The Scummies, 2011... Live! (ish)

MagnaofIllusion · Post Post #400 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:20 pm

And from that point forward you have been immortalized in my sig

Choice · Post Post #401 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:19 pm

yeah in all honesty magna is a good player. LLD I was wrong about you too. Ugh I just read Final Fantasy mafia so I'm probably wrong about Katsuki as well. Not going to pretend I was trolling.

Magua · Post Post #402 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:57 am

Spoiler: So at first I was like

Spoiler: And then I was like

Spoiler: And finally I was like

(Also, LLD typoing Magna for Magua and thus dying as I killed her instead of making me kill myself is probably my fondest memory as a player.)

zoraster · Post Post #403 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:02 am

You need a little gif that takes your name and then slowly rotates the u into an n or vice versa.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #404 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:24 am

@MoI: I had the same argument as you for cyclical.

Mr. Flay · Post Post #405 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:02 am

In post 382, Untrod Tripod wrote:are we really having discussion about awards that already went out and can't change? really?

Yep. And this is why the judges don't usually discuss what happened during judging.

Also, it seems the/a problem here is that Team Mafia was facing more innovative Mechanics, when its real strength was how Enjoyable it was. Did it get nominated for the other category? I'm posting from my phone and can't easily check.

MagnaofIllusion · Post Post #406 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:05 am

In post 404, xRECKONERx wrote:@MoI: I had the same argument as you for cyclical.

Oh crap, the 3rd Seal of the Apocalypse has been broken ... Reck and MoI agree.

In all seriousness I don't think it is bad that Magua won for his game. I don't think it would be bad if Team Mafia would have won. I believe that Cyclical really is something special as far as changing the dynamics of how Mafia is played and kunkstar really deserves recognition for his path-finding in that regard.

FF6 Mafia featured a varient of the system whereby most 'powers' in the game were passed back and forth between players based on the lynches / Nightkills.

zoraster · Post Post #407 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:12 am

In post 405, Mr. Flay wrote:
In post 382, Untrod Tripod wrote:are we really having discussion about awards that already went out and can't change? really?

Yep. And this is why the judges don't usually discuss what happened during judging.

Also, it seems the/a problem here is that Team Mafia was facing more innovative Mechanics, when its real strength was how Enjoyable it was. Did it get nominated for the other category? I'm posting from my phone and can't easily check.

to be fair, that's why i went via PM at first.

anyway, as nothing like it had been done before, I wouldn't call it less innovative than the others. Innovation and complexity are

not

the same thing, and I think we do a disservice when we pretend they are. But regardless, it was not nominated for any other category (town of psychic was nominated and reck won his body of work award in no small part because of his performance there, but team mafia as a whole was not). I think smooth operator and enjoyable game are both categories it could have been nominated for, and some argument for best setup could be made (though I think that would be a big stretch of the term "setup").

But I think mechanic still fits it best because the

idea

of it and the execution of that idea are the things that really deserved recognition, not just how the game was run smoothly and players had fun (plus, 52+ players receiving a single scummy is probably not ideal).

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And I think it's not a bad thing to analyze the scummies. These are community awards. How we understand them as a community makes a difference.

MagnaofIllusion · Post Post #408 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:23 am

Is now a bad time to mention I'm a bit sad that my replacement as

Best New Player

is no longer on MS?

zoraster · Post Post #409 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:24 am

In post 408, MagnaofIllusion wrote:Is now a bad time to mention I'm a bit sad that my replacement as
Best New Player
is no longer on MS?

i'm not sure what you mean by your replacement as best new player.

Cogito Ergo Sum · Post Post #410 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:26 am

Sir Bastion won that Scummy this year.

Choice · Post Post #411 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:31 am

Bastion, eh? He had good taste.

zoraster · Post Post #412 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:31 am

i know that still being active isn't technically a requirement of the scummies, but it is interesting that he was chosen. i don't know much about him or his play though.

Lost Butterfly · Post Post #413 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:36 am

In post 408, MagnaofIllusion wrote:Is now a bad time to mention I'm a bit sad that my replacement as
Best New Player
is no longer on MS?

already noticed it, lol. oops? Well whatever, not a whole lot can be done about it

Lost Butterfly · Post Post #414 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:36 am

In post 412, zoraster wrote:i know that still being active isn't technically a requirement of the scummies, but it is interesting that he was chosen. i don't know much about him or his play though.

He was active when the award was decided, I am fairly sure. Just hasn't been back since the crash.

Parama · Post Post #415 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:36 am

I remember him from Slaxx's one game where he investigated every. single. mafia. as cop.

zoraster · Post Post #416 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:40 am

cool. just a little unfortunate. maybe someone should PM him to see if he wants to play on their team for team mafia.

Magua · Post Post #417 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:10 am

Derail: I laughed way too long at Lost Butterfly's sig.

SleepyKrew · Post Post #418 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:48 am

In post 368, Kublai Khan wrote:
In post 367, Choice wrote:Please do not belittle the achievements of other players, MagnaofNoScummies.

Oh schnapp!

SleepyKrew · Post Post #419 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:08 am

In post 400, MagnaofIllusion wrote:And from that point forward you have been immortalized in my sig

Actually you waited a while, as can also be seen in your sig.

Sir Bastion · Post Post #420 (ISO) » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:37 am

In post 416, zoraster wrote:cool. just a little unfortunate. maybe someone should PM him to see if he wants to play on their team for team mafia.

A PM goes a long way to reminding someone they should get in a game

-sorry I was away I did a marathon of intense games leading up to the crash and it burnt me out so I needed a break.

MagnaofIllusion · Post Post #421 (ISO) » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:52 am

Well I for one am just glad that you are still around to proudly bear the banner of Best Newbie!!!

Hazzah!

Sir Bastion · Post Post #422 (ISO) » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:57 am

My wiki page died during the crash it seems

*sigh*

Fritzler · Post Post #423 (ISO) » Wed May 02, 2012 2:55 pm

Hey guys, I just got the PM asking me to join next year's committee, and I realized I won an award. I'm awesome, I love you all. Ta ta.

kuribo · Post Post #424 (ISO) » Fri May 04, 2012 9:52 am

In post 423, Fritzler wrote:Hey guys, I just got the PM asking me to join next year's committee, and I realized I won an award. I'm awesome, I love you all. Ta ta.

Dayvig: Fritzler