MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

[worcej]

Discord: https://discord.gg/FcXfYzxU

[BK3K]

fuck

[KoalaAttack]

Good Game everyone!

It was really fun – and exciting till the very end!

[Chaqa]

I KNEW IT KOALA

I should have stuck to my guns on that one

[Chaqa]

Lfischl and TFB were both town... oof.

[Kakarroto]

GM TIMELY FACTS

Why do we have 60 minutes in an hour?

The answer the interwebby thing gave: THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal (counting in 60s) system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC. The use of 12 subdivisions for day and night, with 60 for hours and minutes, turns out to be much more useful than (say) 10 and 100 if you want to avoid having to use complicated notations for parts of a day. Twelve is divisible by two, three, four, six and 12 itself - whereas 10 has only three divisers - whole numbers that divide it a whole number of times. Sixty has 12 divisers and because 60 = 5 x 12 it combines the advantages of both 10 and 12. In fact both 12 and 60 share the property that they have more divisers than any number smaller than themselves. This doesn't, of course, explain how this system spread throughout the world.

It's like the right hand of the GM said, but one handy information was left out: it's all because of the anatomy of the hand(s)! See, babylonians counted with their hands ... but in another system as us. They used the phalanx of each finger to count and since each finger has 3 phalanxes, that goes up to 12 per hand.

"Now wait a second, that would only go up to 24 if they used both hands", you might say, but they used the other hand to keep count how many times they counted up (like if the left hand was at 2 and the right at the seventh phalanx, it would've been 2x12 + 7, so 33).

And the thumb of the counting hand? Even if there are two phalanxes, it didn't count, since they used the thumb to 'mark' where they are, like a pointer. You can try it yourself, it's quite a nice and intuitive system.

Personally though, I ask myself, why thy didn't use this system with both hands ... they could've counted up to 144 with both hands that way ...

...then again, imagine there would be 144 seconds in a minute and 144 minutes in an hour ... how much time we could save!

[TheFlyingBoat]

Lfischl and TFB were both town... oof.

I did say lfischl was the easy MK though admittedly I did want you over Koala until you voted me in panic at the end. That was pretty townie

[ghug]

Lfischl and TFB were both town... oof.

But Boat and I defended each other so much!

[KoalaAttack]

terminal:>
terminal:> MSDOS version -3.14 loading BIOS Eucalypus xTreeMe #42 from kernell
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terminal:> DEBUG: If you own Smash Brothers please boot up your console to hear the amazing theme song at this point in our adventure
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terminal:>
terminal:> A new challenger enters!!
terminal:>
terminal:> KirbyKoala
terminal:>
terminal:> Please use our awesome MUD interface of WASD key to navigate between the available characters to select an Impersonation Target below!
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terminal:> LOADING GAME:
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terminal:> DEBUG: # TODO: remove this debug statement so they don't know the root password is Swordfish
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Alphabetised Player List:

Balki Bartokomous
Bo_Sox
Bozotheclown
BunnyGo
Chaqa
Damo666
Ghug
Hamilton Brian
KoalaAttack
Lfischl
Pyxxy
Rdrivera2005
Worcej
Yavuzovic

Alphabetised Player List:

BK3K
Bonatogether
bozotheclown
brainbomb
BunnyGo
Chaqa
damo666
Fluminator
ghug
Jamiet99uk
KoalaAttack
lfischl
President Eden
rdrivera2005
swordsman3003
TheFlyingBoat

terminal:>
terminal:> Please vote with ##KOALA [Username]
terminal:>
terminal:> All votes will be tallied end of D1, KirbyKoala Cylon Model 777 will be boot-loaded with the personality traits and reactions of the winningest vote.
terminal:>
terminal:> Until this occurrence KirbyKoala Cylon Model 777 is going to retain the holding patter of following the instructions submitted by the GMs.
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terminal:> Which means to retain the most Vanilla Lack-of-Personality humanly [robotly?] possible – since KirbyKoala received a Vanilla Townie activation code.
terminal:>
terminal:> If you type ##KIRBY HELP the KirbyKoala will provide the Debug output outlining the reasoning for their current course of action based on the current version of the Impersonation Target Deep Machine Learning model. And if you want KirbyKoala to vote with you, simply ... [BUFFER OVERFLOW EXCEPTION] ...
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terminal:> EOF

[KoalaAttack]

Sorry, I needed that to be quotable :)