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@Earth
A draw, was a close fight, not very technically sound. Was a draw, which is like, WTF
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Does anyone else think the KSI v Logan Paul boxing match was some BS? A draw? An effing draw? What a joke 😤
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RationalMadman 2/4- XLAV, Earth
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@Vaarka
I can understand ur point after seeing an edit produce the shit storm it has in the beginner series 🤔. Hrmmm, ill contemplate implementing some sort of rule for future games. Like, "refrain from editing, 2 or 3 instances and ur out." Im not the type to generally want to modkill someone for what very well could have been a harmless offense of fixing a typo, or changing a punctuation mistake, or adding to the post as opposed to making a new one 🤔
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@Earth
Well, to be fair i didnt make a rule against editing, and I dont think any official or even concensus ruling has been made yet, so I'm not inclined to make it a punishable offense right now, especially with so few players.
Im still somewhat on the fence about it. I can see why it would be beneficial disallowing it, cause it will prevent games from devolving into arguing about edited posts that cant themselves be read. But can also see why it would be beneficial to allow 🤔.
Let's try to limit editing, I'll bump that independent thread about it and see if it stokes a discussion that reaches a reasonable standard 🤔.
Does the day phase end after a lynch has been reached
it does hombre
Let's just take a deep breath, and enjoy the rest of this game and weekend. I gotta go to bed, but I'll have an updated VC(vote count) in the morning
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Tell me how well that works out for troop numbers when ur leaving those wounded behind, you actually need those people to come back with you so they can recover and start fighting again. Guns, they are an equalizer in every day life, they are far from an equalizer in war
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Turns out, you actually need men for protecting the gates from those who would sweep in and destroy this false sense of "protection" you feel because of your privileged position in western modernity. War, its not going anywhere, and though you might not need protection for the most part in every day life, you do need it for when the bombs start dropping. Cause hey, what if you need to carry a wounded squad mate in combat? Are you capable of carrying 300+ pounds while staying low to avoid bullet fire? I would hazard, that answer is no. Oh shit, looks like you have to abandon "no man left behind" and just leave the wounded to die cause you cant get them to safety 🤔
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We no longer require protection
Lmao, you go right ahead and tell me how peak strength differentials between men and women aren't worlds apart, and how that doesn't at all matter in combat. War still exists, you ready to jump on the frontlines and fight against people who can bench 300-400 and squat 500-600+? I know for a fact, because its basic biology, that you arent anywhere near that kinda strength. How well do you think you could handle carrying 150 pounds+ of equipment while on foot for miles? What about when shit hits the fan and bullets start to fly and bombs start to drop?
Come back and talk to me about how "protection isnt needed" when you can not shit your pants and carry 150+ pounds for 10+ miles on foot without getting winded or tired so as to still be in peak combat condition
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Not to mention, this sounds like some equity doctrine stuff. Tell me, to achieve equality, what do you intend to do about the people whose existence is necessarily unequal? My guess would be eliminate them 😏
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@Analgesic.Spectre
Both have their benefits, and both have their negatives. Competition breeds excellence, cooperation breeds togetherness. You see this encapsulated perfectly in team sports, where cooperation and competition are intertwined.Is it desirable to have creatures hell-bent on competing with each other? Would not collaboration be preferable?
And no, it wouldn't. Society wouldn't be some place where violence ever occurs either. Females are aggressive in their own way, generally it tends to be passive aggressiveness. But interestingly enough, the coupling with the highest rates of domestic abuse? Lesbian relationships
Females are just as savage as men, they're savage in a different manner generally, but nonetheless, one that can hardly be argued as any better than direct aggression. Especially when the swing side of aggression when channeled constructively is, in part but not exclusively, protection. 👏
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I'll need to add a lesson on OGI to future beginner series with mostly new players. Thanks for bringing that to my attention guys and/or gals 👏👏
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Cause this is a beginners series, and thus intended to impart valuable lessons on gameplay and etiquette I will say that most mods will not take the use of OGI too kindly.
Plus, like DDO, unless you log out, this site keeps you logged in for a bit, even if you close browser. So its not even a solid rational basis for cases anyways 🤔
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Ain't nothin i said is illegal 😏
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@XLAV
Nice try, FBI 😤
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VTNL(Vote to No Lynch) 1/4- Rational
RationalMadman 1/4- XLAV
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Because its a mechanics concern, I will state outright that any and all night actions including the NK in my games can be waived unless otherwise specified 👏👏
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VTNL(Vote to No Lynch) 2/4- Virtuoso, Rational
RationalMadman 1/4- XLAV
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Also I would totally find a safe place and bunker down as well.
There are definite benefits to living in Wisconsin and one particular one is that absolute wilderness where you won't ever likely be found even if people are looking is a hop skip and a jump away.
