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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM30: Making Fun Mafia (Game Over)
« on: February 16, 2016, 04:08:30 pm »
Wait, so whatthefuck happened with Hydrad and Joseph?

Hydrad lied and told Joseph he was a traitor, and Joseph lied back and claimed to be mafia with Yuma. Both were town.

It's the kind of town play you dream about as scum.

Right but I mean... what was the thought process there?  Why did anyone (Hydrad started it?) even think to try it in the first place?

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM30: Making Fun Mafia (Game Over)
« on: February 16, 2016, 04:00:07 pm »
Wait, so whatthefuck happened with Hydrad and Joseph?

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 16, 2016, 12:16:35 pm »
Oh, something else about university: you might feel very lost in your courses for a term or two, the difference with high school can be quite a shock. It's perfectly normal! Don't despair or think that you are worthless and everybody else is smarter than you. I mean, obviously there will always be people that are smarter than you, but most will feel just as lost as you do. Just keep calm and carry on. I'll repeat scott_pilgrim's advice about working with other students, it really helps with productivity and motivation.

Fun story from my first analysis course.  This was the first course I ever had that was actually difficult.  My first homework got utterly torn apart by the instructor because I had written like you might for a basic Calculus course or something, not using real sentences or anything.  I was also heavily overloading that semester, so I was pretty sleep deprived all the time.  Anyway, four or five of us in the class used to get together to work on the homework, and we were all pretty equally lackluster.  (We were allowed to collaborate in such a manner, by the way.)  Maybe if the homework had 50 points, we were getting low or mid 30's.  I don't remember gaining anything from those study sessions.  For the last two or three homeworks, I ended up just not going with the other people and going off by myself to work on the problems.  All of the sudden, more scores jump up like 10 points and I actually understand what's going on.

Working with other students can be helpful, but it can also be a distraction. 

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: f.ds Mafia Hub
« on: February 16, 2016, 11:48:25 am »
Yuma your avatar is broken for me. It just shows a black box

What do you have against black peopleboxes?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: February 16, 2016, 11:12:48 am »
I always assumed not having "up to" was because of balance issues.  Because you often don't want all those Silvers.  It also slows down the Traveler progression. 

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 16, 2016, 11:10:09 am »
Vote: Joseph

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 16, 2016, 10:39:41 am »
Regarding job, most colleges have some sort of work study program, where you can work at one of the college offices.  That's what I did, through the tutoring center.  The pay was small, but it's also manageable hours, and it was something I liked doing.

Additionally, the learning center at my undergrad college had a bulletin board for external tutoring opportunities (not current students).  They'd call and leave their number, and anyone could take the info and contact them, and set up independent things.  That's how  I earned a lot of my money in undergrad.

Of course, Yuma has a point of looking into careers that you're actually interested in.  For me, I new I was going to grad school pretty soon after I started, and already knew what I intended with my degree, so it wasn't as important to look into particular industries. 

Edit: On the other hand, I had no savings when I graduated college, nor when I finished grad school. 

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 16, 2016, 09:37:17 am »
ahha I'm here. I have my master plan. As an IC i'll play soooo poorly that scum won't want to kill me. and then we get to mylo and i'm still alive. Its perfect.

On a serious note I still have no idea whats happening this game. funnily enough drunk ash is actually making the game move foward a bit so thats good.

Maybe you should get drunk then.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 16, 2016, 09:33:40 am »
Wow. Thanks for the great advice! I've actually never drank before...and I'm not really planning on it I guess? I agree that it seems like a hugely overrated part of college life, though of course I've never experienced it myself. I'm straight (thanks for covering all those bases though  ;D), and I appreciate the admonition about the expectations of meeting a possible life partner in school--as I definitely have/had that expectation. I must admit, I'd probably be a bit sad if I was finished with college without meeting someone "special" or whatever. I'm not a terribly outgoing person, and it seems like it's difficult to meet people once you're out of school? Or so it seems to me at least.

Up to this point in my academic career, I have been really focused on my GPA. I really appreciate your take on the true purpose of education, as I sometimes do feel a bit cynical about things and have almost certainly avoided some courses in order to protect my grades. I do feel really passionate about my major though (computer science). It took me a while in community college to really settle on what felt right for me, but I find the subject matter incredibly engaging, so that's a positive.

