International Mafia Month!

[mith]

Schedule (to be completed):

March 1: "mith is a Slacker" Day (mith's Priority List)
March 2: "A/S/L" Day (Scumchat)
March 3: "An Offer You Can't Refuse" Day (Donations/T-shirts/Cards)
March 4: "Living in the Past" Day (Memories)
March 5: "Obligatory Sappy Niceness" Day (Happy Funtimes)
March 6: "

Brainwashing

Sharing is Caring" Day (New Players)
March 7: "Thinking Ahead" Day (Future Plans)
March 8: "Do Some Work You Slackers" Day (Various)
March 9: "Say Cheese!" Day (Pictures)
March 10: "Marathon Day IV" Day
March 11: "Constant Vigilance" Day (Tigers)
March 12: "Don't Break the Site, AniX" Day (Trademarks)
March 13: "

Thank God it's Not...

Oh God, it

is

Friday!" Day (Bad Luck)
March 14: "Poetic Justice" Day (Creativity)
March 15: "Beware the 'Itles of March" Day (Titles)
March 16: "And Now for Something Completely Different" Day (Mish Mash)
March 17: "Post in Green" Day (St. Patrick's)
March 18: "mith is a Slave Driver" Day (List Mods, etc.)
March 19: "Post in Red to Annoy Glork" Day (Thursday)
March 20: "Make Up Your Own Day" Day (Anything)
March 21: "No Sicilian Can Refuse a Request on His Daughter's Wedding Day, but I'm Not Sicilian and It's My Sister's Wedding Day" Day (The Wedding)
March 22: "Spring Cleaning" Day (Organization)
March 23: "Finger of Suspicion" Day (Former Members)
March 24: "Knight in Shining Armor" Day (Replacements)
March 25 - "If I Tell You What Day Today Is, I'll Have To Kill You" Day (?)
March 26: "Bojection!" Day (Avatars)
March 27-29: "Marathon Weekend Anniverstravaganza" dayWeekend
March 30: "So... Much... Mafia" Day

[mith]

March 1: "mith is a Slacker" Day!

As is becoming a custom, I actually have an excuse for why I'm a slacker today (last year, sick, this year, my girlfriend, my sister, and my future brother-in-law are in town). But never mind; I may not get much done

today

, but I'm going to take time every day throughout the month to work on various projects (big and small) to make the site better.

If you have a suggestion for something that we could do better, post about it in the Site Ideas forum. If it's something that you can help out with, do it! If it's something that needs an administrator, or a policy decision, post in my Priority Thread and help me get my act together!

[Oman]

I Heart IMM!

[Porochaz]

Can we change March the 11th/12th to Drunk on site day or something... I alread have plans in honour of this. Not on ms but I was going out anyway and hoped it would tie in.

[PokerFace]

I have high expectations for things that I don't think are being met at mafiascum. I think we can all do better than just this. Let's fix some of the problems and not just dance around them. Its like we're trying to get enough votes on an obv scum and everybody is just pissing around. can I get a hammer here? Can't you post and pull the weight you expect yourself to give. The weight generally expected you to give. I guess I'm just not impressed. You can win by lurking and getting everyone else to lurk. Wow that sounds like awesome fun. Let's all slack off and do nothing. That guy will self hammer. Or you can win by getting off your ass and being somebody. And even if you loose, would you rather win lurking or loose playing the game and having fun? I think I rather loose playing then win by lurking or taking the easy way out. Quit taking the easy way out riding off of any success or opinions everyone else has gained of you. Take it further. "Hey everyone thinks X is town again. They always think X is town as any alignment." X shouldn't be able to get away with that same tactic everytime. I'm looking for some evolution. Wow a survivor win condition kept me alive. it keeps alot of people alive. Why can't it be more easily always seen through. It feels all the same and simple. Where is challenge? I want to see someone get away with a nk immune miller vig claim. Hell I want to see a setup where there actually is an nk imune miller vig. Let's destroy any meta we have and make this an ever changing challenging game. I want a crazy scenario where there is nothing and no one you can trust. Eveybody is scum and the town is the informed minority. I want the next game i read or play to actually be worth it, not I giant snorefest. I want to see a wagon with 7 guys on it with a cop investigation and i want to see them all unvote because the mafioso convinced them the cop was random or insane. Let's all stop slacking off and kick some ass!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf74T5t-f3k

PokerFace: What's with all this lying around shit?

Glork: Well what are we suppose to do moron? War's over. Blue host won.

PokerFace: You say over? Over? Nothing is over til me decide it is. Was it over when the blue host stock market crashed? Hell No!

Mr. Flay: Huh?

Korlash: Shh he's on a role

PokerFace: "And it ain't over now. Cause when the going get's tough the tough get going! Who's with me? Let's go!"

(PF charges out of the room but no one follows. He walks back in.)

