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ConMan

I also highly recommend playing the revised rules for the Great People expansion; it makes the game play out much better than the Echoes rules of "just shuffle some in" did. Oh yeah, I think those rules were retconned into newer versions of Echoes too. (For reference: In the original Echo...

ConMan

emceng wrote:
Deva wrote:Innovation?

Thank you! It's been bugging me for a while, and I just couldn't find the right search terms.

One of my favourite games, I highly recommend it as long as you're prepared for a game that is more about navigating chaos than building a stable engine for incremental progress.

ConMan

A Census is more than just a dataset, it can be a political tool. The US Census was used back in the 1940s to locate Japanese residents who were put into camps; in the same era the head of the French Census deliberately sabotaged information on religious affiliation and in doing so is believed to ha...

ConMan

Given that Mars once had seas, tho, presumably there are salt deposits somewhere, right? Iirc, the sea is salty due to weathering rocks producing either salts directly, or producing acids and bases which react to produce salts, and that salt just kinda hanging around and concentrating over the mega...

ConMan

I had a dream last night that when we executed Maven, bessie started posting. We were like, "bessie! You're dead!" and she's like "NO! you executed Maven, not me!! MUA HA HA HA HA" - and apparently bessie had a role that allowed her to be replaced and then come back in when her ...

ConMan

How many different roles are there? Six, although one of them (the Cave) you can't play solo. The idea is that each role plays very differently - different win conditions and different play rules. Which is cool, and it's the reason I wanted it, but it's also a hindrance to learning the game because...

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After I made reference to it many, many times, my wife bought me "Vast: The Crystal Caverns" for my birthday. Yesterday, while she was napping, I opened it up, punched all the bits out, and played a solo game as the Knight. Some of my thoughts: ⋅ The choice to include wood and ca...

ConMan

In other discussions, how are we all enjoying the "Actually, your dad was a jerk" cycle of Marvel films so far?

ConMan

Why wouldn't it happen pretty much exactly as it did in the first X-Men movie? Mutants start popping up all over the place and we learn there was a secret school helping them out. Not too far fetched - they just need to reboot the franchise. Hugh Jackman already basically said he's done, I think, s...

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I'm pretty sure that Shuri is going to show up in Infinity War, which I really hope involves more than a quick cameo.

ConMan

If you ever make friends with someone who works in an emergency department, ask them how many men show up after allegedly performing home renovations in the shower, with no clothes on, and slipping and somehow getting one of their tools lodged somewhere that seems physically unlikely.

ConMan

Saw this last night. It was a fun film, and I agree that it was good to see the meaningful tension and contrast between the hero and the villain. I could also tell that a lot was going on in relation to black American and English social issues that I'm not so familiar with, so there were layers that...

ConMan

Ah, the joy of plausible deniability.

I have won an award for competitive line dancing.

I have won an award for line dance choreography.

ConMan

I'm also pretty sure that there isn't an xkcd about naming a paper (PhD or Abstruse Goose are much more likely to cover that topic), but you might be getting mixed up with #910: Permanence, which is about naming a server.

ConMan

Discussions of anime issues regarding girls' and women's consents you have been amply warned. So often in anime I DO wonder: "Does she like him or is he just being? Totally and wildly inappropriate?" Naruto hitting on EVERY. Woman he meets to copy his pervy sage master. Hinata being all c...

ConMan

It's very much what I've come to expect from recent Ghibli films, especially the ones that adapt children's books - pretty, a bit predictable, some nice emotional touches, but also sometimes feeling like they skipped five consecutive chapters and conflated a few roles together to save time. It was ...

ConMan

But self-driving cars will definitely be 140% reliable! Each of those 4 cases was the driver not properly reading the sat nav. Those are all examples of WHY self-driving cars will be better. Also the first article mentions NOTHING about sat nav except in the headline. And the last 3 articles are li...

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Has anyone caught Mary and the Witch's Flower yet? It is quite disappointing that Cineplex did not see fit to bring it to Canada. (Instead, for some baffling reason, we got the live-action Gintama movie.) Australia had its run this week, and I saw it on Saturday. It's very much what I've come to ex...

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(Ginger, if you don't tell us what the things inside spoiler tags are about, we can't really decide if we want to avoid that kind of spoilers) I am reading a manga named Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san ; it is very cute and quite funny. An anime adaptation has just started, I don't plan to watch it bec...

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My favorite character on the Digimon USA dub was Kari or Hikari. She was Tai's little sis and she was so cutey-cutey. She had a scene in the movie where she and a gigantic Agumon were rampaging around and it had her on its back. It smashes open a soda vending machine and she goes helpfully and lady...