I never drank until I was 29, almost 30.  It has helped a lot for dating (well, maybe).. a little bit for other social life.  Otherwise, it's highly overrated.

If you do decide to start drinking, do so for actual taste and not just for the sake of drinking alcohol.  Avoid people that want to 'get drunk'.  At least, that's my advice. 

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 16, 2016, 09:30:59 am »
Once, somebody mentioned that where they were from it was zero degrees, and I asked whether it was Fahrenheit or Celsius.  Zero degrees makes so much more sense to be Celsius, so that's why I asked, even though I'm in America.  Everybody was like, "What?!?  That doesn't even make sense!"  Somebody even got kind of mad at me for "showing off how much I know".

0F is a significant cutoff for talking about extreme temperatures in Winter.  (It's arbitrary, but still notable because of 0 as a number itself.) Reaching negative Fahrenheit is pretty cold, so it's of note when it happens.  Hitting 0C is much more common unless you're fairly far south (in the US).
I like to think -40° is quite significant too. But you've got to travel pretty far north for that.

It is, but it doesn't happen much in most of America.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 16, 2016, 09:29:31 am »
(snip)

Very important.  Learning is really all that matters.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M75: Cupcake Mafia (Day 2)
« on: February 16, 2016, 09:27:12 am »
Vote: Egor

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M75: Cupcake Mafia (Day 2)
« on: February 16, 2016, 09:25:55 am »
So this is why Ampharos is town.

1. Teproc had a little townslip thing going on. See here:

Well Fruit Vendor only occurs if they have JOAT/Roleblocker or Rolecop/2-Shot Strongman...

So ... all the other ones. Right ?

I don't think it's likely to be a fakeclaim for reasons outlined above, but it's a "safe fakeclaim" in most setups.

No. Take, for instance, a setup where scum has JOAT/Goon. One of those setups has a Tracker, and one has a Commuter, both roles that cannot appear together with Fruit Vendor. So if scum were to claim Fruit Vendor, they would immediately get countered. You can go through all scenarios and see that there will always be the chance of a counterclaim.

Right, I'm dumb.

So scum certainly thinks about which fakeclaims are safe on N0. I guess not all scum do, but I'm confident that Teproc does. I just finished modding a game with Teproc, and we both thought scum should analyze the setup more. So assuming Teproc is scum, I am pretty sure that he knows that no fakeclaim is safe. Which means the above post can only be fabricated or come from town!Teproc. Teproc just doesn't seem like the guy that fabricates townslips.

2. Teproc is pushing for Hydrad pretty hard. So if he's scum, that would be a bus. I don't think it's "easy" or "early D1"; scum!Teproc is talking himself into a position from which it will be hard to argue against a Hydrad lynch when it happens. It's not out of the question that scum busses Hydrad - after all, he only was a Goon and thus the least important member of the team - but if that's your plan, you certainly talked about it in the mafia QT. Now let's assume this talk happened. Mafia agrees to bus Hydrad. Once Ampharos takes over, for sure he reads the QT. Would he just ignore the plan there and start voting for someone else, never returning to Hydrad? I don't think so. Ampharos' switch is actually evidence that he is town.

3. The wagon. I mean, seriously. silverspawn starts it for really weak reasoning that applies to at least 2 other players in this game. (that vote is sill fine mind you, it's the first vote on Amph after all) The IC joins in. Ony then do people start to sheep - and who? chairs, who is just as guilty of the things Ampharos is accused of, and who needs to divert attention from the wagon that is forming on himself, RR who also is a major lynch candidate today, Ww who just quoted evidence that Teproc is town. That is not a wagon I want to be on even without the above points.

So I believe all of this should maybe not convince you that Ampharos is town, but at least give solid reasons why Ampharos is a bad lynch for today.

Okay, I buy it.

Unvote

I still don't like Silverspawn.. that puts as at (of people I could lynch):

Off-wagon:  Egor, Lekkit, Awaclus
On-Wagon: Roadrunner, Chairs, Faust

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M75: Cupcake Mafia (Day 2)
« on: February 15, 2016, 08:26:04 pm »
And Hydrad is a common D1 mislynch, so some people are motivated to look elsewhere.