Poker Face: What the fuck happened to the MS I used to know? Where's the spirit. Where's the guts? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. We're afraid to go with you PF, we might get lynched. Well just kiss my ass from now on. Not me! I'm not going to take this!
Blue Host is a Dead Man
Gimbo's dead!
Godfather!

Mith: Dead!

(pause)

Mith: PF's right. Psychotic, but absolutly right! We got to take these bastards.

Kinetic: We could fight them with expoloitable setups. That could take days/nights and cost vanilla lives.

Adel: No in this case, I think we have to go all out.

DrippingGoofBall: I think this situation absolutly requires a reall futile and stupid role claim be done on somebody's part!

Oman: I'm just the guy to do that.

Shaft.ed, Elvis, Tajo: Let's Do it.
FlameAxe, Ultima Avalon, Jdodge: Let's Do it.

PokerFace: LET'S DO IT!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI

[Oman]

Hell I want to see a setup where there actually is an nk imune miller vig.

PEGBAM2

[PokerFace]

Hell I want to see a setup where there actually is an nk imune miller vig.

PEGBAM2

Dizzy kinda ruined its espectations there. Got herself killed before any kind of role claiming. So I want to see it done again right or some other equivalent bizare role like a town Godfather.

[mith]

March 2: "A/S/L" Day!

Go hang out in scumchat today. Play some games, chat about random things with fellow scummers, become a minion or underling... good times.

(Ironically, I haven't been able to join scumchat in several days. But I'll keep trying...)

[Fenchurch]

For the uninitiated/stupid among us (I mean me), please could someone explain briefly how to get on scumchat?

[Korts]

There's a link on the index page, at the bottom, named "click to join AIM chat"

Alternatively, the roomname is "ScumChat" and the exchange is 5

[Fenchurch]

Thank you

[AniX]

You bring the site down ONE TIME by effectively spamming it with image-heavy threads...

[Zindaras]

Scumchat is great! I've already gotten an extra quote for my sig! (also, if you want to discuss string theory, virtual reality or vapourizing people, come to scumchat)

[Thestatusquo]

aim:gochat?roomname=ScumChat&Exchange=5

IM that to yourself then click the link, or, if you're not using vista just plug that into your browser and hit enter.

[destructor]

It won't open. =(

[Alabaska J]

arg i can't get on to say 17/m/tx

[Mr. Flay]

aim:gochat?roomname=ScumChat&Exchange=5

IM that to yourself then click the link, or, if you're not using IE just screw right off.

Fixed for you.

[PokerFace]

woah, I actually forgot to get on sc yesterday even with that special day stuff. oh well. I still plan to free up even some game time on marathon weekend

[Thestatusquo]

Not sure what you're talking about. Always worked just fine for me with FF on XP

[mith]

March 3 - "An Offer You Can't Refuse" Day!

Running a website this size isn't free, and with the new server comes new cost. I have run this website largely from my own personal funds for nearly seven years now, and will continue to do so as long as I'm not living on the street, but donations are always welcome. If you would like to donate to the site, you can do so on the Donation Page; donating is by no means required, but if you weren't aware of the option before, now you are.

We've also been working toward offering t-shirts and cards to our users, as an additional way to support the site and server costs while at the same time getting something cool and unique to mafiascum in return. While it may seem that this has been perpetually in the works for years and therefore may never take off, I think we're getting pretty close due to a number of factors (most importantly, me not being in another country). If you would like to give your input on the process, the thread is in General Discussion. I'll be posting there later to summarize the current plans as I see them.

[Mr. Flay]

Not sure what you're talking about. Always worked just fine for me with FF on XP

aim: is not a standard protocol; it's default in Microsoft Internet Explorer, and probably the Windows version of Firefox binary. It can be added to (some) other browsers, but don't assume it's always available. That's all I'm saying.

[Thestatusquo]

Yes, but you can always just IM the link to yourself and click it. It's an AIM default protocol. Thats why I gave the advice, because its not associated in FF for vista.

[Mr. Flay]

OK. Does it work in Trillian? Kopete? Pidgin? Adium? iChat? I'll admit I misread your original comment. I just think it's easier to give the chatroom name and exchange #, but I do know that People are Stupid on the Internet.

Also, I'm bitter because I can't get my computer to connect to scumchat at all of late, even when invited.

[Nuwen]

OK. Does it work in Trillian? Kopete? Pidgin? Adium? iChat?

I'll admit I misread your original comment. I just think it's easier to give the chatroom name and exchange #, but I do know that People are Stupid on the Internet.

Yes. You can set the aim: switch to open ANY application in Firefox (and most other browsers, although it may require more work). Tools -> options -> applications, search "aim." I used to mess around with school computer application settings in moments of extreme boredom. This should work in Vista as well; the switch probably isn't set by default.

[mith]

March 4: "Living in the Past" Day!

Spend today remembering your favourite moments on mafiascum. Tell us stories of glorious victories, agonizing defeats, hilarious comical third options, and anything in between.