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Fluminator wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:03 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:43 am

Btw, the drive from Minneapolis to Thunder Bay, Ontario is beautiful.

Canadian Boarder guards are dicks.

And Minnesota state troopers at least only give you a warning for going 76 in a 70.

Out of every Canadian city to visit, you picked Thunder Bay?

Also my cousin is a border guard, and he says they have to be dicks as part of the job (literally)

I've always thought the Canadian border guards were nicer than the American ones.

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:57 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:54 am

Hamilton Brian wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:20 am

Do you have any thoughts on what this closed setup might be? I have this peculiar sense that we've all recieved the vanilla townie PM and there are NO mafia present. No Nightkills. Just us routinely executing VTs all game long. Brain and Darg laughing wildly while the rest of us fume.

I have no major thoughts on what the setup might be, no.

The amount of information available to me is limited to my own role.

If this game has typical balancing, there should be only 3 non-town roles with only 12 players.

Going super deep into the rabbit hole here: but the fact Eden and Chaqa reviewed this setup, there could be some misc. shit BB custom made for it…

I trust Dargorgel's judgement. I don't think he'd stand by as co-GM and let BB launch a completely wacky setup. I hope it's reasonably balanced.

Fluminator wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:04 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:44 am

Hamilton Brian wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:04 am

Kak really did a deep dive into the whole Home on the Range thing.

Thing is, how many players start the game with a "I didn't read the setup?"

GMs have certainly created the conditions to help/enable players.

2/10

Probably just Flum lol

You think I didn't read the setup?

Technically if you didn’t read the setup your at the same level as those who read it.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:57 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:54 am

I have no major thoughts on what the setup might be, no.

The amount of information available to me is limited to my own role.

If this game has typical balancing, there should be only 3 non-town roles with only 12 players.

Going super deep into the rabbit hole here: but the fact Eden and Chaqa reviewed this setup, there could be some misc. shit BB custom made for it…

I trust Dargorgel's judgement. I don't think he'd stand by as co-GM and let BB launch a completely wacky setup. I hope it's reasonably balanced.

ghug is the rational one and keeps everyone in line.

Hamilton Brian wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:04 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:53 am

Why do you feel the need to do that?

Are you worried you'll fail to post 10 times?

First question, just doing it to honour the GM expectations.

Second question, no, I am not worried.

4/10

The GM asked you to post at least 10 times.
The GM did not ask you to count your posts.
The PeterBot can count your posts.
Are you going to stop counting when you get to 10?

ghug wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

Fluminator wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:03 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:43 am

Btw, the drive from Minneapolis to Thunder Bay, Ontario is beautiful.

Canadian Boarder guards are dicks.

And Minnesota state troopers at least only give you a warning for going 76 in a 70.

Out of every Canadian city to visit, you picked Thunder Bay?

Also my cousin is a border guard, and he says they have to be dicks as part of the job (literally)

I've always thought the Canadian border guards were nicer than the American ones.

They demanded I give them my resume to prove I work for my company when I actually had a business card to show them…

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:06 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:57 am

If this game has typical balancing, there should be only 3 non-town roles with only 12 players.

Going super deep into the rabbit hole here: but the fact Eden and Chaqa reviewed this setup, there could be some misc. shit BB custom made for it…

I trust Dargorgel's judgement. I don't think he'd stand by as co-GM and let BB launch a completely wacky setup. I hope it's reasonably balanced.

ghug is the rational one and keeps everyone in line.

Ghug is playing in this game.

This game has a closed setup.

Therefore Ghug cannot have seen the setup as that would be game-breakingly unfair.

FWIW - I didn’t have a copy of my resume to give, but the question was weird as hell from the boarder guard

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:07 am

ghug wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

I've always thought the Canadian border guards were nicer than the American ones.

They demanded I give them my resume to prove I work for my company when I actually had a business card to show them…

That's a bit mad.

I don't carry my resume around with me when I travel.

You must have just had a suspicious look about you.

