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And after how gosh darn cute Connie looks in her sunhat in Steven Universe how dare you

 

 

Agreed.

I missed the bus again. I stand on the opposite side of the street, unable to cross, watching it load its passengers and leave. I wait thirty minutes for the next one.
It's like being in a nightmare where you cannot scream

Nabe has his very own 'Wheel of Orifices' that he gives a spin every time he can't decide where he wants to put it in. We never know if the wheel is weighted, or if it is actually God's will, but it always seems to land on 'ear'.
Personally though, I do not condone this behavior. If I stumbled in my walk with Christ today, then Nabe has made a full on face plant. But give the man a break, you try walking more than five feet with a 12 inch kraken riding shotgun and not getting tangled up every once in a while.

Forget I said anything. I was hating. I watched Coonskin and didn't get it. But I'll research it a little so I can understand it in the context of the year it was made.

Holy puppy. I got an email notification that somebody posted on here, and whoever this Ganny guy is, I swear I thought he was me. That sounds exactly like me from 6 years ago. This is all really surreal. 

That aside, uh, yeah, I guess, me again. *post-college Lethe Albion writes with shame* Sorry for being a shitlord in all those posts I guess :\

You pit of vipers. You white-washed tombs. Why are you arguing about how LOGICAL homosexuality is? There are many simple truths in the world, and here's one of them: Being gay is wrong. I don't have anything against gays. But I sure as heck have something against homosexuality. Being gay is not who a person is, it's what they do. I'm obligated to love them just the same, but I don't have to love what they do.

And no, I don't believe we should allow either gay marriage or being gay at all. Plain and simple: This country was built upon the Christian faith and we as a whole have turned away from that foundation. I'm not trying to preach a sermon here. It's just the truth. We as a Christian nation should not allow homosexuality. And I don't give a flying flip about whether it's "politically correct" or not. Why is okay to insult Christianity and Jews but not Gays? If everybody really DOES have equal rights, then no one should be able to say anything about anyone that's in any way rude or demeaning. And yet here we have local townships FORCING local fire departments to take their "Merry Christmas" signs down because it's not culturally inclusive enough. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. 95% OF AMERICA'S ENTIRE FRICKIN' POPULATION CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!!! How can you be anymore inclusive than that? And we have local pastors being ridiculed because they speak out against homesexuality. I'll tell you what, anyone who wants to argue whether homosexuality is right, wrong, or anything in between just pick up a Bible. That's the only place your gonna find any scrap of truth nowadays. And I don't give a crap if I'm being "religious" or whether it's against the rules. You guys are just sick.

You pit of vipers. You white-washed tombs. Why are you arguing about how LOGICAL homosexuality is? There are many simple truths in the world, and here's one of them: Being gay is wrong. I don't have anything against gays. But I sure as heck have something against homosexuality. Being gay is not who a person is, it's what they do. I'm obligated to love them just the same, but I don't have to love what they do.

And no, I don't believe we should allow either gay marriage or being gay at all. Plain and simple: This country was built upon the Christian faith and we as a whole have turned away from that foundation. I'm not trying to preach a sermon here. It's just the truth. We as a Christian nation should not allow homosexuality. And I don't give a flying flip about whether it's "politically correct" or not. Why is okay to insult Christianity and Jews but not Gays? If everybody really DOES have equal rights, then no one should be able to say anything about anyone that's in any way rude or demeaning. And yet here we have local townships FORCING local fire departments to take their "Merry Christmas" signs down because it's not culturally inclusive enough. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. 95% OF AMERICA'S ENTIRE FRICKIN' POPULATION CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!!! How can you be anymore inclusive than that? And we have local pastors being ridiculed because they speak out against homesexuality. I'll tell you what, anyone who wants to argue whether homosexuality is right, wrong, or anything in between just pick up a Bible. That's the only place your gonna find any scrap of truth nowadays. And I don't give a crap if I'm being "religious" or whether it's against the rules. You guys are just sick.

Magic Knight Rayearth continues to ask the tough questions no one else dares to touch.

teto appealed to our sense of humanity when he said he was super exhausted from work and no one had the heart to lynch him after that

I downloaded this tonight and I really like it. The first two songs on the album are here.

So vacation's been good for me, I've been getting a lot of leisure time in and even though my wallet is feeling it I'm feeling a lot better. I've even gotten into exercising again. I've still got work to do for this summer but I figured I'm gonna hold off for a few more days since my best friend is getting married this weekend and whatnot. 
 
Apparently Comcast's been screwing with our bill on a yearly basis (charging us some $40-50 more), so  my mom called to get it all figured out. They did fix it AND we are getting like two years of HBO for free. Last night I used HBO Go to watch GoT at my bf's apartment and it was fantastic. The episode was really good too.

 
this is bullshit. You are a REALLY talented writer. I was extremely impressed with all the scenes

