jayseven

Birthday wishes and all that jazz I'm sure you had a drunk/stun day thing.

ReZ I always lol/snort when I watch comedy rainbow, but i still groan when you ignore the advice about time-limiting the episodes. Be tighter with it! You have good humour but you need to just... squeeze it in to a bam-bam-pow thing. Also; I nearly always lol at dr. wu-man duh-duh-duuuh-ing past the cancer = bad, being alive = good thing.

I don't really know. :P Will think on it. RE: what dyson said; I guess in a roundabout way it's just the way it used to be without day phases, except I was thinking about having some sort of 3-strikes system for people who fail to vote repeatedly. I'm not sure if this will simply affect those (like me) who are time-constrained, or if it would actually root out the twats. Essentially I'm not happy with day/night phases as a player or a GM.

^this is the thing. Playing quietly can be legitimate or completely put-on. I personally dislike being accused of being mafia just because I'm quiet because I'm genuinely quiet for a reason, though I know mafia will sit back and chill if things are going their way. But I think a compulsive vote serves better than missing a deadline simply because one is busy the whole time. Maybe the truth is, for me, I should stop playing for a while. I'm not giving my all to the games so it makes sense!

Saw an ad for it - looked interesting. Won't get a chance to watch it 'til weds, maybe. Will give it a shot then!

Yeah, I think you're right. I'm projecting a lot in those situations!

Yeah another option, but perhaps lends too much power to the mafia in the latter stages of a game and places too much pressure on there being a lynch at all? Not sure. Will contemplate.

Sign-up threads ought to inform players of any terms and conditions :P Stricter time phases do not suit me, personally, because i can't guarentee I have the time to give full attention to the game daily. I really don't think compulsory votes would be that bad - it'd weed out any non-players fairly quick, and if a majorty is reached then it doesn't matter if not everyone has voted.if majority is, say, 9, and there's 8 on no lynch and 8 on lynching someone and the other players aren't about then people can switch their oratorial skills on and pursuade those in the other camp to join them. Currently there's a lot of band-wagon jumping which, in my opinion, makes the town's job harder. Too much focus is put on people either being involved in or not around for a lynch, which is unfair when there's a strict time phase on a day phase. It's an external factor that messes with the game too much. In my opinon. of course, I'll 'lead by example' with my game when it rolls around and will learn from that. Another factor is balancing the amount of info in a write-up vs info in PMs. I'll be honest and say that I am better at analysing write-ups than I am with using my PM information, which is why I prefer more detailed write-ups. But this is all meta and really just philosophical ramblings :P

Yeah it's a different beast these days. Thing is as a GM there is pressure, as mr-paul said, to do something extraordinary. I know I've only done two games (with mixed reviews :P) but even my next one I want to push the envelope a bit - the danger is in over-endulging the narrative or the twist-factors and leaving too much unknown to all the players. In most current games I'd say the mafia tends to have the balance shifted in their favour because confusion and misdirection is the current trend -- role-switchers and misdirectors weren't really around previously and it has altered how the game pans out - but essentially my next game should attempt to strip the powers back to a fairly clear set of roles, with good guys and bad guys more identifiable (While, of course, the narrative goes all ape-crazy and shit. Sorry. Can't help it). But I'm hoping limiting the players makes a difference. I was considering, also, in making voting compulsory as an alternative to fixed day phases.

Dyson; overanalysing, I guess. Pages and pages and reams and reams of discussion about minutae, all squeezed into a time-limited phase so people talk and talk because they have a deadline, rather than actually focusing on getting to a point where the consensus of the players is to introduce a new phase. the Vote: No lynch tool is utterly under-utilised. It's meant to bring on the next phase but when you know it's up in 24/48 hours there's less need to unite the players and come to a democratic decision.

I'm doing not-so-bad stuff though. One bunch of stuff is b2b so I call people who are actually 'customers' and need our services. The other one is for the NSPCC calling surgeries and again offering something actually applicable. There's no inbound idiots or cold-calling, so it's not too stressful and rarely feels like I'm wasting people's time. Enjoying it while it lasts!

Oh yeah - got killed well quick there. No wonder I don't remember it at all :P (we definitely have an overtalking problem with current mafia games. Really dulls the whole thing for me.)

Cat n' rats = lol Caught crabs = Should've ended it after the sigh and not bothered with punchline as it was obvious Abortion water = I thought the waters of teh world collection had promise, but this was just... yeah. Ew. I guessed Vegetable clothing! Jimmy carr impression was bad. Don't know where my 7 minutes went.

Typically, 111 calls over a day roughly equates to 18 calls an hour. At work, of course. Today I made 126 in the first three hours, then spent the last 3 on a new campaign where we're expected to get 3 leads a day. I got 3 leads in two hours. Fun to be the best.