Tbh, one of the reasons i moved back here from Florida was because, if nukes ever get used, I'm already northward enough to skedaddle farther north and have the southward winds from the arctic circle blow fallout in the opposite direction 👏👌
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@Vader
Yeah i agree, they incorporated pretty much every aspect of the JavaScript version into the console one. Major difference, way better game. I remember on 360 it was a simplified game with alot of stuff left out. Was still fun, just not as much as PC.
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@David
Well to me "swingy" doesn't mean "unbalanced". Balanced would mean that if you played say a set of 100 games, you'd end up with close to or at 50/50 win/loss ratios 🤔. Like, in a 7 game series for sports, 3 games could be absolute blowouts won by team X, the other 4 super close with 4 won by team Y. And even though the results of game swung extremely, those two teams would still fmpov be a "balanced", match-up
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I think the Purge movies, beyond the absurd premise, is actually a perspective in exactly what you mentioned. That the people who are those types, are the people who you would generally leaat suspect. It presents an interesting perspective on how a potential societal breakdown quickly results in people who otherwise would not act that way, would regress to the natural propensity in humans and one of our proposed evolutionary ancestors in chimps.
Tbh its a miracle to me that we can cram overgrown chimps into a place like a seminar for a few days and not have it devolve into those people tearing each other apart.
Its an interesting take, the movie, that humanity is just a few short steps away from absolute barbarity 🤔
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They bedazzled their assault rifles.
Hey, if ur gonna kill, at least kill with style 😎🔥
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Wtf? Didn’t realize scum had a N0 kill. I’ve played games where the cop had a N0 peek, but never when scum gets a kill.
This classic set-up is only intended to be 3 DP's max, it usually only last for two. On Epicmafia it results in about an even split of town to mafia wins.
Without a N0 kill it switches to townside wins with a considerable majority. Just poor luck that the Cop got killed tbh
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VTNL(Vote to No Lynch) 2/4- Virtuoso, Rational
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Considering I have an arrangement with a close friend and her family to skedaddle into the boonies if anything should hit the fan, I'd be defensive, likely just hit the boonies with some supplies and the aforementioned group, guns in hand, and sit it out.
By arrangement I mean, stockpile of weapons and ammo, plenty of preserved foods from farming over the years, took the GPS out of a couple all terrain vehicles, gasoline stocks, etc. All hidden out in the boonies in a cabin not another soul knows about, least of all the government 😂
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Why are Jews rich?
Hard hitting question, gonna start calling you Geraldo 👏🔥
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Although if ur using the JavaScript pc version thats not cross-platform last i checked. Its gotta be the "play together"(win 10) edition? 🤔
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I have it on Xbox, but if im not mistaken its cross-platform between PC, Xbox, and Switch? 🤔
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Ayeeeee, 500+ posts already, and a vast majority are not at all spamming this thread 😎
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@XLAV
Oh im sorry, to vote to lynch post in bold
VTL(Vote to Lynch) "(insert player name)"
So for example VTL Buddamoose
Although VTL'ing the mods is unadvisable and might resulted in smiting 👏👏
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Welcome to DP1 of Buddas Beginner Series 1.0! This game will be the following set-up:
Mafia- 2 Goons
Town- 1 Doctor, 1 Cop, 3 Vanilla.
Roles descriptions:
Goon- A powerless mafioso
Doctor- Can protect one player a night from death.(Can protect self)
Cop- Can investigate one player a night and determine if they are "innocent" or "guilty".
Player List
1. XLAV
2. RationalMadman
3. 1Harder
4. Earth
5. Daytonanerd
6. Virtuoso
7. XLAV
Day Phases will be 72 hours in length, and DP1 will end at 12pm August 28th CST whether or not a lynch has been reached.
Night Phases will be 48 hours in length
Replacement Policy
If a player is inactive for 2 phases(DP+NP) they will be eligible for replacement. if a replacement is found before the player returns to activity, they will be summarily replaced. However, if no replacement is found, the current player retains the spot upon returning and is no longer eligible to be replaced.
It is important to bear in mind that a NP only counts if proceeding a DP of inactivity. Basically, replacement eligibility counts only start upon a day phase in which a player in inactive.
*If you are inactive in a DP, make sure to post in your PM during the NP that you are present. Lurking is permissible, just make sure to let me or Vaarka know thats whats going on so you are not mistakenly replaced.
With that being said, let the games begin!
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As the sun rises above the horizon, the townspeople gather in the square to find Smithereens is not present. They find him dead in his house, stabbed in the back, his house ransacked, and whatever was on his person except for clothes, gone.
Deaths
Smithereens- Cop
Living Players
1. XLAV
2. Daytonanerd
3. 1Harder
4. Virtuoso
5. Earth
6. RationalMadman
With 6 players alive it takes 4/6 votes to lynch!
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We arent detached from nature ultimately, although morality requires us to seperate ourselves from it for purposes of moral judgement. For example, the "nuclear family" developed over time as the best way to raise kids to optimize potential success in adulthood. Recent cultural pushes to glorify single parenting and change that order has resulted in kids suffering very detrimental affects. The same goes for this "gender theory" stuff that's based off a study that amounts to child abuse by John Money, or "toxic masculinity". Well, now testerone levels are dropping across the board, males are getting less intelligent, and checking out on a mass scale(suicide rates, employment etc).
