jayseven

The only confusion here is in the use of the word 'genre'. Genre can mean a type of media, but it can also mean a type within that media. The latter can be defined in various ways; form, content, meaning, matter, shape, whatever. The above exchange of posts needlessly picks upon the use of the word, rather than focusing on the points made. CGI/animated movies is fine. Disney is fine. Michael Bay is fine. I do find it silly, though, that ashley says "say what you mean" then posts again to clarify that his original post was a reference to something that nobody could've guessed because he didn't clarify his first post with that reference. Again. Snark, ashley, leads to ruins and is not needed to communicate with us peons.

See that's what I've always enjoyed about the meets. The ability to have a chat with people you've never met before so easily. Ultimately the let down was that we didn't establish a back-up for teh rain we knew was coming. Perhaps next year if rain is certain we meet oxford street/leicester square area somewhere. Pub maybe, or that place you guys were outside the church? Pubs at 10am will be empty (if not closed :P) so it's smarter. Good weather = park, duuuh. Goaf - srs lol at your battleship comment :P Having let my feelings and thoughts of the weekend mellow for a few days, I think that I've come away rather content with it all. I think a part of me wished that I had myself been on form/epic/memory forming but that simply was not the case. I hadn't shaved in days and felt like puking phlegm most of the time, and I hated standing up for hours, but realistically I had the fine chance to meet some great forumers. I think my dismay is mainly at the fact that I didn't get to chat more to the great forumers I met last time... But there's always next year! And if I'm ever in any city in the country for a period of time I'll alert the boards and attempt to arrange some sort of meet. We should all try and do this! P.S. Watchng the fez vids tomorrow. Need to prepare myself.

Had a phone interview earlier today for a crummy call centre job. Woes are me. Easy money fo'shiz. While I was at uni, specifically the last few years, I really felt like I'd done the wrong course completely. Some of my very good friends that I made through juggling were training to be mental health nurses and they repeatedly said I'd be good at it (due to philosophy/psychotherapy type chats), so today I looked at the course they did and sent an email to the uni. So yeah... first steps taken towards perhaps maybe going back to uni to do a 2-year diploma that will pretty much guarentee me a decent-paid job. It's one of those insane life-changing/breaking decisions that I've, really, not made yet... but yeah. Fact is my life is completely aimless right now and it's the root of all that is wrong with me.

A GM should be the one to end a day phase if people are being indecisive. I used to believe days should end on a majority, but the whole No Lynch element of the game is generally overlooked or underused (by both town and mafia). A GM may be slightly unwilling to end a phase if they feel someone ought to realise that they're sitting on some decent info... but stagnation is easier to occur with large numbers of people. Some may actually have info they're withholding during the first few days - in a sense it's to build a case and to get a 'sense' of who is who. The last few phases in a game are always quick, but the first few will always be slower. Imagine playing with 50 players, or 100. Waiting to hear from everyone, or sifting through the information to see who is trustworthy and who is not, or waiting for 51 votes to be planted? Ages. We play with 20-30 players so you're going to have a slow start. Ultimately, the pay-off between mafia getting a night-kill and town getting another night worth of information is plenty worth it. I never see why people talk for so long in teh first few day phases (however, the paranoia and suspicion presented provides for a good resource towards teh end of a game). RE: Majority; I think a good technique could be whereby a player's default vote is no lynch, unless they actually say otherwise. Therefore the end of a dayphase time limit a majority HAS been reached (I'm sure there's a word/phrase for this.. opt-out?). One may still actually vote no lynch, but that should be to actually bring the end of the phase closer (where the phase is ended when a majority vote has been actually specified, if you follow me). That way, you could theoretically decide to allow the player with the most votes against them to be lynched without a majority, but only if the number of people who DON'T vote is a definite minority. Mostly, this wouldn't alter current games except for the latter stages where you see, say, 5 players and votes are split. So yeah - for me, it's the ill-use, or hesitance to use no lynch that can be addressed here. Of course, GMs are still only human and may not be around as often as they thought when they originally planned the game (games tend to last around a month!). Long post. Forgotten if I had anything else to say.

vote: Let's end the day phase! Everyone's had a chance to add their cents and we're pretty short of any logical lynching price (icwudthar).

