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by **Adacore** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:22 am UTC

Well, hi y'all. I guess I'm going to confirm, then read the thread...

I know nothing about TMBG. Darn.

by **Dark Loink** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:23 pm UTC

Wait, what? I missed the box of goodies?

And, so, votes were reset, then? Great, the box of goodies was fun,(even to read) but told us...nothing.
Not really surprised that Mafia players love goodies.

by **Princess Marzipan** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:27 pm UTC

KrazyNerd wrote:Hmm. Well, that was interesting. I actually was going to complain about Entropy's attempt to make a market economy in a mafia game, but I guess that point is moot now.

It's actually not. It still happened. And my vote still stands.

And in case it doesn't: Vote: Entropy

(And honestly, that was what, the first twelve hours of the game proper? That was more activity than most games see.)

by **JoeyJo0** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:44 pm UTC

KrazyNerd wrote:Hmm. Well, that was interesting. I actually was going to complain about Entropy's attempt to make a market economy in a mafia game, but I guess that point is moot now.

Oh, he was?

Vote:Entropy

by **Brooklynxman** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:59 pm UTC

Vote: Entropy

wtf man?

by **Kitsune** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:21 pm UTC

KrazyNerd wrote:Is there a moral to be found in this somewhere? Something like "mafia game players go crazy over boxes of goodies"?

And the moral of the story is......

Cheesecake!

by **PossibleSloth** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:37 pm UTC

This is getting far too silly.

Now, no one enjoys a good laugh more than I do. Except my wife...
And some of her friends.

by **McCaber** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:28 pm UTC

As far as Day1's go, this doesn't seem to be too bad. Though I'd watch out for a bandwagon on Entropy just because he enjoys buying things.

But I have seen worse ways to vote on Day1, when we have really nothing else to go on. So I'll be looking out for other prospects sooner or later.

(Just out of curiosity, when does the day end? And how long does the night last here?)

by **Not A Raptor** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:34 pm UTC

McCaber: Until somebody gets lynched, unless frogman adds a time limit.

Vote: Entropy

For trying to hoard nonexistant advil.

by **Not A Raptor** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:36 pm UTC

EBWOP: Kay... so somebody else was the hoarder, but he tried to destroy stuff, so the vote stands.

by **Knightshire** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:28 pm UTC

Come on people, this is just a plain bandwagon. Nothing good can come out of it.

by **Princess Marzipan** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:47 pm UTC

Knightshire wrote:Come on people, this is just a plain bandwagon. Nothing good can come out of it.

You're right. I was rrreally hoping more discussion would come from my vote, but it hasn't.

I'll leave it on for now, but if the wagon gets too crowded with too little talking I'll be hopping off.

by **Brooklynxman** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:25 pm UTC

He was trying to hoard string not advil, and thats anti-town, despite what he says about a free market economy.

by **Sir_Elderberry** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:04 am UTC

For those of you who, like me, were wondering, Tukery was a capitalist nation during the Cold War, and remains so today. (I'm not taking sides in the voting yet, although I do worry that there's too little discussion. I guess Day 1 takes what they give you and you run with it, so I'm leaning towards voting for Entropy just because...he acted? I dunno. I'm not sure how rational we're being here.)

by **Not A Raptor** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:14 am UTC

He destroyed rope. He managed to leave just enough to hang himself with, by my count. We have no clue what that rope would have done, but it could have given us information (before being junked by the mod). His free-market blathering could have just been a smokescreen to make him look like one of the Turks.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:16 am UTC

I'm somewhat interested at the number of players that have directed a vote at Entropy for somewhat petty reason... I'm pretty sure he was just making a joke. The first votes are ok for starting discussion, but by the time we got to NaR it looks like a few people are just trying to get an early end to the day. Of course, it's NaR... he always acts up, but seriously man.

Ninja'd: ok, now we're just getting weird. FoS: NaR.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:18 am UTC

For the record, the FoS is directed at the first and last sentences...

Not A Raptor wrote:He destroyed rope. He managed to leave just enough to hang himself with, by my count.

Not A Raptor wrote:His free-market blathering could have just been a smokescreen to make him look like one of the Turks.

Seeing as the turks = mafia (from what I could gather from the flavour) I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to look like one. And what on earth... saying he can hang himself, you're claiming him as a jester now? o_O.

by **Not A Raptor** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:27 am UTC

dedalus wrote:For the record, the FoS is directed at the first and last sentences...
Seeing as the turks = mafia (from what I could gather from the flavour) I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to look like one. And what on earth... saying he can hang himself, you're claiming him as a jester now? o_O.

Well, he could very well be a jester... or...

frogman wrote:Turkish Mafia, whose two interests are stopping the changing of town names and killing tourists.

Not all Turks are scum. Now, I might have judged wrongly. I was suggesting with the "enough to hang himself with" that he made a mistake and that mistake would wind up making him dead. The possibility of him being a jester is enough to make me hesitate. Jesters can explode sometimes, and I don't want anybody getting blasted.

