MAFIA 63: THE SCOURGE [HIDDEN]

[Jamiet99uk]

Mostly I've just been refreshing the page to see if you got tired of me appearing to be here. I've read most of the thread since I last posted. But not much before that.

You're normally a lot more invested in the game than this.
But it must be exhausting spending 50 hours a day putting your children to bed.

I'm trying out some new town/solving techniques (since while I normally post a lot, I don't have as much success as town). So far it's been working. But it's a long game. Stage 1 and 2 have been successfully completed though. I'm working on stage 3 now...that's the longest phase. Stage 4 is the hardest and most crucial.

But I've also been busy with life. And how were you all not glued to the news yesterday? My wife and I used to both work there and couldn't tear ourselves away.

I think you'll find that we were. The post count in the thread definitely went down for several hours, about 16 to 18 hours ago... and I made a joke about ND having to sub out because he urgently needed to travel to Washington D.C.

[BunnyGo]

If there are multiple cop reports and none of the reporters are NKd what then?

Well golly...we'll just have to play a game and solve. It's not like Durganator isn't an obvious next wagon. I didn't even bother wasting a scan on her.

My point is I am unsure a town fake reporting is a good town move.

Don't care. I'm reporting my scans later.

[BunnyGo]

You're normally a lot more invested in the game than this.
But it must be exhausting spending 50 hours a day putting your children to bed.

I'm trying out some new town/solving techniques (since while I normally post a lot, I don't have as much success as town). So far it's been working. But it's a long game. Stage 1 and 2 have been successfully completed though. I'm working on stage 3 now...that's the longest phase. Stage 4 is the hardest and most crucial.

But I've also been busy with life. And how were you all not glued to the news yesterday? My wife and I used to both work there and couldn't tear ourselves away.

I think you'll find that we were. The post count in the thread definitely went down for several hours, about 16 to 18 hours ago... and I made a joke about ND having to sub out because he urgently needed to travel to Washington D.C.

Yeah...saw that...wasn't funny.

[Jamiet99uk]

BunnyGo has clearly never been to the United Kingdom, by the way. That whole sketch with Bozo and the kettle and the biscuit? That's literally how we talk in real life.

I've been multiple times for extended periods, and worked extensively with people and business there. And consume a lot of your media. It's still dumb.

Well you shouldn't read the Daily Star.

Nobody should read the Daily Star, and hardly anyone does.

Nobody should read the Daily Mail or the Daily Express either, although for a slightly different reason.

[Jamiet99uk]

I think you'll find that we were. The post count in the thread definitely went down for several hours, about 16 to 18 hours ago... and I made a joke about ND having to sub out because he urgently needed to travel to Washington D.C.

Yeah...saw that...wasn't funny.

I think there's a kind of tragic irony in watching America descend into a banana republic. But to be genuinely honest with you, yesterday scenes I found truly worrying. Watching an attempted white fascist coup with your Capitol being invaded by thugs urged on by a treasonous President, playing out live on TV, is not fun stuff, so if my "joke" was in poor taste I apologise. I hope my American friends are okay.

[BunnyGo]

I think you'll find that we were. The post count in the thread definitely went down for several hours, about 16 to 18 hours ago... and I made a joke about ND having to sub out because he urgently needed to travel to Washington D.C.

Yeah...saw that...wasn't funny.

I think there's a kind of tragic irony in watching America descend into a banana republic. But to be genuinely honest with you, yesterday scenes I found truly worrying. Watching an attempted white fascist coup with your Capitol being invaded by thugs urged on by a treasonous President, playing out live on TV, is not fun stuff, so if my "joke" was in poor taste I apologise. I hope my American friends are okay.

I'm a big fan of "laugh at the despair of the fascist fall" humor. It's just hard to pull off. More I thought making fun of ND when he wasn't here was the not funny part.

[Hamilton Brian]

Hey, come on, that was comedy gold. That took time to type out even if I did plagiarise most of it.

I did laugh. Where's it from?

I took it from a Viz Comic character called "Mister Logic". Bozo always somehow reminds me of him. Here's another example:

http://viz.co.uk/2015/02/20/mr-logic-bo ... a-holiday/

My god! VIZ!!!! I haven't thought of that mag in ages. I was first exposed to it in the late 80s. Friends from Ireland gave me a copy, and then I found an issue in a bookstore in Maine of all places. Buster Gonads and His Unusually Large Testicles. He'd carry them around in a wheelbarrow. He tried playing tennis one time and kept hitting himself with his racket. "Oh, me plums!!!!"

In-laws brought back an issue in the mid-00s and it wasn't the same. Glossy but dull.

[Jamiet99uk]

President Eden and I were briefly talking about heavy metal bands before. Did you see that the lead guitarist of Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, was one of the terrorists?

