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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing 2013?

« on: May 03, 2013, 11:14:22 PM »

ME2: Found out where Jack went after Pitch Black (because Pitch Black did not, of course, have a sequel). Loyalty grinding was supposed to commence but hijacked by plot for GHOST SHIP. Very rude. I'm told this game has kind of a stealth point of no return and I should focus on loyalty/sidequesting as soon as possible. Is this accurate? (I'd do that anyway, but still.)

I should really stop buying fish.

Point of No Return is very obvious. Point of Consequences if you dick about is not. As Gref says, do not do the Derelict Reaper mission until you are ready.

Andrew is right. The best way to do things is not touch the mission to obtain the IFF until you're ready to end the game. You can get away with doing one, maybe two missions after that until the point of consequences hits (there's a reason you can do at least one mission, without getting into spoilers), and it'll be pretty obvious when you hit that point and will suffer for dicking around more. It's NOT obvious that the consequence point is coming though unless you've played the game at least once.

Railroading collector ship mission == Okay to do (You're kinda forced to anyways), IFF quest == save until you're ready to finish the fight

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General Chat / Re: G'morning, 2013! - Post-Kopocalypse Sunshine Frolics

« on: May 03, 2013, 10:59:27 PM »

Yeah, having worked in a meat department I know all too well to never take a chance on poultry. The best way to check it is the smell. If there's any smell whatsoever, I wouldn't even take it out of the pack. That said, a little pink will be... okay. Just be sure to take a meat thermometer to it and make sure the insides reach the magic number: 185 F for chicken and turkey, if I remember right.

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General Chat / Re: What Music are you listening to in 2013?

« on: April 29, 2013, 09:18:29 AM »

Went on a Chemical Brothers kick after randoming onto Block Rockin' Beats again. I always forget how much I like them

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Forum Games / Re: New Game Interest Check: Battlestar Galactica

« on: April 29, 2013, 08:57:42 AM »

Didn't want to clutter the actual game thread so I'm posting this here. Just wanted to say I'm watching your game with great interest. I love the BSG board games with a passion so I'm curious to see how playing it over a forum turns out.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing 2013?

« on: April 29, 2013, 08:54:55 AM »

In the ME series, I always made a point of keeping the same class through each game with my Shepard. I think I was Infiltrator my first run down the series. Having a sniper rifle was always a huge plus in those games I found. In ME2 though, it was negated a bit when you get to choose an extra weapon proficiency later. ME2 was definitely my favourite in the series, though I'm one of the people that wish they didn't simplify the character leveling. Still fantastic games though.

Actually, I'm curious to know who everyone else used as their go-to party now. My party as a rule was Shep, Jack, and either Thane or Grunt to round it out.

I actually beat Bioshock Infinite today, and all I can say is DAMN it was good. I'm a masochist when it comes to shooters so I made my first playthrough on hard. I immediately dove back into 1999 mode and am loving every second of it. Apparently, I missed a good 15 voxcorders and 10 sightseeing locations so I've got something extra to do other than just replay the game. I get to go on a scavenger hunt too

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General Chat / Re: Idiot of the day 2013: Wishing that the Mayans were right.

« on: April 26, 2013, 02:01:47 PM »

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/23/land-mines-in-our-sexual-landscape/

Both the complete asshole who wrote this and whoever gave the okay to publish this tripe should be fired. She says our society is at fault for non-consensual sex because we allow consensual sex to whoever wants to have it? No, fuck yooooooooooooooooou. Bonus idiot points for defending child porn as totally cool as long as you do it in the privacy of your own home.

There is a reason I use the Royal Canadian Air Farce's description of MacLean's all the time: "Canada's National Waste of Paper". The only reason I even read it right now is because my phone company is giving it to me for free. Most of what is in there is rubbish.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing 2013?

« on: April 26, 2013, 07:31:16 AM »

That's what my last post's timestamp says. Damn.

Haha, I've been putting away at university still. A change of majors and me being a general 19-year old idiot kinda set me back a bit. I moved out of residence, got really busy with exams, and then I dunno what happened after that that made me not come back. It might have been embarrassment from having to drop out of mafia and feeling like a dick. I vaguely remember that. Oh well, back now. Forum hasn't changed any but the site went through a huge re-haul, I see.

Do you guys not do the tournaments on the main website anymore with the write-ups and stuff? If so, that makes me sad.

To keep this remotely on topic: As always, I'm buying too many games with not enough time to play them all. Soul Hackers is eating up most my time, though my friend gave me BioShock Infinite for my birthday and I've been on that non-stop these past couple days. Think I'm finally nearing the end though without going too spoiler-iffic. I've gotten all my powers, achievement progress for collecting items are nearing the end, etc. Outside of that, way too much Dota 2. Like, unhealthy amounts. I've got a problem.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing 2013?

