The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:It's Pi Day! Did anyone have pie or do any math?
I took a Combinatorics final today. Does that count? :P
Sure, why not?

How'd it go?

Excellent. We even got a freebie because the professor accidentally wrote in the same question twice.

MovingPictures07 wrote:It's Pi Day! Did anyone have pie or do any math?

I took a Combinatorics final today. Does that count? :P

MovingPictures07 wrote:Young's Double Chocolate Stout.

Seriously, the best.

Wine tonight for me.

As well as some homemade queso chicken chili.

A Person wrote:I wish I could miss people

I can't do much aboot that, but you can be missed.

S~V~S wrote:Welcome to my world.

Always a pleasure to see you BatBear.

I was just browsing through my inbox. 19 of the 79 pages of PM's I have are all from MovingPictures. That's almost 25%.

Epignosis wrote:
juliets wrote:
Epignosis wrote:School closed today.

I feel sorry for the little elementary school kids who already got picked up by the buses.
will the buses turn around and take them back or have the roads gotten too bad?
I saw the bus driver for our street drop a little girl off at her house, so I guess they all just turned around. Good thing they get paid hourly.

Hopefully Mom and Dad haven't already left for work.

S~V~S wrote:It's an outdoor clothing company, like Columbia or North Face.

Yup. They make some pretty stellar tents too.

I just found it on YouTube as well.

Meet the Marmot.

S~V~S wrote:Ha ha ha at the Marmot commercial in the Superbowl

Seriously? I have not been watching.

A Person wrote:Yeah I need a yoga mat, so I can be a Yoga Matt.

Hi Yoga Matt, will you be my yoga mat?

I won a yoga mat (and other goodies) in a raffle a year ago, and have only used it once.

Elohcin wrote:
fingersplints wrote:
Elohcin wrote:I'm getting old too quickly. But I am trying to combat it by getting my body in better shape than ever. I may not LOOK like I did when I was a teenager but I'd like to have energy like I'm a teenager. I just wish I could stop these gray hairs!
I'm the same way. I'm older, but more fit then ever! Since I quit drinking and started working out in 2012 I think I've lost about 50 lbs. I've been at my goal weight for a while, but am getting more serious about toning. I've been thinking about creating a fitness type thread, so I (and hopefully others) can talk about working out and stuff.
I would love a fittness thread

You should definitely make this happen! I don't know if the Sports Bar would be considered an apt place for it or not.

Free cards at Bingo night?

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

This is interesting. A guy who's never played piano in his life recording a jazz album.

G-Man wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I was rooting for the Cardinals tbh, but the Panthers are obviously the team to beat.

If anyone can do it, it's a healthy Broncos team.
I have nothing against the Cardinals but I find Phoenix/Arizona to be one of those regions that it's hard to care about in terms of sports teams. Seattle used to be in this same category for me but now they're lumped into my "root against them because of obnoxious bandwagon fans" category. It's funny how you expect some teams/regions to have inferior sports teams simply because you grew up knowing those teams to be mediocre.

That being said, I lukewarmly support the Diamondbacks and Coyotes from time to time because their logos/team names/color schemes are/were cool and for the underdog factor.

I agree with you about Seattle. I mean, they are the closest NFL team to me geographically, yet I don't care for them. They do have a lot of stand-up players on their team though, and Pete Carroll's one of the more underrated coaches in the NFL. He doesn't get the headlines like Bill Belichek, or Tom Coughlin, or Rex Ryan, or even Marvin Lewis.

On the other hand, I still like Carson Palmer even after he left Cincinnati. I'd like to see him continue to succeed (unless they're playing the Bengals). I feel the same way about Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Jets.

When I think of the Panthers though, I always remember that awful tie game from last year. Not that either team played awful (far from it actually), but I think it's awful that NFL rules can even allow a game to end in a tie.

I was rooting for the Cardinals tbh, but the Panthers are obviously the team to beat.

If anyone can do it, it's a healthy Broncos team.

You got it wrong, didn't you Rico?

Golden wrote:http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes ... ecember-17

Question 13, specifically.

I got all the science questions right!

Sometimes, I wish I could fly though.