Oh wait we're trying to debate with Mad Monkey now? *leaves thread*

hello Volcarona-the-Dane!

Happy birthday frank! be glorious.

I recently made a 'serious' email address for applying for jobs and stuff. I've literally given the address out to five people max, and I'd not checked it for a week and BAM I have over 1,000 new emails plus a similar amount in the spam folder. Wattefuhisdisshit? EDIT: Lol. So it's my old, old, ooold gmail account. My smart new cool super trendy clever grown-up account is totes fine.

The illogic of there being no reincarnation? Man, it's too late to go into that right now :P I was going to make a soul thread next weekend, dammit!

Andy Weir - The Egg is a short story I've posted a few times that gives a really charming idea of reincarnation. Ville; you've not presented a logical argument at all contrary to mine :P It's a nice theoretical musing on an unanswerable question - but there's no logic in what you say, just supposition :P

You should watch The Man From Earth - it's a thinky, one-set movie that essays through dialogues all sorts of fun stuff like this. Go look it up I think "you'd be bored after a really, really, reaaallly long time" is a silly way of being objective about it. With the environment around me changing, with people changing, it would take aeons to truly discover everything, see all different types of people, learn all. While I'm not denying that ultimately I'd probably get bored, I still think it'd be fascinating to experience. For as long as mankind continues, each year would produce several lifetimes worth of music, literature, art, movies, tv, video games and so on to indulge in. With life being so 'short' at 70-110 years on earth currently, extending that would remove any haste in 'achieving' anything. As for being only 'one man' -- I'd be 'the endless man'. If there was an invincible person who had lived through thousands of years, they would be treated as a prime source of information, as one who has truly been there before. I don't see how, after a few millennia studying philosophy and observing all different walks of life, I wouldn't be able to write several theses on more idyll and ideal ways of living that'd be attainable. By being immortal, one truly reduces the possibility of failure to next-to-none. As a pet hobby, no doubt I'd do lots of research into my own condition and try and produce some sort of fail-safe, endless unconsciousness - surely if I had my braincells and body cells scattered across the galaxy it'd somewhat affect my state of mind. of course, if there's some sort of 'invincible cell' from which my entire organism reconstructs itself from, then perhaps I could concoct an endless machine to trim it and maintain a status quo. With only 5 minutes of thought I've got some avenues for investigation already :P The main downside is that aside from immortality I would still physically be at the will of any oppressor or ruler who choses to use me as an example. I imagine I'd spend many a chunk of my experience being maimed, tortured, cut open and examined and with no great strength, what's stopping those who have me in a collar from doing that from eternity? Probably the hope and knowledge that eventually mankind would die, that eventually any concrete prison or underwater coffin I'd find myself in would erode away and I'd be 'free' again. In those circumstances the worry is, of course, attaining insanity first - which is likely - unless immortality and ultimate healing means my mind, too, could be repaired over time... But I'm not sure if delving that far into the postulated scenario really does anything for us. But yeah - this is why I mentioned immortality in my living hell thread - it's pretty much what kids do in a school playground; "times infinity" any problem and it's just vastly exponentially more dreadful. Immediate moral issues would be (and again, I refer to the movie The Man From Earth) - who do you tell? Do you make it known globally, and risk irrepairable alteration of the psyche of the collective consciousness? I'd probably spend a long, long time keeping it schtum. But perhaps the inevitable severing of connection with the rest of humanity would lead to my own hedonistic phase, full of all sorts of wonky S+M and power hungry world-domination type stuff. Then again i'm sure I'd have a mega-philosophical phase, where I decide to jump through the sun before landing back on earth six months later (hopefully not accidentally bringing with me some absurd zombie species of photon that destroys everything). I very much believe that the importance life is in the journey as much as it is in the inevitability of death. But if I were unique, and it weren't a universal epidemic that would just end up with nihilistic existence where all resources are used up and all that is left is babies that we then use to build everything with, then I don't see why it can't be seen as a fantastic voyage of truly epic and magnificent proportions. So yeah. Does anyone know which crossroads mephistopheles hangs out at?

Why not swap your pokemafia 11 with the other one in your list, to add some variety?

Fffuuuuuuu.... Been playing BG&E for a couple of hours without saving. Game freezes. Reboot. All progress lost. Fucking... non-autosave bloody last-gen nonsense. I'll have to leave it for a few days. Gah. Also downloaded Stacking which is great fun so far. Leaps a bit from the first kinda-introductory level to the second from a collect-'em-all feel to a bit more of a point-and-click mode of try-every-possible-combination -- not to a huge extent, of course, but it certainly crossed between being good-natured fun to demanding I release the inner OCD monster.

Well it should casuse the rate of diagnosed HIV to go up... People who don't test who have HIV (there will be some!) will continue, né?