« on: April 26, 2013, 07:11:51 AM »

I've mostly been playing a cross between Dota 2 and SMT: Soul Hackers. Managing my demon personalities is a helluva task most times. Rageworthy when they won't do what I tell them to do, or all of their abilities are the opposite of what they like to do.

On a side note, apparently my last post here was in March 2009. Holy crap, I didn't realize it had been so long. Trying to remember why the hell my avatar was set to Razor Ramon now.

Also, a big hello to everyone. It's been quite a while.

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Forum Games / Do The Pokémon!

« on: March 27, 2009, 02:04:59 AM »

Alright, going through the rest of the thread, I've noticed a considerable Alex disappearance. This worries me. Would really like to hear from him again before the day is over, at least say something in defense to the claims against him. Hasn't posted since 9 this morning but mentions he's going to bed. I don't know if he's one of those crazy people that live on the OTHER side of the world, but for his sake there, I'll assume so. Pfffft. Crazy peeps.

As of my readings, Alex still is the most viable lynch option in my eyes. The SnowFire train has jumped off the tracks, and I'm will to accept his explanations for his reasoning of voting Excal>Alex. I see him as clear of the chopping block, at least for today. Sorry if I seem ambivalent. I've been busy today, and I'm all around terrible at Mafia anyways/putting my ideas out.

I don't really have much more to say. I've been school working majority of the day and my brain is fried. I just can't analyze right now.

OK has been absent most of this time, so I can't get a solid read off him. His recent posts lean me to believe pro town. Informative, full of opinions on people. Very helpful in my opinion.

Xanth flip-flops in my mind. He seemed pretty dead set on the SnowFire lynch, along with Strago. But when the chance to hammer their number one suspect and end the day that they both were against extending came, both people backed off. That sends some alarm bells ringing for sure to me, but not enough to change my vote.

Other people seem fairly townie to me right now.

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General Chat / Re: Sigs, factions and avatars: 2009.

« on: March 27, 2009, 12:08:12 AM »

Man, no one wants to avatar X-Pac.

I would... I used to love X-Pac back in the Degeneration-X days.

You see the porn he made? It answers some questions I always had.

Chyna scares me way too much. I've yet to watch it.

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Forum Games / Re: PokeMafia - Day One

« on: March 27, 2009, 12:01:19 AM »

Ryogo!

- Ryogo: Calls out Rat for his "all aboard the Sylon train woo woo!" reasoning and then turns around and does the same thing.

Why was doing this okay? I'd still like to know.

Sure. I can answer this really quickly before I start my next post. What I meant by that was that Carthrat jumped on the train without giving a reason, other than "Sure, why not." I at least threw my own reasoning down on the table. I felt him suspicious because he had been lurking, and had been confirmed to have been on the forums frequently without defending himself from the votes put down on them. Even when the votes started to get serious. I was just saying Cat hadn't thrown any reasons down, and had ONLY said "all aboard the Sylon train woo woo!" at the time.

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Forum Games / Re: PokeMafia - Day One

« on: March 26, 2009, 09:22:17 PM »

POST NOTE: I'm making points as I read through the thread, so if things have already been said, its because I've made my remarks before I got to whatever someone else had posted. Only thing I knew at the start of post was that Sylon had dropped from the game.

QuietRain (0): EvilTom

I hate to be fussy over small things, but that wasn't actually me.

And yeah, it was me that did the jokevote against you Rain. Doesn't really matter though, I can't exactly lynch you anyways
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Ryogo, you've been around since this all went down, as evidenced by your avatar and flavor text change. What are your opinions on the situation?

First of all, yes, I was around for until about 12:30 AM (T-2:30 hours to deadline for me). I didn't post anything because, well, I didn't have anything to say at the time :S I still felt the Sylon Case was the best we had at the time. Obviously, that's changed now.

If I had've seen this before I logged out and went to bed for the night, I would whipped up a post with my thoughts. But this was posted about an hour after I went to bed. I actually wasn't around for a lot of the stuff you think I was. But I will give you my comments and thoughts about it!

Snowfire having a townie vibe on Sylon really irked me, earlier. He hadn't done anything, and drew all his conclusions from what other people were doing around him. Then he didn't even actually go after any of 'em (let's not forget that part of his hypothesis was 'lots of people voting for one guy seems bad and untrustworthy'), instead focusing on the unrelated Xanth. Yeah sure don't vote Sylon because you think he's just sick or whatever, but actually going out and saying 'he's townlike!' is way too weird.