A Person wrote:My join date is only a few days away

Mine is still a month away.

Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet [u]one year ago[/u] wrote:In. No idea how to play this, but I wouldn't mind getting killed pls.
This poor sod, I tell ya...

Look at you now. You're all growed up.

Happy 1 year you poor sap.

Turnip Head wrote:In Turkey, a man's freedom hinges on whether Lord of the Rings' Gollum is good or evil, or whether Gollum and Smeagol are even the same character.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/origina ... ation.html#

Why is the judge consulting a "TV expert" about a series of books written in the 1950's?

Ricochet wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Ricochet wrote:Some of the banner images appear broken to me. What's going on?
Where are you accessing the internet from? I've noticed that some companies will block photobucket images.
At home... on my laptop? I don't work in any company.

Anyway, it seems fixed now, so nvmd. Maybe it was a photobucket derp (although, not all the pics were screwy, for that matter).

I was riding home on a Greyhound-owned bus on Monday. Connecting through their wifi, all the photobucket banners were blocked (and replaced with the greyhound logo), while the other ones were not.

I guess this wasn't the same thing.

Ricochet wrote:Some of the banner images appear broken to me. What's going on?

Where are you accessing the internet from? I've noticed that some companies will block photobucket images.

Mongoose wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Mongoose wrote:Hi, remember me!

It's your friendly neighborhood mongoose.

I've been thinking it was called SNACKchat this whole time. I like the idea of snapchat a lot less.

I'm really into podcasts. The Message is really good as was Serial. I just couldn't get into Nightvale the first time around (a few years ago), but I guess I will give it another go. I also really like Lore, which is non-fiction origin stories of common urban myths (scary ones, usually).

Pipecleaner says hi.
If you want, I can snapchat pictures of things I'm snacking on to you.
Hmm. Let me ask you some questions. Do I want snapchat? Is this something people in Gen X even have? Why wouldnt you just text it to me (serious question). For isntance, why do you, Holden Metalmarsh, like snapchat?

I don't like it (though I have it on my phone), but that would give me a fun reason to like it.

Mongoose wrote:Hi, remember me!

It's your friendly neighborhood mongoose.

I've been thinking it was called SNACKchat this whole time. I like the idea of snapchat a lot less.

I'm really into podcasts. The Message is really good as was Serial. I just couldn't get into Nightvale the first time around (a few years ago), but I guess I will give it another go. I also really like Lore, which is non-fiction origin stories of common urban myths (scary ones, usually).

Pipecleaner says hi.

If you want, I can snapchat pictures of things I'm snacking on to you.

Ricochet wrote:4am becomes 3am, as of tonight.

Which I assume means I'll be 6 hours from EDT, not 7.

Seems accurate to me, then US changes over next weekend.

Maybe Sockface will remind the Talking Heads players since half (or so) of the players are in Europe.

Epignosis usually sends a reminder to everyone to switch it on/off at the appropiate time.

I don't know how your time zone is effected though.

Epignosis wrote:
Dragon D. Luffy wrote:
Epignosis wrote:My three-year-old boy just beat world 1-1 of the original Super Mario Bros. on his fourth try.

I am a proud papa.
I see you are doing that "have your kid play old school games" thing that I told you about.
My kids play everything.

They're awesome.

Even mafia from time-to-time.

Roxy wrote:I posted the picture of my kitty Buddy Love bc he just passed away after giving me 17 years of unconditional love. I have never loved any animal more and I will never love one like that again. It has been just heart breaking for me. I loved him so much. He hasbeen there for me so many times makes me so sad that I could do nothing to stop his dying.

He was such a beautifully sweet kitty.

I did see that on facebook after I posted my kitty picture. I just thought we were posting pictures of our cats.

But our cat and I send our loves to you Roxy.

Congrats. I can't remember the first time I beat 1-1 on Super Mario.

I'm not dead or drunk, so I'll say hi to Sorsha.

I have a buffalo nickel I got when I was a kid that's about it. I did acquire a quarter from 1943 last week though. That was exciting.