Bet he's lost his funny in his chase for that slimline figure.

Oh dude, trust me I wish circumstances were different. When we moved from location to location I was kinda having to hold back because other people were on their way and had contact with me. I thoroughly enjoyed the brief chats we had, and that brevity is the keystone to all that I regret about the day! Next time, bro.

There are moments formed and memories crafted. Next year I'm in it for the long-weekend. This is one of my annual 'holidays' to look forward to!

I want credit for the tunnel pic!! (See? Tradition. Never in the group pic...) Thanks for taking the one of me smoking. I didn't realise you were even doing it. I think it sums up my feelings of the day up to that point :P

Lol was me! One thing - not sure if it's been said before... You can organise a meet anywhere. You. Organise. Arrange it. Make it so. Don't want it where it is? Have one somewhee else. Can't make it that day? Arrange another elsewhere. Ahem. But yes - it'd be cool to have a proper 'event' arranged, but essentially the 'spirit' of the meet's origins was esssentially "I'm gonna be in this park in this place on this day. Anyone else wanna join in?" Usually we have to amuse ourselves, and the meet is essentially what we put into it. Yesterday I felt no real energy to amuse myself because I was too busy being depressed by the rain. If it wasn't raining then it would've been alright. But it rained, and there were really too many of us to effectively and directly organise a plan B that was acceptible. There were too many people who arrived at staggered later times to confuse things. I don't really know why I'm being overly defensive - previous years when it's essentially been park/troc/pub I've had a completely astounding time because of the people. Yeah. Bleh. Essentially I'm totes up for a hyde park 2012 where we do the same as today - park-based outing. I'd also be totes up for any other meet where plans of action were actually in place. I'd be up for a meet in midlands too.

Bard is scaring the fuck out of shorty and nami in one of those photos! .. yeah pretty much fresh home from Landan. Best part for me was the walk to marble arch/standing around there. The sun was out and actually had some fun chats. Unfortunately I spent much of the day inwardly stressing and panicking because my phone didn't like the rain at all and several people needed to know where we were - pretty much any time we got organised enough to go elsewhere prompted manic attempts to update people with location. Totally sounds like I left when it got good. Sorry to flink for not succumbing to his tempting texts (:P) but by that time I was miles away. Yeah. Kinda anticlimax, if I'm honest - but largely my own fault for being poor and leaving early.

The peeps is a serious machine at this game. It's absurd! Glad to see this has resurfaced. In conjunction with the IRC room, it's all goooood!

... From what I can tell there is vast speculation being thrown around, and quick band-wagon jumping, which suggests there's a maff in the votes somewhere. We hae nothing solid... Let's have another night of inquiry!

Tomato, tomato. Yeah. Carry on.

Yes. Do you ever use a form of communication besides passive aggressive?

I've got my ticket. Not packed, feel like shit and am wedged in this put of unsocialness. Will be sleepy, ill and depressed but I will still be there. As long as my alarm clock goes off in the morning!

Easier to learn the rules for Go but harder to truly master it, I think. Chess is a lot more 'finite' and realistically you don't have to think about too much at once. Go throws too many choices at me, so I panic AND RUN

Ah! I wasn't really here. My computer auto-signs onto mIRC when it reboots - windows updates rebooted it. Then it hibernates after 30 minutes or something.

14-ish characters identified in the write-up. I have no information to add!

Sidebar; do people have a problem with the concept that alternatives to 'normal' are 'mutations' in some form?

Diageo; make a new, interesting thread! Potential.

Did you make the riddles up yourself?

Oi! not putting it down, just an observation on RL mafia games :P

RL maf is all about pointing though, isn't it? Not everyone gets a role either. Much lamer than online version!

I'm gonna have to have words with maddog. This many mafia in the game?! How teh fuck are town meant to win?!