crap with you again.
You are itching for a fight and am not going to be the one to give it to you.

Sorry, my post should have been made in crazy cyan, but I hadn't invented it yet!

Okay, now I'm leaving for real. This has been fun!

See you crazies later.

Seriously though, vote for Golden.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I myself am suffering an existential crisis! Help!

*Wilgy enters the room, walks up to MP and pats them on the back afew times before waddling out of the room*

Beware, touching a Sock during a mainframe breakdown can result in various unintended side effects, including PTSD, Post-Traumatic-Sock Disorder.

*a paper airplane with writing on it flies through the window*

Oh no... It has begun!! MM! Unfurl! Heeeeelp!!!

OMG

BROTHER?

Yes? Brother.

I can't believe it. I've been searching for 9000 years across all of the Sock multiverses.

You've made me cry tears of... whatever this color is. It's transformed my wool color!

EMBRACE ME BROTHER!!! With whatever sock appendages we may or may not have!!

Bullzeye wrote:Ugh, today can we just lynch people who talk loudly in libraries while people are trying to work? I think those are the real baddies right now.

OMGG this. So much this. Guck you all, Undergrads! I know the super awesome rager that Phi Kappa Douche is throwing tomorrow is going to be OFF THE CHAIN, and you just HAVE to talk about it loudly and you are so excited that you TOTALLY forgot to silence your goddamn phone even though you seem to get a new text message every 10 seconds, but I really don't need that shit while I'm trying to read a goddamn Donne sermon, and the goddam Summa Theologica of goddamn Thomas Aquinas. I need quiet for that shit! DAMN.


....anywho. Back to reading.

The thread feels toxic.

I will be back a few minutes before poll ends as this game is no longer fun today.

Roxy wrote:The thread feels toxic.

I will be back a few minutes before poll ends as this game is no longer fun today.

*Bows* What can I do to make it more fun for you Roxy?

I'm keeping my vote on TinyBubbles, who continues to appear that she can't be chuffed to acknowledge the points that have been raised about her. I think she's been recruited, and is trying to maintain the nonchalance that characterized her early play, but is overplaying her hand and is now basically just ignoring the times she has been brought up in hope that it will all disappear behind the much bigger/louder suit-show that is Golden/Rey/everyone else

Roxy wrote:The thread feels toxic.

If it wasn't before, it is now!

Roxy wrote:The thread feels toxic.

I will be back a few minutes before poll ends as this game is no longer fun today.

I just want to pop in here a minute to say the following:

I started crazy cyan and posted my hugging stuff earlier both to help lighten the thread. I don't know if you're talking about me here, but I've reached out to you privately, so I won't further that discussion here. I only implore anyone that is feeling upset, wanting to vent, or just having trouble dealing with all of the emotions flooding the thread to contact our lovely Game Moderator.

I hope you come back soon because people should be enjoying this game. I realize I've been immensely frustrated by it myself, but I'm trying my best to post and have fun. I'm pretty sure that's what LC and BR want us to do.

I also want to publicly apologize for the hand I've had in making this game emotionally stressful or overburdensome for all of you. I recognize I've had quite a fair share in it.

The thread should be fun, not toxic, so let's band together and make it that way again.

Meanwhile

Okay, so I'm pretty well caught up.

I'm going to try to sum up all of my thoughts in one post.

First, any and all cases that revolve around people not playing like their normal ____ game are irrelevant to me. Whether SVS has seen "this" Golden before, for instance, is useless to my view of this game. We are all stuck in some part of a meta, where we are neutral, then some of us aren't neutral, and some were never neutral, but we are all choosing our own unique path to portray ourselves, and this format is rare thus there IS no meta to actually map out, from a reading perspective. No truth, no tea.

Second, since I'm apparently using RuPaul's Drag Race-isms, let's go with one more. The amount of shade being cast about in here is getting indeed toxic. It's not quite toxic yet, but it's getting there. Let's stop with the "ugh, just lynch me" crap. It's cheap, we're all better than this.

Third, unlike in a normal game, I don't mind at all the people who are suggesting that quieter players should get votes. Only a nutter would recruit from a pool of absentees, imo.