I was in 6th grade history class. I remember another teacher coming into the classroom and turning on the TV in the corner to show us what was going on. I found the whole thing confusing. I had no idea what sort of global impact the World Trade Center had or what they were for, so at the time, it just looked to me like a couple of tall buildings getting taken down. It wasn't until the aftermath that I started to get a better idea of what had happened.

Golden wrote:I bet on Heiots.

Me too.

As fun as that sounds, I know I would not win such a race, so I will go ahead and concede.

Heiots wrote:Do you watch anime in Japanese or English? I try to avoid dubs because....just because the Japanese original voice-overs are better. If you're really interested, I don't see why you shouldn't pick up Japanese. I first got interested in other languages besides my basic ones due to interest in fictional characters and cultures. You can practise while watching anime or dramas. It's amazing how much you can pick up watching stuff in the original language and reading English subs.

I agree. The original Japanese voices with English subtitles is the method I prefer to watch anime. I'm sure there are some good English dubs for some series, but I won't be going out of my way to find them.

I would like to learn Japanese, but that is a long-term endeavor for me at the moment.

We're finally getting rain for possibly the first time this summer, and it's supposed to storm the whole weekend.

DrWilgy wrote:My DnD character died. I'm very sad now.

I've never played DnD, but I've watched it a bit and wanted to many times.

Those are sad times right there.

G-Man wrote:Anybody watching the Little League World Series? The Mid-Atlantic team (Red Land) is from my neck of the woods! In past years, it's been fun cheering on teams from PA that made the LLWS but to have a team from 20 minutes away in the mix is pretty cool.

I've never watched the LLWS, but that's awesome. Oregon would never have a team in such a position.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I mean, check this godfather role the other host made (it already flipped so it's okay to show it here):

The Anti-Monitor

[Life Shell] : The Anti-Monitor is bulletproof and can survive a lynch. If hit by a superkill or a lynch, his shell will be destroyed in his stead, leaving him defenseless. He can regain his shell by personally faction killing two regular roles or one super role, via [Energy Absorption(passive)].

[Anti-Verse(passive)] : All affiliation investigations, role investigations, lie detects, watching and tracking abilities used on the Anti-Monitor turn up the opposite. For role investigations, a random town role will be chosen. For watchers and trackers, it will say that he was targeted by those he targeted and targeted those that targeted him(if he wasn't targeted at all, a tracker would receive a result saying he didn't target anyone).

[Energy Absorption(passive)] : If the Anti-Monitor performs the faction kill, he will make the target generic prior to the attack hitting, rendering all passive abilities null and keeping them from using any active abilities. For every two regular roles or one super role he has killed he can restore a shot of [Power Distribution]. For every four regular or two supers he can restore a shot of [The Anti-Verse(active).

[Energy Absorption(active)]: The Anti-Monitor can make a player generic for a phase once per cycle.

[Power Distribution] : The Anti-Monitor can power-up one of his faction, doubling the strength of their abilities(minus one-shots) for a cycle. The power is too much to handle however, rendering the member generic for a cycle afterwards. Two-shot

[The Anti-Verse(active)] : Sending the game into the Anti-Verse for a phase, the Anti-Monitor makes it so that all regular positive abilities will become negative and all regular negative abilities positive for a phase. This ability does not affect his own faction or limited use abilities(one-shots, two-shots, etc) from roles outside his faction. One-shot.

Dear Kahuna Almighty! I thought we ran complicated games here, but that is one of 58 roles? You are a brave man, good sir.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Hosting a 58 player game is hard.

But it's so fun.

I should be studying yet I keep looking at role spreadhseets and answering questions at BTSCs.

I don't think I've hosted a game of over 20 players before. 58 would be quite a lot.

Mongoose wrote:So things have gone rather well for me...

... except I woke up and my car had been broken into.

Doh

Egad!

Which probably means that someone made off with some of your personals.

Perhaps, but only if you pay tentacles?

Does that mean you didn't pay the rentacles?

I feel like SVS should know about this.

Logan just gave me his number. Maybe I'll take him out to dinner this weekend.

MovingPictures07 wrote:I will be a married man in less than 2 weeks now!!!

Don't botch it.

Wow, those are some beautiful places Rico. Welcome back!

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