The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:You win.

Mongoose wrote: Caribou
Bonobo

Mongoose wrote:What are your favorite animal-themed bands?

Anyone remember:

The Wombats
The Unicorns
Grizzly Bear
Tame Impala
Sparklehorse
Minus the Bear
Cage the Elephant
Band of Horses
Wolf Parade
Cat Power
Modest Mouse
Deerhoof
The Bird and the Bee
Frightened Rabbit
Sea Wolf
Wolf Gang
Deer Tick
Foals
Panda Bear
Skinny Puppy
Dr. Dog
Dinosaur Jr.
Noah and the Whale
Dangermouse
White Rabbits
Noah and the Whale
Mountain Goats (from here!)
Caribou
Bonobo
Fleet Foxes
Mastodon
Pedro the Lion
Arctic Monkeys

triceratopzeuhl wrote:I want to believe you rox, but you are making it hard

Dom wrote:

triceratopzeuhl wrote:I want to believe you rox, but you are making it hard

do you see the irony

Dom wrote:

triceratopzeuhl wrote:I want to believe you rox, but you are making it hard

do you see the irony

Mongoose wrote:
Dude, I totally thought I put Modest Mouse on there.

triceratopzeuhl wrote:

Mongoose wrote:
Dude, I totally thought I put Modest Mouse on there.

uh, you did

triceratopzeuhl wrote: Vompatti

thellama73 wrote: “Supper’s ready!” said Metalmarsh.

insertnamehere wrote: Oh boy. Let me break this one down.

fingersplints wrote:What has already been said sabie. Voting plans rarely actually work, They usually do for me. and this one feels a lot like "cheating the system"... in the event that it actually does work. Seriously? I wouldn't underestimate Llama's intelligence. He's one smart cookie. I don't see any way that Llama didn't write the entire game around the core concept that everyone could win the game if they all work together. The roles, the rules, everything matches up too perfectly for this to be unintentional.

And "animals revealing their team" feels a lot like outing. Once again, THIS IS PART OF THE GAME. THE RULES EXPLICITLY ALLOW THIS. This is not a standard game of mafia. We can out our own team. Idkk I don't like it at all and I don't plan on following it. Is the only pro for this that INH assures us that everyone will win? Read the rules. Read the roles. It makes actual logical sense. It's not just me telling people to do random things and saying that everyone will magically win.

I play to have fun, and if I win yea that's cool too, but I'd rather enjoy doing it and be challenged. Following this voting plan and winning isn't a win for me, I'm sorry.

I'll just quote what I said about SVS.

insertnamehere wrote:
If you wanted to play a standard vanilla game of mafia, you shouldn't of signed up in the first place, and maybe you shouldn't insult the game itself for not being something that you, personally, like.

I don't see how this is not "playing" or not "fun".

Llama more or less explicitly wrote the game so that this could happen, and making it happen is such an immense challenge, that getting it to work is, in my opinion, a fun objective that requires people to "play" the game, but maybe not in the normal way that you "play" a game of mafia.

fingersplints wrote: sorry for missing the lynch poll. I would have voted inh for the confrontational tone in his last post to me:

triceratopzeuhl wrote:Hell, the game is literally called OBLIQUE STRATEGIES. I think a lot of people completely miss the insinuations of that

i.e. that typical mafia tactics (arguing and trying to fabricate lynch cases on random people) will accomplish nothing

triceratopzeuhl wrote:Hell, the game is literally called OBLIQUE STRATEGIES. I think a lot of people completely miss the insinuations of that

i.e. that typical mafia tactics (arguing and trying to fabricate lynch cases on random people) will accomplish nothing

triceratopzeuhl wrote:

fingersplints wrote: sorry for missing the lynch poll. I would have voted inh for the confrontational tone in his last post to me:

What is the point of that, though? I think you are totally missing the win conditions. If him being confrontational makes you think he is on a particular team, and voting for that team would benefit you & help you achieve win conditions, fine, then explain it here, if that is even how you feel.