Fourth, the few people who are actually trying to make normal cases all get my thumbs up, and my appreciation, as doing as much as proven to be beyond me so far this game. I note SVS' and rye's thoughts on Golden (while I don't put as much weight on the "never seen this Golden before" stuff {see point #1}, I do appreciate her thoughts on his evasiveness, etc.), also Canuckle's point on Tiny Bubbles.

Fifth, where I'm still at a conundrum is that (and take this with whatever grain of salt you want, I recommend Kosher personally) I still have no team and thus I'm not sure which kind of case to get behind, as any of them could affect my future employer. For instance, Canuckle makes a very good point about TinyBubbles. She seems like she's recruited and unsure of how to act. But what if that's true but Tiny's team will be my team?

Finally, while my vote is on Golden, having said everything I just said, I'd appreciate it if someone could show me the logic in voting elsewhere. Golden's evasiveness has bugged me, but it's not exactly meaty. I'm not sure how to really rally behind the current cases due to my position in the game, so please, give me ideas of how to proceed that sound reasonable, and I may bite.

ETA: and yes, many

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Devin the Omniscient wrote: Who is forcing him into this position. He has been posting and acting the same way since the whole back and forth with Epi started, and I would argue that not even Epi "forced" him to behave that way. This is supposed to be a game, and when you start being emotionally manipulative, you've taken it too far.
Also, Golden had quite a bit more votes before voting for himself on 2 separate occasions during this day phase. That alone makes me feel great about my vote.

This should have been written in bullsuit brown.

Because it's bullsuit.

You're full of suit

timmer wrote:Okay, so I'm pretty well caught up.

I'm going to try to sum up all of my thoughts in one post.

First, any and all cases that revolve around people not playing like their normal ____ game are irrelevant to me. Whether SVS has seen "this" Golden before, for instance, is useless to my view of this game. We are all stuck in some part of a meta, where we are neutral, then some of us aren't neutral, and some were never neutral, but we are all choosing our own unique path to portray ourselves, and this format is rare thus there IS no meta to actually map out, from a reading perspective. No truth, no tea.

Second, since I'm apparently using RuPaul's Drag Race-isms, let's go with one more. The amount of shade being cast about in here is getting indeed toxic. It's not quite toxic yet, but it's getting there. Let's stop with the "ugh, just lynch me" crap. It's cheap, we're all better than this.

Third, unlike in a normal game, I don't mind at all the people who are suggesting that quieter players should get votes. Only a nutter would recruit from a pool of absentees, imo.

Fourth, the few people who are actually trying to make normal cases all get my thumbs up, and my appreciation, as doing as much as proven to be beyond me so far this game. I note SVS' and rye's thoughts on Golden (while I don't put as much weight on the "never seen this Golden before" stuff {see point #1}, I do appreciate her thoughts on his evasiveness, etc.), also Canuckle's point on Tiny Bubbles.

Fifth, where I'm still at a conundrum is that (and take this with whatever grain of salt you want, I recommend Kosher personally) I still have no team and thus I'm not sure which kind of case to get behind, as any of them could affect my future employer. For instance, Canuckle makes a very good point about TinyBubbles. She seems like she's recruited and unsure of how to act. But what if that's true but Tiny's team will be my team?

Finally, while my vote is on Golden, having said everything I just said, I'd appreciate it if someone could show me the logic in voting elsewhere. Golden's evasiveness has bugged me, but it's not exactly meaty. I'm not sure how to really rally behind the current cases due to my position in the game, so please, give me ideas of how to proceed that sound reasonable, and I may bite.

ETA: and yes, many

I don't understand the 5th point. If you are not recruited right now, and you think that Tiny could be, why wouldn't you look to vote her off now?

I mean, I'm not gonna go back into whether this is a civ vs. baddie game, because it is to an extent, but even civ factions are vying against each other for power. So as a neutral party, how would you know if someone is your future employer or not? I look at it as a business practice- you're vetting the potential employer as much as they are vetting you. If you can't pull the trigger on a kill, then how does that make you look, even if you did kill one of their own?

*Wilgy strokes his beard in the summer heat, thinking about the good old days. The days when Golden and Epig clashed violently on the fields of honor. He takes a swig of his ale and realizes that those days do not need to be a memory*

Golden, what would you do if Epig was revived?

Okay so I poked MP to generate a reaction, because he's always good for that.