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Can anyone explain Pop Team Epic? I watched, I laughed, I was mightily confused. I doubt there is much to explain. I have also read part of that manga, which is a series of four-panel gags with no sense of continuity between them. The anime seems to do a great job at making that interesting. In cas...

ConMan

(Ginger, if you don't tell us what the things inside spoiler tags are about, we can't really decide if we want to avoid that kind of spoilers) I am reading a manga named Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san ; it is very cute and quite funny. An anime adaptation has just started, I don't plan to watch it bec...

ConMan

Once you pick the appropriate set of definitions and axioms, I'd say that it's a "discovery" within that system to find out that the ratio of circumference to diameter is a constant value. If you use a different system, then there will be different discoveries within that system (for examp...

ConMan

p1t1o wrote:I dont trust them.

You're right. There's something fishy about this.

ConMan

This was a great game! I'm glad I subbed in, although I don't feel I contributed a heck of a lot to the town win other than doing my darndest to stop people suspecting me of being scum (and not necessarily doing it that well). The flavour was wonderfully written, and the setup was quite clever.

ConMan

Thank you ConMan. I do not believe you answered this though: ConMan, is there a reason you are ignoring my and JimBob's Mason claim? Sorry, there was no particular reason other than not having enough mental capacity to cover it at the time, and also because I didn't see many flaws in it as I've add...

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Is this an accurate summary of all our claims? Hari (Human Love Interest) - became masons with jimbob after PW died but otherwise no known abilities bessie (? Major Shareholder) - tracker, saw wam visit LG and maven N1, saw jimbob visit me N2 wam (Enamoured Ghoul Assistant) - watcher, saw Maven visi...

ConMan

ConMan, I have few more questions. What is your Mafia history? What about the case against Moody do you find convincing? On a scale of 1-10 how upset would you be if we lynched you? Could you explain how your flavor describes how paranoia causes you to roleblock? My mafia history is not particularl...

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If moody flips town I will be having a close look at hari tomorrow. This sounds about right to me. I am also swayed by Hari's arguments, but town!moody would just about seal the deal for scum!Hari for me right now. I might be feeling a bit paranoid (in the traditional sense) due to being so much un...

ConMan

ConMan, where did you get the term Paranoid from? It's in my role description. Although my actual ability is not Paranoia but "Haunting". There could be hidden mechanics whereby certain roles just automatically "visit" certain other roles, but if that was the case then why would...

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ConMan, you claimed recently that for your ability to be useful, Mafia would need to consider you a threat. It is easy then to extrapolate that Mafia ought not target you from their perspective. It is therefore no longer useful to conceal it. As you said, information drives the game forward, so it ...

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T'was a bit silly, but the whole concept is silly when you really think about it, so it's nice that they have fun with the ideas. Taika Waititi made "What We Do In The Shadows" which is the best vampire comedy film to come out of New Zealand, and he threw in a few nice antipodean reference...

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As someone who is just a random member of the board, I find it surprising that I would possibly be jimbob's crush, but perhaps that's just the way it panned out (I dunno, maybe the love interests were picked randomly). Why do you think that jimbob autotargeted you? Maybe he selected you as his nigh...

ConMan

Reposting to hopefully fix the horrible code mess that was my previous post: The only possibility I can see is from the flavour I was given. I am apparently in love with the major shareholder and need to visit him regularly. I got a heavy lovers vibe from it and did double check at the beginning of ...

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The only possibility I can see is from the flavour I was given. I am apparently in love with the major shareholder and need to visit him regularly. I got a heavy lovers vibe from it and did double check at the beginning of the game I wasn't a lover. [quote="Madge]Jimbobmacdoodle was murdered i...

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Yay for finally getting a scum, boo to me for being swayed by my own flawed logic. So assuming the 6-2-1 split, we're looking for Maven's scum buddy, and I know that as the only other person who was still voting for wam at the end of D2 I look like a fairly obvious, if clueless, option. I am open to...

ConMan

CD-MAN?

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Werewolf

Spoiler:

ConMan

Hari makes a valid point, and I'm going to think about it (along with a few other things I have to think about at the moment). Also, just to be clear (since bessie noted that Mafia Bus Driver/Framer isn't the only way for the weird results to happen), when I said "something to mess with results...

ConMan

Thinking about things in terms of Occam's Razor, rather than trying to create a linear town-to-scum list, the following are the possibilities I can see in order of simplest to most complicated explanation: 1. Bessie and Maven are telling the truth, wam is lying. It only requires one liar, and it mea...

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