Voting due to perceived rudeness while ignoring win conditions entirely screams of pettiness and is probably a disservice to your teammates.

triceratopzeuhl wrote:Hell, the game is literally called OBLIQUE STRATEGIES. I think a lot of people completely miss the insinuations of that

i.e. that typical mafia tactics (arguing and trying to fabricate lynch cases on random people) will accomplish nothing

fingersplints wrote: Except I don't know who my teammates are, do I? or what team inh is on... So lynching inh just might complete my win condition, which I am not missing, thanks.

fingersplints wrote:I voted for the beach earlier, but my phone had died so didn't get to explain when i cast it.

sorry for missing the lynch poll. I would have voted inh for the confrontational tone in his last post to me: I don't like your confrontational tone about MY so-called confrontational tone! I'll put it this way, trying to lynch anyone who disagrees with you is an...odd strategy.

I fail to see how not agreeing with your plan because its IMO less fun is insulting the game or underestimating the hosts intelligence. First off, what exactly is it that you find fun about Mafia? Because now I need to know that all my future games and ideas need to fit the Fingersplints Scale of Happy Fun-Time Entertainment, or people will quit and refuse to play. Let me recap: I come up with a plan within the rules of the game for everyone to win, which will be pretty hard to accomplish, which was most likely intended by the host, and you shut it down completely, and refuse to listen to common sense and logic, because it's not "fun" enough. Fair enough, if that's your opinion.

I don't see why llama would explicitly write a game like you propose. Ok, ok, I'll admit it. Not agreeing with my plan because you don't find it... ..."fun" is NOT insulting the game or underestimating the host's intelligence. The statement you just said, however, most definitely is. What is the "mafia" aspect of it then? Seriously? Seriously? Give me a second, is this an actual question you are asking? Seriously?!?!

OK, on this site, The Syndicate, some of the games have an experimental "bent" to them. They mess with the standard vanilla mafia game rules and design and push the limits of the format. Granted, a lot of people do not like those games, and that's a fair enough opinion, but Llama told you what this game would be before you even signed up.

[quote="thellama73"]This will be a somewhat unusual, conceptual game of three teams lasting six days and six nights.

fingersplints wrote:

triceratopzeuhl wrote:

fingersplints wrote: sorry for missing the lynch poll. I would have voted inh for the confrontational tone in his last post to me:

What is the point of that, though? I think you are totally missing the win conditions. If him being confrontational makes you think he is on a particular team, and voting for that team would benefit you & help you achieve win conditions, fine, then explain it here, if that is even how you feel.

Voting due to perceived rudeness while ignoring win conditions entirely screams of pettiness and is probably a disservice to your teammates.

Except I don't know who my teammates are, do I? or what team inh is on... So lynching inh just might complete my win condition, which I am not missing, thanks.

This is where Fingersplints completely devolves into lunacy. Sure, let's just lynch random people, and then we'll all just randomly win! For some reason! Why the fuck not! Is this your strategy for most games?

triceratopzeuhl wrote:Hell, the game is literally called OBLIQUE STRATEGIES. I think a lot of people completely miss the insinuations of that

i.e. that typical mafia tactics (arguing and trying to fabricate lynch cases on random people) will accomplish nothing

It's called "Oblique Strategies - an Eno Mafia" therefore it is still a mafia game. I am not missing that part of the name but you seem to be missing the last. I do not think that it is wrong to think that some mafia should be involved.





OK Fingersplints, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. Is it:

A. This plan is no proper mafia! This entire plan is an insult to the entire concept! The creators of mafia would weep if they saw this tragedy unfolding. Hide you children, hide your wife, INH's plan is literally ruining everything in existence.

B. Maybe there is a super-secret mafia that no one knows about, that wasn't listed in the rules, and hasn't actually killed anyone or done anything, and that Llama hasn't even hinted at. Yeah, that's it.

Either way, what you said makes absolutely no sense. If you can come up with an actual issue with me, or the plan. I'm all ears.

juliets wrote:splints, which team is the mafia?

thellama73 wrote:“Theosophy arglebargle,” said Vompatti.