Unvote

But only because of the potential for jester-y problems.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:33 am UTC

Oh no, I was thinking that's what you were implying.

by **Brooklynxman** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:40 am UTC

Oh shi----DAMMIT

That may be one of the most obvious jester-moves ever. Which of course opens it up to a crap-load of WIFOM

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:57 am UTC

Personally I thought Entropy was just trying to be a dick. I'd wait to see his reaction to this before we shove the 'jester' tag onto him.

by **PossibleSloth** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:26 am UTC

I also missed the whole goodies thing. I'm not reading too much into people's actions during all of that and I'm a little suspicious of people who are serious about lynching Entropy about it.

by **KrazyNerd** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:43 am UTC

Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're bandwagoning against Entropy because he burned some rope? Something that no longer even matters in the game? Why aren't we going after people who hoarded Advil, or who tried to tear down the wall? Answer: Because that would be ridiculous.

Come on, guys. There have got to be better reasons to lynch somebody.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:45 am UTC

Actually, I think that whoever tried tearing down the wall is thinking of the wrong band. This isn't Dark Side of the Mafia.

by **Not A Raptor** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:57 am UTC

dedalus wrote:Actually, I think that whoever tried tearing down the wall is thinking of the wrong band. This isn't Dark Side of the Mafia.

Definitely a game idea for the future, though.

by **Princess Marzipan** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:08 am UTC

I voted for him originally because he destroyed what seemed to be a useful resource for no discernible reason. I'd prefer to hear more from him (and others) before ending the day, though.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:02 am UTC

Oh I think this day has a lot more to supply in terms of discussion before it's over.

by **Brooklynxman** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:02 am UTC

dedalus wrote:Oh I think this day has a lot more to supply in terms of discussion before it's over.

Hell yes. There is no way the lynch should go through yet I merely wanted to state my opinion with my vote.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:10 am UTC

Well my personal opinion on Entropy would lead against him being the jester, simply because it seems too obvious a ploy to get lynched. I think it's best that we assume he's just being a jerk, he's never 100% serious about his mafia.

by **Entropy** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:22 am UTC

Hehe, that had a much bigger impact than I anticipated.

TMBG wrote:Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down
They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around.

I did kinda want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around. Such people are crazy and frightening. Without string, what could they wind around a rock? Nothing, that's what.

by **frogman** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:26 am UTC

What string? I don't recall any string.

Also:

Vote Count:

3 Entropy (Marzi, Joeyjo0, brook) EDIT: actually, NaR unvoted. 3 votes.

10 votes to lynch

(by the way: yes, it is 10 votes, not 11, because I go by 1/2 vote to lynch (rounded up) instead of majority.)

by **Brooklynxman** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:43 am UTC

frogman wrote:What string? I don't recall any string.

Also:

Vote Count:

4 Entropy (Marzi, Joeyjo0, brook)

10 votes to lynch

(by the way: yes, it is 10 votes, not 11, because I go by 1/2 vote to lynch (rounded up) instead of majority.)

4 entropy? I count 3 people

by **frogman** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:43 am UTC

Yeah, I saw that NaR had unvoted but I forgot to change the number.

by **ameretrifle** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:50 am UTC

This is why you hired me, remember? ^^ From now on I'll make sure to do them a bit earlier in my day...

You live, you learn.

by **dedalus** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:51 am UTC

Frogman, you might want to recheck your thoughts on the logic of letting half votes cause a lynch. It's no big deal right now, but if you get down to even small numbers (e.g. 1v1) then the whole majority thing is much needed, else it just comes down to who places a vote for whom first.

But in saying that, the mod is always right, so whatever you say goes.

by **KrazyNerd** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:53 am UTC

Entropy wrote:Hehe, that had a much bigger impact than I anticipated.

TMBG wrote:Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down
They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around.

I did kinda want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around. Such people are crazy and frightening. Without string, what could they wind around a rock? Nothing, that's what.

So you want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around? Does that mean you're the person who's trying to burn the playhouse down? >_>

Mods: How much are we supposed to read into TMBG lyrics?

And you're saying that the string-burning you did was a test? Kind of an odd social experiment, if you ask me.

by **Princess Marzipan** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:55 am UTC

Entropy, you kind of missed the point anyway. Everybody wants a ROCK, around which to wind string. String isn't the problem. We have no rocks. (Trust me, I've looked.)

by **VectorZero** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:58 am UTC

Wow. Way to avoid day one apathy.

First impressions: entropy not scummy (especially with contextual justification), mindless bandwagon very scummy.

Random TMBG spot: Birdcage in your soul was played on triple J yesterday.

Lyrics of interest:

They Might Be Giants wrote:They call me Dr Worm
Good morning how are you I'm Dr Worm
I'm interested in things
I'm not a real doctor but I am a real worm
I am an actual worm
I live like a worm

Thoughts: a doctor? Not a doctor? A drummer? Could be town or anti. (Not hugely helpful, I know)

by **frogman** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:02 am UTC

Mods: How much are we supposed to read into TMBG lyrics?

Not too much. I designed the game so that even people without knowledge of the band could play.

by **Entropy** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:03 am UTC

Princess Marzipan wrote:Entropy, you kind of missed the point anyway. Everybody wants a ROCK, around which to wind string. String isn't the problem. We have no rocks. (Trust me, I've looked.)

I have a rock! Do you want it?

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