[BunnyGo]

I did laugh. Where's it from?

I took it from a Viz Comic character called "Mister Logic". Bozo always somehow reminds me of him. Here's another example:

http://viz.co.uk/2015/02/20/mr-logic-bo ... a-holiday/

My god! VIZ!!!! I haven't thought of that mag in ages. I was first exposed to it in the late 80s. Friends from Ireland gave me a copy, and then I found an issue in a bookstore in Maine of all places. Buster Gonads and His Unusually Large Testicles. He'd carry them around in a wheelbarrow. He tried playing tennis one time and kept hitting himself with his racket. "Oh, me plums!!!!"

In-laws brought back an issue in the mid-00s and it wasn't the same. Glossy but dull.

Wait...are you here in the land of the lobsters with me?

[Fluminator]

Bitcoin is at 40k wtf. WHEN WILL IT BURST? WILL IT BURST?

[Jamiet99uk]

I did laugh. Where's it from?

I took it from a Viz Comic character called "Mister Logic". Bozo always somehow reminds me of him. Here's another example:

http://viz.co.uk/2015/02/20/mr-logic-bo ... a-holiday/

My god! VIZ!!!! I haven't thought of that mag in ages. I was first exposed to it in the late 80s. Friends from Ireland gave me a copy, and then I found an issue in a bookstore in Maine of all places. Buster Gonads and His Unusually Large Testicles. He'd carry them around in a wheelbarrow. He tried playing tennis one time and kept hitting himself with his racket. "Oh, me plums!!!!"

In-laws brought back an issue in the mid-00s and it wasn't the same. Glossy but dull.

In the last 20 or so years it has varied from somewhat formulaic and dull, to things like the "Drunken Bakers", which truly reach the level of an art form:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Bakers

http://viz.co.uk/category/drunken-bakers/

[BunnyGo]

Bitcoin is at 40k wtf. WHEN WILL IT BURST? WILL IT BURST?

It's amusing, because it doesn't provide anonymity. But it does provide an ability to move money in between currencies and with extra difficulty in tracing/tracking laundering. So it's largely a way for us to spend MASSIVE amounts of energy and technological hardware that could be better served elsewhere to fund the mob. So...it won't burst.

[Jamiet99uk]

Bitcoin is at 40k wtf. WHEN WILL IT BURST? WILL IT BURST?

Do coins usually burst?

I told you to stop using helium-filled balloons as currency.

"It'll never take off", I said.

[Fluminator]

Bitcoin is at 40k wtf. WHEN WILL IT BURST? WILL IT BURST?

It's amusing, because it doesn't provide anonymity. But it does provide an ability to move money in between currencies and with extra difficulty in tracing/tracking laundering. So it's largely a way for us to spend MASSIVE amounts of energy and technological hardware that could be better served elsewhere to fund the mob. So...it won't burst.

The true mobsters are the American bankers though.

[Fluminator]

Ok I know I can't +1 but I laughed out loud at Jamiet's joke so he deserves it. I doubt Tom is reading this thread anyway.

[Hamilton Brian]

Wait...are you here in the land of the lobsters with me?

Not any longer. Left in 97. Haven't been back except for a quick jaunt with the missus in 2010. I do miss it. Amazing to see the change of the brewing scene from say, 1991 to now.

[Fluminator]

Ok I know I can't +1 but I laughed out loud at Jamiet's joke so he deserves it. I doubt Tom is reading this thread anyway.

Actually I just plus oned a random other post of Jamiet's outside the thread to be safe.

[BunnyGo]

Wait...are you here in the land of the lobsters with me?

Not any longer. Left in 97. Haven't been back except for a quick jaunt with the missus in 2010. I do miss it. Amazing to see the change of the brewing scene from say, 1991 to now.

I KNOW! The first wedding I came to here (granted, I wasn't drinking in 91...was still in 2nd grade) had Shipyard (recommendation: drink PBR or Bud or anything "standard american" where you get exactly what you expect instead). But now...I'm spoiled with 5+ breweries and 2 distilleries in town that are all amazing and varied.

[BunnyGo]

Wait...are you here in the land of the lobsters with me?

Not any longer. Left in 97. Haven't been back except for a quick jaunt with the missus in 2010. I do miss it. Amazing to see the change of the brewing scene from say, 1991 to now.

You've just inspired me to place another large Allagash order.

[Hamilton Brian]

You've just inspired me to place another large Allagash order.

Now see, late 80s onward, Geary's Pale Ale is my jam. That is what got me into homebrewing. I know it's changed, and isn't as nouveau as the new generation of beer drinkers enjoy, but it has a special place in my heart. If I could ever get it to ship across the border, I'd be a Happy Hamilton Brian.