All from an opinion that aggressive and dominant male tendencies are "toxic" and "unnecessary" as opposed to something to be embraced and constructively channeled for noble purposes. No instead lets just put em on meds and watch as they're fucked up later on in life. Certainly none of the aforementioned could have anything to do with that 🤔
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This just strikes me as having a bit of a "god" complex 🤔, wanting to tool around with things we arent even anywhere close to understanding fully
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You continuously misunderstand the incredibly basic concept: not needing to do something is better than having to do something.
This is just untrue as an axiom. Humans are in a sense, beasts of burden. Meaning and purpose is found most often in the undertaking of responsibility. Needing to do that isn't worse than not needing to. Especially when such a need provides huge benefits, and not doing so tends to reap many harms 🤔.
And I would say this need is more a result of higher intelligence and conscious individuation. To remove these benefits, you would have to revert humanities intelligence. Really, the same goes for morality, a sense of right and wrong comes with consciousness and individuation. In essence, seperation of our actions from nature. Again, reversion to pre-individuation total ignorance of the self would be required fmpov 🤔
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But is it bread and butter? Or perhaps bread and poison 😏
May the odds ever be in your favor 😂😂
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@drafterman
Nice, thats the bread and butter spell right there 😂😂
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@secularmerlin
@drafterman
Oh, im sorry, I didnt realize you accounted for that in distribution. I suppose i shoulda put my Intel at +2 as a gnome then.
@Drafter- Gnomes still get the minor illusion cantrip to start right? 🤔
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@secularmerlin
Missing 14 and 8 on stat distributions
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@secularmerlin
Nice choice, Cleric and Bard play super well off each other as support classes 🔥🔥
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Just bought it yesterday for Xbox One. Anyone else have it? So far it seems like a pretty good game, alot better than the shit show i read it was on release. I got unlucky AF to spawn on a planet where the temp was 67°C with storms that bumped it up to 115°C or so on occassion. Had to go thru the tutorial on a hellhole of a planet 😂
Gotta admit it's pretty cool to engage the hyperdrive and zoom through the cosmos 👌🔥
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@Vaarka
this is just a scosh annoying getting this series going 😂
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So we got
Dread- Fighter
Earth - Wizard
Budda- Bard
That's a tankish melee, a dps caster, and a support class, nice balance so far. Just to put out there, i mainly plan on focusing on trickery and persuasion type stuff 🔥🔥
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Gnome Lore Bard
you get the minor illusion cantrip as a gnome still right? If not I'll change race 🤔
str 10
dex 14
con 13
int 12
wis 08
char 15
Alignment- Chaotic Good (as any true gnome is 😂)
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Woops
*str 12
dex 14
con 13
int 08
wis 10
char 15
Like a dumbass i pick bard and c/p stats for a wizard 😂
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Damn, i was gonna do a gnome wizard 😂. Oh well,
Gnome Lore Bard
you get the minor illusion cantrip as a gnome still right? If not I'll change character.
str 08
dex 13
con 12
int 15
wis 10
char 14
Alignment- Chaotic Good (as any true gnome is 😂)
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@David
The Talmud notes that a beit din (court) that puts someone to death once in every 70 years is considered to be a bloodthirsty court.
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@David
The Oral Torah
Your couple explanations regarding the Oral Torah sounds a little bit like some explanations ive heard on OT stuff, like Deuteronomy 21:18. Stuff like that is def interesting cause it sheds nuance that shows the laws weren't really as brutal as it facially seems. And kinda make the actual books like the Torah, OT, NT, seem like kind of a cliffnotes type thing.
Was the Oral Torah developed in unison with the written, or post? 🤔
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It would be far smarter to just, you know, donate to someone who agrees with you already, who you don't have to risk going to prison for bribery. For somebody who adheres to the profit motive being inherent to capitalism and that necesaarily spills into politics. Its strange that you abandon the profit motive because it would lead to a conclusion antithetical to your views. Actually, thats not strange, that's right up your alley considering you've previously argued that shared characteristics can be used to differentiate things 🤔
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@triangle.128k
"its the nature of lobbying"
Except, its not. Consider this study which found,
"No evidence that corporations benefit from electing their favored candidate, and we can statistically reject effect sizes greater than 0.4 percent of firm value. Contrary to the concerns of many observers, corporate campaign contributions do not appear to buy significant political favors."
You assume because money is changing hands that = bribe, which itself a facial assumption which is likely a projection of personal fault, to others fmpov. Corruption happens, not all corruption is the result of bribery, i would hazard a guess very little is.
This not to mentioned that another study i cant find right now illustrated that donations aren't generally made before someone agrees with a candidate, they are a result of agreeing most often.
Bribery isnt a profitable game in the long run. Eventually you get found out, so individuals, if acting in self-interest, would not be likely to even attempt said bribery 🤔
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