I will say that this is a bad argument. One could also say that I am a "safe bus" because I never get lynched D1. So then everyone is a safe bus, the people who are often lynched and those whose a rarely lynched. Except... a bus is not safe.

Thing is it's safe when it's the beginning of Day 1.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M75: Cupcake Mafia (Day 2)
« on: February 15, 2016, 08:25:29 pm »
It didn't really seem too suspicious to me until I read Ampharos (after reading Teproc).  Ampharos doesn't do a lot of note and doesn't do anything regarding Hydrad.

If "not doing anything of note" is your metirc for finding scum, you should be voting for Egor.

I'm pretty sure I wanted to lynch him on Day 1, and no one else did~

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 15, 2016, 08:20:51 pm »
Fahrenheit is awful, as are all imperial systems.

That being said, the guy in the xkcd comic should definitely use Fahrenheit in that case, using Celsius accomplishes nothing if everyone around you is used to Fahrenheit, it's not like you're going to change the world by being a douche.

You an make the world a cleaner place.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 15, 2016, 05:36:15 pm »
Also, I think Ashersky coming in while drunk and posting is pretty towny. I mean, has scum done that, like, ever?

They have.

You know where?

I plead the fifth.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 15, 2016, 05:35:05 pm »
Also, I think Ashersky coming in while drunk and posting is pretty towny. I mean, has scum done that, like, ever?

They have.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 15, 2016, 05:18:22 pm »

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 15, 2016, 05:17:57 pm »
I didn't even know who I was voting for, so I checked:

"No I don't watch soap operas, I have facebook.  There is a new episode every 5 minutes"

Vote Count 1.4
WW (2): Ashersky, iguanaiguana
Joseph2302 (1): Haddock
Awaclus (1): WW
Iguanaiguana (1): silverspawn
Haddock (2): 2.7,  Awaclus
ss (1): Hydrad
ashersky (1): Joseph2302

Not voting (0):

With 9 alive it takes 5 to lynch.

Day1 will end February 19 at 6:00 PM


I don't know why I'm voting Awaclus, but I probably could have went ahead and guessed that I was.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M76: Soap Opera Mafia (D1)
« on: February 15, 2016, 05:15:06 pm »
I've noticed Ashersky has been drunk a lot more since moving.. he moved to Europe, right?  I think that explains it.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M75: Cupcake Mafia (Day 2)
« on: February 15, 2016, 05:04:33 pm »
It's not like teproc was bussing a partner then ampharos decided not to.

Why not?

When I went back rereading after the hydrad flip, I looked for posts by/about hydrad by anyone. And there weren't any. Well, obviously not, but there were not many. Most were concerned with qts and other such nonsense.

That being said, what is easier: ignore the partner or actually bring him up as someone to lynch. No one was a lynch candidate at that point. Teproc was bringing hydrad into that discussion. I don't see that as D1 bussing style

I'm not sure I agree about Teproc.  It's a fairly safe thing to do, there is still a ton of day left and no real wagon, so Hydrad was in little danger of getting lynched.  And Hydrad is a common D1 mislynch, so some people are motivated to look elsewhere.  It's fairly safe bus. 

It didn't really seem too suspicious to me until I read Ampharos (after reading Teproc).  Ampharos doesn't do a lot of note and doesn't do anything regarding Hydrad.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: February 15, 2016, 04:54:03 pm »
Once, somebody mentioned that where they were from it was zero degrees, and I asked whether it was Fahrenheit or Celsius.  Zero degrees makes so much more sense to be Celsius, so that's why I asked, even though I'm in America.  Everybody was like, "What?!?  That doesn't even make sense!"  Somebody even got kind of mad at me for "showing off how much I know".

0F is a significant cutoff for talking about extreme temperatures in Winter.  (It's arbitrary, but still notable because of 0 as a number itself.) Reaching negative Fahrenheit is pretty cold, so it's of note when it happens.  Hitting 0C is much more common unless you're fairly far south (in the US).

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M75: Cupcake Mafia (Day 2)
« on: February 15, 2016, 04:46:32 pm »
It's not like teproc was bussing a partner then ampharos decided not to.

Why not?

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