Canada is worth protecting, after all.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:07 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:06 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

I trust Dargorgel's judgement. I don't think he'd stand by as co-GM and let BB launch a completely wacky setup. I hope it's reasonably balanced.

ghug is the rational one and keeps everyone in line.

Ghug is playing in this game.

This game has a closed setup.

Therefore Ghug cannot have seen the setup as that would be game-breakingly unfair.

Yeah… thus we’re full circle on why I stated their could be some crazy shit…

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:08 am

FWIW - I didn’t have a copy of my resume to give, but the question was weird as hell from the boarder guard

Haha you predicted my comment.

Yeah that's a super weird question to be asked at the border.

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:07 am

ghug wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

Fluminator wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:03 am

Out of every Canadian city to visit, you picked Thunder Bay?

Also my cousin is a border guard, and he says they have to be dicks as part of the job (literally)

I've always thought the Canadian border guards were nicer than the American ones.

They demanded I give them my resume to prove I work for my company when I actually had a business card to show them…

How it works in Canada is when border guards graduate they draw lottery numbers to get first dibs at a location. (It used to be based on marks in school but that made things too toxic and competitive)

The place every guard wants is usually toronto or vancouver ariport but those spots fill up fast. The person who gets the last choice almost always ends up with Snowflake Manitoba as their station.

Thunder Bay border guards are very near the bottom of the lot so you will have the grumpier people there too.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:54 am

Bonatogether wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:41 am

Kakarroto wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:20 pm

Well I thought we maybe get something. A hint, some revelation about the enemy, maybe a number or two, with that I feel lost now, but I guess that's what a closed setup is supposed to do.

What do you think about my ideas about the 3rd party? We might not have only one threat but two?

there's a 3rd party? i didn't read the setup

Is this a dumbslip?

no, i posted it for this reaction

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:05 am

Fluminator wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:04 am

worcej wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:44 am

Probably just Flum lol

You think I didn't read the setup?

Technically if you didn’t read the setup your at the same level as those who read it.

I still don't understand the comment. It might be alignment indicative but I have no idea which way to swing it because I don't get it.

Ok so anyway, I will address why I said it was "slight sus" of Hamilton Brian to start numbering his posts.

Basically it just looks like try-harding. That is, the vibe I instinctively got from it was of someone being a little bit too eager to earn brownie points early; a little too eager to show that they'd read the rules and knew 10 posts were required. Maybe it's nothing, but I got a bad vibe from it.

Fluminator wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:09 am

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Out of every Canadian city to visit, you picked Thunder Bay?

Also my cousin is a border guard, and he says they have to be dicks as part of the job (literally)

I've always thought the Canadian border guards were nicer than the American ones.
[/quote]They demanded I give them my resume to prove I work for my company when I actually had a business card to show them…
[/quote]
How it works in Canada is when border guards graduate they draw lottery numbers to get first dibs at a location. (It used to be based on marks in school but that made things too toxic and competitive)

The place every guard wants is usually toronto or vancouver ariport but those spots fill up fast. The person who gets the last choice almost always ends up with Snowflake Manitoba as their station.

Thunder Bay border guards are very near the bottom of the lot so you will have the grumpier people there too.
[/quote]Noted - it was my first experience actually being pulled into interrogation on the border (my phone keeps wanting to auto this to “boarder”…)

Fucking ooof on breaking that quote somehow.

A very beautiful friend of mine recently moved to Vancouver. I hope to visit her sometime.

Now I need to go to bed.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:11 am

Ok so anyway, I will address why I said it was "slight sus" of Hamilton Brian to start numbering his posts.

Basically it just looks like try-harding. That is, the vibe I instinctively got from it was of someone being a little bit too eager to earn brownie points early; a little too eager to show that they'd read the rules and knew 10 posts were required. Maybe it's nothing, but I got a bad vibe from it.

I guess I am still in joke phase mode and didn’t think anything from it personally.

Might be the wrong vibe - but I think HB wants to try and demonstrate he is actively playing? Remembering prior games, he is usually near the bottom on post counts.