Have to agree on your thought process here by Rat. SF's logic here is not the best of logic to follow... Its just downright horrible.

Xanth is average - 5.
Sylon is, to me, mildly townie - 4.
SnowFire is extremely townie - 0.
SirAlex is, to me, mildly scummy - 6.

If the choice is between Xanth and Sylon - well, 5>4 !  Thus it may make sense to vote for a "random" - if the only other options are even worse.

If Alex was scummier to you, why didn't you put your votes down for him?? 5 may be greater than 4, but 6 is even larger than both! This is just adding strikes to the board. (Reading on later, noticed Delta makes the same point, so I guess I second it.)

Also, I noticed that OblivionKnight and Strago have tried to keep a particularly low profile as well, specially the later. I just think Sylon's case is worse right now for actively trying to keep it down even when the attention was onto him.

Strago, maybe.  He's been talking, if not frequently, but at least he's participating.
OK? I'm not sure "Low profile" counts so much as he hasn't been here at all.  As I said, though, I haven't seen him much online in the past 24 hours at all, so there's a good chance he actually has legit RL reasons; though if this keeps up throughout the next day, I'm expecting a modkill.

Also seconded. I'd really like to hear from OK, but at this point it seems like that'll have to wait until tomorrow? If he doesn't show, he'll be MK'd and if he does, we can light a fire under his ass later. Same goes for Strago, but to a much lesser degree. See much more from him now, am happy.

]Ryogo says something here about Carthrat on which I call shenanigans in a big way: http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php?topic=3132.msg54979#msg54979. Namely that because he hasn’t shown up on the “active users logged in” list, he must necessarily not be lurking. What. Do you know how easy it is to log out of the boards and still be very actively reading the thread and even writing your posts? It is so easy. I’m not saying “lynch Rat” – dude’s an Aussie, after all – but that is a specious reason to wave away suspicion.

Honestly, I never thought of that before I just have my account set to "Log in Forever" so I just kinda assumed people did the same. Never thought of logging out to pretend you're not on. I'll keep that in mind from now on.

Bard makes good points against Alex, and so far, I'm inclined to agree, especially after the roleclaim by Snow. Only problem with a roleclaim in this game is I think we ALL have some kind of little poké power. If not a permanent one, a one shot deal.

Bah, more later. Currently at the start of page 8. I have to run to class now though, so rest of thoughts have to wait.

For now, I'd rather have my vote somewhere rather than no where.
Ahh! Just noticed Snow is minus one to hammer with newest votecount.

##VOTE: SirAlex

People still seem to be discussing, there's still time left in the day, and I agree with Bard on points against SirAlex. I'll review the rest of the thread upon return in 2 hours, and then see what I think. Its looking like a SnowFire lynch right now though.

P.S., Sorry for what looks like a huge wall of text, but its mostly quotes taking up the space.

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General Chat / Re: Sigs, factions and avatars: 2009.

« on: March 26, 2009, 07:55:55 PM »

Man, no one wants to avatar X-Pac.

I would... I used to love X-Pac back in the Degeneration-X days.

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General Chat / Re: Sigs, factions and avatars: 2009.

« on: March 26, 2009, 05:07:11 AM »

WrestleMania is in a week and a half. Roommate and I have been playing wrestling games non-stop since Sunday. So Razor Ramon. My hero.

Hey, Chico, take a look at the bad guy.

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General Chat / Re: Hearts

« on: March 26, 2009, 04:56:38 AM »

Alright, I'll give you an add on AIM then, since chat is so unreliable for me. I'm always on AIM/MSN, so just send me a message if your looking for a player.

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General Chat / Re: DL Also Stands for Dream Log

« on: March 26, 2009, 03:29:28 AM »

Most recent dream?

Naked in a hospital ER room, conscious as they were doing tests on me.

Yeah.

A Fetish?

J/K, Tai

I usually don't remember my dreams. Last one I do remember, I was dueling to the death with pistols at dawn with a guy for my girlfriend. At some point, lightsabers were drawn instead. Then I woke up.

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General Chat / Re: Guess the RPG character

« on: March 26, 2009, 03:24:16 AM »

Princess Medea from DQ8?

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Forum Games / Re: French Revolution (maybe) mafia interest?

« on: March 26, 2009, 03:22:39 AM »

your

Mods must know how to spell

Touché. I always make that mistake when typing, but usually catch myself afterwards when I scan my message really quick.

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General Chat / Re: Webcomic Recommendations

« on: March 26, 2009, 02:03:27 AM »

Here's a webcomic I read years ago and then forgot about.

www.sinfest.net

Awesome webcomic. Reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes somewhat, except much more adult themed.