But I didn't anticipate this.

Does anyone who knows him better than I do have any insight? I've played with him more than any other Syndicateer and definitely haven't seen behavior like before. Help me out.

alright, I'm back. Took a few breaks from catching up to do other stuff, and I also had a brief bit of internet trouble, but all is well now.

I am going to switch my vote to Boomslang. I know it's an easy bandwagon to hop on, but I'm not really quite feeling it with Rey -- I do not like the way he is playing at all, but I'm less convinced that it actually makes him bad. I could still see it but I'm much more skeptical that he would act this way if he really were the guilty party. And I definitely see potential baddie in Boomslang. He's been pretty under the radar and as JJJ has shown a lot of his posts have been pretty easy contributions. Particularly this post by JJJ gives some good examples of why Boomslang looks like a baddie trying to blend in. But the real nail in the coffin was when this happened:

Boomslang wrote:Let's try voting for myself! Seems to give you a get-out-of-jail free card these days!

Because, I mean, seriously?


And idk what's happening with MP, but my best guess is that his vote has been forced or he's cursed in some way. Looking at just the Position 5 powers and Position 3 powers (in case it's a day power) I don't see anything that could be a posting curse except maybe the Keeper of Order -- "punisher" -- so it could be that and/or Azura's force-vote thing. He is acting pretty damn crazy.

What is the code for that smile that back slowly away from the room? haha is Uhh

Moved to boomslang.

@timmer regarding bubbles... What if she isn't on your future team tho? In the end the civvies will outweigh the baddies so chances are, if she is bad and you are unrecruited, that you won't be on her team.

I'm casting my vote for bubbles again but I plan on looking over the boomslang case someone made to see if that swings me in that direction.

Wait I just now noticed DrWilgy changed his avatar to a sock. *head explodes*

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Okay so I poked MP to generate a reaction, because he's always good for that.

But I didn't anticipate this.

Does anyone who knows him better than I do have any insight? I've played with him more than any other Syndicateer and definitely haven't seen behavior like before. Help me out.

I think we're seeing MP sober for the first time, and it's troubling me.

Here MP get back to normal pls

Turnip Head wrote:Out of the three self-votes, Boomslang's felt the snarkiest and least genuine.

Definitely. Now that self-vote has been moved to Golden.

Boomslang talk to me bb. What are you doing?

Anyone else feel uncomfortable with this sudden move to Boomslang? The timing of it seems odd. Especially with everything going on with Golden.

Linkis galore. But yes, I wouldn't mind hearing some more from Boomslang in the meantime.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Wait I just now noticed DrWilgy changed his avatar to a sock. *head explodes*

Yeah I kept thinking he was MP and getting really confused.

I will also be moving my vote to Bubbles. I do see her as a top candidate for recruitment and even if she is one of my potential employers, I feel she'll respect my move.

birdwithteeth11 wrote:Anyone else feel uncomfortable with this sudden move to Boomslang? The timing of it seems odd. Especially with everything going on with Golden.

Linkis galore. But yes, I wouldn't mind hearing some more from Boomslang in the meantime.

What's interesting with Boom's vote is:
a) he votes himself in protest of people voting themselves
b) eventually votes Golden when he starts getting heat for it.

Weird things from Boom. Hmm...

MovingPictures07 wrote:I only implore anyone that is feeling upset, wanting to vent, or just having trouble dealing with all of the emotions flooding the thread to contact our lovely Game Moderator.

Give me your tired thoughts, your vents, your bottled anger yearning to be set free via PM - I can take it! I promise. (And if you're unsure about talking to a sock mod, PM me and I'll be happy to listen to and talk with you as myself.) I'm here for you all to hear the un-fun stuff so you can have fun in the thread Carry on, my children.

nutella wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Wait I just now noticed DrWilgy changed his avatar to a sock. *head explodes*

Yeah I kept thinking he was MP and getting really confused.

I went ahead and changed mine back to the Rainbow version so that you guys could distinguish the two.

And alright, it's clear I'm not being very productive today, so I'm going to just get up really early tomorrow morning to accomplish some of what I'm working on now, since my productivity rate is bullsuit.

I think I've exhausted all my crazy, so I'll work on a proper response as the evening progresses.