Alright guys, as promised, here is the first of several game summary posts. I'll try to make three separate posts, one for game design, one for the actual results of the game, and then one where I just post everyone's roles. This was the first mafia game that I have ever hosted, so it was far from perfect and there are tons of things I wished I could have changed, mostly just in terms of simplifying things a bit more. Some mechanics worked well, others fell awkward or were sloppily executed, but at its core it was a traditional werewolf game, and that really shined through in the last day phase, which was the most exciting part of the game in my opinion.
Family/Character Biases
This game had an overarching theme in mind, which was that house disputes and past biases threatened to interfere with the major goal of hunting scum. Most characters had some type of bias or secondary goal written into their role, which would put them at odds with at least one player, or a group of players.
1. Tyrion Lannister (T1G) unlocked his second ability by publicly putting down Cersei Lannister. This was designed to make the two players subconsciously distrustful of one another,
2. Varys (LL) and Petyr Baelish (Cirt) had a little game of cat and mouse going, where the first person to identify the other would win an upgrade, and the other person would be locked out of it. This had the potential to make them both reluctant to role claim, which could potentially make them look secretive and shady.
3. Oberyn Martell (Knuckle) was told in his pm that he hated all Lannisters, and his lynch survivor ability grew stronger every time he publicly put down Tywin Lannister (Linox)
4. Cersei (Necropolis) was told in pm that she trusted Jaime Lannister (although I obviously did not reveal that the real Jaime was an NPC), and she needed to visit Tywin Lannister (Linox) in order to gain her power role. This would make it more likely that Necropolis would form alliances with other Lannister players.
5. Tywin Lannister (Linox) was the only Townie with a secondary win condition - He needed to keep at least one Lannister player alive until the end game. He also unlocked his secondary power by hammer voting a any non Lannister player. Obviously this would bias his vote, but also make him a bit more reluctant to try to kill fake Jaime Lannister (Teto), unless he truly believed that Teto was the imposter, since he would seem to be more valuable to Linox, should Teto be taken at his word.
The only townies without a written family bias were Jon Snow (Pheo) and Eddard Stark (Chase). Out of all the characters, they seemed like the most honorable, and most likely to keep their personal agendas in check for the good of the realm. The idea was that a successful town would decide to put all these alliances and distractions behind them in favor of the big picture - who was acting the shadiest, regardless of their family Name. As evidenced by Knuckle's hammer vote to seal the game, where he killed off his character's rival, this was much easier said than done.
 
Private Chats
Originally, this was going to be a 13 player game, and there were going to be three private chat channels in this game. One Town-Town chat (Oberyn Martell & Tyrion Lannister), one Town-Independent (Varys & Petyr Baelish), and one Town-Wolf (Cersei Lannister & Fake Jaime). Then when I cut it down to 9 players I changed Baelish from an Independent to a wolf, and decided I didn't want two Town-Wolf chats, so I removed that one. For obvious reasons, I did not reveal alignments in private chat, but in the case of Knuckle and T1G, once they I entered the chat, I officially confirmed that their characters were "Total Bros" and that "sometimes trusting one another is worth the risk". It didn't seem to do much though, T1G seemed pretty suspicious of Knuckle the entire time.
As for Teto and Necropolis' private chat, It seemed that Necropolis rightfully did not trust Teto at all, and eventually Teto saw that Necropolis was not revealing much to him in private, so the next night he cut his losses and killed him.
 
The Dungeon and Prisoners
Teto knew from the start that Jaime Lannister was an NPC locked in the dungeons, and that if somebody UNLOCKED the dungeons then he would escape. In this way, Jaime Lannister was a semi-safe character claim for Teto, provided he could prevent Jaime from escaping. T1G got his keys and immediately sent me the command,  "RELEASE PRISONERS, YOLO". On the surface, this was designed to look like it had harmed the town, since it permanently disabled the immunity votes. In reality, it was a huge help for the town, because the next pm I sent him dropped two very important names, Euron Greyjoy, and Jaime Lannister. It also meant that NPC Jaime had been released from prison, and would start randomly visiting one player each night.
From Linox's perspective, this was really helpful, since he was an ID Killer. Now he had the name that most likely belonged to a wolf. He also got notifications every time an NPC interacted with a player, and the name that always seemed to pop up when he pressed the player in question was Jaime Lannister.
This whole thing was a bit sloppy in design and Linox's role was ended up being more than a little weird. The NPC's really only existed:
1. To make it harder to guess people's ID's, by putting more names into the pool of characters
2. To give Linox an alibi each night, since he could send them to visit people
3. For the whole Jaime Lannister ID puzzle.
 
Overall I probably would have cut this part out if I could do this game again.
Townie Power Roles
In werewolf games, this forum has a tradition of giving every townie a power role. In my perspective, this makes playing as wolf really hard, since the town can just use process of elimination with night abilities to find wolves. Very little time is actually spent looking at people that act shady during the day. I wanted to nerf the town powers a bit, but I also didn't want some players to feel like they had nothing to discuss, so I tried to make a compromise - most of you guys had power roles, but they were locked at the start. Therefore, most power roles would not come into play until night 3 or 4. I also made some other additions, such as unblockable kills to nerf the power of the town protector, and split the seer role in half between Chase and LL. LL had the power to ID Teto as a Euron Greyjoy (who had the same last name as the werewolf mentioned in the prologue), while Chase had the power to ID Cirt, who had a much stronger identity claim, as wolf-aligned.
 
 
 
 
Other random things that I didn't like:
1. The game was heavily scripted in some parts, which sometimes made the game a bit constricting in play style, especially for Teto. It also meant lots of writing from me, writing being something that I'm not particularly good at.
2. Roles were a bit too complicated in parts. If I do a game in the future roles will probably take a much more 'keep it simple' approach
 
In general though, game seemed pretty balanced and sounds like everyone had fun so I'm glad to hear that.
 
 
 

Not as good a concept as World War Blue.
 
"A re-imagining of the console wars, the series tells the story of two kingdoms, the Segua Kingdom and Ninteldo Empire, locked in a struggle for dominance over the land of Consume. After years of war, the Segua Kingdom is on the defensive until a kid named Gear appears boasting of his incredible speed."
 
Gear is Sonic, clearly. At the beginning, Tial, Gear's best friend, and representative of Tails, dies. They also have characters for Mother, Kirby, Samus, Link, Fox McLoud, etc etc etc. Tejirov (Tetris) is a mercenary, and he makes lots of sex jokes, as reference to inserting pieces into spaces. I can respect the author's creativity.

How could you kill your own blood, Jon...