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General Chat / Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance

« on: March 26, 2009, 01:57:55 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4QBZfjtqs
Cat Sh!t One trailer (animated) - Its weird, but looks awesome

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General Chat / Re: Hearts

« on: March 26, 2009, 01:55:41 AM »

I haven't played Hearts in a while. Used to play it all the time on my computer all the time though. I'd be up for a game sometime.

How often do you guys play?

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Forum Games / Re: French Revolution (maybe) mafia interest?

« on: March 26, 2009, 01:52:41 AM »

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

I <3 Cthulhu, and French Revolution also. Both appeal to me. I'm actually playing the Arkham Horror board game this weekend
 
I've never modded before, but if your willing to give me a chance, I'd like to co-mod with you if I can. I like playing, but I tend to prefer watching the drama unfold from afar.

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Forum Games / Re: PokeMafia - Day One

« on: March 26, 2009, 01:42:49 AM »

"The Sylon case is the worst so far, but far from being overly scummy?"  Huh?  I suppose it could be a slip of the tongue, as I assume you meant "it's the best we have which is still not much," but it still comes off weird.  If you think that there's a better case...  vote that!  (Or did you mean worst as in likeliest to be guilty?)

I meant exactly what you said at the end of that quote. Worst as in, "He looks the worst to me so far".

The case on him is far from being really scummy. I meant "It's best best we have, but its still not much", when I said that, like you said. It sounded good in my head as I wrote it, but looking back at my post now, it does sound really weird the way I worded it. Just shows the value of looking over an essay a few hours or a day after writing it. Sorry for the confusion.

Trust me, if there was someone else that I thought was looking scummier, my vote would be there  

So far, vote staying where it is. I realize what people are saying about Meeple with trying to screen himself with his joke vote, but I feel it's pretty shaky. I almost did it in the Simpsons Mafia game for shits and giggles myself. It means I'm instantly scum? I personally think people are looking way too deep into that situation. Then again, it is day one. XP

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Forum Games / Re: PokeMafia - Day One

« on: March 25, 2009, 11:24:43 PM »

##VOTE:QuietRain
Mod is obviously undercover scum.
##UNVOTE:QuietRain

There. Random mandatory day one joke vote out of the way. Now for real input!

Day one is a crappy day for drawing conclusions. So much has to be taken from the joke vote phase, especially when it's shortened. Going for SnowFire because he voted for himself at the beginning of day one is a good way to start some discussion early on, but if anyone is seriously still clinging to that notion that it proves he's scum I'm inclined start suspecting them instead. It is the joke vote phase, after all. Not exactly something to take seriously, and if you do, with more than a few grains of salt.

Using the "Iron Wall of text" attack, however, is not a good plan. Especially so early in the game. Especially when the first 3 paragraphs of text have nothing to do with anything at all. It's foolish, but I read it as it was meant as a joke as well. To use the scum scale that SnowFire used, I'd put that wall at about a .3/10 for scum. At least its something to get the ball rolling though.

Sylon lynch train: It's a day one lynch train. It happens. Though after it started, Sylon lurking the way they apparently did does set off the alarm bells. Being absent is fine by me, but actually being around on the forum and not making any posts? Not a fan of that activity. Sorry that you're feeling sick, but as they say "Scum can have RL problems too"

Xanth's line of thinking seems like basic day one grasping for straws. I know the feeling, so I can't really fault him there. Xanth seems to be one that's all for getting straight down to business, so it seems like normal activity for him, especially after playing Simpsons Mafia with him. I really don't like to get into metagaming like that, so take it as you will, but its just my read of the situation.

Carthrat should come up with a better reason than "Hey, lynch train! Jump on board since its day one!" for Sylon reasoning, But he also hasn't been online since his last post (at least not logged into his account). Carthrat usually has some good insight on things, so it seems a little suspicious that he's not around and hasn't said more. BUT if he's from Australia like people have mentioned, that seems like more of a time zone thing than not posting for lurking intent.

So, right now...
##VOTE:Sylon

I think its the worst case so far, but its far from being overly scummy. Its at least something. I'll be around for the rest of the un-extended day, so I'll keep my eyes open for anything else I don't like.

That's really all I got I'm basically useless on day one.

I'm personally against an extension, just because day one is always terrible for me, but if townies believe they can get insight on scum from an extra 24 hours on day one...

##VOTE: Extension

Might be good for me anyways, considering this is only my first real post of the day

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Forum Games / Re: PokeMafia - Day One

« on: March 25, 2009, 09:47:58 PM »

Bah! Got catching up to do. Meaningful post coming, but just a quick post to let everyone know I'm here in the meantime while I review the game thread.